After Li Juan returned home with Li Ye and Wen Leyu, Li Ying, who had long since run out of patience, dragged her into the bedroom.
"Why do you look so bad? What happened? Did it fall through?"
Li Juan slowly shook her head, then said gloomily, "Do you think we're our brother's burden? Does he have to handle everything for us?"
Li Ying asked strangely, "What do you mean by that?"
Li Juan explained, "My report to Pan Xiaoying went very smoothly, and she even said she'd let me take charge of the project. But afterward, Sister-in-law told me that Pan Xiaoying didn't value the project at all—she only valued our brother. Doesn't that mean our brother is using his personal connections to lift me up?"
Li Ying said in surprise, "So what? Have you come down with some ridiculous sentimental problem? Our brother helped you, and now helping you is somehow wrong?"
"No."
Li Juan said, anxious and angry, "I just think our brother has spent so long raising us up. We should be able to help him by now, but in the end, we're still dragging him down."
Young people generally had strong pride, so after Wen Leyu said, "Pan Xiaoying values your brother," Li Juan began to feel strange inside.
Li Juan admitted that Li Ye was a very good older brother, but all along, she had desperately wanted to prove that she was "useful."
Now that she finally had an opportunity, Li Ye knew nothing about computers, while Li Juan considered herself a professional. She had thrown herself into it, determined to prove herself.
But Pan Xiaoying "didn't take it seriously," leaving Li Juan, who had been wholeheartedly trying to make the project a success, utterly depressed.
*Then wasn't I no different from those people