Chapter 2 - Make her marry off

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

Ye Fanxing said, “You guys are letting Ye Zichen go to school while marrying me off to someone else?”

Because she was running just a while ago, Ye Fanxing was panting. However, she felt even more weary because of her mother.

Mother Ye walked over and replied, “Yes, since you’ve heard it, mom won’t hide it from you as well. The situation at home is already like this, so only Zichen will be able to go to school. Zichen is a boy and after he grows up, he’ll marry a wife…… it’s more difficult to get oneself a wife these days, isn’t it? What can he do if he’s only graduated from senior high school? Compared to him, you’re different. You’re a girl and girls just have to get married, and everything will be good. That family has seen your photo before and were quite pleased with you. Let’s say you used the money to go to college for a few years. When you’ve graduated, you won’t be able to find a decent job right off the bat. Meanwhile, the family of the man you are going to marry, has two apartments in Jiangzhou City! Do you know how high the price of houses are now? Our family can’t afford it even if we struggle for a lifetime.”

“But I’m only eighteen years old!” Ye Fanxing didn’t know if she should laugh or cry hearing her mother’s hypocritical words.

Two apartments…… Her life…… Could it be that in her mother’s eyes, she could only be considered as a commodity?

Mother Ye glared at her. “What eighteen years old? You’ll be twenty years old in ten months. Xingxing, there’s nothing wrong with getting married early. When you become forty years old, other people would still be suffering hardships but you would be there, living a comfortable life…… Mom is also doing this for your own good, don’t you think so?”

“I want to go to school!” Ye Fanxing knew that the conditions in her family were poor but she also believed that the only way to change her future was to go to school.

She was not like her younger brother, she had no other dream. Her only dream was to be able to go to school. That was her only way to be successful.

Mother Ye saw that she didn’t want to do what she was told and got angry: “I told you so much but you are still unable to understand, is that it? I’m telling you, even if you want to go to school, there’s no way! You look at Xiao Qin from the family next door, he just finished junior high school and went to work immediately, and now he sends thousands of money back home! What about you? Take a look at yourself, what else can you do apart from studying to death?”

“What about Zichen?” Ye Fanxing looked towards her disappointing brother, “He doesn’t want to go to school yet you’re forcing him to go?”

“Are you sick? Your younger brother is still so young! He was only sixteen years old on his ID! What can he do out there? Even if he went out to work, would anyone want to take him in?”

“But he’s only a year younger than me.” Ye Fanxing looked at her mother, “You’re my own mother, but… don’t you think that you’re too partial?”

“What’s wrong with me being partial? Sooner or later, you’ll be married off to someone’s family. It will only be a waste of money to spend on you. When you marry someone, I reckon that you won’t even remember a mother like me anymore.”

……

Ye Fanxing stood in front of Zhao Jiaqi’s villa and thought of the quarrel she had with her mother two days ago. She couldn’t hold back her tears from falling.

She reached out and wiped her tears away. She calmed her emotions and knocked on the door. It didn’t take a while before Zhao Jiaqi came out. Seeing her, she intimately said, “Xingxing, you’re here! Come in and sit down!”

She and Zhao Jiaqi were classmates and good friends.

When they previously went to school, she’d sometimes come over to Zhao Jiaqi’s place. Therefore, she was also very familiar with the Zhao family.

Zhao Jiaqi led her inside and asked her, “Why did you come here all of a sudden? What happened?”

Zhao Jiaqi knew that Ye Fanxing’s home was in Nanchuan, a small place around Jiangzhou City. It would normally take a three-hour drive from there to here.

Ye Fanxing said, “I have something that I want to ask for your help with.”

[End of this chapter]

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