Knowing you'll lose it, why cherish it?
Mom: "Just do your job honestly, what are you thinking about for your future?"
Miao Xingzhou: "This is not the job I want."
Mom: "How can you choose your own life?"
She said, "Yes, as long as you work hard enough, you can get closer to your dream."
Mom: "Dreams, dreams! What you're doing now is useless stuff. You've been writing for six years and haven't earned a single penny, don't you know that?!"
She replied, "But I'm happy!"
Mom: "What good is being happy!"
Miao Xingzhou: "Does having money mean you won't die or that you can just buy happiness?"
Mom: "Aren't you going to eat?"
She lowered her eyes, then looked at her hands on the keyboard.
Is this really how I'm going to spend my whole life?
My mother said, "You can write novels as a hobby, but don't take it too seriously."
Miao Xingzhou: "I want to try my dream."
Her mother frowned deeply and then remained silent.
While I was sleeping, my mother said, "You are not allowed to quit your job to write novels."
Miao Xingzhou remained silent.
In her dream, she saw her parents, who were equipped with advanced technology, and said, "Go write novels."
Miao Xingzhou: I don't know why I write novels.
Mom said, "Many things don't need a reason."
Miao Xingzhou began by saying, "Why do it if you don't need a reason?"
Mom: "People don't live just to live."
He began to write.
Looking back at the novels I wrote over the years, it seems they've all been for nothing.
She suddenly saw her protagonist walk out and say, "Come here."
Miao Xingzhou walked over and said to the protagonist who shared the same name as him, "You're the author who wrote me?"
Miao Xingzhou began by saying, "Hmm."
The protagonist grabbed Miao Xingzhou by the collar and threw her down. Miao Xingzhou felt weightlessness and fell into the deep sea, but she still had a smile on her lips.
A sudden feeling of suffocation woke Miao Xingzhou up.
Mom said, "Time to go to work."
"Okay." I tidied up and started working.
I'm already tired of the scenery along the way, but I noticed that there's a demolition project nearby. They must be getting a lot of money.
She went into the factory and saw that what she was doing was fixing a plastic container to packaging paper with buckles.
One thousand fifty dollars each.
You can earn four or five thousand a month.
After getting off work, Mom said, "The grill for grilling squid that I ordered has arrived. We're having a barbecue today!"
Miao Xingzhou: "Hmm."
Mom: "We couldn't find any big squid, only these small squid."
She hesitated as she watched her mother grill the food, but after the grilling was finished, her mother's eyebrows furrowed.
After finishing his meal, Miao Xingzhou said, "It's bitter."
Although it was bitter, she ate it happily. She even called her sister, who said, "What a tiny squid!"
Mom: "Do you want to eat?"
Without even looking at it, the older sister said, "I don't want to eat it."
My older sister was a little unhappy that she had turned off Mom's phone. There was no one to share her hesitant joy with.
Miao Xingzhou was still writing his novel when his mother said, "I'm going to sleep."
Miao Xingzhou: "Hmm."
Days go by, and although I'm not free most of the time, I'm happy to spend time with my family after get off work.
Mom asked, "When are you planning to get married?"
Miao Xingzhou: "I'm not planning to get married. I already have trouble supporting myself, let alone raising a child, wouldn't that be even more troublesome?"
Mom: "You say raising children is troublesome, but how did I raise you? If I also said it was troublesome, how would I have gotten you?"
Miao Xingzhou began to feel somewhat embarrassed.
"But I don't want to get married."
Mom: "Whether you accept the marriage proposal or not, you won't have any money for the wedding."
"But I don't want to get married. I'm perfectly fine living on my own."
Then she started reading a novel.
In the story, Miao Xingzhou, who has now become human, enters the National Bureau and becomes a high-ranking member.
She gradually took over all matters, big and small, concerning the country.
When one's career is thriving.
She gradually saw off generation after generation.
As she stood high above, looking down at the world, a familiar voice came from below. She slowly descended...
Suddenly, Miao Xingzhou's mother said, "You're back?"
She looked at the novel and said, "Who did you say came back?"
Mom: "It's nothing."
Suddenly, an idea popped into my head.
In the novel, Miao Xingzhou asks, "Mom and Dad?"
The tech-savvy parents said, "Hmm."
Miao Xingzhou: "We've finally found you."
Mom: "Are you done playing now?"
Miao Xingzhou: "I am a sinful being, I cannot go back."
Dad: "If you don't go back, things won't get better here."
As she watched the countless people appear, she said, "I cannot leave now. Go back and find another version of myself."
After Miao Xingzhou finished writing, he felt a cold sweat break out all over his body.
She could only continue reading her novel, while her mother urged her, "Go to sleep soon."
She went to sleep.
I had the dream I disliked the most.
She started to leave the house, only to find his high-tech parents standing in front of her.
They smiled and said, "We can give you what you want, come back."
Miao Xingzhou woke up from his dream and looked at his mother. What he wanted most was not his dream, but to live with his parents forever.
He started to get up, and his mother said, "Getting up now?"
Miao Xingzhou: "Hmm."
They went out at the same time, and the mother said, "Aren't you going to buy breakfast?"
Miao Xingzhou: "Hmm."
She entered the factory at the appointed time.
The people here live the same numb lives.
Perhaps things will change soon.
Just like the complete destruction of slavery.
How long will it take to truly achieve equality for all, even if we advocate for it?
Perhaps hundreds of years, thousands of years...
On her way home from get off work, she bought fruit, vegetables, and a bottle of water.
I didn't work overtime today, so it's still early. Last night, around 7 PM, I had dinner.
Mom got off work at nine o'clock.
She started laughing and said, "I made beef and tomato."
Mom: "Mmm."
After we finished eating, Mom said, "You've been working for a few months now, are you going to take time off again?"
Miao Xingzhou: "Hmm."
Mom: "Why are you taking leave every day!"
She didn't say anything, and her mother said angrily, "No vacation now, or I won't let you live with me!"
Miao Xingzhou: "It's better for me to live alone."
"What?!" Mom exclaimed angrily.
After she finished writing, she went to sleep. Her mother said gently, "Don't quit your job, you're ugly."
Miao Xingzhou: "What's so ugly about it?"
Mom: "Didn't you hear them all laughing at you?"
What are you laughing at me for?
Her mother said, "I'm laughing at you. You're so inconsistent, only working hard for three days and then resting for two. You're silly."
She slept in bed, and then eventually resigned and stayed home to write.
Mom was very angry when she came back.
Miao Xingzhou: "I'll split the rent with you."
Mom stood with her hands on her hips, not saying a word, but you could tell she was furious.
Miao Xingzhou still didn't seem to notice, and continued writing.
After writing for a month, I see that no one has read it yet.
Mom came in and said, "The factory gave us some grapes today, do you want some?"
Miao Xingzhou: "No."
She continued writing novels.
Mom said angrily, "What's the point of writing all that useless stuff every day! Smash the computer!"
Miao Xingzhou: "If you want to smash the computer, I'll smash it for you."
Mom: "Oh ho, are you going to hit me?!"
Miao Xingzhou noticed his mother's sadness and said, "I was just kidding."
Mom finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Have you made dinner?"
Miao Xingzhou: "Hmm."
Mom lifted the lid of the pot and found it was fried rice. She ate a bowl and said, "Did you make this?"
Miao Xingzhou laughed and said, "Could it be that someone else did it?"
Mom smiled slightly and began to eat, looking tired.
Miao Xingzhou: "If I work, you don't have to work anymore."
Mom: "If I don't work, who will support me?"
Miao Xingzhou: "We can all raise them."
Mom: "I don't need you to support me. You can live your own lives. I can still earn money myself."
Later, when I was going to bed, my mother asked, "When are you planning to start working?"
Miao Xingzhou: "Let's take it one step at a time."
Mom: "Won't you still be eating my food when you get old?"
Miao Xingzhou: "No, that won't happen."
They fell asleep. When they were almost out of money, Miao Xingzhou went to work again.
Mom said, "This time, let's not take a break from work."
Miao Xingzhou went out and came back to the factory. Looking around the factory, the boss said, "You'll go and make packing boxes."
This job is very tiring.
After watching for more than ten hours, when he got home, his mother said, "You've earned another two hundred yuan, haven't you?" Miao Xingzhou replied, "Yeah."
The air began to condense.
Mom asked, "Do you want noodles?"
"don't want."
Mom started cooking noodles, a small bowl of plain noodles. Mom: "How's the new job?"
Miao Xingzhou: "Very tired."
“No job is easy.” She chewed her noodles. “This tooth of mine is about to break. There’s a gap in it.”
Miao Xingzhou: "Eat fewer snacks."
Mom started picking at the gaps between her teeth.
Miao Xingzhou: "Once it breaks, it won't grow back, so don't try to fix it."
After laughing, Mom stopped picking her teeth.
Mom: "Uh, eat your fill, then take a bath and go to bed."
Miao Xingzhou looked at the computer screen. After her mother finished washing up, she took a shower and lay in bed. Her mother said, "Is writing novels really that interesting?"
Miao Xingzhou: "Hmm."
Mom: "You're like a madwoman."
"Why?"
"Paranoid schizophrenia, with no one to confide in, so he writes novels. He writes repetitive pieces..."
Miao Xingzhou started to sleep.
Looking at their parents in this high-tech world, they said, "Now you understand, right?"
Dad: "People are stubborn because they only see what they don't have. They don't understand what they lack."
Miao Xingzhou: "Hmm."
He looked at the brain in his hand, but the more precious something is, the more wasteful it is.
The things that should be cared about most are often set aside.
As she looked at the novel, she said, "If you become greedy because you're happy, you won't be able to do anything."
Have you thought it through?
"Um."
She went back to the terminal and started reading her novel.
The mother said, "Do you really understand why you live?"
Miao Xingzhou: "People die for wealth, birds die for food!"
But the more you want something, the less likely you are to get it.
These words haunted her for a moment.
Her mother watched her turn away, truly stubborn and unrepentant.
Dad lowered his head and then left.
Miao Xingzhou woke up from his dream.
Mom said, "Are you going to write another novel?"
Miao Xingzhou: "I want to write it later, I'll go to work first."
Why cherish something if you know you'll lose it?
He started working.
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