"I’m giving you advice here," Mother Xu said. "The girl might be a bit young, but I liked her the moment I saw her. It wouldn’t be bad if you could really marry her. If you’re afraid of scaring her off, you could start by being just friends and take it slow, no rush." In the end, she added a reminder, "But as for what you can and cannot do, there are things we absolutely mustn’t do."
As for what could and couldn’t be done, she’s an adult and she believed the boy knew in his heart.
His mom really kept coming up with one idea after another.
Now she doesn’t mind the girl’s age?
"Forget it, I can’t make it clear to you," Xu Weiran didn’t want to argue with his mother, years of experience taught him that it was impossible to reason with a woman, it was better to save his energy.
"Hey, this stinky boy, I’m only doing this for your own good," Mother Xu became annoyed when she saw his attitude and turned to Mr. Xu to complain, "Look at the attitude of this stinky boy?"
Mr. Xu, chuckling, tried to mediate, "Alright, our son is grown up now, let him make his own decisions!" Grandchildren have their own blessings, he couldn’t understand why his wife managed so many things day by day, just shopping and doing beauty treatments, living a good life would be nice.
"So you think I’m too controlling, don’t you? Fine, fine, I won’t meddle in you father and son’s affairs anymore," Mother Xu immediately got angry upon hearing this, it was bad enough that her son didn’t understand her, but her husband actually didn’t stand with her either.
As if she had no position in this family anymore.
Mr. Xu had a hard time expressing his troubles, saying helplessly, "Look at you? I didn’t even say anything, did I?" It wasn’t like he offended anyone, so why was she targeting him?
He thought his son was right, maybe his wife really was going through menopause. Better he kept quiet at home from now on!
The more he talked, the more mistakes he made, staying silent meant surely no mistakes!
Being a man is tough indeed!
Taking advantage of the firefight shifting away from him, Xu Weiran quickly slipped away. By the time Mother Xu was ready to lecture her son again, she realized the boy had already vanished.
Xu Weiran returned to his room, shut the door, then after a while, he reopened it and went up to the attic, where he found his high school textbooks and notes.
But after flipping through them briefly, he put them back again.
Editions of textbooks are updated every three or four years; if several years had passed since his high school days, many things had changed.
Coming down from the attic, Xu Weiran didn’t go back to his room but prepared to head out again.
"Didn’t you just get back, and now you’re going out again?" Mother Xu couldn’t help but ask when she saw him.
"Yeah, going to the library to find some materials."
This kid used to just stay in the laboratory or at home, hardly ever going out during holidays, but now, he was hardly ever seen.
Barely home, and he was heading out again.
It was hard not to think perhaps the young girl had asked him out again.
By the time Xu Weiran returned home from the library with a stack of high school textbooks, he stayed in his room for the rest of the day.
That evening, Ning An received the organized exam questions from the other party. Following the principle of sharing good things, she even forwarded a copy to her deskmate.
Her deskmate received it and immediately sent her a bunch of excited messages, "Isn’t it that genius who organized this for you again? I checked it out, the question types are very precise. Love it, love it."
"Sister, you must cling to this genius’s coattails, your future depends on you now."
"If necessary, using a bit of your charm is also acceptable."
"Believe me, in love, age is not a problem."
She wondered if it was still possible to retract her decision now?