Chapter 1038

Yet Amelia kept powering through it as if she didn't have any pride left. Eli shot up and shouted, "I've told you, I don't want to go to school!" Amelia froze at his defiance. She shouted back, "What can you do if you don't study at your age?" "I can go out and work to support myself! I don't need you!" Eli clenched his fists. Amelia's eyes watered. Every time she saw her son like this, she felt frustrated at her inability to provide a better life for him. "And you think you're capable enough? Just because you're growing up doesn't mean you can do anything you want. No one would even hire you at your age!" "Then I'll do labor that doesn't require any skills!" Eli retorted stubbornly, his fists still clenched. He desperately wanted to grow up sooner so that his mother wouldn't have to spend money keeping him in school, where he learned nothing and only endured his classmates' ridicule. They called him a bastard without a father, and they insulted his mother as someone's mistress.