Yolanda glared at Serina, who immediately lowered her head and did not dare to speak.
“Serina, look at you now! You have no job after graduating from university, and you just live a carefree life and waste your time every day! You have accomplished nothing!”
As Yolanda spoke, she poked Serina on the forehead.
“Why do you think I have accomplished nothing?”
Serina almost blurted out that she was a novelist on the Internet, but she kept to herself.
She was just a nobody now. In the eyes of many people, an Internet writer could not be considered a real job.
Moreover, she lacked perseverance and she didn’t focus on her manuscript. Usually her novel was incomplete, and she would often stop updating her novel.
Thus, even on Internet, she wasn’t that popular among readers.
“What do you want to say? You are spoiled by your father, your grandfather, and your grandmother. You always turn a deaf ear to my words. Words like ‘a girl doesn’t need to study and she only needs to marry a good man in the future’ are all bullshit!”
Serina lowered her head even more.
“Well, now you broke up with Sammy and achieved nothing!”
Yolanda was about to be furious. When she was in the Norris family, she was a daughter-in-law and couldn’t get along well with her parents-in-law. She did not dare to say too much about Serina’s education.
She didn’t expect that the outcome would be like this.
“Alright, I won’t scold you any more,” Seeing that Serina was dejected, Yolanda didn’t scold her any more. The elders had to take the main responsibility for this. “I’ll give you two choices.”
“What?” Serina looked up.
“First, find a decent job. If you don’t want to go back to City Z, you can stay in City S. Second, I will send you abroad to study.”
“Mom…” Serina drawled, “I struggled a lot to graduate from the university. Do you want me to study abroad?”
“Then find a job and learn something!”
With palm against her forehead, Serina hesitated for a moment before asking, “Mom, what if my husband is rich enough to support my life and he doesn’t need me to go out to work?”
Yolanda slapped the table so hard that the tea set on the table shook.
Serina was so scared that she also trembled.
“Serina! You are not only achieving nothing, but you also have wrong values now!”
“Why do you say so?” Serina’s voice was so low that it couldn’t almost be heard.
“Do you think it is easy to be the young mistress of a rich and powerful family? Look at the Nathan family. They abandon you even before you get married!”
Serina was speechless. This was the truth, and she could not refute it.
“If you want your love to be lasting, you must make yourself attractive to each other. It is impossible to keep your love alive only by relying on the body or psychological impulse.”
Serina lowered her head and thought about what Yolanda said.
Yolanda sighed, “Serina, I have experienced this. I also have some friends who married into a rich and powerful family. Many of them have a miserable ending.”
“How miserable is it?”
“My best friend married into a wealthy family, and her husband was twenty years older than her. After she married him, she served a husband who was about the same age as her father, took care of the daughter left by his ex-wife, and even gave birth to her own son. There’s no love between them. She basically became a widow after the marriage. On the surface, her life was glamorous, but in fact, it was suffering.”
“I won’t marry an old man for the sake of living a good life” Serina muttered.
Yolanda glanced at her. “And your Aunt Shayla was a designer at that time, which was a very good job, but she gave up her career for her husband. After giving birth to children, she was no longer young and was abandoned. She lost her children, job, and everything.”
Serina lay on the table and listened quietly.
“And our neighbor when I lived in the old house, you were still a child then. The neighbor didn’t even go to college and stayed at home. They thought that she looked so good-looking and should marry a rich man. Later, she married a rich man and gave birth to two daughters. However, the man had an affair and gave birth to an illegitimate child. If she resisted, she would be driven out and given nothing. She could only endure.”
Serina sighed. Would Derek treat her like this?
Yolanda stroked Serina’s long hair. “Serina, I don’t mean that there is no real love in these families, but such a family is much more complicated than you think. Anything can become very complicated as long as it is related to money.”
In fact, Yolanda could tell from Derek’s attire that he did not look like a man from an ordinary family.
“I don’t expect you to be very rich in this life. I just hope that you can find someone you love and he can also love you. And I want you to live a peaceful and happy life.”
“Mom, do you still love my dad?” Serina asked as she lay on the table and looked up at Yolanda.
When she heard this question, Yolanda was stunned.
She hesitated for a very long time.
“When your father was young, he was good at writing articles. He was a very famous scholar in the school. In addition, his family was rich and famous, so many girls liked him, but he chose me in the end.”
Serina listened quietly.
“Back then, your grandfather always opposed us being together. I insisted on marrying him. And I even went against your grandfather. Later, I married into the Norris family, gave birth to a daughter, and served my parents-in-law. But what do I have now?”
There was regret in Yolanda’s eyes, “I still can’t change your father’s nature. Serina, do you know that? Ever since I left your father, I feel like I have finally found myself and lived a life I want.”
Yolanda’s gaze became gentle, and she stroked Serina’s long hair with her slender fingers.
“Serina, as a woman, whether you choose to be alone or married, both are OK. The most important thing is to know how to love yourself and have your own life. In other words, no matter whether you get married or not, you must live a wonderful life.”
Serina nodded.
“Right now, there are too many girls who want to marry into a wealthy family. These girls overestimate themselves and think that as long as they are beautiful and have a good figure, they can get what they want.”
“Then what should I do?”
Yolanda sighed. “You must be worthy of that man. You must have a career that you are proud of.”
Serina thought of something and nodded.
“Alright, you can go back. I still have something to deal with.”
“Mom, I’m leaving.” Serina got up and left.
Yolanda looked at Serina’s back. She had worried about her daughter too much.
On the way back to Derek’s room, Serina was anxious.
Yolanda had said these to her before, but at that time, she was young and did not pay attention to these at all.
But now, she felt that it was very reasonable.
Derek could love her for a while, but could he love her forever?
He had such a strong background and his family was the wealthiest family in the local area.
There were so many women who wanted to marry him. How could she make him loyal to her for the rest of his life?
Moreover, she did not even know if he loved her.