Chapter 03

Overseas related work experience or study abroad.

As the name suggests, overseas study experience and related work experience.

Wen Ning’s pen suddenly stopped at this line of the application form, she did not have any history of study or work abroad, even her passport book was almost white, she clearly understood that she had no advantage to speak of in this item.

International schools have never been very picky about their parents, and the barrier formed for the average person naturally creates a difference between education.

Winning was unable to fool herself into writing about a pair of unrelated experiences, leaving large gaps in the list originally composed by the parents.

Such large gaps force a mother to blame herself, fearing that she has dragged her child down with her.

The heart hangs in the air like never before.

The results would come.

The following day, she brought Li Che to the campus of this international school, cautiously prying from the doorman for directions to where the specific interview teaching floor was located.

And the rejection would have been expected.

The interview didn’t last too long, almost as if she thought Li Che hadn’t had a chance to present himself in full, and halfway through, the interview’s chief examiner had already left her seat several times in impatience.

“I’m sorry, Ms. Wen, your child is excellent, but does not meet our admission requirements ……”

Those thousand words that followed were largely lost on Wen Ning, who buried her head low, like a schoolgirl caught in the act of early love but powerless to defend herself. However, it also dawned on her that under the operation of this set of established mechanisms and processes, it was never possible for her own child to appear on the selected list.

It had nothing to do with his talent and everything to do with his origin.

The social categorization of three, six, nine, and nine classes was implicitly applied to her child, and she was supposed to accept it as a matter of course. But it’s a paradox that people accept their own mediocrity on the one hand, but can’t accept the mediocrity of a child who is the same as they are.

Always look forward to lifting them with their own strength, Wen Ning is no exception.

Every step from the admissions office is much more difficult than expected, Wen Ning lowered her head, that kind of powerlessness manipulated by fate to bind their hands and feet reappeared.

Last time, it was because of her husband’s untimely death, but now, she was faced with the prospect of her own child being stranded in the school where her husband had worked before he died.

The chances of transformation are slim.

The half-grown children have to continue to suffer night and day the double impact of losing their father’s role, which is immeasurably damaging to the child’s psyche.

The unselected child, however, continued to reassure his immature mother along the way:

“Failure is common, mom, don’t be upset, when I’m in junior high school, I’ll be able to go to the best middle school in Jiangcheng.”

In the bottom of his eyes, there was a mixture of unworldly naiveté, and the idea of desperately wanting his mother to feel better, and along with it, the disappointment of not passing the entrance test was hidden in a way that was hard to see.

However, Li Che also acted as if he didn’t care about the final result, while Wen Ning, the mother, felt more and more guilty.

Wen Ning sighed slightly and rubbed Li Che’s head again.

The door of opportunity was always closed.

Poor mothers and children are good at doing the dream can not withstand the reality of the hammer, so disillusioned, Wen Ning all the way back to his own school career, the results of the midterm examination, but the middle of the upper, according to reason can only be into the county city of the general high school reading. Her mother was also the same as the hope that the son, hope that the daughter into a phoenix, in her body almost poured everything, borrowed money to get together the school selection fee, and ultimately to be able to stuff her into the Jiangcheng, a private key high school to go.

For this reason, the mother went around begging for people to ask for connections, rarely put down her face.

Unfortunately, she is not progressive, into the money burning private high school after learning scores on the mediocre even if, but also do not want to forge ahead to want to fall in love. She remembers that most of the girls at that time had a crush on Zhou Yinchu, and based on an innate emotion of blindly following the crowd, she proclaimed that she liked Zhou Yinchu as well.

She thought that the boy with no one in sight couldn’t see her at all, just as he never saw the world.

Small and worthless.

Contrary to Wen Ning’s assumption, after she revealed her slight affection for him, he approached her in person, and she remembers him speaking to her on the rooftop out of the blue.

It wasn’t a question, it wasn’t even the least bit of “let’s try it” respect, but almost in the most forceful and demanding order, he gave her a direct order: “You’re with me.”

There was an almost natural arrogance about him from the very beginning of the relationship.

There was no room for her to refuse.

He easily became her nominal boyfriend, and his originally bad schooling and family were even easier to bring up for mockery at the drop of a hat.

Until they were separated.

In that period of time is not enough to carve the memory, they frivolously together, and frivolously break up, during the period, she did immoral things for the first time in her life, she took his mother to give 100,000 break-up fee, the reason is not other, the poor is that short-sighted, can take advantage of the time, they will never play dumb—.

Wen Ning also thought about it, if her conditions and Zhou Yinchu equivalent, the same generous, then she will be self-centered refusal.

But she didn’t.

This pre-requisite condition itself just didn’t exist, her and Zhou Yinchu’s families of origin were different, and their financial conditions were worlds apart, or else the other person’s mother wouldn’t have pressed the issue of coming to their school to find them.

It was humiliating.

Took that money she turned her head and went to mention the breakup, she also thought of Zhou Yinchu countless ways to taunt himself, but his eyes are still careless, seems to be divided or not break up this matter does not care.

“Split, you don’t regret it.”

This was the powerful response given by the teenager Zhou Yinchu, a response that for a time made Wen Ning glad for her choice.

The guilt of taking money to do the job instantly eliminated most of the guilt, after that, Wen Ning finally in the academic slightly harder, and finally went to the first book line as desired.

The provincial examination environment is so, she finally but in the province of Suzhou chose a relatively good some of the second university.

At that time, Zhou Yinchu had already given up the domestic top institutions, far away to the United States.

Soon, she discarded the heart has had but not real delusion, choose and normal people like employment, unemployment, marriage, children, open store …… if not the loss of husband this matter powerfully stimulate her, she simply don’t need any make any changes.

I don’t know how, she will suddenly think of Zhou Yinchu today.

Her eyelids also suddenly flickered at this moment.

In her place, Zhou Yinchu is always a taboo topic, even if Li Yuanzhe and her married for a number of years, she still never told him about his first love.

The likes of people, itself is not worth the money, let alone, the two people are very different from each other.

She buried her feelings cheaply.

Perhaps it was too long since she had run around the campus, which reminded her of her former teenager in the harsh afternoon sunlight, and she thought that by all rights he should have gotten married and had children, but of course she didn’t rule out the fact that he was the kind of diamond bachelor who cast his net around and still only took women as playmates at this age.

It was not that he was inherently malicious, but Zhou Yinchu himself did not look like a peaceful man.

But how exactly he is, Wen Ning is not clear, she is sensitive, and her old classmates can also notice her sensitivity, very well choose to protect her, in all matters about Zhou Yinchu shut up. There was also a conscious effort to keep the two groups of people completely separate at the reunion.

She never allowed herself to get caught up in the past.

Stepping through that swamp, picking up her dispensable self-respect, a hundred thousand dollars bought out that sensational teenage relationship and put a price tag on it.

So cheap.

Wenning’s thoughts finally returned to the present, taking on the “natural” duties of every mother, always encouraging in front of her child: “Chuchu, you have to remember that not getting into this school is not only your responsibility, perhaps, compared to parents of similar age, mom is not good enough either! ……”

Li Che tilted his little face, his gaze always following her unswervingly, and uttered with certainty, “But you are the best mom in the whole world.”

Wen Ning’s heart had a moment of warmth, after the warmth, replaced by a more permanent depression.

I have also complained about my own lack of effort, failed to grasp the times dividend, in vain to leave the child is not full of favorable life.

The feeling of always being at the bottom surrounded her so tightly that her breathing was not as smooth as it used to be–

It was at this time that she slightly raised her head, a familiar and unfamiliar face into her mind, familiar in that the former owner of this face had been with her for most of her youth; and unfamiliar in that the youth’s lethargy and wantonness had been transformed in this moment, and the years had shaped another face without the shadow of the past.

His angles are clear, the lines of his face tend to be cold and hard, competent; deep bottomless eyes bloom with a cold and detached smile.

Walking among the crowd, he was greeted by the front and the back, how cruel this international school had been in shutting out her child with all its conditions and thresholds, and how attentive it had been to him.

The most unexpected person appeared on the same corner.

In the building where the international school is located, the light is bright, it should be a peaceful and quiet afternoon, time will be originally distinguished in different classes of people reunited together, breaking the surface of the calm.

Wen Ning subconsciously wanted to escape, to escape the return glance of her old lover, to escape this untimely trial.

But Zhou Yinchu still saw her.

It is also true that he has always had good eyesight, and always liked to survey everything in the vicinity with a lofty gaze, when they were in love, he always loved to go to the rooftop, to take in the rooftop scenery, she would be in order to be a qualified girlfriend also had to follow him every day to climb up hundreds of steps.

The past just wasn’t worth mentioning anymore.

Although Wen Ning stood up as straight as possible, not to call her posture too unbearable, it did not matter if she was small.

However, she still felt Zhou Yinchu’s gaze on her as clearly as if she had seen an out-of-place rat in a skyscraper.

He tugged his eyebrows in disgust and quickly adjusted the direction of his gaze.

It was as if he was seeing moving air.

When he least expected his son to open his mouth, Li Che still easily caught that something was wrong with her, only to see his mother’s face pale, Li Che subconsciously concerned, “Mom, are you okay?”

And her footsteps instantly stalled and inched forward.