"You don't mean what you say."
She obviously cared very much about her mother but pretended to be cold and detached from her. It was adorable.
Yu Minglang spoke softly to himself and his expressionless brows curved ever so slightly.
"Master Lang, what did you say?" Yu Minglang's secretary, Qiao Zhen, was confused.
Yu Minglang finally took his eyes off the Zhou Zhiruo look-alike, sussed out the environment professionally, then gave a decisive command.
"The planning department was a mess at the 3 o'clock direction. We shall discuss further in the meeting tomorrow!"
"Yes!" Qiao Zhen obeyed this little boss completely. In fact, the people of the entire company were his fans.
This little boss was educated and sporty. He never missed in a decathlon.
Before he returned his focus on his work, the last thing that Yu Minglang saw the Zhou Zhiruo look-alike did was finish washing her hands.
Reverting to his stern demeanor, Yu Minglang was once again the coolest little boss in the entire unit.
Chen Xiaoqian walked home with her mother and she was holding the things they got from the ten-buck vendor.
Jia Xiufang nagged as they walked, just like any woman in their menopausal phase. They would spend the whole day nagging about one issue.
"Being unable to get into the university is all there is to it, right? You can always work or help in the family shop or do something else, anything. Anything is better than getting married at this age and buying a basin that is three for ten bucks. You'll be bullied by your mother-in-law…"
Chen Xiaoqian's mother could talk her ear off if she let her.
This was the way menopausal Chinese mothers showed their love, and it was tiring!
"I didn't get into the university?" Chen Xiaoqian's eyes sparkled and stared into her mother's eyes as though she was trying to look for some clues from her reaction.
She had her college entrance exam this year. She did not receive any admission notice and was informed by her school teacher that she did not get in. That was why she depressingly agreed to the marriage arranged by her father.
Chen Xiaoqian had great results in schools, and the shock of not being admitted into university hit her hard.
However, she did not expect to learn that Ni Jianren was a homosexual man. No! He did not deserve to be called a 'man'!
He was a born homosexual and he only married to shut his family up. Chen Xiaoqian became his scapegoat!
After they got married, they never shared a room and he would beat her. Chen Xiaoqian wanted a divorce but her father stopped her.
The b*stard was rich and her idiotic younger brother kept getting into trouble. Her father did not let her divorce the b*stard because he gave them money to get her younger brother out of trouble. Before she knew about these, Chen Xiaoqian still thought that she could depend on her parents to stand up for her.
Somehow she found out that she obtained great results in the college entrance exam. However, her father bribed her teacher to hide the admission notice. He did not want to pay for her tuition, which shattered all her hopes.
The reason for hiding the admission notice was absolutely ridiculous. The reason was the daughter's tuition was too expensive and he wanted to save some money for the son!
After Chen Xiaoqian found out the truth, she was in such despair that she went to a river and was ready to take her own life. A kind-hearted person saved her and gave her some money after he learned about her situation. She used the money to sue Ni Jianren for a divorce. She then retook the college entrance exam and got into university. The kind-hearted person transferred money to her a couple of times.
Then Chen Xiaoqian worked and studied at the same time until she received her doctorate degree. She tried to look for the kind-hearted person but to no avail.
This time when she was given a second chance to live, she wanted to see if her mother knew about her father hiding the admission notice.
Jia Xiufang's expression became serious as she heard Chen Xiaoqian ask her the question.
"Qian'er, I know you don't want to hear this. But it's ok that you didn't get admitted to universities. It's been more than ten days since you found out that you didn't get in and you have not spoken a word. I was afraid that you would become crazy. I didn't go to university but I turned out alright."
Chen Xiaoqian continued to observe her response as she said, "If I'm able to get in, will you support me?"
"Of course! If you were admitted I would sell my pots and pans to support you. Back then when you said you wanted to go to senior high school, I had to fight with your dad to let you go to senior high school. He was ready to let you go to a vocational secondary school and work as soon as you can. I know you've been smart ever since you were young and I'll be proud if you could get into the university, but who would have known that you…"
She was about to say that the daughter bungled things up at the critical moment. However, she was afraid that it would hurt her feelings as she was a sensitive girl so she stopped talking.
The response she gave seemed genuine. Chen Xiaoqian started to doubt that her mother participated in the hiding of admission notice act.
In her previous life, she made sure that they paid for what they did. She hated them half her life for what they did.
Just before her mother passed away, she held Chen Xiaoqian's hand and cried. She said that she really did not know anything about the hidden admission notice. Chen Xiaoqian did not believe her then.
However, witnessing Jia Xiufang's response prompted her to reconsider her doubts.
Since she was given a second chance, she must find out where the admission notice was hidden and try to get the money to enroll in the university.
As for her mother... Chen Xiaoqian glanced at her as she continued to nag and mumble.
"I hope you don't disappoint me."
In her previous life, the b*stard Ni Jianren kidnapped her daughter and caused her to kill herself. Chen Xiaoqian took three years to plan and destroy the b*stard from many levels.
Not only was he sent to jail, but he was also being raped every day. He was then diagnosed with depression. She became his therapist. She used psychological cues to push the b*stard to take his own life.
This was what she—the lady boss—was good at. She hated the fact that she lowered her standards and acted in violence for her mother just now. That was the form of violence that she despised the most.
"What are you mumbling about? Wait for a moment, there's a vendor selling melons over there. I'll buy two, your brother loves melon," Jia Xiufang said as she walked toward the melon vendor.
Chen Xiaoqian's facial expression turned cold and detached again.
'Brother likes this… Brother likes that…' What about her? She liked melon too. Why had nobody thought of her? She had her preferences too.
In the eyes of her parents, no matter how hard she worked, she was never comparable to her brother. Even her chance to enter university was taken away from her to give to her brother.
She should not have any expectations from parents like this. She should be cold and detached from them.
"The melons here are expensive, let's go there." Chen Xiaoqian pulled Jia Xiufang away.
In her past life, her mother bought a melon in exactly the same way, and what followed was a series of events that left her utterly disappointed. Therefore, she wanted to try to change the future as of right then.
Unbeknownst to Chen Xiaoqian, the mere act of pulling her mother away from that vendor changed the course of her future in the greatest way possible!