Chapter 562: Sui'er in Love
Chapter 562: Chapter 541: Sui’er in Love
Gu’er and the others were very happy to see Li Zhi and Feng Ling come over. Aunt Zhao bustled about, making food for Feng Ling and saying she needed to build up her strength. She always felt that Feng Ling was too thin; if she didn’t put on some weight, childbirth would be difficult in the future.
Gu’er privately learned why Feng Ling and Li Zhi had come over. After finding out, she sighed. ‘Every family has its own problems. There’s always one or two people who don’t fit in and who aren’t well-liked. Li Zhi’s family has Li Ting. She was spoiled rotten, brainless, and didn’t have much cunning, but was actually selfish. In the future, she and Feng Ling are probably going to have a lot of fights. Luckily, Li Zhi is on Feng Ling’s side, and Feng Ling isn’t a weak person either. Now that she’s pregnant, who knows how much grief she’d have to endure otherwise? Then there’s Liu Yuan and Bai Xiaohua, who have Liu Yuan’s mother. Bai Xiaohua got angry quite a bit at the beginning. Even now, Liu Yuan’s mother takes a few jabs at her whenever she has the chance. In my own circle, there was Cao Qiu and Wei Hong at the beginning, and it took several years of adjustment to get along as we do now. Only Dingzi and Marina have it better, but that’s because their family is small, with just a grandmother. If there were more people, there would be more problems. People just have to look on the bright side. If you like someone, spend more time with them. If you don’t, see them less. There’s no need to make things hard on yourself.’ So, Gu’er also approved of Li Zhi and Feng Ling staying with them.
However, Feng Ling and Li Zhi still went back for the New Year. You can’t not be together for the holiday, and besides, Li Ting had already left. On the second day of the New Year, Gu’er and the others had a lively and happy celebration at Lin Shan’s place, but things at the Li Family home weren’t so cheerful. Li Ting and her husband were pulling long faces and making sarcastic remarks, which made Chang Jinlan so angry her chest hurt. She almost threw them out on the spot. But this was the Li Family’s business, not Gu’er’s, so she couldn’t interfere.
Lin Sui’er secretly told Gu’er that a senior was pursuing her, that she was interested, and that she was now seeing him.
A lot of people had pursued her after she started university. After all, Lin Sui’er was considered pretty, was an excellent student, and her family’s circumstances weren’t bad. Boys were naturally drawn to that.
But Sui’er had never been interested in any of them. She felt that she had to use her four years of university to learn as much as possible so it wouldn’t be a waste. Otherwise, if she was just going to spend her family’s money to slack off, she might as well have stayed home, found a job, gotten married, and had kids.
But she did have some thoughts about this senior who was pursuing her. His name was Chen Qiang, an ordinary name, but he had a certain charm. He seemed very sunny, was 1.8 meters tall, played basketball, was on the student council, and got good grades. All in all, a pretty decent guy. At first, Sui’er wasn’t interested, but after they interacted a few times, she felt that Chen Qiang was a good person. ‘It wouldn’t be so bad to date him,’ she thought, ‘as long as it doesn’t affect my studies.’ So she started seeing Chen Qiang. But they hadn’t yet reached the point where they couldn’t live without each other; they had just started dating.
“Where is his family from?”
Gu’er asked Sui’er.
“His family is from Beijing City, but they’re just ordinary folks. He lives with his grandpa, grandma, dad, and mom. He has an older sister who’s already married. He also has uncles and aunts and all that, and it seems like they all live together, so housing is pretty tight.”
Lin Sui’er told Gu’er what she knew; this was all information Chen Qiang had told her.
The tight housing situation wasn’t a concern. ‘After all,’ Gu’er thought, ‘Sun Jiaming, Li Zhi, and I have all bought properties in Beijing City, Shanghai, and Guang City. Of course, not many—just one in each city. It just happened this year. Sun Jiaming and Li Zhi handled it. Dingzi bought one too. Li Zhi complained bitterly about the expense, saying the property prices in those three cities were ridiculously high. With that money, he could have bought dozens of houses back home. He also said that buying the properties completely wiped out his savings. I know that the current property prices are nothing. Later on, they’ll be astronomical; you wouldn’t be able to afford anything with this amount of money. Of course, I have no intention of getting into real estate. I don’t have the resources for that. Knowing about the future prices, I just bought a few places to have them. It’ll be convenient for the family to have a place to stay when they travel, and it’ll also serve as an inheritance for the children. So, if Sui’er really were to marry someone in Beijing City in the future, she could just buy her own house and move out. If she’s short on money, I can lend it to her, and she can pay it back slowly. Of course, this is all just thinking ahead.’
“He’s a year ahead of you. What’s his plan after graduation? Did he tell you?”
Gu’er asked. These were practical matters. If the two of them were serious, these things needed to be clarified.
“He told me. He’s going back to Beijing City to work. He hopes I’ll go to Beijing City with him when the time comes. He said that since he’s graduating a year earlier, he can work for a year and get everything arranged, like a place to live. That way, when I graduate and go to Beijing City, it won’t be so hard for me. He said he’d help me find a job, but I don’t want to work for someone else. I want to start my own business. I mean, look, what I’m doing now isn’t bad, right? It might not be much, but I can support myself and pay my own tuition. I even send money home every month.”
Sui’er had her own ideas. She wasn’t against going to Beijing City after graduation, but she wanted to plan her own life. She wouldn’t dare say any of this to Chen Fengjiao. Chen Fengjiao would be completely against it; she was waiting for Sui’er to graduate, come back home, have Lin Shan arrange a good job for her, and then find a good man to marry.
That’s why she only dared to talk about such things with Gu’er. If she and Chen Qiang really reached that point and were committed to each other, only then would she tell Chen Fengjiao. Even if her mom disagreed, she would stand her ground.
“Just keep dating for now,” Gu’er said. “But you need to know your own limits, to know what you should and shouldn’t do. Don’t do something rash in the heat of the moment. After you graduate, if you two still feel the same way about each other and you still want to go to Beijing City to build a life, then you should go. You can make a life anywhere. As for our mom, I’ll talk to her when the time comes. Besides, with Lin Zheng around, she’ll come to accept it.”
Gu’er didn’t object to Sui’er dating, as long as she wasn’t reckless. ‘As for anything else, it’s too early to say,’ she thought. ‘Who knows what tomorrow will bring? Plenty of university students go their separate ways after graduation. Even if they end up in the same city, many couples break up for one reason or another. Some even marry the children of their work unit’s leaders to get a good job assignment. In the face of personal gain, feelings are cast aside. Things like that happen all the time. The reason I asked about Chen Qiang’s family was to know if he was a decent person from a respectable family. If so, I’ll let Sui’er date him. As for what happens later, that’s a matter for later.’
“Yeah, I think so too. Nobody knows what the future holds. I’ll just enjoy dating for a couple of years. If Chen Qiang and I are meant to be, we’ll be together after graduation. If not, we won’t hold any grudges. If we can’t be husband and wife, we’ll still be classmates and can be friends in the future. Don’t worry, Sis, I won’t let it affect my studies. But please don’t tell Mom! She’s getting more and more neurotic these days. If you go against her wishes, she’ll nag you to death. I have no idea what goes on in her head all day.”
Sui’er was now quite afraid of Chen Fengjiao’s nagging.
Gu’er understood. She thought to herself, ‘Could Chen Fengjiao be going through menopause? But then again, I don’t really know what menopause is like. Besides, Chen Fengjiao has always been a bit like that. Now that she’s just staying at home, she’s getting even more high-strung. No matter who tries to persuade her to get a job, do something, or learn something, she refuses. Lin Shan mentioned it to her once, and she burst into tears, asking if he was tired of her. Lin Shan was helpless, so he stopped trying and just let her be.’
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Thanks to the angel ‘Sleepless Night’ for the peace charm, and thank you all for your support. My daughter has an exam and a lot of homework tomorrow, so I won’t be able to write. After her exam, I’m taking her back to my parents’ home. We have to make a transfer, so it will take at least two days to arrive. Because of that, I may only be able to release one chapter a day for the next few days, but I will do my best. I’ll try to get two chapters out whenever possible, as long as I don’t have to miss a day.