At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?-Chapter 376 - 365: Coincidence of Fate

Chapter 376: Chapter 365: Coincidence of Fate

“Mom, Dad, you won’t say no, will you?”

Lin Xinyue rested her hands on the table, looking nervously at her parents.

Seeing their surprised expressions, she thought perhaps the proposal had come too suddenly for them to process.

“Dad, Mom, I know bringing this up now might seem rash, but I truly want to be with Xinyue.”

Gu Yu quickly made his stance clear.

Just now, both Mr. Lin and Mrs. Lin had mentioned that it was a good thing, so they must have agreed, right?

Yet he also felt a bit uneasy; although marriage was a normal affair, he and Xinyue hadn’t been together very long, barely over three months in total.

Proposing marriage at this point did seem a bit rushed.

But in his heart, he was clear—he had chosen Lin Xinyue.

No one else would do.

Watching the young couple anxiously await their reply, Mr. and Mrs. Lin shared a knowing smile.

Lin Muqing, as the head of the family, took the lead in responding:

“It’s great that you young folks like each other! We aren’t the stubborn old fossils you might think we are. Society nowadays values freedom in love and marriage; it’s entirely up to you two to decide!”

Mrs. Lin added, “Yes, if you like and accept each other, as parents, of course, we will support you!”

“Besides, when your father and I were your age, you were already one year old!”

She looked at her daughter with a tone tinged with reminiscence.

Lin Xinyue felt a bit helpless: “…”

She had heard these words countless times. Every time her family asked if she had found someone, and she said she hadn’t yet, her parents would trot out this line.

“Mom…times have changed,” Lin Xinyue mumbled.

Mrs. Lin seemed quite pleased anyway, “Oh, that’s alright! You’re pretty fast as it is.”

Lin Xinyue sighed in resignation.

It seemed that in the past, once their children reached their mid-twenties without a partner, parents would start feeling urgent.

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But nowadays, it was normal for young people to marry later.

“Haha, Mom, why don’t you tell us how you and Dad fell in love and got married?”

Gu Yu found a topic to follow Lin Xinyue and Mrs. Lin’s conversation.

He realized that calling them ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ had become increasingly smooth…

“Sure! That story! Actually, it’s quite interesting!” Mrs. Lin’s interest perked up immediately.

She grabbed Mr. Lin’s arm with one hand, then began to recount the tale from decades ago: “Mu Qing and I met quite by coincidence twenty-five years ago. Back then, major factories were being run, and we just happened to be assigned to the same…”

Mrs. Lin’s expression gradually grew nostalgic as she described the scene where she and Lin Muqing first met.

Lin Muqing didn’t join in the conversation but rather looked tenderly at Mrs. Lin beside him.

After decades together, their love was deep as ever.

The words of Ying Zi had stirred his memories, making him feel as though he had traveled back twenty-five years to when he first became a young worker at the machinery factory.

The same person leaning on the same arm, the only difference being the wrinkles now marking their faces.

Time flowed like water, and now their daughter had found her place in life as well.

Lin Muqing sighed gently; not out of sadness, but from the realization of how quickly time had passed.

Half of his life was already behind him.

Mrs. Lin continued speaking, and Gu Yu continued to listen attentively, but Lin Xinyue was looking around, her gaze wandering left and right.

She had heard her parents’ story so many times it had made her ears blister.

At that moment, she simply felt bored.

Gu Yu glanced at her and ignored her, continuing to listen to Mr. Lin and Mrs. Lin’s story.

His heart gradually became immersed in it.

He suddenly realized that he was also a part of this story!

Only it wasn’t twenty-five years ago but fifteen years ago, when he was eight!

And the place was exactly as Mrs. Lin mentioned, the Kaiyuan Heavy Machinery Factory!

It was right next to where he and his grandmother lived!

The 28 households in the narrow alley on the west road of the machinery factory were where he lived.

Separated from the Kaiyuan Heavy Machinery Factory’s employee dormitories by merely a wall.

At that time, his grandmother was still fairly robust, selling pickled vegetable buns at the West Gate of the factory. A bun cost only two Mao, was delicious and cheap, and was very popular among the factory workers.

Because she was slow-moving and made them on the spot, she could only sell around fifty or so a day before she couldn’t sell anymore.

His parents both passed away when he was in the third grade, and it was his grandmother who managed to support him through elementary and middle school with the ten yuan she made daily from selling buns.

Moreover, the uncles and aunties from the factory were all nice people. Sometimes they would come to buy buns and bring him some snacks, or unused scrap paper from the factory for him to use as draft paper for his homework.

Though life was tough and poor, it was free and fulfilling.

Up until he entered middle school, his grandmother’s health deteriorated so much that she couldn’t set up her stall to sell buns anymore and had to pick up trash on the streets to make money.

Normally, he would have been unable to afford high school after finishing middle school.

But during his middle school graduation exams, the uncles and aunties from the factory spontaneously raised money to cover his high school tuition, allowing him to complete high school.

He had intended to attend university to repay those uncles and aunties who had supported him through the factory’s funding, but the factory was dismantled and dissolved in his second year of high school.

And those uncles and aunties from the factory disappeared as well.

It was only later when he was admitted to Haidong University that this became a regret in his heart.

He really wanted to tell those who had helped him that he had made something of himself.

But today, he unexpectedly encountered those who had helped him… and they had become his future in-laws.

Gu Yu was momentarily unable to come to his senses.

“Ah, I wonder how that child we supported is doing now. Thinking about it, he should be about your age, if he passed his university entrance exams, he should be almost graduating.”

Ying Zi sighed deeply.

Although she originally intended to share only her love story with her husband, she couldn’t help but remember some past regrets.

The memory made her feel a wave of emotion all over again.

They left in such a hurry back then, she didn’t know what happened to the grandmother and grandson afterward.

Especially missing the pickled vegetable buns and that hardworking little boy.

“I… yes, he definitely got into a good university, and he’s about to graduate. He even found a beautiful girlfriend. Perhaps he’s in a situation similar to mine, discussing marriage with his girlfriend.”

Gu Yu’s first impulse was to confess, but then he realized that doing so would conflict with the false identity created by the system, so he swallowed back the words that had reached his throat.

While saying the latter part, his eyes grew somewhat teary.

If it weren’t for the help of so many people, he might have become just another faceless individual.

“That kid is very hardworking, just like you said, haha.”

Mrs. Lin quickly came to terms with it, her face lighting up with a smile again.

Mr. Lin also nodded affirmatively, clearly confident in the little boy they remembered.

“He’ll keep striving.”

Gu Yu said with a smile, yet his heart was tumultuous.

The world was really too small.

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