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

“It’s a girl!”

She climbed out of the bed, propped herself up on the bed, and stared at her mother with red eyes:

"The person I like is a girl."

It was like a thunderbolt that struck Gu Yiwen's heart. She looked at her daughter who had been well-behaved and sensible for 16 years, her hands trembling a little, until her daughter repeated it again before she was able to confirm it.

"Are you serious? Are you kidding your mother?" she asked in a trembling voice.

Seeing this, Ruan Qian's eyes dimmed and she curled into the quilt, silently letting her tears wet the pillow.

The atmosphere was suddenly terribly depressing.

Gradually, Ruan Qian heard her mother sobbing.

"Why are you so ignorant..."

She was angry for a moment and couldn't help but yelled viciously:

"What do you know? How can it be ignorant that I like girls?"

Gu Yiwen wiped her tears with toilet paper and said:

"You... you are still so young, how can you be sure that you like girls? Do you have any proof of your sexual orientation? How can you be sure that the person you like likes you and will not break up with you in the future due to pressure? What will you say when relatives ask about it? They will think you are disgusting and look down on you! I don't want my daughter to be talked about by them behind her back every day! If you like girls, you won't even have children in the future, how can your mother be at ease with you!"

The mother's voice gradually faded away. Ruan Qian raised her head, revealing moist and red eyes, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Do you find me disgusting too?"

Gu Yiwen paused, curling her fingers, "Silly child," she choked, "How could a mother find her own child disgusting?"

She covered her face and wept bitterly:

"Mom is just afraid... of how many difficulties you will face in the future...

"It's all mom's fault...I couldn't provide you with a good environment since you were a child."

Ruan Qian regretted what she said.

She knew that her family was poor, but her mother never let her suffer. She held her in her hands for fear of dropping her, and held her in her mouth for fear of melting her. She was so busy every day that she could not see anyone, and she had to get up early and go to bed late, and was forced to accept her sexual orientation that was different from that of ordinary people.

"Mom..." Her tears burst out and she threw herself into her mother's arms, wishing she could grab those words back and put them into her mouth, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be mean to you..."

She didn't want to confess and make her mother worry, but she wanted to talk to someone about what was suppressed in her heart - why should she hide it? She obviously did nothing wrong.

Gu Yiwen wiped her tears and hugged her daughter:

"Can you tell mom which girl it is?"

Ruan Qian blinked, shrugged, hesitated for a long time, and then whispered:

"...Teacher Tong."

Gu Yiwen paused, then stammered:

"The one who taught you math...Ms. Tong? She's your teacher. How could you..."

"You don't know how good she is." Ruan Qian said stubbornly.

She counted on her fingers and gave examples one by one: maintaining her self-esteem, encouraging her, giving her free tutoring, giving her a work badge, reducing her brother's punishment, helping students catch a thief... There were so many, and her eyes suddenly brightened as she spoke. Gu Yiwen is also a woman. Looking at her daughter's appearance, how could she not know how deeply she had fallen.

"Your teacher Tong is a good person, but... she is your teacher after all, and she is also nice to other people..."

"Teacher Tong treats me differently."

These words sound like the firm response of an innocent girl when she is advised to stay away from a scumbag.

But Ruan Qian knew how different and special Teacher Tong was to her. Everyone knew that Teacher Tong favored a little girl in Class 7.

"The person who gave me a reward of 100,000 yuan... is Teacher Tong." She said in a low voice.

"What?" Gu Yiwen was shocked. "Did she...did she put forward any conditions to you?"

It’s just a matter of asking directly “Does she want to support you?”

"No," Ruan Qian blushed, "Teacher Tong's family is rich, she just likes my comics."

"Then," Gu Yiwen felt like his head was about to explode, "Does she know that you like her?"

"Yes." The little girl whispered, "She said she would wait until I grow up."

She concealed their kiss because she was afraid that her mother would have a bad impression of Teacher Tong. She described herself as the one pursuing her - in fact, she was, but in her mother's eyes, a well-behaved and timid daughter would never take the initiative to pursue a teacher.

"You didn't do anything stupid, did you?"

"Mom!" Ruan Qian's face was already red. "It's not like you haven't seen Teacher Tong before. She's very reserved, all... all..."

She lowered her head and said, "It was your daughter who was touching others."

Gu Yiwen was silent.

A mother always thinks her own children are the best, but she also knows that although her own daughter is beautiful, Teacher Tong is even better and is the apple of a wealthy family's eye. Even if they are of the same sex, her daughter is marrying above her station.

"Your teacher Tong..." She sighed, "Will her family arrange a marriage for her in the future? Does she like you that much? Has she told her family the truth?"

She didn't want her daughter to be wronged. Even if they were really together, if Teacher Tong couldn't stand the pressure from the family and broke up with her daughter, how sad would her daughter be?

Ruan Qian pursed her lips. She couldn't give an answer to this question. Teacher Tong would wait for her, but waiting for her to grow up didn't necessarily mean that her future would be smooth. No one could give a 100% answer to what the future would be like and who would be with whom.

"You should return the money to her. We can't charge her so much money," Gu Yiwen stroked her daughter's back. "Mom doesn't want you to owe others anything. Tell me what you want. I will work hard to earn money to buy it for you. If you want to pursue someone, you must treat them equally."

"Mom..." the little girl said softly, "Do you agree?"

Gu Yiwen smiled bitterly and sighed:

"Please give me some time to think about it."

Ruan Qian knew her mother too well, and when she said this, she had already agreed.

She burst into laughter, hugged her mother, and said:

"thanks Mom."

Chapter 83: New Year's Eve

Winter snow, another year will be here in the blink of an eye.

"There will be a snowstorm this year." Ruan Xiaobei was sitting in the living room. His competition tutoring had ended and no one cared about him at school, so he stayed away from school until the Chinese New Year.

"You look like you're gloating over someone else's misfortune." Ruan Qian looked up and said, then continued reading.

"Can't you learn from your sister? She just plays at home all day long." Gu Yiwen glared at his son, "Have you finished your winter vacation homework?"

Ruan Xiaobei pursed his lips and didn't dare to say anything back. He thought his sister was probably crazy about studying. Did you need to be careful about being addicted to studying these days?

However, he was keenly aware that his mother was not in a good mood. She was always staring at his sister in a daze, sighing, and worried for no reason. He didn't know what was going on.

He didn't dare to say it, nor did he dare to ask.

After his mother left, he leaned towards his sister:

"Sister, have you bought it?"

He looked mysterious, like an underground party member giving secret signals.

"What to buy?" Ruan Qian was taking notes in the book.

"Bitcoin!" Ruan Xiaobei's expression suddenly became very exaggerated.

"Did not buy."

"Didn't buy it?!" the boy was heartbroken, "Sister, this is a chance to make a fortune!"

Ruan Qian turned the page and ignored him.

"Sister, why don't you buy it?" Ruan Xiaobei was almost throwing a tantrum.

He kept making a fuss, Ruan Qian calmly closed the book and put her hand on the cover:

"I think the risk is too great and I don't want to buy it."

"But... the greater the risk, the greater the return! Sister, don't reject this kind of investment."

"Rich people buy this for investment, but I buy this for gambling." Ruan Qian said seriously, "I will use my own method to make money."

Ruan Xiaobei's face wrinkled like a chrysanthemum. After a while, he said:

"Well...it's your money, you have the final say."

Ruan Qian continued to read. The boy felt more and more unwilling to accept it, but he was helpless. Finally, he asked dejectedly:

"Sister, how's your comic book going?"

"Not bad," Ruan Qian replied, "I have more than 50,000 collections now."

"fifty thousand?!"

Ruan Xiaobei jumped up and asked, "Sister, is your comic popular?"

"... still a long way off." Ruan Qian's delicate eyebrows slightly frowned, "It's still free now, the only income is from tips."

"Oh……"

Ruan Qian opened her phone and looked at her B station account. She already had more than 10,000 followers, most of whom came from comic navigation. There were not many videos in her updates, only some selfies and fan art. The problem was how to turn these fans into income.

Do I need to learn a few house dances?

Ruan Qian sighed. She didn't have enough time to begin with and had no time to do anything else.

Teacher Tong...

Her thoughts were flowing like a river.

The little girl touched her lips. She was almost forgetting the lingering touch. By the time school started, she would probably forget it.

It snowed heavily on New Year's Eve.

Outside, it was a world of black and white, and even at home, it was cold. The family sat around the stove, waiting for the Spring Festival Gala to begin. Ruan Qian leaned against the sofa, tapping her phone screen with her fingers.

"What is Teacher Tong doing?"

She waited about five minutes but received no response.

Could it be that... Teacher Tong's heart has been seduced away by the girl who lives in her house?

Does Teacher Tong no longer care about himself?

The little girl was lost in thought, and when it was half past seven, Teacher Tong really didn't reply to her for half an hour.

She pursed her lips and watched the commercial on TV, feeling annoyed. At this moment, her cell phone buzzed.

[Teacher Tong]: "Sorry, my phone is turned off. I forgot to turn it on later."

Shut down?

Ruan Qian quickly typed:

"Why did you turn off your phone? Are you busy and don't want to be disturbed?"

[Teacher Tong]: “No.”

[Teacher Tong]: “Because I was on the plane.”

Ruan Qian's heart skipped a beat. She stared at the words on the screen. An almost extravagant thought could no longer be stopped. Her trembling fingers slowly typed out the following words:

"Where did the plane fly to?"

The other party seemed to slow down for a moment.

Ruan Qian's heart was pounding. Finally, when she was about to be disappointed, the man said:

"How about you open the door and take a look?"

At this moment, immediately, the little girl jumped up, wearing her slippers turned inside out, and rushed to the door under the puzzled gazes of her family. She opened the door and was stunned by the cold wind blowing into the house - Tong Yao was standing in front of her, with some snowflakes on her coat and the gentle smile on her face as always.

"Hi, Soft."

Nursery Rhyme laughed.

Thanks to the airplane, the distance of 300 kilometers was shortened in 40 minutes.

The little girl slowly let go of the door handle, and then she suddenly hugged the person in front of her. After half a month, she remembered the smell and warmth of this person again. The snowflakes on Teacher Tong's body melted on her face and became cold. She rubbed it, fearing that her teacher would be frozen, and asked distressedly:

"How did you get here? Without an umbrella?"

"Hu Hong drove me here," Tong Yao felt their physical contact and cuddling, her face slightly reddened, "I got a little snowy when I came in."