Aunt Xu's heart softened. Mothers always favor their younger children, and Li Shanxing's coquettishness made her waver. But after thinking for a long time, Aunt Xu still refused. "Xing'er, this isn't our own home. You can do whatever you want when we go home. I'm just working for the Sang family. The Sang family is being polite, but we can't be rude. Be good and go back to school!"

Li Shanxing's face darkened, and she said unhappily, "The old lady has already agreed, so why do you keep saying this, Mom? This is a new society now. You are working and earning a salary, not a servant like before. Why can't I stay overnight!"

Aunt Xu was startled, never expecting her usually sensible and well-behaved daughter to say such a thing. She glanced outside in a panic, and seeing that the old lady and the others were not paying attention to them, she breathed a sigh of relief and glared fiercely at Li Shanxing.

"What nonsense are you talking about, girl? No matter what, your mother is just working for someone else. I work diligently and earn my wages without feeling guilty. But if I do something to betray the employer, I will feel guilty. Xing'er, don't think your mother doesn't know what you're thinking. Your heart is getting wilder and wilder. How come you dare to think about just anyone?"

Aunt Xu closed the kitchen door, her expression stern, and began to talk to her daughter.

No one knows a daughter better than her mother. Aunt Xu didn't understand before, but after seeing Li Shanxing's behavior at the dinner table, she understood immediately. She felt that her daughter was being delusional and embarrassing, and she was so ashamed that she died.

"How could I be so delusional? What's wrong with me? In terms of looks, figure, and intelligence, I'm no worse than anyone else. The only thing I lack is a family that makes me proud. Ye Qingqing lives like a princess every day, but that's only because she has a good family. If I switched families with her, I would be much more successful than her!"

Li Shanxing roared in a low voice, her long-suppressed resentment finally erupting at this moment.

She didn't feel it very deeply when she was in the village, because the villagers' conditions were all similar and there was nothing to compare. But after coming to Pingjiang to study, Li Shanxing saw the prosperity of the big city. Although her horizons broadened, the wealthy lives of her classmates made her feel even more inferior.

Her tuition was borrowed from Aunt Xu. The tuition for teachers' college wasn't much, and Aunt Xu could barely afford it. However, Aunt Xu hadn't found a job by the first semester, and after paying the tuition, Li Shanxing only had 100 yuan left. She couldn't even afford to eat cold water and plain steamed buns for a whole semester. With no other option, Li Shanxing applied for hardship assistance.

However, Li Shanxing deeply regretted applying for the hardship grant. After receiving the grant, her classmates began to look at her strangely. Once, after eating vegetables for a long time, she felt very hungry, so she ordered a plate of braised pork.

But before she had even sat down and taken a few bites, a female classmate said sarcastically, "Li Shanxing, you eat so well! You're practically saying that everyone who applies for hardship grants is rich!"

In that instant, Li Shanxing wished she could disappear into a crack in the ground. Even the delicious braised pork was hard to swallow. From then on, Li Shanxing never ate any meat dishes for the entire semester, eating only vegetarian food and losing about ten pounds.

In the second semester, Li Shanxing stopped applying for hardship assistance. She would rather eat pickled vegetables and steamed buns every day than endure that humiliation any longer. Fortunately, with Xiao Li's help, Aunt Xu went to work in the city, and Li Shanxing's life improved a lot.

Deeply affected by this, Li Shanxing secretly vowed that she would live a better life than everyone else in her class and make them look at her with new eyes. Bruno was her stepping stone!

She must seize this opportunity!