Reborn in 2006, I met Mr. Zhou from the past.

"Yeah, we moved in yesterday. It's just the two of us living here. If you don't want to go home anymore, you can come to my place. I'll take you in."

"Okay, you said it yourself, so I'm taking it seriously."

"Yes, no problem, you can come anytime. Please make yourself at home."

Su Fengnan put her schoolbag on the sofa and prepared to pour water for Ning Xiaojun. She saw several bottles of nutritional drinks on the coffee table and thought that her younger sister must have bought them.

"If you had to choose between water and a nutritional drink, which would you choose?"

"I'll drink whatever you bring, even if it's poison," Ning Xiaojun said quipped.

Su Fengnan glanced at her again, shook his head, and said with a smile, "Ning Xiaojun, where did you learn such fluent lines?"

"Come on, let's do an interview." Su Fengnan handed her a drink to her chin, pretending to be conducting an interview.

Ning Xiaojun took the nutritional drink with a grin, unscrewed the cap, took a sip, and said, "Mmm, I won't tell you. The one Su Su got is really delicious, so sweet."

"Come on, you've become so glib after just one holiday."

Just then, Su Fengxia heard the voices and came out of the kitchen. Seeing the two people talking, she quickly greeted them, "Oh, Sister Junjun is here too! You've come at the right time. Dinner will be ready in five minutes."

"Xia-mei, I'm here to mooch a meal at your house again. Don't be disgusted by me, okay?"

"Sister Xiaojun, what are you saying? It would be great if you came more often. It's just my sister and me at home, it's so lonely."

"Then I'll come and keep you company often from now on."

"Okay, then wait a moment, I'll be right there." After saying that, Su Fengxia went back to the kitchen.

"Why don't we go to my room first, and I'll show you the gift I brought?"

"Okay!" Ning Xiaojun nodded quickly.

The two entered Su Fengnan's room, and Su Fengnan took out two new dresses from the wardrobe. One was a Chanel-style straight skirt, mainly black with white accents, especially suitable for students.

Ning Xiaojun is slightly chubby, but her figure is full and well-proportioned. When she put on this dress, it fit her perfectly, making her slightly chubby figure appear slimmer.

"Susu, do I look good?" Ning Xiaojun turned around and looked in the mirror.

Seeing how much Ning Xiaojun liked it, Su Fengnan was also happy, "It looks good, and it suits you very well."

The second item is a retro shirt paired with cropped jeans.

Ning Xiaojun looked great in it too, and kept admiring herself in the mirror. Once she put it on, she didn't want to take it off.

"Susu, I'll wear this to school this afternoon."

"Huh? It hasn't been washed yet."

"Oh, it's okay, it's just for an afternoon. I'll change and wash it when I get home."

Seeing that Ning Xiaojun was determined to do it this way, Su Fengnan had no choice but to agree: "Alright then."

"However, I can't accept two sets from you. I'll pay you for the one I'm wearing."

Ning Xiaojun had barely finished speaking when there was a knock on the door.

"Sister, dinner's ready!" Su Fengxia called from outside the door.

Su Fengnan replied towards the door, "I know, I'll be right out."

She turned to Ning Xiaojun and said, "Let's not talk about money anymore, or I'll get angry. Let's go out to eat."

On the dining table was a hot pot of sour soup, with vegetables, meat, tofu, and mushrooms all cooked together.

Su Fengxia chuckled sheepishly and said, "Sister, I went to the market this morning and saw someone selling sour soup hot pot base. I thought we hadn't had sour soup hot pot in a long time, so I bought some. I just took a bite, and it tastes pretty good."

"Hmm, it's okay, let's eat."

The three sat down to eat, and soon the whole pot was devoured by them.

After finishing her meal, Su Fengnan thought that since it was already the beginning of autumn, she should prepare some food to store for winter. So she said to Su Fengxia, "Xiaoxia, next time you go grocery shopping, buy some cherry tomatoes if you see them. I'll make them into a sour soup, so we can have sour soup hot pot anytime we want."

Su Fengxia nodded obediently: "Okay."

Ning Xiaojun asked curiously, "Susu, can you still make sour soup?"

"That's easy! Once I've made it, I'll share some with you. In winter, you can cook a pot of sour soup hot pot at home; it's appetizing, delicious, and goes well with rice."

"Hmm, you don't need to give it to me. I'll come to your house whenever I want to eat. Anyway, you can't turn me away."

"No problem, anything is fine."

In the afternoon, after Su Fengnan and Ning Xiaojun arrived at the classroom, Su Fengnan noticed an extra desk next to hers, filled with books. She wondered who had been late and was sitting next to her, but she didn't mind; she would be moving to her study group in a few days anyway.

A short while later, the school bell rang, and the students entered the classroom one after another. The math teacher stood in the corridor outside the classroom, waiting for the last students.

At this moment, Ye Hua rushed in through the back door of the classroom like a gust of wind, plopped down next to Su Fengnan, covered in sweat, panting heavily, his chest heaving.

Su Fengnan turned to look at Ye Hua next to her, puzzled and surprised. Why was he sitting next to me?

Su Fengnan couldn't figure it out, so she shook her head and stopped thinking about it.

The math teacher handed out the test papers from yesterday's quiz, and this class is going to go over those papers.

Since Su Fengnan didn't come yesterday, and I couldn't very well say I didn't have any, I prepared to take out a set of practice papers that I had bought to do.

Ye Hua proactively moved the test paper to the middle, saying, "Let's look at it together."

Su Fengnan looked at the score of 75 on the test paper, glanced at Ye Hua, and said, "Thank you."

As class was about to end, the test paper was finished. The math teacher put down the paper and said calmly, "Your performance on this test was far from ideal. This is your final year of high school. Do you want to study hard to get into university, or are you just going to coast through? Please think it through."

"You're all almost 18, some of you are already 18, which means you're adults. Haven't you thought about what kind of life you want to live? Dreams and ideals may seem far away, but you should at least have thought about what kind of life you want to live!"

"Do you want to toil in the fields like your parents' generation, or do you want to leave your hometown and work in a factory in another city? Most of you come from ordinary families; haven't you ever thought about changing your destiny through education?"

Math teacher Liang Jun spoke calmly, but every word was filled with expectation and disappointment. Most of the students in the class silently lowered their heads, not daring to look at the teacher, while a few continued playing by themselves, indifferent.

"Hey, here we go again. Old Liang's old habit has kicked in again. He just loves to lecture," two students in the front row muttered to each other.

"My dear classmates, our connection only lasts for this one year of high school. Whether we'll meet again in the future depends on fate. But I hope that if we do meet someday, you won't regret not working harder back then, and that you'll be living the lives you wanted."

After saying that, the math teacher walked out of the classroom, and the bell rang to signal the end of get out of class.

Su Fengnan thought to herself that the math teacher's earnest advice was simply an attempt to give these children another helping hand. Unfortunately, she doubted that many would truly heed it.

Sigh, it seems like it's time to get tutoring done; we can't put it off any longer.

As Su Fengnan was pondering this, a voice suddenly interrupted her thoughts: "Su Fengnan, have you thought about which university you want to apply to?"