Reborn in 2015, I became a male god starting in high school.

Chapter 16

[This chapter has been revised once, so it might look a little awkward.]

Xia Wei's mother, Xu Qing, is very satisfied with her current life.

She was a sophisticated egoist by nature.

At the age of seventeen, she became pregnant with Xia Wei out of wedlock with a rich second-generation heir from the city.

Thanks to her ex-husband's connections, she was assigned to a key primary school in the city as a teacher.

Later, her ex-husband's family went bankrupt, and the two had constant conflicts, which eventually led to the end of their marriage.

During the years following her divorce, Xu Qing also experienced a period of hardship.

After all, although teaching is a respectable job, it only pays a maximum of three thousand yuan a month. She can't even support herself, so how can she support her daughter?

Unfortunately, they had no choice but to leave their daughter in their rural hometown for two years.

Fortunately, Xu Qing was good-looking and knew how to dress, so even though she was divorced, she still had many suitors at school.

However, Xu Qing is a smart woman. Her first marriage was not based on love, and now that she is middle-aged, it is even less likely that she would marry for love.

By chance, Xu Qing met Zhou Guowei.

Although she has no relationship with Zhou Guowei now.

To put it bluntly, she practically begged and pleaded to become someone's nanny.

But small cities are always rife with gossip.

She and Zhou Guowei had nothing.

They didn't even live together.

Zhou Guowei lived in the dormitory building of the procuratorate.

Years ago, my neighbor bought an apartment and moved out.

Zhou Ziyang's mother was a capable homemaker; she even asked Zhou Guowei to borrow money to buy the house.

So Zhou Guowei borrowed 20,000 yuan and bought the unit next door.

Later, to make things more convenient for Xu Qing and the others, they were given accommodation.

Zhou Guowei's reputation was already tarnished when he got divorced, so he didn't care what others said.

Anyway, he can't get promoted now.

And the hospital couldn't do without him for a while.

For example, in a small county town, if a superior makes a phone call and mentions two key points, Zhou Guowei can recite the case files from the past twenty years, down to the exact time, place, and people involved, word for word.

Furthermore, they can also mention two other cases related to it.

Zhou Guowei has been working for nearly thirty years. Whenever his former boss calls, no matter how late it is, Zhou Guowei is always on standby.

Even if such a person cannot reach the highest point, in the small courtyard, everyone must respectfully call him Inspector Zhou.

The head of the family has come and gone.

They changed batch after batch.

But Zhou Guowei has always been there.

In this small county, he is considered a fairly capable person.

So even though Xu Qing and Zhou Guowei had no real relationship, there were all sorts of rumors circulating in the small county town.

Even Zhou Ziyang's mother tacitly accepted that they were together. She frequently cursed Xu Qing behind his back, calling him shameless.

To be honest, regarding the relationship between Xu Qing and Zhou Guowei...

Even Zhou Ziyang, who came later, wasn't quite sure.

Zhou Guowei kept insisting that he was completely innocent. But it's true, he had helped Xia Wei quite a bit.

His plan was to introduce Xia Wei to Zhou Ziyang so that the two could get together, which would be a way to make his efforts in nurturing Xia Wei worthwhile.

Unfortunately, Xia Wei didn't think much of Zhou Ziyang.

Xu Qing, who was driving ahead, told her daughter not to worry, and that it was okay even if she didn't do well on the test.

"Your Uncle Zhou will help you."

In the past, Xia Wei would have taken it for granted.

Because in Xia Wei's view, although Zhou Guowei and her mother were not openly together...

But it was only a matter of time.

She was also very satisfied with Uncle Zhou.

At this moment, Xia Wei even naively thought that she would take care of Uncle Zhou and her mother in the future.

However, thinking about what Zhou Ziyang had said today, Xia Wei hesitated for a moment.

"But Uncle's resources are also limited, aren't they?"

"?" Xu Qing was taken aback and looked at her daughter in confusion.

Xia Wei hesitated for a moment and said, "Even if Uncle is very capable, he can only help one person, right?"

"Then why doesn't he help Zhou Ziyang, but instead helps me? Zhou Ziyang is his biological son, isn't he?"

Upon hearing the name 'Zhou Ziyang', Xu Qing's expression changed noticeably.

"He."

Xu Qing drove his Mercedes with a blank expression, staring straight ahead.

After a long pause, Xu Qing finally said, as if he had found an excuse, "Your uncle does have resources, but he doesn't need them."

"?" Xia Wei asked, puzzled.

Xu Qing said, "Weiwei, some resources can't be used just because I give them to you."

“For example, this year’s admission score for Nanjing University is 632. You scored 620, which is 10 points short. Your uncle and I can ask around and find some connections to see if there are any other ways to get you in.”

"But if you only score a little over 500 points, even if your uncle and I are very capable, you still won't get in, you know that?"

"That's Ziyang's situation. As far as I know, Ziyang's grades aren't very good, are they? By the way, how's he been lately?"

Xu Qing knew that Zhou Ziyang was in the same class as her daughter, but she rarely talked about Zhou Ziyang.

Since they were two people who had no connection to each other, there was naturally nothing for them to talk about.

Xia Wei seemed to be thinking about it, and felt that her mother's words seemed to make sense.

She said that Zhou Ziyang seems to have given up on himself lately.

"He hardly ever comes to school anymore."

Hearing this, Xu Qing secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "So you see, it's not that your uncle is unwilling to help him, it's that he doesn't need your uncle's help."

"It's true that Ziyang is your uncle's biological son, but besides him, aren't you the closest to him?"

"It would be a waste not to use this connection. You are ambitious and capable, so isn't it only right that your uncle help you?"

"But..." Xia Wei felt that what her mother said made some sense, but she still felt something was off.

"There's no 'but' about it. Ziyang's grades are too bad. You know, your grades are consistently in the top 50 in the whole school. If Ziyang's grades are better than yours, then he needs your uncle's help, and I have absolutely no objection."

"Don't even mention needing your uncle's help, even if he needs my help, we're willing to help him if he needs it, after all, you're all like our children."

"But the problem isn't that; his grades aren't good enough, so he's useless!"

(End of this chapter)