"Why don't you get it? Your future step-brother is going to study finances!" Yang Changer yelled and looked at the grade card once more.
"I'm sorry, mom. It's because I was sick…" Binghuo apologized. Changer came closer to him and hugged him, now calm.
"I know, but you need to be better than everyone else. You need to be the best. So I won't have to worry about your future." She caressed his head. It made Binghuo shiver because he wasn't a fan of skin contact, but he let his mother do it.
"I will be better in the future. I promise," he said and meant it. He would do everything just to make his mother happy.
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"We are meeting Yechao with his son today. Be ready. Mind your manners and don't be provoked by Yixing. Yechao said he has no manners and that they get along together." His mother instructed him from another room.