“No.” Shen Ailan shook her head and said self-deprecatingly, “My mother is a textile worker at the No. 2 State-owned Cotton Mill, and my father is just a truck driver. He would never marry someone from a humble family like mine.”
"That……"
"You know Luo Xi's father is the director of the No. 2 State-owned Cotton Mill, right? Whether our whole family can keep their jobs depends on his word. So my mother gave in."
Of course, Director Luo was very shrewd. He knew that coercion couldn't completely silence people, so he married his niece to my brother, not only refusing any dowry but also providing a bicycle and 500 yuan as a dowry. Afterward, he arranged for my brother to work at the factory, my father was promoted from driver to team leader in the transportation team, and my mother was transferred from the front-line workshop to the union office. He even promised that when the factory built staff housing in a few years, we would get an apartment. My mother was overjoyed and immediately sided with the Luo family.
These are the things her mother would repeat over and over again every time she came to persuade her during the months she was confined to the countryside.
Her mother always said how wonderful Director Luo was, how powerful and generous he was, and how as long as they got close to him, their family would never have to worry about anything for the rest of their lives.
Shen Ailan wanted to laugh every time she heard these things.
Why is Director Luo so good to you? Because he needs to shut your daughter up!
In the past, would anyone have even given you a second glance?
Shen Ailan truly regrets ever liking Luo Xi.
She had long known that Director Luo's family looked down on people, but at that time she was too inferior. She felt that Luo Xi's father was a factory director and a high-ranking leader, while her father was a driver and her mother was a lowly employee. She thought it was normal for the Luo family to look down on her family if they wanted to find a daughter-in-law of equal social standing.
Later, Luo Xi told her that as long as she could get into university and become a college student, her family would not object, and then he would be with her.
At that time, she was complacent and glad that she was good at studying. She thought that even if her family background was not good, so what? With her own efforts, she could still make the Luo family look at her with new eyes, be with Luo Xi, and become the Luo family's daughter-in-law.
But she forgot that a family that only talks about interests and not feelings can accept her for the sake of interests, and can also accept others for even greater interests.
A college graduate as a daughter-in-law is no match for one's own son who became a college graduate.
Take Xie Wei for example. So what if her family was better off than hers? Before she "got into university," she was forced to have an abortion even though she was pregnant. Once Xie Wei found a way to get both of them into university, she immediately became the Luo family's beloved daughter-in-law again.
Her own family and loved ones are willing to abandon her for money, jobs, and housing.
Her insistence on not giving in became an obstacle to the family's progress.
Her mother scolded her for being out of touch with reality, called her a pig-brain, and a sinner in the family, saying she would marry her off to her old village in the countryside and never let her leave again.
After this ordeal, Shen Ailan realized that kinship and love are all illusory. Rather than craving others' pity, she should become strong herself.
So she went through countless hardships to escape.
No one can sell her out for profit! Not even her own parents!
“Jingjing, Luo Xi and Xie Wei are impersonating others. Xie Wei’s father used his position to provide them with convenience. Luo Xi’s father is also not clean. Now the No. 2 State-owned Cotton Mill has almost become the Luo family’s domain. Eight out of ten leaders are surnamed Luo. It’s just that they are all in cahoots, and no one cares or investigates.”
"Jingjing, please help me, please help me. If I still can't bring them down after all this, then... then I'll just have to rot in the mud in the countryside for the rest of my life."
"They won't let me go."
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