Violet's parents

Violet’s parents are the people she is least willing to speak of, and the people she can least let go. She has not said a word to them in years; the break is so complete that even others can see it. By her own count, it has been three years.

“It's been 3 years. They haven't checked to see if I'm alive, let alone happy. So I'm not particularly interested in being the bigger person.”

“已经三年了。他们连我是死是活都没问过，更别说过得开不开心。所以我可没兴趣当那个大度的人。”TL

In Violet’s telling, she is the one who was left out in the cold; yet that has not truly settled things between them. When she talks about her parents there is still a sulk in it, and a certain care as well:

“No… I haven't talked to them in years. But even if I was I wouldn't want to scare them.”

“不知道……我好几年没跟他们说过话了。就算说了，我也不想吓着他们。”TL

So much of what she does is aimed at those unseen eyes. The greater her feats, the more she wants to see her parents try to “forget she exists”; and whatever she means to buy, she first weighs with one thought: they would never approve.

“Let's see my parents forget I exist now…”

“等着看吧，我爸妈现在该假装不认识我了……”TL

“Time to buy something my parents wouldn't approve of”

“该去买点我爸妈绝对不会同意的东西了。”TL

She also dreads the thought of them reading about any of it.

“Hope my parents don't read about that.”

“希望我爸妈别看到这个。”TL

Others read the relationship in different ways. Victor says he doesn’t get her, because she doesn’t talk to her parents; she shoots back that he doesn’t talk to his either, and he answers that at least he doesn’t know who his are — and she does. Seven assumes she is doing all this because her parents are disappointed in her; when she asks whether he really thinks she is that clichéd, his answer is short: “Yes.”