My parents absolutely forbade my brother and me to be together. First, they didn't want people gossiping; second, they didn't want to provoke my biological parents into coming to our house to make trouble.
When my brother had just started working as a cadre in the town, my biological parents would wander around there from time to time, getting people to inquire about me.
They were basically just itching to grab hold of some leverage on my adoptive parents and squeeze some benefits out of them. Given their nature, they were insatiably greedy. If they really started playing the rascal, my brother wouldn't be able to stay in town at all.
That was also the fundamental reason why back then my brother and I didn't want to go against our parents and gave up on being together.
Later, I married Jiao Zuoting. Although his family wasn't very satisfied with me, he was always very good to me. Only now do I understand that we had completely walked into his trap.
