The college that Xua Yenay choose for Xua Ying Yue was a small community college. It was not as good as the colleges where Xua Ying Yue could have gone with her results but after the bullying incident in the S city's school, Xua Yenay developed a phobia for anything that was connected to the rich.
She would rather compromise with the quality of education that her sister was going to receive rather than send her to a college where the children of the rich studied along with the poor. What if another Lu Biya or Lu Cheng was hiding among those kids? Wouldn't her sister suffer again?
Xua Yenay was guilty of making her sister suffer with her but there was nothing she could do, it wasn't as if she would suddenly become rich in the middle of the night out of nowhere and will be able to send her sister to an elite college proudly, right?
" This college might look like it is not good but I assure you that the faculty here is the best in this city," Xua Yenay borrowed the milk van that Madam Tian uses to bring milk every day from the outskirts of a small village that was located a bit far from this city to bring Xua Ying Yue to the college.
At the moment the two of them were sitting inside the van while Xua Yenay tried to count all the good things about the community college that was in front of them to her sister such that Xua Ying Yue will not feel like she was losing out on anything.
" And the faculty in the business management department is excellent as well, you will have no complaints regarding them," she turned to look at the big cutout of a man that was sitting out at the entrance of the college on the occasion of new admissions and then said, " You see? He is the famous fashion designer, Mo Bing. He graduated from this college and became a big shot in the country, you do not need to worry about anything at all."
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Xua Ying Yue turned to look at the huge cut-out and then did not say anything. She wished she could tell her sister that it was no miracle that among the tens and thousands of students, one of the students of this college became 'someone famous'. If this college could not even produce a single successful personality after being open for years then it should just put a damn lock on the front gates.
But her sister was far too excited and Xua Ying Yue could see that her sister was doing this for her own good which was why she did not say anything in response and just nodded but under the starry gaze of her sister, Xua Ying Yue had to add, "It's a good college."
On the other side of the college, in an inconspicuous spot, a low-key car was parked. Inside it sat a woman in her late thirties as she looked at her son who was sitting on the seat beside her.
With black hair that softly cascaded down the forehead of the young man falling right above his peach blossoms eyes that were glittering with many stars, he looked rather handsome. His lips were curled in a subtle smile as he looked at his mother and said, " This is a good college, Mom. You do not have to worry about me.'
His slightly chubby cheeks were yet to lose the fat that he had accumulated in the past couple of years while staying with his mother who was used to coddling him, his sunshine disposition became even more prominent and those two dimples that appeared every time he smiled made everyone to smile back at him.
But the woman who was sitting behind the steering wheel did not smile back at her son, instead, she sighed heavily and said, " But why do you have to choose this college, Zeming? You could have gone to the prestigious college of the S city so why this one?"
Zuo Zeming smiled at his mother as he stretched out his hands and then held his mother's hands in his. Over time, his mother's hands have gotten slightly coarser and with the many scars on the back of her hands, it was easy to spot just how many attacks she had to survive till now, it was such a pity that his sister and father——
Zuo Zeming's eyes flickered as he put on a smile suppressing the dark thoughts that were lurking inside his head and looked at his mother as he said, " You know why I have to do this, Mom. With what happened to Elder Sister and her daughter, I don't think I can stay at home at the moment. Without the bubbly laughter of little tong tong, the silence seems to be eating me up. If I stay at home, I am afraid that I will go crazy… I do not want to lose myself which is why I will stay here with Grandpa and grandma, clear my head and come back refreshed."
At the mention of her dead granddaughter, Madam Zuo's eyes turned red, it has been three weeks since her daughter and granddaughter were shot dead by the relatives of the criminal against whom her daughter was fighting the case. Even though her daughter won the case, she lost her life —— if Madam Zuo had known this was going to happen, then she would have rather bet the entire reputation of the Zuo family as the renowned lawyers and doctors family online rather than lose her daughter.
" But how will you stay here, Zeming?" Madam Zuo understood her son's instincts of fleeing from reality because she wanted to flee as well but she still did not want to compromise the living conditions of her son which was why she turned to look at her son and then said, " There is nothing in this place, not even your favourite book store and that spicy crab restaurant, how will you stay here?"
Zuo Zeming laughed at his mother's words and then patted the back of her hands and said, " Don't worry Lawyer Zuo, I will survive somehow."
His response elicited a smack from his mother who snapped at him lightly, " You are teasing your mother now? You sure have gotten some guts."