In the countryside, a person's reputation is really incredibly important;
the killing power of those aunties' and grannies' gossip is also really huge.
One reason why Zhao Yan studied like her life depended on it was exactly this—
she wanted to tell everyone that even though she was the daughter of that drunkard Zhao Yongfeng who drank himself to death, she wasn't the same as him.
She got good grades, stayed in the top three in her year for years on end, and could get into the best prestigious university in the Provincial City!
What her biological dad left her, besides the bad impression of being useless and always drunk and violent, and the trouble to her reputation, was also a not-so-good bad habit: valuing sons over daughters.
Ever since Zhao Yan could remember, she'd always hear her biological dad despising her real mother, saying her womb was useless, that she couldn't even give him a single son, and that this would cut off the incense of their Old Zhao's Family.
