Now she was extremely thankful that she had learned some skills; otherwise, she would have really embarrassed herself. It might not be apparent now, but when she gets to university, and students come from all over, the differences between first-tier cities and cities from second and third tiers, or even the eighteenth tier, to rural students, will become clear, showing the advantages and disadvantages in various aspects.
So when a wealthy parent raises a child with care, they can still be exceptional.
Children from poor families who manage to get into college are rare; most drop out early to start working.
This is the reality.
More realistically, wealthy people think every day about how to improve themselves, how to maintain their health, while poor people indulge in daydreams and resentment of the rich. When wealthy people are considering fasting, quitting smoking, and drinking, poor people smoke a pack a day, gather with a group at night for a drink, wallow in self-pity, binge eat and drink without bothering about their image, lacking any self-discipline.
Perhaps what she said is one-sided, but undeniably, such things do happen.
Tangyuan remembers Mom telling her once that a relative from Beijing brought their child back to their hometown, not only bringing their own bedding but also many supplies to cope with living in the hometown. During meals, they ate just enough, not allowing excess, and then went for a walk to burn off calories, to avoid ruining their physique. They shouldn’t get fat, shouldn’t eat excessively without self-control, always maintaining self-discipline.
People from the hometown still believed gaining weight was good, being chubby means nourishment, the body can absorb it, looking blessed. After they left, the brand-new bedding and living supplies were given to the hometown people, who were delighted but at the same time complained about their cleanliness, while also caressing the comfortable cotton bedding, sighing how wonderful it is to have money.
The gap between rich and poor doesn’t only show in these things; the more people you interact with, the more you notice them.
During elementary school, everyone ate at home and didn’t interact much, but by junior high, lunch was at school, and some people’s problems became evident.
Some intentionally forgot their meal cards, asking classmates to help pay, then pretended not to know, making it hard for classmates to ask for those several dollars.
Once or twice is tolerable, but when she’s taken enough advantage of those around her, she’d find herself ignored, isolated.
This is the impact of family, people can be stingy to themselves, also to others, but their stinginess should at least stay within the bounds of acceptance; if you breach others’ bottom line of perception, then sorry, you deserve to be isolated.
Hua Yan has now learned that if she can avoid eating at school, she does, because at this age, girls are friends with one today, another tomorrow, and buddied up yet again; they barely have keen perception, easily fooled by the clever.
She feels she doesn’t have time to play mind games with them, so during meals she’d go out or eat within space, because she has a pass, day students don’t, so relatively speaking, it’s much freer.
Entering junior high, winter vacation homework increased, but Hua Yan has obsessive-compulsive tendencies, likes finishing her homework early so she can do whatever she wants.
She dislikes procrastinating until the last moment, and luckily she’s not a real junior high student; otherwise her self-discipline might not be as strong as it is now.
The System simulated Demon World forest is more realistic than future special effects, when she enters, she is in cat form, living inside as her original form, this leads to her instinctively performing tasks with human reactions, bringing many inconveniences to her advancement.
If she were just reduced to her cat form, it’d be fine, but after completing each stage of advancement, she has to return to the Human World, the repetition leaves her feeling a blur at times, sometimes doubting which world she’s really in.
In the secret realm of the Cat World, there are many types of animals, not only from the normal Human World, but also randomly placed mutant species, with strong destructive power, almost every time she goes through a life and death ordeal, to come out safe.
But the price for those life and death ordeals is huge, if not for the life-saving Ice and Fire Spring Eye at the secret realm’s exit assisting with her recovery, she might remain trapped inside.
Of course, under such training, she’s clearly noticed her hearing, speed, sense of smell, and other senses have become more keen.
The most direct sensation is when classmates gossip behind her back, she can capture it clearly, thinking she was low-profile enough, but it turns out the girls’ discussion points range from her looks, dressing style, to family background – they just can’t live without gossip.
Also saying how the class teacher favors her, boys take care of her, strikingly pretty, deliberately acting pitiful, all sorts of comments.
You can’t help but marvel at the innate gossip abilities of girls, look, these children at just twelve or thirteen are already starting to notice the opposite sex.
Previously she didn’t notice how much boys looked after her until they mentioned it, then she found that this so-called goodness, had it been any girl, boys would step in to help. However, this statement faltered when she saw a chubby girl from the neighboring class struggling to carry a desk upstairs, and realized she had been contradicted.
At least eight boys had passed by without helping, but the moment she decided to help, a boy immediately came to assist.
Honestly, she absolutely had no intention of humiliating the girl, but the chubby girl felt all the insult stemmed from her, thereafter she faced much finger-pointing and whispers, Hua Yan felt speechless facing such attacks.
Was being good-hearted turned into ’showing off’?
If she’d known earlier, she’d have watched while she puffed her way step by step up to her class.
Indeed, pitiable people have their hateful aspects!