Chapter 180 Zhao Zhao, please smile more

"But didn't your dad give you the cell phone three weeks after the midterm exam?"

Zhu Yu couldn't help wiping away tears. She didn't understand why the child she taught was so fragile.

It's just a cell phone.

It’s not like he didn’t give it to me all along. He clearly gave it to me later!

Tears flowed from Lin Zhao's eyes. A sly smile appeared on her pale and tender face. She moved her lips and said, "Is this definitely a reward for my good performance in the exam?"

"Didn't Dad just get a new phone that he wanted and then gave me his obsolete old one?"

She is a child, but she is not a fool.

Lin Zhiwen was heartbroken, "Why do you have to be so picky? Aren't they all the same?"

"Finally, I gave you the phone. Why are you dissatisfied?"

[Of course it’s different! ]

[It really annoys some parents. If you can’t do it, then can you please not make promises? 】

[Oh, so the reason why I didn’t keep my promise was because I wanted to buy myself a new phone. Well, now I can also get a new daughter.]

[This is how a child's trust is worn away bit by bit.]

[Alas, if everyone around Lin Zhao lived this kind of life, she might not be so unhappy, but there happened to be a classmate named Zhou sitting in front of her.]

【Student Xiao Zhou made Lin Zhao realize that people can only compare themselves with themselves, and that there are parents who will not use the greatest malice in the world to speculate about their children.】

[I don’t understand why Lin Zhao was being so hypocritical. Compared to those children in the mountain villages, compared to those children who were abused by their parents, she was already very lucky!]

[The one before, do you really like to compare suffering? ]

If it was just because of the cell phone, Lin Zhao might not have committed suicide.

But the castle was not built in a day, and similarly, her disappointment with her parents was not accumulated in a day.

My parents' work is getting busier and busier, and my mother has to work overtime more often.

At this time, her parents brought her grandmother from the countryside to the city and asked her to take care of Lin Zhao's daily life.

Grandma came here in a private car owned by a fellow villager.

She brought a gift for Lin Zhao.

A chubby little local dog.

Lin Zhao, who had never been very happy, smiled more after having a puppy.

She plays with the puppy after finishing her homework every day.

She would go out for a walk with the dog by herself and would bathe the dog by herself.

During those unhappy days, grandma and the puppy became her spiritual support.

But soon, the puppy was sent away.

Because during the final exam, Lin Zhao fell from the first place.

Her grades declined and she dropped from first to second.

Dad was furious about this.

Her mother was also very disappointed with her.

But from childhood to adulthood, when her grades dropped, they punished her neither by beating nor scolding her.

They just confiscated her favorite toy.

Throw away her favorite dress.

Never let her watch her favorite cartoons again.

And this time, they punished her by sending away her favorite puppy.

No matter how Lin Zhao cried and explained, she dropped from first to second because the questions were too difficult and had nothing to do with the puppy.

Neither Lin Zhiwen nor Zhu Yu listened.

"It's the same question, why are you the only one who finds it difficult? You're the only one who fell from the first place. Why don't others find it difficult?"

"Lin Zhao, ever since you got this dog, you have become more and more obsessed with toys and have lost your ambition. Even now you are still making excuses for yourself!"

Lin Zhiwen's face was full of accusations, "Aren't your mother and I working so hard for you? But you can't even keep the first place. Look at what you are like now!"

Lin Zhao's lips turned pale and she couldn't utter a word. She stared at them blankly.

She really wanted to say, I didn’t ask you to give birth to me.

If you are really dissatisfied with my daughter, you can have another one.

But she knew she couldn't say this. Once she said it, she wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.

Grandma felt that what they said to the child was a bit too harsh and couldn't help but speak up for Lin Zhao.

"Zhao Zhao only plays with the dog after finishing his homework every day. I watched him! And isn't it normal to drop from first to second? You didn't always get first place in the exams when you were two hours old!"

Zhu Yu did not confront her mother-in-law directly, but looked at Lin Zhiwen expressionlessly.

Lin Zhiwen was annoyed. "Mom, I'm already exhausted from educating my children. Can you please stop making things more complicated?"

"If she used the time she spent walking and playing with the dog every day to study, would she fall from the top spot? You are still here making excuses for her. If she can't even do something as simple as studying, what else can you expect her to do in the future?"

Grandma thought this made a lot of sense at first glance.

But when she thought about it carefully, she felt something was wrong.

But she just couldn't explain it.

In the end, her face turned red with anger, but she was unable to keep the dog for Lin Zhao.

With the puppy, Lin Zhao's happiness returned a little.

But this happiness was soon cut into pieces by my own parents.

She picked up a singing cicada in the summer.

But before winter came, the cicada died.

From that day on, she lost the ability to listen to the songs of nature.

Fortunately, although the weather is cold in winter, the sun is still warm.

Xiao Zhou is happy every day.

I don’t know where she gets the energy to live so happily every day.

She is like a little sun. Her smile will infect the people around her, making them as happy as her involuntarily.

Lin Zhao was only happy for a short while when she was with her classmate Xiao Zhou.

She was trembling with fear for a while.

Because she always felt that this little happiness was stolen, and stolen things must be returned eventually.

The result was exactly what she expected.

This joy that made her tremble was ultimately taken away by her parents.

When the school organized a parents' meeting, my mother came to school. She was very unhappy when she saw herself playing with the last few children in the class.

Soon, the mother found Xiao Zhou's parents and asked them to persuade Xiao Zhou not to get close to her in the future.

Because a bad student like Xiao Zhou, who ranks last in the class, will bring bad consequences to a good student like Lin Zhao.

Lin Zhao didn’t know what Xiao Zhou’s parents said. She just saw that the look in Xiao Zhou’s parents’ eyes when they looked at her seemed to contain some sympathy.

Xiao Zhou is still as happy as ever. Her parents probably didn't tell her about these messy things.

Lin Zhao couldn't help but ask, "Zhou Zhou, when the parents' meeting ended, didn't your parents say anything to you?"

Xiao Zhou shook his head, "No, but my mother said that you didn't look very happy, so she asked me to make you smile more when I have nothing to do, but I can't disturb your studies."

"I also think you seem unhappy. Zhao Zhao, you should smile more. You look very beautiful when you smile."

Lin Zhao felt as if her heart was broken.

Is my unhappiness so obvious?

Then why can't my parents see it?

They were even robbing her of her only chance to laugh.