Wa Family and Gu Family lived in the same county town.
Gu Family resided near the old city center, while Wa Family lived a bit farther away, in an area that had never been the city center. However, due to real estate development in the county over the past few years, property values in the area where Wa Family lived had risen.
The Wa Family’s old house belonged to Wa Dad’s friends, who had found it for the widowed mother and son after Wa Dad died. It was an old dormitory for a work unit and looked fairly decent.
Now, following the upgrade in property development led by Zhou Jin, the price of houses had similarly risen, but just like the Gu Family’s property, the ownership rights were not theirs. The rights belonged to the work unit’s collective dormitory; without a property certificate, selling it would be a troublesome issue. Thɪs chapter is updated by 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✦𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮✦𝓷𝓮𝓽
Back then, Wa Mom said that Wa Family and Gu Family were well-matched precisely because of their similar housing issues.
Years later, the son made good strides and developed his career in the big city. Wa Mom’s heart had long left the county and moved to the big city, where she bought and lived in a house. No matter how well the county developed, it couldn’t compare with the dreamlike prosperity of a great city. In this respect, Wa Mom’s ambition was far greater than that of Gu Dad and Gu Mom, who only wanted to live in the small county town for their lifetime.
Even when her son was dating Gu Nuan, later, it wasn’t about the two young people owning property in the big city. Now, suddenly, everything had changed—a complete 180-degree turn.
Wa Mom felt as if she had dreamt herself back into ancient times, returning to a beggar’s life.
Once back in the county, Wa Zicong knew that returning to the big city to find work could take an indefinite amount of time, fearful it might even take a year or more because of Lin Jiale. The mother and son had to live their lives. The second day after Wa Zicong returned home, he was already scouring the county for a job.
But in such a small place as the county, there were obviously fewer job vacancies compared to the big city, and fewer companies stationed there. Wa Zicong had studied finance. In a small town , where the average citizen earned a modest salary, few people had spare money for financial management. Consequently, companies in this field were sparse.
Even if Wa Zicong was willing to start from the bottom, small companies hesitated to hire someone with his impressive qualifications, fearing that someone of his caliber suddenly returning from the big city must have some issues. They worried he might bring trouble with him.
Unable to find something suitable at first, Wa Zicong had to start asking friends in the county for help. Several friends remembered past favors and earnestly searched for opportunities, eventually suggesting an agricultural cooperative that was looking for a salesperson for financial products. They told Wa Zicong he could give it a try.
Meanwhile, guests had arrived at Gu Family’s home, and news of Gu Dad having a new son-in-law spread through the county.
The county was small with a tight-knit community. It took less than a day for Wa Mom to learn that Gu Nuan had brought a wealthy second-generation heir home. Moreover, this rich heir’s act of buying all the lottery tickets at the station in one go had made the Gu Family feel very proud.
Everyone was saying how lucky the Gu Family was—to find such an outstanding son-in-law, a catch that was hard to come by in the whole world, and how Gu Nuan had snagged him.
People discussed this openly in front of Wa Mom, and many were present.
People were unaware that the marriage between Wa Zicong and Lin Yishan had been called off, thinking instead that the Wa mother and son were home on a holiday, planning to return to the big city for the wedding eventually.
Then came the appalling comments performed right in front of Wa Mom and Wa Zicong. They said, Wa Zicong had found a wealthy girl, and Gu Nuan a wealthy boy, and their breakup was for the best.
How could Wa Mom be so magnanimous, only wishing her own son to find a wealthy wife but not allowing Gu Nuan to find a wealthy husband? Otherwise, how could her son’s merits stand out?
The most terrifying part was that Gu Nuan really married that wealthy gentleman, yet her son’s engagement to the wealthy heiress had fallen through.