Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 60 - 57: The Most Fashionable Countryman (Update at 10 am tomorrow, bulk release after launch)

Chapter 60: Chapter 57: The Most Fashionable Countryman (Update at 10 am tomorrow, bulk release after launch) frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

In fact, Yan Yan wasn’t born in the countryside; she was born in Wenzhou First Hospital and grew up in the city.

Yan Yan just happened to have a rural household registration with her parents.

Today’s prized possession, a city dweller with a rural household registration, was absolutely looked down upon twenty or thirty years ago.

But looking three generations back, who among us isn’t descended from farmers?

However, at the tender age of elementary school, it seemed like every class always needed someone to be the target of various forms of bullying.

It was as though only by finding that person to target, someone different from oneself, could one truly integrate into the class and become a "normal member" of the student body.

Unfortunately, Yan Yan became the target of collective bullying by her "suburb" schoolmates from her very first day of elementary school, due to her "country bumpkin" status.

When Yan Yan went home, she talked to her parents a few times about how her classmates laughed at her for being a "country bumpkin" because of her household registration.

After hearing this, Yan Dabang and his wife quickly completed the "rural-to-urban" change of Yan Yan’s household registration.

But regarding this bullying, once it had started, it was very difficult to reverse; even with a "city household registration", her classmates still looked at her as if she were a "country person".

Even if she showed her household registration booklet to the classmates who targeted her, they still thought it was fake.

After being targeted so much in elementary school, Yan Yan gradually became less cheerful and lively than she had been as a young child.

If Yan Dabang and his wife had known what a huge impact a household registration would have on Yan Yan’s elementary school life, they would have made the "rural-to-urban" change much earlier.

But once targeted, always targeted; regardless of what you do, it’s considered wrong.

There will be no respite from being targeted until after graduation from elementary school.

Yan Yan’s mother, as the most fashionable woman of her time, coped with the ridicule of her daughter being labeled a "country bumpkin" by dressing her daughter even more stylishly than city folk.

This indirectly led to yet another issue for Yan Yan, the "most fashionable country person," during her middle school years: the problem of her attire.

Still, the clothing issue wasn’t the only reason Yan Yan was targeted in middle school.

There was another reason, comparatively more significant.

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Yan Dabang’s wish to retire and emigrate was not actually his own idea.

Yan Dabang loved the machinery industry, while Lu Bingran loved traveling the world.

Lu Bingran had spent decades in the machinery industry supporting Yan Dabang and had accumulated considerable capital, and since their daughter was not a big spender, Yan Dabang felt that retiring now to lead a leisurely life with his wife, traveling occasionally, tidying up the villas they had bought across the country, staying in each city for a month or two, and doing what his wife loved, was a long-cherished dream.

Then, to sell what needed to be sold and deal with what needed to be dealt with in terms of their domestic assets, and to emigrate to Melbourne with his wife, to live with their daughter.

This idea had always been in Yan Dabang’s heart.

At the start of his business, Yan Dabang thought that once he had a million, he would retire and travel the world with his wife.

Later, Yan Dabang’s idea evolved into retiring once they entered the international market.

Then, it became retiring after their daughter had grown up.

Running a business can be like this sometimes; if it isn’t doing well, it’s easy to wind it down.

To put it bluntly, it simply means going bankrupt, but if it’s thriving, it’s not so easy to just end it.

Deciding not to make money when you can is a decision that requires a lot of determination.

But Yan Dabang didn’t want to wait until he was old and decrepit before taking his wife to achieve her dream.

Yan Dabang particularly hoped his daughter could now have a clear idea: either return to China to take over the company or find an ordinary job in Melbourne and live a simple life.

His daughter didn’t need to work too hard; she already had everything she needed, and finding someone who loved her would give her a happy life.

If Yan Yan were a boy, Yan Dabang would have retired early and brought her back to run Yanlu Machinery; but Yan Yan was a girl.

In the era when Yan Dabang grew up, not many people could live as they wished, neither could Yan Dabang, nor could Lu Bingran.

The life that the Yan Dabang couple never had, they hoped their daughter Yan Yan could have.

The nineties were the times of especially strict enforcement of the family planning policy, but entrepreneurs in Wenzhou who were engaged in private enterprises hardly implemented the state’s one-child policy.

It wasn’t like having more children would get them fired from their own companies, at most they would just have to pay a "social support fee."

The Yan Dabang couple could have had another child.

But Lu Bingran had a particularly severe reaction to pregnancy, and also fell into depression for over a year due to her figure changing after childbirth.

It wasn’t until Yan Yan was two years old that Lu Bingran slowly got back to normal.

Yan Dabang said he only wanted one daughter in his life, but his truest thought was that he didn’t want Lu Bingran to suffer through it again.

The love of the parents may not have many sweet nothings, but upon close appreciation, it can still be very romantic.

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Grandpa:

Reply=>

"You really can’t change your nerd nature wherever you go, huh? Are you trying to turn yourself into a fashion expert in a short time?"

"If you want me to become a math expert in a short time too, I’d probably just pass out in the bathroom."

"After all, I still haven’t got around to solving that equation you wrote last time."

"The four top fashion institutions I mentioned are not the same as the Four Fashion Colleges you mentioned."

"However, these two ’fours’ do have one thing in common, three are in Europe, with one in the United Kingdom, Italy, and France each, and the remaining one in the United States."

"The Four Fashion Colleges you found in London, Milan, Paris, and New York are also the cities where the international Four Fashion Weeks take place."

"As for rankings, different perspectives yield different lists, some value hardware, some value software, some focus on teaching quality, some focus on business prospects."

"The reason I chose Italy’s Polimoda Fashion College must be because I personally wanted to live in Florence for a while."

"When I was a kid, many of our relatives and friends owned shoe factories."

"Leather shoes are also one of Wenzhou’s well-known business cards."

"Compared to Paris, Italy is truly the kingdom of leather shoes, and I want to go to Florence to see the birthplace of Salvatore Ferragamo."

"I think if a person really wants to delve deep into the fashion industry, they have to go to its birthplace."

"Only by going can you be in close contact with the highest-end fabrics and materials, and gain the latest design inspiration and fashion information."

"However, your random search for the Four Fashion Colleges actually turned up Parsons, which is even more appealing to me than FIT (New York State University Fashion Institute of Technology)."

"I really want to make a pilgrimage to Parsons because my favorite designer Marc Jacobs is a Parsons graduate."

"Marc Jacobs revitalized the old and lethargic LV with his own efforts."

"However, I have not applied to schools in the United States yet, and Parsons seems to value work experience."

"I am not sure if it is possible to go for just six months, let alone if it is possible to access the core content in half a year."

"So, about the question you asked when the word ’if’ can be removed, I think it would probably be around August this year."

"Thankfully, I am pretty resilient, otherwise your tone, treating job offers like buying a cabbage, would definitely be a huge blow."

"Every offer you get is the dream of others; is it really right for you to act like this?"

"Good thing I’ve been crushed by you since we were kids, otherwise, I wouldn’t know how to deal with an ’alien visitor’ like you."

Question=>

"These past few days, I haven’t dared to log into QQ to check our class group chat, anyway, I feel I need to lay low for a while. Xiao Qizi, tell me, after returning to the warm embrace of Class 3-4, did many classmates seek you out to catch up?"