My whole family is the protagonist, and I am the only cannon fodder!

Knowing that Deng Deng would be picked up by Lu early in the afternoon, Aunt Li prepared a nutritious kitten dinner for Deng Deng in the afternoon. When she put the food into the bowl, Deng Deng kept rubbing against Aunt Li's trouser legs in a flattering manner, and after a few minutes he immediately started to eat with relish.

After dinner, Lu Zao Zao took Deng Deng out for a walk. Deng Deng walked and stopped from time to time, sometimes fluttering his shadow under the street light, and sometimes stopping beside a newly sprouted grass on the side of the road. Lu Zao Zao stood by and waited for Deng Deng to have fun before slowly walking forward.

Wait must have been tired from walking outside, so Lu took it back to the cat bed early and it fell asleep after a while.

Lu Zao Zao leaned over and gently stroked its soft, shiny and smooth fur, then kissed its forehead. She spoke softly, "Wait, please don't blame me, okay? I'm just a little tired, not that I don't love you anymore."

After saying these words, Lu Zao sighed and tiptoed back to the room. She sat on the chair, looked at the calendar on the desk, and drew a circle on today's date with a black marker, symbolizing that this day had passed.

Lu Zao Zao turned a few pages back and came to June. She had already circled numbers 7 and 8 with a red marker. Those two days were the days of the college entrance examination, and there were only less than four months left.

Time flies.

The tip of the red pen paused on the 9th, leaving a small red ink stain, like a drop of blood and tears. Lu Zao Zao thought about it, moved the pen tip back, and stopped on the 12th, and then she put a small check mark on this day.

After finishing this small task, Lu went to take a shower early. Before going to bed, she opened the drawer, took out a few white pills and swallowed them with water.

The weather was gradually warming up in March, but except for the moment when the sun came out at noon, it was still cold at other times, especially in the morning and evening. The coolness in the air was not much different from that in late winter. Lu Zaozao still wore a thick down jacket or cashmere coat to prevent herself from catching a cold.

"Zao Zao, let's go to the movies this Saturday night, shall we? Let's watch that movie that I told you a few days ago that I really wanted to watch, it's a recently released one."

Lu Zao Zao tilted his head and asked in confusion, "Which one?"

Li Jianan's brows were almost wrinkled into a clear question mark.

"I remember I mentioned this to you several times, how come you don't remember it?" Li Jianan's face drooped, "Zao Zao, did you not listen to me seriously at all?!"

Before Lu Zao Zao could speak, He Feng, who was sitting in the back, was the first to speak up for Lu Zao Zao, "Don't you remember it yourself? Why are you still questioning Zao Zao?"

"How can that be the same thing? I often forget things. Not being able to remember things is normal, don't you understand?!" Li Jianan turned around and glared at He Feng as if warning, "But Zao Zao is different. She is very smart and remembers things very well. Moreover, she can remember many things I have said once."

"I have mentioned this movie several times. I remember she said before that we should find some time on the weekend to watch it together." Li Jianan looked at Lu Zaozao worriedly, holding her face with both hands and looking at her left and right. "Zaozao, what's wrong with you? Are you sick?"

"I'm not sick. Maybe I didn't get enough rest during this period, and I'm a little stressed thinking about the college entrance examination."

After Lu Zao Zao finished speaking, she thought about it carefully several times in her mind, wishing she could look up all her memories from the past period of time. Finally, she looked at Li Jianan's worried expression and said the name of a movie under her gaze, "Is it this one?"

"Yes, yes, that's it." Li Jianan gave an affirmative answer, then turned around and looked at He Feng very proudly, "I said Zao Zao was very smart and useful, and she would definitely take what I said to heart."

He Feng: “…”

Lu Zao Zao smiled and said, "It's not that I don't remember it, it's just that my mind couldn't process it for a while. Okay, let's go and watch it this Saturday afternoon."

The school also held its first entrance exam this week. This time, Lu Qingwan surpassed Xie Huinian and became the first in the grade, officially breaking Xie Huinian's monopoly on the title of first place as long as he took the exam, and directly ranked second.

Lu Zaozao's grades declined a little, but he was still in the top ten in the grade.

After school, He Feng walked forward holding Xie Huinian's shoulders, sighing several times, "I thought there would be no one smarter than you around me, and I thought that as long as you existed, the first place would always belong to you. Now, the country has changed hands."

"How come Lu Qingwan is so smart? She was the top student in the grade before, but how come she jumped a grade and became the top student again without any effort? If you give me this brain, what can't I do in this world?!"

He Feng talked a lot, but Xie Huinian ignored him the whole time.

He Feng is the typical person who will calm down after a while if you ignore him, but if you respond to him even a little, he will keep on talking to you.

Anyway, Xie Huinian doesn't care about this kind of thing at all. Since he was a child, he has always had things that are easy and readily available to him, so he wouldn't feel sorry even if he lost them, let alone grades, scores, and rankings, which are not important to Xie Huinian at all.

He just suddenly thought of something else, so he frowned slightly.

He Feng instantly caught Xie Huinian's action, but he couldn't figure out what Xie Huinian was thinking. He thought he was worried about this matter, so he wanted to rub salt into Xie Huinian's wounds.

"Oh, it's okay. If you surpass the first time, you will surpass the second time." He patted Xie Huanian's shoulder with a playful smile, watching the fun, "Comrade Xie Huanian, you should be prepared to be suppressed by Lu Qingwan forever."

Xie Huinian was still thinking about something. After more than ten seconds, he waved away He Feng's hand on his shoulder, then got into the car without saying a word.

In a sense, Xie Huinian was indeed worried about the ranking in this exam, but he was not worried about the results and ranking itself. He just thought of some other derivative things through this incident.

Xie Huinian is undoubtedly a child of destiny, and almost no one can deny this.

In his previous life, from childhood to adulthood, Xie Huinian had heard similar adjectives describing him countless times: delicate and handsome looks, tall and broad body, smart brain, wealthy family background, open-minded and harmonious family, and innate good popularity. Xie Huinian had everything since he was born.

When all these traits appear in a person, there is no need to think about how smooth his life will be. He will never worry about money, power, and love, and will never be frightened or worried all day long.

He is truly God's favorite. Even if he wants the stars in the sky, he can build a ladder and reach out to grab them. There are so many stars in the universe, some are bright, some are dim, and Xie Huinian is the brightest and most glorious one among them.

A long time ago, Xie Huinian had a business rival who lost to him in a competition for a business resource. To be honest, the opponent's proposal and plan were definitely better than Xie Huinian's in many small details, but Xie Huinian still won because of his family background. He had more, stronger and better connections to pave the way for his ideas.

In other words, he himself is actually the strongest network of contacts.

His opponent drank too much during the banquet and was no longer as calm and decent as before. He hated Xie Huinian with gnashing teeth and a sour taste in his mouth.

He climbed onto Xie Huinian's shoulders and said, "Xie Huinian, I am so jealous of you. Even if I work a million times harder than you, I will always be far behind you. The resources you have when you are born are beyond my reach in my entire life."

At the end, his voice became a little hazy and light, as light as a heavy sigh, "Xie Huinian, I really... envy you so much. How come you have such good luck, so good——"

How come you are so lucky?

"You are so lucky, wow, it's no exaggeration to say that you are a child of destiny, it's so enviable." - He had heard these words from the owner of the fortune-telling stall before. Everyone said so, and he was truly a child of luck.

But this life is a little different. He had a terrible car accident when he was studying abroad. After hundreds of rehabilitation training sessions, he was finally able to stand up. However, his condition was not so good at the beginning.

Although he can stand up, he still has an obvious limp when walking and needs to use a cane. He also cannot walk for too long, otherwise his entire legs will become so sore that he cannot tolerate it, especially when it rains or when the seasons change.

Because of some sequelae from the car accident, Xie Huinian still needs to take leave frequently and stays in the hospital most of the time. Sometimes when people mention him, they still inevitably praise Xie Huinian with adjectives such as "a child of destiny", but at the same time they will sigh with regret.

It's a pity that his health was not very good. The healthy and cheerful body was completely wiped out from Xie Huinian's life. His lucky life has been incomplete from then on, and it can never be saved or compensated. The defect on his legs will follow him all his life.

Before, Xie Huinian could always easily win the first place in various examinations and competitions without any effort. Later, Xie Huinian realized that this might not only be due to his smart brain, but also a lot of it came from his luck.

He didn't think he had done anything wrong in this exam. He just treated it as an ordinary test question like the previous ones. However, he was easily overtaken by Lu Qingwan. Perhaps his ranking will continue to drop. He may really have to spend some effort to get a more ideal result.

Xie Huinian was about to slowly change from a prodigy that everyone praised and that could not be doubted to an ordinary person who would have to spend a lot of time and effort to do everything well, just like most people in this world.

But there's nothing wrong with that.

Xie Huinian fell on the carpet, on which was still some of the scent of the kitten. Xie Huinian felt that he should laugh, so he raised the corners of his mouth and smiled. He had been thinking about it and praying day and night from the beginning, hoping to exchange everything he had for Lu Zaozao's safety, and now it was just slowly coming true.

But he was still afraid. Although Xie Huinian was a child of destiny, there would always be a day in this process when his luck would be completely exhausted.

If the redeemable value of Xie Huinian's life was a full 100 before, he estimated that this value has now gradually dropped by half, and will only become lower and lower as time goes by.

What should he do if Lu Zaozao still fails to get a normal life and a healthy body as he wished?

If something unexpected happened to him and his life came to an abrupt end, he wouldn't even know how Lu Zaozao would survive in this world.

He could completely accept giving all his luck to Lu Zaozao, and could accept that his own life was short and fleeting. But he just couldn't accept that after his death, Lu Zaozao would live a sickly, lonely and miserable life. He couldn't accept that Lu Zaozao would pass away quietly like she did in her previous life and become the topic of conversation among others.

Even this kind of talk doesn't last long. After a while, no one will remember her.

Xie Huinian absolutely could not accept this, he must see Lu Zao Zao live happily, fully, freely, and for a long time. He prayed to God Jesus, knelt down to Buddha and Bodhisattva, sacrificed his health, luck, life, everything, just for this wish.

He lay on the carpet, took a deep breath, and understood with empathy the word "unfair" that others had always said to him. He also felt the helplessness because he really had no way to change anything.

At the same time, Lu Qingwan was also feeling annoyed. Getting first place in the grade and surpassing Xie Huinian did not make her happy.

The distance between her and Lu Zaozao on the grade list was even further away. She didn't know what she was competing with Xie Huinian for. No one knew her inner thoughts. Xie Huinian simply didn't bother to respond or fight back against Lu Qingwan on such matters.

Lu Qingwan felt like she was playing a clumsy childish trick, making some noises on her own, trying to attract everyone's attention, trying to focus everyone's attention on her, so that the people she valued and cared about the most would also see her.

But what is the point of all this?