Chapter 34: Chapter 34 - Plans for the future (2)

Chapter 34 – Plans for the future (2)

When they arrived back at the mansion, Zhong Chi and the lot were not back yet.

Xu Yunhui’s son’s name was Xu Xing. He was currently a freshman in high school. Before Xu Yunhui married Zhong Chi, he applied and got into Dongling’s 13th High School. This was a very strict school that was run in a draconian style. So, most of the time, Xu Xing stayed over at the school instead of at the mansion.

Naturally, he wouldn’t be seen around the mansion.

Zhong Yuhuan quickly ascended the stairs with the two boys.

Li Jinyuan’s jacket was still wrapped around Zhong Yuhuan’s waist, and she just sit down on top of it. Zhong Yuhuan grabbed her backpack over and started pulling out her textbooks.

The two boys looked at her dumbfounded.

“What are you looking at me for? Do your homework!”

That was when the two realized that when she said was going to “do her homework”, she really was going to “do her homework.”

Zhong Yuhuan had pondered over her future long and hard the first day she arrived into this world.

It was unlikely that Zhong Chi was going to change his ways one day; Grandpa Ding was up there in age; and it was impractical for her to seek help from Lang Jinzhi, her cousin, indefinitely. Once she thought about it that way, she practically had nobody who would stay by her side.

So, naturally, she would need to plan ahead.

Zhong Yuhuan turned and told him, “You both are freshman in junior high school right now and still behind on your school work, especially in the English area. But I will be attending senior high school aboard…”

Senior high school and university were important stages, she wouldn’t choose to mess around and waste her life away.

Staying long term at the Zhong’s would obviously be a bad choice so she might as well bamboozle another lump sum of money from Zhong Chi and go overseas to pursue her education.

Xu Xing might still be in school when she returned.

As for Xu Yushan, she was destined to be an airhead forever. Nothing would change about her in a few years.

By then, Zhong Chi would be even older than he is now, and she just might have a shot to take over the Zhong’s business.

Zhong Yuhuan had it all planned out, but she didn’t hear any responses from either Huo Chengming or Li Jinyuan.

Finally, she put down the pencil in her hand and looked up at them.

The two boys’ eyes were reddened. Their fists tightened into balls like they were suppressing certain emotions.

“What’s the matter?”

“If you are going overseas…. What about us?” asked Li Jinyuan, his voice filled with sadness.

“You will come with me, of course!”

The two boys relaxed immediately. Almost simultaneously, they looked up at Zhong Yuhuan. “Really? Together?” asked Li Jinyuan.

“Mhmm,” nodded Zhong Yuhuan. “I have said it before, it will just be the three of us going forward.”

They both looked meaningfully at Zhong Yuhuan and said softly, “Yes, it will just be the three of us going forward.”

“Just be the three of us” should have sounded very sad, but at this moment in time, it took on a different level of meaning. When the words left their mouths, they all felt a sense of peacefulness and warmth… and also a hint of sweetness.

“When are we leaving?” asked Huo Chengming.

“We’ve got to wait for you. When you reached junior year…. Unless, of course, you can complete the coursework sooner, then we can take off sooner.” Said Zhong Yuhuan as she casually spun the pencil in her hand.

Huo Chengming and Li Jinyuan quietly memorized her words.

If they can complete the coursework sooner….