Xia Yue hurried away, holding back her tears. She was afraid that if she stayed in Principal Chang's house any longer, she would break down on the spot and lose the last shred of her dignity.
Principal Chang sighed and said helplessly to Li Ye, "Xia Yue, that child! She just loves to burrow into a dead end. I bear some responsibility too. I didn't educate her well enough when she was in school."
Li Ye said flatly, "In recent years, there have been far too many people like Xia Yue. Society is changing, and as everyone shifts from equal distribution to more work, more reward, conflicts in people's thinking are bound to arise.
They were all classmates to begin with, so why were some wealthy now while others were poor? But Xia Yue had never considered that those who got rich first had always been a little more driven and enterprising than those who got rich later.
If you keep waiting in the same place, how can you still demand the same rewards as those who strive and work hard?"
"..."
In his previous life, Li Ye had often heard people complain, "Why do cadres' children still become cadres, while workers' children still become workers?"
It was only after he watched Little Alley Families, a television drama about "ordinary people," that Li Ye came to understand something.
In one little alley, some people concerned themselves only with the daily necessities of firewood, rice, oil, and salt. When raising their children, they followed the attitude of "when the boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally straighten out." They gave them a casual upbringing, then pushed them into society and left them to fend for themselves.
But the Zhuang Family and the Lin Family would not even buy or watch a