Zhu Rui only felt that his pride was like a piece of paper clothes, which easily fell apart in the storm and drifted to the ground. Over the years, no matter how chaotic the family was, the glass castle she had erected inside was as tall as it was. She reads and studies hard; She struggled, worked hard, and desperately hinted to herself: as long as her personality is independent, she is noble. But in the past two years, "they" did not let her go, they had to pull her off the top of the glass castle, let her fall into the mud, and tell her that she was like this in the first place.

More than a year ago, apart from Chen Zhiyuan, even Chen Zhiyuan's parents didn't know that Zhu Rui's mother changed her marriage when she was more than a year old......

More than 30 years ago, when Zhu Rui's biological father went out to work, he heard rumors about Zhu's mother's misbehavior from fellow villagers and relatives who came to visit relatives. After his biological father got into a fight with his fellow villagers, he was fired by the contractor. I was going to go home and take Zhu's mother out to work together, but as soon as I got home, I bumped into Zhu's mother and another Zhu in the same village who were in the new house, and the angry biological father not only kicked Zhu's mother out, but also suspected that Zhu Rui was not his blood, and kicked him out of the house. Zhu's mother was born when she was young, and she had some means, although this matter caused a stir in the village, a few months later, Zhu's mother successfully married herself into a new home, and with the new Zhu's blood in her belly, she held Zhu Rui in her arms and restarted her new daughter-in-law.

Zhu Rui is reluctant to recall the growing time of his childhood. Although her adoptive father treated her well, since she was sensible, the gossip in the village began to provoke her. Zhu Rui's spirit and body matured early, and those ignorant boys began to feel deeply inferior every time they learned from the private appearance of adults and used some vulgar language to ridicule her. Fortunately, she discovered the benefits of studying early, and her grades have been good, and she was able to enter a key high school in the county in high school and began to live away from home. She was admitted to a key university in the southwest region, thousands of kilometers away from home, and in a place where no one knew her, she finally began to dream of living her own life.

Maybe the flip side of low self-esteem is conceit. In the next ten years, she slowly transformed herself into a different look, just like the state that Feng Nan once felt, which was so cold, quiet, and lonely.

She never felt that there was anything wrong with her ungroundedness, even if the feedback from her colleagues was not so friendly, or the stiff relationship with her subordinates was questioned for her lack of leadership, but she only wished that God would have mercy on her, so that she could always live behind this armor, only to see the wings without the weakness.

It's a pity that life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten.

More than a year ago, Zhu's mother suddenly visited Zhu Rui and Chen Zhiyuan's rented home in Beijing, breaking Zhu Rui's peaceful life for nearly 10 years.

In fact, Zhu Rui's arrival surprised Zhu Rui. In order to avoid too much intersection between her mother's family and her husband's family, she gave up the opportunity to have a dream wedding in her life as an independent woman in the new era, and Chen Zhiyuan and Chen Zhiyuan came on a cross-border trip to get married.

After coming to Beijing, Zhu Rui never even gave his mother an accurate address to the district. When Chen Zhiyuan brought his mother home, Zhu Rui, who was taking care of the newborn baby, was keenly aware of the arrival of the crisis. A few days before her mother came, she behaved unusually caring and friendly, and Chen's father and Chen's mother, who were already tired, suddenly felt relieved, and they were very polite to their mother-in-law, only Zhu Rui became more and more uneasy. She complained that Chen Zhiyuan brought his mother without consulting her, and Chen Zhiyuan shouted that his mother-in-law called him when he arrived at Beijing West Railway Station, and he had no reason to let it go. Seeing Zhu Rui's sorrowful clouds, Chen Zhiyuan comforted her and said that his mother-in-law wanted to repair the relationship with her and persuaded her not to think too much. Zhu Rui just shook his head out of a certain frequency, closed his eyes and said to himself, "No, you don't know her too well." If she was fine, she would never come to me. ”

Finally on a quiet afternoon, Chen's father and Chen's mother went out to reunite with classmates from the northeast, and after sending off Chen Fangyu, who was in a small class, Zhu Rui waited for his mother's crying drama as he wished.

didn't say anything about the cause and effect, Tao Chunhua asked for 500,000 cash as soon as she opened her mouth, which made Zhu Rui's temples jump violently. She knew that behind the number would not be a small matter. Sure enough, Zhu's mother saw that she was angry and silent, so she had to tell the cause and effect in detail, and just talked about the half-brother Zhu Cong who was obsessed with gambling in the urban village of Shenzhen, and the brother-in-law was getting a divorce, Zhu Rui stood up with a cold face and said to Tao Chunhua word by word: "I don't even have 50,000." Five thousand will not be given either. ”

Zhu's mother was quite calm, as if she had expected her daughter's reaction, leaned on the edge of the entrance, picked her nails and said: "You can't die like this and not save it, I still protect you, I didn't keep the phone number left by the loan shark, it was all your brother's." After speaking, both eyes turned to the right, and peeked at Zhu Rui's reaction.

Zhu Rui quickly caught the meaning of his mother's words, jumped up from the sofa in shock, pointed at Zhu's mother and scolded, "How can there be a mother like you!" ”

Tao Chunhua simply broke the jar and broke it, leaned on the edge of the multi-treasure shelf in the entrance, crooked down as if there were no bones, and cried: "I think when your father threw you out, if I hadn't protected you, you would have died a long time ago!" Now we are just in trouble, you don't want to help, where in the world is you like a daughter! ”

The mother and daughter were in a stalemate for a long time, until Chen's father and Chen's mother returned home, and when they opened the door, they saw their mother-in-law sitting on the ground with her hair scattered and crying. When he was still unclear about the situation, he saw Zhu's mother crawling to the door, grabbed Chen's father's thigh and hugged him for help, which made Chen's mother scream.

Zhu Rui ran from the living room trembling, ashamed and embarrassed to drag his mother, but in exchange for Tao Chunhua's pig-like howl, while hugging his father-in-law's legs, he shouted: "Money is important or life is important!" Your brother and I are going to be hacked to death, and you don't care! In-laws, save me! ”

Chen's father and Chen's mother, who had been smooth for half his life, had seen such a scene, and he called Chen Zhiyuan back in a hurry. Chen Zhiyuan ran back with a stunned face, and saw that a room full of people were entangled, and while going up to pull it away, he said to his mother-in-law in the tone of the head of the family: "Mom, if you have anything to do, you tell me, I will call the shots for you." Then Tao Chunhua talked all the way from how she was abandoned, how she endured humiliation and dragged her children to adulthood, all the way to the difficulty of gambling debts today. Hearing this, Chen's father and Chen's mother looked at each other, unbelievable that they had formed such a family, and regretted that they favored Zhu Rui himself too much, and allowed the two of them to get their marriage certificate without having a face-to-face with their in-laws.

And Zhu Rui was even more devastated, those words were like a sharp knife, little by little to break through her wounds that had already scabbed on the surface, seemingly healing, but the blood flowed out with a light poke. For the first time, she shouted madly in front of her parents-in-law: "Don't say it, I won't give you a penny!" ”

Tao Chunhua looked at her daughter's cold eyes and closed her mouth knowingly.

Chen's mother, Tang Jingju, asked a little blankly, "No...... This...... How much do you have to give? ”

Seeing that Chen Chunhua was about to open her mouth again, Zhu Rui took the lead and said: "Pack your luggage and go back to Shenzhen to find your son!" I'll call you 50,000 yuan in the next two days. After speaking, she took a step closer, stared at Tao Chunhua with two eyes, and roared angrily: "If you talk nonsense again, I will let you pay off your money!" Hear no! ”