Car-hailing Driver: Rewards from Complaints-Chapter 198 - 146: No One Is More Noble Than Anyone Else—Ordinary People Shouldn’t Make Things Hard for Each Other

Chapter 198: Chapter 146: No One Is More Noble Than Anyone Else—Ordinary People Shouldn’t Make Things Hard for Each Other

Yang Chen stopped by the roadside near the hospital with two sets of traffic lights and said, "They shouldn’t chase after us anymore. Miss Cheng, I’ll drop you here, feel free to go on your own."

Cheng Junjun immediately asked, "Do you have time? I want to treat you to a meal to thank you for helping me earlier with Zhang Qing."

"A meal? Sure, I wanted to invite you for lunch anyway. As I mentioned first, it’s on me today. Next time, you can treat me if there’s a chance. What do you want to eat?" Yang Chen asked.

Cheng Junjun thought it wouldn’t be polite to choose an expensive place for the first meal with a boy.

But she couldn’t go to a street stall or such places where the environment was poor.

After carefully considering, Cheng Junjun chose a French restaurant with an average cost of 300 yuan per person.

Yang Chen followed the navigation to drive there.

At this time, Cheng Dalong called his daughter from abroad after being away for a month.

Cheng Junjun: "Hello, Dad, are you back?"

Cheng Dalong: "Back tomorrow. Did you resign from your job yet?"

Cheng Junjun: "No! I said I wouldn’t resign, so don’t think about it."

Cheng Dalong: "Nonsense! Do you really want to be a nurse? I only let you try it for fun. You’ve grown up and never had to serve me, now you’re serving those patients, what am I supposed to think? My flight is tomorrow, I’ll arrive the morning after. If you don’t resign, I’ll come to the hospital to tie you up and take you home."

Cheng Junjun: "I only handle inquiries, registration, and rounds at the nurse station, serving patients is not my job. I think it’s great, I’m definitely not resigning! Also, what’s important is not what my father thinks, but what your father thinks. Should I resign and go home to be despised every day, and end up like my mom, depressed and jumping off a building?"

Cheng Dalong: "You child, it’s all in the past, why do you keep bringing it up? Your grandparents are old, what grudges do you hold against them?"

Cheng Junjun: "You speak so lightly. Since I was born, they despised me for being a girl, and drove my mom to severe depression, leading her to jump off a building with me. Luckily, she softened at the last minute and pushed me back, or I’d already be reincarnated to 15 years old now. I just graduated and started interning at the company, and every day they’re nagging that I’ll take the family assets and marry someone, leaving your two generations’ effort to others. I’m self-sufficient now, I don’t want your family’s assets anymore, I’m content being a nurse. I’m telling you, I’m not my mom, she never dared to resist until she died, but I will! In your house, it’s either me or them, when they’re gone, I’ll wear mourning clothes and go home. Whether you want me to come home or not, I’ll continue outside. But now, you want me to resign and go home, absolutely impossible! My relationship with them is like this, I don’t want to ruin my relationship with my biological dad. Don’t push me, hanging up now!"

After speaking, Cheng Junjun hung up the phone and bowed her head, wiping her tears in dejection.

Yang Chen handed her a few tissues.

"Did you become a nurse to spite your family?" Yang Chen asked.

Cheng Junjun nodded and told Yang Chen her story.

Cheng Junjun’s grandfather Cheng Zhengjun was from Chaoshan, and those familiar with the area know it is notoriously patriarchal.

So, after Cheng Junjun was born, her grandparents were very displeased, constantly nagging her mother that a daughter is a money-losing investment, urging to have a son.

Cheng Junjun’s mother was a native of Hai City, timid in nature, whatever her parents-in-law said, she didn’t dare to retort, but the repression in her heart built up increasingly.

The final straw was when she was pregnant again with a boy, but due to prolonged mental stress, ended up miscarrying.

That year, Cheng Junjun was 8 years old, she still remembers her grandparents didn’t show the slightest concern after the miscarriage but blamed her mother for being careless, causing their grandson’s death.

Ultimately, Cheng Junjun’s mother reached her psychological limit, used sleeping pills to knock her out, and carried her to the rooftop to commit suicide.

But at the critical moment before jumping, her mother couldn’t bear to implicate her and pushed her back.

Since then, Cheng Junjun deeply loathed her grandparents.

Perhaps the old couple realized their wrong behavior and treated Cheng Junjun a bit better since then.

But they kept urging their son to remarry and must have a son.

Cheng Dalong felt guilty towards his late wife, and never remarried.

Last month, Cheng Junjun graduated from university and started interning at the company, her father officially started grooming her to take over the company.

However, her grandparents relapsed, claiming that she will eventually marry and everything their two generations worked for will belong to someone else.

They even urged Cheng Dalong to use scientific methods to have another son.

This completely broke Cheng Junjun down, prompting her to immediately leave the company and her home.

Coincidentally, Longmei Hospital was recruiting nurses at that time, and her high school classmate Wang Jingyun urged her to use connections to join, so they could have each other for company.

Cheng Junjun’s family business deals in importing medical equipment and collaborates with Longmei Hospital, and Cheng Dalong felt guilty, so he arranged a position for her as an intern nurse at the nurse station, only handling inquiries, registrations, and rounds normally.

Since Cheng Junjun didn’t come from a professional medical background, she couldn’t handle professional tasks, only this kind of dispensable "clerical" job.

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After hearing Cheng Junjun finish her story, Yang Chen didn’t know how to console her.

From Yang Chen’s personal experience, he felt there’s a real difference between sons and daughters.

Yang Chen’s maternal grandfather had only two daughters.