Chapter 44: Record of Moving to the City in the 90s 44

No matter how much her family worried about her, Su Huandan continued to do as she pleased.

Only Su Huandan knew what she truly needed.

If the long-term separation between husband and wife eventually led to a marital crisis, Su Huandan was prepared to accept that.

This was because Su Dakui and Jiang Chunhua were more important in her heart than the small family she shared with Yu Zexiu. Hadn’t she been reborn specifically for her parents and her two older sisters?

Otherwise, during those terrifying decades of training and study in the Underworld, where her superior, Horse-Face, took her to the eighteen levels of hell every day to witness the punishments for evil karma and wicked deeds, Su Huandan would have said her mind and soul had been severely shocked and intimidated.

The reason she had persevered was the promise made by Horse-Face. He promised she could reincarnate back to the lifetime when she had died, allowing her to make up for her regrets.

With decades of obsession driving her, Su Huandan knew how to choose. Whatever the final outcome, she could endure it.

And so, Su Huandan took up long-term residence at her parents’ home.

Every day, she wore the same kind of clothes as her eldest and second sisters, stepped into a pair of slippers, and clutched a handful of spiced sunflower seeds. She would lean against the entrance of the small convenience store run by her parents, chatting with the people passing by.

“Grandpa Liu, how is your health? Are you coming to my eldest sister’s place for breakfast? Let me tell you, my sister’s mushroom and vegetable buns are a masterpiece. You should buy some; they’re absolutely delicious.”

Grandpa Liu naturally recognized Su Huandan. She was the youngest daughter of the Su family, the first female PhD from Yuanyi Village.

Going to school, getting a doctorate, and marrying a rich man… many girls in Yuanyi Village who were the same age as Su Huandan secretly wished her dead. This was because whenever they did something wrong, their parents would drag Su Huandan out and use her as a comparison.

Just think, who could possibly like Su Huandan under those circumstances?

However, fathers like Grandpa Liu, who had once hoped their daughters would become phoenixes, absolutely adored Su Huandan.

“Is that Huandan back? What’s the matter? Worried about your parents? Did you come back specifically to look after them? You’re a good child, successful and filial. You’re better than those sons of mine.”

After a brief chat, Grandpa Liu bought a bag of mushroom and vegetable buns, ordered a serving of soy milk, and left.

Soon, an older woman arrived. Su Huandan just cracked her seeds and remained silent, acting as if she didn’t recognize the woman.

But this woman wasn’t afraid of Su Huandan’s cold face.

“Huandan, oh, I’ve missed you. It’s truly hard to catch a glimpse of you. You’re so busy, running all over the country. I heard your parents say that you and your husband often go abroad to earn money from foreigners? You’re so successful. My daughter isn’t as capable as you, but she’s beautiful. She’s working as an actress at the Film and Television City across the way now. Look, we’re all neighbors, and your family owns a film company. Why don’t you sign my daughter? I guarantee she can make money for your company.”

The original residents of Yuanyi Village didn’t have many good jobs these days. Going to the Film and Television City to work as extras provided some income.

The profession of “extra coordinator” had even emerged in the village.

They would rent out their houses to young dreamers from other provinces who wanted to be actors, while acting as coordinators themselves. They would contact film crews for extra work, bring their tenants to the sets, and then take a cut of the earnings.

Over a year, they made a significant amount of money.

The Film and Television City wasn’t just home to her mother-in-law’s Dingsheng Media Company; there were many other film and television companies there. Anyone who needed the sets of the Film and Television City would come here.

As long as one was diligent, they wouldn’t starve in this place.

Because of this, the old residents of Yuanyi Village knew that being a star was a lucrative business. If their sons or daughters were even slightly good-looking, they always thought about having Su Huandan take them back to the company to sign a contract.

Would Su Huandan bother with this?

It wasn’t as if they were particularly close.

“Ma’am, this is easy to handle. I’ll give you a phone number, and your daughter can just go for an interview. Film companies are always recruiting talented actors with academic credentials. At my mother-in-law’s company, as long as you meet two criteria, you’re guaranteed a contract. First, you must be young and beautiful. Second, you must have a professional graduation certificate from a relevant academy.”

After hearing this, the old woman left, grumbling and cursing.

Su Huandan sneered. If your daughter wants to be an actress with nothing but her face, you’ve really come to the wrong door.

In our family’s company, whether they are actors or singers, they are all graduates from formal schools. We don’t take amateurs who try to break in halfway.

The company has been open for decades, and those it has promoted are all powerhouses with solid acting skills or incredible singing voices. After all, the company mainly focuses on high-quality projects rather than just creating “stars.”

A star is a star. Anyone with a bit of fame these days is called a star, isn’t that right?

But actors and singers are professions that require professional skills.

That woman just now was aiming for her daughter to be a star, but the company didn’t want people like that.

Seeing her block the woman with those words, Su Dakui, who was watching the store, curled his lip. With that stubborn temper of hers, couldn’t she have just said it was her mother-in-law’s company and she didn’t manage things?

Saying it so directly was bound to offend people.

Choosing a time when his youngest daughter wasn’t home, Su Dakui called his son-in-law.

“What’s going on between you two? Did you have a fight? Why is Huandan always running back to her parents’ house?” It wasn’t a solution for things to continue like this.

Yu Zexiu understood his wife too well. Receiving a call from his father-in-law at this time was no surprise. “Didn’t my grandmother and grandfather pass away one after another? You should know how filial Huandan is, Dad.”

After hanging up the phone, Su Dakui felt particularly uneasy.

He finally understood what his third daughter was trying to do by coming back all the time.

But this reason made him, as a father, feel an exceptional ache in his heart.

That night, the old couple whispered to each other.

“How about we take our son and move to Beijing? The quality of education there is better, and we have the money. We can hire a nanny and live near our third daughter’s place, so she can see us just by stepping through the door. What do you think?” Su Dakui’s words initially stunned Jiang Chunhua.

They had their two daughters looking after them here, and they were surrounded by old neighbors. They were used to living here, so why move?

It seemed like looking for trouble when there was none!

But thinking back on how their third daughter had been coming home so often lately, Jiang Chunhua’s tears began to fall.

“When she got married, she didn’t think about what would happen when we got old. Now, she’s actually foolish enough to dare leave her own home behind just to watch over us. Thinking about this child makes me so heartbroken I can’t breathe. My poor third daughter…” Jiang Chunhua sobbed until she was out of breath.

She had given birth to four children in her life, and every one of them was filial. Except for her third child, they all lived right under her nose, so Jiang Chunhua had never felt that there was anything wrong with her third daughter marrying into Beijing and not seeing her often.

Without looking far, one only had to look at Yuanyi Village to see how many children went away to university and ended up staying in other cities for work.

There were plenty of people who didn’t return to see their elderly parents for two or three years at a time, so wasn’t her third daughter coming back to visit every single month?

She was already very filial!

Beijing wasn’t actually that far from where they lived. There was a direct highway, and the drive took just over an hour.

If her third daughter missed them, she could just come back and visit often. How could she actually dare to leave her home and children behind?

Having a filial heart was a good thing, but parents also felt pained by that kind of devotion.