When she was a child, Yasna always thought that celebrating the New Year in her hometown was a matter of course.
However, ever since she reached the age of junior high, Yasna gradually felt that this routine was suffocating.
Relatives in her hometown gathered together to celebrate the New Year. To put it nicely, it was a reunion, but to put it bluntly, it was a battlefield to compete with each other.
Because they were all from prestigious families, and they were from the same family, everyone wanted to show that they were doing better than the others. No matter which family they were from, they all wanted their children to be able to surpass the others. They wanted their children to stand at the top of the Jiecheng Family's battlefield and become the best among their relatives. They wanted others to look at them with envious eyes and try to climb up to them. They wanted to show off their success in life and the nobility of their social status.
This was considered a kind of human nature.
Just like today's reunion. To put it nicely, it was a reunion of classmates who hadn't seen each other for a long time. But to put it bluntly, it was just showing off to others. They wanted others to see how they were doing, how others lost to them, and how they struggled at the bottom of society.
Even a small reunion was like this, not to mention a big family that had developed for more than two hundred years. Almost anything could happen.
Because of this, parents were desperately trying to climb up the social ladder. All they wanted was to obtain a higher status in society. They couldn't care less about their children's relationship with them. Their children didn't have a childhood either. All they had to do was study tasks that made them feel suffocated. This was the current situation for many large families, including the Jecheng Family.
Yasna was like that in the past. In order not to fall behind others, she naturally received the so-called elite education. That was why she couldn't accept the fact that she was imprisoned in SAO. Others were learning and growing, while she could only waste her time in the so-called death game.
For this reason, Yasna completely gave up on herself in the early stage. Even later, in order to pass the game faster and return to the real world, she desperately tried to make up for the lost time. She turned into a ghost that was almost inhumane.
Now, although Yasna had escaped and successfully returned to the real world, she knew very well how her relatives in her hometown would think of her for wasting two years.
Her cousins, who studied in an extremely prestigious school and fought hard to become a model student, would definitely look at her with pitiful eyes. They would sympathize and pity Yasna. How could she lose so quickly in a competition that had lasted since she was born?
Of course, the current Yasna was completely different from before.
In the past, Yasna was just like any other child in Jiecheng's family. All she wanted to do was to study hard, improve herself, get into a good university, and work for a big company. She wanted to become a so-called successful person and stand above everyone else in the family. But now, Yasna didn't have that kind of compulsion anymore.
She liked the school she was studying at, even if it wasn't a prestigious school.
She loved her current life, even if others couldn't understand why she was wasting time in the game.
Her ultimate goal was to form a family with the man she loved the most in the real world, and build a real family with him.
In view of this, the pity of her cousins and many uncles and parents was just a breeze that brushed the surface of Yasna's heart, and it didn't affect Yasna at all.
However, her relatives wouldn't be able to understand this kind of value. They would only think that it was the poison left by VRMMO in Yasna's body.
As a result, Yasna didn't want Rozen to go to her hometown, and she was physically and mentally exhausted because of this.
And they naturally couldn't understand what kind of position Rozen was in now.
Indeed, many people knew that Rozen was cooperating with the country.
It was just that their knowledge was actually very limited.
For example, a group of people, including Yasna, knew that Rozen was the real owner of The Seed.
He was now working with the country to earn royalties and game income through the [Imagination Lesson]. He was quite rich, and sometimes had some contact with the [Imagination Lesson]. That was all.
Another example was Shozo Yechi, who once saw Rozen asking the country to send someone to treat Yasna. Although he knew that Rozen was different from other high school students and was very special, he only thought that Rozen's identity as SAO's hero attracted the country's attention and had some contact with the country. To put it bluntly, he thought that Rozen was doing unknown work for the country because of his special experience, so he had some channels that he didn't know about.
And who would have thought that Rozen could come up with technology that didn't exist in this world, and he even had a way to cooperate with the country and use each other?
No one would believe that a high school student could do that. Therefore, Rozen's special experience and identity may surprise the people of the Yechi Family, but it was only met with contempt and sarcasm.
In their view, no matter how great Rozen's achievements in SAO were, it was just a death game that harmed people. Touching that kind of cancer was like working in the underworld, it was simply a dark history.
Of course, even if Rozen had a lot of money, he didn't have a family, no company, and no good background. At best, he was just a nouveau riche.
As the saying goes, poverty can limit people's imagination. Rozen's age and background also limited many people's imagination. They couldn't imagine that Rozen was not working for the country, but was cooperating with the country on an equal footing.
Although the Yechi Family had some power, except for the relative who was said to be able to enter the highest level of the country's government, no one else knew about Rozen's power.
That was also the reason why Yasna's mother didn't like Rozen.
"… Originally, Mom didn't agree to bring you back to our hometown, but Dad agreed to our marriage, and his status didn't allow the Yechi Family to go back on their words. Mom could only prepare to be laughed at at at the family banquet."
At this point, the tiredness in Yasna's eyes became stronger, but she couldn't control her emotions.
"They don't know how powerful you are."
That was Yasna's thought.
Even if Yasna didn't know Rozen's position, she believed that with Rozen's ability, he was definitely better than those relatives who only knew how to compare.
Using his status to suppress Rozen was no different from a nouveau riche.
Rozen could imagine that Yasna and her family must have discussed and argued about this matter.
Otherwise, Yasna's smile wouldn't be so forced, and her eyes wouldn't be so tired.
Naturally, Rozen wasn't targeting Yasna. Instead, he was targeting the Yechi Family and the Yechi Family.
"Let's go."
Rozen didn't say anything and just told Yasna.
"Then you …"
Yasna looked at Rozen worriedly.
"I'm fine." Rozen patted Yasna's head and said, "Trust me."
"… Okay." Yasna nodded.
Only then did the two of them leave together, heading in the direction of the Yechi Family.
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