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Chapter 012 Lying Awake Alone 2

Chapter 012 Lying Awake Alone 2

Apr 27, 2025

When my eldest sister heard about a fainted boy, she also came to have a look. She found that I looked almost identical to her younger brother who had died in the car accident. Her heart stirred. She took me to see my father, and it was as if her younger brother had been reborn. My father's family had been passing on the family line with only one son for several generations. He doted on his younger son in every possible way on weekdays. The death of his younger son was a blow to him no less than another car accident. When he saw me, it was as if he had seen his younger son again. His body, which had been gradually losing its vitality, also perked up. Later, my eldest sister went through the adoption procedures for me. Since I was of a similar age to my younger brother and looked the same, everything like my name and birthday were borrowed from my younger brother's birth information. My father wanted me to inherit the bloodline of the Su family. Before he passed away, he held my eldest sister's hand and asked her to take good care of me as if I were her real younger brother. In fact, others had all persuaded my eldest sister and my father that they couldn't even take care of themselves, so how could they have the ability to adopt a child of unknown origin? But my eldest sister still took me in.

Since the car accident, there hadn't been much source of income at home. The family had been relying on the pensions from my parents' work units and the compensation for the car accident to make a living. On weekdays, besides taking care of my father in the hospital, my eldest sister also had to look after me and my second sister. She even had to take part-time jobs during holidays. My second sister and I were brought up single-handedly by my eldest sister. We had always led a hard life. I swore that when I grew up, I must earn a lot of money and repay my eldest sister well. In my heart, my eldest sister could completely take the place of my mother whose identity was unknown to me.

Although my eldest sister reluctantly gave up the opportunity to attend a key high school and entered a secondary vocational health school instead, she still didn't give up her aspiration for progress. With her academic performance, the courses in the health school were of course a piece of cake for her, and she got excellent grades in every subject. From the second year on, my eldest sister started to participate in the self-taught higher education examinations. She registered for four courses each time, which meant eight courses a year. My eldest sister was well-known for her intelligence. The secondary vocational school she attended had some basic courses that were not even as good as those in ordinary senior high schools. But she skipped several grades and directly studied the university courses. She chose the relatively simple major of accounting, which belonged to the liberal arts major and had not much connection with some science courses in senior high school. Therefore, she took the exams relatively smoothly. Only Advanced Mathematics gave her a headache, and she passed it on the third try. She attended classes at the health school during the day, went to the hospital to accompany my father at night and on Sundays, and also had to look after us at home. She could only study by herself when she had some free time. It was really tough, and she was always skinny. After starting to work, my father passed away, and my second sister and I were a bit older, so she had more time for study. Later, she successively obtained four diplomas, including a bachelor's degree in accounting, a junior college degree in nursing, a junior college degree in pharmacy, and a bachelor's degree in pharmacy. Moreover, she also passed the examinations and obtained two certificates, namely the Certified Public Accountant certificate and the Licensed Pharmacist certificate.

In our family, only my eldest sister had a job, so our daily life was naturally very hard. However, my second sister and I were also quite promising. We never picked and chose. When my second sister had free time, she also worked part-time in a shopping mall. Just like my eldest sister, she also started to participate in the self-taught higher education examinations when she was in senior high school. My second sister had excellent English skills, so she applied for the English major. Now she has passed all the courses. Since the results came out in early June, it will be December by the time she finishes the graduation application and gets the graduation certificate.

Of course, I didn't want to fall behind either. I also started to study from senior high school, determined to show those who had looked down on me since I was a child what I was capable of.

When I was picked up by my eldest sister, I knew nothing about my past. However, I could still understand what others said. Besides the local dialect, I could also speak Mandarin, but I just didn't know my own name and my family's address. Since my origin was unknown, I took on the identity of "Su Ran" who had died in a car accident more than half a year ago. When going through the adoption procedures, my eldest sister spent a lot of effort and asked many people for help to "bring back to life" Su Ran whose household registration had been cancelled.

So I became Su Ran, and I was 6 years old.

Perhaps due to the loss of memory, my academic performance in primary school was always extremely poor. I would forget what I learned in class as soon as the class was over, and I failed most of the exams. The teachers were really frustrated with me. They even asked me to take an IQ test, intending to classify me as a "mentally handicapped child" so that my grades wouldn't be included in the school's overall performance and wouldn't affect the school's ranking. But after the test, it turned out that my IQ was actually a bit higher than that of most students in the class, leaving them angry and helpless.

In junior high school, my academic performance was also a mess. I liked to play small tricks during class. For this reason, Liu Ruyan often punished me by making me stand, keeping me after school, asking me to write self-criticisms, and doing the daily duty. However, since the summer vacation of the first year of junior high school, after I had a relationship with my sister, I seemed to suddenly become enlightened. My memory improved greatly, and my academic performance began to pick up. In the first year of junior high school, I was still among the bottom few students in the class. After finishing the second year of junior high school, I had reached the middle level. That's why I was able to stay in Class 3, Grade 9 when the classes were divided in the third year of junior high school. During the summer vacation of the second year of junior high school, I had an intimate contact with Liu Ruyan again. With her guidance and my eldest sister's help in tutoring me at ordinary times, my grades suddenly jumped to the top ten. This semester, I have always maintained a ranking within the top six.

Now I'm going to senior high school, and like my two sisters, I also plan to study for a university degree in advance. My science subjects' grades are not very good, mainly because my previous foundation was too weak, and it's still difficult for me to catch up in a short time. It's better for me to study liberal arts. Although Liu Ruyan teaches English and with her help, my English grades have improved a lot, I don't really like memorizing words. It's better for me to follow my eldest sister's example and study accounting for junior college. I have registered for two courses first, and the exam will be in October this year. I just got the books not long ago, and they are still brand new. The two public courses I registered for are "Principles of Marxist Philosophy" and "Fundamentals of Law and Cultivation of Ideology and Morality". No matter which major I end up studying, these two courses will be useful.

The former is a bit profound, but I can still understand it. I also had some exposure to the latter in junior high school. There shouldn't be too much of a problem passing both courses at once.

I know that if I want to live a good life, I have to study hard now so that I can find a good job in the future. Although I have the natural conditions to be a gigolo, after all, it can't be regarded as a lifelong career.

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