646: Chapter 646: The 10th Official Copy (Requesting Monthly Pass) 646: Chapter 646: The 10th Official Copy (Requesting Monthly Pass) [0 years old: You were born, and you were nad Cito, a na your father ca up with on a whim.]
[1 year old: Your mother was a waitress at a chain fast-food restaurant, and your father was a baker at a small pastry company.]
[2 years old: You lived in Saint Joen City, a city known by many endearing titles, such as “The Federation’s Eastern Granary”.]
[3 years old: You and your parents lived in an apartnt to the southeast of Saint Joen City, shared with a scruffy uncle, who was a colleague of your father’s.
He was very fond of you, often buying you candies and snacks.]
[4 years old: Your parents enrolled you in a small family-run kindergarten in the nearby community.
The kindergarten had only two staff mbers: the principal and a young female teacher.
The principal was a very kind elderly person, but the teacher looking after you had many tattoos and slled of the pungent smoke that lingered on your father as well.
However, she was very nice and patient and never smoked in front of you.]
[5 years old: One afternoon, your mother told you that you had to stop attending the kindergarten because it had enrolled far more children than a family kindergarten should, and therefore had to close.
Your mother complained that it was the cheapest kindergarten in the vicinity.
Over the next month, your mother, using her ti off work, took you to all the kindergartens nearby, and eventually, you chose the most affordable promotional daycare service at a chain kindergarten.]
[6 years old: You successfully entered a community primary school nearby, where many of the students were your kindergarten classmates.
Your parents worked late every day.
The community primary school offered additional after-school care services, but at an extra cost.
Your parents did not pay for the after-school service, and since many other children didn’t either, you usually gathered together and played after school.]
[7 years old: You learned how to bake bread by yourself, which wasn’t difficult.
You just placed the bread in the old, faded breadmaker at ho, pressed the button, and waited for it to ‘ding—’.]
[8 years old: You were the earliest to wake in your household, and you learned how to cook steak, but since you couldn’t reach the stove, you had to stand on a small stool.
Steak was rarely available at ho, so you also learned how to cook chicken cutlets.
During als, your mother often chatted with you.
She ntioned a highly advanced steak-cooking machine that could automatically determine and control the doneness of the steak by just placing it inside, and it could cook many steaks at once.
Her restaurant had such a machine, although it was mainly used for cooking hamburger patties.
It was surrounded by caras, and employees faced heavy fines if caught snacking.]
[9 years old: Your father found a new job at a starch synthesis factory, with an hourly wage that was 1 federal coin higher than before.
Your mother ca ho very pleased, showing you the ‘fresh steak’ she had purchased, and told you very seriously that this steak was completely different from the synthetic at steak you used to eat.
You couldn’t taste much difference between this steak and the previous ones, and you even thought the old steaks tasted better and were more tantalizing, but your parents seed very happy eating it.
You knew this steak must have been expensive because your mother had sold off the recyclable trash you had been saving for a long ti.]
[10 years old: Your grades were good, but it didn’t seem to matter much.
The teachers didn’t care much about your grades, except for the science teacher who would occasionally tell you to study hard and strive to get into college.]
[11 years old: One day on your way to school, a heavy rain suddenly started pouring, and you raced down the dilapidated road with your backpack over your head.
A fancy car sped past you, splashing mud all over your clothes.]
[12 years old: The restaurant branch where your mother worked closed down, and she beca unemployed.
Although she tried to act normal in front of you, you could tell that the atmosphere at ho was not very good.
That year, you went on to attend the community middle school.
Many children went to take entrance exams for nearby private schools, but you did not.
You knew that the exam fee for each test was equivalent to a week’s worth of als for your family.]
[13 years old: Your mother found a new job as a dostic cleaner, which was not easy work.
She often had to work until nine in the evening before coming ho bending over with tiredness.]
You found a part-ti job at a convenience store near your school.
Even though you were only 13, Saint Joen City only prohibited the employnt of children under 12.]
[14 years old: The order at the community middle school was much worse than at the primary school.
A third of the students in your class often skipped, and occasionally there were students intent on joining gangs who would extort money from other students.]
Yet, the majority in the school are ordinary students like you.
Not all students who skip classes are troublemakers; many miss classes because they have taken up jobs in factories, unable to leave work due to scheduling conflicts.]
[15 years old: After a brief struggle, you decided to attend high school.
This ti, you took out the money you had saved from part-ti jobs to apply for the entrance exam of a relatively good private high school.
You passed the exam and received a scholarship.
On the night the results were announced, your mother brought ho ‘fresh beef steaks’ that she hadn’t bought for a long ti.
This ti, as you ate the steak, you seed to taste the difference between this steak and the artificial at synthetic steaks you used to have.]
[16 years old: Lately, your father frequently experienced tinnitus, and his hearing seed to have severely deteriorated.]
[17 years old: The scholarship provided by the school covered most of your expenses, but you had to wake up two hours early every day and take an hour and a half bus ride to get to school; in the evening, you took the sa route ho.
You seldom spoke to your classmates at school, finding it hard to join in their conversations about dances, football, wilderness adventures, and sumr camps.
All you knew was that if you overslept by ten minutes in the morning and missed the autonomous bus, you would have to pay an extra seventy-five federal coins to take the manned bus.]
[18 years old: High school life was unremarkable.
The only way you felt ti passing was each spring at the start of the school year, when your father would take you to school; you sat behind him, watching the white hair on his head grow more abundant.
As graduation approached, you once overheard a classmate discussing their family’s dostic cleaner.
He described the cleaner crawling at his feet, scrubbing the floor, compliant like an old dog.
You confronted the classmate, knowing he was aware that your mother was a dostic cleaner.
You hit him.
Thanks to your teacher’s intervention, you weren’t expelled, but the school withdrew your scholarship.
In the last half-year of high school, you started working part-ti jobs outside of school again.
At the Federation High School Graduation Level Examination, you achieved an excellent score and, with it, earned a spot at the best university in Saint Joen City, Saint Joen University of Technology.]
[19 years old: You managed to find a part-ti job at a decently paid chain fast-food restaurant near the school.
Since you were a student and a temporary worker, the restaurant was not required to provide you with corresponding social security and dical insurance.
But they could no longer use your minor status as a reason to pay you a lower wage.]
[20 years old: You perford very well in your major, t your first love at the fast-food restaurant, and the two of you experienced growth and a brief cohabitation.]
[21 years old: Broke up with your first love]
[22 years old: Graduated from university and was hired through a social recruitnt by the Tweed Grain Industry Group of Saint Joen.]
[23 years old: Worked at the group’s grain production factory, responsible for the technical guidance of grain production.]
[24 years old: t a senior who worked in the research departnt of the Kajet Group from the sa school online, got to know her better through technical exchanges, and started a romantic relationship with her.]
[25 years old: Got married and took out a loan with your spouse to buy a small one-room apartnt.]
[26 years old: Promoted to factory technical director, purchasing supplental dical insurance for your parents.]
[27 years old: Your father’s hearing significantly declined, and his physical health weakened.
A hospital examination revealed signs of cardiovascular disease, and he underwent conservative treatnt.
Insurance reimbursed a portion, but the remaining dical expenses depleted most of your parents’ savings.]
[28 years old: Your son was born, and you beca a father.]
[29 years old: Advanced to the group’s technical departnt, becoming the manager responsible for technology.]
[30 years old: Your wife was promoted to director of the research division at her group’s research institute.]
[At 31: Due to health reasons, my father was fired from the factory he worked at, he found a job driving for an elderly care center.]
[At 32: My child turned four and started kindergarten.
A serious technical accident occurred at the factory, a colleague who caused the accident tried to shift the bla onto .
I argued based on the facts and revealed the truth to the higher-ups of the group.
In the end, that colleague left the company.]
[At 33: Because of staying up late for extended periods, I beca weak and fainted at work, I started trying to get fit and take care of my health.]
[At 34: I advised my parents to rest well.
My son was about to enter elentary school, I enrolled him in a good preschool class, sold the small house we had, and took out a loan to buy a larger two-bedroom apartnt.]
[At 35: My child started elentary school.
He started school a year later than most, I signed up at a remote gym, where I learned their claid ‘secret’ fitness techniques.]
[At 36: My health gradually improved, and I introduced my wife to the fitness regin, but after trying a few tis, she gave it up due to her busy work schedule.]
[At 37: My mother’s chronic back injury from years of work flared up, leading to her dismissal.
Even after the dical expenses were reimbursed, the treatnt still depleted my parents’ savings.
By the ti I found out, my mother had already been discharged from the hospital.]
[At 38: I was transferred to the business departnt and frequently traveled on business trips.
The company’s developnt encountered setbacks, and several managers who joined the company around the sa ti were let go for various reasons.
Almost all the money I earned each month went to paying off the mortgage and credit cards.
I had almost no extra funds at my disposal.
Even so, my wife and I managed to contribute a portion of our inco to my parents, to improve their lives and cover dical expenses.]
[At 39: My wife was promoted to deputy director of a research institute, although I advised her against it many tis, my mother still found a new job as a catering service worker.]
[At 40: My child was about to move up to middle school, I was promoted to Deputy Director of Technology at the group.]
[At 41: I enrolled my child in the private middle school entrance examination, and he was successfully admitted to a prestigious private school.]
[At 42: My father suffered a sudden heart attack due to years of overwork and passed away.]
[At 43: I took my mother ho to live with us and forbade her from going out to work again.]
[At 44: The group’s business was significantly impacted and on the verge of bankruptcy; its products couldn’t be sold.]
[At 45: My child started high school, my mother fell and had a stroke, beca hemiplegic and needed care, the group announced a large layoff.
I was fortunate not to be on the layoff list, but my inco was cut by two-thirds.]
[At 46: There was treatnt available for my mother’s disease, but my wife and I didn’t have the savings to pay for the huge dical bills.
One morning in autumn, my mother never woke up again.
That night, I sat on the couch all night, finishing a whole ashtray of cigarette butts.]
[At 47: My child was accepted into Dawn University.
During the first term, as I took him to school, he sat behind , gazing at the back of my head, seemingly lost in thought.]
[At 48: The group officially declared bankruptcy and was eventually acquired by the Tweed Group.
The Tweed Group, the largest grain company in Saint Joen City and one of the largest in the Federation, was also the greatest competitor of my company, the Tweed Grain Industry Group.
The bankruptcy of the Tweed Group had sothing to do with the Tweed Group’s malicious competition, but all that was beyond my ability to change.
The Tweed Group lost.]
[At 49: The group distributed severance pay to the long-term employees, and the Tweed Group took over the research departnts and factories originally owned by the Tweed Group.
Approaching fifty, I found myself unemployed.
As a technical backbone of the forr Tweed Group, the Tweed Group had extended an olive branch to as well, but I turned it down.
In the list of the technical managent of the Tweed Group, I saw the na of the colleague who once tried to fra .]
[At 50: Due to a non-compete agreent, I couldn’t work in any job related to my original industry for two years.
However, the Tweed Group was willing to pay a monthly non-compete indemnity of 30% of my forr salary.
I was left with free ti.
Over the years, I had maintained the habit of working out, and despite being past fifty, I still had a well-sculpted muscular physique.
Though the gym that originally taught fitness had long since closed down.]
[At 51: My child graduated and returned to work in Saint Joen City at the Tweed Group.
I didn’t interfere with my child’s choice, as jobs not associated with the Tweed Group were hard to co by in Saint Joen City.]
[At 52: My wife had a serious illness.
Despite her high dical insurance coverage, the sickness still consud half of our savings.
Due to the illness taking up so much work ti, my wife was let go by the Tweed Group.]
[At 53 years old, your wife seed to co back to life after stepping down from the operating table.
She gave up the spirit of working herself to the bone and joined you in exercising.
Your non-compete period had expired, and you found a job as a technical consultant in a small grain processing factory that undertook work for Kajet Group.
The salary was even lower than your non-compete compensation, but the workload was also light.
In that year, your son got married.
His wife was also an employee at Kajet Group and had once been subordinate to your wife.]
[54 years old: After exercise, your wife’s health had visibly improved, but that did not change the overarching reality of her progressively weakening condition after her illness.]
[55 years old: From ti to ti, you would take trips with your wife.
The ongoing dical expenses for her treatnt dwindled your savings, and the health insurance company demanded higher premiums.
So dical insurance companies refused to cover you both.]
[56 years old: Your wife’s condition gradually stabilized, and she took on a role as a technical consultant in a small research institute.
Although the salary was modest, it was enough, combined with yours, to barely cover your living expenses and mortgage.]
[57 years old: Exercising and going on trips with your wife.]
[58 years old: Your granddaughter was born.
You took care of your wife.]
[59 years old: Exercising, taking care of your wife.]
[60 years old: Taking care of your little granddaughter, teaching her how to exercise.]
[61 years old: Your wife’s old ailnt recurred, hospitalization.]
[62 years old: After months of drawn-out treatnt and spending most of your savings, your wife ultimately did not stay with you.]
[63 years old: You paid off the mortgage, with very little savings left.]
[64 years old: Your son and daughter-in-law often brought the kids to see you, and sotis your granddaughter would stay with you to keep you company.]
[65 years old: You felt as though the whole world seed to slow down a bit, yet at the sa ti, it moved very fast.
You woke up early, exercised, worked out, watched TV for a while, and then waited for the clock to complete its round, and night would arrive.
Outside the window, it seed very noisy, with various commotions, but it also seed unrelated to you.]
[66 years old: Your son suddenly sent your granddaughter to stay with you for a few months.
When you asked him why, he wouldn’t tell you.
You arranged for your granddaughter to stay in her father’s old room, and your son also stayed there whenever he ca back.]
[67 years old: Your son picked up your granddaughter, and everything seed to return to how it was before.]
[68 years old: One morning, your granddaughter knocked on your door, saying that her parents had sent her over.
A month after that, you hadn’t managed to make contact with your son again.
It wasn’t until one day at noon that you received news of your son and daughter-in-law’s car accident.
By the ti you arrived, everything was over.
You collected your son’s belongings, arranged for the cremation at the funeral ho, and returned to your son’s house with your granddaughter.
You fell asleep on the couch, and that night, you slept very soundly.]
[Your mission is: Investigate the truth of Winding Hill]
[Have fun playing]
Fire.
He Ao suddenly opened his eyes.
The scorching tongues of fla swept over his skin.]
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