Doctor: It's reasonable to perform surgery on yourself.

Hearing this request, the middle-aged woman's first reaction was anger.

I'm already like this, and you're still thinking about your phone. Can you really quit like this?

However, looking at her daughter's expression, she felt an inexplicable touch in her heart, so after a brief pause, she nodded: "Go, ten... don't take too long."

According to her usual personality, she would definitely set a deadline for her daughter, such as ten minutes.

But she didn't do it this time.

After all, this daughter has always been a good girl except for her Internet addiction, and she hasn't asked for anything from her.

…

Taking the phone from her mother, the girl walked towards the toilet of the hospital without looking back.

Seemingly worried that her daughter would find an excuse to run away from home, or something else would happen, the middle-aged woman hesitated for a while and quickly followed her, walking side by side with her.

"Let's go together." This time she didn't give her daughter a chance to choose, but just told her.

Fortunately, her daughter didn't say much, and she didn't do anything shameful.

Click--

Coming to the toilet cubicle, the girl closed the door.

Her mother was guarding outside. According to the general routine, the Internet-addicted girl would have to climb over the wall to escape, or even resort to self-harm to avoid control.

But she didn't go that far.

After waiting for dozens of seconds, the phone finally turned on successfully. When the screen lit up, many messages popped up.

Most of them were comments and replies from the same software.

"The master's drawing is so good!"

"I feel like I'm going to witness the birth of a future master!"

"..."

Of course, there were also many discordant voices.

"Can you praise this? Can a group of elementary school students flattering each other make you more money?"

"You didn't draw it with your phone, right? No, buddy, you can't buy a digital tablet if you draw illustrations. It's not that expensive..."

Seeing this, the girl named "Greedy Cat" frowned slightly.

But soon, several more messages popped up. This time they were messages from the communication software, from her own fan group.

Although it's called a fan group, it's actually more like like-minded netizens.

"Maomao is online?!"

"The 'Sheep Calling Beast' weapon you designed last time is so interesting. People who don't know would think you've been to an Internet addiction school, hehehe!"

"Waiting for the Thunder King!"

"+1!"

"..."

Looking at the content on the phone screen, Greedy Cat laughed silently.

She typed with her fingers and chatted with this group of stupid netizens.

Of course, she continued to paint the unfinished works before - there was a big guy in the group who liked her and was very optimistic about her style. He promised to help advertise this new work. If it succeeded, she might have the opportunity to become a small Internet celebrity in the illustration industry...

Just a little bit, give me another three or four hours and I should be able to finish it! Greedy Cat thought.

But time was obviously not enough. She couldn't afford to spend so much time, not even half an hour.

Gradually.

The light on the screen reflected the girl's tearful eyes. She laughed and shed tears, feeling indescribable pain and discomfort in her heart.

You all say I'm addicted to the Internet.

But I'm an introvert, and I've been left behind in the countryside since I was a child, so I don't have any friends at all.

My entire spiritual world, my friends, my hobbies, my happiness and sadness, are all in this glowing little screen...

For the mother, she is helping herself to quit Internet addiction.

But this is tantamount to depriving herself of the little world she only has...

"What are you doing?"

Suddenly, the greedy cat heard a heart-stopping sound.

She raised her head in horror, and in her tears-blurred vision, she still recognized the other person - my mother had sneaked into the toilet next door without knowing when, and was peeping at me from above.

The greedy cat felt a little angry for no reason.

Didn't she say to give me some space... Oh, it seems that she didn't say that, but just promised to let me stay with the phone for a while.

"As soon as possible."

After saying this, the middle-aged woman left the toilet after confirming that her daughter was really just playing with her phone and didn't do anything out of the ordinary.

But the greedy cat no longer had any thoughts.

She said goodbye to her friends on her phone, and then sent a brief notice of indefinite suspension of updates, deleted the records, logged out of the account, turned off the phone and left.

The next morning, facing the warm winter sun, the middle-aged woman drove Greedy Cat to a school with a good reputation for quitting the Internet.

It was still early, so she found a place to park and prepared to take Greedy Cat to have breakfast first.

As mentioned before, she is not an ignorant parent who thinks that "mobile phones ruin children, computers ruin children, games ruin children, short videos ruin children...but I haven't ruined my children."

On the contrary, she is well aware of her dereliction of duty as a single mother and her loss of position in her daughter's growth.

That's why she gave up the great opportunity for promotion and chose to bring her daughter to the big city to leave more time for her daughter. It is precisely because of this that she wants to change her daughter's bad habits.

"There are many Internet cafes nearby."

At the breakfast stall, the middle-aged woman said with a slightly sarcastic tone.

Greedy Cat nodded and did not respond.

At this time, several people of my age entered the Internet cafe openly.

The middle-aged woman frowned and said, "Don't go to these places. If you are addicted to the Internet, you will always go to these smoky places all day long..."

Her thoughts are very traditional, still stuck in the era of "going to arcades and Internet cafes is a gangster", "Men who go to KTV are ladybugs and women are princesses".

"I'm not stopping you from playing with your phone. But you are too crazy. If you are cured, I will return your phone to you in the future. As long as you can control yourself, I won't care too much."

The greedy cat ignored her at first, but gradually heard the mother on the other side began to cry. When she looked up, she found that the eyes of the strict mother in her impression were red at this moment.

She felt a thump in her heart and promised: "Don't worry, mom, I won't go to the Internet cafe. And this time I will definitely... definitely work hard to change!"

"Okay, then you promise mom that you will definitely stay in school and make a good correction!"

"I, I promise you."

"..."

After sending her daughter to school, the middle-aged woman returned to the car, closed her eyes and rested for a long time before taking out her mobile phone.

Turning on the screen, a software was hidden in a secret folder. It was the APP used by her daughter to publish her paintings.

After flipping through it for a while, she saw someone saying bad things about her daughter's works.

She didn't know many dirty words, so she couldn't help it. She typed at the fastest speed in her life, but in the end she found that it didn't sound like cursing, but more like an old woman's coquetry.

It happened that at this time, a mobile phone input method popped up an "intelligent AI polishing reply" -

"You can do it, Gaode Map should navigate Dunhuang to you, after all, you have so many murals!"

The middle-aged woman was more and more satisfied with it, and sent it directly.

Although the input method and the map software didn't pay, this reply was really refreshing.

After sending it, she opened the shopping software again and found that the professional version of the tablet she ordered had finally arrived locally.

"This will be her gift after she comes out."

"It's not that Mom doesn't know your hobbies, but I don't want your life to be full of regrets."

The daughter is still young and doesn't have the ability to distinguish many things. All she can do is to help her daughter when she deviates.

"Wait until the New Year to buy a laptop, so that she can use a digital tablet and computer to draw in the future... As long as she can fix it!"