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Zhang Xingyang looked at the cramped rental house and couldn't help but frown slightly. This modest home in the bustling city of Shanghai is less than 20 square meters, but it is the maximum that his current financial situation allows.
The room was littered with stacks of old books and journals on math topics, and the floor was littered with useless plastic bags and a few cookie crumbs.
He let out a long sigh, bent down to pick up the waste on the ground and put it in the paper basket beside him, then picked up his phone and deftly pressed his parents' phone numbers.
"Mom, I'm Thing. Zhang Xinyang said with a somewhat helpless tone, "The recent economic situation is a little tight, can you lend me some living expenses again?" Please rest assured, after I complete the current project at hand, I will definitely return it as soon as possible."
"I understand, I understand. The mother responded.
Whenever faced with such a dilemma, Zhang Xingyang always chooses to contact his parents without hesitation, although he often says polite words such as "when he earns enough money, he will pay it back immediately", but his parents have long been accustomed to this.
In their hearts, Zhang Xinyang has always been the child who does what he wants and doesn't care about money.
Whenever he recalls the past, Zhang Xinyang can't help but think of that magical childhood time that attracted much attention from the outside world and had high hopes for his family.
It all started when he was five years old, when he was just entering primary school and already showing an amazing talent for learning.
Time is like an arrow, time is like a shuttle, in the blink of an eye, Zhang Xinyang is more than nine years old, but in just one year, he has mastered all the courses in the three years of high school.
This is really unbelievable! All parts of the country were shocked by the extraordinary learning ability of this "child prodigy".
Seeing his son's brilliant achievements, Zhang Huixiang and Cong Yanmei were ecstatic. Their expectations for their son are beyond words.
So in 1995, Zhang Xingyang, who was only 10 years old, took the college entrance examination that year, and although he only got an ordinary score of 505 points in the end, it was undoubtedly an amazing feat for a primary school student.
In this way, Zhang Xinyang became the youngest college student in the country and was admitted to Tianjin Normal University of Engineering. In order to take better care of his son, Zhang Huixiang even gave up his position as a civil servant and accompanied Zhang Xinyang to Tianjin.
In Zhang Xinyang's student career, he has always maintained excellent grades, and his academic path is as smooth as a smooth step. In his third year of undergraduate, he did not hesitate to devote himself to the competition for the graduate school entrance examination, and finally successfully entered the prestigious Beijing University of Technology to study for a master's degree as one of the youngest candidates in the country.
Then, at the age of 13, he successfully set a new record for college students in the country and became the youngest master's student in the country.
Just two years later, the 16-year-old boy once again performed a miracle and was awarded a doctorate from Beihang University, a news that shook the entire academic community.
At that moment, he was like a bright new star, attracting people's attention wherever he went.
Countless dazzling spotlights converged on him, and reporters from major media threw olive branches to him, praising him as "the future of the motherland" and "the pride of the place where talents gather".
And Zhang Xinyang's parents are also immersed in endless glory - their proud son is one of the few "child prodigies" in the world.
However, on this road full of honors, it was also accompanied by contradictions and disputes within the family, which added a touch of haze to Zhang Xinyang's life.
The most talked about happened in his last year of graduate school. At that time, as a 16-year-old "prodigy" graduate student, Zhang Xinyang actually made an almost unreasonable request to his family.
On that day, Zhang Xingyang walked into the living room with a solemn face, and said solemnly to his parents Zhang Huixiang and Cong Yanmei who were sitting on the sofa: "Mom and Dad, I have an extremely important thing to tell you.
Zhang Huixiang saw his son's serious expression, and he couldn't help but feel nervous. Could it be that he has encountered some difficult problem? He immediately asked with concern: "What's the matter, son, if you have any difficulties, just say it."
"What?!" Zhang Huixiang and Cong Yanmei glanced at each other in surprise, and then the shocked look on their faces gradually spread.
They never expected that their child, who was known as the "hope of the motherland", would make such excessive demands on his parents.
"I don't care! In any case, if you can't meet my requirements, then I won't be able to complete my studies!" Zhang said firmly, his determination even a little childish.
Faced with their son's willful behavior, Zhang Huixiang and his wife fell into confusion and self-blame for a while.
Faced with such a predicament, they were forced to rent a spacious and comfortable home in Beijing and deceived Zhang Xinyang that it was a new property they had just purchased, using this as an excuse to induce Zhang to defend his crucial graduation thesis as soon as possible.
However, this brilliant child quickly debunked this little trick played by his parents, and felt extremely angry inside, and a fierce argument broke out throughout the family, and the relationship between father and son fell into a state of extreme tension for a while.
After some twists and turns, under Zhang Xinyang's constant entanglement and persistence, Zhang Huixiang and his wife had to give everything they had, and even borrowed money from relatives and friends, so that they could buy an ordinary two-bedroom apartment in an undesirable location in Beijing.
However, when Zhang Xingyang really got his own real estate certificate, it was already a few years later.
The root cause of this family dispute is largely due to the heavy family expectations and the pressure of public opinion since he was a child.
Since he was a child, Zhang Huixiang and Cong Yanmei have placed extremely high hopes on this gifted child, and they are willing to pay any price, just to shape Zhang Xinyang into an extraordinary "prodigy" and "genius", and almost all the affairs of the family are centered on Zhang Xinyang's studies and growth.
Since he was very young, Zhang Xingyang has been strictly required to pursue the ultimate perfection no matter what he does, and there must be no mistakes.
This rigorous education method, coupled with his parents' endless expectations for him, made the young Zhang Xinyang often under great psychological pressure, as if he was destined to become an outstanding and different character from birth.
However, when Zhang Xingyang really skipped all the way and achieved remarkable results, major media also began to praise this "hope of the future motherland".
Countless cameras and flashes focused on him, enveloping him in a dazzling light.
However, who could have predicted that these exposures would silently distort the development of the child's personality? He was gradually consumed by vanity and glitz, forgetting the innocence of a child.
When he was 15 years old, Zhang Xingyang was arranged by his parents and school to go to major TV stations for publicity and accept media interviews again and again. At that time, in the face of the spotlight, he could already deal with it calmly and talk eloquently, like a mature and stable adult.
However, how many people in this world can put themselves in Zhang Xinyang's shoes and empathize with him? Have they ever wondered if putting him in the spotlight so often has really had a negative impact on his mental health? Regrettably, no one seems to be paying attention to this, or rather, no one is willing to spend time and energy thinking about it.
Until that moment, when he asked his parents to buy a property, the distorted face of Zhang Xinyang's heart was finally revealed.
With a stubborn and arrogant attitude, he insisted that his parents buy him a property in the bustling capital Beijing, as if he had become an arbitrary little monarch, completely ignoring the actual financial situation of the family.