Chapter 1568: The Clash Between Rigid and Open-Minded

"If you know you were wrong, you can repeat the year and stay in my class. Next year, I will personally watch you apply, and you will apply to Jiangzhou University. How about that?"

"No. Teacher, I will not repeat the year. Even if I were to repeat it, I would still apply to the Film Academy."

Teacher Tian:...

She was so angry she closed her eyes and said crossly, "Leave at once. You are trying to anger me to death. Leave at once."

"It's not like that..."

Zihan wanted to explain to the teacher that it wasn't only graduates of Jiangzhou University who would have a future, and that the Film Academy was also a good school.

He even wanted to say that in every trade, there is a master.

But he didn't get the chance. Before he could speak, he was interrupted by Teacher Tian: "The Film Academy is a damn good school."

"With your scores, attending such a school is simply a disgrace to me. Don't say you're my student in the future; I don't have a student like you..." She had her family drive Zihan out.

Once a person's mindset is formed, it is hard to change. Teacher Tian was just like that; her worldview had solidified, and she could not accept Zihan's decision.

Zihan felt regretful, but he would still stick to his own ideas.

Teacher Tian was discharged from the hospital.

She would not give up and went to the Sheng Family to make a final effort, wanting Sheng Hanyu and his wife to intervene firmly and make Zihan repeat the year.

It didn't matter that he didn't apply to Jiang University this year; he could apply next year.

But the Sheng Family's attitude made her furious once again!

Sheng Hanyu said, "No need. Let him go wherever he wants. It's all schooling anyway, and he hasn't gone down a crooked path."

Teacher Tian:...

She disagreed with Zihan's father's point of view and immediately retorted, "Not gone down a crooked path? Where are there any good people at the Film Academy? Prostitutes are heartless, and actors are unrighteous. Do you want to watch with your own eyes as Zihan becomes a heartless and unrighteous person..."

That was said very nastily.

Sheng Hanyu naturally wouldn't tolerate such nonsense: "If he commits an illegal or undisciplined act, there are police to arrest him, courts to judge him, and Prison to house him. But for a teacher to say such cursed, slanderous things that no human should say, isn't that inappropriate?"

"What do you call this? A black heart and a poisonous mouth?"

"You... you are too much. How can you speak to me like that? I am doing this all for Zihan's own good, and you actually curse me for having a black heart?"

Teacher Tian was so angry she almost fainted. She had never seen parents like this.

The parents of her students, even if they weren't submissive, would usually stand on the same side as her.

The children were still young; what did they understand?

Wouldn't the path ahead still require adults to worry? Yet such parents actually supported their son in going down a crooked path?

That's right, in her heart, the Film Academy was not a proper school; it was a school for students who didn't get good grades and had nowhere else to go.

Zihan was this year's Top Scholar, the proof that she had meticulously cultivated a student and could hold her head high at school. If he went to the Film Academy, she wouldn't be able to lift her head at school anymore.

She shouted, "Are you his biological parents? Why are you so irresponsible toward your child?"

"I cultivated Zihan for three years and turned him into a Top Scholar, not so he could go be some celebrity. He needs to become a talent, a pillar of the nation, someone useful to the country!"

When words don't match, half a sentence is too much.

Sheng Hanyu believed that being able to become a Top Scholar was already proof enough of himself.

But seeing Teacher Tian's lips turn blue and purple from anger and her whole body trembling, he didn't continue to escalate the conflict, only saying, "Children and grandchildren have their own fortunes. Whatever. I can't control that much, and I don't want to control that much anymore."

Shi Youxuan picked up a cup of chrysanthemum tea and handed it to Teacher Tian: "Please calm your anger and drink some tea."

"I won't drink it." She was burning with rage and had no desire to take the tea in front of her.

It was truly a case of the emperor not being anxious while the eunuch was. For parents to act like this was, in her heart, an extremely irresponsible display.

"Your health is what matters. It's not worth it to make yourself sick over a child like Zihan. Please calm down and listen to our thoughts with a peaceful mind, okay?"

Shi Youxuan's attitude was much better than her husband's, and her words were pleasant to hear. At least in Teacher Tian's heart, she felt there was still room for the matter to ease.

So she took the tea and took a sip. The taste was quite good, so she drank it all.

She had been too agitated just now, and her throat had long since gone dry. With a cup of tea down, her anger indeed dissipated quite a bit.

Shi Youxuan said, "In every trade, there is a master. Zihan is no longer a child; he is already eighteen and is an adult."

"The fact that he could hide it from us this time and go interview and apply on his own shows that he is an independent person with his own ideas and plans. We as parents feel quite gratified."

"His father and I will not force him to repeat the year, because forcing him will only make the child's rebellious psychology stronger. Even if we insisted on forcing him to repeat, he wouldn't study well and would just waste a year of time in vain."

"Since it is the path he chose himself, let him walk it himself. Let him bear the consequences, good or bad!"

The anger that Teacher Tian had just suppressed flared up again.

She was so angry she wanted to flip the table, but the Sheng Family's table was too heavy, and she couldn't flip it.

She only left behind one sentence: "You will ruin Zihan by doing this!" After finishing, she stood up and left.

Those with different paths cannot make plans together; if you aren't the same kind of person, you can't talk to each other!

Sheng Hanyu was too lazy to even see her off and went straight to the Study.

Shi Youxuan knew that Teacher Tian was also genuinely doing it for the child's good. Although their viewpoints differed, the starting point was good, and one couldn't just wipe away all of Teacher Tian's good points just because their viewpoints were different.

Doing that would make her the same kind of person as her.

Shi Youxuan accompanied her with a smiling face and escorted Teacher Tian to her car.

She said many pleasant things, thanking the teacher for her dedication to Zihan and Zirui over the past three years, and even gave many gifts, filling the entire trunk.

When Teacher Tian left, the expression on her face finally eased just a little.

Zihan came out of the room and thanked his mother very sincerely: "Thank you, Mom. Thank you for your understanding."

He had originally thought there would be a storm, but it had dissipated like this, which was unexpected and a pleasant surprise.

Shi Youxuan said, "No need to thank me, but remember, since this is the path you chose yourself, you must walk it seriously."

"If you regret it in the future, don't blame anyone else. You must be responsible for everything you have done!"

"Mm."

Zihan nodded: "I understand." He seemed to have understood, yet he also seemed not to have understood.

A child this age, although past the rebelliousness of puberty, is still not mature enough.

His choice is not necessarily correct, but it is not necessarily wrong either; who can say for sure what the future holds?

……

Lao Qi has returned from abroad.

It should have been a day for the family to reunite, but they did not manage to!

Because Yulong laid down the law: "If that woman comes, I'm leaving; in any case, I won't see her."

Meiyin urged him, "Don't be so stubborn. What do you mean 'that woman'? She is Mother; in the past, she was still... to us..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Yulong turned and walked away.

"Hey, don't go! Can't I just stop talking?" Meiyin chased after him and coaxed him for quite a while before Yulong finally returned.