novelraw Chapter 544: Do Poor People Not Deserve to Live?
Chapter 544: Do Poor People Not Deserve to Live?
Xiong Zhi scored 98 in yesterday’s quiz, causing his constantly arguing parents to weep with joy, and also stirring up the entire school district.He barely slept all night, holding a few classical Chinese extracurricular guidebooks and reading tirelessly, feeling that what used to be incomprehensible texts from the Heavenly Book now seemed as easy to read as novels or comics.
Just as Teacher Cao Yu said, "Why be nervous? In ancient times, classical Chinese was just like today’s novels. Those ancient examination scholars were just like our current college entrance examinees. It’s no big deal."
Even though he hardly slept, he got up early in the morning and scrolled through Shark Livestream, only to find that his dear Teacher Cao Yu had actually been banned, banned, banned, damn it!
The comment section was filled with fans from last night, furiously criticizing the Shark software.
He saw familiar figures in the livestream room and went up to ask:
[Not Striving in Third Year, Wasted in Fourth Year]: Bro, what’s going on? I was still waiting for Teacher Cao Yu’s English tips today.
[Always Want to Jump High School Anxieties]: Seems like someone reported him, so much jealousy around. I’m more anxious than you; there’s a Level 4 exam tomorrow, and I did a mock test this morning... 35 points.
[Not Striving in Third Year, Wasted in Fourth Year]: Oh my god, bro, you’re worse than me, at most I just fail, but you got 35?! There’s no hope! Ah, wait, when Teacher Cao Yu comes online, maybe you still have a chance.
[Always Want to Jump High School Anxieties]: It’s okay, no need to comfort me. I actually know deep down, with senior year starting soon, if I don’t pass the Level 4 exam, I can’t even get my diploma, let alone find a job... I might really only have the path of jumping off the roof left.
[Not Striving in Third Year, Wasted in Fourth Year]: Don’t do that, bro, let’s protest to Shark Livestream together, bring back Teacher Cao Yu soon, don’t jump yet...
The other person’s avatar dimmed.
It made Xiong Zhi anxious.
In the slums of the outskirts of the imperial capital.
In a cramped loft of a dilapidated building.
Junior college student, Li Xiaolou, with a weathered and haggard appearance beyond his years, held an old model phone, shaking it a few times and sighing, "The internet’s out again..."
In the less than ten square meter pigeonhole-like loft, there were two small beds.
On one lay an unconscious woman, his mother, who had been in a vegetative state for three years due to a car accident; on the other was a six-year-old girl, his sister, who was about to start elementary school.
The year he entered university, his father died in a car accident. He managed, bearing the responsibility for his young sister and caring for his vegetative mother, by gritting his teeth and working multiple part-time jobs to barely make it through his three years of college.
The doctor said that for his mother, there’s a new treatment method worth trying, but it requires a lot of money.
If he can graduate and find a high-paying job, there’s a chance his mother might recover.
But if he can’t even pass the Level 4 exam, all of this is just a dream.
Looking at the two sleeping figures, glancing at the limited balance in his bank card, and thinking about tomorrow’s Level 4 exam... he truly felt like he couldn’t hold on any longer.
The weight of academics, life, and future suffocated him. Many times, he thought about jumping off this precarious little loft to end it all.
But if he dies, who will take care of his mother till her last breath? What kind of fate would await his six-year-old sister who could end up on the streets?
But if he doesn’t jump, this heavy life, every day opening his eyes he has to find money, and to earn money for the family he doesn’t have time to focus on studying, if he fails in studying, he can’t earn enough money...
Poor people are like donkeys turning millstones, deadlocked in an endless loop.
Do poor people really not deserve to live?
Just as Li Xiaolou stood at the bedside, overlooking the smelly ditch below, feeling an impulse to jump.
Suddenly.
The phone vibrated.
"The broadcaster you follow has come online!"
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