Chapter 151 - A Strange Birthday Party
At 7 a.m. the next day, the system notification woke Su Yang up.
[Beep. Happy Labor Day. Glory to the glorious Labor Day.]
Su Yang was utterly confused. ‘The system woke me up this early in the morning just to wish me Happy Labor Day?’
Unable to believe it, he opened the system and realized that there were no extra missions or presents. However, he noticed a countdown timer at the upper right corner: 15:01:47.
A rough calculation later, the timer would end at around 10 p.m.
‘Does it mean I was born around 10 p.m. at night on the 1st of May?’
Su Yang believed it was highly possible, but he was clueless about what would happen when the timer reached zero, hence the restlessness in his heart.
The feeling felt like a girl waiting for her first love. She was afraid that the guy would not show up, but at the same time, she was also afraid that he would do something to her after he showed up.
However, Old Zhou and his wife did not choose to work in Shanghai for themselves. More precisely, they did it not only for themselves. They worked hard to provide a better environment for Zhou Yueting.
Therefore, when Zhou Yueting reached the age to attend elementary school, Old Zhou brought her to Shanghai permanently and sent her to the local school.
The outcome was self-explanatory. A rural kid with a heavy rural accent was an easy target to be bullied and discriminated against.
Old Zhou and his wife finally settled down with better terms, but a crack appeared in their relationship. When they were not arguing, they were not talking to each other, so there was barely peace between them.
Zhou Yueting was brought up in such an environment, hence her rebellious stage.
Old Zhou only noticed his daughter’s behavior during middle school. He started to talk to his daughter and tried to take care of her, but it was already too late.
Zhou Yueting had grown up, so she no longer needed her parents’ overdue love. Their delayed love would only make her uncomfortable and disgust her further. Therefore, she started to dress up like a deviant and refused to do everything her parents told her to.
Su Yang was speechless for a long while after he listened to her story. Zhou Yueting was practically half a stay-at-home child. A child growing up without love and care from the parents would heavily be affected mentally because the child would not know how to love or how to accept love.
As for Zhou Yueting claiming that she became rebellious because she did not want her parents’ overdue love, Su Yang believed it was only part of the reason behind the matter.
Zhou Yueting might not realize this, but another part of the reason was that she subconsciously realized the more rebellious she was, the more her parents would care about her, hence the vicious cycle.
It was a sign of not knowing how to accept love.
[1] Ten-mile dowry: a kind of wedding custom in eastern Zhejiang Province, mainly in the Ninghai County. During a wedding, the dowry is prepared including bed furniture to a single thread and needle. The dowry procession then stretches out for ten miles. 十里红妆