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

Zhiyuan got home just after eight o'clock.

Tomorrow is the day of Zhangzhu's college entrance examination, and Zhiyuan has been thinking about it. As soon as he got home, he called Lin Qingping.

Lin Qingping and Zhangzhu have moved into a house near the school, and it doesn't even take them two minutes to walk to the exam.

"Just got back from the countryside?" Lin Qingping was delighted to receive his call.

"Hmm, Mom, where's Zhangzhu? Is she asleep?" Zhiyuan leaned back on the sofa at home, feeling more relaxed than ever before.

Home is always the best place, and besides, today he finally got rid of a burden that had been bothering him for a long time.

Lin Qingping laughed, "Where is she sleeping? She was just watching TV, but I made her go take a shower."

"The exam is tomorrow, and you're still watching TV? Looks like you're well-prepared and confident." Zhiyuan smiled, thinking of his carefree younger sister.

"You've spoiled her rotten!" Lin Qingping said to him. "Before the exam, all the other students were incredibly nervous, but she was all smiles all day long. When her classmates asked her, 'Gu Zhangzhu, aren't you nervous at all?' she said, 'What's there to be nervous about? If I don't pass, I don't pass. My brother said he'll support me for life if I don't pass!'"

Zhiyuan burst into laughter upon hearing this.

"You're still laughing!" Lin Qingping pretended to be angry. "After hearing what you said, she's really out of control! She keeps saying that everything is my brother's responsibility, and that he'll always be there to protect her. But I think your father and I will get old someday, and when we're too old to help, she'll cause a huge disaster. How will you cover for her then?"

"What trouble could she possibly cause?" Zhiyuan laughed. "She's been well-behaved since she was little, cute and adorable, kind and innocent. What trouble could she possibly cause?"

Lin Qingping was shocked when she heard this. "Zhiyuan, your sister filter is way too thick! She was called 'Guai' when she was little? Did she take a pair of scissors and cut your hair bald while you were sleeping? Or did she gather all the little boys in the yard into her little brothers and cause trouble everywhere with the few punches and kicks she learned from you?"

Upon hearing this, Zhiyuan laughed even louder, "Aren't these things cute? And Mom, what's a filter?"

Lin Qingping: ...

You slipped up again. But are these things cute? Li Zhiyuan, have you forgotten how your classmates laughed at you for going to school with half your hair bald? Oh right, you really didn't care about their teasing; you were actually quite proud. It was your incredibly cute little sister who gave you the new haircut, making those little boys quite envious…

You and your bunch of boys probably all have some aesthetic issues...

“Mom, don’t worry. Zhangzhu seems carefree, but she’s always been a good student. This kind of mindset is actually good for her in the exam. She’ll be relaxed and can perform exceptionally well,” Zhiyuan comforted her.

Lin Qingping smiled and said, "I know. I'm happy that you two siblings are getting along so well."

“Mom, I still remember something you said, and it still sticks in my mind,” Zhiyuan said.

"what?"

"You said you worked so hard to earn money so that Zhangzhu and I wouldn't have to suffer anymore." Zhiyuan looked at the lights of thousands of homes outside the window, deeply moved. "Mom, now that I'm grown up, I will also work hard, and strive to be able to let you and Dad live out the rest of your lives in peace, and let Zhangzhu live a carefree life."

"Silly child." Lin Qingping felt a warmth in her heart upon hearing this.

Actually, when she took little Zhiyuan in and treated him with all her heart back then, she was also taking a gamble. Because of her past life experience, raising someone else's child again was a gamble that she really considered might not be a sure thing. But she was very fortunate that when she was reborn and met that little, skinny Zhiyuan again, she did not give up on him...