I'm a sophomore in college, what the heck is this "male god cultivation system"?

Chapter 108 Family
Soon, Shuhe also completed her vision test. After the relevant tests, the final conclusion was that her left eye prescription had increased by fifty degrees.

Chen Yan was too lazy to haggle and just bought both pairs of glasses.

For low myopia like Shuhe's, most optical shops have the lenses in stock. Only lenses with myopia higher than 600 degrees need to be custom-made.

The lens correction would take about thirty minutes. During this break, Chen Yan took Shu He to browse the snack shop upstairs.

Chen Yan didn't particularly like snacks, but since he was already there, he might as well buy a bunch, just like he was stocking up on supplies.

Half an hour later, the two of them, carrying three large bags of snacks and having received the finished glasses, took the elevator to the underground parking garage.

……

"Let me take you home first."

"Huh?" Shu He was clearly taken aback when she heard Chen Yan say that, and after a moment she said, "Aren't we filming today?"

“It’s almost three o’clock. Anyway, we can’t shoot for much longer, so just consider it a paid vacation.” Chen Yan said while adjusting the rearview mirror, “If you’re shy, just put in a little more effort when taking photos in the next few days.”

"Then don't transfer the money to me today," Shu He said seriously. "You've already invested a lot in me today, and I haven't done anything, so I can't take any more money from you..."

"That little bit of money..." Chen Yan wanted to make a joke, but seeing Shu He's serious expression, he nodded and said, "Okay, then I won't transfer the money to you today. Let's postpone it for a day."

"it is good."

Once you've been there, you're familiar with it. After arriving at Shuhe's neighborhood with ease, the two said goodbye to each other.

Shu He unbuckled her seatbelt and was about to get out of the car when Chen Yan suddenly pointed to the three bags of snacks on the back seat and said, "You bought too many. Take one bag with you."

"No need, no need." Shu He waved her hand, just about to make up a reason to refuse, when Chen Yan spoke up:

"I don't eat snacks much, and it's inconvenient to take so many back... Just consider it a company benefit, take it, and I'll work harder at work."

Seeing Chen Yan's serious expression, Shu He didn't refuse again. After getting out of the car, she opened the back door, took out a bag of snacks, and then waved to Chen Yan sitting in the car.

Goodbye, Chen Yan.

"Okay, goodbye." Chen Yan waved back, then added as if he had just remembered something, "Oh, by the way, send a message to let them know you're safe when you get home."

"I will, bye."

After saying that, Shu He turned and walked towards the gate of the residential area.

……

As she climbed the stairs and was about to reach her front door, Shu He suddenly tensed up and couldn't help but take out her old glasses from her pocket and put them on.

But after hesitating for a moment, she gave up the idea, took a deep breath, and took out her keys to open the door.

"squeak……"

The old door creaked open with a harsh sound. Shu He went inside and slammed the door shut.

"Xiao He, you're back so early today."

A woman who looked to be nearly fifty years old walked towards Shu He, rubbing her lower back. Shu He clenched her fists tightly, trying her best to calm herself down.

"Mmm," she responded softly.

As she responded, the woman had already walked up to her.

"Why are you off work so early today..." Shu's mother was halfway through her sentence when she noticed the change in Shu He the moment she saw her. She suddenly stopped speaking.

"You didn't go to work today? Did you go to get your hair done or get new glasses?"

"Hmm." Shu He nodded, already sensing what was about to happen.

When she was very young, her mother lost her ability to work due to severe ankylosing spondylitis and could only stay at home as a full-time housewife.

Perhaps due to her illness, or perhaps because of her strong personality, and having more time to manage her daughter after she stopped working, Shu's mother displayed an extremely strong desire to control her daughter in a series of matters.

When she was very young, Shuhe, like many children, loved beauty. However, she never had the right to choose her own clothes or hairstyle. Every time she protested, she was only met with her mother's scolding. Over time, she got used to her plain appearance.

In almost every aspect of her life—studies, friendships, diet, and daily life—Shu's mother had considerable control. This suffocating sense of being controlled led Shu He to even contemplate suicide during junior high school.

Fortunately, she got into high school.

Although Shuhe's high school wasn't a top-tier school, it was still quite strict in its management. They only had one day off every two weeks, and because her home was far from the school, Shuhe chose to live on campus...

Therefore, apart from having to go home every day of her rest at her mother's insistence, Shuhe felt free the rest of the time.

While her classmates complained about the oppressive feeling of high school life, which felt like a prison, Shuhe even felt a sense of freedom...

This freedom was broken again during her university years. Her mother demanded that she call her every day to report on her life and studies, and that she must come home every Saturday and Sunday.

Once, Shuhe was so tired after a long day of classes that she went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and forgot to call her mother. Then she received more than ten phone calls in a row. The first thing she heard when she answered the phone was her mother's cursing.

While everyone else was enjoying the freedom of university life, Shu He longed to return to high school, to that alternative kind of "free life".

In fact, while getting her hair cut today, she had a premonition that she would have a conflict with her mother over this matter, but under Chen Yan's firm tone and her last remaining desire for beauty, she finally obediently walked into the hair salon.

"So you told me you were going to work, but you actually went to get a haircut and go shopping!" Shu's mother's voice suddenly rose eight octaves, and her face turned even more gloomy. "Do you know that our family is not well-off, and the burden of the family rests entirely on your father's shoulders?"

Hearing these incredibly familiar words come out of her mother's mouth again, Shu He felt a surge of powerlessness, but after many years, the urge to rebel rose again.

"I know, but I'm not spending your money to go..."

Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by her mother's even sharper voice.

"You haven't spent our money all these years? How can you be so heartless? You have no idea about the burden on the family. Your father and I have raised such an ungrateful child all these years?"

Shu He clenched her fists, feeling dizzy and having an urge to cry.

She didn't know what she had done wrong to deserve such a harsh reprimand.

(End of this chapter)