In this way, if one day he can't think about it, I can still take a beautiful report card and tell him confidently that although I am not as good as him, I am not far behind, but my parents still want to get rid of me.
If he can see things openly, why can't he?
Fortunately, I never need to use this killer trick.
But I can see that he is very unhappy and has always been unhappy.
More than a week before his eighteenth birthday, one night, he went to a birthday party with his parents.
I was there that day because I had to work part-time. I was a part-time waiter at the banquet and had to carry the wine tray and shuttle between the guests.[
So I heard Mrs. Zuo proudly talking to others about her son's excellence, and I also heard the hostess of the banquet say that her son had won a grand prize in some international competition, and asked Mrs. Zuo if Zuo Sichen had participated.
Zuo Sichen didn't. He was a genius, but he was not a god who knew how to clone himself. There were so many competitions in the world, how could he go to every one of them.
But Mrs. Zuo was very angry. She felt that it was Zuo Sichen who caused her to be ridiculed by others. In the garden outside the banquet hall, she took out her anger on Zuo Sichen.
Being too far away, I couldn't hear what she said, but the words coming from such a mean face must have been hard to hear. I could see Zuo Sichen's silent profile and his tired eyes.
Zuo Sichen had just won a prize in a piano competition a few days ago, so that night, with everyone's recommendation, Zuo Sichen played a song for the birthday boy that day.
But he made a mistake. A very sudden noise broke the previously smooth notes, and even a layman like me could hear it.
And that seemed to be a low-level mistake, because soon, some people started to get weird and roundaboutly said that Zuo Sichen was too jealous to win that award. From this point of view, the large number of certificates he had won before
, not necessarily where it came from.
The person they want to attack should be Mrs. Zuo. Mrs. Zuo's face is really annoying. Maybe many people have been grudges for a long time and now they finally caught the opportunity to ridicule her.
I think Zuo Sichen was implicated by Mrs. Zuo.
But Mrs. Zuo obviously didn't understand this. After returning home that night, Zuo Sichen's life would definitely not be easy.
The next morning, I went to wait outside Zuo's mansion very early, so I saw Zuo Sichen walking out alone, with half of his cheek swollen and a red slap mark on it.
Everyone says that I am well-behaved, but actually I have always felt that I have been very cautious and calm since I was a child, because my grandfather only has me as his granddaughter. I have to take care of myself and not let my grandfather worry. I have no right to be reckless.
But that morning, when I saw Zuo Sichen with a swollen face, I really wanted to rush into Zuo's house and slap Mrs. Zuo in return.
I can definitely do it. Even though I am young, I have been working since I was a child, and my strength has long surpassed that of ordinary children.
But if I really do this, Zuo Sichen will definitely hate me.
Because he is a big idiot, no matter how badly his mother treats him, he will stubbornly continue to be his filial son, and he will not tolerate anyone beating his mother.
I never thought he would like me, but I didn't want him to hate me either.
So that morning, I could only follow Zuo Sichen, that hopeless idiot, and watch him walk into a drugstore, buy some ointment, come out, sit on a bench in the garden in the middle of the street, and apply the ointment.
He was a high-spirited top student in the eyes of his classmates, and the prince of the Zuo family who was born with a silver spoon in the eyes of his friends. But that morning, I only saw him sitting alone on a chair, waiting for the redness and swelling on his face to subside before he could go to school.