Vivian glared at her brother Harvey, extremely angry. "Of course it's not good, it's super not good! Harvey, I'm telling you, if you ever ignore Ya Ya sister for that bad woman again in this life, I won't recognize you as my brother anymore!"
"I don't want a brother like you, hmph!" Vivian huffed indignantly.
Harvey looked at his sister. After a long moment, he earnestly promised, "Okay, I will never fall in love with that bad woman in this life!"
Vivian was finally happy. "That's acceptable then."
After Vivian spoke, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up in happiness.
Brother Harvey promised, did that mean she wouldn't be harmed to death by that bad woman in this life?
After Lu Wanqing and Lu Yang finished wrapping the wontons, Cui Cui also woke up. Their whole family sat in the dining room to eat.
"Mom, did you and Daddy Emperor personally make the wontons?" Cui Cui, after just one bite, recognized them and asked in surprise and delight.
Lu Wanqing nodded. "Yes, how did you know, Cui Cui?"
Cui Cui beamed. "I know."
Wontons made by Mom and Daddy Emperor were different from those made by the domestic robot. Mom's were the most delicious, and Daddy Emperor's were also delicious, though slightly less so than Mom's. The domestic robot's were alright, also a little tasty, but still not comparable to those made by Mom and Daddy Emperor themselves.
"If you like them, eat more," Lu Wanqing said with a smile, seeing how much Cui Cui enjoyed them.
"Okay," Cui Cui agreed.
Harvey looked at his sister Cui Cui strangely, then at his Mom and Daddy Emperor, and finally at the wontons in his bowl.
Harvey couldn't help but take a bite and felt... no different from the ones the domestic robot usually made?
Harvey frowned. He couldn't help but take another bite, but still found no difference.
Lu Wanqing saw Harvey eating slowly with a doubtful expression and knew what he was thinking. She was a little speechless and quickly urged, "Harvey, don't overthink things. Concentrate on eating. You have school after this."
School?
Hearing the word "school," Harvey instinctively felt resistant. He didn't want to go. But as the words of defiance reached his throat, he suddenly remembered what his sister Vivian had said last night and quickly suppressed them.
"I will study well," Harvey said earnestly the next moment.
Lu Wanqing: "???"
Lu Yang: "???"
Even Cui Cui and Vivian looked at Harvey in surprise. "I will study well" was something Harvey would say?
Didn't Harvey ponder skipping school every day?
Especially Cui Cui. She was the same age as Harvey, so they were in the same grade. Due to being siblings, the school had even assigned them to the same class.
As classmates, Cui Cui understood Harvey's resistance to learning even better. He disliked homework, liked to sleep in class, and was sometimes particularly mischievous – climbing over walls, climbing trees, and frequently getting into fights with male classmates. He was always fierce, capable of taking down a group of people by himself. He did everything, and many people called him a school bully.
Harvey simply said this one sentence and offered no further explanation. He sped up his eating, finishing two large bowls of wontons in no time, filling his stomach to his heart's content.
Everyone was even more bewildered.
Cui Cui unconsciously picked up her pace, finishing breakfast earlier than usual.
Both children were done eating, and it was time to send them to school.
Lu Wanqing took them out and they all got into the hovercar to go to school.
Along the way, Lu Wanqing kept secretly observing Harvey.
Harvey endured it for a long time, but finally couldn't help it. He suddenly looked up and glared at his mother.
Lu Wanqing was caught red-handed and froze.
"Mom, why have you been secretly looking at me?" Harvey demanded.
Lu Wanqing was embarrassed. "Uh... it's just..."
Lu Wanqing stammered for a long time without an explanation, but they had already arrived at the Imperial Middle School.
Harvey and Cui Cui were now eleven years old and were in their first year of middle school.
"Well, we're here at school. You two go ahead and attend your classes," Lu Wanqing quickly changed the subject.
"Hmph," Harvey snorted coldly, then picked up his schoolbag and got out of the hovercar.
Lu Wanqing watched Harvey's retreating back and suddenly felt that Harvey was still the same, showing no change.
Perhaps saying he would study well was just something he said casually.
Lu Wanqing then looked at Cui Cui.
Cui Cui had already gotten out of the hovercar. She looked at her mother with a hint of reluctance. "Goodbye, Mom."
"Goodbye, Cui Cui. Study hard at school. Mom will pick you up after school," Lu Wanqing said with a smile to Cui Cui.
"Mhm!" Cui Cui nodded vigorously, happy.
"Go on now," Lu Wanqing said.
Lu Wanqing watched Cui Cui and Harvey enter the school together. Only when their figures disappeared did she sigh with relief.
Vivian was also in the hovercar. Looking at the entrance of the Imperial Middle School, she inexplicably felt a sense of envy. In her previous life, she was also about to start middle school, just a little bit away...
Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, she had been reborn as a small child. She was only a little over a year old now and would have to go through kindergarten and primary school all over again. Thinking about it made her feel miserable.
She couldn't dwell on it. The more she thought about it, the worse she felt. Vivian couldn't help but reach out and tug on her mother's pant leg.
Lu Wanqing turned her head and looked down at Vivian, who was sitting beside her, asking in a soft voice, "What's wrong?"
Vivian pouted and said, "Mom, in my last life, I was already in fifth grade and was about to go to sixth grade. I... I don't want to go back to kindergarten and primary school. Can I skip grades? I want to go straight to junior high!"
Lu Wanqing: "..."
Vivian, who was just over a year old, wanted to go to junior high...
She couldn't help but imagine it: Vivian, so tiny, sitting among a group of teenagers in a junior high classroom...
No, Vivian was so small, would her head even peek over the desk in a middle school classroom? Would she be too small?
However...
If Vivian was truly reborn, she would have already learned all the knowledge from kindergarten and primary school. Having to go through it all again might be rather difficult for Vivian.
"Mom will discuss it with Dad when we get back before we decide, okay?" Lu Wanqing said, thinking.
Vivian quickly nodded. "Mhm!"
"By the way, Vivian, what grade were you in last life? How old were you?" Lu Wanqing asked earnestly, her mind working.
"I was in fifth grade, and in a few months I would have advanced to junior high. I was a little over ten, almost eleven," Vivian said.
In the interstellar era, primary school had reverted to a five-year system. Children only needed five years of primary school before they could attend junior high. Harvey and Cui Cui had only completed five years of primary school before directly advancing to the junior high department and becoming middle school students. Vivian, being in fifth grade in her previous life, was... also almost ready for junior high?
"Then... you can recognize characters, right? And you can do math?" Lu Wanqing asked again, thinking.
Vivian nodded. "Mhm."
Lu Wanqing took a deep breath and said, "Vivian, later Mom will find some fifth-grade practice tests. We'll do them together, a little quiz, okay?"
"If Vivian can do all the questions, Mom and Dad will decide whether to let Vivian skip grades, okay?" Lu Wanqing said.