CHAPTER 253: CHAPTER 253 ORIGINAL SIN 62

After reflecting, Shuangshuang in the days to follow tried to rely a bit more on her mom. Actually, Shuangshuang didn’t need to particularly show it; she always genuinely liked sticking to her mom, Feng Jinyan.

Previously, Shuangshuang felt she was grown up, already running her own business, so she was a little embarrassed to constantly cling to her mom. Now, having figured things out, she naturally stopped playing at independence. She started to rely on Feng Jinyan more often, like accepting her care and advice, being driven to and from school by her every day, and so on.

Currently, in Red Dust, there is Liu Siyu along with another professional woman she brought in, who turned out to be her best friend Chen Ya, also deceived by Liu Siyu’s scumbag ex-boyfriend.

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Speaking of Liu Siyu and Chen Ya’s relationship, it’s genuinely good, certainly not a superficial friendship. They share common values and think alike, and though they have had their quarrels over the years, their friendship has never truly been hurt.

Even when they both encountered the same scumbag boyfriend, their first reaction wasn’t to suspect each other as the ’third wheel’, but rather to verify the facts first! The result was the two best friends teamed up to kick that scumbag out!

When they were deceived by the scumbag, not only did Liu Siyu feel empty, but Chen Ya did as well. So initially, both friends were in a slump. Later, Liu Siyu was pushed hard by her cousin Liu Ying to go have fun in Red Dust, and she gained a new perspective, staying on joyfully as the lobby manager.

Then Liu Siyu remembered her best friend Chen Ya, who was also not in great spirits. Liu Siyu’s initial thought was simple; she wanted Chen Ya to move past the influence of the scumbag quickly, so she invited Chen Ya to Red Dust. After accompanying Chen Ya for a trip around the nearby fun places, Chen Ya indeed overcame her psychological shadow.

Later, because Shuangshuang left everything, Liu Siyu, who was supposed to be the lobby manager, ended up also juggling the role of guestroom manager. As a result, she was so busy that she couldn’t even enjoy the beautiful scenery around. Faced with the choice between exhausting herself and dragging her friend into the water, she chose to recruit her best friend Chen Ya as the guestroom manager. Although the two are still busy flying around, at least they don’t have to exhaust themselves and lack time to sleep.

Because she had these two great generals in hand, Shuangshuang dared to let her mom, who had been stationed at Red Dust, drive her to and from school every day.

Speaking of Shuangshuang’s campus life, it’s quite bland. Initially, she wanted to interact with her classmates, to experience what camaraderie among classmates was like. She imagined many plans in her mind to know her classmates and quickly become familiar with them, but all of those plans ultimately fell through.

Because on the day she entered school, Shuangshuang was set up as the star student model. Teacher Chu directly posted the exam paper Shuangshuang did on her first day at City No.1 Middle School on the wall, using her perfect scores to inspire the entire class to look up to Shuangshuang as a benchmark.

Then, Shuangshuang became someone all students treated cautiously because, for many, top students are aloof, all-in on immersing themselves in the ocean of knowledge, and hard to approach. Then, Shuangshuang’s plan to make friends her age went down the drain.

Although she couldn’t fulfill her desire to make friends, Shuangshuang was still quite grateful to Teacher Chu. When she was about to take the college entrance exam, suddenly going to City No.1 Middle School, such a difficult-to-enter key school, was clearly via connections, making it easy for students who entered normally to look down on her.

Teacher Chu stated his position appreciating Shuangshuang and stuck up her exam paper on the wall, using her results to directly inform all the students that although she entered through connections, she relied on her abilities.

Students who got into a key high school weren’t idiots; by looking at Shuangshuang’s grades, they knew that whatever key high school would welcome her taking the backdoor!

Shuangshuang’s grades were there for all to see, and with the favor from the teachers, combined with this tense senior year period, few students had the time or mood to bother causing Shuangshuang trouble.

Even those who still harbored a grudge quieted down after Shuangshuang took first place in the grade across two mock exams. Mainly, seeing the huge score gap between the first and second places, all the classmates were utterly hopeless, beaten by Shuangshuang’s achievements.

Exclusion depends on the target too. If you are a poor student like an outcast, but if you’re a top student like Shuangshuang, that’s not exclusion; that’s aloofness, hard to approach, that’s having the skills and being impressive, that’s the sadness of top students not playing with underachievers!

Of course, things like being aloof and not hanging out with underachievers are all just made up by these students. In fact, Shuangshuang was thinking about making friends all along. What’s the fun in playing aloof in business, especially when you risk offending customers to bankruptcy!

Actually, Shuangshuang had no time to think about making friends because of the extra lessons Teacher Chu assigned her. Teacher Chu genuinely saw potential in Shuangshuang, and the result of this earnest expectation was trying to cram all the knowledge he knew into Shuangshuang’s head!

Every day, extra classes plus extracurricular readings consumed nearly all of Shuangshuang’s time. She didn’t even have time for her teenage deskmate with a shining pimple on their forehead, who looked at her with a complicated expression every day; she was just too tired!

Having not attended school in two lifetimes, Shuangshuang initially didn’t quite understand those students who seemed crushed by academic pressure, but is studying harder than living alone with a mentally ill mother?

But facing those seniors who are said to be worn out like dogs suddenly made Shuangshuang understand why experts and scholars later called for reducing the burden on students, and why students taking the college entrance exam were stressed enough to have psychological issues!

Students are truly fatigued from studying; it’s not physical fatigue, but another kind of mental exhaustion, with so much homework they can’t finish, increasingly intense courses, mock exams one after the other make you question life!

Carefully observing the hopeful gazes of parents, anxious not to disappoint them, worried about performing poorly, afraid that what they’ve studied isn’t enough for the exams, these various invisible pressures are practically omnipresent.

There’s also the pressure of future prospects. Everyone knows getting into a good college is essential for a promising path. Don’t think students are truly removed from worldly concerns. They know that only if they can enter a good university can they find a good job, earn more money, support their parents, support a family, and support future children.

This kind of pressure doesn’t just face boys; girls feel it too. With so many only children, wouldn’t a girl also raise her parents!