As a child, Asuna always felt that celebrating the New Year in her hometown was quite natural.
However, since reaching the age of entering junior high school, Asuna gradually felt that this routine was suffocating.
Relatives from my hometown gather together to celebrate the New Year. At best, it’s a reunion, but at worst, it’s a battlefield to compete with each other.
Because they all come from famous families and are related to the same family, everyone wants to show that they have developed better than others. No matter which family they belong to, they want their children to be able to outdo others. On the battlefield of the Yuuki family Dominate oneself, become the best among many relatives, let others look at oneself with envy, and try to compare oneself with others, showing one's success in life and high social status.
This is a kind of human nature.
Just like today's class reunion, to put it nicely, it means that classmates who have not seen each other for a long time are catching up on old times, but to put it worse, it is just to show off each other and let others see how you are developing now, how others have lost to you, and how you are doing better. Struggling at the bottom of society
Even a small class reunion is like this, let alone a big family that has developed for more than two hundred years. Almost any situation is likely to happen.
It is also because of this that parents are desperately trying to climb up, just want to obtain a higher social status, and they don't care about getting along with their children. The children also have almost no childhood, only breathless memories. Obtaining study tasks and grades is the current situation of many big families, including the Yuuki family.
Asuna was like that in the past. In order not to fall behind others, she accepted the so-called elite education as a matter of course. That's why after entering SAO, she couldn't accept that she was imprisoned there. Others were learning and growing, while she was just The fact that you can waste time in the so-called game of death.
For this reason, Asuna completely gave up on herself in the early stage, and even later she worked hard to clear the game faster, return to the real world, and make up for the lost time. She turned into a ghost of the strategy, which was almost inhumane.
Now, although Asuna has escaped from trouble and successfully returned to reality, she is very clear about how her relatives in her hometown will view her after she wasted two years.
Those cousins, cousins, cousins, and cousins who studied in extremely famous and prestigious schools, and strived to be the best among them, and became model students, would definitely look at her with pity, sympathizing with and pitying Asuna. Did you lose so quickly in a competition that has been going on since you were born
Of course, Asuna's current self is completely different from her former self.
In the past, Asuna was indeed the same as the children in the Yuki family. They only wanted to study hard, improve themselves, get into a good university, and then work in a big company to become a so-called successful person and stand in the family. Above all others, but now, Asuna has no such compulsion at all.
She likes the school she's currently attending, even if it's not a prestigious school.
She likes her current life, even if others can't understand why she is wasting time in games.
And her ultimate goal is to form a family with the man she loves most in front of her in the real world and build a real home.
In view of this, the pity of her cousins, uncles and parents was nothing more than a gentle breeze blowing across Asuna's inner surface, and had no effect on Asuna at all.
However, relatives probably cannot understand this kind of value, and they will only think that it is the legacy of VRMMO on Asuna.
In this way, one can imagine how Asuna would not want Luo Zhen to go to her hometown, and how exhausted she would be.
And naturally they couldn't understand what Luo Zhen's position was now.
It is true that Luo Zhen is cooperating with the state. This is something that many people know.
However, what they know is actually very limited.
For example, everyone including Asuna knows that Luo Zhen is the real owner of "The Seed". He is now cooperating with the country through virtual classes to earn royalties and game income. He is rich and has a lot of money. Sometimes I have some contact with hypothetical classes, but that’s it.
For another example, Yuuki Shozo, who once saw Luo Zhen asking the country to take action and send someone to treat Asuna, knew that Luo Zhen was different from other high school students and was very special, but he only thought that it was Luo Zhen who was a SAO middle school student. The identity of the hero has attracted the attention of the country, and he has some contact with the country. To put it more clearly, he thinks that Luo Zhen is doing unknown work for the country because of his special experience, and therefore has channels that he is not aware of. .
And who would have thought that Luo Zhen could actually come up with technology that was not available in this world, and that he could even have a way to compete with the country itself, in a situation of mutual cooperation and mutual utilization
No one would believe that a high school student could achieve this. Therefore, Luo Zhen's special experience and identity may surprise the Yuki family, but it will only result in contempt and ridicule.
In the eyes of these people, no matter how successful Luo Zhen is in SAO, it is still just a harmful death game. Touching that kind of cancer is like working in the underworld, which is simply a black history.
Of course, no matter how much money Luo Zhen has, he has no family business, no business, and no good background. At best, he is just a nouveau riche and cannot stand on the stage.
Just as poverty can limit people's imagination, Luo Zhen's age and background will also limit the imagination of many people, making them unable to imagine that Luo Zhen is not working for the country, but cooperating with the country on an equal footing.
Although the Yuki family has some energy, except for the relative who is said to be able to enter the highest level of the national government, no one else knows about Luo Zhen's energy, right
This is also the reason why Asuna's mother has never wanted to see Luo Zhen.
"...Originally, my mother did not agree to take you back to my hometown, but my father has already agreed to our marriage, and his status does not allow the Yuki family to break their promise. Mother can only prepare to be laughed at by others at the family banquet. "
Speaking of this, Asuna's eyes became even more tired, but she couldn't help her emotions.
"They have no idea how powerful you are."
This was Asuna's idea.
Even Asuna doesn't know Luo Zhen's position, but she believes that with Luo Zhen's ability, he will definitely defeat those relatives who only compete with each other.
To suppress Luo Zhen based on his identity and background is an act no different from that of a nouveau riche.
Luo Zhen could imagine that Asuna and her family must have had a lot of discussions and arguments about this matter.
Otherwise, Asuna's smile wouldn't be so forced and her eyes wouldn't be so tired.
Naturally, Luo Zhenchong was not targeting Asuna, but the Yuuki family and the Yuuki family members.
"let's go."
Luo Zhen didn't say anything, he just expressed this to Asuna.
"and you... "
Asuna immediately looked at Luo Zhen with a worried face.
"I'm fine." Luo Zhen touched Asuna's head and said, "Trust me."
"...Hmm." Asuna nodded.
The two of them then left together, heading towards Yuki's house.