Chapter 12 (1/2)
12 Mom
He’d have to be naer brother!
It’d been too long since she’d heard her given na didn’t react After a ?”
“It’s nothing really I just saw you on TV last night You’re already so famous?”
Pei Ying’s broitched “No, not really I just did a walk-on”
“Don’t lie to Mohbors are watching it Our Xiujuan is showing such promise”
Pei Ying chuckled without responding Her s and then seeer) brother called last night again and said he’s out of money We just helped pay his tuition fees for the semester, so we don’t have any ive hi expenses?”
“Oh, is that so I got it I’ll send it later”
“Ah! That’s good Then I won’t bother you anymore”
“M’s expression di up
Ren Shanshan, who had been eating, put down her chopsticks She looked at Pei Ying, face full of indignance “What did your ain?”
Pei Ying put away her phone and then glanced at her “Don’t er She’s my mom”
“You can treat her like your hter too!” Ren Shanshan was entirely angry “Don’t tellfor ave birth to both of you, but how can she be so biased?! Even with your names, Pei Xiujuan and Pei Xiuran Do they seem like the same set of parents picked them?! He’d have to be naer brother!” (Note: Sorry, I don’t really get why the names are supposed to ‘feel’ different– Maybe Xiuran is aname than Xiujuan? Or it ood name at all)
Pei Ying, “…”
Who exactly was she ridiculing here?
Seeing that Pei Ying didn’t say anything, Ren Shanshan continued to express her own anger “You’re the only one foolish enough to send money every time It’s not like yourcity all on your own to work hard, but have they ever worried about you? They only think of you when they need o And they still want money Pah!”
Pei Ying waited until she finished venting all her anger Then she said slowly, “Do you kno et abandoned in the country each year? What about how irls that never had the chance to even see this world? It’s true that hter, but they didn’t abandon me or bury me somewhere either I’m actually pretty thankful to them”
Ren Shanshan, “…”
This Pei Ying really was so
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Pei Ying continued, “Although they’re prejudiced, they neverfor me I should at least repay them for that much, shouldn’t I?”
Ren Shanshan curled her lips “Sure, they provided for your schooling When you got into a tier-3 school, didn’t they say it was too expensive and tell you to go to a technical school instead?” (Note: As far as I’rams, compared to rams; tier-1 are the top schools and tier-3 are less lauded schools)
Pei Ying bit her lip Her perfore When she started her final year of high school, her e, they would let her go there to study If she only got into a tier-3 college, they they could only send her to a technical college With Pei Ying’s grades at the tiet into a tier-2 school It just so happened that an aviation school that was looking for students frorade There was even a tuition waiver policy So she happily went to try out, but then her English…
Her English was especially bad and she wouldn’t have been able to ht attendant, so she could only user her tie entrance exaht would be on all night There was an obvious improveot into a tier-3 school
“My parents were just ordinary workers Sending e really would have been a burden for them I can understand that much,” I said
Ren Shanshan scoffed “Your brother also only made it into a tier-3 school Why did they let him enroll?”
“That’s why they live frugally to save money to pay for his tuition”
“Mm, and what’s left of the tuition, they leave to his older sister to take care of Don’t count on your abacus too loudly (quit the wishful thinking)” Ren Shanshan laughed “Pei Xiujuan, get your wits together Right now, you’re only helping with your brother’s tuition After he graduates and getsto have to take care of all that!”
Pei Ying watched how angry she was getting, and then she laughed “You think I don’t understand that kind of thing? I’ll help hatever I can, but I don’t even have a house or a car for s for him?”
“Oh, well, when your parents co a scene, we’ll see what you do then”
Pei Ying thought for a moment and then said, “Like I told you before Everyone has their own bottos that I won’t yield to If my brother’s a man, he can earn his ownof hi these few years”
Hearing her say this, Ren Shanshan turned and laughed She understood Pei Ying’s personality Ordinarily, she was quite entle, but she was more stubborn than anyone else Otherwise, with her qualifications, she wouldn’t have remained an 18th-tier actress for so many years
“Your little brother… He’s worrying” She picked up her chopsticks and started eating again “And yourfor you Her nose is better than a police dog’s”
Pei Ying, “…”
She knew that Ren Shanshan didn’t like her fa picked up her own chopsticks and started to eat silently
Although she’d always been optimistic, no one liked for their parents to be biased towards their children She always knew that her parents liked her brother ht it was because she wasn’t well behaved enough, but when she grew up, she realized that it was because she was a girl
After she realized this, Pei Ying cao a sex change operation just to make her parents like her
She’d thought that after so er self any that her parents would like her just as much as they did her brotherBut when she answered the phone earlier, for just a brief moment, she realized that she’d actually been a bit hopeful
What was she expecting though? For the well? Or that they’d remember her birthday was in a few days?