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Of course, even that line was something Wang Yue had occasionally drilled into them.
But Wang Yue hadn't actually put it that way. What he'd said was, "The people who truly consider you family know this is a major year in your lives. Everything else should take a back seat."
He'd said that to persuade Lin Dongzhe and Xiang Pengfei, who were still thinking about starting a business.
Actually, Huang Ling had asked Wang Yue to talk to Xiang Pengfei. As his aunt, she found it difficult to tell the two boys directly that they were wasting time, and that they ought to devote all their energy to studying instead.
After all, once Wang Yue started university, Lin Dongzhe and Xiang Pengfei would only be able to ask him for tutoring if he had time during the holidays.
Xiang Pengfei and Lin Dongzhe hadn't taken Wang Yue's words to heart, but Zhuang Tunan had.
Zhuang Tunan considered himself the eldest grandson of the Zhuang family. Surely the whole family ought to revolve around him at a time like this, he reasoned, so he'd felt perfectly justified in not visiting his grandparents again.
Even when Father Zhuang didn't come home, Zhuang Tunan hadn't tried to talk him into it. He even thought his father was being a little childish.
It wasn't that Zhuang Tunan's selfish side had come out. It was just that after Wang Yue arrived, he had stripped Zhuang Chaoying of his halo and exposed his unfilial devotion to his parents for what it was.
A man who cared only about giving money to his mother, who didn't care whether his own family lived or died, and who even neglected his own sister—sometimes Zhuang Tunan felt ashamed to be