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The restaurant wasn't far from where we were, and it took just a few minutes to get there.

It was a Shandong cuisine restaurant and it looked fairly upscale.

Since it was still early, there weren't many customers inside, so we casually picked a booth and sat down.

After ordering, Zhou Yujie looked at Wu Wei and said, "I haven't seen you for a few years, and you've changed so much. When I first saw you in the store, I could hardly recognize you."

"Oh, really?"

Wu Wei said jokingly with a smile, "I've gained more than ten pounds since college!"

"No, it's your entire aura that has changed."

Zhou Yujie shook her head, her expression serious, "You're now more mature, more confident, and much brighter and sunnier."

"Really?"

Wu Wei smiled faintly.

During the early days of university, he was still steeped in the sadness of that incident, and he was quite dispirited and gloomy.

So, his senior's impression of him must have been of someone introverted and not very talkative.

But after so many years, especially after obtaining the system, he had completely changed.

"However, senior, you haven't changed much over the years, still so beautiful!" Wu Wei continued.

"Ah, I'm almost thirty, what's beautiful about that?"

Zhou Yujie said modestly, "I'm not the twenty-year-old girl I used to be anymore."

"So what if you're thirty, a thirty-year-old woman has the charm of a thirty-year-old!"

Wu Wei completely disagreed with her, "Not to mention anything else, just looking at your figure and appearance now, how many twenty-year-olds can compare? Not to mention this mature aura you have."

"Hehe, I didn't expect you to become so smooth-talking."

Zhou Yujie, pleased with Wu Wei's compliments, smiled and said, "I think your girlfriend must be the real beauty."

When she brought up Sun Yi, Wu Wei immediately smiled sweetly, "My girlfriend is indeed beautiful!"

"Oh my, just mentioning your girlfriend brings a grin from ear to ear!"

Zhou Yujie saw his expression and immediately teased, "You can tell, it's that honeymoon phase, right?"

"Yep, we just got together not long ago."

Wu Wei nodded, "But I've liked her for quite a while."

"So you mean she's your classmate?"

Zhou Yujie perked up with interest, "A high school classmate?"

"No."

Wu Wei shook his head, "We were classmates in junior high, ninth grade."

"That's wonderful!"

Zhou Yujie said, her expression somewhat nostalgic, "I really envy you, to have reconnected after all these years."

"I actually envy you guys too, you and your senior started dating in high school, and you went all the way to getting married and having kids; you made us all green with envy back then."

Wu Wei said, his words laced with a hint of probing, "By the way, is your senior in Jicheng? Should we invite him over to join us for dinner?"

Listening to Wu Wei's words, the smile on Zhou Yujie's face gradually faded.

She bit her lip somewhat forcefully, then opened her mouth and said, "We got divorced a long time ago."

"What? Divorced?"

Wu Wei looked shocked.

Although he had guessed through their difference in rank that her marriage might have encountered some problems.

At the same time, he also thought that maybe the other issue had occurred before they had been together.

After all, picking forbidden fruit at a young age was not uncommon.

Back then, their love had been so strong that many had tried and failed to come between them.

They were considered a prime example of campus romance.

He had never imagined that just a few years later, they would already be divorced.

"We divorced in February 2021."

Seeing Wu Wei's surprised expression, Zhou Yujie said with some self-mockery, "Didn't expect that, did you?"

"Indeed, I didn't."

Wu Wei said with great emotion, "Back then, you two overcame so many challenges at school, and you got married right after graduation, even had a child, we all thought you would continue together, I really didn't expect this!"

"Dating is dating, marriage is marriage, life is life—they're not the same."

Zhou Yujie gave a bitter smile, then slowly said, "When we were dating, we were indeed very good together, but ever since I accidentally got pregnant, his attitude started to change."

Zhou Yujie sighed deeply, "He didn't want me to have the baby then, saying he wasn't done having fun and wanted a few more years of freedom, wanting kids maybe around 30. But I didn't want to terminate it, and his family wanted me to have the baby, so he compromised. After graduation, we registered our marriage, held a wedding, and soon after, I gave birth to a daughter."

Wu Wei looked into Zhou Yujie's eyes, silently listening to her story without speaking.

Zhou Yujie continued, "His family opened a small store for him in the county city, and I stayed home to care for our daughter. Everything was fine initially, until the virus hit."

"The shop couldn't continue, it was losing money every day, and the child needed money for various things. I asked him to find a job, but he was afraid of working himself to death and refused. Eventually, when we were completely out of money, he had no choice but to go out looking for work. Every day he came home exhausted and took his frustration out on me..."

"He blamed me for staying home and not making money, blamed me for insisting on having the baby, saying all our hardships were my fault..."

"Afterward, we would fight almost every few days, and all our love was lost in those fights; eventually, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I asked for a divorce."

Listnening to Zhou Yujie's words, Wu Wei couldn't help but sigh internally.

This was the helplessness of an ordinary family.

"Ah, truly, every family has its own hard-to-read scripture."

Wu Wei looked at Zhou Yujie, "What about the child? Was she awarded to him?"

"She was awarded to me."

Zhou Yujie smiled helplessly, "He didn't want her. Probably thinks having a child around isn't good for remarrying."

Wu Wei didn't want to dwell on such a heavy topic, so he changed the subject, "So, she must be six years old by now?"

"Yes, she just turned six after her last birthday, now she's in kindergarten senior class."

Speaking of her child, Zhou Yujie's face finally lit up with a smile, "She'll start first grade next year."

"Don't you need to pick her up?"

Wu Wei asked somewhat puzzled, "Hasn't school already finished for today?"

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Zhou Yujie replied, "Today I asked a neighbor to help pick her up, their child is also in that kindergarten."

"Do you usually pick her up?"

Wu Wei frowned, "You don't finish work until after six; you can't manage that, can you?"

"I can't, but there's nothing I can do about it."

Zhou Yujie, hearing this, shrugged helplessly, "With my education, I need to make more money, so I can only take these kinds of jobs."

Wu Wei sighed internally.

Juggling work and caring for a child—these past few years had not been easy for his schoolmate.