After More Than Ten Years of Failure, My Father Helped Me to Win in Life

On the day after the high school entrance examination, I squatted in the alley eating instant noodles. The kid next door was admitted to County No. 1 Middle School, and his mother bought him a new mobile phone. I asked my dad: "When will our family be able to make a difference?" My dad crossed his legs and ate melon seeds without raising his head: "Promise? Yes." "What's the future?" He flicked the ashes of his cigarette as if to say that the weather is nice today: "Son, let me tell you a secret - I am actually a master of stock trading. Our family has long been wealthy and free." "???" I almost stopped holding the instant noodles in my hand. My dad, the man who sleeps until midnight every day, wears flip-flops to the vegetable market, and is called "old waste" by his neighbors? He said he was financially free? Until he took out his mobile phone and opened the account I had never seen before. I stared at the long string of numbers and doubted for the first time—— Have I lived a pseudo-poor life for more than ten years?