Teacher Chen asked me if I was willing to accept her adoption request, and I nodded.

Teacher Chen is a good person. I was touched that she was willing to help me. Not everyone has the courage to help others. At that time, I took a gamble that she would lend a hand, and I was lucky enough to be right.

So, I am very grateful to her.

She is knowledgeable, and I am looking forward to living with her.

She has never been married in her life and has devoted all her passion to education. I heard that when Teacher Chen was young, her family forced her into a marriage. Her mother even stood on a high building, forcing her to go on blind dates and resign from her job to become an ordinary rural woman, living a life of raising children and doing nothing else.

In the face of the firefighters' persuasion, her mother directly said, "A girl like her only knows how to fool around outside all day long!"

"If it were me, I would rather crash into a wall than remain unmarried and childless!"

"What job should a woman find? Getting married and having children is the right thing to do! I shouldn't have let her go to school back then. Education has ruined her mind!"

Frightened, Teacher Chen quit her job in the town and went far away.

She is also a tragedy of the times, but she refused to admit defeat. With her tenacity, she has achieved the honor she has today.

I admire her, and I am willing to support her in her old age when I grow up.

The procedures went smoothly. I looked at Teacher Chen, who was standing in front of the entrance of the Civil Affairs Department, staring blankly at the adoption certificate, and asked her, "Teacher, should I call you Mom or Teacher in the future?"

Teacher Chen was stunned for a moment and then breathed a sigh of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted from her shoulders. "Call me whatever you want," she said.

"This is my first time raising a child. If I do something wrong, don't keep it to yourself. Tell me, and we'll progress and grow together, okay?"

I nodded and happily called her "Teacher Mom."

Tears welled up in Teacher Chen's eyes, and she sighed with emotion, "In my life, for the cause of education, I have been abandoned by everyone. I escaped from my suffocating home, and in my old age, I had to come back to continue working in education."

"I don't know if this is right or wrong, but adopting you, I don't think I will regret it."

"Chen Xinbao, Teacher only hopes that you will achieve something in the future. You are a child with dreams, talents, and the willingness to take action. Your biological family would have suppressed you, but you didn't give up. You must not disappoint me and everyone's hopes."

I nodded.

That's what I also want.

During this time, the Chen family occasionally harassed me and Teacher Chen, but now it's the era of mass media, and everyone has a mobile phone. Information is public. If I threaten them, they won't dare to be too presumptuous.

They can only behave themselves.