Chapter 427: Chapter 427: An Era of Preferring Sons to Daughters
“Chuyi, guess who this is?” Qian Qianqian saw her return and pointed excitedly at a short-haired girl with a slightly dark complexion and thick, dark eyebrows.
Xia Chuyi: …I don’t recognize her.
Luckily, Qian Qianqian didn’t beat around the bush and said, “Chuyi, she is the real ng Zhaodi!”
Now it was Xia Chuyi’s turn to be shocked.
“Are you ng Zhaodi?” she asked the girl in front of her.
She had just learned that the real ng Zhaodi had vanished without a trace.
Without the actual person involved, she had been pondering how to deal with the “ng Zhaodi” situation, and now here the real ng Zhaodi was, appearing right in front of her.
Odd indeed.
“You… ng Zhaodi, how did you co to the Capital City?” Xia Chuyi took a look at ng Zhaodi and inquired, “Did you co to the Capital City for Kyoto University? Do you know you’ve been replaced by soone else?”
For a high school senior who had endured years of diligent study to finally be admitted to university, only to be replaced, it was a deeply sorrowful matter indeed.
Thus, upon learning this, ng Zhaodi had traveled many miles to the Capital City.
That was her speculation.
“If you are here to re-enroll, I can help you,” Xia Chuyi said. “I almost got replaced myself once.”
So, in so respects, she and ng Zhaodi had sothing in common.
However, after hearing her offer, ng Zhaodi looked at her and shook her head seriously, saying, “No need, I didn’t co to Kyoto University to study.”
This remark caught Xia Chuyi by surprise.
“Why?” She couldn’t quite understand.
ng Zhaodi declared, “The person who took my place… my family knew about it.”
“My admissions letter was sold to her by my family.”
“What did you say?” Xia Chuyi was utterly astonished and repeated ng Zhaodi’s words, asking, “Your admissions letter, it was sold by your family?”
“But that’s a Kyoto University admissions letter!”
Kyoto University, where admission promised a boundless future, how could any parent sell their child’s admission to such an institution?
As if seeing through her confusion, ng Zhaodi shook her head and said, “No matter how accomplished a girl becos, in the end, she’s expected to marry.”
Xia Chuyi: …These words sound so familiar.
Back when she was with the Xia Family, it was a phrase she often heard.
In this era’s preference for sons over daughters, it was unimaginable how many families would keep having children, over and over, until a son was born.
Sotis, when they couldn’t support all their children, selling a daughter was common, with daughters often eting misfortunes unlike sons. Either sent to sordid places like brothels or disabling the child in so way to beg in the streets.
ng Zhaodi then said, “In short, my admissions letter, along with my school records, were sold by my family without my knowledge.”
“Because the son that my stepmother bore was frail and needed formula milk.”
Xia Chuyi: …
In just a few sentences, the ssage was incredibly dense.
Stolen admissions letters, records… stepmothers, sons, formula milk.
In these tis, it was rare for a girl to even attend high school.
In a family, if there was a boy whose academics were decent, any girl would inevitably be expected to make way for him.
Even if the girl’s grades were better than the boy’s.
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