Chapter 169: Shen Li's sister won first place in the Mathematics Competition

Shen Li lowered her eyelids, and after a long while, she said in a low voice: "Yes."

Yu Lizhen seemed to be completely ignited by this one word; she grabbed the English dictionary in her hand and smashed it straight at Shen Li, "I thought you would be able to wake up last time and break off the relationship with him early!"

"Do you think I don't know anything! He's just a little hoodlum who skips school, only knows how to fight, smoke, and drink."

Yu Lizhen shook her head at her in disappointment, "I really raised you for nothing; you don't study properly, but instead go fool around with this kind of person—are you trying to lose all our face?"

Sharp pain came from her shoulder, but Shen Li still had no emotion, just enduring it and defending Xie Qin: "It's not like that, Xie Qin is very good."

"We are just normally together, we haven't done anything."

"In Wuchuan for so long, if it weren't for him, I would never have thought about coming back. It was always him... who let me come back to study, wanting me to repeat a year and get into a good university." She raised her eyes; when looking at her mother, the sour and painful emotions in her heart were held back, refusing to let tears fall, "It was also him who stayed with me all along and never led me astray."

Xie Qin was very good.

He was really very, very good.

He was, besides Grandma.

The person who was best to her.

Mom didn't understand anything at all.

"After one trip to Wuchuan, you've been bewitched by him! That's why you'd say such things!" Yu Lizhen stood up, her anger even greater, "Shen Li! How old are you! You're only eighteen... not at the age to get married or date people."

"Even if you are together, what can he give you? Can he give you a future? Or can he guarantee that you won't worry about food or clothing for the rest of your life?"

"Simply believing in an outsider will only harm you! No matter how much he likes you, can you guarantee he won't change his heart! What if one day he doesn't want you anymore? What will you do for the rest of your life!"

"Mom raised you this big, not for you to learn to date and think about relying on a man to eat."

"Mom wants you to be independent, study hard, so that in the future, even if you don't rely on anyone, you can support yourself without looking at others' faces."

"But you! Is this how you repay me!"

Shen Li's heart felt like it was being pricked by needles, aching densely, her lips moving: "It's not! It's not like that..."

"Early dating! I'll let you date early!" Yu Lizhen tore the photo to pieces in front of her.

Shen Li's pupils constricted; she wanted to stop it but was powerless, and could only watch helplessly as the photo was torn to pieces.

Yu Lizhen warned her coldly: "From today on, you are not allowed to touch a phone, and you are not allowed to go anywhere except at home."

The door was closed with a "bang."

In the living room, Yu Lizhen's chest was blocked with strong emotions; the next second, she only felt a wave of dizziness and had to hold her forehead to barely stand steady.

In the time that followed, Shen Li was completely grounded in this home.

Shen Li also locked herself in her room and rarely came out again.

Time passed in a flash, and the winter vacation was nearing its end.

To cut off her thought of still wanting to participate in the Mathematics Competition.

Yu Lizhen took away all the materials and test papers related to the Mathematics Competition on Shen Li's desk, leaving only the high school textbooks needed for repeating a year.

In the few days left before the start of school, she made a call and completed the withdrawal procedures at Chengde University.

Yu Lizhen sent all the mock exam papers from previous years into Shen Li's room, "Review these books well; leave the problems you don't know blank, and come ask me if you don't know them."

Shen Li: "Why do you have to force me to do things I don't like!"

Yu Lizhen glanced at her coldly, "You are my daughter, so you have to do as I say. Only this way is the best arrangement for you and Zhaozhao."

"Wait until you are recommended to Qingbei University, then whatever you want to do... I won't stop you."

This was her final compromise.

Leaving these words, Yu Lizhen left the room and went out to school to prepare for the start of the semester.

However, a minute or two later, Shen Zhaozhao walked into this small, oppressive room, holding a white medicine bottle, provocatively showing off: "Sister, I'll take this medicine; taking fake medicine to try to trick Dad and Mom into having sympathy for you is wrong."

Shen Zhaozhao turned around just about to leave, and suddenly thought of something, reminding her with a smile: "The Mathematics Competition results are out."

"Sister... you got full marks!"

Shen Zhaozhao's score of 78, Mom didn't say anything after knowing it, just said some encouraging words, letting her prepare well for the finals.

"However... even full marks don't seem to be of much use." Shen Zhaozhao shrugged, "Sister can't participate in the competition."

Shen Zhaozhao was just jealous of Shen Li, whose conditions in all aspects were better than hers.

That's why she always provoked and suppressed her in front of her.

Why did she get all the good things—looking prettier than her, and having better grades than her.

Even Brother Jingze and the boy she used to like liked her.

And such good Dad and Mom, why wasn't she their biological one.

She was always thinking, if only she were the biological one.

Then she wouldn't have to see the eyesore Shen Li always appearing in this home.

Shen Zhaozhao was used to Shen Li's non-contending appearance; before, she would still struggle a bit, arguing and fighting with Mom, but later she found that no matter what she did, it was useless and couldn't change the decision Mom made.

It was like that before, and it was still like that now.

"Sister, I think you'd better listen to Mom, don't think about the competition."

Shen Li looked at her provocation; there was no emotion in those eyes, quiet like a pool of stagnant water.

Shen Zhaozhao felt bored pinching this soft persimmon and didn't continue wasting time with her; she turned and left to return to her room.

School opening season.

New semester, new atmosphere.

Spring arrived, the campus was full of vitality, and everything was a scene of beautiful youth.

Bu Da Yang Xiao Jiu Guan.

Xu Zhouyuan comforted Xie Qin, who had a listless expression on the side: "Ah ya, Brother Qin. Be happy now that school has started, don't be like this."

"Long-distance relationship, not seeing each other for ten days or half a month, not being in contact is normal."

"No need to be like this."

During the New Year, Xu Zhouyuan went to Guangdong for a while; when he came back, his tone of voice had changed to "Cantonese-Mandarin."

Zhang Zixin on the side wasn't used to hearing it and laughed: "Xu Zhouyuan, can you speak normally! I'm not used to hearing it."

Xu Zhouyuan immediately returned to normal: "Alright, wifey."

Just at this moment, Zhou Mingyu saw someone who looked a bit familiar walking over.

"Sorry to bother you."

Yang Ting's gaze landed on Xie Qin, and she looked at him.

Before Xie Qin could speak, Zhou Mingyu had already determined her intention and snatched the lead to block her with a smile: "Little sister, you came over wanting Brother's WeChat? Sorry, the most handsome one here already has a partner; we'll decline, ha."

Yang Ting scratched her head a bit embarrassedly: "I'm not here to ask for WeChat... I just want to ask, when will Sister Shen Li be back?"

"My dad can't contact her anymore."

Xie Qin lifted his lazy eyes and looked at her, his tone light: "Something up?"

Yang Ting told him: "It's like this, Sister Shen Li won first place in the Mathematics Competition, and my dad got the prize money."

"Thanks to this money, my mom can continue treatment at the hospital. So my dad and I want to thank her properly and want to invite her to have a meal at home."