A stunning beauty arrived on the island; she invented everything from childcare to babysitting.

Six years later, at Capital University.

A man with a healthy tan got off the bus with a girl of about twelve or thirteen. The girl was pretty and had bright, lively eyes. Holding the man's hand, she looked at the huge school campus and asked, "Dad, did you tell Mom we came to see her?"

Song Wenyuan also looked at this place he had only visited once: "I didn't tell her, I wanted to give her a surprise."

Before sending Anning to university, he promised to come see her during the holidays. However, after leaving the military academy, he had even heavier responsibilities and could hardly find time for her. Instead, he asked her to come back to visit the child during the winter and summer vacations every year.

He felt guilty, but his duty as a soldier was like a mountain that he could not and should not move.

Today is an opportunity he had fought for long in advance.

"Won't this surprise turn into a shock?" Shen Changle pouted.

"No." Song Wenyuan patted his daughter's head. "I've already found out. Today is her graduation ceremony. Even if no one else is here, she can't be absent. Let's go see Mom."

At the Capital University football field, a group of graduating students gathered in twos and threes to take photos, their last farewell before leaving the campus.

Anning was among them, feeling as if these past years had been a dream.

When she woke up, she was still in that cold, post-apocalyptic world, lying in a corner, waiting for death to come.

Song Wenyuan originally agreed to go to military academy for two years and then come back, but the two years were extended by one year. I don't know how he managed it, but when he graduated, he also got a master's degree. When he returned to the army, he was more valued and kept extremely busy.

When Anning was admitted to the Capital University, he took a few days out of his busy schedule to take her to the school, and then hurriedly returned home that same day.

Despite the rush, letters were sent regularly, probably one per week, so Anning received letters from them almost every week.

Near the end of her first year of studying in Anning, Song Wenyuan told her that Song Wenying and Hao Ren had divorced; it was his childhood friend who had told him.

Song Wenying faked a pregnancy to gain the trust of Hao Ren and his mother. After returning from the island, she found a sucker on the train to stage an accident, and the other party paid her 500 yuan.

After taking the money back, Hao Ren and his mother believed it.

Although they didn't like Song Wenying as much as they used to, they still treated her with kindness, considering that she had given birth to a child for a good man.

After several years of trying, they still couldn't conceive again, so they went to a hospital in the provincial capital for a checkup. The doctor suggested checking the man's health.

It wouldn't have mattered if they hadn't investigated, but what they found out was that Hao Ren was infertile.

This raises the question of Song Wenying's previous child.

If that child isn't Hao Ren's, then whose is it?

Unable to bear the consequences of this matter, Song Wenying had no choice but to tell the whole story.

As a result, all her previous little tricks were exposed. Neither Hao Ren nor his mother could accept it, and they made a scene at the factory, which ultimately ended in divorce.

I heard that Hao Ren later married a woman who was pregnant out of wedlock. The woman didn't have a good reputation in the area, but the advantage was that she didn't know who the father of the child was. Hao Ren happened to be unable to have children, so he got a child for free.

However, this woman was even more eccentric than Song Wenying, and their lives weren't very good either.

After Song Wenying divorced Hao Ren, Hao Ren's mother spread all about her affair, and almost no one in the area was willing to marry her. She could only go home to live during holidays.

But Song Wenqiang had long regarded the house as his private property. How could a married sister come back to live there every day?

However, Ma Cuihua gave him an idea: he could go home to live, but she would have to contribute to the household expenses, just as she had told the Hao family before.

Song Wenying was initially unwilling, but in a small town, a woman without a family to rely on could not live a good life. Helpless, she could only give a portion of her monthly salary to her family, which naturally ended up in Song Wenqiang's hands. At home, she was also bullied by Song Dabao.

Song Wenying was resentful, but lacked the courage to retaliate.

Once, when she went out to buy meat, she heard that pigs fed with pig feed would get fat quickly. So she spent money to ask someone to buy a bag of pig feed and secretly mixed it into Song Dabao's snacks, hoping that he would get fatter and lazier like a pig.

Unexpectedly, within a few months, Song Dabao's body swelled up like an inflating balloon. When his family noticed something was wrong, they rushed him to the hospital for a checkup, where they discovered that he had ingested too many hormones. Because of his young age, it affected the development of his physiological organs. Although it didn't have much impact on his health, he would never be able to have sex again.

The story unfolded dramatically. As Anning reminisced, she overheard someone's incessant chatter: "Comrade Anning, really, I don't mind that you have a teenage daughter. You're a graduate of the Capital University, with a bright future ahead of you. Although your husband is an officer, he's far from a good choice. I never saw him at the university during your four years there, which means he doesn't care about you at all..."

"My dad is nobody to you. Who asked you to see him?"

A clear and melodious sound rang out, and a little girl in a blue dress rushed into Anning's arms.

"Mom, I miss you so much!"

Hearing the familiar voice, An Ning instinctively pulled the person into her arms: "Changle? What brings you here?"

Because of Song Wenyuan's work, after Anning came to the capital to study, she asked Li Bowen for help to find a primary school for Shen Changle in the capital. The two of them usually rented a place outside to work.

However, because she was going back to the island after graduation, she sent Shen Changle back to the island during her last semester before entering junior high school.

However, this time when she goes back, she will not be working in the toy factory, but in the military factory located below the toy factory, where she will become colleagues with Master Luo.

“Dad is here too.”

Anning looked up in the direction her daughter had come from. A man with a buzz cut stood there against the light, holding a bouquet of flowers, quietly watching her.

The gossiping voices of classmates came from the side again:

"Wow, that's her husband! No wonder she goes back to her hometown every summer vacation, even though it's so far away."

“I’ve never seen her husband in the past four years. I thought he was too ugly to let people see him! I didn’t expect him to be so handsome.”

"It's over, Ma Shuai has absolutely no chance. She's not as tall as her husband, not as handsome, and with just her status as a graduate of the Capital University, she's completely outmatched."

"That's not fair. Ma Shuai is a top student from the Capital University, which is far superior to An Ning's husband."

"Oh? But her husband is a military officer! I heard that military officers have very high allowances. The jobs we get after graduation may not be as good as theirs."

"What's the use of a high allowance? The gap in understanding between the two sides is too big, and they'll break up sooner or later. Just wait and see!"

"Shh, we're so close, be careful she doesn't hear us."

"How could anyone hear that from so far away? You're being too cautious."

An Ning didn't care about these students. Everyone has good and bad people, even students studying at the Capital University. They can't escape the shackles of human nature.

Besides, she will hardly have any interaction with these classmates in the future. Four years of studying here and making two or three good friends is enough.

Song Wenyuan strode towards Anning, first handing her the flowers, then extending his hand and leaning forward slightly: "Wife, let's go home!"

Both of them were very good-looking, and this scene, like something out of a TV drama, dazzled the surrounding classmates, especially that greasy young man named Ma Shuai who had just been trying to poach their partner.

An Ning looked up at the man who had persisted in this way for so many years, and couldn't help but smile, placing her hand on his: "Okay."