Chapter 222
Time flies, and before long, the high school exams were upon us.
The exam venue was in the county, which was convenient, but Yang Peimin still went home the weekend before the exam.
It was also an opportunity to update her family and Principal Li—she was about to take the exam. Shen Yiguang should have received a letter; they had exchanged a few since she returned from T city, but there had been none for these two months. Thus, she made a call to his military unit and was informed that Shen Yiguang was out on a mission and they did not know when he would return.
It was normal for Shen Yiguang to be on a mission, and it explained the lack of communication. Yang Peimin suppressed the urge to share her thoughts with him. She had wanted to discuss university preferences with him, to tease him a bit, to see his reaction.
In the end, she returned to her mother’s home for encouragement.
Zhang Minghua even made her a new set of clothes, a short-sleeved button-down shirt with a white base and red flowers—quite rustic, but Zhang Minghua considered this outfit lucky.
Yang Peimin verbally agreed but internally planned to wear it as a pajama.
By now, both her maternal and in-law families, and those close to her, knew she would be taking the exams. Yang Peiyan even caught her at the door, her face full of disdain, "I didn’t expect you’d have the nerve to take the exams, and you kept it a secret until now—afraid we’d laugh at you? Honestly, I’m really worried for you. What if you fail again? You’d lose face, not just here, but at your in-laws’ too!"
Yang Peimin hadn’t seen her for a while, not since that incident, and the two families hadn’t much to do with each other. At most, Yang Dajiang would visit when he was in town. Lately, Yang Peiyan seemed busy preparing for the exams too, but that had nothing to do with Yang Peimin. Besides, she had nothing to say to her. Peiyan’s self-satisfied and provocative demeanor couldn’t get under her skin.