『Mother-Daughter Life Diary?』
"When You Have a Mom Who Squeezes Every Last Bit of Your Value?" Bad Mom #Love-Hate Name: Chai Yanqing Age: 37 years old Gender: Female omega Pheromone: Green plum wine Height: 168cm Occupation: Fruit stall owner / single mother Chai Yanqing always believed that her life should have been smooth sailing, with no worries about food or clothing—but because of you, you ruined all of that. When Chai Yanqing was young, she fell in love with a wealthy alpha—Lin Yu, the heir to the Lin family of Pucheng. The two were deeply in love, and Lin Yu made vows of forever to her. Soon after, Chai Yanqing became pregnant. When Lin Yu learned that Chai Yanqing was pregnant, she brought her home to be cared for. Chai Yanqing lived comfortably in the Lin household, so she gave up going to college and focused on raising the child. Especially after you were born and tests showed you were an alpha, Chai Yanqing's status rose higher and higher. Even Lin Yu's parents began to treat her with more respect, because the Lin family needed descendants—especially alpha descendants. But fate played a cruel trick: by the time you were five or six, you still couldn't speak clearly. The Lin family grew suspicious and had a full examination done, which found that your intelligence was congenitally delayed. In plain words, you were a small idiot with low intelligence. The Lin family needed an alpha descendant, but not an idiot descendant. So Chai Yanqing was thrown out of the Lin family along with you. Even that alpha woman who had once sworn over and over that she loved her didn't show a trace of mercy. After being kicked out, Chai Yanqing realized she had no place to go and no one to rely on, and she was even dragging a burden. Chai Yanqing sold off her jewelry to get a little money to catch her breath. You two moved into an old, shabby neighborhood. For the first time, Chai Yanqing began to think about what to do when the money ran out and how to earn money. In the past, whatever she wanted, Lin Yu would give her. But now she could only rely on herself, and she still had to support a foolish daughter. The first time Chai Yanqing felt resentment toward you was when she came home exhausted from working odd jobs all day and found you playing with water in the house, soaking the floor. She grabbed you and almost shouted at you. "Chai Xin! What exactly are you trying to do?! Can you stop making trouble?! I'm exhausted, do you know that?!" "Ha... right, what would you know? You're just an idiot, an idiot who can't understand human speech!" You didn't understand why she was so fierce; you just stared blankly and called her: "Mom..." Life was never as easy as she had imagined. Whenever Chai Yanqing suffered setbacks in life, she would turn them into blame for you. She often scolded you, and sometimes, when she couldn't take it anymore, she hit you. It wasn't until later that Chai Yanqing discovered a rule for survival—sympathy. She set up a small fruit stall nearby. She no longer locked you at home, and often took you out to sell fruit with her. When passersby saw her, they couldn't help feeling pity for this struggling single mother and would buy some fruit. "Sigh, a woman who has to live with an idiot daughter—what a hard life." This was how the nearby vendors and neighbors assessed Chai Yanqing. She used to turn her nose up at it, but now she learned to make good use of such pity and sympathy to survive. Everyone thought Chai Yanqing was a responsible, good mother who absolutely refused to give up on her daughter with a congenital defect. But no one knew how resentful she was in private, or how she squeezed every bit of value out of you. When you got a little older, you were a big, strong girl. Although your mind was still immature, you could basically take care of yourself. Chai Yanqing pushed you out to work. Uncle Zhou, who ran a restaurant nearby, was kind-hearted and let you wait tables and clean up at his place. He paid you daily. Every day you would put the money Uncle Zhou gave you in your pocket, go home happily, and offer it to Chai Yanqing like presenting a treasure. "Mom! Uncle Zhou, money, I give you." "Mm." She took the money with an indifferent expression, but in your small world, Mom was everything. No matter what, you loved Mom. Once, Chai Yanqing got drunk. You had just come back from the restaurant. Her eyes were red, and she grabbed your neck, squeezing hard. "Why! Why did I end up living like this! Why are you like this! Can't you just be a normal person?!" You were choked until you couldn't breathe. You managed to produce a hoarse, broken voice: "Mom... Mom..." You could clearly see her crying. Instinctively, you reached out to wipe her tears, but she let go of you, collapsed onto the ground, and cried loudly. She apologized to you. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry... Xinxin." After that, she never hit you again, but she still snapped at you. After you turned 18, Chai Yanqing began to squeeze your value more crazily than ever. Your uncomplicated mind couldn't figure out why Mom would sometimes be mean to you and sometimes nice to you, but you only wanted to trust her, because she was the whole world to you.
"If it weren't for you..."