OBS Chapter 47 Preference
Chapter 47 Preference
Bai Ru shook her head, looking sad, but Lu Jinyan didn't quite agree with Aunt Ru's words.
Seeing Mo Chen cough up blood again due to excessive excitement, Lu Jinyan felt quite uncomfortable. As an observer, she felt that the main responsibility for this matter lay with Mo Xuan's parents.
They are both their children, but their attitudes towards each other are worlds apart. The original novel does not describe Mo Xuan's parents much, and when they are mentioned, it is only briefly, or sometimes just mentioned in passing.
So she didn't know much about these things, but she did know that Mo Xuan's parents favored him. After all, when Mo Xuan went back to seek revenge on his brother for the sake of the female lead, his parents didn't stop him at all. Instead, they even scolded Mo Chen loudly.
Lu Jinyan felt that Mo Xuan had been physically weak since childhood, so it was right for them to pay more attention to him, but they shouldn't neglect the other just because one of them was weak.
Moreover, sometimes you don't really need to do too much. A look or a word can have a great effect. Besides, as Mo Xuan got older, his health improved, but they still habitually treated Mo Xuan well while neglecting Mo Chen.
In their hearts, they always felt that Mo Xuan was very fragile from birth and needed protection and care, while Mo Chen was healthy, so they automatically gave more care and time to Mo Xuan.
They had investigated the incident of the monsters injuring people that year. Someone had deliberately lured Mo Xuan and Mo Chen there, and then put something on the monsters to make them go berserk and try to harm them. Mo Chen pushed them to save his brother, but he didn't expect another one to suddenly jump out.
To save and protect his younger brother, the little boy was covered in wounds and blood, yet he kept calling out for his brother, so they didn't blame him. They also didn't believe Mo Xuan's claim that his older brother wanted to harm him.
However, they remained unchanged and did not comfort Mo Chen, who was also injured. Instead, they showed even more affection for Mo Xuan.
To be honest, Lu Jinyan felt that if the same thing happened to her, she probably wouldn't be able to remain calm and indifferent.
This phenomenon is actually quite normal. There are also parents like this in modern times. When there are two children in the family, everyone's attention tends to be focused on the one who is physically weaker.
They always feel that the one they care about more, love more, and take better care of is the one who needs more attention, thus ignoring the fact that there is another person in the family.
Mo Xuan's parents felt the same way. They believed that Mo Xuan, who was weaker from birth, needed their protection and love more, while Mo Chen, who was healthier, received less care. However, this didn't mean they didn't love him. They thought they had done their best.
That year, after Mo Xuan's little fox died, the Demon King actually found a new little fox for each of the two brothers as a pet, but he felt that even if he found another one, it could not replace his original one.
One of them felt that since they had only just remembered to give him one, it was a favor, so neither of them accepted it.
Actually, Mo Chen's mindset changed at that time, but everyone's attention was on Mo Xuan, and no one noticed Mo Chen's change.
Later, Mo Chen became increasingly taciturn and opposed Mo Xuan at every turn. They would only say that he was immature and scold him, but no one ever asked him why.
This reminded Lu Jinyan of her downstairs neighbor in modern times. The neighbor's family had twin daughters, and the whole family was overjoyed. However, the younger daughter was also very small and thin at birth and had to be placed in an incubator. She almost didn't survive several times, and the doctors had to go to great lengths to save her.
Because the younger daughter was too weak, the family's attention naturally turned to her after she was discharged from the hospital. The older daughter had always been taught by her parents to be considerate of her younger sister because she was weak and needed to protect her.
Anything delicious or fun is given to the younger sister first. Even though they are both at home and made the same mistake together, the parents always blame the older sister because they subconsciously believe that the younger sister needs to be protected. At home, the younger sister can eat snacks, watch TV, and play with toys as she pleases, while the older sister cannot.
Even on her birthday, the gifts her parents bought were always dolls that her younger sister liked, but no one knew that the older sister had never actually liked dolls.
For a long time, the older sister felt unloved and unwanted. She felt that her parents only had eyes for her younger sister. When she made a mistake, she was always the one who got scolded and punished, while her younger sister was never scolded.
This situation continued until the two sisters entered junior high school. As they grew older, the older sister's sense of grievance and resentment became stronger and stronger. She saw other families enjoying happiness together and her classmates being loved and protected by their parents, while she felt like an unwanted one at home.
As for the older sister's growing dislike for her younger sister, to the point where she didn't even want to say a word to her, later, during an argument with her younger sister, even though it was clearly the younger sister's fault, the parents unhesitatingly chose to side with the younger sister.
That night, my sister was heartbroken. She wrote a suicide note and jumped off the balcony. In her suicide note, she wrote only one sentence: "Did you ever really love me?"
Actually, this kind of thing happens a lot in modern times. Lu Jinyan had a colleague whose family had a similar experience. Her colleague's aunt had a daughter, and when her cousin was eighteen, her aunt gave birth to a son. The son was frequently sick from birth.
The siblings are eighteen years apart. Her aunt and uncle have a casual relationship, as they are separated for long periods due to their busy lives. Her cousin, on the other hand, was left in the countryside to be cared for by her grandparents.
This kind of thing is very common in rural areas, so people didn't pay much attention to it. However, the problem was that her aunt's parents-in-law were extremely sexist. Her cousin was not well received by her grandparents in her hometown. They often beat and scolded her, didn't give her food, and even cursed her mother behind her back as a barren hen.
The girl grew up in this environment, which made her very introverted, quiet, and timid.
Later, because her uncle had an affair, her aunt and uncle divorced. However, the two remained entangled, living together even after the divorce. It was hard to explain, and they would say things like that the children were still young and that they were staying together for the sake of the children.