Chapter 481: I Seem to be an Unfortunate Person

"Well, I didn't expect it either!" An Yinan replied helplessly.

In fact, Guo Ge was already arranging a loan over there; after all, pooling the money herself was still too slow.

Moreover, her factories occupied quite a bit of land, so the amount she could borrow was not a small sum.

She was currently doing her best to collect funds; the larger the capital base, the greater the capital would be later on, and then when it came time to withdraw from the market, she would be able to save more people.

"You know now?" He wrapped his arms around her shoulders.

"I can't help you much; my allowance and salary are only so much. Nan Nan, you've worked hard," Chen Xun said.

He never regretted joining the army; he loved his military uniform and he loved his country.

He had once taken an oath under the national flag to never betray it.

But toward Nan Nan, he felt he was lacking in many ways.

"What are you thinking about!" An Yinan poked him.

"When I use money, isn't that also helping the motherland?" An Yinan asked in return.

Their methods were different, but their goals were the same.

Moreover, she was not as pure as Xunge or the Yun Family.

Her help was sometimes filled with self-interest.

This investment of hers would help the country stabilize the economy of the City, which could prevent some families from being broken and destroyed.

However, she would also double her own wealth, which would ensure she would no longer worry about cash flow in the future.

All of these things, to her, caused no harm.

Chen Xun looked at the money, "Shall I go with you to deposit it?"

An Yinan shook her head, "No need for now, I will handle it. Are you staying home all day today?"

Chen Xun looked at An Yinan, slowly hooked her chin, and kissed her directly without pause, giving her no time to buffer.

After a full three minutes, he said to Nan Nan, "I have to go. The next time I come back, the exercises will probably be over."

"Nan Nan, I have spent too little time with you."

An Yinan pulled him over and gently pecked his mouth.

"It's fine, I'm busy too."

Yes! In the next two years, there were just too many things she needed to be busy with.

The layout had been set for so long; it was time to cast the bait!

Whether she could catch a big fish, she would just have to wait and see now!

Chen Xun left. During this time, Zhou Ruoran and Liu Erya came over, "We don't have much money, and we know we can't help much, but let this be our gesture."

Liu Erya nodded, "I don't need money right now, and my parents don't need me to send money home anymore; they told me to save it all myself."

"But I'm going to start my internship soon, and I'll have an internship salary, so I don't need this money. I'll give it all to you."

They didn't have much money; Zhou Ruoran had been doing designs, so her salary wasn't low, and she had a few thousand yuan.

But Er Ya had gone to the Southern Front with everyone before, and she didn't have much money to begin with; it was all earned back at the workshop, only a little over two hundred yuan.

Yet, she accepted the gesture from both of them.

"Alright, this is an investment, and we will split the profits proportionally later," An Yinan agreed directly.

When people are living well, they often don't know the warmth or coldness of human relationships.

Only when one needs help can one see the human nature that was previously invisible.

"Then I won't be polite," Zhou Ruoran smiled gently.

"I'm just about to head to school, let's go together." An Yinan packed her bag and recorded the amounts of money; she would need it for splitting the profits later.

"Ruo Ran, I've never heard you mention your family, nor have I heard you mention your husband's family," An Yinan asked.

So many years had passed, and she had never heard Ruo Ran mention them.

Even during the most difficult times, there had been no help at all.

Zhou Ruoran smiled, "I am an Educated Youth."

It was the first time she had brought up her identity. She had feelings for the Educated Youth; if it weren't for her going to the countryside, she wouldn't have met her husband, nor would she have a child as well-behaved as Tiedan.

"I have a younger brother. At that time, one person in the family had to go to the countryside, and actually, it should have been my younger brother who went."

Zhou Ruoran could now face these things calmly as she spoke of them.

The intense emotions from before were gone, as if these things had happened a very, very long time ago.

"My parents had the neighborhood office change the name, saying there had to be a man in the family."

"They gave me ten yuan, like an act of charity, and let me take away my worn-out clothes and luggage."

An Yinan frowned, truly unable to understand how parents could be so cruel to their own biological child.

Even if they favored sons over daughters, they wouldn't force their child to a dead end, would they?

"After I went to the countryside, I wrote three letters home, but the family didn't reply to a single one," Zhou Ruoran smiled.

No one could imagine the hardship of those days, being abandoned by her own parents.

She was lost and uneasy; she didn't know what she should do, nor did she know how to do it.

Later, she met her husband.

"Later, I met Tiedan's father." When Zhou Ruoran said this, An Yinan and Liu Erya both looked over.

After all, this person was too mysterious. No matter how they asked on ordinary days, Zhou Ruoran would never speak of him. As time went on, everyone knew this was her taboo.

But looking at her expression now, it didn't seem to be the case?

"He was a soldier, and he only had a widowed mother at home," Zhou Ruoran smiled, thinking of the days they met, and also thinking of the letters they wrote—those words, every single sentence, still warmed her heart when she thought of them now.

"Later, he filed a marriage application, and a year later we were married."

"But during a mission, he sacrificed his life."

He hadn't even had the chance to see their child; he didn't come back to see me before he sacrificed himself.

"My mother-in-law was already in poor health, and after burying her own child, she passed away just a few days later," Zhou Ruoran said with a bitter smile.

She thought she had found a wonderful home; the home was wonderful, yet it was broken and destroyed.

Zhou Ruoran looked at the two people, especially at Nan Nan, "I seem like an unfortunate person; everyone who comes into contact with me encounters unfortunate things."

In the past, she had always believed this, causing her own biological parents to avoid her like the plague, causing her husband to sacrifice himself, and her mother-in-law to pass away just a few days later.

"You are not!" An Yinan patted her shoulder and told her firmly.

Liu Erya also walked to the other side, "You are very good, especially good."

"Look, the people in our dormitory have been so close to you, and nothing has happened to us!"

"We went to the battlefield and all returned safe and sound."

In the dormitory, the person Liu Erya was closest to was Zhou Ruoran.

At that time, everyone else's family conditions were too good, so the two of them had a difficult life and encouraged each other to move forward.

"I know." Zhou Ruoran smiled, but that smile was so heartbreaking.

It made one unable to help but want to hug her.

An Yinan thought so, and she did so; she disregarded the gazes of others and pulled her into her embrace.

"It's okay, it's all in the past, you are very good," An Yinan comforted her in a low voice.

Zhou Ruoran nodded, feeling the warmth of the embrace, a temperature she had been unable to ask for in the past.