"..." Zhou Mo was astonished. "No one called you? Your parents are not at home, so your family must have hired someone to take care of you, right? At the very least, you should have set an alarm, right?"
"My parents thought they were at home, so they gave the housekeeper a day off," Song Yan said. "I thought my parents would wake me up, so I didn't set the alarm."
Zhou Mo truly admires this family of three.
"What happened next? Do you blame them?"
"Of course not," Song Yan said, "It's not that I didn't get into university, I just got into a third-tier university. My parents were quite happy, saying that I missed one exam, but I still got into school, which was great."
"Uncle and auntie are so generous. If this were my parents, I would probably have my legs broken."
"My parents never had high expectations of me. There's a saying that goes, 'It's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.' My parents didn't think that way. They felt that since there were fish readily available, why bother learning to fish? The same was true of my upbringing. They instilled in me the idea that since my family had money, I just needed to spend it. Why should I learn to earn it?"
"I thought I was spoiled enough by my family, but I didn't expect you to be even more spoiled than me."
Song Yan smiled and said, "You're a girl, and girls should be raised in wealth. I'm a man, how could I possibly be raised without experiencing any hardship? And that's how I got my comeuppance. The companies my parents invested in were poorly managed and lost money, and my family fell into ruin. That's when my dad started getting worried and told me to go out and find a job. I had just graduated from college and had been a slacker all my life. I didn't know how to do anything, and I didn't want to do anything. I became a stay-at-home mom."
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