Good Man Operation Guide

Chapter 133-The Scummy Brother (1)

The slapped younger sister ran into the room crying, and the woman shouted angrily at the closed door, “It’s no use crying! You’ve been given food and water, and you’re still holding a grudge against me! Come out later and wash the clothes. Otherwise, you don’t need to go back to school!”

Not a single sound came out of the room, it was completely silent.

She was even more furious, “I’ve raised an ungrateful child for over 10 years. I shouldn’t have given birth to you in the first place! Look at your cousins, which one of them is as lucky as you are to still be in school, but they’re all working in factories! I’m telling you, Lin Shixing, I don’t owe you anything. If you keep messing around, I’ll have your father take you out of school immediately!"

Lin Shiheng coughed lightly, his tone taking on a hint of impatience, “Mom, what’s all the ruckus so early in the morning!”

The woman who had just been unhappy turned her head and saw him. Her face miraculously turned sunny, and she spoke in a gentle voice, “Shiheng is awake? It’s fine, your sister is being unruly. Just go back to your room and study, mom will call you for dinner later.”

Lin Shiheng gave her a familiar look of slight, mischievous impatience, and turned to go to his room.

The room was neither too big nor too small. The walls were covered with pictures of cool tattooed celebrities and the table was decorated with wood gun models, displaying the original owner’s interests.

Those memories gradually merged together, and Lin Shiheng got a general idea of the plot of this world.

It was still a country called China. It was now in the age of big data, prices were rising, house prices were soaring and development was stable in all areas.

Although the government kept shouting at the top of its lungs, that men and women were equal, that boys and girls were the same, and that daughters could hold up half the sky...

But there were still some Chinese people who couldn’t be persuaded, who were still firmly on the patriarchal bandwagon.

People in big cities were fine, these people tended to be more open-minded and more receptive to new ideas. In addition, after family planning was launched, even families that originally favored sons over daughters could only love the daughter when there was only one child in the family.

Whereas in smaller areas, where policies were underdeveloped and could be exploited to have more children, the patriarchal mindset was difficult to change.

The original owner’s parents were such people. Born in a small village in the middle of nowhere, what they grew up seeing and hearing was the idea that girls were worthless and had to be married off sooner or later, and that only boys were the family’s support and could provide them with a pension in the future.

As a result, they were very straightforwardly patriarchal.

The original owner was the family’s first child, and when he was 2 years old, his mother became pregnant again. The country issued a family planning policy, but the small, backward village was able to escape the forced abortion from above. They just had to pay a fine if they wanted to register the birth.

At that time, the Lin family was hesitant. After all, they already had a male child, and they had to pay a fine for another one. In the end, they didn’t want to abort, so they gave birth to their youngest daughter.

Female children and male children were already treated differently in the minds of their parents, not to mention that the birth of this daughter represented a large fine that they had to pay. The most frequent remark that Lin Shixing, the youngest daughter, heard was, ‘If the fine hadn’t been paid, the money would have been enough to purchase a lot of things for the family.’

As a result, the unfair treatment since childhood became “justified”.

If this had been a tenderhearted child, she might have been brainwashed by such a family, believing that her parents were right to treat her so badly and that it was her fault in the first place. But then Father Lin opened a carpentry workshop, made money and moved the family to the city, his younger sister Lin Shixing saw how other girls in the city were treated and how she herself was treated.

When Lin Shixing was young, she once thought that because she wasn’t good enough, her parents would love her brother more and buy him everything, while she had to pick up toys that he didn’t want.

She tried to be obedient, helped her mother around the house, went to school and then desperately studied to get top grades and become first in her grade, thinking that she would be loved in the same way.

However, nothing worked.

Even when her brother skipped school, fought, got poor grades, was called by his teachers for failing to study, contradicted her parents, and didn’t take his family seriously, he was still the apple of their eye.

She, on the other hand, no matter how good she was, her parents would only think she was no match for her brother.

The saddest thing in the world was that she gave all her love to her parents, but in return, they didn’t give her even a tiny bit.

The first time a violent conflict erupted was when his sister Lin Shixing wanted to audition for a singing competition near the end of winter break, not even expecting the family to pay the entry fee. In any case, the family never gave her a penny more.

According to Lin Shixing’s thinking, she would be able to earn her traveling and registration fees by going to work part-time for half a month.

But when she mentioned it to her mother, she was met with fierce opposition.

The reason was that the family’s carpentry workshop wasn’t making good money and it was looking like it was going to be buried. She had to stay and work part-time as a tutor to earn money for the family.

While his 17-year-old sister, a sophomore in high school, went to work part-time to earn money, the 19-year-old brother, a freshman, was able to play games for the entire winter break, with his clothes on his back and his food on the table.

What annoyed her most was the fact that Mother Lin felt that after her family allowed her to go to senior high school, she should stop going to school. After all, if she went to university, it would mean that Lin Shixing wouldn’t earn money for the family for more than 3 years.

Moreover, she nagged about finding an in-law for her 17-year-old daughter, and very justifiably said that she wanted to find her a rich family so that she could support her brother.

Lin Shixing was desperate.

That was also the first time she realized that, in her parents’ eyes, her brother was a cloud in the sky and she was mud on the ground.

No matter how hard she tried to excel, she couldn’t compete with him.

The next day, Lin Shixing ran away from home and went to the entertainment industry.

She looked good, but her acting skills were average, and she was too young. She didn’t have a good company or an agent. If she chose to be an actress, like her current situation, she couldn’t mingle, and she may be black-listed because she had no backing. Lin Shixing counted all her money in a rented shack and finally took part in the singing competition.

Fortunately for Lin Shixing, she won the competition, as if the gods had rewarded her. Even though she had no professional training and had never competed in any competition in this field before, Lin Shixing still won.

The competition prize money was a total of 100,000 yuan, which was a lot of money for her. Many people were contacting her at the time, from shell companies to real ones, from those who wanted to work with Lin Shixing for a win-win situation to those who wanted to squeeze her dry.

The 17-year-old Lin Shixing didn’t know how to choose for a while. Although she used to be concerned about this aspect, her focus was on how to practice her singing voice, and this aspect was too difficult for her.

After much deliberation, she finally decided to say yes to an offer from an insider and bought shares in a studio.

Firstly, although this studio wasn't just hers, she had more shares and all the money she earned could go into her own wallet. Secondly, this was the age of the internet and she could place all her songs online to attract fans and make money. Although it was better to make a name for herself with a company than without one, it was also important to have a reliable company.

And she had already passed the age where her voice would change. Even if the studio didn’t work out, Lin Shixing could still start over after the disbandment, but then she might be a bit more restrained.

It was well planned. Unfortunately, she had family members who were dragging her feet.

When the Lin family knew that Lin Shixing had won 100,000 yuan in the competition, they wanted to seize the 100,000 yuan under the urging of the original owner. And in order to look justified, they started running around crying that the daughter they raised had run away from home and dropped out of school. In order to become a singer, she had unilaterally severed ties with them.

Lin Shixing could only be considered a minor celebrity during that period of time, with no money, and no background. Her parents came to make trouble all day long, causing people who didn’t know the truth to think she had heartlessly abandoned her parents and stolen the family’s money. As a result, her reputation fell to the lowest level.

They were like maggots on a bone. They wouldn’t stop tossing and turning until Lin Shixing paid them, and even took her daughter to court, causing Lin Shixing to feel overwhelmed. Public opinion was not on her side, so she finally had to choose to settle the matter with money.

Her first original paid song was a big hit at the time, but because of these parents, she didn’t have much money on hand at all.

Then the studio ran out of money and couldn’t run, so she signed up for another singing competition for money and to make a name for herself, this time with some little-known singers. Lin Shixing was a shoo-in, but some psycho, who really thought she was an ungrateful person, lurked onto the scene with acid and splashed Lin Shixing’s face while she was singing.

At 17, the best of ages, Lin Shixing was disfigured.

The only good news, perhaps, was that her voice wasn’t ruined.

That day was the first time the Lin parents regretted it. They rushed to the hospital and tried to see their daughter, but were stopped at the door.

Because the first thing their daughter did when she woke up was to break off her relationship with her parents.

After that, Lin Shixing worked hard for almost two decades to get to the top because of the bad reputation she had from the outset and the disfigured face that could scare a child to tears.

But by then, her body had deteriorated because of her unrelenting work load.

Lin Shixing only lived to the age of 37 and died of stomach cancer.

The original owner was greatly affected by the death of his sister for a time. When they were very young, they were also close, and when he grew up, he achieved nothing, but he was tempted to buy this and that. When he learned that Lin Shixing had earned 100,000 yuan, he was the one who urged his parents to ask for the money.

What’s wrong with giving him some of the money to spend when she could get rich by singing anyway?

The Lin parents had asked him if it would affect their daughter. They loved the original owner, but they never wanted to force their daughter to death, for the sake of the original owner.

The original owner patted his chest and promised that it wouldn’t affect her.

At first, they wanted to use public opinion to force Lin Shixing into submission, but he never thought that they would actually cause Lin Shixing’s disfigurement.

After finding out about her disfigurement, he was too distraught and guilty to appear in front of her ever again.

Lin Shixing had been donating money to good causes as long as she was alive, building Hope Primary Schools. After her death, she gave away her entire estate, only leaving behind a diary.

(TNote: Hope Primary Schools = schools that are built poverty-stricken rural areas of China from donations.)

The diary was made public by her partner to tell the world what Lin Shixing, who was wrongly accused of being cold-blooded and ungrateful to her parents and shameless, had gone through.

No one believed her when she was alive. It was only when she had died that those who were convinced that Lin Shixing was lying and quibbling would believe it, because there was no reason for the dead to lie.

But what good was that? The person had already died.

The last page, written by Lin Shixing before she died, read...

[Maybe it’s because I committed a lot of sins in my past life that I ended up in a family like this. At first, I wanted to be loved as much as my older brother, then I wanted to be loved just a little, as long as I was loved, and then I just wanted them to not abandon me.

But my wish never came true and they still abandoned me. Perhaps my gender was my doom from the moment I was born.

In this life, I have tried to do good deeds. If reincarnation truly exists for people, I pray to God, to give me a warm home in the next life.]

5 years after the death of his younger sister, the original owner fell into a pool of water and drowned due to intoxication.

He gave her the home, at the cost of his soul.

[Ding! This small world task: Protect Lin Shixing. Task completion: 0]

Lin Shiheng sat down in his chair and flicked the piece of paper in front of him.

His kindness to Lin Shixing were only simple things, but the other two family members were rarely kind to her.

What Lin Shixing craved for, more than anything else, was the love of her parents.

After pondering for a while, Lin Shiheng tapped on the table and opened the window, staring out to the left.

To the left of his room was Lin Shixing’s room. At the moment, she was hiding in the room and sitting on the bed crying.

She had stopped asking her parents to love her as much as they loved her brother, but why wouldn’t they even give her a little shred of hope?

Lin Shixing suddenly thought of something and immediately got up. She wiped her tears, opened the drawer and started looking for the box she had saved her money in.

I'll run away from home!

Anyway, as Mom said, I have to drop out of school in her senior year, so I might as well leave the house and live on my own.

Even if it’s hard, it is better than being forced to work in a factory and married off.

She opened the window and looked down with the box in her arms.

Their house was a separate building, which Father Lin bought with the money he made from the carpentry workshop. It was the first floor, and there was no security fence, so Lin Shixing and her brother climbed from the ground floor to the first floor when they were children because they didn’t have their keys, so they were familiar with the height of the place.

After a few moments of measurement, she felt that she could climb down perfectly well, so she placed the box in her bag, stood with her feet at the window opening and was about to start climbing.

“Hey!”

Just as she stood up, a sudden voice came from beside her, startling Lin Shixing into looking sideways immediately.

It was Lin Shiheng at the window next to her, looking at her without blinking.

When Lin Shixing was seen escaping, she was scared and didn’t know what to do. She saw Lin Shiheng suddenly yell...

“Mom, come quickly!!! Lin Shixing is going to kill herself!!!”

Lin Shixing who wasn’t trying to kill herself: “???"