Chapter 1: The Yang Family’s Daughter Grows Up

“The Emperor of Han was obsessed with beauty and wanted to conquer the country. He ruled the country for many years but could not get her. The Yang Family’s daughter grew up, but she was kept in the boudoir and unknown to the world.”

I don’t know why Mo Ting played the song “Song of Everlasting Sorrow” in the laboratory. The melody was originally melodious, but the lyrics made Lin Cuizhi even more distressed.

The girl next door did grow up, but her surname was not Yang, but Guo.

He himself had been single for 23 years, but his classmates spread the rumor that he was a pervert who raised a child bride.

Those classmates were just joking, and he understood it, but the rumor was really a dumb person eating bitter herbs.

The story goes back three days ago.

As a first-year graduate student in Guangwen University’s artificial intelligence major, he was entrusted with an important task by his tutor. To put it bluntly, the tutor was busy that day and asked Cuizhi to help the freshmen take a class instead of him.

The course was simple, and it was not a problem for Lin Cuizhi to be an introductory course for freshmen. However, he did not expect to hear a familiar but unfamiliar voice as soon as he entered the classroom: “Brother Cuizhi!”

It was a cute little girl with twin ponytails who shouted. She seemed to be a little smaller than her classmates and her face looked more immature.

How could she be here? Shouldn’t she be in the first year of high school?

Lin Cuizhi looked at Guo Siyi, the girl next door who said she wanted to marry him when she was a child, and was unable to react for a while.

The classmates in their class moved back and forth between the two of them as if they were watching a TV series.

Lin Cuizhi coughed and brought the noisy classroom back to the topic: “Hello, freshmen. I am Professor Pan’s first-year graduate student. My last name is Lin. You can just call me Senior Brother Lin. Professor Pan has something to do and can’t come to class today, so I will take his place.”

Looking at the faces of those who had just entered the university and still had obvious childishness in the classroom, Lin Cuizhi felt old for the first time.

He is only 23 years old, how can he look so mature?

Perhaps it is because his parents died when he was young, so he is mature.

After finishing a class without any danger, he just walked out of the classroom door, Guo Siyi rushed out and said: “Brother Cui Zhi, didn’t you expect to see me here?”

He was still planning to find a time to meet Guo Siyi again, but he didn’t expect her to rush out so actively.

Looking at the curious eyes in the class, Lin Cuizhi sighed, she took Guo Siyi to the corner of the teaching building and asked: “Aren’t you a freshman in high school? Why are you here?”

“I studied hard to see you, and I skipped a grade.” Guo Siyi said casually.

Looking at her shining eyes, Lin Cuizhi knew that she must have put in a lot of effort. After all, Guangwen University is the top school in the province. Judging from the experience of tutoring her two or three years ago, she is not a talented player. It is impossible for her to be admitted three years earlier in just a few years. It is not as easy as she is.

However, what the hell is this studying hard to see me?

Lin Cuizhi scratched his head and said: “Siyi, you...”

She is already a college student, and the term “early love” seems to be out of use.

He was speechless for a moment.

“When I was a child, I was serious. You and I have been destined to be together for many lifetimes. I finally found you in this lifetime!” Guo Siyi seemed to know what Lin Cuizhi wanted to say and interrupted him in advance.

“Have you read too many romance novels? You are all college students. Be more mature.” Lin Cuizhi sighed, touched her little head, and rubbed it like when he was a child.

“I will make you believe it!” Guo Siyi ran away angrily.

In fact, it was just like this. How come it became a quarrel between him and his child bride after three days?

Lin Cuizhi listened to Mo Ting, a classmate in the laboratory, adding a lot of unfounded plots, and he interrupted quickly: “It’s really not what you said. I was born single, my parents died when I was a child, and I was taken home by my uncle to live with me. Guo Siyi is my uncle’s neighbor, she is 7 years younger than me. You can do the math. She was only in the sixth grade when I was in college. How could I be so beastly?”

“It’s really quite beastly.” Mo Ting said.

There were only three people in the laboratory. Situ Lansheng didn’t say anything. Mo Ting, who was a big mouth, habitually teased him: “Lansheng, I heard that you are chasing after Ziqing, the junior?”

“Miss Mo Ting, I think you have misunderstood your name. Your name is Mo Ting, just don’t gossip.” Situ Lansheng was really speechless about Mo Ting’s personality. She was so jumpy but could calm down to do scientific research.

“My name is Mo Ting, not Mo Shuo. I can talk.” Mo Ting argued.

Situ Lansheng ignored her.

“Although she is a junior, she is already the mother of a three-year-old child. Her husband was away when the epidemic started a few years ago. It would be nice to have a man.”

Lin Cuizhi couldn’t help but say: “Don’t say it, Ziqing rejected Lansheng.”

“Why?” Mo Ting was a little surprised. After all, Lansheng gave people a strong and reliable feeling, unlike Cuizhi who looked thin and delicate and fragile.

“She just said that she wanted to raise the child alone.” Situ Lansheng said.

“That may be simply not liking you. It’s rare to have such a long-lasting love now.” Mo Ting said casually.

Situ Lansheng rarely said seriously: “Rare does not mean no, I can see that she still can’t let go of her man.”

The laboratory fell into silence for a while.

“That classmate Lin, in fact, Siyi is now skipping a grade to go to college and is 16 years old. You can try it. After all, it’s normal for a little girl to like an older brother. The gap between you seems very big now, but it’s not the same thing in society.” Mo Ting broke the silence and said.

“I don’t know why, she gives me a strange feeling, very kind, I ... Don’t laugh when I tell you, she is obviously much younger than me, but she seems to be taking care of me, and she gives me the love of an elder at such a young age.” Lin Cuizhi couldn’t help but say it.

This is his true feeling since he met Guo Siyi. At the beginning, she was still a little girl, an ordinary neighbor who called her big brother when he met her. Since he tutored her for a summer vacation in the sixth grade, she has undergone earth-shaking changes.

At the beginning, her academic performance was really poor, hovering in the middle and lower reaches of the class, and she was often distracted when he was teaching. He even doubted whether she would be able to pass the high school entrance examination.

Lin Cuizhi looked at the birthmark on his left elbow. It seemed that she changed the next day after seeing her four-leaf clover-shaped birthmark.

Is it really like she said that this birthmark is a fate from many lifetimes ago, as a mark for her to find herself in this life?

It’s too metaphysical. As a science and engineering student majoring in artificial intelligence, he doesn’t believe this.

He believes this is what the little girl said.

However, it cannot be denied that from the day after Guo Siyi accidentally saw his birthmark, she seemed to have become a different person. She looked the same, but her eyes were calm and thoughtful, which was not quite consistent with her age in the sixth grade.

In the next half month, she actually made soup in different ways every day and shared it with him during class, just like a good wife and mother.

At that time, Lin Cuizhi, a freshman, actually thought of his mother who had passed away long ago.

He didn’t know how many midnights he had been awakened.

Every time he thought of the scene of that day, it was an endless nightmare.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, he still couldn’t let it go.

Lin Cuizhi looked at the dirty stuffed dog toy beside the bed. He took it with one hand and looked at it quietly, and the tears in his eyes still silently flowed down his face.

It was the summer vacation when he was in the senior class. Lin Cuizhi went to travel with his parents. They had already walked out of the mall, but he insisted on buying the stuffed dog. Under his noise, his parents finally had to go back and buy the puppy toy.