"Laugh at you? What right do they have to laugh at you! What is Zhou Chuyu? A country girl, even if she finds a good man, what can she possibly achieve? Your father's position is what it is, and you are our family's only daughter. How can those country bumpkins compare to you?"
Despite saying that, Mao Xia still felt ashamed and cried with tears streaming down her face, "Mom, I don't want to go to school anymore, I don't want to go!"
"You're too fragile, kid. It's too late to overthink it now. Not going to school will only delay your studies. You can't afford to lose your reputation and grades, can you? The most important thing right now is to study hard for the exam. As long as you do well on the college entrance exam, who will know what happened to you in high school once you get to university?"
Mao Xia lost her soul, but Zhou Fangchun pulled her back.
"Listen to your mother. The most important thing for you is the college entrance exam. As long as you do well on the exam, no one will remember what happened before. Your parents are respectable people, and your father is very concerned about his reputation. If you get good grades, your father will be very proud of you. Besides, are you willing to lose to Chu Yu like this? To be completely suppressed by her?"
Mao Xia wiped away her tears. She was indeed unwilling to accept it. If it weren't for Chu Yu, she wouldn't have been sent to the police station.
She harbored an irreconcilable hatred for Chu Yu, and she was determined to do well in the exam and teach Chu Yu a lesson.
The house was unusually quiet; neither Mao Anping nor Song Qingchun were home, and a layer of dust had settled on the table.
Zhou Fangchun frowned. "Has it been days since you cleaned? There are handprints on the table. Have you forgotten how to clean when I'm not home? What's wrong with your grandma?"
Mao Xia ignored her mother's nagging and went back to her room to read.
There was a layer of dust on the table, which she dusted off with a feather duster and then took out a workbook.
Having just returned from the police station, everything at home felt strangely unfamiliar to her. The familiar high school practice problems no longer felt the same. Mao Xia recalled the humiliation of being detained, the strange looks from her classmates, and the mockery behind her back. She collapsed onto the table and sobbed uncontrollably.
Zhou Fangchun went inside after hearing the noise. Just as she was about to offer some comfort, her neighbor noticed that her door was open and craned her neck to look inside.
"Hey, Fangchun's back!"
The neighbor's attitude was a bit strange, with a peculiar glint in his eyes, as if he were watching a good show and couldn't wait to share some gossip.
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