Chapter 1 - Parents who value boys and belittle girls

Translated by Huntress. Edited by Jay-Jay. Proofread by KinGiGe

Summer in Jiangzhou City was very hot. The people in the city felt as though they were in a furnace.

Ye Fanxing’s brows were beaded with sweat and she had just reached the door of the house when she heard the protesting voice of her brother, Ye Zichen. “I don’t want to go to school!”

Mother Ye’s voice was incomparably serious: “You must go to school! You’re the only son in our family. If you don’t go to school, who will your dad and I rely on in the future when we become old?”

“Aren’t my sister’s grades very good? You should just let her go.” Ye Zichen’s goal was to become an excellent e-sports player. Since a year ago, he was already very adamant on not continuing his studies.

He originally thought that after he had graduated from senior high school, he could give up his studies and do whatever he wanted. However, he didn’t expect that his parents would be strongly opposed to it when he just mentioned it.

“Your sister, she’s a girl. Even if she reads more books, she’ll still have to marry into other people’s homes in the future.”

“And so? Do you have to force me to do something I don’t want to do?” Ye Zichen made it clear and gave Mother Ye a glance, “With both yours and dad’s salary, can you afford to make the two of us go to college?”

Neither of their parents had a stable job. Their mother was currently working in a hot pot restaurant while their father worked at a construction site. Half of the year, he would be idle and have nothing to do.

About 20,000 yuan were saved up by their family but it was only enough to fund one of the siblings’ college tuition.

Ye Zichen saw this opportunity and was determined that his parents would agree to let him leave school.

Mother Ye said, “Your dad and I are doing this for your own good. What future can you have by playing games all day? Even if this technical college is not a key university, as long as you go in and learn well, you can learn some skills and find a stable job in the future. It’s not difficult.”

“What about my older sister?”

Ye Zichen looked at his mother, “If I go to school, my sister won’t go?”

“Your sister? She will be twenty years old soon. Your dad and I agreed to have her married off (to a man). That family is quite well-off and they own two apartments!”

Ye Zichen asked, “You want to marry her off? Is my sister aware of this?”

“I haven’t told her yet. But she will agree!”

Ye Fanxing stood outside the door and couldn’t believe what she had heard.

Her mother wanted to marry her off?

Please! When was she 20 years old?

She was obviously just about one year older than Ye Zichen.

She was only nineteen when they celebrated the Lunar New Year. Formerly, there were family planning regulations. Only after their daughter was four years old, could they have a second child. In order not to pay a fine, their parents specially reported her age to be two years older in order to widen the gap with Ye Zichen.

How could she have imagined that her parents wanted to marry her off because of this?

Two apartments?

It seemed that in the eyes of her parents, her future was not as important as those two apartments, wasn’t it?

In their eyes, making Ye Zichen go to school was the proper thing to do.

Was it for her own good to make her marry someone else?

Hehe……

Ye Zichen’s exam results this time were barely qualified to make him enter a technical college.

And she…… had gotten a good rank in the entire school.

Ye Fanxing never imagined that her parents would be this biased.

She opened the door and walked in.

When Mother Ye saw her, she froze for a moment before a smile appeared on her face. “Xingxing, you’re back! How was work?”

“I still have to go back in the afternoon.” Facing her mother’s smile, Ye Fanxing didn’t show a smile at all. She asked her mother, “Mom, what you just said, is it true?”

Mother Ye asked, “Did you hear all of that?”

She didn’t even have a guilty expression on her face

After all, she thought that she had made a good decision for her(YFX).

[End of this chapter]