Luo Luo (pseudonym), born in 1996, originally from Hebei, is the eldest in the family and has a younger brother. He was self-reliant at an early age, and his parents never overnacted him in order to cultivate his independence. Since the third grade of primary school, Luo Luo has carried his schoolbag to school and left school every day, and his parents only give three yuan to buy breakfast. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to a university in Hangzhou to study advertising.
After graduating from university, Luo Luo stayed in an Internet company in Hangzhou to engage in art-related work. In the past three years, she started from the grassroots level step by step, and finally became the leader of a small team. Colleagues and leaders think she is conscientious, responsible, and talented. On the surface, Lolo lives a smooth and even enviable life: a stable job, a decent income, and a fulfilling spare time.
Luo Luo usually likes to eat hot pot with colleagues and friends, watch movies, sing, and always maintain a positive and optimistic state to face life. Therefore, she has always been a cheerful and upward girl in the eyes of those around her, and no one would think of her inner struggle and depression. However, fate gave her a merciless attack at 2 a.m. on October 17, 2019.
Just after she exclaimed, "The Qiantang River is so beautiful at night", Luo Luo fell into the river, and finally had no signs of life when he was salvaged in the water. At the age of 23, she ended her short life in a hurry.
Lolo's death shocked and saddened colleagues and friends. Because in their eyes, she is just an ordinary, energetic 23-year-old girl. And such a young and beautiful life was ruthlessly taken away by the rising tide of the river in the end, which is really unacceptable. **The cause of death was later determined to be accidental. However, there is more truth that lies beneath the surface.
Lolo's death may seem like an accident at first glance, but the truth is far more complicated than it seems. She was under a lot of pressure before her death, and she had been under excessive demands from her family for a long time. Her parents' constant need to "borrow money" made her even worse, and her spiritual world became increasingly frustrated.
Lolo has faced the burden of family expenses since the beginning of college. Her family was not wealthy, and her father had a stable job and was considered middle-class. But since 2018, the father's job has changed, and the family's income has declined. Since then, Lolo has become the one who bears the burden of family management. In addition to the cost of daily living, the biggest expense is my brother's college tuition. This made Luo Luo, who had just worked, feel anxious.
To make matters worse, from 2018 onwards, Luo Luo's father began to frequently "borrow money" from her. At first, it was also a daily expense, but later the objects became more and more diverse, the mother wanted a new iPhone, and the father wanted to invest in his own business. For an ordinary white-collar worker who has only been working for a few years and is still renting, this is undoubtedly worse. And every time Luo Luo wanted to shirk, her parents would oppress her with "You are the eldest daughter in the family, this is your responsibility", and asked for money and things in a semi-commanding manner.
Under this pressure, Luo Luo began to suffer from frequent insomnia, and she posted on social ** many times asking for help, telling that her sleep quality was poor and she was depressed. But these voices are like a stone sinking into the sea, and there is no response at all, but her parents will think that she is rich and will complain on the Internet. The result is more "borrowing money" and "having something at home" text message harassment.
Lolo never told her company or friends about it because she felt it was a private family matter. After working hard all day, she also has to bear the pressure of her family, which undoubtedly makes her spiritual world on the verge of collapse. In August 2019, she revealed online that she "really wanted to sleep peacefully" to express her despair. However, she fell into a slumber forever.
Although Luo Luo's parents were in pain on the surface after the incident, under that high-sounding mask, there was a suffocating calculation and indifference. Once the benefit calculator was activated, it was as if the parents had completely forgotten that what they had just lost was their own daughter. They used Luo Luo as a bargaining chip on the negotiating table, pinching the proportions of the blackmail company, and there was no humanity at all.
After Lolo's death, her parents immediately filed a high claim against the company. They confidently claimed that it was the company that put too much pressure on Luo Luo's work, which caused her to lose control of her emotions and eventually pass away. Therefore, this "accident" is the responsibility of the company and needs to bear the corresponding compensation.
The company made it clear that after investigation, Luo Luo's work intensity and overtime hours before his death were at a normal level, and it was not illegal. She died because she accidentally fell into the water by the river in her personal time. This is entirely personal and has nothing to do with the company. However, considering that Luo Luo has worked hard for the company for three years, out of a humanitarian perspective, the company decided to pay 20,000 yuan of condolences to mourn Luo Luo voluntarily.
Unexpectedly, Luo Luo's parents didn't appreciate it at all. They immediately said that 20,000 was too little, and 50,000 was enough. In order to calm the situation, the company could only give in and promised to pay 50,000 yuan. But to everyone's dumbfounded, a few days later, the parents came to the door again, and made a surprising demand that the company needed to "add 10,000". Taking advantage of the recent death of their daughter, they threatened the company with a dead face. In the end, the company had to pay an additional 10,000 yuan in condolences, but later asked the parents to sign an agreement to confirm that the matter was over, so as not to make new demands on the profit machine.
However, the turn of events was completely unexpected. Just three days after the agreement was signed, Lolo's parents went on the offensive again and went back to the company to discuss responsibility for the accident. This time, the claim figure is even more astronomical - as high as 350,000 yuan!They justifiably claimed that their daughter's death was caused by the pressure of the company's work, and that the money was nothing more than a small compensation for her three years of labor.
The company again checked Luo Luo's personal file and attendance records, and proved that there was no illegal overtime at all. On the day Luo Luo died, he went for a walk by the river during his normal rest time. There was no work involved in her death. But the parents didn't intend to accept the facts at all, and still went their own way, viciously threatening the company to either pay sky-high compensation, or they would affect the company's operations for a long time.
At this moment, a colleague anonymously broke the news, **Luo Luo's mental journey in social networking before his death**. It turned out that in front of his parents, Luo Luo had already hinted that he had the idea of committing suicide, but no one cared. The mother knew that her daughter was depressed, and she would only keep asking for money from her. All kinds of performances show that the parents don't really care about their daughter's life or death, but treat her as a cash cow. The death of their daughter has become a good opportunity for them to further extort money.
This allowed the company and the public to see the true face of Luo Luo's parents thoroughly. They are the most cruel and cold-blooded profit calculators of this era, and they are not moved in the face of their own flesh and blood, but think about how to fall into the well. This distorted humanity outrages everyone.
Under the double pressure of the company and **, Luo Luo's parents finally got a certain "comfort" - the company paid 100,000 yuan of personal accident insurance from commercial insurance, plus the previous 60,000 yuan of condolence. But that's not enough for them. They take it for granted that so many years of child support, plus their daughter's three years of working for the company, should be worth more.
It wasn't until ** intervened in mediation that Luo Luo's parents stopped pestering. So far, it can be seen that this girl has endured too much pressure from her family in her lifetime, but has rarely received love. And that little bit of poor parental love is still based on money and interests. They obviously didn't have the slightest grief for Luo Luo's death, only cold calculations.
We have to admit that in this era of forgetting what is right, the island of morality and ethics is becoming more and more silent. The family is no longer a haven of warmth and understanding, but a machine that imprisons the individual and extracts profits.
When parents face their own flesh and blood, they are not caring, but squeezing. When a loved one dies, it is not grief, but opportunity. What should we make of this sudden distortion?
Luo Luo is just one of the thousands of lives that can't be called for help at the moment. We can't speak for her, but we have to give hope to more people in the same situation.
In fact, many "accidental" tragedies can often also stem from unseen domestic violence. It is not only physical torture, but also verbal intimidation, mental oppression. These may all be the last straw that crushes a fragile life.
Therefore, each of us should care for life and protect life. Not only do we have to protect our friends, but we also have to pay attention to strangers we don't know who may be victims of violence. This is the responsibility of us, every sober adult in this era.