I Got Rich in Period Fiction
Chapter 659 - 609: If Time Could Flow Backwards_3

Chapter 659: Chapter 609: If Time Could Flow Backwards_3

Liu Ying’s tears started to fall upon hearing those words; she turned around and rushed back to her room, slamming the door shut. Zhou Ruoruo stood at the doorway, where she could almost hear the sound of Liu Ying crying.

Zhou Ruoruo leaned against the doorframe, feeling terrible and wanting to cry too, but at that moment, she felt utterly powerless.

"If only we could turn back time," she wished.

Then Zhou Ruoruo let out a self-mocking laugh. If they really could go back to the one moment that allowed people to change the future, then her elder siblings would be fine, and she certainly wouldn’t have been born.

In that case, there would never have been a girl named Zhou Ruoruo in this world.

Some things shouldn’t be contemplated too deeply. Even though she was very young, she had this terrifying feeling of life fleeting by. Then she thought of her mother, and truly felt a pang of heartache for her.

In this world, everyone could hate her, look down upon her, despise her, but she was the only one who couldn’t!

Zhou Ruoruo felt that Liu Ying had calmed down a bit inside the room, so she softly said at the door, "Mom, don’t be sad. No matter what, I will always be by your side."

Lying in bed, Liu Ying covered her eyes with her hands.

She had her moments of glory, of pride and ostentation, even feeling superior. She looked down on many people, and even now, there were those she scorned, but no one lived a life as loathed and detested as hers.

That was why she was so eager to earn more money and then move to the U.S.

But, as Ruoruo said, in the U.S., they would have no relatives, no friends. She may know some business associates, but at the end of the day, if anything were to happen in a foreign land, expecting anything other than someone kicking them when they’re down would have been wishful thinking.

To talk about making friends, at her age, she had long lost the enthusiasm of her youth, even the drive to struggle. If it had been ten years earlier, she would have unhesitatingly taken her child to a foreign land, but now she had much more to consider.

Otherwise, she would have taken Ruoruo and left long ago, instead of buying her daughter houses in Nangang City and Beijing.

Liu Ying closed her eyes; for the moment, let it be like this. Her daughter still had one year before graduating. After graduation, they would see; and perhaps if her daughter wanted to study abroad, then she could accompany her to pursue education overseas. Wouldn’t that make everyone happy?

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Ever since Tenghai Research distinctly divided its heavy industry and civilian projects, He Xiuyu began a period where he left early and returned late.

Along with him was Mr. Zhao, now the workshop director responsible for the heavy industry workshop.

Qiao Qingyu, because of the affairs at the woolen mill and the pharmaceutical processing factory, became even busier. It was only after getting things in order that she realized Chaoxuan and Guo Guo went to school and returned home together every day.

Since the caterpillar incident, it took Guo Guo more than two months to gradually recover, but her son turned out to be quite gifted. Although he didn’t cure her fear of caterpillars completely, he visibly saw Guo Guo become much braver.

Today, Qiao Qingyu came home early, buying a bag of chicken wings, a big fish, ribs, lean meat, and plenty of fresh vegetables. She was preparing to cook a big dinner and invite Chu Ying over to improve their meals together.

And He Xiuyu was also going to come home early today.

Although the school had moved location, it wasn’t far from the staff housing.

It was walkable, and even faster by bike.

Then Qiao Qingyu standing in the yard saw two kids rapidly approaching on their bicycles from afar.

They genuinely startled her. They made no attempt to slow down as they approached, and the little girl trailing was Li Bo’s daughter, Guo Guo.

She remembered how many times Guo Guo had cried while learning to ride a bike, too scared to even try, which greatly worried Chaoxuan. He had never seen something like it—a grown-up holding the handlebars while another held onto the bike’s rear seat.

What kind of bike-riding lesson was that?

It was more like being carried in a sedan chair!

So Chaoxuan convinced Mr. Zhao and Li Bo to leave, promising to teach Guo Guo within a week. The adults didn’t have the time to watch over them, and Qiao Qingyu only admonished him to be very careful, not to let Guo Guo fall and hurt herself; after all, she was a delicate girl.

She repeated her warnings, but Chaoxuan had one great strength: he kept his word. Once he agreed to something, he made sure it was done.

Seeing him nod in agreement, Qiao Qingyu didn’t intervene any further.

And sure enough, within a week, Guo Guo indeed learned to ride a bike.

Her bike was a newly manufactured children’s bicycle, which Li Bo had specially picked out for her in red. The little girl pedaling it looked like she was whisking along on hot wheels.

From afar, one could hear the little girl’s excited laughter.