Zhou Qingtang's gaze followed the busy little girl. Her wound had been bandaged, and even the almost healed scab had been treated with medicine.
My thoughts have drifted back to yesterday.
From the moment Zhou Qingtang saw that man at the banquet, her hand had already reached for the small knife she always carried in her bag.
Shang Hua, a translation guru, is fluent in five foreign languages. When she was 15, her father hired her as his private tutor.
No, to be precise, it was a private tutor for her sister; she was just an afterthought.
Zhou Qingtang really didn't expect this person to be a hypocrite.
Her father, Zhou Guowei, and mother, Xu Xiangyun, divorced when Zhou Qingtang was very young due to incompatibility.
From as far back as Zhou Qingtang can remember, her parents always argued whenever they met, and they never sat down at the same table to eat a proper meal.
At that time, Zhou Guowei's career was just starting out, while Xu Xiangyun left Zhou Qingtang with the nanny and spent all the money Zhou Guowei had worked so hard to earn on mahjong.
Zhou Guowei only thinks about making money, Xu Xiangyun only thinks about playing mahjong, and no one cares about Xiao Zhou Qingtang.
The bickering continued until Zhou Qingtang was five years old. Zhou Guowei, who hadn't been home for a long time, returned. He didn't come back to argue with Xu Xiangyun, but instead threw a divorce agreement at her.
Because he has someone else outside of his relationship.
Xu Xiangyun cried and made a scene. She wasn't stupid. Zhou Guowei's career was just starting out, and it was the perfect time to make money.
Over the years, Xu Xiangyun has become accustomed to the life of a rich wife, receiving money without working and buying whatever she wants. She can't do anything outside, so how can she support herself?
That's why she pretended not to know even though she knew Zhou Guowei was having an affair. It's said that it's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. Now, wouldn't a divorce be the death of her?
I argued with Zhou Guowei before because I still loved him, but after so many years, that love has long since faded away, and now all that's left is my love for money.
So Xu Xiangyun stopped arguing with Zhou Guowei. As long as he sent her money on time every month, that was fine. She needed the money to go out for beauty treatments and buy bags.
Anyway, she and he have a child, so he can't possibly divorce her.
But unexpectedly, Zhou Guowei was determined to divorce Xu Xiangyun this time.
Because the woman outside is pregnant.
When Xu Xiangyun saw that the negotiations failed, she started making a scene like a shrew, while Xiao Zhou Qingtang just stood there watching her shrewish mother.
At that time, Xiao Zhou Qingtang still had a strong attachment to her parents. She studied hard, and the nanny said that her parents would only like her if she behaved well and didn't make a fuss, so she behaved well.
Doing everything according to the standards of a good child, as described by the nanny, is all in order to gain the attention of one's parents.
But they all neglected her. Zhou Guowei came home very late from work, and Xiao Zhou Qingtang could hardly see him. Xu Xiangyun didn't care about her at all, and only showed concern for her when Zhou Guowei was around.
She was annoyed by Xiao Zhou Qingtang's crying, so no matter how wronged or upset Xiao Zhou Qingtang felt, she would hold back her tears.
Gradually, Zhou Qingtang became more and more silent and taciturn, or rather, unlikable. Xu Xiangyun also grew to dislike this seemingly not very bright child.
Sometimes they would verbally attack Xiao Zhou Qingtang, saying that she was so dull that she couldn't even make her father happy or smile.
Although Zhou Guowei showed it, the disappointment in his eyes was evident.
Seeing her parents arguing and talking about divorce, Xiao Zhou Qingtang remained silent, sitting on the ground as if she couldn't hear them, fiddling with her toys.
Xu Xiangyun grabbed Xiao Zhou Qingtang and threatened Zhou Guowei that if he dared to divorce her, she would jump off a building with his daughter.
Who knew Zhou Guowei wouldn't buy it? He didn't care what she said. Little Zhou Qingtang had suffered psychological trauma since then, no, perhaps from a young age.
Her parents don't care about her.
In the end, Xu Xiangyun did not jump off the building with Xiao Zhou Qingtang, because Zhou Guowei gave her a check, a house, and two cars to get rid of her.
While she was happily packing her bags and leaving with the check, she didn't look at Xiao Zhou Qingtang in the living room even once.
But when she finally picked up her suitcase and was about to leave, she glanced at Xiao Zhou Qingtang, who was standing blankly in the living room holding a doll, with a complicated look in her eyes.
Then he left without looking back.
Seeing her mother leave, Xiao Zhou Qingtang didn't shed a single tear.
After seeing Xu Xiangyun off, Zhou Guowei left home. The nanny was also not home today, so now only Xiao Zhou Qingtang was left alone at home.
Throughout the entire ordeal, her parents never looked at her once, and no one cared whether she lived or died.
Zhou Guowei returned very late, accompanied by a young woman.
The woman was startled when she turned on the light after entering the room and saw Xiao Zhou Qingtang still standing in the living room.
Seeing his daughter frightened, Zhou Guowei showed no concern for his role as a father. His first thought was to care about the woman, without considering whether his daughter had eaten, was tired, was still standing there, or was afraid of being alone.
No, none at all!
Xiao Zhou Qingtang watched as her father carefully helped the woman to sit down on the sofa, neither of them glancing at her the entire time.
From that moment on, Xiao Zhou Qingtang knew that she shouldn't have any hope for her parents.
When Zhou Qingtang was six years old, his half-sister was born, and the house began to resemble a home, but it was no longer Zhou Qingtang's home.
Her original room was taken by Zhou Guowei to be used as her sister's nursery, so she was forced to move to the guest room.
As the younger sister grows older, it seems that children tend to bully the weak and fear the strong. They can see that Xiao Zhou Qingtang is not valued by her parents, so they can bully and frame her without restraint.
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