With the humming sound of the air conditioner working, three people in the living room sat down around the coffee table, and a middle-aged man who looked to be in his early fifties hugged his chest and said to his daughter, "Ajan, are you really sure?" ”。
The glasses girl who was called Arjan nodded, "I want to go abroad to meet the world, Peking University and Hong Kong Chinese University are not my favorite schools." ”
The girl's mother said, "But it is too expensive to go to the United States to study, and the family can't come up with money for a while and a half." ”
Arjan said firmly, "I can borrow a million for my studies." ”
The parents were touched by the determination in the girl's eyes, and they looked at each other and said in unison, "No matter what decision you make, your parents will support you!" ”
Who is this girl? What is the reason why she refused the invitation of Peking University and borrowed millions of dollars to study in the United States? Now, are girls returning from school and paying off their loans?
"Love martial arts novels and become the tail of the crane in the class"
Zhan Qingyun was born on July 10, 1990 in a small county near Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, and her parents gave her a nickname "Ajan". Zhan Qingyun's mother is an English teacher at a local high school, and his father is an ordinary worker, and the family's economic conditions are "more than enough than the bottom."
Zhan Qingyun's parents are very fond of reading, Zhan Qingyun's father in his thirties also studied for a master's degree in business administration after work, and his parents created a living environment full of books for Zhan Qingyun from an early age.
When Zhan Qingyun was three years old, her mother, who was an English teacher, began to teach Zhan Qingyun to learn English.
When she was four years old, Zhan Qingyun found famous works such as "Journey to the West" and "Water Margin" from the bookcase at home, although Zhan Qingyun still did not recognize the full characters at that time, she had begun to hold the book and read it with relish.
Before Zhan Qingyun went to elementary school, he could tell the stories in the famous works backwards like a stream.
After his parents discovered Zhan Qingyun's habit of reading books, they would take Zhan Qingyun to the bookstore in Guiyang City every rest day, and Zhan Qingyun often stayed in the bookstore all day.
It is reasonable to say that Zhan Qingyun showed an extraordinary interest in reading when she was young, so she should also perform well in school. But after Zhan Qingyun went to elementary school, her grades always counted down.
Even Zhan Qingyun said that he couldn't understand why he was always at the tail of the crane, and he listened carefully to the lectures when he was in class, but the results of the paper after the exam were always not ideal.
Children talk with a big grin and have no intention of doing so, and often inadvertently say hurtful things. Zhan Qingyun was stupid when he was a child, did not like to play with his peers, and always was the first in the class, the children in the class liked to surround Zhan Qingyun after class, laughing and laughing that Zhan Qingyun was a stupid child.
Zhan Qingyun sometimes has self-doubt because of this, is he really a stupid child? At that time, Zhan Qingyun had already read famous works such as Water Margin, and he usually liked to hold the martial arts novels bought by his parents and read them under the small desk lamp in the bedroom after returning home to do his homework.
On the night of June 23, 1998, Zhan Qingyun was about to take a summer vacation. She took out the unqualified language paper from her small school bag, and at this moment her mind was thinking that Zhang Junjie, who was at the same table after school today, saw her report card and pointed to the tip of her nose and scolded herself as a stupid pig.
Zhan Qingyun was very aggrieved, the corners of her mouth unconsciously skimmed down, and after a while tears dripped from the corners of her eyes. Zhan Qingyun saw the martial arts novel on her desk in the afterglow, and she suddenly felt that perhaps it was because she read extracurricular books that her grades were not good.
Zhan Qingyun got up crying, she rushed out of the bedroom door with a martial arts novel, and then threw the book to her mother sitting on the sofa, sobbing and saying, "I don't want to read, I've become a stupid child." ”
Her mother was very distressed to see Zhan Qingyun like this, so she put the novel aside and pulled Zhan Qingyun into her arms to ask what had happened.
Listening to Zhan Qingyun sobbing and explaining the causes and consequences of the matter, Zhan Qingyun's mother did not blame Zhan Qingyun for "reading idle books".
She wiped away Zhan Qingyun's tears and said softly to her: "My daughter is not stupid, my mother has found someone to calculate your fate, you are thick and thin, wait until you get to middle school later." ”
Zhan Qingyun listened to his mother say this, looked at her mother with tears in her eyes and asked, "Really?" ”
The mother slapped the tip of her nose and replied, "Don't you believe your mother's words?" ”。 Zhan Qingyun nodded busily.
"Then you tell your mother that you like to read novels?"
"Loved it." Zhan Qingyun carefully picked up the martial arts novel on the sofa, just like treating a treasure.
The mother stroked Zhan Qingyun's hair and slowly opened her mouth, "If you like it, you can read it, reading novels will not make people stupid." As long as it is something you like, your parents will support you. ”
After her mother's comfort, Zhan Qingyun came out of depression, she still likes to read novels, but her grades are not as her mother said, and she will get better in junior high school.
"Junior high school was persuaded to study vocational high school"
Junior high school is busier than elementary school, and Zhan Qingyun was very uncomfortable when she first started junior high school, and she couldn't even squeeze out the time to read her favorite novel. Especially in math class, algebra and function geometry almost made Zhan Qingyun cut his head.
Junior high school mathematics scored 120 points, and Zhan Qingyun only scored 60 points in the first math monthly test. Zhan Qingyun's math teacher also took the initiative to talk to Zhan Qingyun after issuing the results, asking her if she was not used to the teacher's lecture mode.
After the monthly examination results are issued, they need to be signed by their parents, and when Zhan Qingyun returns home, she does not dare to show the paper to her parents. Because of the things in his heart, Zhan Qingyun has been sullen and unhappy at the dinner table.
As a parent, how can you not see that the child has a heart, at the dinner table that night, Zhan Qingyun's father took the initiative to ask about Zhan Qingyun. When Zhan Qingyun showed his father the test paper full of red crosses, his father said happily: "The number six is good, Dad doesn't want you to score full marks, it is good to be able to test 66 points, six six big shun!" ”
Zhan Qingyun's original feelings of loss were swept away by the comfort of his parents.
But in school, Zhan Qingyun still suffered a lot of humiliation because of his grades. The male classmates around Zhan Qingyun who have a stubborn personality always tease Zhan Qingyun and will also use the afterword to arrange Zhan Qingyun. Even the class teacher has said many times, "Zhan Qingyun is like a big stupid elephant ploughing the field--there will be no strength." ”
Because Zhan Qingyun's mother is a teacher, she is very sensitive to the atmosphere of the school. She thinks it's normal for students to have poor grades, but the most important thing as a teacher is to encourage and help students, rather than to encourage a culture of ridicule among classmates.
In the three years of junior high school, because of the school atmosphere and other reasons, Zhan Qingyun has changed many middle schools. Every time I just met a new classmate, Zhan Qingyun changed schools again. In this case, Zhan Qingyun simply could not calm down and study.
In the third year of junior high school, for the sake of the school's promotion rate, the class teacher will communicate with the students in advance, hoping that they can go to vocational high school. Because Zhan Qingyun's grades are always counted down, he was naturally found by the class teacher.
But Zhan Qingyun's parents do not think that their daughter's life choice after that is only the way to study vocational high school. At the insistence of Zhan Qingyun himself and his parents, Zhan Qingyun still participated in the middle school entrance examination.
"Thick accumulation of hair, invited by Peking University"
Perhaps it is really a thick accumulation of hair, Zhan Qingyun was admitted to high school, as his mother said, his grades began to gradually improve. She was steady in her freshman year of high school, slowly moving from the bottom of her enrollment to the upper reaches of the class. In a monthly examination in the second semester of the second semester of high school, Zhan Qingyun unexpectedly won the first place in the class.
Since ascending to this throne, Zhan Qingyun has not handed it over to anyone again. After her third year of high school, she seemed to be hanging all the way, ranking first in her grades and gradually widening the gap with the second place.
On June 7, 2008, Zhan Qingyun took the college entrance examination. The day before the college entrance examination, parents were afraid that Zhan Qingyun was too nervous, and they kept comforting Zhan Qingyun that it didn't matter if they calmed down, and it was not a big problem to pass the exam.
In the end, she achieved a college entrance examination score of 658 points, ranking fifth in guizhou province.
The Admissions Office of Peking University contacted Zhan Qingyun at the first time, hoping that Zhan Qingyun would come to Peking University to study, and soon after, the University of Chinese hong Kong also threw an olive branch to her. Zhan Qingyun received invitations from two famous institutions of higher learning, and for a time her heart was very entangled.
After much deliberation, Zhan Qingyun chose the University of hong kong Chinese and declined the invitation of Peking University. Zhan Qingyun chose to major in economics at the University of Chinese in Hong Kong because this major has high scholarships that can reduce the burden on parents.
Four years later she graduated with honors in all subjects. In 2013, Zhan Received a full scholarship and was sent to the University of Chinese in Hong Kong for a master's and doctoral degree.
During his graduate studies at Chinese University in Hong Kong, Zhan Qingyun found that he was not very interested in his major. She only researched for academic purposes, not out of genuine love.
"Borrow a PhD and graduate with honors"
After graduating from graduate school in 2016, Zhan Qingyun's grades were still very good, and after she showed her willingness to pursue a doctorate, both the University of Hong Kong Chinese and Peking University said they could waive tuition fees for her.
But in the face of the olive branch of the two universities, Zhan Qingyun did not want to choose this time.
She made the bold decision to take a legal exam and abandon her original profession to start from scratch. People around her are not optimistic about Zhan Qingyun's decision, after all, she has been studying in her original major for many years, and changing majors during her doctoral studies is definitely not better than the original law master's degree students.
But Zhan Qingyun always insisted on her own ideas, and she took the U.S. doctoral examination for law at the suggestion of a friend. It took Zhan Qingyun just over two months to prepare for the exam, and she scored 174 out of 180 and received invitations from five American law schools.
Compared with other colleges and universities, Harvard University not only needs excellent grades, but also needs students' good family background, and the tuition fee alone is several times higher than that of the same type of university.
Zhan Qingyun was very excited about Harvard University, but the conditions at home could not support her to study in the United States. After returning home, Zhan Qingyun discussed the matter with her parents, and she said that she wanted a loan to go to school.
And Zhan Qingyun's parents have supported their daughter's every decision since childhood, and this time is the same. With their help, Zhan Qingyun got a million loans and went to Harvard to study.
Zhan Qingyun knew that it was very difficult for her to come to Harvard to study, and she secretly swore before stepping into the Harvard campus that she must succeed in her studies and live up to her parents' expectations of her.
After the outside world knew about Zhan Qingyun's loan to go to school, they were puzzled, and there were many rumors that Zhan Qingyun lived a very poor and miserable life when he studied at Harvard.
But Zhan Qingyun himself said that although he was very stressed when he was studying because of the loan, the family's life did not have the rumored downfall. There are many people who borrow money to go to school like themselves, and there is no need to market poor people. And their parents at home have a good mentality, and their usual lives are happy and moist.
"There are people outside the people, and there is heaven outside the sky." Zhan Qingyun has seen more excellent people in Harvard, a world-class top university, which makes her realize her own smallness. There is no shortage of smart and hard-working people here, and Zhan Qingyun can only learn from each other to make himself more excellent.
In June 2018, Zhan Qingyun graduated from Harvard University with a doctorate in law. In September of the same year, Zhan Qingyun participated in the online variety show "Strange Story". As a newcomer, Zhan Qingyun has been loved by many viewers with his excellent eloquence and strong thinking.
In 2019, Zhan Qingyun won the annual laurel in "Strange Story".
Many netizens questioned Zhan Qingyun, believing that Zhan Qingyun was hyping himself up with the gimmick of graduating from Harvard and taking out loans to go to school, but Zhan Qingyun himself did not care about it. She didn't see the entertainment industry as her choice for the future of her life, and she would focus on her own lawyering profession afterwards.
"The dilemma is only for a while, and the harvest is huge"
After graduation, Zhan Qingyun obtained a professional qualification certificate as a lawyer in New York, USA. In 2019, Zhan Qingyun entered the world-renowned law firm , DLA Piper , with a wealth of resumes, and she worked in the Tokyo office.
Zhan Qingyun is currently a first-year lawyer in Helvar law firm, with an annual salary of about 190,000 US dollars, which translates into a salary of more than 1 million yuan a year. In the year after working, Zhan Qingyun has already paid off the million loan when he went to school.
Today, Zhan Qingyun has settled in Japan due to his working relationship. Because of the epidemic, Zhan Qingyun often works from home, and sometimes feels a little lonely in his empty home.
On January 8, 2022, Zhan Qingyun came to the animal adoption center to adopt a stray cat and named it Ruyi. When Zhan Qingyun was working, Ruyi often snuggled at Zhan Qingyun's feet.
After participating in the Strange Story, Zhan Qingyun and Pang Ying from Yale University became good girlfriends who talked about everything. The two see each other as they see each other, and use each other as mutual comfort and reference. Zhan Qingyun and Pang Ying will continue to be fearless of age and go their own way in life.
Poor children take out loans to go to school abroad, which seems irrational in the eyes of others, but gives Zhan Qingyun a more open life.
The dilemma is only for a while, as long as everyone can have the courage to face the difficulties like Zhan Qingyun, I believe that everyone's efforts can have huge returns!
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