It's the students' fault if they are too popular.

"Sell it to me."

Gu Yiwen smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Teacher Tong, what's the point of you buying that house? We are not short of money now, and we will wait for the buyer."

If no one buys it at 200,000, then reduce the price to 180,000, and there will always be someone who will be interested.

"But it doesn't matter who you sell it to. Sell it to me, and then you can buy it back later..."

"Teacher Tong," Gu Yiwen suddenly smiled, "I know you are taking care of my Xiaoqian. She told me everything."

Tong Yao froze.

——She told me everything.

What did she say? Did she tell them everything about their relationship?

She suddenly felt ashamed.

How does Aunt Gu see her now? A scum who is not a role model for teachers, a beast who seduces students? She is not prepared to face her mother-in-law at all. Now facing Gu Yiwen, she is speechless.

I don't even have the courage to defend myself.

Her cell phone rang and she thought it was her savior so she quickly took it out. Then, the words "Jiang Wu" appeared on the screen and suffocated her again.

Chapter 117: Confession, Hope

"Auntie, I need to take a call."

Tong Yao felt like it was being attacked from both sides.

"Okay, I'll wait here." said Gu Yiwen.

Tong Yao quickly walked to another corridor and answered the phone.

"Where are you?" Jiang Wu went straight to the point.

Tong Yao knew that it was most likely her personal assistant who sold her out.

She dared not lie:

"…Municipal People's Hospital."

"Send me the exact location, stay there, and I'll come find you."

Tong Yao thought to herself, was she being trapped in a nesting doll? She seemed to have said something similar to the little girl not long ago.

Retribution.

Jiang Wu hung up the phone in a swift and decisive manner. Tong Yao was unsure whether a meteor would streak across the sky or Mars would hit the earth next.

But it's just right, I can temporarily avoid the embarrassing topic.

"Auntie," she walked up to Gu Yiwen and crossed her arms uncomfortably, "My mom is here. I'll go downstairs to pick her up."

"Okay, go ahead." Gu Yiwen smiled kindly.

Tong Yao's heart trembled. The awkwardness she felt facing her mother-in-law became more and more obvious. From now on, she could no longer treat Gu Yiwen with the same attitude as she would talk to a student's parent.

She took a step back, ready to leave, and looked at Gu Yiwen standing there. She suddenly stopped, took a deep breath, and raised her head:

"Auntie, I will take good care of Ruan Xi."

This almost exhausted all her courage in her life.

Gu Yiwen was obviously stunned. Then, she raised her lips to the anxious Tong Yao in the softest arc, with a hint of relief in her eyes:

"Xiao Qian is ignorant, please take care of her."

Just like the moment she opened the window, a spring breeze blew on her face, her hair was blown into the air, Tong Yao was stunned, her eyes wide open in disbelief. This was the saddest hurdle in her heart, the criticism of teacher-student ethics and condemnation from the soft-hearted parents she might have to face... was she just going to get through this like that?

It was so smooth that it even seemed unreal to her.

"Go quickly," Gu Yiwen said, "I should go take care of Xiaoqian's dad, too."

"...Oh." Tong Yao said awkwardly.

At the corner of the stairs, the eavesdropping girl covered the blush on her face, and the burning shame spread from her palms, along her pulse and into her heart.

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Inpatient department, downstairs.

Tong Yao saw the familiar car and her heart jumped into her throat. As the car door opened and Jiang Wu stepped out, she hurried forward to greet him.

"Mom, you don't have to come..."

Jiang Wu tilted her head and looked at her daughter, and was blinded by a shining little thing——

A ring.

"Where did this ring come from?" She stared at it with a scrutinizing look.

Tong Yao felt a chill on the back of her neck and subconsciously covered the ring on her left hand with her right hand.

broken.

She stammered, "…someone gave it to me as a gift."

"You dare to wear it if someone dares to give it to you? Are you going to secretly marry someone next year?"

"Mom, stop making trouble. Isn't the household registration book with you?"

The mother and daughter looked at each other, and finally, Tong Yao turned her face away guiltily.

Jiang Wu glanced at the doctors and patients coming and going, exhaled the anger that was pent up in her chest, and after calming down, she asked:

"What have you come to?"

Tong Yao lowered her head and said nothing.

"Don't we even have the right to know this?" Jiang Wu was surprisingly calm. "You are my child. I want to know about your important life events, but you treat me like a thief."

"Mom... No. I'm just... afraid you'd object."

"You're afraid too? You know you're a teacher, and it's not good to date a student, or someone of the same sex?"

Jiang Wu's words were like a bolt of lightning, striking Tong Yao so hard that her heart stopped beating.

She and Ruanruan were in a relationship. Gu Yiwen knew about it, Jiang Wu knew about it too, and it seemed like the whole world knew about it. She thought she had kept it a secret, but in the end, she was the only one who was kept in the dark.

"H-How do you know..." she stuttered.

"I talked to that Ruan Xi." Jiang Wu said, "A long time ago."

At this moment, Tong Yao imagined countless scenes of her mother bullying the little girl. Unbeknownst to her, the little girl had suffered so much injustice...

"I didn't bully her." Jiang Wu raised her head mockingly, "Don't think of your mother as an evil mother-in-law."

Nursery Rhyme Awkward: "No..."

Jiang Wu was not willing to do such a nouveau riche thing as throwing money at someone's face.

There was a seat in the lobby of the inpatient department. Jiang Wu shook her hair, sat down first, and patted the chair next to her:

"sit."

Tong Yao sat down, more obedient than ever.

"What do you think?" Jiang Wu looked ahead. "You like girls. Are you sure?"

She had a deep concern about her daughter's love life.

The object of her first love was a female student, which was difficult to classify as normal. She wanted to refer to the samples of her daughter's attitude towards other people, but found that there were very few. Tong Yao, who had skipped grades since childhood, had almost no communication with the opposite sex. Other boys would be suspected of having some abnormal habits if they approached her. Jiang Wu suspected that her daughter's school experience had formed such a sexual orientation.

Maybe I shouldn't let my daughter skip a grade.

But it's too late to say this now.

"Yeah." Tong Yao lowered her head and turned the ring on her hand, "I have always liked girls."

"Then why didn't you ever tell me?" Jiang Wu frowned. She felt disgusted just looking at the ring, as if the ring had taken her daughter away.

“Because I haven’t met anyone I like.”

She looked at Jiang Wu, her eyes shimmering with tenderness, "Mom, I didn't lie to you. This is the first time I've met someone I like."

"But she's still a student. She's not mature. How can you guarantee that she will always like you? She might just live a lazy life and wait for death. There are a lot of people like her on the street." Jiang Wu's eyebrows were almost squeezed together. "You've done so much for her, what has she done for you?"

"I don't need her to do anything for me," Tong Yao smiled, "Mom, how can I find someone who will definitely love me forever? Things like this change rapidly, and I can't guarantee that I will always like someone. If I don't like or love someone anymore, we can just break up. She is trying hard, I can see it, and if you are willing to see it, you can see it too."

Jiang Wu's thoughts are very parental. If you can't promise to love your precious daughter forever, then you can't marry her. You can't be mediocre, you have to be an outstanding young man with a successful career. So she prefers the man she chooses for her daughter to the one her daughter chooses - because parents think they can't be wrong in choosing people.

"If you like girls, I'll find you one from a familiar circle. You can compare them and don't hang yourself on a tree, especially a crooked one." Jiang Wu still insisted, "You don't need others to do anything for you, but I don't want you to find someone who needs you to do this and that and worry about others."

"I didn't do anything for her, I just came to comfort her..."

"Won't you help her find a better hospital? Don't you need her to find a good doctor? Can her family get a bed and make an appointment with a good doctor by themselves? If the operation fails, will you help to bear the subsequent expenses?" Jiang Wu said, "If you don't want to, just ignore what I said."

The nursery rhyme fell silent.

Of course she wanted to. Everything Jiang Wu said was what she planned to do.

Without Jiang Wu's consent, she was like a goldfish taken out of the fish tank. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't make any splash.

"mom……"

Her voice suddenly trembled.

"I beg you."

Jiang Wu clenched her hands and whispered:

"Stop pretending to be pitiful with me."

She was soft-hearted and did not take hardship. When she saw her always excellent daughter begging her, she softened her heart. But her duty as a mother still supported her. She knew that children could not develop on their own...

"I know you treat me the best, Mom." Tong Yao said in a tearful voice, "We are still young. If it really isn't right, we still have a chance to start over. I finally found someone I like..."

Jiang Wu rarely saw her daughter cry.

Or almost never.

Tong Yao was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and was the darling of the whole family. No one would let her cry. Every time Jiang Wu thought of this, she became more and more suspicious that Ruan Qian had given her daughter some kind of ecstasy that could cause her daughter to have such strong emotional fluctuations.

Even if she knew, her daughter might be pretending. Maybe she was originally a little sad, so she just cried out loudly. This trick was not very clever.

But no mother is willing to make her child cry.

"Alright, alright." Jiang Wu covered her chest and closed her eyes. "Let's wait until she graduates, okay?"

Children cannot be left to develop on their own, otherwise they will easily get hurt and bleed. But her own children will not turn back until they hit the wall, and she cannot stop them. She can only hope that the bumps will be less severe, so that as a mother she can help bandage the wounds.

Youth is indeed an asset. If Tong Yao were in her twenties, Jiang Wu felt that she would never give her daughter such an opportunity.

She never thought that this relationship would succeed. Ruan Qian was only 16 years old, and there were so many variables in the future. At the age of 16, people are curious about everything and are most likely to change their minds. They may like this today and that tomorrow.

But having a failed emotional experience is not necessarily a bad thing.

"I knew that mom is the best to me." Tong Yao burst into laughter, and hugged Jiang Wu and acted coquettishly, which was more rare than crying.

"Get lost." Jiang Wu was furious when she thought about her daughter doing this for a female student. "Go hug your little lover."

But she didn't do anything. It was a rare occasion for her daughter to act like a spoiled child, and there might not be a next time.

Parents only hope that their children can walk on a straight and broad road.

If they take a detour, families without the ability can only worry and be afraid, and even families with the ability are helpless in dealing with delicate emotions. Fortunately, apart from emotional pain, she is still able to protect her daughter from other harm.

Jiang Wu and Tong Yao did not take the elevator to go upstairs, but walked up the stairs step by step. In fact, there is no need to say anything between mother and daughter. Being together is the warmest happiness.

Tong Yao suddenly realized that after work, she had very little time to spend with her family.

On every wall of the hospital there are famous quotes.

[The tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop; the son wants to take care of his parents but they are no longer there]

"Mom, Ruan Xi's father's ward is just ahead."

"Well," Jiang Wu stopped, "I won't go over there."

"Ah?" Tong Yao was surprised, "Then why did you come up here?"

"I want to walk with you for a while, is that not okay?" Jiang Wu said unhappily, "You have no conscience."

When you have a daughter-in-law, you forget about your mother.