Good Man Operation Guide

Chapter 134.1-The Scummy Brother (2)

As Mother Lin was about to take a shower, she heard her eldest son shout. She dropped the shower head to the floor, pulled open the bathroom door and rushed out.

3 minutes later, Mother Lin dragged her daughter, Lin Shixing, while her own hair was still wet, into the living room. She was still pointing at her nose and scolding her with a puzzled look.

“I just wouldn’t let you go to that stupid competition, now you want to commit suicide?! Lin Shixing, do you have a brain?! You’ve lived for so long, but you’re as foolish as a dog!”

Lin Shiheng added fuel with a ‘Mom, you’re absolutely right’ expression, “Exactly, exactly, don’t you know that your body and skin are given to you by your parents?”

Mother Lin’s heart and liver were in pain with anger. When he added fuel to the fire, she became even more furious, “What’s wrong with you? Since you were young, how are you any worse off than your cousins? I sent you to school, bought you clothes, and even let you live in your own room. When I was your age, I didn’t have such good treatment. I had nothing to eat, drink, or wear, and had to share a bed with your aunt and others. I went out to work when I was in my teens...”

She would usually nag, talking about the difficult years in the past. Lin Shiheng interjected, “You earned only 20-something yuan a month, working from morning till night, couldn’t even afford to eat meat.”

“Yes!”

Mother Lin looked at her eldest son lovingly, “Shiheng is still sensible.”

After praising her eldest son, she immediately pointed the finger at her youngest daughter, “Look at you, you’re still disobedient at this age, and you’re always clamoring about partiality. We’re not good to you? You should suffer what I did when I was young, and you’ll understand how your family is good to you!”

Lin Shixing didn’t want to cry in front of her, but just now her mother’s loving look at her brother seriously agitated her. The tears in her eyes couldn’t be held back, her eyes were red and she tried hard to harden her voice, but in the end, what came out was a choked sob, “Is that the same era as it is now?? You’re telling me to drop out of high school, what should I do in the future? If my grades are poor, I wouldn’t say anything, but my grades are obviously good. Why are you telling me to drop out of school and start working?”

Mother Lin frowned, “The situation at home isn’t good, your father’s workshop is about to close down. There’s really no money for your schooling.”

Speaking of that, Lin Shixing wiped her tears, “You always say that the workshop is in a slump, we can’t keep up, no money at hand every time I come home on a holiday. I still try to study. I wake up at 5 in the morning to study, afraid that my roommates would think I’m noisy, I study outside in the corridor. After class, when students go out to eat and buy stuff or even at night when everyone is asleep, I hide under the covers and study with a flash light. I did everything for a scholarship, to ease your burden!”

“Now I’m number one in my grade, I get a scholarship every year! I can earn money for tuition and living expenses. Why won’t you let me study? Why?!”

She almost screamed her last sentence with her sobs.

Lin Shixing was a quiet and obedient child since she was a child. When she was very young, she took the initiative to help her family. After school, she never let her family worry about her. Mother Lin had long been accustomed to her obedient and clever behavior. At this moment, she was so rebellious that her emotions unconsciously subsided.

Her tone was a little low...

“Talk properly, why are you shouting? You’re a girl, why do you need such a high degree, aren’t you going to get married sooner or later? Listen, don’t think of it as me hurting you, I’m your mother, not a stepmother. Don’t you understand, in today’s society, the higher the degree a girl has, the harder for them to get married.”

Thinking of this, Mother Lin’s originally dissipated sense of righteousness suddenly returned, “You know what it’s called, leftover woman, yes, a leftover woman! Do you know why she’s a leftover woman? That’s because her education is too high, no man would dare to marry her, he’ll be afraid he wouldn’t be able to support her. No man would want you when you’re too old. If I wasn’t afraid that you’d turn out like that, why would I bother?!”

“So you’re going to marry me off? Marry a man who’s 5 years older than me??! Mom! Are you so desperate to sell me?!”

“What do you mean sell? Don’t make it out to be that bad. What’s wrong with someone 5 years older? Someone 5 years older will know how to care for you! Your father is 3 years older than I am!”

Mother Lin saw that her daughter’s eyes were full of hate, “I just want you to talk to him, do you know how rich his family is? Didn’t I make it clear to you last time? His house was demolished, and he gained a lot of monetary compensation. He still has three other houses. His mother and I have a good relationship. She said that if you two get along well, they’ll give you a separate house when you get married. They will even give you 500,000 yuan personally. He’s an only child, and when your in-laws aren’t around anymore, all of their family property will be yours. In the future, you won’t have to struggle. Look at how little money your father and I made throughout our lives, you should be thanking me for this opportunity. Such ignorance!”

Lin Shixing looked at her mother. Her eyes were indeed full of condemnation, and what she just said were her innermost thoughts, unadulterated.

Suddenly, Lin Shixing had a sense of despair. She could never communicate with her mother.

She wanted to say that she was studying for herself, not for marriage, and she would never marry a man who was five years older than her and she had never met. However, she also knew that Mother Lin would never listen to these words.

It was as if she had cotton stuffed in her ears, and whatever her daughter said she would filter out the words she didn’t want to hear.

Lin Shixing’s eyes glistened with tears, and the hope that had risen because her mother was worried about her faded a little. She bowed her head in dismay and clutched the bag she was carrying.

/ have to go, there’s no need to stay in this family.

Just when Lin Shixing made up her mind, Lin Shiheng suddenly intervened, “Mom, Lin Shixing isn’t an adult yet, if you force her to marry, she can sue you.”

Lin Shixing was startled at his words, and looked at her brother with red eyes and confusion.

“Sue... sue me?”

Mother Lin was stunned. She had always listened to her son’s words, but wasn’t letting her daughter marry someone else a family matter?

“Yeah.”

Lin Shiheng smiled playfully and spoke with an air of mischief, “Our country has laws on the protection of minors. Moreover, Lin Shixing is not of legal age to get married yet. If she’s forced to get married, she could sue you and Dad in court and it would be a definite verdict.”

“That... There’s that too...”

Mother Lin rubbed her hands together and didn’t doubt it. She had always believed in her son the most, after all, she and Father Lin were both primary school graduates in this family and naturally trusted their son who was attending university.

“Then it’s fine if you don’t marry, you can wait until you’re old enough.”

“No, Mom.”

Lin Shiheng continued to cruelly interrupt her thoughts, “If she doesn’t want to, then you are assisting the man to rape her. When you’re all sued, the man will be the main culprit and you will be an accomplice. You might be sentenced to 2 or 3 years.”

Mother Lin was dumbfounded.

This can’t be done, that can’t be done. I hod already struggled to find such a good marriage for my daughter.

She was so distressed, but eventually had to give in.

“That’s fine, if you don’t marry, you don’t marry.”

Lin Shixing felt a sense of rebirth after the disaster. Before she could rejoice, she heard Mother Lin continue her plan by saying...

“If Shixing doesn’t marry someone, then she should go to work. I originally said that it’s better to talk about it after graduating from high school, and she could hold up her head after marriage. Since the marriage has fallen through, she should go to work to ease the burden on her family.”