1970s: My childhood sweetheart ran away, and I turned around and married the wildest chief.

As the two walked down the street, Li Yuqing looked at Lu Mingyu and asked uncertainly, "Does your family really agree to you coming to Yunnan Province to work with me?"

Lu Mingyu thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I'm not sure either. My mother might not agree, but she hasn't strongly objected either. My father hasn't explicitly objected, but he's worried that we won't be able to handle the pressure in the future and will resent each other. He said that if I really insist on going, then I should think it through and bear all the consequences myself."

Li Yuqing pursed her lips tightly, her fingers curled up together.

"I thought that with your excellence, your family would definitely keep you here. I never expected that they would agree to let you go to such a far place. It will be difficult for you to come back in the future."

Lu Mingyu's expression shifted, and he turned to look at her. "Do you want me to go with you?"

Li Yuqing was taken aback, then smiled. "Of course I hope so. I like you. Love is sacred and shouldn't be changed by worldly things. We should both strive to overcome the difficulties in reality."

Lu Mingyu nodded. "I understand. I will try my best to persuade my parents."

Li Yuqing: "..."

She opened her mouth, but suddenly didn't know what to say. She really didn't expect that the Lu family would agree to such an outrageous request.

The son of a prestigious university graduate! How could the Lu family bear to let him go?

Li Yuqing tentatively asked, "Are you confident? They will definitely be reluctant to let go of such an outstanding son of yours. They have raised such a promising talent with great difficulty, how could they let you go so easily? The resources in Yunnan Province are far inferior to those in the capital."

"Your family is all here, and your brother and sister-in-law are both so capable. If you stay in Beijing, a bright future awaits you, Mingyu..."

Lu Mingyu turned to look at her. Li Yuqing looked into his eyes, lowered her head, and took his hand. "I'm scared. I'm scared that you'll still choose to abandon me in the end. I'm scared that you'll regret it in the end. I'm scared that... what if your career doesn't develop as well as it did in Beijing? You'll blame me for dragging you down!"

Lu Mingyu pulled her into a deserted alley, hugged her, and promised, "Don't worry, I won't leave you."

Li Yuqing nestled in his arms and sobbed softly, "Really? Promise me you'll never leave me, we'll be together forever, okay?"

Lu Mingyu looked down at her.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Li Yuqing tiptoed and kissed him. It wasn't a light kiss, but a passionate, bold, intense, and deep kiss. Before long, Lu Mingyu pulled her into his arms, and the two kissed passionately in the alley.

After the two left the shop, Miao Cuiying immediately returned to the living room and asked Qiao Wanqing and Lu Mingyue, "How did it go? Did she say anything?"

Qiao Wanqing shook her head. "She doesn't seem very willing to talk. Whenever I ask her something, she only replies with a sentence or two. Most of the time, it's Mingyu who starts the conversation. I thought girls would like to talk about clothes, shoes, cosmetics, and the like, but she still doesn't talk much. All I know is that she's twenty-three years old, and I haven't said anything else useful."

Lu Mingyue rolled her eyes. "No need to ask. She's just like that. I've seen her several times, and I never get any information out of her. As for her family situation, all I know is what my brother told me. I don't know anything else."

Miao Cuiying couldn't believe it. "What do you mean? You've been here for so long and haven't said a word?"

Qiao Wanqing shared her feelings, "Mom, I won't lie to you, I did gain some insights from the short chat, but I'm not sure if they're true."

Miao Cuiying immediately perked up, "Go on, tell me."

"She said she was twenty-three, which I found a bit odd. Looking at her, I felt she was older than twenty-three. You can tell a lot about a person's maturity. A woman nearing thirty will have a very different aura from a girl in her early twenties. For example, Mingyu clearly has a youthful vibe, but Li Yuqing doesn't seem like she's twenty-three."

"Her facial features and overall appearance actually make her look a bit young, especially since she's so pretty. She should look younger and better than people her age. I think if she said she was twenty-eight or twenty-nine, that would be more accurate."

"Huh?" Lu Mingyue was stunned. "No way, sister-in-law, twenty-eight or twenty-nine? This... I don't think so! She... she... her family isn't well-off, she must have had a hard time back in her hometown, so she should look a few years older than her peers, which is why she looks like she's twenty-eight or twenty-nine, but isn't twenty-three or twenty-four normal?"

Qiao Wanqing raised an eyebrow and asked her, "Do you think she looks like she's having a hard time back in her hometown?"

Lu Mingyue: "...But she's been in the capital for four years! She even dated my brother this past year, and he spent a lot of money on her, and she's managed to support him back to where she started..."

Lu Mingyue was also stunned. Yes, if she had recovered, she wouldn't look like she used to be, but rather like she was at a normal age.

Qiao Wanqing continued, "There's another point. Logically speaking, since she's going back to her hometown to take care of her parents and family, Mingyu should be reluctant to let her go and should accompany her. Judging from Mingyu's attitude, we all probably thought that if Mingyu didn't go, the two of them would break up. She's determined to go back to her hometown, right?"

Lu Mingyue nodded, "Yes!"

Qiao Wanqing shook her head. "But I feel that when she found out that our family agreed to let Mingyu go back with her, she didn't seem happy."

Lu Mingyue: "..."

After carefully recalling the situation, Lu Mingyue felt her brain was completely blank. "Oh right! When my sister-in-law said that the family wasn't really against it, she was very shocked. She didn't seem happy at all. Normally, she would be shocked first, and then she should be excited and delighted, right?"

Miao Cuiying's face darkened. "If that's the case, then this girl probably has some problems."

Qiao Wanqing shrugged. "That's just my feeling, it might not be true. Mom, if you're worried, you can find a chance to ask around. Anyway, they still have a semester after summer vacation! You'll be staying in Beijing, you'll definitely be able to find out."

"Besides, as long as she's still dating Mingyu, they'll inevitably meet again in the future. You've met countless people in your life, do you think you can be fooled by a little girl like her? Now that it's summer vacation, you can frequently find reasons to have Mingyu bring her back so they can spend more time together, and you'll naturally see through it."

Miao Cuiying was on high alert, already thinking about how to expose Li Yuqing's deception.

She had raised such an outstanding son with great difficulty; he graduated from a prestigious university and was destined to become a government official. She couldn't let him be ruined by those with wicked intentions.