"I refused to have dinner with your brother. Are you unhappy?" After Shen Susu got home and had dinner, she took the initiative to ask Fu Huaijin.

When Fu Huaijin heard this, he looked a little surprised, and then said, "Why should I be unhappy?"

Now it was Shen Susu's turn to be surprised. She said, "Isn't it always like this? Not giving face to the man's family is not giving face to the husband?"

Fu Huaijin couldn't help laughing when he heard this and said, "Where did you hear all this nonsense?"

Shen Susu quietly hid her phone, and suddenly she didn't want Fu Huaijin to see those messy apps in her phone.

Fu Huaijin continued, "A man's face is earned by himself, not given by others."

When Shen Susu heard this, she couldn't help but feel that she had gone a bit too far. She took so much money from Fu Huaijin and was not even willing to have a meal with his family.

Fu Huaijin didn't care about that and said, "You must have your reasons for not wanting to have dinner with him. Besides, he wants to have dinner with me to keep in touch with me. At worst, I can make time to have dinner with him alone later. There's no need to embarrass you."

Shen Susu had never seen anyone more considerate than Fu Huaijin. She couldn't even say a bad word about others in his mouth.

"We will be returning to Shanghai tomorrow, so let's go to bed early tonight," said Fu Huaijin.

Fu Huaijin suddenly felt that sleeping in the same bed with his wife had other advantages. At least he could keep an eye on Shen Susu and prevent her from staying up late.

Although Shen Susu said that she would go to bed early and get up early every day, when she actually did it, she would inevitably get distracted by watching TV series or reading novels, and would indulge herself that night.

Shen Susu rolled her eyes and felt that after raising the crops for so long, it was almost time to harvest them.

"Okay, I'll take a shower now." She agreed verbally, and after taking a shower, she put on the red suspender nightgown directly.

Shen Susu looked at the bathroom mirror for a long time. As a woman, she felt that she was particularly attractive. She just didn't believe that Fu Huaijin would not be tempted.

If it has come to this and Fu Huaijin is still calm, then Shen Susu decides to stay with Fu Huaijin as a nun for the rest of her life.

After Fu Huaijin finished his shower, he returned to the master bedroom in his pajamas. Seeing Shen Susu already lying on the bed, he didn't think much about it and just said, "You took a shower so quickly today."

Shen Susu said: "I'm in a hurry to sleep, you should lie down quickly too."

Fu Huaijin picked up a book and sat on the bed, reading while chatting with Shen Susu.

"Aren't you asleep yet?" Shen Susu asked.

Fu Huaijin immediately said, "Is it because the light was on that disturbed your sleep?"

What Shen Susu wants to say is that turning on the light has no effect, but it is the fact that you keep reading that has a big impact.

But she swallowed the words back when they came to her lips.

Fu Huaijin turned off the light, put away his book, and lay down next to Shen Susu.

Shen Susu asked: "Mr. Fu, when you were in college, did you have a girl you liked?"

Fu Huaijin was stunned when he heard this and asked, "Why are you talking about this again?"

Shen Susu suddenly remembered that she seemed to have asked this question before.

Shen Susu continued, "You are studying abroad in a foreign country. Don't you feel lonely? I saw many people online saying that dating is a must for them when they are abroad."

Fu Huaijin sighed and said, "At that time, I just wanted to make some achievements to show my family that I didn't care about the money at home."

Fu Huaijin thought back to the past and suddenly felt that the person who was obsessed with proving himself was very naive.

But it was also because of this naivety that Fu Huaijin made his first pot of gold, and then he made more and more money, and now he has the confidence to spend money on Shen Susu.

Shen Susu said: "Then you must have had a very hard time during those years."

When Fu Huaijin needed others' sympathy the most, there was no one around him. Now that Shen Susu said this, he felt as if Shen Susu was using words to comfort his younger self across many years.

He reached out and patted Shen Susu, saying, "It's okay, it's all over. Now that you're with me, I feel like it wasn't as hard as it used to be."

Shen Susu paused after hearing this.

Fu Huaijin asked again: "If it's really hard, you must have had the hardest time. I'm abroad, and although I don't have good food or clothes, my family won't let me starve to death. When you were a child, you stayed in an orphanage, and I'm afraid you suffered a lot of grievances."

Shen Susu did suffer a lot of grievances when she was a child, but it was not from the orphanage, but from her adoptive parents.

Not long after her adoptive parents adopted her, her adoptive mother became pregnant and gave birth to a son.

Since they already had their own child, it was natural that the adoptive parents disliked the adopted child.

Although they did not abandon her and were still willing to give her food, everyone in the family had already reached a consensus.

She, Shen Susu, is a pig raised at home waiting to be slaughtered.

Her adoptive parents planned to sell her when she was older, and use the money from the betrothal gift to help her younger brother marry a wife.

Shen Susu still remembers that when she was admitted to a key high school, her adoptive parents did not intend to let her continue her studies. It was her junior high school class teacher who ran to her home and persuaded her adoptive parents to let her go to high school.

Even though she did very well in the high school entrance exam and was able to get her tuition waived for attending a key high school, her adoptive parents still kept complaining that her studies cost the family a lot of money.

She started to work part-time in high school, after all, her family no longer gave her living expenses at that time.

During her three years of high school, she was able to successfully pass the college entrance examination thanks to a kind boss who gave her a job.

Even so, working part-time took up too much time for her studies, and she barely got into a key university after the college entrance examination.

Her adoptive parents used the same old trick again and still didn't want her to leave her hometown to go to college.

This time, the junior high school and high school teachers visited Shen Susu's home together. In order to prevent Shen Susu from dropping out of school, the two kind-hearted teachers helped her complete the application process for a student loan.

The teachers tried their best to persuade her, even saying that "college students can get more dowry", and finally convinced the adoptive parents to agree to let Shen Susu go to college.

Since she started college, Shen Susu knew that if she wanted to leave that dilapidated and decayed home, she had to accumulate enough strength during college.

There seemed to be no difference between college and high school for her. She was always busy between studies and part-time jobs. After graduating from college, she withstood the pressure, ignored her adoptive parents' request for her to return to her hometown, and instead got an offer from a large company.

But the price she paid to break away from her original family was to almost unconditionally meet her adoptive parents' requests for money.

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