Chapter 79 Goal
Lin Zhengran stared at the tender sprouts on the grass in a daze, his face did not move, his eyes slowly moved towards the other party: “Teacher Jiang’s words seem to contain a lot of information, right?”

Teacher Jiang grinned silly, with a faint fragrance on her body. She picked up a branch from the ground carefully:
“Shirley was different from me when she was born. Other children like to make noise and destroy the house, but Shirley has been very quiet since she was little. If you ask her to stay where she is, she will definitely not run around. If you tell her not to eat something, she will really not eat it. She doesn’t cause trouble and is very worry-free.”

She shook the branch in her hand:
“The difference between Shirley and Lin Zhengran is that Lin Zhengran knows everything, but Shirley is too ordinary. Her studies are ordinary and her talents are ordinary. Even I, her sister, am good at some things, but she is not good at anything.”

Teacher Jiang turned around and said with a smile: “Student Lin Zhengran, don’t look at me as a bad student. I actually have many skills. I can dance, sing, and draw. I once won the top ten in the city’s painting competition! I am considered a little genius.”

Lin Zhengran really didn’t know about this.

“Teacher Jiang is quite amazing.”

Teacher Jiang looked at her sister and said, “In comparison, the only thing my sister is good at is being mature and well-behaved. She is more sensible and knows more things than other children of the same age. In the eyes of adults, I don’t even know if this is an advantage.”

“It counts before I go to school, but it doesn’t count after I go to school. It can only be considered a personality trait.” Lin Zhengran replied.

“Right? I thought the same as you…” Teacher Jiang smiled helplessly: “So even though Shirley never told me, as her elder sister, I know that she has always wanted to find her own strengths. She was very motivated at the beginning, until that year when she just started kindergarten and my parents divorced.”

At this point, Mr. Jiang frowned, a rare sight. His expression was very unpleasant:

“When the court announced the verdict, my parents were fighting for me, but when it came to sentencing Sulli, they stopped talking all of a sudden. It was awkward for a few seconds. Even I felt the atmosphere was terrible at the time, as if… they all thought Sulli was a burden. How could this happen?”

Lin Zhengran didn’t answer, but he could probably guess something.

Teacher Jiang looked at her sister running on the playground:

“After that incident, she became very quiet, so I moved out with my sister. She didn’t cry much, but she always liked to be alone in her room and be in a daze. I was afraid that something might happen to her, so I asked my classmate for a big dog to play with her.”

She threw away the branch in her hand, raised her arms and described the size of the dog, her eyes sparkling: “I call that dog Brother Dao! It’s such a big yellow-haired dog! It’s this big!” Teacher Jiang spread her arms as wide as possible.

“It’s like a little pig, very obedient and lazy. My sister was scared at first but later she was happy to play with it! Sulli gradually became more cheerful, but she still doesn’t like going out and is very shy, so she has been staying at home and not going to kindergarten.”

Lin Zhengran picked up something that was not important and said, “Isn’t Shirley’s academic performance good?” “Yeah! My sister also likes to read comic books! She has a lot of them in her room! I bought them all for her. Although my salary is not high, I can still take care of my sister! After all, I am a sister!”

Teacher Jiang patted his chest proudly.

But then he sighed silently:
“Later, Brother Dao fell ill and died. On the day he died, Lin Zhengran didn’t know how sad Shirley was crying. Her eyes were filled with tears and I couldn’t comfort her. She looked even sadder than the day my parents divorced. Of course, it could also be that the emotions from the two events accumulated together.”

Teacher Jiang looked at Lin Zhengran: “Do you know what I thought of at that time?”

Lin Zhengran frowned.

Teacher Jiang covered his mouth and chuckled:

“I don’t know why I thought of you all of a sudden. I was just thinking that among the students I teach, there is also a kid who doesn’t fit in and doesn’t like making friends. If there is anyone who can be friends with my sister, and if I want to give her a goal in life, I think only Lin Zhengran is the most suitable.”

Teacher Jiang exposed Lin Zhengran’s little thoughts:
“Even though you don’t like girls, you’re a really nice person, you know that? Other boys would just ignore a girl after making her cry! They would even say bad things about her behind her back, but classmate Lin Zhengran is different. After you make a girl cry, you would immediately hand her a piece of toilet paper. Even though you didn’t comfort her, I knew it at the time.”

Teacher Jiang slowed down his speech and said word by word: “Student Lin Zhengran is a rare good man!”

She put her hands on the ground:

“If my sister could meet you, she would definitely have a goal in life! Because Lin Zhengran’s current appearance is what Shirley wants to become the most in her heart. I’m sure she will feel better after meeting you, and she will definitely think you are so handsome.”

Teacher Jiang was touched by the girl’s perseverance on the playground:

“She will keep moving forward with you as her goal until she finds what she is good at and finds her own strengths.”

(End of this chapter)