[Mrs. Ichinose asks you about your future plans and who you like. ]
[You didn't answer, just said to wait. ]
[What you have to wait for is not yourself, but Jing. ]
[You rejected the girl's request to find a job after graduating from high school and asked her to work hard to enter university. Under your urging, she was admitted to Waseda University with excellent grades.]
[You are not satisfied with this result. You sigh that Jing's IQ is indeed not as good as Yuko's, and at most slightly higher than Yimei's.]
[After graduating from university, she joined a large company. Her career was very smooth and she was promoted to a junior leader shortly after her internship.]
[She talks to you and says that she feels that she can support you. She asks you to quit your job and she will give you money.]
[This is her compensation. She decided to support you for life. She is confident that she can do this. Her salary is not bad.]
[What she doesn't know is that this company is your secret industry, and her promotion is not only due to her ability, but also because of your secret support.]
[You agreed to Jing's request. For you, it was just a change of place to lie down. Jing gave you all her salary except for living expenses. This was not savings, but your pocket money.]
[You think it feels good to be raised by your daughter like this. ]
[Only Mrs. Ichinose was a little dissatisfied. You didn't have to pretend to go to work, and you didn't have to go to the Ichinose family's old house. She came to your house, sometimes with Shiori, sometimes not.]
[You are still waiting.]
[Finally, Yuko Moritani, who lost all 200 million, thought of you and your daughter. She learned about her daughter's position and was ecstatic.]
[She told the lender that she had a daughter who was a section chief in a large company, and she got the loan amount and gambled freely.]
[When the lender started to urge her, she left the card table and went to look for her daughter.]
[She fully expected that her daughter would be as obedient as she was in school and would use her savings to help her fill the hole.]
[She also thought that her daughter had just been promoted and might not have saved so much money, but it didn’t matter. With such a large company, her daughter could easily withdraw some funds to pay off her debts.]
Memory scenes emerge.
Looking at the woman in front of her, Jing felt a little strange.
The wrinkles on the woman's face, the fatigue in the corners of her eyes, her shapeless figure, and her hoarse voice due to smoke made Jing stare at her for a long time before she could see the shadow of her mother in her memory.
The woman's crying and requesting have emotional meaning.
"Help mom, you are all I have!" Yuko held her daughter's hand tightly and looked at her pleadingly.
The touch from the back of the hand startled Jingxin. The woman's palms were so rough, completely different from the touch she remembered.
"How did you become like this?" She was puzzled.
In her memory, Yuko and Mrs. Ichinose were about the same age, but now, they seemed like two generations apart.
"Because those debt collectors are torturing me, I can't eat or sleep well!" Yuko made up a story in an attempt to win her daughter's sympathy.
Her aged face is due to time and her own neglect.
When Nan Youxi was around, she felt psychological pressure and paid attention to her appearance. After divorcing Nan Youxi, she devoted all her energy to playing mahjong and poker. She was too lazy to eat, didn't want to sleep, and didn't take care of herself or maintain her appearance.
Her face is therefore defenseless against the passage of time.
She didn't think appearance was important. If she could exchange her youth for gambling money, she could exchange herself for the age of an old lady.
She thought back to last night's card game, squeezed out tears, and looked at her daughter in front of her.
The grudge in Jing's heart was erased by Yuko's skillful act of pity. She looked at her mother, feeling hesitant.
"Tonight is the deadline for them to ask for money. I really had no choice but to find you." Yuko exaggerated her cold-blooded indifference over the years as a spirit of sacrifice that showed she did not want to disturb her daughter's life.
Jing didn't believe it, but she believed the tears in Yuko's eyes.
She nodded.
She took out her bank card and withdrew all the money from the bank next door.
Her smile faltered as she unzipped her purse.
There were only five Yukichi notes and 50,000 yen in the handbag.
"Why are there only these!" Yuko's expression was stiff. She stared coldly at her daughter's face, trying to figure out if her daughter was fooling her.
“These are all I saved.”
Jing was a little troubled by her mother's questioning.
"Impossible, you are the section chief, section chief!" Yuko lowered her voice and yelled at her daughter.
"I gave all the money to Dad."
"Then go get it from him!"
"Dad has used it all."
"Impossible, I know today is your payday! There's no way he can spend it so quickly!"
“That salary has not yet been transferred to Dad.”
"Then give it to me!"
"Can't."
"Why?" Yuko looked at her daughter in astonishment. Her head hurt a little. She vaguely realized that her daughter seemed different from before.
Her daughter's obedience and blind loyalty to her have not disappeared. What went wrong
She soon found out from her daughter's answer.
"Because my dad needs it. He wants to renovate the game room at home." Jing said calmly.
"I have a creditor asking for payment!" Yuko couldn't help but raise her voice.
"Dad has been thinking about buying new equipment since last month."
"I am in a hurry!"
"Dad is also very anxious."
"Then go transfer some money to the company's account!"
"If I get caught, there will be no one to support my father."
Yuko took a step back and realized the problem. Her privilege in her daughter's heart had not changed, but there was one more privileged person, and the other person's ranking and priority were higher than her. Only after satisfying the other person would her daughter satisfy her.
She took the fifty thousand and left temporarily.
[Jing gave all her money to you. She couldn't agree to her mother's request.]
[I don't know when, your position in her heart has surpassed that of her mother. Maybe it was when you went bankrupt, maybe it was when you came back from your first day as a food deliveryman, maybe it was when she started to support you.]
[She returned home and gave you the remaining money. Seeing you excitedly planning to buy more equipment, she felt happy too.]
[She thought back to her meeting with her mother. This was a relatively successful reunion, but it did not stir any special emotions in her heart.]
[When you are with your mother, she only wants to come back to be with you as soon as possible.]
[She told you about Yuko.]
[You asked her opinion, and she thought her mother was a bit troublesome, but she was still willing to give her the money you had left.]
[You then expanded the equipment purchase list and used it as an excuse to increase your own pocket money, so that every penny of Jing's money would be used by you, and she would not be able to share it with Yuko.]
[Jing was a little troubled, but had no objection.]
(End of this chapter)