Chapter 1422: Chapter 1008: Full-time Mother’s Counterattack 16 (Four Thousand)
Modern life’s pressures are immense: healthcare, education, housing, and the everyday needs of a family often leave young people breathless, let alone enjoying life. What Qi Qi earns in the vast city of Beijing doesn’t really count for much, especially since she wants to buy a house, she has to be even more frugal.
It’s not like having an annual salary of hundreds of thousands now means she can relax and indulge. In reality, she and her son eat at least two meals a day at school. The school’s meals aren’t very tasty, but at least they fill the stomach. At night, most of the time, she eats takeout with colleagues. Sometimes, a pie and a portion of Cold Rice Noodles might suffice.
Their purpose of eating is to satiate hunger, not for enjoyment, because at this age, it’s their time to strive.
She had her son at 21, nearly two cycles older than him. By the time she retires at 55, her son will be 34. The smaller the age gap between them, the more she looks forward to her old age. After all, the future mother-in-law of the post-90s is quite open-minded, willing to help with child-rearing or provide money if not.
And they absolutely do not live together, preferring to rent houses to live separately.
Her lifetime achievement is to earn enough for her son to get a house; for the remainder of life, she’ll rely on him.
As for where she’ll live in her old age, it doesn’t really matter; whether wandering or renting, the world is big enough for her to find a place.
She definitely won’t remarry.
Since she became famous, people around her have been trying to introduce her to potential partners. Classmates introduce family relatives, and colleagues inquire about options for their relatives. Qi Qi openly says she won’t remarry, but no one believes her, continuously asking her intentions, leaving her amused yet exasperated.
It’s understandable; after all, her current situation isn’t bad, even with a son. She is competent, and if the conditions are good, regardless of appearances, people will pay attention to her.
However, she has explored that none of the men introduced to her surpass her conditions; they all seem attracted by her million-a-year salary.
Ha ha, she earns money for her son, not for aiding others. She wonders what’s the idea behind introducing such prospects.
Is she worthy of this kind of standard?
If so, why bother getting married? Marriage is about forming a new family with equal strength, not to let one family aid another. If that’s the idea, it’s better not to start, as it won’t lead to happiness.
On Douyin, there are many unfortunate women, but also many happy ones. Regardless, it doesn’t affect her wish to live independently in the later years.
She doesn’t envy others nor wants to be the object of envy because, as the saying goes, like drinking water, only the drinker knows the temperature.
Life is not lived for others’ viewing; whether good or bad, only one’s heart knows.
Qi Qi was busy the whole September, finally getting seven days off during National Day, and she just wished to take a good rest.
She has been in Beijing for over a year now, yet has not visited many attractions. The National Day holiday was meant to take her son to look around, but with crowds everywhere, it gave her a headache. In the end, she stayed home with him lounging around for two days, rested enough, then took him cycling around Beijing for a few days, appreciating the Great Capital’s prosperity, finding its own charm.
In this era of information explosion, Taobao and JD do not compare to the online shopping via Douyin APP. Since she started promoting tea and dessert (tea and snacks), and children’s clothing for ages three to twelve in September, sales have been consistently high, with followers skyrocketing to 3.5 million, and gaining seventy to eighty thousand followers in just one to two months, something she dared not imagine.
Due to insufficient manpower, manufacturers suggest she form a team akin to the most popular live-streaming duo on the platform.
Qi Qi is worried because her schedule is already packed, and if she starts building a team, she may not have the time to go to work at the company.
That was never her intention, so after accumulating exhaustion in September and earning 2.03 million (post-tax) in an instant, she stopped that mode.
Going forward, she will continue to live stream, but only on weekends; earning more is naturally good, earning less is fine too, no complaints needed. A steady flow is her principle, not to be lost to money.
