What exactly did I want to do?
Faced with Fang Zheng's question, Asuna did not know how to answer for a moment.
What did she want to do? This had never seemed like a question to Asuna. She was supposed to follow her mother's wishes, study hard, get into a good high school and a good university, become an organizer or manager for some committee, win a few awards, and ultimately marry a distinguished and outstanding man, just as her mother wanted.
To Asuna, the road before her had already been mapped out by her parents. She only needed to follow it. But now, because of a small accident, she had strayed from the path her parents had planned and found herself alone in a boundless wilderness, not even knowing which direction to go...
Honestly, Asuna's problem did not seem like much of a problem to Fang Zheng. This sort of anguish, which in Japan was probably limited to children of powerful families, had been the nightmare of practically everyone his age in Fang Zheng's era. Weren't their parents just like Asuna's, demanding that their children get into good universities and find good jobs afterward?
Fang Zheng's generation had also been called the generation of change. Why? It was simple...
When Fang Zheng was in elementary school, college students were still highly sought after, and the iron rice bowl had not yet been abolished. So parents would nag, "Study hard, get into a good university when you grow up, then find a good government job. You won't have to worry about anything for the rest of your life."
Then, by the time Fang Zheng entered middle school, the iron rice bowl was gone, reform and opening-up had begun, and foreign capital had entered the country. So parents changed their tune: