You can't go, you can't leave
Fen Lei had no idea, and didn't know that Luo Lian, who had always been obedient and listened to her, was about to leave her. Luo Lian hadn't even had a chance to tell Fen Lei the "good news", nor did she have the opportunity to say a word to her.
The day before she left, she sat upright on a wooden chair waiting for Fan Rui until late at night. Lu Lian returned the bank card with tuition fees to her and said that she didn't go to school to pay tuition fees but planned to set off to Mingwan, Lydia.
Luo Lian knew that Fan Rui would be surprised, but she didn't expect Fan Rui's face to turn dark blue. She sat paralyzed on the edge of the bed for half a day before saying: "Such a big thing, you actually just did it yourself without thinking. Tomorrow I'll go to school and ask around to see if we can let you pay the tuition fees again and redo the registration procedures."
The smile on Lu Lian's face was gone, "Mom, I really want to go to Mingwan University, I don't want to attend this university here! I've grown up, I want to choose my own path..."
Lian hadn't finished speaking when Fan Rui interrupted her: "What do you know? How can you understand the path you've chosen? Don't give up on a good road and repeat past mistakes, insisting on taking that dead-end road!" Fan Rui said this, then suddenly stopped, as if realizing she had misspoken, and hurriedly rephrased: "There aren't many good roads to take in life. The two of us have struggled for over a decade, and finally you got into college. You're saying you won't go? Don't say anything else. I'll take tomorrow off and go to the school! All you do is cause trouble for me!"
"Mom, I really want to go to Ming Bay, Lia......" Luo Lian begged, but Fan Rui ignored her. Fan Rui turned his back on her and fell asleep, while Luo Lian lay awake all night, her heart racing like a demon. She had to go to Ming Bay, Lia, she thought for a whole night, and if Fan Rui didn't show any mercy, she would have to sneak out tomorrow.
Fan Rui burst into the room suddenly on the second day in the afternoon, startling Luo Lian. "Mom, why are you back at this time?"
"Lotus, I've been asking the school for half a day and they agreed to give you another chance to report." She indeed didn't go to work but went to school instead.
"Mom, what's going on...?" Luolian didn't know what to say, and got anxious with a red face: "Mom, if I really want to enter this school, I don't need to wait for them to give me another chance! I know what I want now, clearer than ever before! What are you doing?! From childhood to adulthood, I've never disobeyed you, but this one time I wanted to take charge myself, and instead of getting a word of encouragement from you, I'm met with such huge obstacles!" Luolian sat down on the stool, determined: "This time I must go, I don't want to spend my whole life stuck here, regretting it until the day I die! Sooner or later, you'll know that your way of educating me is wrong!"
"Even if I'm wrong, you can't go!" Fang Rui interrupted her.
"Why can't I go?"
"Exactly, I just can't go!"
"Mom, if you're worried that I'll be far away from home, don't worry about it. Many kids have to leave their homes!"
Fán ruǐ's eyes began to sparkle, "Luò lián, can't you go?"
Luo Lian shook her head: "Mom, I'm really helpless. Ming Wan Li Ya is my only true choice."
"Luolian, you... are you... remembering something?" asked Fan Rui stutteringly.
"What?" Luo Lian didn't understand what she was asking, "Did I forget something?"
She looked at him in confusion, and didn't continue speaking. "Nothing, nothing. I just don't understand, why you have to go somewhere else, what's so good about... Malaysia? What's there that's so attractive to you all..."
"Who...are they?"
"No, I'm telling you...". Tongue-tied and speechless, knowing she couldn't control herself from saying more wrong things, she quickly changed the subject: "I can only take half a day off, you go to school for registration this afternoon by yourself, must go! Must go!" After that, she went back to work.
