Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 466 At least tonight
There is no air conditioning in the kitchen, and the temperature is much lower than that in the living room. The faucet releases warm water, which continuously flows into the sink below.

"Mom, you should go and have a rest. I'll wash the dishes."

"Let mom come. It's not easy to see you, so mom should do something for you, right? Xiao Han will cook for you, so I won't show off my skills. Just let me wash the dishes for you again. You just stay here and talk to mom." Liang Hongfei said with a smile.

Ouyang Lianyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Seeing that she couldn't get the better of him, she had to stand aside and said helplessly, "As soon as you come over, you rush to wash the dishes. Do you think I still can't take care of myself?"

"It has nothing to do with whether you can take care of yourself. Mom just wants to pay more attention to you."

Liang Hongfei squeezed dishwashing liquid into her hands, smiling gently, "Parents all over the world are the same. You are a worrying child. Even if you get rid of your carelessness one day, I will still be worried about you."

"So isn't this still a roundabout way of saying that I can't take care of myself?" Ouyang Lianyu couldn't help but say.

"You kid, what are you talking about?"

Liang Hongfei turned around and rolled her eyes at her daughter, then laughed, "Your father is right. You are indeed more talkative than before. No, to use the words of you young people... this is called complaining, right? I don't know who you learned this from."

Ouyang Lianyu stopped talking.

Liang Hongfei didn't ask any more questions and continued to wash the dishes with a smile. While washing, she observed the situation in the kitchen and found some problems from time to time. Sometimes, heavy objects cannot be placed in the upper cabinets because it is unsafe. Sometimes, the seasonings should be placed close to the gas stove so that they can be easily taken at any time. Sometimes, it is best to wear gloves when washing dishes to avoid hurting your hands...

Although they were all trivial matters, Ouyang Lianyu listened attentively. She did not dislike her mother's teachings on life experience and always hoped to become a well-rounded person like her.

The most important thing is that she hasn't heard her mother's nagging for a long time since she left home, and now she feels it is particularly intimate.

"I'm not teaching you a lesson, so don't take it so seriously."

Seeing her daughter staring at her intently, Liang Hongfei was amused. "Why are you looking at me like that? Why, do I look a lot older?"

"Of course not." Ouyang Lianyu quickly shook her head and said, "You are still as young as before, and you look no different from the wedding photos."

"Our Yu'er is the one who knows how to talk."

Liang Hongfei said with a smile, "Unlike your father, he doesn't even know how to praise others. When I asked him if I was old, he said that I was like the old poplar tree in the yard, immortal."

She couldn't help but roll her eyes. Although she was already sixty years old, it was obvious that this mother still had a very young mentality.

Ouyang Lianyu covered her mouth and chuckled.

Liang Hongfei also laughed, and after a while she said, "Your dad is not very good at talking, and he is very concerned about his reputation and loves to think about things, but he still thinks about you in his heart. Listen to your mom and don't get angry with him, okay?"

"I understand."

The smile on Ouyang Lianyu's face faded a little. She adjusted her glasses and said softly, "...I have never been angry with him."

"Of course I know, and your father knows too."

Liang Hongfei skillfully washed the dishes with a smile on her face. "You have never lost your temper with anyone since you were a child. This is why we are worried that you will be wronged outside. We are afraid that you will not tell us if you are not doing well... Also, your father and I have never been angry with you."

"mom……"

For some reason, Ouyang Lianyu suddenly felt her nose a little sour. Although there were reasons for the incident, no matter how big the conflict was, she should have contacted her family at least over the years. She didn't expect that her parents had no complaints about her at all.

Seeing her daughter's complicated expression, Liang Hongfei thought she didn't believe it, so she smiled and said, "Don't tell your dad that I told you about this. Your aunt called home that day and belittled you on the phone, saying that you have accomplished nothing outside and don't have a decent man around you. Your dad was so angry that he scolded your aunt severely and his face turned red when he hung up the phone."

Ouyang Lianyu was stunned.

Although she had the impression that her father was strict and old-fashioned, she had never seen him swear at anyone and could not imagine such a scene.

"You think your father came to Lincheng to expose you and force you to go back to your hometown for a blind date, but that's not the case. He's worried that you have no one to rely on here and that you won't find anyone to support you when you're wronged, so he's in a hurry to see you. He went to school early to secretly inquire about this information."

Liang Hongfei smiled and shook her head. "I have been with your father for almost forty years. I know him better than he knows himself. Although he always has a stern face and refuses to tell me, I know exactly what he is thinking."

She looked at her daughter who was standing there in a daze, and said in a helpless tone: "In short, your father is inconsistent in what he says and what he thinks. What he says is completely different from what he thinks. You don't need to take many of his words seriously - except for asking you to get married as soon as possible."

Hearing her mother bring up the topic of marriage again, Ouyang Lianyu immediately came to her senses and quickly changed the subject: "Mom, I want to ask you a question. Since you and my dad already knew that Han Zhou was a fake boyfriend I found, why did you have to meet him?"

"Fake can also become real." Liang Hongfei said with a smile, "Didn't you see that Xiao Han is quite happy to call me mom? Maybe he wants to make the fake play real?"

"Mom, don't joke with me, I'm serious." Ouyang Lianyu's face flushed.

"Mom is serious too."

Liang Hongfei didn't even turn her head and asked in a tone of "investigation", "Yu'er, tell me, you know your dad abides by the rules, why didn't you find someone else, but chose to find one of your students to pretend to be your boyfriend?"

Ouyang Lianyu was stunned for a moment, and answered subconsciously: "Because I have a good relationship with him..."

"Oh? You've been at Linda for so many years, and you have so many male colleagues around you. Are your relationships with them all ordinary?"

"Um, yes, it's quite average..." Ouyang Lianyu admitted honestly.

She was a little embarrassed, and in order not to make her interpersonal skills seem too poor, she quickly added, "But I have a good relationship with most of my female colleagues."

Liang Hongfei was amused and asked in a teasing tone: "So do you have a better relationship with those female colleagues or with Xiao Han?"

The air was quiet for a moment.

Ouyang Lianyu was not stupid. If she still didn't understand what her mother meant after talking to this point, she would be too slow. Her face flushed instantly, and she waved her hands and said, "Mom, don't think too much. Han Zhou and I are just ordinary friends..."

"Answer Mom's question first."

"me……"

Ouyang Lianyu hesitated for a long time. In fact, she didn't know why she was so excited. After a while, she answered in a guilty tone, "It should be because I have a better relationship with Han Zhou... After all, we are teacher and student. We usually spend more time together, and we..."

"Yu'er."

Liang Hongfei interrupted her and washed the oil off her hands with the tap. Reminiscence flashed across her face and she smiled, "Do you remember when you were a kid, your dad always asked you to read those poems and songs, but you didn't like them. One day you secretly read an extracurricular book on mathematics and your dad found out. He asked you if you liked mathematics, and your reaction at that time was exactly the same as it is now. And of course you like mathematics."

so……"

She wiped her hands, turned around to look at her daughter whose expression was gradually becoming dazed, and the smile on her face became more and more intense.

"Tell mom, do you like Xiao Han?"

... "Teacher Ouyang, what's wrong with you?"

Winter nights are already cold, and the wind is particularly strong tonight. Even Han Zhou, who has an extraordinary physique, couldn't help but shrink his neck and put his hands in his pockets.

Looking back at the high-speed railway station behind him, he saw Ouyang Lianyu beside him was absent-minded, so he smiled and said, "Uncle and mom haven't entered the station yet. If you really can't bear to leave, you can go back and see them now."

Ouyang Lianyu's parents left much earlier than expected and booked return tickets for 8 o'clock tonight. The expected difficulties did not occur. The two did not even mention the engagement once, as if they just came to Lincheng to see their daughter and had no other purpose.

Ouyang Lianyu came back to her senses and met Han Zhou's smiling eyes. She suddenly dodged and said helplessly: "My parents are no longer here, so don't keep calling them mom."

She turned around, looked at the high-speed railway station getting farther and farther away, felt the biting cold wind of the winter night, and actually had the thought of going back to take a look.

"Sorry, I've been calling you that for almost the entire day. I'm kind of used to it."

Han Zhou smiled awkwardly, then asked, "Do you want to go back and take a look? I'll go with you."

"no need."

After hesitating for a moment, Ouyang Lianyu shook her head and said, "Let's go to the parking lot. I'll take you back to school."

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"Teacher Ouyang, I think we should take a taxi back. I feel like you seem absent-minded today..."

"So you don't want to leave the car here? Or can you take it back for me someday?"

"Let's go to the parking lot."

"..."

The two went to the parking lot, sat in the driver's and front passenger's cars respectively, and fastened their seat belts as usual.

The parking lot was very quiet, with only the occasional roar of the engine being heard. If the headlights were not turned on, perhaps no one would be able to see the two people sitting side by side.

But the headlights always come on.

No one will sit in the driver's seat forever.

Through the rearview mirror, Ouyang Lianyu saw an intellectual and gentle face. Although she looked very young, no one would associate this face with a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old unless she was wearing a school uniform.

For the first time since she was born, she began to care about her age.

"Teacher Ouyang, I'm serious about this afternoon. You can spend New Year's Day with us. It will be more lively when we are together. Then we can find a place where there is no one and call your parents via video..."

The car engine began to roar. Looking at the rows of empty cars around her and listening to the voice of the boy beside her, Ouyang Lianyu obviously didn't want to recall the past, but she still remembered the last words her mother said to her in the kitchen at noon -

"Yu'er, choosing is a matter for the future, but liking is for the present, so there is no need to be cautious. If you want to be sure whether you really like someone, you must learn to temporarily forget everything related to rationality and make judgments only with your heart and pure sensibility."

"If you really can't do this, there is an easier way, which is to touch your heart and imagine the other person being with someone else."

"Still try to throw away rationality as much as possible, forget your identity, forget your age, forget everything, just like you once completely focused on mathematics -"

"If you feel heartache, even just a little bit, then you might like him."

In fact, Ouyang Lianyu wanted to refute the moment she heard this. She had seen Han Zhou and Guzheng Yixia together more than once, and her heart had never been disturbed, let alone heartache. The only thing that made her dissatisfied was Han Zhou's lack of loyalty in their relationship.

So she didn't plan to try this method.

Reason is a part of emotion. If you completely let your body and mind be controlled by emotions, is it still love?

After all, sensibility is largely dominated by desire. If you acknowledge such liking, isn't it equivalent to indirectly admitting that you are coveting the other person's body?
...In short, this is definitely not a good way to confirm whether you like someone.

After driving the car out of the parking lot, Ouyang Lianyu shook her head, put aside those distracting thoughts, and began to concentrate on driving.

If the weather wasn't so cold, she would definitely open the car window, let the cold air into the car, and calm herself down.

In order to prevent herself from having distracting thoughts again, she didn't dare turn around to look at Han Zhou along the way. When she finally got a look at him, the latter had already fallen asleep leaning on the seat.

She was stunned for a moment, then she stopped the car on the side of the road and gently covered the other person with the blanket on her legs.

"Thank you, you've worked so hard today." she said softly.

No one responded.

The foggy car windows seemed to separate the outside and inside of the car into two worlds, one cold and noisy, the other warm and deserted.

No...it's not deserted.

If this guy is still awake, he should answer "I am willing to go through fire and water for Teacher Ouyang"...

Ouyang Lianyu couldn't help but smile and pulled the blanket up on the boy.

She didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but looking at the sleeping face, she felt her heartbeat inexplicably quicken. She finally looked away and continued driving.

The car was driving slowly on the road, and in the distance we could see a tall building with the words "Lincheng University" printed on it. That was the teaching building of Lincheng University.

We'll be at school soon.

Ouyang Lianyu slowed down the car, turned around to look at Han Zhou who was still sleeping, and opened her mouth to wake him up.

But when the words came to her lips, she didn't say anything.

After hesitating for a long time, she did not continue driving towards the school gate, but turned the car around and drove towards the apartment.

In fact, Ouyang Lianyu couldn't be sure whether she didn't want to try the method her mother mentioned, or she didn't dare to try it.

She wasn't even sure about the idea.

But before that, even with both rationality and sensibility at the helm, she could still be sure of one thing -

At least tonight, she didn't want Han Zhou to go back to school.

(End of this chapter)