Chapter 993: Chen Nanxing's Father's Hardship

Xiong Tao's father had a bitter life,

but Chen Nanxing's father's life was even more bitter.

Chen Nanxing's father and mother both started working at a factory in the city right after graduating from high school.

Chen Nanxing's father worked at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Chen Nanxing's mother worked at a garment factory.

They met through an introduction, felt they got along well, tried getting to know each other for over a month, and then got married under the arrangements of both sets of parents.

Back then, they lived in a dormitory building assigned by Chen Nanxing's father's workplace.

The three major household items were a motorcycle, a color television, and an electric refrigerator.

To gather enough money for these three items, Chen Nanxing's father spent several years' worth of wages, and in the end could only borrow money from relatives to pay the betrothal gifts.

More than a year after the couple married,

Chen Nanxing was born without complications.

Then, responding to the call for family planning, they decided not to have any more children.

Thus,

young Chen Nanxing became the apple of his parents' eyes, receiving all their love.

But good times did not last; a few years later, both of Chen Nanxing's parents lost their jobs.

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Both were honest people who could not run a business, so they could only find various odd jobs or work in factories to barely make a living.

It can be said that,

to keep the family going and raise Chen Nanxing,

Chen Nanxing's parents endured a great deal of hardship.

Fortunately, Chen Nanxing was smart and studied hard, always ranking among the top students in class, and was well-behaved and cute with no so-called rebellious phase.

During the college entrance exam, Chen Nanxing walked into the examination hall carrying beautiful dreams of the Imperial Capital.

Two months later, he was successfully admitted to the Imperial Capital University of Science and Technology and became roommates with Xu Hongdou, who came from the Demon Capital.

Through their interactions, the two gradually became best friends and close confidantes who shared everything.

At that time, Chen Nanxing's tuition fees were still a bit difficult to cover.

To let Chen Nanxing go to university with peace of mind,

Chen Nanxing's father did not hesitate to work as a laborer at a construction site, working over ten hours a day, exhausting himself for less than two hundred yuan.

Chen Nanxing's mother went to work as a nanny for wealthy families, earning about three thousand yuan a month, responsible for cooking and washing clothes.

Together, they could earn around seven or eight thousand yuan a month, which covered Chen Nanxing's tuition and other expenses, sustained their living, and even allowed them to save some money.

After Chen Nanxing graduated from university,

he directly interviewed at a certain enterprise in the Imperial Capital and worked in marketing planning.

Meanwhile, Xu Hongdou, by a twist of fate, entered the Waldorf Hotel, starting as a housekeeping department manager's assistant and slowly rising to become the housekeeping department manager.

Although Xu Hongdou came from the Demon Capital,

like Chen Nanxing, neither of them came from wealthy families.

Therefore,

both treated their work seriously and ambitiously, and indeed achieved some results.

Later,

Chen Nanxing was promoted and received a raise, then began to dream of buying a house in the Imperial Capital through his own efforts.

Xu Hongdou did not have such grand dreams, so she saved up the money she earned.

Occasionally, when they were too tired,

Chen Nanxing and Xu Hongdou would travel together, spending a few thousand yuan to visit other places, change their scenery, and refresh their mood.