Yu Anning hesitated for a moment. Work was her life. If she didn't work for a day, she would feel lost and unreal, and she would feel guilty.

Only when she is busy with work does she feel alive, needed by the world, and find her sense of existence.

Therefore, after starting work, Yu Anning never took a day off, and often voluntarily gave up holidays to work overtime. Her parents always thought that she was able to get to her current position because of their influence.

Yu Anning really didn't want to argue, because she couldn't reason with her parents at all. It had been like this since she was a child. She could still exchange a few words with her father, but she really couldn't connect with her mother at all. She even often doubted her mother's professional competence, thinking that she didn't seem to be at the level of a university professor at all. She thought her IQ and EQ were both very low, and she really didn't know how her mother had become a university professor back then.

Although her father could talk to her, he was extremely chauvinistic. At work, he adopted a Western-style, open-minded teaching approach, but at home, he was absolutely traditional Chinese. He rarely got involved in housework and devoted himself entirely to his work. So, while he had many successful students and a thriving career, he didn't offer much help to her career.

She didn't work for the national banking system, but for a foreign bank in country M, with branches in Hong Kong and Kyoto. In terms of international influence, her bank was naturally larger, but the workload was also much heavier than that of state-owned banks, the competition was fiercer, and there was no room for personal relationships or face-saving. Foreigners really don't care about these things; they only care about your ability.

Before graduating from university, Yu Anning began her career plan. Her parents used their connections to get her a job at a state-owned bank. The job was easy and the pay was good, making it the ideal wife choice for many elite men.

But Yu Anning didn't want to go. She wanted to work for a more challenging company, so she chose a foreign bank. She even applied without telling her parents, because she was afraid that if she didn't pass the exam, her mother would make sarcastic remarks and say things that she found very unpleasant.

Her relationship with her mother was not as intimate as that of other mothers and daughters who could share their innermost secrets. Even her younger brother, Yu Shaoning, had a harmonious relationship with their mother, but not her. From a young age, her mother implemented a suppressive education for her. If she scored 99 points, her mother would ask why one point was deducted. If she scored 100 points, her mother would not praise her, saying that it was her duty.

As for fathers, they are always absent in family education.

Although her father's educational views were more advanced than her mother's, they were useless without his involvement.

Over time, Yu Anning grew distant from her parents and stopped talking to them about many things, making her own decisions.

She was quite lucky; she passed the exam on her first try and also passed the interview. Only then did Yu Anning tell her parents about her job arrangements, and unsurprisingly, she got another scolding.

"Do you think you're so great? Do you think it's so easy to work in those foreign banks? Your dad and I shamelessly found you a government-run bank, but you refused. That's a golden job; so many people would kill to get in. You think you're so capable? Humph, I'll be waiting for you to come crying back and begging for mercy!"

Her mother mocked her at the time, believing that she would be fired by the foreign bank because at that time, the foreign bank had few domestic employees and was mostly staffed by foreigners, making it very difficult for Yu Anning to get ahead.

Because of this saying, Yu Anning worked even harder than men after starting work, voluntarily requesting to work overtime and often working through the night. Hard work pays off, and Yu Anning's efforts have now been rewarded. She has become an important loan department manager with a very generous annual salary.