From Chinatown to the urban area of St. Ann, Lin Sirer drove for half an hour before arriving at her aunt Lin Deying's home.
In Sanlan City, no place can be called the city center. Only in the St. Ann metropolitan area, because it is in the inner city of San Francisco, there are several districts and counties that are connected together, and it is close to the North Hollywood Studios.
So the population is the most dense.
Lin Deying felt happy and worried when she saw her niece.
Fortunately, I heard that Lu Zhichao and Fan Lizhi had broken up a few months ago, and Lin Sirer was finally willing to return to Sanlan City from the capital of China. She hoped that the young couple could put aside their old grudges and live a stable life.
The worry is that she has always known that Lin Sirer has an old love in her heart, and is worried that her niece's feelings are still erected against Lu Zhichao.
At first, Lin Deying accepted the order from her brother and sister-in-law and urged Lin Sirer to marry Lu Zhichao, and played a very disgraceful and shady role. Later, seeing that the couple had not been living well in these years, she naturally felt very uneasy as a biological aunt.
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Lin Deying even wondered if her niece would fall out with Lu Zhichao again if she came back this time. If she decided to leave Beverly 5 again, and her only aunt had already left for Phoenix, wouldn't she leave her niece alone?
In Sanlan City, there is no place for even a single family member to seek refuge.
When her cousin got married, Lin Sirer made a special trip to Phoenix, Arizona, but she didn't like her cousin-in-law.
The reason is that the other party's parents, who are from Taiwan, arrogantly called Lin Sirer "you Chinese", while they themselves shamelessly said "we are Taiwanese".
What particularly humiliated Lin Sirer was that because many mainland women had married and settled in Taiwan in recent years, they joked to her, "You, mainland China, are constantly exporting foreign brides to Taiwan."
Lin Sirer was disgusted that her cousin-in-law spoke in the same tone as her father, and did not agree that she was still Chinese in nature.
My cousin's father-in-law's surname is Lai, and his ancestral home is Quanzhou, Fujian. Because his ancestors followed Zheng Chenggong to regain Taiwan from the Dutch, several generations of his family have settled in Tainan, and now they often regard themselves as natives of Taiwan.
When Taiwan's blue-green leadership changed for the first time in 2000 years, this man named Lai was assigned the position of deputy representative of an overseas office because of his frequent achievements during the green election. He took his wife and daughter there.
The United States takes office.
At first, the Lai family lived in New York.
However, due to another change of government in 2008, although Lai was dismissed from his post, he had no plans to return to Taiwan. Instead, he moved his family to Phoenix, Arizona, where he was engaged in electronic product trading business.
Pay attention to the current situation on the island changing again.
Because of her long-term contract with an American magazine, Lin Sirer only focused on column writing during her years in Sanlan City. She had little energy to know what Lu Zhichao and his company did and which businesses they did business with.
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It was only in the past few years that I accidentally learned that Lu Zhichao had participated in the investment in a company called Folkden Industrial in Shanghai, China.
But it was Lu Zhichao who arranged the marriage between his cousin and the daughter of the Lai family.
Lin Sirer didn't know how Lu Zhichao got acquainted with the Lai family, but since he learned about the background and political leanings of people with the surname Lai on the island, he especially actively supported and participated in the "education for island independence" and planned the new Taiwan island.
The syllabus and history textbooks were on the road, and they believed that this was the most dangerous way to go to China and gain independence on the island, so they had hidden worries about this marriage.
She had expressed strong objections to her aunt and uncle about this, but her uncle was very optimistic about it, and the reason for his optimism was his absolute trust in Lu Zhichao.
Lin Sirer walked into the backyard of their house with her aunt, and saw that her uncle had hired people to pack the furniture, as if he had made long-term preparations for never coming back, and she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
She asked her aunt when she was going to leave and how long was her cousin-in-law’s due date.
Lin Deying replied to her niece that the couple had already booked flights for the day after tomorrow and arrived in Phoenix two weeks in advance before her daughter-in-law gave birth.
Then, she asked Lin Sirer's plan with concern: "Sier, since you are willing to come back to Sanlan this time, my aunt wants to hear your true thoughts."
"When I came back this time, besides wanting to see how Yashi was doing, I really didn't have time to think about anything else."
Lin Sirer answered her aunt truthfully.
Lin Deying said worriedly: "You are still young, and your life with Lu Zhichao will be long in the future. My aunt advises you not to be willful anymore. When Lu Zhichao returns home, you must treat him well!"
"Yes, Si'er, just be patient for the sake of Yashi!" My uncle also advised. "I value Zhichao very much. Not only does he have a strong family background, but his current company is also very big. He is very popular among the Chinese community in Sanlan City.
He is very famous there. I heard that Pan Xiuzhu is planning to give up the position of chairman of the Asian Club to him!"
"No matter how rich or famous Lu Zhichao is, this is only his own business." Lin Sirer argued, "Uncle, you know that I never think that wealth is the only pursuit in life."
She had always disliked her uncle, and her aunt followed Lu Zhichao's influence and treated Lu Zhichao as a guest.
"What else do you need about Zhichao? Do you want him to run for Congress? In the United States, men actually enjoy more full freedoms and rights than women. I think Zhichao has a rare loyalty to family and marriage. You know, he
After all, I have never filed for divorce from you because of that actress named Fan."
My uncle was a little angry, and kept talking more and more: "I also believe that if Lu Zhichao really plans to enter politics in the United States, he might actually be successfully elected as the first Chinese congressman in Sanlan City."
Lin Sirer could not have imagined that when she returned to Sanlan City and met her aunt and uncle for the first time, everyone would get into an unpleasant quarrel just because they talked about her relationship with Lu Zhichao.
However, when Lin Deying sent her niece off, she still did not forget to remind her repeatedly, asking her to make smart use of her talent as a woman and take the initiative to get close to her man.
Lin Sirer responded to her aunt's concern with silence.
In fact, since she decided to resign from "Social Weekly" in the capital of China some time ago and return to Sanlan City, where she had been away for a year and a half, she has not yet figured out what kind of inner struggle it is.
Is it really like what my aunt had expected just now? Is it because Lu Zhichao has ended his relationship with the woman named Fan Lizhi that he intends to forgive him and is willing to repair the relationship between the two of them as husband and wife?
Perhaps, there had been such a fluctuation in Lin Sirer's subconscious. After all, they had a daughter in common. It was because of poor Yashi that she kept worrying.
However, you must know that in your inner emotional world, you have never truly accepted Lu Zhichao's existence from the beginning.
That's why she never cared too much about whether Lu Zhichao had other women, one or even several, out of jealousy.
However, the only thing that Lin Sirer had to face and admit was that the reason why she chose to leave China again was only because of her final despair for her first love Hua Nianping. It was because of the backlog of feelings and reason.
The embarrassment of time is just an escape that I have no choice but to do.