After another two hours of sleep at home, Chu Hao lazily got up.

After washing up, I changed into the clothes I wore when I came to Yanjing from my hometown. They were still clean, but were gray and wrinkled after being washed.

Cross-body is a cloth bag sewn by my mother, which contains the admission notice needed for the start of school report.

After leaving the house, Chu Hao ate a few fried dough sticks and a bowl of porridge at a roadside stall. Instead of calling for a rickshaw, he squatted at the bus stop and waited for a long time before a bus came.

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However, the carriage was crowded and there was no spare space. During the rush hour, Chu Hao had no choice but to squeeze in with others.

Fortunately, this bus goes directly to Yanjing International Studies University, so he doesn't have to bother changing buses.

September is approaching, and it is still unbearably hot in Yanjing. The carriage smells of sweat, cigarettes, and stinky feet. My goodness, it’s so sour and refreshing.

After all, Chu Hao is a person who has withstood the test of a hard seat in a green leather car, and he is still within the tolerance range.

Listening to the chatter of several women in his ears, he couldn't help but think of his wife in his previous life, who also had to report to the university today.

They were from the same university, but not from the same department. Chu Hao was in the English department and she was in the French department.

It was a coincidence that we first met. Chu Hao liked to borrow original French books from the library during his sophomore year, especially Victor Hugo's works.

Not long after the opening of the country, and our country had not joined the World Copyright Protection Organization, the number of original foreign language books in the library was not large at that time, especially the original French books. Basically, people queued up to borrow them.

Relying on Xiao Shuman's relationship, Chu Hao always went through the back door to say hello to the administrator and gave priority to borrowing the latest French original works.

But this guy is not in a hurry to return it when he borrows it. He always translates it word for word and then savors the literary nature inside.

Once he read "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" for a month and met her, Bai Wanfei, when he was returning the book.

The other party came over angrily and asked him why he returned the book so late. Did he know that others were waiting in line?

Chu Hao apologized sheepishly and handed "Notre Dame de Paris" to her. When Bai Wanfei saw that book, she was a little surprised and asked him if he was a student in the French department and why she had never seen him before.

Chu Hao said that he was from the English department and just read it if he was interested. Bai Wanfei felt that he was bragging blindly. Even the French students had a hard time reading this book. How could he, an English major, join in the fun?

She also couldn't see a boy pretending to be cool in front of her, so she thought Chu Hao was trying to strike up a conversation with her, so she turned to a random page and asked Chu Hao what he meant. When she heard Chu Hao's fluent answers, she compared it with the translation, which was embarrassing.

In the future, the two would often meet in the library. Bai Wanfei would sometimes ask Chu Hao some French questions, and sometimes the two would chat about issues such as the future.

After all, they were of the same age, and the two gradually became familiar with each other. Chu Hao also introduced her to Xiao Shuman, who used to teach senior French.

Her family background is relatively complicated. Her parents died young. In her early years, her grandfather left with his family and went to Hong Kong. She stayed at her uncle's house under the shelter of others.

The uncle is a coward and has no say in the family. The mean aunt always wants to marry her off as soon as possible so that she can exchange some bride price for her son.

She has always wanted to get out of that family. After going to college, most of the monthly allowance was sent back home, and the same was true after working. With such harsh conditions, she was able to go to college.

During those difficult years, Chu Hao often saw her drinking free soup. Her oval-shaped face was extremely thin from hunger, and she was even more frugal than him.

Now that they know Chu Hao, the two of them can occasionally get together to add vegetables and some meat, which is a different kind of food improvement. In the cold winter, the two of them will sit in the library and translate original foreign language works together.

If the library was closed, we would sit in a classroom that was as cold as an ice cellar and encourage each other to study.

Until graduation, the two maintained a good relationship as classmates. In fact, Chu Hao had already fallen in love with her at that time, but he was thin-skinned in his previous life and kept it in his heart for fear of ruining this rare friendship with the opposite sex.

Bai Wanfei once said that she didn't want to fall in love in college because her mind was filled with the troubles at home. Once she fell in love, got married and had children, her aunt would not agree.

She is a Sichuan girl with a hot temper. After graduation, her job assignment did not go smoothly because she couldn't stand some people's demands for food and money, so she was isolated in the workplace.

That period was probably the most painful and uncomfortable time in her life. Chu Hao stayed with her, watching her cry so hard that she kept pouring wine into her mouth.

When I was drunk, I would cry and complain about why my life was so tiring, why I never had the right to choose, why I would never be able to escape that family until my death, and I would live in frustration every day.

Chu Hao understood her pain. At that time, many people had to take care of their families to go to college. Who didn't immediately subsidize their own family as soon as they received the subsidy?

Everyone is living a tight life, so who can have it better than others?

As for special family experiences like Bai Wanfei's, they are commonplace. People abandon their wives and children in every city and in the countryside. So what does it matter to her?

It can only be said to be some inevitable tragedies caused by history. There is no absolute right or wrong. People are under long-term pressure and depression, and everyone is trying to find a way out.

Apart from saying some heart-warming words and comforting words, Chu Hao couldn't do much to help.

She wanted to go abroad in her sophomore year, and most of the classmates in the class could go, but she couldn't go, because she was dragged tightly by that family, and her aunt was afraid that the cash machine would run away and never come back.

Chu Hao knew that she had always wanted to go abroad to find her grandfather. I heard that her connections were prosperous in Hong Kong, and she kept writing letters and sending money back, saying that she wanted to take Bai Wanfei abroad, but her share was confiscated by her aunt.

Moreover, her aunt deliberately concealed the specific address of her grandfather's family, prevented her from going there, and coaxed her grandfather into saying that she was living a good life and did not want to go abroad.

Bai Wanfei knew all this, but as long as she couldn't leave the country for a day, she couldn't escape her aunt's control. All her household registrations were in her aunt's hands, and her grandfather's address was also hidden by her aunt.

She desperately longed to escape and find a different way of living, but the reality was cruel. She would never be able to go abroad by herself, and no one around her could help her.

Until that day, Su Jinyun missed Chu Hao and made a special trip to see him.

When Bai Wanfei saw Su Jinyun, who had soared from being the director of a state-owned factory with extraordinary bearing and gestures, the originally despairing beautiful eyes shone with light again!
Chapter completed!