The younger generation, starting from where the wind blows...

Chapter 1: The college entrance exam is over... My parents are divorced!

"Yang Muye, please come to the village committee after hearing this announcement. Your university admission notice has arrived. Please bring your ID card to sign for it."

The loudspeaker's blare echoed throughout the entire Yunmiao Village.

Under the big tree at the village entrance, a group of elderly women gathered to enjoy the cool shade, all discussing the matter.

"This grandson of Grandpa Yang's is really pitiful. He fell from heaven to earth all of a sudden."

"That's right. Just the other day I heard that old peacock from Deqing bragging about how big his brother and sister-in-law's business is in Shenzhen. They've bought several houses, and those are houses in Shenzhen, you know. The money you'd spend on a toilet could buy a large house of several hundred square meters in our old town. And last year or the year before, Deyuan drove home for the New Year in that car, a Mercedes worth millions."

"Mu Ye grew up under everyone's watchful eyes. What a fine kid he is. Unlike those rich kids on TV who only know how to eat, drink, have fun, and show off, he is also very hardworking and got into a prestigious university in Beijing. However, his parents divorced behind his back and he has two younger siblings. If his parents favor the younger ones, he probably won't get much of the inheritance in the future."

"His parents still have some conscience. They know they should keep this a secret until Muye gets into university. Otherwise, something like this would ruin the child's life."

"Shh, keep your voice down, Grandpa Yang is coming."

As they were talking, an old man who looked to be in his seventies with half-white hair had already reached the village entrance.

Everyone in the village knows that this old man, Yang, has a bad temper.

His eldest son, Deqing, was chased all over the village by Grandpa Yang with his cane on several occasions.

The next day, he appeared with bruises and swelling on his face, and when asked, he said he had fallen while walking.

As soon as Grandpa Yang appeared, even Aunt Gui, who had been talking the loudest, lowered her head and didn't dare to utter a sound, just like a cat seeing a tiger.

The elderly women around her greeted Grandpa Yang, but he only nodded and did not respond.

Only when an old woman who was making needlework asked Grandpa Yang a question did he stop.

"Deqing, are you going to the village committee to pick up Muye's college admission notice?"

"Ah."

"Is Makino not home?"

"She went to the beach, saying she was feeling down and wanted to get some fresh air."

Before he could finish speaking, Aunt Gui's voice suddenly rang out.

He was so startled that he frightened everyone around him.

"Oh dear, Grandpa Yang, such a big thing has happened, how can you still let your Muye go to Erhai Lake? What if..."

At this moment, the old woman who was talking to Grandpa Yang raised her head.

"Agui, don't talk nonsense. Our Ayao has been with Muye these past two days. Nothing will happen to her."

Aunt Gui glanced cautiously at Grandpa Yang, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he didn't react.

“It’s good that someone is with him. I’m just worried that something might happen to the child if he goes to the beach alone. How will I explain it to his parents then?”

Before he could finish speaking, the aunt next to him nudged him with her elbow.

Aunt Gui immediately realized she had made a mistake. With her big mouth, she had mentioned Yang Muye's parents in front of Grandpa Yang. Wasn't she just bringing up the very thing that shouldn't be brought up?

"Humph!"

With a stern face, Grandpa Yang headed towards the village committee.

Aunt Gui craned her neck to look, and only after confirming that Grandpa Yang had gone far away did she turn around and joke with everyone.

"When did Grandpa Yang find out that Deyuan and his wife were getting a divorce?"

“Of course they knew from the beginning,” an older woman replied.

"And what about Deqing?" Aunt Gui asked again.

“Deqing certainly wouldn’t know, since everyone at the village banquet sits at the children’s table. How could Grandpa Yang and Deyuan tell him something like that? You tell me, right?” Another aunt in the village answered.

This remark caused everyone to burst into laughter.

Only Grandma Xie, who had just been talking to Grandpa Yang, shook her head and continued sewing the handicrafts in her hands.

Not far from the village, by Erhai Lake, Xie Zhiyao was earnestly persuading a young man who was lying flat on the grass, his face covered by a straw hat.

“Muye, that’s just how it is in the village. Some people are bored and like to gossip behind people’s backs. They don’t mean any harm, they’re just chatting. Don’t take it to heart when you hear it.”

Yang Muye's voice came through the straw hat.

"Who said I care? People can say whatever they want, it's not like it'll hurt me."

Xie Zhiyao sat down beside him and looked up at the vast expanse of Erhai Lake. "Actually, I can really understand how you feel right now. Not two years after my mother passed away, my father brought my aunt home. At that time, I really felt like a child who had no parents and no one wanted me."

"It turns out you were overthinking it. Your father and aunt have been very good to you, haven't they?"

"Yes, it's great. That's what I wanted to tell you. Although your parents are divorced, they're not abandoning you. They have two houses in Shenzhen under your name for rent. From university onwards, you've received 100,000 yuan a year for living expenses until you got married and started your career. Do you know that your starting point is already the finish line that many people can't reach even after a lifetime of hard work?"

Yang Muye took the straw hat off his face and glanced at Xie Zhiyao.

"Did my uncle tell you all of this?"

Xie Zhiyao shook his head.

"Grandpa Yang told me this in secret, and he specifically told me not to tell Uncle Deqing. If he finds out, the whole village will know, and then people won't pity you, but will be jealous and envious."

Yang Muye pulled the straw hat back over his face and sighed heavily, his mind preoccupied.

“I’m not angry that my parents are getting divorced. They really can’t live together anymore. Being together is torture. But they have to tell me. They’ve kept it from me for five whole years. And that’s only after I got into university. They can’t keep up the act anymore. Otherwise, who knows how long they would have kept it from me.”

“You were only in junior high school then, you were still young, telling you would only make you more sad and upset.”

They think I'm too young?

To tell the truth, Yang Muyi was afraid of frightening Xie Zhiyao, because he was already fifty-nine years old across his two lifetimes.

In his previous life, Yang Muye, who was in his early forties, caught the last wave of mobile internet entrepreneurship. Before he transmigrated, his company had just gone public, and he was worth over 100 million yuan, achieving financial freedom.

I didn't have time to find a girlfriend when I was eighteen, and the girlfriends I found later were always eighteen.

Older men are just that devoted.

He'd never even dated more than ten girlfriends before he slept with someone and ended up time-traveling.

The girlfriend lying next to him was gone. He opened his eyes and found himself on a hospital delivery bed, a newborn baby.

After figuring out that he was in Yunmiao Village, Luoxia Town, Dali, and that there was a little kid of the same age named Xie Zhiyao in the village, Yang Muye realized that he had transmigrated into the world of a TV series from his previous life.

Fortunately, this is a TV series based on real events, so the social history and economic development are exactly the same as in Yang Muye's previous life.

In the first few years, the meticulous care and love from his parents allowed Yang Muye, who was an orphan in his previous life, to experience the warmth of family affection he had never felt before.

However, as a reborn individual whose mental age is older than his parents, reason constantly reminds Yang Muye.

Poor and humble couples are sad.

Upper decision decided by the economic background.

The best way to ensure a stable relationship between parents and a harmonious family is to make the family wealthy.

Unfortunately, Yang Muye was still too young. Even though his mind was full of opportunities and ways to get rich, he couldn't do anything until he came of age.

So we can only let our parents suffer for now.

Even before starting kindergarten, Yang Muyi was already "sensible" enough to subtly hint to his parents that there was no future in staying in the small fishing village and that only by going out and working hard could they give their precious son a bright future.

In addition, Yang Muye was able to take care of himself from a very young age and his parents never had to worry about him. So his parents finally made up their minds to go out and make their way in Shenzhen.

Fortunately, they arrived early and caught the opportunities of the times. The two started from a roadside stall, opened a restaurant the following year, then opened a branch and set up a factory.

Yang Muye wasn't quite sure how much he was worth now.

Anyway, the couple together must have at least one or two small goals.

Yang Muye always thought that his parents were doing well and that he only needed to wait and inherit the family property step by step.

He plans to first get into Peking University to fulfill his dream of attending a prestigious university in his previous life, and then start his own business while in university to achieve the ultimate goal he didn't have time to achieve in his previous life—social mobility.

He only guessed the beginning, but not the ending.

A gust of wind blew by, lifting the straw hat that was covering Yang Muye's face.

Yang Muyi picked a blade of grass from the side, put it in his mouth, and continued, gazing at the clear blue sky:
“Actually, I should have noticed it a long time ago. In the last three years, my father only came home once for Chinese New Year, and every time they called me, I could never hear another person's voice. I thought they were just busy—”

Who would have thought that his parents had already divorced and had two children born in the 2000s fighting with him for the family property?

What is a surprise?
That's it!

　Not having watched the TV series won't affect your reading experience; you can treat it as a rebirth story.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)