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

Xu Su only learned about this later, during a conversation between her parents and Zhou Mochen's maternal grandfather at her wedding.

The moment Xu Su learned the truth in her past life, she was completely certain that her parents had sold their daughter for personal gain. She recalled how Xu Weiping had worked as a porter for over ten years without getting a promotion, but then became the workshop director of a textile factory during her high school years.

If it weren't for the fact that Xu Su met Zhou Mochen after moving into the welfare housing, she would have suspected that the house allocated to her family was also secretly arranged by Zhou Mochen, deliberately living opposite the Xu family and deliberately picking her up and dropping her off at school every morning and evening, and that Chen Shulan and Xu Weiping were happy to see it happen.

On a darker note, is it possible that when Grandma was hospitalized with hemiplegia and unable to take care of herself, they deliberately said they had no money for treatment so that she would have to beg Zhou Mochen?

Thinking of her past life, Xu Su's eyes reddened. She lowered her eyes and ate in silence, trying not to let her emotions show.

For the next few days, Xu Su brought lunch to Xu Weiping every day at noon. The textile factory workers joked that Xu Weiping, who looked big and burly, had given birth to a daughter as beautiful as Diao Chan.

That day, Xu Su wore a light yellow knee-length dress, held an aluminum lunchbox in her hand, and stood under the shade of a tree, as usual, to deliver food to her father.

Xu Weiping's colleagues had seen her these past few days and shouted loudly to him, "You're so lucky! Your daughter brings you food under the scorching sun every day, and you don't even ask her to hold an umbrella for you. It's not good for a young girl to get tanned."

"Hey, why do students need to be so pretty? Studying hard is the most important thing." Xu Weiping chuckled as he dismissed his colleague and took the lunchbox his daughter had brought.

At noon, Chen Shulan made braised pork ribs, stir-fried lettuce, and cold eggplant salad. Feeling sorry for her husband's hard work these past few days, she specially chopped two pounds of pork ribs to cook for them.

Xu Su stood aside and waited for him to finish eating so she could take the lunchbox back to wash it.

At the same time, on the second floor of an office building to the right of the Xu family father and daughter.

Li Jinxiang finished writing the last stroke on the document, rubbed his temples, and called out to the young man standing by the window several times, but the young man ignored him.

He got up in confusion and walked over, patting the young man on the shoulder. "What are you looking at so intently?"

Zhou Mochen didn't look away, his profile revealing no emotion, and simply asked, "Grandpa, does your factory still hire summer workers?"

Li Jinxiang followed his gaze and saw a short-haired girl under the shade of a tree downstairs, carefully sweeping away the bones spat out by the man in the employee uniform.

He frowned: "The textile factory doesn't hire summer workers. This must be a family member of one of the employees bringing you food. They're just trying to make room for you. The old factory area is working overtime these days, and the employees aren't going home to eat."

"You're staring at me so intently, are you hungry?" Li Jinxiang glanced at her a few times, and apart from the girl being unusually pretty, he couldn't see anything wrong with her. "Come on, Grandpa will take you to eat. It's already twelve o'clock."

Zhou Mochen didn't move until the yellow figure in his line of sight picked up the lunchbox and walked further and further away.

Seeing his expression, Li Jinxiang was a little alarmed. "Why are you staring at her like that? This girl looks only sixteen or seventeen. You're not thinking about something, are you?"

After saying that, she denied her own statement, "That can't be. Your mother called your grandmother two months ago and said that you haven't had a single female fly around you during your four years of college, and she was worried that you might like men."

Although my grandson doesn't hold any high-ranking position in Changsha and I'm not familiar with them, I still know a little about them through my daughter's phone calls.

She has been outstanding and independent since she can remember. She started learning about entrepreneurship and investment in high school, and by the time she graduated from university, she had already amassed a considerable personal fortune. As for relationships, according to her daughter, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe her as having extremely high standards.

Zhou Mochen turned around, his eyes somewhat cold. He smiled at his grandfather and said, "That's not true. Let's go eat first, then we can talk about serious matters."

Xu Su was walking home with a lunchbox in her hand. She stopped by the roadside to wait to cross the street. A black Land Rover drove by, and it was moving quite slowly on the wide road where there were not many cars.

After crossing the road, she belatedly realized that Zhou Mochen's car in Chang Province in 2005 seemed to be a Land Rover, also black. That car had driven her to and from school for more than two years, and Xu Su still remembered it vividly.

Then she laughed at herself for being overly anxious. Changshi is such a big city, there must be at least 800 to 1,000 people driving Land Rovers. She was just being too nervous.

Based on the timeline, that person is currently twenty-one years old and has just graduated from university. He should be in Beijing at this time, since there's no word yet that the old factory area has been sold.

She remembered that it would be next year when the old textile factory area, along with the factories near this industrial zone, including their dormitories, would be acquired by that person.

This large plot of land was used to build a Times Square. Three years later, when Xu Su graduated from high school, the square was barely beginning to take shape. Ten years later, this square will become a landmark building in Chang City, in the most prosperous area of ​​the city, and even the price of the welfare house allocated to the Xu family will rise.

Even such a large project is just a tiny part of his business empire.

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Time flew by and it was August 10th.

After sleeping on the sofa for a few days, Xu Su had gotten used to it and slept until six in the morning. Xu Weiping and his wife didn't get up until she had finished tidying everything up.

Today, Chen Shulan accompanied her to the reporting meeting. The textile factory was very busy, and Xu Weiping couldn't leave.

After finishing breakfast, Chen Shulan gave her son a few instructions, and the mother and daughter left with the things they had prepared.

The industrial zone is not far from the No. 1 Middle School of the city. There is a direct bus. Just walk out of the alley and about 100 meters to the bus stop.

In 2005, private cars were not as common as they would be a decade or so later. So, besides Xu Su, there were three other families waiting for the bus at the platform who looked like they were sending high school freshmen to register for school, but it was unclear which school they were going to.

Chen Shulan didn't know anyone and had no intention of greeting them. She pointed to the bus stop sign and said to Xu Su:

“Susu, remember that the bus that goes to your school is number 528. It’s written on the front of every bus. At first, you can take the bus to and from school. After a while, when you’re familiar with the route, you can ride your family’s bicycle to school. That way, you won’t have to wait for the bus and it will be more convenient.”

Xu Su nodded. She had walked this road for three whole years and knew it all too well. It would take half an hour to cycle from the old industrial area to the No. 1 Middle School, but only about ten minutes by bus. It was indeed close.

Chen Shulan said she would take the bus to school first, but she didn't know that high school students had to be at school by 6:30 to start morning reading, which meant that Xu Su, a day student, had to leave at 6:00, and the earliest bus hadn't even started running yet.