Chapter 249 Theme Competition: Breaking Free (9)
Chapter 249 Theme Competition: Breaking Free (9)
After the college entrance examination, Gu Shijiu successfully completed her learning goals and achieved her best results ever.
After that, she went to the military academy that had been urging her to attend.
As expected, the principal was surrounded by parents and asked why a student with a total score of 320 was admitted to such a good school through a special admission program.
It turns out that when the list was posted beforehand, the children of these parents did not go home to tell them.
Many parents have only just found out that some academically weak students have been admitted to universities without taking the entrance exam.
Parents in this region place great importance on their children's academic performance, especially during the highly competitive college entrance examination.
The principal's hair was pulled out of his bald spot, and he was filled with resentment towards Gu Shijiu.
Knowing full well that their grades were so bad, they still insisted on taking the exam; now look what happened.
When the military academy opened, Wu Yihai, the senior student welcoming the new students, looked at Gu Shijiu with a bit of confusion.
He had already exiled himself to a military academy, so how could he still run into this stepsister?
On the other side, Zhang Qian was escorted to the entrance of a workplace: "You'll be working here from now on."
Zhang Qian nodded, a tear rolling down her cheek.
She is of mixed race; her father is actually a foreigner who is being hunted down because he knows about the president's inhumane crimes.
Before he died, he handed her a USB drive containing information about the company president and the big boss behind him.
Even after Zhang Qian smuggled herself across the border, she still couldn't escape the pursuit. After living in hiding for several years, she was captured by people sent by the club president.
Knowing she was outnumbered and powerless to take revenge, Zhang Qian ultimately chose to cooperate with the government and successfully avenged herself.
However, she couldn't go back to her original country, and Zhang Qian was assigned a fairly ordinary job.
As for what the government does with that information, that's not her business.
Gu Shijiu had long forgotten about the matter because she had been distracted earlier.
Aside from going on missions, she spends her days just passing the time at school.
Three years have passed, and she is still in school.
Yes, I never graduated.
Over the years, Gu Shijiu has taken on many tasks, big and small, and has completed each one beautifully.
However, it was to no avail; the upright principal refused to allow a student who had failed multiple academic subjects to graduate smoothly.
Gu Shijiu thought it was pretty good.
School is great! She never went to college, but student life is really good.
Every day is just classes, meals, sleep, training, and missions, and the conditions are even better than in the military camp.
Gu Shijiu felt he could stay for another hundred years.
Chen Da and Chen Shan, two academic underachievers, with the help of the government, disrupted the distribution of the reorganized forces and started a courier company.
Those who had murdered people, those who were heinous criminals, and those who were corrupt at their core, were all dealt with by Gu Shijiu.
The rest were students who didn't like studying, had bad relationships with their families, and preferred to play outside. It was like giving these underachievers a way out.
While Gu Shijiu was living a carefree life at school, Wu Yihai had already graduated and started going on missions.
Compared to the past, he looks stronger and more mature now.
Over the years, he would occasionally come back to visit Gu Shijiu, but he was never paid any attention to her.
He had solemnly apologized to Gu Shijiu on graduation day, but he was not forgiven.
After all, this was Xiangyang's business, and Gu Shijiu didn't feel she should make any decisions for him.
Wu Yihai was recently on an important mission when he unexpectedly encountered an ambush, and the three of them were trapped on a small hill.
Communication equipment was completely blocked, messages could not be sent out, and guns and ammunition were all used up. A dozen or so enemy soldiers blocked the only way to break out and shouted at them to surrender.
Just as everyone was preparing to sacrifice themselves and began destroying their belongings, Gu Shijiu received a rescue mission and descended from the sky.
The battle ended quickly; not only were all the visible enemies killed, but the snipers in the distance were also found.
Only then did Wu Yihai realize that the people surrounding them were not a dozen or so.
This small team was a decoy; there were actually nearly a hundred more people behind them.
None of these people survived more than ten minutes in Gu Shijiu's hands.
After dealing with the enemy, she didn't follow Wu Yihai and the others. Instead, she made a few leaps and quickly disappeared into the distance.
Recalling her condescending posture with her arms crossed, Wu Yihai suddenly realized that his stepsister had become so indifferent at some point.
On the day he apologized, Wu Yihai thought Gu Shijiu might report him, beat him up, or even kill him.
He was fully prepared.
In any case, given how much the military values Gu Shijiu, they might not punish her, so she had no reason to forgive herself.
However, Gu Shijiu just stared at him with unfocused eyes, and after a long while, she replied, "Oh."
Just like today, he didn't care at all, seemingly without any emotional fluctuation.
It's like—it's like he's nothing more than a stone on the roadside, not worth wasting your eyes on.
For some reason, he suddenly felt like he was asking for a beating and asked his stepsister, "Do you know how Auntie is doing lately?"
Gu Shijiu snapped out of her daze: "Who?"
It's utterly absurd. The male lead's relative wasn't mentioned in the script, so how did she know who he was?
Wu Yihai felt as if her heart had been stabbed with a needle. If she hadn't experienced school bullying during her adolescence, she wouldn't have ended up like this.
When the psychologist he consulted suggested that his stepsister's condition might be PTSD caused by a severe trauma, Wu Yihai felt as if ants were gnawing at his entire body.
Thinking of this, he swallowed the words that were about to come out and smiled gently, "It's nothing, I just misremembered."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Gu Shijiu tilted her head and stared at his back for a long time: This guy must be crazy.
Xiang Lanlan was very happy when Wu Yihai left home.
Since both debt collectors have handed over their assets to the state, wouldn't the Wu family's property then belong to me and my youngest son?
However, not long after, she received a bolt from the blue.
Wu Bo decided to scale back the family business, distributing less important assets to other members of the Wu family, while selling the most profitable company to a well-known large corporation.
Xiang Lanlan felt as if the sky had fallen.
Wu Bo felt honored that a military officer had come from his family. However, the military is not allowed to engage in business, including those within the system and their immediate family members.
Wu Bo was getting old and wanted to cash out smoothly, and he was also worried about affecting his eldest son's future, so he simply sold the company.
Logically speaking, the money he received should have been enough for him and his mother, Xiang Lanlan, to live a life of luxury for several lifetimes.
But Xiang Lanlan was not reconciled. After a big fight with Wu Bo, she heard her husband's true feelings.
"You can't even treat your own daughter well. It would be fine if she died before me, but if I die first, won't you make a complete mess of the family?"
Thinking of this, Wu Bo simply divorced Xiang Lanlan and took his son to live in another city.
When Xiang Lanlan first got divorced, she received a substantial alimony payment. Not long after, she was targeted by a "pig butchering scam" and swindled out of all her money.
It was then that she remembered to look for her daughter, only to learn that both she and Wu Yihai had already sacrificed their lives.
Later, it is said that he worked in a supermarket and lived a very frugal life. After some time, he could no longer be found.
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