Marry someone you can see eye-to-eye with

  Mom stood beside the kitchen, directing me, after sticking two slices of cucumber on her face, and then holding the remaining cucumber slices to tease me.

  I stuck a few pieces on my forehead and temples.

  I turned away with a resistant face, but the chopping in my hand didn't stop, carefully washing the vegetables.

  "There is no ugly woman, only lazy women."

  "Mom, don't interfere with me cooking."

  "A man looks for a wife with his eyes. You should dress up and look good."

  Mom taught me with bitter words and kind heart.

  "Uh-huh." I replied vaguely.

  Mom gave me a sideways glance, with dissatisfaction flowing between her eyebrows.

  "A woman as refined as I am, how could she have given birth to someone like you..." My mother scrutinized me with the eyes of a beautician, "Firstly, you don't love dressing up, secondly, you don't know how to take care of yourself, and thirdly, you're not even good at being coquettish."

  Pinching my plain face, my mother's eyes were filled with guilt towards me.

  "It's your father and I who are useless, busy with work every day, without properly teaching you how to become a lovely girl!"

  "Mom, don't say that." I smiled slightly, "I'm a hard stone, no matter how you teach me, I won't learn!"

  Mom gave me a fried chestnut.

  "I originally thought that as you grew up, seeing other girls wearing beautiful clothes and accessories, you would gradually learn to take care of yourself. But it turns out that the better you are at doing household chores, the less you care about your appearance." Mom said with a sigh.

  "Mom, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses."

  I'm not neglecting my appearance either, but meeting the requirements of a senior beautician like my mother is quite challenging.

  Throw a basket of vegetables to mom.

  "Help me wash the eggplant."

  Mom reluctantly tore off a piece of cucumber, she knew this move was to shut me up.

  "Considering you've successfully found a boyfriend, I won't nag you anymore." Mom washed the eggplant by herself.

  "Mom, why do you always say contradictory things?" I put the dishes into the pot and thought it was necessary to let Dad and Mom prepare - Hua Jingyan is my creditor, and I have become someone's maid.

  "Previously, they urged me not to rush into finding a boyfriend, now they can't wait for me to get married."

  Based on what I know about my parents, Dad and Mom will probably brag to the neighbors again that she has a foreign boyfriend. Before long, the whole family will immigrate.

  Please, Hua Jingyan was never my boyfriend in the first place.

  And also, this guy Hua Jingyan is really despicable, how can he mislead dad and mom.

  Mom didn't know I was harboring evil intentions in my heart and let out a sigh of sorrow.

  "Before, I asked Su Na to introduce a boyfriend to you, and when she came back, you scolded her fiercely. If I didn't say this, would you still cook for us two poor old ladies?" Mom crossed her arms, with discontent all over her delicate face.

  "Mom, don't you see what kind of boyfriend Liang Sona introduced me to?"

  "As long as there's money, it's fine!"

  I glared at mom.

  "Mom? Didn't you tell me to study hard and be an elegant lady?"

  "Exactly! What kind of bait catches what kind of fish! Only when we've cultivated you into a lady can we find a rich and noble son-in-law for you!"

  I stared at my mother in shock, my ears refusing to believe that this was the true purpose behind Mother Chun's teachings.

  My gaze pierced through Mom's eyes. Mom let out a sigh of sorrow.

  "Daughter, it's not about your father and I being influential, but when you see money, your eyes light up. In this world, if you don't have money, you're considered inferior. Your mother has been working at the beauty salon for so many years, and all she's met are rich people's wives. Their lives of luxury and leisure, that's what life is supposed to be like. Our hard labor is just survival... Mom doesn't want you, a girl, to work like a man!"