Her mother continued, "You never left us since you were little. You even wrote in your essays that you wanted to be with Mom and Dad forever. Obviously, you could have stayed in your hometown for university in the first year, but you insisted on retaking the exams and wanted to study elsewhere. I disagreed at the time. But your dad said that with a daughter like you, you could definitely win over a son-in-law, just like he did back then. Others said he was like a toad wanting to eat swan meat, yet he still managed to marry me. He said you take after him, so I had to believe in you."
Tong Tong buried her head in her arms, sobbing uncontrollably.
After a while, she said in a low voice, "I can't do anything. He's fallen for another girl."
"Then just forget it, it's his loss."
"No, he's great, it's me; I'm just useless."
