Chapter 846 - 848: Warm Heart
Actually, the love that Father has for Tang Rong is still the same as before. He takes her out to play every week, and brings her gifts when he goes on business trips. On the surface, the family seems unchanged, but many underlying things have quietly transformed.
Tang Rong no longer hears the cheerful laughter at the dinner table like before, nor does she actively ask her father to watch TV with her after dinner. She fears he’ll refuse her, even though he has never rejected any of her requests.
Suddenly, she thought of her good friend, that little girl must be lonely, even though she can play outside until dark every day and has more pocket money than Tang Rong envied. She remembers going to that girl’s house once, and she took out a tin box filled with lots of money. The largest denomination was a hundred, which Tang Rong had never used before.
She took out the money, laid them out one by one, and said to Tang Rong, "Look, I’ve saved so much money now, probably another year of saving and I’ll have enough to buy two train tickets to Province Q. Then I’ll leave with my grandma and we’ll never see each other again."
"Why do you want to leave? Isn’t it nice to stay here? I’ll miss you if you go." Tang Rong asked, puzzled. Her words were beyond Tang Rong’s understanding.
"I don’t want to see my parents and their children anymore, but if I’m in this city, I have to see them every week. Don’t be sad, I’ll come to see you when I have money in the future." said the little girl, in a mature tone.
So after such things happened in her own home, she somewhat understood the kind of life her good friend was leading. There’s a term called empathy, but in fact, there’s no real empathy in this world. If the needle doesn’t pierce you, you can’t feel the pain.
Perhaps the life we envy in others is exactly what they are striving to escape from. So don’t easily envy others, and don’t underestimate your own life. Tang Rong realized this truth long after, but she had already experienced such things when she was young.