Since he enjoyed her beauty, he had to accept her desire to look beautiful.
Besides, his life now was easier no matter how he looked at it than when he had been courting Song Ying.
Back then, he had gone hungry for months on end, scrimping and saving just to buy her a watch.
After that day, Lin Wufeng rode his bicycle out to the countryside one weekend.
Afterward, even on his days off, he was rarely seen during the daytime.
Song Ying soon got a perm with big waves and bought some new things for the house, grinning from ear to ear every day.
When Huang Ling asked, Song Ying did not hide anything.
Exchanging secrets helped build trust.
In the whole alley, Huang Ling was the only person Song Ying felt she could hold nothing back from.
By November, Zhou Cheng had been studying and living at No. 1 Middle School for two months.
Over those two months, he had once again let his grades speak for themselves and finally rejoined the "privileged class."
Only this time, he rarely slept in class anymore, spending more of his time in the reading room.
The book resources at No. 1 Middle School were far beyond those of the Affiliated Middle School; its reading room held enough books to rival a small library.
Of course, given the limitations of the times, most of the books did not interest him. He chose only highly specialized, targeted books to work through, mainly on machinery and chemical engineering.
His plan was clear: he intended to study a chemical engineering-related subject at university.
Compared with currently popular fields such as economics, law, and architecture, machinery and chemical engineering would be more useful to him in the future.
After all, if he mastered machinery and chemical