After surviving the seven-year itch of marriage, I didn't escape the exploitation of "vampire" relatives after all, and wanted to share a friend's story. My friend Luo Jia just finished the divorce procedure with her husband last week. Lorca's parents and mine used to be colleagues and teachers in high school. Although they are either rich or expensive, her family conditions in this big city are better than those of the average middle class. Growing up, she ate well and was spoiled. When she was a graduate student, she went abroad for exchanges and later returned to work in this city. Luo Jia's husband Hao Yuan is now more appropriately called her ex-husband. He was born in an extremely poor mountain village.
According to Luo Jia, before seeing his circle of friends, the house at home was considered as a land temple. Haoyuan, through his own efforts, was admitted to the first place in their village, admitted to a school in this big city, and then borrowed money to study abroad. On the busy Fifth Avenue in America, these two young people from other countries met. At that time, Luo Jia was the flower of our department, and Haoyuan was always the first achievement of our department. When I was an undergraduate, Luo Jia had many suitors. At that time, Luo Jia didn't even look at Haoyuan, but in this foreign country, maybe it was because he was too lonely, or because he hadn't seen his compatriots for too long, or because he was familiar with the local accent, so he had more exchanges in the United States and then began to fall in love.
However, after all, their classes are too far apart. I remember that the Luo family always told us about the gorgeous costumes, manners and consumption habits at that time. They often quarreled, but they didn't break up in the end, so they stumbled until they came back from studying abroad. It's not easy to walk far. His family really couldn't afford his tuition to go abroad, so he took classes while working, and even spent three years studying abroad to complete his studies, and asked for a loan. After returning home, they are going to get married, but the Haoyuan family really can't afford a house. Three years after graduation, buying a house seems far away. Not only that, their marriage was strongly opposed by Luo Jia's parents, but Luo Jia's character was very stubborn. After repeated persuasion by his parents failed, Luo Jia even threatened to go on a hunger strike, and his parents finally compromised.