My Reborn Children Insist I Go to College

After Ye Lanlan's son and daughter had been sick with fevers for two days, they recovered, but still couldn't speak very clearly. From then on, they urged me every day to read and write.

Usually, parents are the ones who keep their children on top of their studies. In our family, it was the opposite. I came home after a hard day's work in the fields hoping to rest, only to be lectured over and over by my two children.

The country had already abolished the college entrance exams. I couldn't understand why the children were so determined about this.

My son, his eyes red, said, "Mom, you have to believe us. We would never hurt you."

My daughter chimed in, "Mom, someone else might steal your man away, but no one can take the skills you've learned from you."

Hearing those words from my children made my heart ache for some reason.

I was a military wife. My husband was away from home most of the year, while I stayed in our hometown to care for his parents and raise our children.

I wondered if the children had heard some nasty gossip and were afraid I'd be abandoned.

What they didn't know was that I didn't have high hopes for marriage. If two people got along, they stayed together; if they didn't, they split up. It wasn't anything to make a fuss about. Besides, I wasn't a parasitic vine. I didn't need a man to survive.

It was only years later that I understood how much thought the children had put into this. By then, my husband had returned from a mission, been promoted three ranks, and risen to a high position. Young women started appearing around him one after another.

When Xu Youtian returned from a mission, he found that his parents, wife, and children were all indifferent to him, as if he hardly mattered.

Only then did he realize that even a high position couldn't make his parents, wife, or children treat him any differently.