Zhou Yu did not know Xiao Yu's real purpose. Hearing this, she naturally racked her brains to make herself sound as miserable as possible.
The more miserable and poorer she sounded, the more it would highlight her hard work and hardships, and show how outstanding she was now! It would earn her even more points for her postgraduate entrance application! Perhaps, once the company learned about it, she might even get a promotion and a raise!
Zhou Yu said, "I was especially poor as a child. Even 'four bare walls' wouldn't begin to describe it. I originally had two younger sisters, but my family really couldn't afford to feed them, so we had to give them away as child brides in exchange for some grain. Otherwise, the whole family would have starved."
"When I was little, even with tuition waived, sometimes we couldn't afford the most basic textbooks. So I could only pick through trash!"
"Streamer Xiao, can you imagine it? A little girl not even ten years old, picking through trash and selling it just to scrape together money for textbooks! I had to walk more than ten kilometers to school every day, too, stuffing any bottles and cans I saw along the way into my schoolbag! Even now, thinking about it brings tears to my eyes! It was so hard!"
Xiao Yu gave a faint sneer.
It was hard, sure, but not as hard as you're making it sound!
And nowhere near as exaggerated as you claim!
Do you think I don't know? You did pick through trash, but it was to buy toys!
*There's nothing wrong with a child earning money to buy toys-that deserves praise, not contempt. But using it to milk sympathy, and even deliberately hiding the fact that Yang Dong funded your schooling to