Ye’s mother immediately pushed her stepdaughter back into the room.
"Shaohua, Qin Si is two months older than you, so she’s like your older sister," Ye’s mother said a few words, then looked helplessly at Ye Shaohua, struggling to continue, "It’s been over a year, and you haven’t come back; I always thought you..."
After the disappearance of four high school students during a trip, which even made the newspapers, the police searched for a long time at the place they went missing but couldn’t find them. Later, Ye’s father became comatose, and it seemed almost impossible to ever find his daughter again.
Fearing for her future with no one to rely on, Ye’s mother simply got a divorce and had another son.
So, seeing Ye Shaohua return didn’t fill her with joy; her feelings were incredibly complex.
She already had a new family.
Her husband was a white-collar worker, making 8,000 yuan a month; her stepdaughter was in the top ten of her class in No. 1 Middle School, pretty much a shoo-in for a key university.
"You’ve heard it yourself, Qin Si has her college entrance exam in a month," Ye’s mother thought of this and her face showed no guilt, "Your school registration is still active. Here’s four hundred yuan, take it and go see your father."
She went back into her room, took out four hundred yuan, and handed it to Ye Shaohua.
Ye Shaohua looked at the four hundred yuan in Ye’s mother’s hand.
She stared at it for a while before finally taking it, "Mhm."
Seeing her take the money without causing any trouble or insisting on staying here, Ye’s mother breathed a sigh of relief. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
Ye Shaohua had been gone for more than a year and would probably have to start over from the first year of high school. It was uncertain if she could even get into university. Her mother could afford to raise a son, but another Ye Shaohua...
Ye’s mother could only apologize to Ye Shaohua.
However, she was completely unaware that Ye Shaohua was not the same person anymore. After taking that four hundred yuan, she had already decided to no longer care about anything involving Ye’s mother.
Inside, Qin Si had been watching Ye Shaohua’s actions all along, and when she saw her take the four hundred yuan from Ye’s mother, she couldn’t help but snort in contempt.
Ye Shaohua turned and headed for the elevator, recalling her father’s address in her mind.
As she turned around, Ye’s mother slammed the door shut with a "bang."
From beginning to end, she never asked how Ye Shaohua had spent that year, and the man who might be considered Ye Shaohua’s stepfather was in the Hall all the while, soothing his son and not coming out.
"Is everything settled?" Cao Yanzhi didn’t know why, but after following Ye Shaohua out of the Mountain, he had been with her ever since.
He was quite handsome and wore a crisp white shirt.
When they left the Mountain, they had nothing—no money, no phones, no transportation. Cao Yanzhi used his deceptive face to borrow a phone from a passerby, made a call, and the next day a car picked them up and brought them back to the provincial city.
Seeing Ye Shaohua wanted to return home, he didn’t follow her directly but waited at the elevator entrance for her.
Seeing the four hundred yuan in her hand, he was somewhat surprised.
"I’m going back to check on my dad," Ye Shaohua said while waiting for the elevator.
This time, the original host had two wishes: one was to cure Cao Yanzhi, and the other was to return to School, to complete the deepest regret in her heart.
Cao Yanzhi had grown completely accustomed to Ye Shaohua’s indifference by now.
By following her, his skills improved rapidly, but even so, he felt that Ye Shaohua was a very strange and deeply secretive person, and he couldn’t defeat her.
However, compared to others, Cao Yanzhi felt that she treated him much better.
Ye Shaohua looked at her father’s gradually withering limbs and frowned. She didn’t immediately use acupuncture to stimulate him awake but taught her grandmother a set of massage techniques.
"Shaohua, what is this massage technique? Is it really helpful for your dad?" The grandmother was no longer young, with white hair, but even so, she hadn’t given up on her son.
Ye Shaohua nodded, "I learned it from an old Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner in the mountains."
With that, the grandmother didn’t question any further.
In the following days, Ye Shaohua didn’t go to School.
Instead, she found an Internet Cafe and took some gigs online. After earning some money, she brought a series of documents to No. 1 Middle School.
Her previous grades weren’t bad; she got into No. 1 Middle School as the top scorer from her old school and was placed directly into the elite class. Now that she wanted to return, the elite class’s Head Teacher was reluctant to take her back.
"You go to Class 2. The college entrance exam is in a month. If it doesn’t work out this year, try again next year." The Head Teacher glanced at her and hurriedly walked away.
The Head Teacher took her to find the Class 2 Class Teacher.
The Class 2 Class Teacher was more laid-back and didn’t have any issues with Ye Shaohua. After hearing about what had happened to her, he actually took extra care of her.
Just as they left the building, they ran into Head Teacher Kong, who was coming up beaming proudly with Lin Yi.
Lin Yi just wrinkled her brow upon seeing Ye Shaohua, then quickly averted her gaze, showing no surprise on her face. Ye Shaohua guessed she must have already met Cao Yanzhi.
The two groups didn’t speak.
They passed by each other.
As Ye Shaohua followed the Class Teacher to Class 2, she encountered a boy with clean and elegant features on the way. He was surprised to see Ye Shaohua, "Ye Shaohua, you’ve really come back?"
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