Twinkling Star

Chapter 12 Can’t be Compared

“You are overthinking, I just can’t stand Conor.” Joseph replied dryly.

Bob and Stephen smiled at each other.

They just keep it tacit.

Home should be the warmest place.

But Elizabeth had a cold home.

Seeing Elizabeth come back from LH City dragging suitcase, Maisie, her mother did not show concern

about her, but said cynically, “Why do you work in a big city with low academic qualification? You are

overestimating yourself!”

“Mom, I have not graduated so it is not easy to find a job without graduation certificate!” Elizabeth

countered.

Maisie was still contemptuous, “Drop out of your school. Anyway, it is a waste of money. What can you

do even if you get the diploma? You just have a degree in junior college school, no company in a big

city wants you.”

Maisie’s words like a sword stabbed in the heart of Elizabeth. She did not want to talk with Maisie

anymore and went upstairs carrying the suitcase.

She wasn’t supposed to come back!

“You’re not half as good as Winnie! And don’t wish me and your dad to pay for your second year of

college!”

Maisie shouted at the top of her voice.

Winnie was Elizabeth’s cousin and a daughter from a rich family. Maisie liked her so much that

Elizabeth had a kind of illusion that Winnie Rees was born by her mother and she was adopted.

Elizabeth slammed the door, with tears falling down her face. She was not in the mood to have dinner.

She heard that Maisie saying to her father Martin outside the door, “Elizabeth is useless! Winnie

studies in foreign first-class undergraduate university and won the first-class scholarship every

semester! Elizabeth is not a match to her!”

“Elizabeth gets the first scholarship every semester too! Honey, don’t say that, Winnie is Elizabeth’s

cousin, and your sister has married into a rich family, so we cannot compare between them.”

Elizabeth’s was impatient.

Maisie said, “Why not? Elizabeth’s scholarship of the ordinary school was not the same with that of

Winnie. They were both born in the same room on the same day, but how could they be so different?”

But the difference was normal, anyway Elizabeth was not...

“Honey, actually Elizabeth is not...”

Martin interrupted the thoughts of Maisie.

Maisie was sensitive, wondering if her husband had known about the things of Elizabeth.

Martin changed the subject and sighed bitterly, “It is not that Elizabeth did badly in the college entrance

examination, but that in order to take care of me and raise my medical expenses, she spent her study

time in taking care of me in the hospital and taking part-time jobs to earn money. That was why she

failed in the exam!”

Maisie felt relieved and answered disapprovingly, “She is your daughter and she should take care of

you! Otherwise, I have kept her for eighteen years in vain!”

How indifferent her mother was to her.

Elizabeth suffered from her mother’s sarcastic remarks during these days she stayed at home.

No matter how diligent she was at home, washing clothes, cooking, helping to take care of the family

pharmacy, her mother always had endless dissatisfaction and complaints with her.

When having dinner on one day, Maisie suddenly mentioned Snow Sue.

“Elizabeth! Snow and you are college classmates! I heard that Snow has a rich boyfriend in LH City.

Her boyfriend gives her pocket money like hundreds of thousands of yuan a month! Now, Snow not

only bought her grandparents a three-story house in our town, but also built a four-story villa in our

village. It is said that there is a garden in front, and vegetable garden with a pond behind!” Maisie said

while she was eating.

Maisie said with envy.

Elizabeth froze for a moment. Suddenly she remembered something, and soon she pretended nothing

had happened and went on eating.

She knew Snow suddenly had a fiance and was get married, but she did not expect Snow’s fiance was

so rich that he gave Snow hundreds of thousands of pocket money every month.

Snow had always been a spendthrift, so she could spend out that money in a month.

“Elizabeth, you are beautiful than Snow, but you are bad at choosing a man. What is good about

Conor? He is just the only one undergraduate student in LH City University from our village! His family

is poor and his tuition was collected from the villagers. He is far worse than Snow’s boyfriend. I don’t

know why you like him. And you still want to marry him after graduation, and help him take care of his

father and mother at home, and his old and sick grandparents!” Maisie rambled on.

When mentioning of Conor, Elizabeth put the bowl and chopsticks heavily on the table, which gave her

parents a fright.

“He and I have broken up, now you are satisfied!” Elizabeth roared with tears in eyes.

Maisie was angry immediately, and then scolded angrily, “How dare you roar? Do you show some

respect? What does it matter to me if you break up? What right do you have to yell at me?”

“Honey, don’t say that!” Martin said with a sigh.

In fact, compared to Conor’s family, Elizabeth’s family was not good either.

Her mother ran a small Pharmacy with a dozen square meters on the first floor of the family in this

small town. Her father had bad legs, so he could only sit in front of the revenue desk to collect money.

Moreover, because of her father’s leg illness, the family owed some debts to relatives and friends.

As for her brother...

Although he had a job, he needed to take money from the family every month.

Maisie breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed her tone lightly. After glancing at Elizabeth, she said,

“Aren’t you and Snow are best friend? You go and talk to her and ask her to help you out and give you

some money so you can finish college.”

“Mom, what are you talking about?” Elizabeth became angry immediately.