Zhou Shiwei and her family were having lunch at the dining table when suddenly she looked up at her mother, Li Yao, with curiosity in her eyes and casually asked a question.
That's right, the male homeowner next door is surnamed Zhou and named Yanchen, and Zhou Shiwei is the eldest daughter of Zhou Yanchen and his wife Li Yao, and their son is named Zhou Shiyan.
"It's Comrade Song from next door."
Li Yao replied to her daughter, saying, "Now I know what it means to be stunningly beautiful and breathtakingly gorgeous. Comrade Song is truly beautiful. I have never seen a girl more beautiful than her. And her temperament is both noble and elegant, and she even looks like an ethereal being."
"Mom, isn't your description a bit exaggerated? Is that Comrade Song really as beautiful as you say?"
Zhou Shiwei was somewhat unconvinced. From childhood to adulthood, she had always been praised for her beauty wherever she went, after all, she had inherited all the good qualities from her parents.
Standing at nearly 170cm tall, slender and graceful, with exquisite features and fair skin, coupled with the Zhou family's status in the capital, it's no exaggeration to call her a rich heiress.
She didn't believe that the lousy Comrade Song next door could compare to her.
"I think you're just resentful that someone is better looking than you."
Zhou Shiyan glanced at Zhou Shiwei and said, "You've always been vain since you were little, and you always think that no one is prettier than you. I feel ashamed to have a sister like you!"
How dare you speak like that?
The head of the family, Zhou Yanchen, glared at his son: "Weiwei is your sister, so show her some respect when you speak to her."
"What more respect do you want from me?"
Zhou Shiyan was unconvinced and said angrily, "Since she was little, Zhou Shiwei has been like a proud peacock. If any of my friends' older or younger sisters are prettier than her, she looks down on them."
She also gave my friends a hard time. Every time this happened, I felt incredibly embarrassed in front of them, and I didn't know how to face them afterwards. As a result, they gradually became distant from me. But did Zhou Shiwei ever consider my feelings?
No, she said I had a bad temper, so my friends stopped hanging out with me. Dad, you and Mom, tell me, isn't this unfair?
"Your sister is just joking with you. You're a man, are you going to take a girl seriously?"
Zhou Yanchen was speaking up for his daughter.
Li Yao kept her head down as she ate the noodles, without saying a word.
“Zhou Shiwei is a girl, I shouldn’t argue with her. But she’s my sister, why doesn’t she care about her younger brother?”
Zhou Shiyan's eyes were red, showing how wronged he felt. He said, "Dad, you've always favored my sister, demanding that I give in to her in everything and protect her when we're out. Do you think all other brothers are like me? As her brother, don't I need my sister's protection?"
"Why are you spouting so much nonsense?"
Zhou Shiwei glared at her: "I was just chatting with Mom for a bit, and you've already launched into a torrent of complaints and dissatisfaction. Zhou Shiyan, can't you be a little more magnanimous? Don't forget, you're a boy!"
"I hate you, Zhou Shiwei!"
After putting down his chopsticks, Zhou Shiyan got up and left the dining table, returning to his room.
Li Yao sighed and said to Zhou Shiwei, "Weiwei, your brother is right about some things. You shouldn't take appearance too seriously, especially when you see girls who are prettier than you. Even if you don't like them, don't show it in front of others, otherwise people will think you have no manners."
"I'm good-looking! Of all the girls I've ever met, they're all ugly, yet they think they're so great. They're like eyes on their foreheads in front of me. Since they treat me like this, why should I be friendly to them?"
Zhou Shiwei clearly didn't listen to her mother Li Yao's words. She glanced at her father Zhou Yanchen, then looked back at her mother Li Yao: "You and Dad are both extremely good-looking. I inherited all the best features from you two."
Besides, I've been loved by everyone since I was little; every elder has praised my beauty. So, is it wrong for me to be confident in my appearance?
"That's right, that's right. It's obvious to everyone that Weiwei is beautiful. Okay, let's not get emotional. Let's eat quickly. This afternoon, Dad will personally take you and Shiyan to the town's middle school to complete the enrollment procedures."
Zhou Yanchen was trying to coax his daughter, because what he feared most in his life was the tears in his wife's and daughter's eyes.
"Can you please stop spoiling Weiwei like this?"
Li Yao frowned and said, "What I said before was not an exaggeration at all. Comrade Song next door is indeed very beautiful, and her manners are elegant and polite, which is incomparable to Weiwei."
Besides, that Comrade Song doesn't look very old. If he stood next to Weiwei, no one would doubt that they were about the same age.
"mom……"
Zhou Shiwei pouted, on the verge of tears, and said, "Am I really as bad as you say?"
"I'm done eating. You two enjoy your meal."
Li Yao got up, put away her and her son Zhou Shiyan's bowls and chopsticks, and went to the kitchen. She didn't even look at the expressions of Zhou Yanchen and Zhou Shiwei when she turned around.
"My mom went too far!"
Zhou Shiwei said with a hint of resentment, "If it weren't for my mother, Dad, you wouldn't have been targeted, and my grandfather wouldn't have tried to transfer your job to this godforsaken place."
"Who gave you the right to talk about your mother like that?"
Zhou Yanchen's expression darkened slightly. He stared at Zhou Shiwei and said, "My transfer to Hongxing Machinery Factory was my own application, and it has nothing to do with your grandfather!"
Just as Zhou Yanchen said, he applied for a job transfer to protect his wife, Li Yao, and took his wife and children away from Beijing to avoid trouble.
However, when he made the decision, his grandfather talked to him, but after hearing his explanation, his grandfather had no objections and supported him.
Speaking of which, Li Yao was originally a true heiress. When she was seventeen or eighteen, she met Zhou Yanchen and the two fell in love at first sight. She insisted on being with Zhou Yanchen and did not go abroad with her family.
In other words, apart from Zhou Yanchen and his two children, Li Yao no longer has any relatives in China.
Zhou Yanchen can be described as a gentleman who keeps his promise. He promised the Li family that he would treat Li Yao well. Since their marriage, he has loved and cared for his wife Li Yao from the bottom of his heart and has never let her suffer any grievances.
For example, in this job transfer, even though he knew that coming to Hongxing Machinery Factory was not as good as staying in Beijing, Zhou Yanchen still applied to come here without hesitation, all for the sake of protecting his other half.
"Dad...you're yelling at me!"
Zhou Shiwei's eyes were filled with tears.
Zhou Yanchen's emotions were unclear. He said, "Nothing is more important to me than your mother. You are our daughter. Don't let me hear another bad word about your mother from your mouth."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Zhou Yanchen finished the noodles in his bowl, stood up, and took his empty bowl to the kitchen. Seeing this, Zhou Shiwei's eyes were full of resentment. She didn't resent her father, Zhou Yanchen, but was extremely dissatisfied with her mother, Li Yao.
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