Lin Chengyu solemnly feigned weakness, saying, "Ziqing, I wouldn't dare to bully you. The place we're about to go is your Song family's territory. If I go there, it'll be like a lamb entering a tiger's den. I'll have to rely on you for protection from now on."
"You, you really do have self-awareness! You're so self-aware! I'm impressed!"
Song Ziqing looked at this man who wanted to be a pushover with admiration. He spoke of wanting her to protect him so casually, he was quite a formidable person.
"Ziqing, we are engaged, and it was arranged by our parents years ago. As children, we should listen to our elders more."
Now that Uncle Song and Aunt Song have been sent to the countryside, who knows when they'll be able to return to Shanghai? We need to take good care of ourselves and try to visit them whenever we can. I wonder if they'll be bullied after they've been sent down to the countryside!
Lin Chengyu hit the nail on the head, expressing Song Ziqing's biggest worry.
Her parents' safety was what she worried about most, because in Song Ziqing's heart, they were her closest relatives in the world.
She had been an orphan for over ten years before she transmigrated. In this new time and space, God gave her another pair of parents. Even their appearance and personality were the same as her parents in her previous life, so she believed that they were her biological parents.
"Is there any way you can help my parents? I can't even find out their exact location where they were sent down!"
Song Ziqing was, after all, an outsider. She possessed the original owner's memories, but because there were so many memories, she couldn't possibly remember them all. She still didn't fully understand the current environment.
Lin Chengyu is different. He has lived in this era for seventeen years. Yes, he is a year younger than Song Ziqing. If the two of them get together, it will be considered a relationship between an older woman and a younger man.
He definitely understands this era much better, and he's also better at navigating social situations than she is. After all, the original owner had lived in a very simple environment for the past eighteen years, and her parents were there to support her even if the sky fell.
Now the sky has truly fallen, her parents have been buried under the blanket, she has become an insignificant person, and people still try to take advantage of her from time to time.
She was like a lamb that had wandered into a pack of wolves, helplessly watching as everyone watched her struggle.
Watching her is like watching a play!
Seeing the vulnerability that Song Ziqing had shown in that instant, Lin Chengyu didn't want to bully her anymore. After all, he still felt quite guilty about hitting her with a stick before.
After thinking for a moment, he gave the address of a remote mountain village in Yunnan, near Myanmar.
Song Ziqing reacted quickly, asking directly, "Is this the address where my parents were sent down?"
"Yes, I had to ask several friends to find out this location for you."
Lin Chengyu was lying, of course. After all, with memories of his past life, why would he need to go around asking around?
Song Ziqing was different. After all, her predecessor had been imprisoned in the Wang family, so she had no way of finding out her parents' address.
Seeing that Lin Chengyu had actually told her the news she wanted most, she felt that her fiancé was a decent person.
Especially at this moment, his smile was like that of an orchid about to bloom, elegant and fragrant, radiating his masculine charm towards her.
Song Ziqing actually fell for it. She's a sucker for good looks. Seeing a face that's even prettier than Hong Kong male celebrities, she felt that having such a person as a partner would give her an unprecedented sense of pride.
However, she still pretended to praise her, saying, "You really are very clever! Xiaoyu, it seems that my worries about you before were all for nothing. With your cunning, your parents and siblings really won't gain much advantage."
Lin Chengyu didn't pretend to be an innocent little rabbit. Instead, he solemnly said, "My parents have treated me like I don't exist since I was a child. They abandoned me to my grandparents as soon as I was born. If it weren't for them, I might have died long ago."
They didn't treat me like a son or a brother, so of course I didn't consider them family either. Therefore, after being sent to the countryside, my connection with Shanghai may have come to an end!
The obsession with returning to Shanghai that I had always had in my past life has also disappeared.
He felt that Shanghai was just his hometown, and wherever he went in the future would be his home.
Song Ziqing also felt no sense of belonging to Shanghai. Hearing his words, he agreed wholeheartedly, “We are all educated youth abandoned by the city of Shanghai. This city can no longer support too many people, so it has to send us to the countryside as educated youth. Wherever we are in the future, that will be our hometown.”
What she couldn't accept the most was that her parents had been sent to the countryside by this city, and in her previous life, they had died in that remote city in Yunnan. They didn't die of natural causes, but were murdered.
Just thinking about it, Song Ziqing felt that no matter how good Shanghai was, it would still be a place of heartbreak for the Song family.
Even if those who were sent down to the countryside are allowed to return to the city, she doesn't want to come back, and she doesn't want her parents to come back either.
At least the family won't come back in disgrace. Even if they do come back, they'll come back in glory!
By then, they would only return if the city leaders invited them; otherwise, she wouldn't come back.
"Yes, we are all superfluous! To the Lin family, I am superfluous, and to this city, I am superfluous too."
Lin Chengyu also knew that once educated youth went to the countryside, if they wanted to return to the city, they either had to have serious health problems or find a job in the city that would accept them.
Even though he had serious health problems in his previous life, he didn't get the chance to return to the city because of his parents' inaction. By the time he was able to return, his body had already reached its end.
From then on, he felt only hatred and resentment towards his parents and relatives, and no longer felt any affection for them.
His soul remained in Shanghai for decades, never leaving the city, witnessing its transformation and changes over those decades. With the disappearance of his soul, he lost all attachment to the city.
Looking at Lin Chengyu's young and tender face, Song Ziqing saw an inescapable sense of vicissitude, making him appear like a frail old man.
"Who...who are you?"
When Lin Chengyu's expression returned to normal, Song Ziqing's gaze towards him changed once again. She felt that this boy was full of secrets!
At this moment, Song Ziqing was certain that he was not a simple boy, but a man with a story!
Since she herself was a time traveler, Song Ziqing suspected that Lin Chengyu might also be someone like her.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have had that melancholy expression just now. After all, Lin Chengyu is only seventeen years old. Even if he lives in a somewhat abnormal family, it's impossible for him to lose hope in his parents and relatives at such a young age.
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