To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

So, did he actually misunderstand?

Her eyes involuntarily reddened. "Gu Juncheng, I didn't, I..."

“Go back,” he said.

If he misunderstood, how could she be willing to go back?

"Gu Juncheng, listen to me, you have to believe me, I really didn't..."

“I believe you,” he interrupted her.

She was taken aback, her heart filled with confusion. If you believe me, why are you looking at me like that?

"I know there's nothing between you and him. Go back, I have things to do, I'm leaving now." He didn't look at her again, opened the car door, and got in.

Lin Qingping stared blankly, not understanding his meaning, and just watched his car leave, feeling as if a piece of her heart was empty.

He said he believed her, and she believed he was telling the truth, but something just didn't feel right.

Even when she had just been reborn, even when he was exhausted by her in his previous life, his eyes were not so distant and indifferent.

Lin Qingping returned to the student affairs office dejectedly.

Everyone was still there, considering how to deal with Xie Wei and Yu Chengzhi.

Lin Qingping hid her distraught feelings and made her request: to apologize during the school-wide assembly.

Must apologize!

She should be exonerated in the same way that made her the talk of the school!

But Xie Wei clearly couldn't accept this demand. "Lin Qingping, don't go too far! Apologize in front of the whole school? How are we supposed to stay at school after this? Where will we put our faces?!"

"So you do have a sense of shame? So you knew you wouldn't be able to stay at school? When you were spreading rumors about me, when you were slandering me everywhere, did you ever think that I wouldn't be able to stay at school? Did you ever think that you might drive me to my death?" Lin Qingping was definitely not the kind of person who would commit suicide to prove her innocence because of rumors, but that didn't stop her from using that as an excuse.

Xie Wei retorted, "If you're upright and honest, why are you afraid of what people say? Can you honestly say that the clothes you wear, the face cream you use, and the shop you run are all paid for with your own money?"

To this day, Xie Wei still maintains her view that Lin Qingping herself did not have the ability to live the life she has now.

"I swear on my life that I spent my own money!" Lin Qingping glanced around at the teachers and police officers. "Perfect timing, since both teachers and police are here today, I can stand any investigation! And..."

She paused for a moment, then said, "An apology at a school-wide assembly is the minimum I can accept. If you don't think that's acceptable, you can choose not to apologize. All the investigation materials from the military academy are complete, and I will directly file a lawsuit. You can expect to receive a court summons then."

Court summons...

Xie Wei dared not imagine how humiliating it would be if a summons were actually sent to her home...

But isn't this better than losing face in front of the whole school?

While she was weighing her options, Yu Chengzhi lowered his head and said, "I apologize. I was the one who initiated this. I apologize."

Xie Wei looked at him, her eyes filled with tears of gratitude.

Lin Qingping only needs the rumors to stop and her innocence to be proven; she doesn't care who apologizes to the other two.

Therefore, the student affairs office decided that Yu Chengzhi would publicly apologize during the assembly next Monday morning.

The rumor incident was over, but Lin Qingping was not at ease. The look in Gu Juncheng's eyes when he left had frozen her heart, and she could not shake it off.

When she returned to the shop after finishing her class in the morning, someone was delivering whipped cream. It was the same simple packaging as last time, except that the outer cardboard box was still there this time.

Lin Qingping discovered that this was not the source of the goods from the store she had ordered from.

The deliveryman was an older man.

He was a stranger she had never met before.

Gu Youlian saw her and hurriedly said, "Pingzi, you're back! It's this uncle who's here to deliver goods again."

The middle-aged man who was unloading goods turned around and smiled, looking very honest and kind. "Hello."

"What is this...?" Lin Qingping was certain that this uncle was not a local; his Mandarin had an accent.

"Oh, it's not delivery time yet. I happened to be in the capital on business, so I brought some along. See if you need it..." The uncle was explaining why he delivered the goods early.

However, Lin Qingping had no idea why he came to the store to deliver the goods. Nevertheless, Lin Qingping was very satisfied with this batch of whipping cream, as the quality was really good. She was just a little confused!

“We need it!” she nodded quickly. “But I still don’t know where you came from…”

The middle-aged man looked surprised. "Didn't Commander Gu tell you?"

"Commander Gu...?" What does Gu Juncheng have to do with this?

The middle-aged man adjusted his hat and said with a smile, "It was Commander Gu who contacted me, asking if we had any whipping cream. Our banner has large pastures, so of course we have whipping cream, but nobody buys it. Commander Gu said his wife's shop needs it, and since we were in the capital on business, we brought some with us."

"Are you from Inner Mongolia?" Lin Qingping noticed that there were Chinese characters and Mongolian characters on the cardboard box. No wonder Gu Youlian said last time that she wrote characters she didn't recognize.

The middle-aged man nodded vigorously and laughed, "Look, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm from Inner Mongolia. I used to be in the same regiment as Commander Gu. When he enlisted, I was already a veteran. Later, I retired and returned to my hometown. In the past two years, we've been planning to develop the dairy industry! If you need anything related to dairy products in the future, feel free to contact me!"

She runs a dessert shop, so she really needs dairy products, including whipped cream and fresh milk. But how much can her shop possibly consume?

The man also left her several cans of milk powder, which were their products, and asked her to give him some feedback.

"We're just starting out, and we don't know if we'll do well or not. You're in the capital, you've seen and experienced a lot, so please help us compare the gaps!" The uncle walked away happily.

Lin Qingping felt a mix of emotions: one was the joy of being inspired by the uncle's energetic and ambitious spirit in developing the economy, and the other was the fluctuating emotions caused by the name "Commander Gu".

He truly was never absent when she needed him.

Whether in a past life or this life.

In her past life, she made so many unreasonable demands, and he never failed to fulfill them if she asked…

She was supposed to come here to repay his kindness, to give back to him, but he is still omnipresent, filling the void in her life.

She was slandered and defamed. She thought she could find the source by using her brain, and she did. But what she didn't expect was that he, who was not around, also quietly found someone else.

He even noticed that the store was short of whipping cream and earnestly tried to find a solution for her.

He was in a boarding school, and he was rarely by her side. In this life, she no longer made any demands on him, yet he still managed to take care of everything.

Gu Juncheng, why do you look at me with such cold eyes?

Or, just like in the previous life, do you only see me as a responsibility to you?

Lin Qingping sat in a chair in the dessert shop, her eyes stinging.

It wasn't until Gu Youlian came to call her, "Pingzi, what are you daydreaming about?"

Lin Qingping was in a daze when Gu Youlian was already in front of her. Seeing her appearance, Gu Youlian was shocked and asked, "Pingzi, why are you crying?"

Lin Qingping crying was something Gu Youlian hadn't expected.

In her mind, this younger sister-in-law was incredibly capable, intelligent, and strong, and had absolutely nothing to do with the word "crying."

"Did Chengzi bully you?" Her first thought was of her younger brother, and her expression suggested that if it was indeed her brother who had upset her, she would have a serious talk with him.

Lin Qingping wiped away her tears and shook her head. "No."

"So that's the bad student from your school who bullied you?" Gu Youlian thought of the girls who had spoken ill of Lin Qingping in her shop, and rolled up her sleeves in anger. "I should have slapped her a few times back then!"

"Big sister, what are you slapping? Who are you slapping?" Lin Qingping was unaware of what was happening in the shop.

"That girl in your dorm! Chengzi knows! She was talking about you in our shop, and Chengzi gave her a good scolding!" Thinking back, Gu Youlian still regretted not slapping Xie Wei that day.

Lin Qingping was stunned once again. How come Gu Juncheng is here again...?

"Bottle, is that her? Did she bully you again? I'll give her a good beating next time I see her! I asked Chengzi, and he said it's okay..."

Before Gu Youlian could finish speaking, Lin Qingping turned and ran out of the shop.

"Hey, the bottle! The bottle!" Gu Youlian shouted from behind, but she couldn't get her to turn around.

Lin Qingping ran to the bus stop in one breath, intending to go directly to Gu Juncheng's school. At this moment, she really wanted to see Gu Juncheng, she had to see him! She couldn't afford to waste a single day, a single hour, or even a single moment!

Gu Juncheng was on his way back to school and they were almost there.

Teacher Lü had glanced at him several times along the way, and was still looking at him now. Finally, unable to hold back any longer, he finally spoke up, "When your teacher recommended you to me, he praised you in every way, saying you were a born eagle and a wolf on the ground. Why didn't he mention the one most similar quality you had?"

Gu Juncheng asked in confusion, "What?"

"Our cafeteria's braised pot."

Gu Juncheng: ...

“I’ve been with you all this way, back and forth, and you haven’t said a single word!” Instructor Lü exclaimed. “You keep everything bottled up inside, like it’s been cooked to a pulp, but you still won’t say a word. Tell me, what does your wife like about you? You’re so dull! You’re no fun at all!”

Gu Juncheng frowned and fell silent.

Teacher Lü sighed, "Your wife suffered so much at school, I specially left you behind, planning to come back by myself. But you, instead of offering a kind word, just said 'Go back,' and that was it?"

Gu Juncheng glanced at him. "Instructor, you were eavesdropping on our conversation, weren't you?"

Instructor Lü: ...

"Is that the point?" Instructor Lü's face tightened. "I used eavesdropping? Wasn't I listening openly and honestly?"

After questioning her, he earnestly advised, "Xiao Gu, women like to hear sweet words and nice things. You need to coax them more and make them happy. We're already separated from our wives most of the time, and you're not making them happy..."

One hundred tips for winning over your wife are omitted here.

After he finished speaking, Instructor Lü asked him, "Did you remember?"

Gu Juncheng said calmly, "A teacher is indeed a teacher; he can teach everything."

Instructor Lü: ...