Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

Xu Weiping had already planned it out. After Xu Su finished high school, she would go to work in a textile factory. With the two of them looking after her, they wouldn't be afraid that their daughter would be seduced by young men. They would earn money for the family for a few years, and when she reached a certain age, they would choose a good family for her to marry into and give her a dowry to pay for her younger brother's education.

With Xu Su's looks, as long as she doesn't do something as reckless as her aunt and ruin her reputation, she can marry even a minor leader in a government agency.

If it weren't for the idea that a girl's education would help her marry into a better family, he wouldn't have wanted to spend money to send his daughter to high school. What's the use of good grades? Even if she gets into a good university, all the money she earns in the future belongs to her husband's family. How much can she give to her own family?

Xu Su remained silent in the face of the Xu family's deeply ingrained mindset. She did not resist. In her previous life, she had tried her best to please her parents and younger brother, but she gained nothing in return. All she got in return was being "sold" to Zhou Mochen.

She had already decided in this lifetime that she would earn her own college tuition. After all, she had been reborn, and there was no reason why she couldn't earn her tuition.

Putting everything else aside, the scholarships at No. 1 High School are quite generous. Although she has never received one, she has heard that they are higher than those at some universities.

In her past life, her grades dropped and she wasn't eligible to receive it, but in this life, perhaps she can try her best.

Besides the scholarship, Xu Su had another trump card: she remembered a lottery number.

When Xu Weiping was in his second year of high school, an employee of a textile factory downstairs from the new house his family moved into won a huge sum of 50,000 yuan in the lottery. This incident sparked a lottery-buying craze among the textile factory employees. Even Xu Weiping, who never believed in such things, bought lottery tickets for several consecutive draws.

Xu Su was extremely envious at the time. After Chen Shulan mentioned it to her a few times, she specially memorized that set of numbers and kept it firmly in her mind.

She remembered it was before the final exams of the first semester of her junior year of high school, which would be next year. She planned to secretly buy the lottery ticket then, so she wouldn't have to worry about her college tuition.

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For this meal, two dining tables were set up in the main room of the Xu family home; the men sat at one table and the women at the other.

Even six-year-old Xu Yang can sit at the big table, indicating that the women of the Xu family have extremely low status when the family gathers for meals.

They were the ones busy running around, and they were also the ones sitting at the small table.

The dinner table.

Xu Weiguo's wife, Yang Yun, said to Xu Su, "Su Su, your grades are good. When you have time, tutor your two younger brothers, especially Hao Hao, who just started junior high school this semester and hasn't adjusted yet. Please put in some effort to help him improve his grades."

The voice was quite loud, and Xu Hao, who was sitting at the large table next to him, heard it. He glanced at Xu Su sideways and snorted, "She's a country bumpkin, I don't want her to teach me."

Even though the Xu family was so poor, all the children grew up in the city, and their words were full of disdain for their cousin who grew up in the countryside.

Yang Yun was quite good at handling people. She scolded her eldest son, "Your cousin goes to the city's No. 1 High School, and she's in the top class. She'll tutor you, so what are you complaining about?"

Then he turned to Xu Su and asked, "Su Su, don't hold it against your brother. He's still young and doesn't know how difficult it is to get into the No. 1 High School in the city."

Actually, Yang Yun didn't really understand either. She usually set up a snack stall at the entrance of the elementary school. She had heard that the No. 1 Middle School in the city had good academic performance, but she didn't know exactly how difficult it was to get in or what the "rocket class" was. She only remembered it after Xu Weiguo mentioned it to her a few times these past few days.

Xu Su nodded, not directly refusing, "Okay, I'll wait until I have time during my vacation."

Anyway, I promised her but couldn't keep it.

In reality, given how busy high school studies are, where would she find the time to tutor others? In her past life, she tutored Xu Yang because she wanted to be a sycophant, willing to waste her own study time to raise a good son for her parents.

It's still more convenient to live together; Xu Yang gets to use half a day off every week.

It would be difficult to tutor the Xu brothers who live far away. Xu Suxian would not lose anything by agreeing first, but Yang Yun could not just bring the children to their door every weekend, could she?

Xu Su readily agreed, but Chen Shulan was not happy. She gave her daughter a reproachful look: "Your own brother just started elementary school this year, and he also has a lot of things to adjust to. If you have time, you should also make sure Yangyang gets up early."

"Let me tell you, your dad and I are entrusting Yangyang's grades to you. We must make sure he gets into the top high school in the city for junior high, and then he can go straight to high school. Then we won't have to worry about him not getting into college."

With her daughter being admitted to the top high school's elite class, Chen Shulan has been surrounded by her colleagues praising her these days. She was forced to learn about the situation at Changshi Middle School. If she gets into the top high school, she'll at least get a bachelor's degree.

Whether their daughter gets into university or not is not important to Chen Shulan and her husband, but if their son can get into university, it will bring glory to the family. They will support him even if they have to sell everything they own!

At the dinner table, Chen Shulan and her sister-in-law chatted back and forth, with Xu Su occasionally nodding and agreeing as the center of their conversation.

Grandma Xu doesn't care about anything. The old couple are getting on in years and don't have much money. They've reached the point where they have to rely on their son. She's not as harsh on her two daughters-in-law as she was a few years ago, and she doesn't always try to act like a mother-in-law.

Xu Ruyue was like an invisible person, quietly eating with her two daughters. On such a hot day, Xu Su noticed that her aunt was wearing long sleeves. She guessed that she was either hiding a new wound or covering up an old one.

My aunt's husband's surname is Zhang. My older cousin, Zhang Yingying, is thirteen years old and has just started junior high school. My younger cousin, Zhang Tingting, is ten years old and is still in elementary school. Both of them are as thin as chicks. Their father doesn't hit them much, but he doesn't give his two daughters much of a friendly look either.

Xu Suming herself wasn't doing so well, yet she still felt compassion. If she had been raised in the Xu family, she probably would be in the same situation now.

She was somewhat relieved that Chen Shulan had sent her to the countryside to be raised by her maternal grandmother in order to have a son.

In her past life, she and Zhou Mochen were at odds. Even after marriage, she refused to acknowledge Zhou's status as his wife and refused to let the Xu family take advantage of Zhou Mochen because of her. In private, she never offered any help to the Xu family.

Her younger brother, Xu Yang, dropped out of junior high school and became addicted to gambling. He squandered the family's fortunes, but Xu Su didn't even flinch.

He just couldn't bring himself to be harsh with his two younger cousins. When they were admitted to university but didn't have the money to pay for their tuition, Xu Su secretly covered their tuition fees, always feeling that helping them was helping his former self.

Zhang Yingying lived up to expectations; after graduating from university, she didn't rely on any connections and got a job at Zhou's company based on her own abilities.

By the time Xu Su found out, her cousin had already become a department team leader.

Later, she made some major mistake at work that offended Zhou Mochen. When she was about to be fired by the Zhou family, she came to her for help.