Reborn as a Superpower Girl in the 80s
Chapter 302: Past Events, Child Betrothal

Chapter 302: Chapter 302: Past Events, Child Betrothal

The three of them each ate one, and the rest were taken away by Lu Yichen, who was asked to share them with colleagues and friends with whom he got along well and owed favors. This touched Lu Yichen deeply.

Luo Qiao thought that the oven must have also involved some favors, and additionally, her coworkers had given her crabs and shrimp. It was good to have exchanges like this, and she had stealthily tucked some away into her space, hehe!

After finishing her classes in the afternoon, Luo Qiao quickly met up with Stone and hurried to the bus station.

Having bought their tickets and boarded the bus, when they were looking for seats, they saw Zhang Xiao. Zhang Xiao had just turned her face and, upon seeing Luo Qiao, said with joy, "Luo Qiao, come sit here."

Luo Qiao pulled Stone over: "Don’t you have school today?"

Zhang Xiao laughed: "I’ll be your classmate next week. I transferred to City No. 1 Middle School, so we can see each other often."

Luo Qiao smiled: "That’s great."

Zhang Xiao let out a sigh, "It’s just a shame I can’t be in your class; I’ve been placed in Class 2, but at least it’s close."

Luo Qiao smiled: "Class 2 is good, too."

Zhang Xiao asked, "Which dormitory are you in, Luo Qiao?"

Luo Qiao answered, "I’m not staying at the school; I’m commuting from home."

Zhang Xiao exclaimed, "Then I won’t be able to eat with you in the cafeteria."

Zhang Xiao seemed to remember something and then pointed to the man beside her, "Luo Qiao, this is my Big Brother Zhang Chao. He’s in the military, and it just happened to be his holiday today, so he came along to help with my school registration."

Zhang Chao nodded at Luo Qiao, who responded indifferently, "Hello."

Once Luo Qiao was seated, Zhang Xiao said, "Luo Qiao, my mom has been ridden with guilt ever since she found out about your situation. She feels that if she hadn’t gone to the bathroom back then, you wouldn’t have been switched at birth and wouldn’t have suffered all these years."

Those words were indeed true. If she had waited for someone to return before going to the bathroom, she wouldn’t have given Gao Suhua the opportunity to act. It was due to her absence that the original owner’s life was affected. But what could you say when she was only helping out at the time?

So all she could say was that it must have been fate, a tribulation destined to happen; no one was to blame!

Hearing Zhang Xiao’s words, Luo Qiao barely smiled and said, "What’s done is done. I’m doing pretty well now. Tell Auntie Ning she doesn’t need to worry about it anymore."

After speaking, Luo Qiao lowered her head, thinking to herself what good was guilt. In the book, the original owner had suffered all her life, finding relief only in death. If not for her, this lifetime, how good could the ending have been?

Zhang Xiao knew that no matter how much they felt guilty, it wouldn’t change the fact that they had caused Luo Qiao harm. After all, she had suffered for fifteen years under her foster mother and then lived alone in Qingshan Village. Zhang Xiao couldn’t force Luo Qiao to forgive their family.

The bus started soon after. Zhang Chao, sitting inside, hadn’t expected that this was the girl his mother had talked about. A moment’s negligence back then had led to a grave mistake, making both his parents feel indebted to the Luo Family.

He remembered his mother mentioning that the adults had jokingly said Auntie Ning would marry her daughter to their family if she had a girl, setting up a child’s betrothal.

Zhang Chao turned his head and observed Luo Qiao seriously. He had been to Uncle Luo’s house before and had seen the daughter who was mistakenly taken, probably called Jia Ning or something, but at that time, the Luo Family hadn’t mentioned the past, so he hadn’t thought much of it.

Now, unexpectedly meeting Auntie Ning’s biological daughter, with the current situation between the two families, it seemed unlikely the old promise would hold any truth.

Zhang Xiao had initially gotten along well with Luo Qiao, but she hadn’t expected such a complication to arise. It was as if her own mother’s oversight had made the relationship between the two families a bit awkward.

The bus rocked steadily along the road. Luo Qiao and Stone arrived at their destination first, bid farewell to the Zhang siblings, and got off the bus.

Zhang Xiao watched Luo Qiao get off and said, "Big Brother, ever since this incident occurred, I’m afraid I can’t become friends with Luo Qiao. She must blame Mom at heart. If Mom hadn’t gone to the bathroom midway, she wouldn’t have been switched at birth.

I heard she’s had a really tough life these past years; that family treated her terribly. The first time I saw her, she was incredibly thin, tall and skinny like a paper doll."

Suddenly, Zhang Xiao seemed to recall something, "Big Brother, didn’t Mom say something about promising Auntie Ning a child betrothal between our families? Now that Auntie Ning’s biological daughter is Luo Qiao, then isn’t that..."