The night was quiet.
Li Xianghua and Lu Guoping were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night. Lu Chenzhou told them not to tell relatives or friends for now—wait until he was certain about getting into Martial Arts University, then start bragging.
Otherwise, if you hype it up and then don't get in, that's just awkward.
Far away in a residential community in the Inner City.
Shi Ruyu was also sharing her joy with her family.
But she was from a single-parent family, with only her mother to rely on.
On the night of her third birthday, her father met with a Virtual Disaster on his way home from work, drove straight into the river, drowned alive. His bloated body later opened up by the coroner—his stomach filled with rotting water plants.
In front of her father's memorial portrait, she stroked the Void-breaking Gloves.
"Ruyu, go to bed."
"Okay, Mom."
