After rebirth, she first killed the book thief, and she was busy writing articles to save people

Shu Xiu seemed to have thought about this question and was deeply troubled by it. She did not answer Jiang Baige's question immediately, but sighed.

"Hard to say."

In the end, she only gave these three words.

It is already very difficult for a person to balance the two ends of a scale, and it is even more difficult for a person to choose the right path when standing at a fork in the road.

Aunt An has a scale on her head that must be kept balanced. She stands at a three-way intersection and must choose the path that will hurt the least people.

Two sons born involuntarily, a family that was not born involuntarily...

Obviously everything was related to her original intention, but she couldn't cut it off easily.

"Auntie An said that the moment she saw her daughter, she still regretted it. If she had been more careful that day 25 years ago and had not been abducted, the trajectory of her life would not have changed so drastically and irreversibly."

The moment Shu Xiu said this, Jiang Baige completely understood the anger in her tone.

Damn the human traffickers.

But what else can they do except trying to protect themselves before things happen and trying to forgive themselves after things happen?

When I was a child, I racked my brains to find the right answer when I was studying.

Only when I grew up did I realize that there are too many things for which no matter how hard I try, I can’t get the correct answers, or in fact, there are no answers at all.

Jiang Baige weakly hung up the phone which had become busy, not noticing that Bai Yunqing heard everything outside the door not far away.

Nor would they know that when she gave birth to her, her mother, besides being happy, was also secretly worried about her daughter's future because of the extremely unsafe and unfair world for the girl. But as a mother, she could do nothing but try her best to protect her daughter.

Bai Yunqing remembers that when Jiang Baige was in elementary school, she walked home from school alone one time because she got out of school early and the bus had not arrived yet.

That road is actually not very far.

But when Bai Yunqing looked at her daughter who returned home early and heard her say that she walked back, she was so nervous that she almost cried: her innocent and young daughter would never understand that in the eyes of a mother, those short ten or twenty minutes were such a long journey of fighting danger.

Although her daughter has fortunately grown up to her twenties and has become an adult, in her mother's heart, she will always be a child who should be protected by her.

After hearing Jiang Baige's phone call, she learned that Jiang Baige had had such close contact with human traffickers. She also heard the seven-year-old Jiang Baige's heartbeat almost jumping out of her chest when she walked home alone.

She tried to calm herself down, but couldn't help but walk in quickly from outside and hold her daughter in her arms.

Jiang Baige was startled by the sudden attack and almost screamed.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing, I'm just scared." Bai Yunqing forced out a smile that was definitely not a relieved one, "Promise mom that you won't put yourself in danger again, okay?"

Jiang Baige nodded without hesitation and agreed: "Okay."

During this time, she reviewed the whole thing and did feel that it was very risky, although it was the best solution she could think of - but if they were not lucky enough, perhaps they might not be able to come back here.

At that time, I thought that the worst that could happen was death.

But when she really saw Aunt An, who might be a survivor in the eyes of others, still so painful and regretful after "surviving", and wishing to go back to the day when the incident had not happened, that feeling of fear awakened her again.

In the future, she didn’t know if she would be so brave again…

"By the way, that phone call you just made, was it from Aunt An, whom you helped earlier, that found her daughter?"

Jiang Baige nodded and briefly repeated what Shu Xiu had said, which Bai Yunqing had not heard just now.

"Have you ever thought about writing this story?"

"What?" Jiang Baige misunderstood her mother's meaning. "Oh, you mean the report? Siwen will write it. On Women's Day, she will write a feature article about a female police officer... Sister Ji also said that if it's well written, she might be given an exclusive interview on this case."

Unexpectedly, Bai Yunqing shook her head: "No, I mean your novel... With such good material and such a tortuous experience, don't you really want to write it?"

Jiang Baige looked at her mother with some surprise. Although her mother had always known that she was writing, she still felt that it was not a "serious job". She did not expect that she would take the initiative to ask her if she wanted to write a novel.

Seeing that she didn't answer immediately, Bai Yunqing continued: "Didn't you write that novel for Bai Yang before? I thought it was very well written, so..."

It seems that the "market" for that revenge novel is pretty good?

Not only did he help Bai Yang, Jing Chai and Lin Xingran also liked it when they saw it, and now even his mother...

Jiang Baige was a little tempted: "I'll think about it."

At this point, Bai Yunqing simply asked the idea she had been thinking about for a while: "Bai Ge, tell mom, do you want to write novels as a career in the future?"

Her eyes were very serious, and it seemed that she had been thinking about it seriously for a long time. Jiang Baige also decided to reveal some of her true thoughts.

"I really like writing novels, Mom. But... before I'm sure it can support me, I won't easily say that I must do this."

This answer really satisfied Bai Yunqing: "You are only in your first year of graduate school, so you can take your time to think about it. But don't put too much pressure on yourself. It's different now than before. We had separate jobs and welfare housing back then. You are under a lot of pressure in life now. Anyway, your father and I only have you as our daughter. If you need help when you just graduate, we can completely understand."

Jiang Baige was a little surprised by her mother's answer, but more delighted.

Because in her previous life she had never heard her mother say such words, or they had never communicated about this matter.

She assumed that her parents wanted her to find a job, get married and have children, so she rarely talked to them about her dreams. Perhaps because of this, her parents didn't know she had other ideas.

So when he suddenly learned that she had quit her stable job to write online articles, he could not accept this at all and their relationship reached freezing point.

At that time, she only wanted to produce some results to prove herself as soon as possible. She always felt that all problems would be solved as long as she did that. Therefore, she did not repair the relationship in time... and ultimately she never reconciled with her parents until her death.

What exactly did I do “right” in this life?

Was it because of the previous white-hearted deception? Or was it because they had more communication? Jiang Baige didn't know, but she was very happy that things were developing in this direction.

Unfortunately, this good mood did not last long.

Later that day, when she shared with Lin Xingran the results of their efforts to help Aunt An find her daughter, she received some not-so-good news from Lin Xingran: the topic of Jiang Baige's revenge article that she had submitted at the first topic selection meeting after the New Year might not be approved.