He Scored Perfect Marks, But His Family Never Noticed—Until It Was Too Late
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00:00The young man threw away the phone card he used to contact his parents.
00:03After obtaining his passport, he resolutely left home.
00:05His parents thought he was sulking against them.
00:07But when they went to his room to look for him,
00:09they found that he had been living in a dilapidated little room all along.
00:12And even his blanket was extremely thin.
00:14It was only then that they realized how hard his life had been all these years.
00:17The entire family finally came to a sudden realization.
00:20But it was all too late.
00:21It turned out that the young man's parents had always been working away from home.
00:25Having lived with his grandmother since childhood,
00:27he had always longed for his parents' company.
00:28In order for his parents to come back and see him,
00:30he studied diligently and scored full marks on every exam.
00:33But his parents always found excuses not to come home,
00:36either claiming that work was too busy or taking his younger siblings out to play,
00:40completely forgetting that he was also their son.
00:42It wasn't until the year the young man graduated from high school.
00:44When his parents returned home in a luxury car,
00:46the young man ran excitedly to the village entrance to greet them.
00:49But his parents only focused on talking with his younger siblings.
00:52Not only did they not inquire about how the young man had been faring all these years,
00:55they instead sent him home first because they intended to take his younger siblings out for a feast.
00:59The young man's excitement instantly plummeted to the depths of despair.
01:02Yet he still yearned for his parents to praise him.
01:04So he brought his college acceptance letter to show his parents,
01:07but unexpectedly overheard a conversation between his younger brother and his parents.
01:11Although his younger brother's grades were worse than his,
01:13their mother still favored the younger brother the most.
01:16Not only saying that the young man was only good for studying and useless,
01:19but also planning to send his younger brother abroad for further education,
01:22so that he could eventually inherit the family business.
01:24When his younger brother worried that the young man might compete with him for the family inheritance,
01:28their father stated that if that were the case, he would sever ties with the young man.
01:32Then the father explained that his purpose for returning home this time
01:34was actually to donate money for the renovation of the ancestral hall.
01:38The young man was immediately filled with sorrow,
01:40only to realize that he had always been the extra one.
01:43Suddenly, a massive explosion occurred at a restaurant,
01:45and a circular plate pinned the young man's leg, rendering him immobile.
01:48Just as the building was about to collapse,
01:50his parents only thought of dragging his younger siblings to safety.
01:53The young man reached out to his parents for help,
01:55but they still chose to rescue the younger siblings first.
01:58Fortunately, some kind-hearted people rescued the young man and took him to the hospital.
02:01And when he woke up, he found only a doctor by his side.
02:04Suddenly, his mother called him, and the young man felt happy again,
02:07but his mother instructed him to go and take care of his injured younger brother right away.
02:11And the young man's heart immediately sank into despair.
02:13He clearly suffered from even more serious injuries.
02:15So he decided not to leave behind any attachments,
02:18and immediately called the foreign university,
02:20determining that he would go study abroad in 10 days.
02:22Perhaps his parents sensed that something was amiss,
02:24and they planned to change his surname back to his father's.
02:27Since originally, because his parents had a second child,
02:29the young man had the same surname as his grandmother,
02:32and now his parents wanted him to revert to the original surname.
02:34The young man's long-awaited dream of over a decade was about to come true,
02:37yet he felt no joy whatsoever.
02:39So he threw the household registration documents his mother had given him into the trash.
02:43And without looking back, he walked into the exit entry administration to apply for a passport.
02:47After returning home, he tore up all the awards he had received over the years,
02:51and even burned the family portrait he had drawn,
02:53and finally went to say goodbye to his grandmother, who had raised him.
02:56Then he took a bus and left his hometown.
02:58Meanwhile, his father was at the ancestral hall, paying respects to their ancestors.
03:01And when he called for the young man to hold a name-changing ceremony,
03:04he found that the young man was nowhere to be seen.
03:06And then his younger sister ran in and said that the young man was missing.
03:09When his mother tried calling him,
03:10there was no answer because the young man had already thrown away his phone card.
03:14He no longer wished to have any contact with his family.
03:16When his parents returned home to search for him,
03:18they witnessed a scene that left them utterly shocked.