Meanwhile, in a restaurant not far from the International Exhibition Center of Jiquan City, there was also a middle-aged man and a young man sitting by the same table as a 17-year-old teenager.

The middle-aged man asked, "Wang Pei, where are your parents?"

"My parents won't affect my choice, so they want me to make my own decision about the national college application," The teenager named Wang Pei said.

"You're quite independent." The middle-aged man ...