After transmigrating into the body of the female supporting character's biological mother, she

As he passed Wang Rou, he picked up the basin from the ground, gave her a thumbs-up, and said, "Sister-in-law, you're awesome!"

Wang Rou glanced at him expressionlessly, then turned and went home.

Bai Yang walked in cheerfully and greeted Su Bingcheng.

Only Su Lang and Zhou Chen remained in the alley.

Su Lang: "Shall we chat?"

Zhou Chen pursed his lips and said, "Okay."

The two hadn't gone far when they found a quiet spot under a big tree at the entrance of the alley.

Su Lang patted his pocket. "Do you want to smoke? I've quit."

Zhou Chen shook his head, "I've quit too."

After a moment of awkward silence, Su Lang got to the point, "Regarding Linlin, has your opinion still not changed?"

"Yes."

Su Lang frowned. "You have to work, so who will take care of Linlin?"

"I'll take her to live in town, and I can bring my mother over to take care of her during the day," Zhou Chen said, his brows furrowing as he thought of his parents' personalities. "I'll give her money. If they want money from me, they have to listen to me."

Su Lang narrowed her eyes, her expression disapproving. "You're only making them more demanding, and they won't truly care for Linlin. They can still torment the child even when you're not looking."

Zhou Chen was silent for a moment, "Linlin is, after all, her own granddaughter..."

"Alright," Su Lang interrupted him, "You don't need to talk to me anymore. Let's talk about the child after Zhilan gets off work."

Zhou Chen hesitated for a moment, "Commander Su, do you know that your wife is...?"

He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.

"What happened to my wife?" Su Lang emphasized the word "my".

Zhou Chen looked at his expression inquisitively. "I just feel that she has changed a lot since then."

Su Lang glanced at him indifferently, "You haven't changed much."

Zhou Chen's face darkened, realizing that Su Lang meant he was blindly filial.

Comrade Mountain God didn't tell him the details of what happened in Zhoujia Village. Although he guessed that his wife had been wronged by his parents, this was the best solution he could think of.

He can't bring his child to work, and he doesn't trust outsiders to take care of him.

Linlin can go to school now, and he only needs his mother to pick up his granddaughter from school occasionally when he is not available.

His mother had to listen to him if she wanted money from him.

When Lin Zhilan came home from work and heard his idea, she immediately slammed her hand on the table and confronted Zhou Chen.

"You're such a good son to your mother!"

Su Lang patted Lin Zhilan on the shoulder, "Calm down."

Lin Zhilan glared at him, "Whose side are you on?!"

"Of course I'm on your side," Su Lang pointed outside, "The children should hear this."

Lin Zhilan pursed her lips, her face full of displeasure.

Su Lang patted him and went out, saying, "Mom, you and Dad take the kids to your place for dinner."

Xu Yueyun was a little worried, but she didn't want to ask directly. "Then I'll take the children back first. You two have a good talk, and tell Zhilan not to get angry."

Su Lang nodded, "Understood."

After Xu Yueyun and Su Bingcheng left with the child, Su Lang turned back, only to find Zhou Chen alone in the living room.

"Where is Zhilan?"

Zhou Chen said with a stern face, "I've gone upstairs."

As they were talking, Lin Zhilan came downstairs and slapped a piece of paper in front of Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen looked down and his pupils contracted sharply.

"This is the letter of severance between your Zhou family and Linlin. Your parents put their fingerprints on it, and the village also stamps it."

Lin Zhilan made them sign this because she was afraid that when Linlin grew up, the Zhou family would have no heir and would come to bother Linlin for retirement and money.

I never expected it would come in handy now.

Before Zhou Chen could react, Lin Zhilan snatched the paper from his hand. "Your parents said they don't want Linlin as their granddaughter. It's in black and white; they can't deny it, can they?"

"And another thing," Lin Zhilan continued, "after you gave Jin Gang a pension, your parents sent a matchmaker to...my house, forcing me to remarry."

"And your good brother," Lin Zhilan glanced at Su Lang, "spiked my soup, trying to assault me. After failing, he even brought some shady thugs from town to climb over my wall in the middle of the night."

"You still think you can control your parents with money? Do you think that will work? Didn't you do the same thing when you were alive? Did your spouse and children have a good life at home?"

Lin Zhilan became increasingly angry as she spoke.

"With parents like these, you still want my precious child to go back and suffer?!"

Zhou Chen covered his face with his hands, choking back tears, and said, "I didn't know any of this."

"Now you know," Lin Zhilan's tone didn't soften in the slightest because of his pain, "when you were alive, you sent money back home every month. But your mother kept it all, and not a single penny went to your husband and children."

"Your parents disliked that Linlin was a girl. From the day she was born, they never smiled at her and always called her a money-loser."

"When she was in postpartum confinement, your mother wouldn't even give her an egg, saying she gave birth to a girl and didn't deserve to eat eggs!"

"Zhou Chen, you are an excellent soldier, but Lin Zhilan married you and didn't get any benefits from your family. Is that kind of environment really good for Linlin?"

Su Lang's heart ached, and he handed his wife a handkerchief.

Lin Zhilan wiped her face and realized that she had been crying for some time.

Lin Zhilan was only feeling heartbroken and unfair because of the original owner's feelings, and Su Lang thought she was grieving over the past.

Only Zhou Chen knew that she was standing up for "Lin Zhilan".

Zhou Chen held his head, his shoulders trembling slightly.

Lin Zhilan sat on the other side, turning her head away from him.

She had said enough. If Zhou Chen remained obstinate, she really wanted to punch him and turn him into an idiot.

After a long silence in the living room, Zhou Chen finally composed himself. Concealing the hatred in his eyes, he said to Lin Zhilan, "I won't let my parents have any contact with Lin Zhilan anymore. Will you agree to let Linlin stay with me?"

Lin Zhilan was about to get angry again, but Su Lang stopped her, saying, "Zhou Chen, I understand that Linlin is important to you, but she is equally important to us."

"I don't think you've thought it through. What's best for Linlin? Linlin is a girl. Putting aside whether it's convenient for her to be with a grown man like you, you haven't even done cooking, laundry, or putting her to sleep."

"And most importantly, it depends on Linlin's own thoughts. In her mind, you're just a stranger now. Do you think she'd be willing to leave Zhilan and go back with you?"

"I……"

Zhou Chen was speechless.

Lin Zhilan calmed down as well. "Zhou Chen, I understand you're worried about Linlin staying with me, and likewise, we're worried about her staying with you. I hope you'll seriously consider this. I think our ultimate goal is for the child's good."

Zhou Chen looked at her. "What do you want to do?"

Seeing that he was finally not as stubborn as before, Lin Zhilan softened her tone.