The One I Was Destined to Meet

Su Hezhen really did have a boyfriend of three years. Just as they were discussing marriage, he got back together with his ex-wife, supposedly for the sake of their child. The child she had cared for and cherished for three years also rushed without hesitation into the arms of the birth mother who had abandoned him for those same three years. Badly shaken, Su Hezhen came to the conclusion that being a stepmother was no easy job. She never wanted to be one again for the rest of her life. She could pour in all her time and effort and still end up doing all that work for someone else’s benefit. But Su Hezhen never expected that she would catch the eye of another big-tailed wolf with a cub in tow. After being betrayed, Su Hezhen lost all hope and decided never to date or marry again. She just wanted to devote all her energy to teaching. School life brought its share of hardship and joy, tears and laughter, but above all, plenty of heartwarming moments. Little Scene One Before the Qingming Festival holiday, the results of a school quiz came out. After looking them over, Su Hezhen and the others tacitly decided to wait until after the holiday to hand them out. People say you should not forget to tell your ancestors about your achievements. The scores would only upset the students and their parents, so they decided not to disturb the peace of the dead either. Otherwise, after paying their respects to their ancestors, these kids might get a serving of their parents’ bamboo-shoot stir-fry with pork. Little Scene Two The seven-day National Day holiday had been adjusted to end on Friday. On Saturday, Su Hezhen returned to school to teach. When she entered the classroom, she saw an empty seat in the back row. She looked carefully twice, but it was still empty. Su Hezhen returned to the teachers’ office and called the student who had not come in. "The holiday is over. Why haven’t you come back to class?" The student defended himself on the other end. "Teacher, the seven-day National Day holiday is over, yes. ... But today is Saturday, and we have Saturday and Sunday off. Don’t worry, Teacher, I’ll definitely be at school on time Monday..." Su Hezhen: "..." Little Scene Three One morning, Su Hezhen was busy leading the morning reading session, attending a staff meeting, and preparing lessons. She had no time to buy breakfast. Just as her stomach began to ache faintly and she was about to go to the school shop to buy a bread roll to tide her over, a tall, sturdy boy showed up with a bag of plump white buns and lectured her. "You’re always telling us not to skip breakfast. You should set a good example yourself..." P.S. The whole novel has been extensively revised. New readers can start reading right away, and old readers can go back to the beginning for a look. My next novel will be The Educated Youth’s Daughter Returns to the City in the 1990s. Here is the blurb. If you’re interested, feel free to save it to your collection! A tiny ripple in the tides of history becomes a towering wave in the life of an individual. In 1969, Dong Taohua answered the nation’s call and went to the most desolate part of the Great Northern Wilderness to become an educated youth. From then on, she could never return to the city of Hu, the place she had yearned for all along. Twenty years later, in 1989, a policy allowing the children of educated youths to return to the city was announced. Full of hope, Dong Taohua sent her daughter, Xu Heye, onto the train bound for Hu. She hoped her daughter could put down roots and thrive in the city where she had been born and raised, yet from which she had gradually grown distant. But reality was harsh. Her scumbag father was selfish, and her stepmother was calculating and scheming. Xu Heye’s household registration still had not been sorted out. With her daughter about to be labeled a vagrant and sent back to her place of origin, Dong Taohua, overcome with grief and despair, ran into a wall and died. * When Xu Heye woke up, she saw a familiar figure charging toward the wall of the Dong family home. She had no time to think. Summoning all her strength, she rushed forward and knocked her mother aside. In her previous life, her mother had paid with her life so Xu Heye could stay in Hu. This time, Xu Heye vowed never to let history repeat itself. She would stay in Hu, take the high school entrance exam, work hard to get into high school, and then go on to university, fulfilling both her mother’s dream and her own. Of course, she would also do her best to help those kindhearted people who had been trampled on, hurt, and abandoned get another chance at life. Theme: Meeting the right person leads to a good outcome