Wealthy Beauty in the 60s

Xia Xiao remembered when she was in university, her aunt had come over, offering to pay for her education, but her mother had refused and even gotten into a big argument with her aunt, bringing up old grievances and driving her aunt away—but she didn’t provide Xia Xiao with tuition fees either.

That summer, Xia Xiao had to earn her own tuition money by working jobs. Fortunately, she was able to take out student loans for university, which allowed her to breathe a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Xia Xiao’s thoughts were incredibly complex. She hadn’t anticipated that fate would arrange for her to encounter relatives from her past life.

However, this time Xia Xiao had no connection to them, and she appeared a few years younger than her grandmother and about a dozen years younger than her mother.

At this time, Xia Xiao’s mother from her past life wasn’t yet the stern and fierce figure she would later become, but rather, she was quietly leaning against her grandmother because of motion sickness, looking very weak and utterly drained of energy.

Perhaps it was because Xia Xiao had been staring for so long that her past-life mother glared back at her dissatisfied. How very similar that look was—it startled Xia Xiao for a moment, almost making her think her mother had been reincarnated too.

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Throughout the journey, Xia Xiao didn’t say much. Her emotions were complex, both desiring contact and yearning for distance.

Just like that, Xia Xiao watched as her grandmother from her past life, who was heavily pregnant, got off the bus with her mother and slowly disappeared from her line of sight.

At the next stop, Xia Xiao also got off and entered her space.

Shitou asked, "What’s wrong with you?" Since Shitou had been left in the space, he had no idea of what was happening outside and, noticing Xia Xiao’s troubled expression, asked out of curiosity.

"I saw my grandmother and mother from my past life," Xia Xiao said.

Shitou responded, "So you saw them, so what? You’re not part of their family anymore."

Xia Xiao hummed in acknowledgment, not saying anything more, but her heart was quite complicated. She hadn’t expected to encounter them so soon and without any mental preparation.

"Then we’re headed back to the production team," Shitou said.

Xia Xiao nodded. Thinking of Xia Jing probably having arrived at the production team by now, she didn’t have the mood to think about anything else.

As soon as they got back to the dorm, she heard a commotion. Ning Hui, with a stern face, said, "You all have places to live, and the production team will make arrangements. Yang Xuehua was one of the early batch of educated youth. Even considering her background, this is her bed. You shouldn’t occupy it."

"She has a bad family background, how can she live here?" a few of the female educated youth argued noisily.

Xia Xiao spoke up, "What’s going on here?"

Xia Jing called out to her, "Sister, you’re back!"

Smiles appeared on Ning Hui’s and Yang Xuehua’s faces, "Xia Xiao, you’re back."

"Yeah, I just got back and heard the noise. What’s happening?" Xia Xiao scanned the unfamiliar faces.

Ning Hui explained, "A large group of educated youth has arrived at the production team. There isn’t enough dormitory space, so some are staying in the homes of team members. It’s cramped here at Youth Point. Yang Zhonghong doesn’t want to live with team members and now wants to move in here. She claims Yang Xuehua’s background is bad and she shouldn’t stay here but should live in a thatched hut like Luo Su’e."

Looking at the leading girl, who looked about seventeen or eighteen, Xia Jing said, "Sister, Yang Zhonghong is from the same city as us."

Xia Xiao addressed her, "Comrade Yang Zhonghong, if you are dissatisfied with the arrangements of the production team, you can talk to the secretary, the team leader, or the women’s director. Making noise here is useless.

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Yang He, Xia Xiao paused, what a coincidence. She hadn’t expected that Yang He’s daughter would be here as an educated youth.

And to think that Yang He’s daughter was already this grown up. Sun Yuhua’s elder brother, Sun Yuhua’s family was really too pitiful.

It couldn’t have been Yang He’s deliberate arrangement, could it? After all, Xia Xiao still knew about the incident where Sun Yuhua almost got married to Yang He, so now she couldn’t help but give it some more thought.

"Sister, these are Xiong Wei, Zhong Lihong, and Ruan Yuting. They are educated youth who have come to Guangming Production Team. I met them on the train, and now we all live in the same dorm," Xia Jing introduced them to Xia Xiao.

Xiong Wei? A girl named Xiong Wei, Xia Xiao looked over, half-expecting to see a tomboyish girl, but was surprised to find instead a small, cute girl with a baby face and chubby cheeks.

And Ruan Yuting, with such a name, Xia Xiao thought the girl would be quite attractive, but she turned out to be very ordinary.

Zhong Lihong, however, was quite good-looking, more so because the contrast between Xiong Wei’s name and appearance was so stark.