I was born and listened to my neighbor's older sister talk about her family of origin.

The security door slammed shut.

Cheng Jinglan released Xu Zhiyu's hand, took a few steps forward, grabbed the wine bottle in the man's hand on the sofa, and smashed it on the ground with a loud crash.

The shrill sound made Xu Zhiyu flinch.

Cheng Jinglan ignored her and screamed at the man, "Xu Hai! How long are you going to stay so dejected?!"

"You have tens of millions in debt! Do you expect us, mother and daughter, to pay it off?!"

"You don't even care about your daughter; she's been kidnapped and you didn't even know!"

Xu Hai had a scraggly beard, looked dejected, and had unfocused eyes. He ignored Cheng Jinglan's angry curses, got up, grabbed another bottle of wine, and gulped it down.

Cheng Jinglan burst into tears and covered her face as she cried.

"How could I have been so blind as to marry you?!"

"Arrogant, disdainful, and utterly stupid! You managed to squander billions of dollars! Xu Hai! You're a complete waste!! A complete waste!!"

Xu Hai finally couldn't take it anymore, smashed the wine bottle in his hand on the ground, and roared.

"Fuck!! You fucking think I wanted this?! Do you think I wanted to live like this?!"

"It's all because you're a good-for-nothing, utterly useless coward!!!"

Seeing her father's hysteria and her mother's angry shouts and tears, Xu Zhiyu silently returned to her small room.

She picked up the teddy bear from the bed and hugged it to her chest, curling herself into a ball. Her once bright black eyes were now dull and lifeless.

My stomach started rumbling.

She hadn't even eaten a few bites of the rice in Aunt Hao's bowl.

I really want to eat a few more bites of sweet and sour fish.

She hadn't spent much time playing with her younger brother yet.

Actually, she really liked her brother's smile, and she didn't mind letting him pinch her cheeks a little longer.

Amidst the arguing outside the door, Xu Zhiyu gradually drifted off to sleep.

……

For more than half a year after that, Xu Zhiyu never came to Jiang Ye's house again.

Xu Hai's promise to move out soon did not come true.

The family of three still lives in this old house, which is only a few dozen square meters.

The soundproofing in the old neighborhood was poor, and Jiang Ye could always hear arguments coming from next door.

They argue every three days and have a big argument every five days.

Jiang Ye could even glean a general idea of ​​the Xu family's current situation from the content of their argument.

The Xu family was originally one of the top wealthy families in Jiangcheng.

Jiangcheng is a second-tier city. In 2001, the wealthy families there had assets of at least several billion yuan, which was almost equivalent to tens of billions of yuan twenty years later.

Xu Hai is the second son of the Xu family.

Originally, he had parents who built a huge family business from scratch, and an older brother who inherited the family business and had a good business sense. He could have just spent his whole life being a spoiled brat.

In fact, he did just that, speeding around in his sports car every day, drinking, going to bars, and gambling—he was good at everything.

Later, when he was nearly thirty, he settled down and married a young, beautiful, and fairly well-known classical dancer.

But one day, an accident occurred, and Xu's parents and even his brother's family all passed away, and the huge business empire fell directly into his hands.

At first, Xu Hai was excited.

But later, the cutthroat world of business made him realize his own incompetence.

They were deceived time and time again, suppressed time and time again, and tricked into making wrong decisions.

Most of the people in the company were corporate spies sent by rival companies, and he knew nothing about it.

As a result, in just two years, Huike Group was completely ruined by him, leaving it with huge debts.

He sold his house, car, and even his wife's various expensive jewelry, but he still had a huge hole of 30 million.

All his former close brothers had disappeared.

So, with no other choice, Xu Hai's family moved to this remote, old, and dilapidated house, which was also the old house where his parents lived before they became wealthy.

A series of setbacks caused Xu Hai, who was already incompetent, to become increasingly decadent and turn to alcoholism.

Cheng Jinglan came from a middle-class family, but it was only because she was beautiful and a fairly well-known classical dancer in China that she was able to meet Xu Hai and marry into a wealthy family.

Her family was simply not able to help her pay off her debts, and because of this, they almost severed ties with her.

Because of debt, Cheng Jinglan was unable to divorce Xu Hai. In addition, Xu Zhiyu was also a concern and a burden to her, so she could only find a job as a dance teacher to support her family.

In the evenings, she would also teach Xu Zhiyu to study and dance.

She wouldn't allow Xu Zhiyu to go to kindergarten, feeling that the dilapidated kindergarten at the entrance of the community was not worthy of Xu Zhiyu's attendance.

So she personally taught Xu Zhiyu all the knowledge from kindergarten and even elementary school, and forced Xu Zhiyu to learn dance, etiquette, etc.

She instilled all the socialite skills she knew into Xu Zhiyu.

Little Xu Zhiyu's life is filled with dance and her mother's lessons every day. She rarely steps out of her room to play and doesn't even have a single friend to this day.

A decadent, alcoholic, and incompetent father.

A mother with an abnormally controlling nature.

It's no wonder that Xu Zhiyu could grow up mentally healthy in such a family environment!

Even after being reborn, you, still weak, cannot free Xu Zhiyu from her suffering, but even a baby has things a baby can do.

[Task: Xu Zhiyu hasn't smiled in a long time. Let's get her to smile genuinely.]

[Task Reward: 1000 RMB in cash.]

One thousand yuan?

Jiang Ye pursed his lips.

It's so-so.

At least a thousand yuan in the early 2000s was quite a lot of money.

But what's going on with this system task?

It makes you laugh one minute and cry the next.

Are they treating Xu Zhiyu like a toy?

Ok.

also.

"Son, son, quickly choose one! Choose the hundred-yuan bill, so you can be an entrepreneur and the richest man in the world!"

Hao Mei's excited voice reached my ears.

"A comb will do. You'll be a famous hairdresser like your dad someday. I've even come up with a name for you, something really cool: Tony!"

"Go away, go away! Our son can't be as useless as you!"

"Then let's choose paintbrushes, books or something, our family needs to produce a cultured person or an artist or something."

Today is Jiang Ye's first birthday celebration.

He was wearing a thick red cotton coat and a tiger-head hat, sitting quietly in place.

Now that his looks have improved by 10 points, he is much better looking than when he was born, and he has reached a level where everyone praises him.

During work hours, when Hao Mei and Jiang Cheng took her to the hair salon, she was often groped by customers.

It can also be considered a form of recognition of his good looks.

Jiang Ye glanced around at the things in front of him.

Then, under the expectant gazes of Hao Mei and Jiang Cheng, he crawled over and picked up the comb first.

Throw away.

Hao Mei breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Cheng sighed with regret.

Then Jiang Ye picked up the book again.

Throw away.

They picked up each item and then threw it away, leaving the two of them completely bewildered.

Jiang Cheng: "Son, what exactly do you want?"

Could it be that my son will end up with no job, no income, and no support?!

Jiang Ye ignored them and suddenly got up and walked towards the door.

One-year-old Jiang Ye can already walk normally.

The two of them were stunned for a moment.

"Son, where are you going?"

At just one year old, Jiang Ye has already shown potential to be smarter than his peers, not only walking faster than others but also speaking earlier.

Even now, he can still have simple conversations with them, leading Jiang Cheng to call his son a prodigy.

As expected, Jiang Ye answered his mother's question smoothly: "Go find my sister."

Jiang Chengcai: "..."

No, it's the first birthday celebration. Go find the little girl.

Hao Mei's lips twitched.

Over the past six months, Jiang Ye would occasionally call out the word "sister," and Hao Mei understood that he was looking for Xu Zhiyu.

"That brat is really loyal. He's not interested in those early education books, but he's always thinking about his older sister."

"Isn't it said that children have bad memories? We've only met a few times, how come they remember it for so long?"

Thoughts were swirling in her eyes.

Come to think of it, she hadn't seen that child in a long time.

She was well aware that the Xu couple had been arguing for so long, and she would occasionally worry about Xu Zhiyu.

No child can be happy growing up in such a family.

However, this was their family matter, and Hao Mei shouldn't interfere.

In addition, Cheng Jinglan must have said something to Xu Zhiyu, which caused Xu Zhiyu to timidly avoid her gaze whenever she occasionally saw Xu Zhiyu doing her homework in the living room through the security window when she went out.

The child might actually listen to his parents and decide not to associate with these "shady" people.

Now that her son is going to see her, she feels it's not quite right.

But at that moment, Jiang Ye had already climbed up with a small stool and opened the door.

Jiang Cheng followed closely behind him, afraid that he would fall.

But Jiang Ye took each step very steadily.

He walked directly towards the opposite door.

After a year of eavesdropping, he knew that Cheng Jinglan and Xu Hai would have already left by this time.

Cheng Jinglan is going to dance class, but Xu Hai... I don't know where he's going.

Therefore, only Xu Zhiyu was doing her homework at home.

Jiang Ye slammed his fist on the security door across the hall, making a deafening noise.

He shouted, "Sister!"

The childish voice echoed throughout the corridor, and a series of hurried clattering sounds immediately came from inside the door.