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Chapter 454: Parents Are Eyeless
"Guests?" Jiang Xingxing was stunned. Isn't it normal for family members to have guests?
"That's right! He is Mr. Ying who was kicked out by Mr. and Mrs. four years ago!" Aunt Lin said it outright.
"Mr. Ying?" Jiang Xingxing's chest clicked, Mr. Ying who was kicked out by her parents?Could it be... Ying Lingxuan?
"Missy came back with this Mr. Ying before..."
Before Aunt Lin finished speaking, Jiang Xingxing opened the door and rushed in...
In the living room, the scene was surprisingly similar to the scene in memory.
only……
Ying Lingxuan took the seat where Chen Shuai used to sit!
Jiang Xingxing could only hear the deafening "thumping" heartbeat in his ears, and when he met Lingxuan's clear and gentle gaze like spring water, he felt like he was going to burst out of his chest.
Ying Lingxuan was sitting on the sofa, and didn't get up because she came in, but just looked at her with a smile, as if she would come, as if he had already expected her, or as if his existence and her arrival had come early As agreed...
She didn't know what he was planning. She thought that after the trouble last night, at least he wouldn't bother her again... At least, he would disdain to see her again!
But it was only one night, instead of looking for her, he came directly to her house!
Ying Lingxuan, what trick is he playing!
When Jiang Zongjie and Fang Yunlan saw her, they were stunned for a moment, and they looked up slowly, with complicated expressions.
Jiang Xingxing didn't know what was going on with the three of them now. The parents who had trampled Ying Lingxuan under their feet and looked down upon them could now be so amiable and chat happily.
Suddenly, she felt that her intrusion was an uninvited guest who broke their harmony.
Fang Yunlan recovered first, bumped her husband with her elbow, and said to Jiang Xingxing calmly, "Are you back?"
Only then did Jiang Xingxing's eyes turn away from Ying Lingxuan, and she looked at Fang Yunlan flattered. All this was completely different from what she had imagined!
Even if it wasn't a scolding, at least it shouldn't be the way it is now. The gentleness made her feel that something was wrong everywhere.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back!" Jiang Xingxing didn't dare to let himself get lost in Fang Yunlan's gentleness, so he greeted lightly with a sullen face.
"Come and sit!" Jiang Zongjie's face was not as friendly as Fang Yunlan's, and his tight jaw seemed to be suppressing something.
Jiang Xingxing secretly sighed in her heart, this is the scene she imagined.
Walking over, she was about to sit down on the sofa next to Fang Yunlan, but was pushed by Fang Yunlan, and Jiang Xingxing turned to look at her puzzled.
"Go and sit with Ling Xuan, you young people have more things to talk about!" Fang Yunlan pointed to the seat next to Ying Ling Xuan, and said to her with a smile.
"Ling Xuan?" Jiang Xingxing let out a "huh" and looked back at Ying Lingxuan. What did he say to her parents, what did he do? On the same front?
Ling Xuan?
It's so affectionate!
It doesn't matter if she shrugged her shoulders, she didn't want to cause sharp attacks on the seat issue.
When she walked slowly to his side and sat down generously, she felt him move to the side.
There was a pang in his heart, it seemed that he believed deeply what she said last night to provoke him on purpose!
If he really disliked her so much that he felt uncomfortable even sitting like this, why did he show up at her house?
"Don't be too cautious, just relax and chat!" Jiang Zongjie had to clear his throat under several hints from Fang Yunlan, and said in a stiff voice.
"Why is he at our house?" Jiang Xingxing looked at Jiang Zongjie and asked bluntly.
"he……"
"I heard that my old friend is back, so I came here to see it! I haven't seen you for so many years, you will always miss it, don't you?" Ying Lingxuan answered before Jiang Zongjie, tilting his head slightly, looking at it with a half-smile looking at her.
"I thought, we... have made it clear!" Jiang Xingxing pursed his lips, obviously displeased and impatient.
"To be clear is to be clear. This meeting is meeting, two different things!" Ying Lingxuan still smiled gently, and answered without haste.
"Then what do you mean now?" Jiang Xingxing suddenly lost his temper, frowning and staring at him.
"Didn't you tell me everything? You're back, and I'll come and see you!" She was angry with him and spread her hands without changing her face, expressing her intention to come innocently.
"Now that I see it, can I please go back?" She didn't know what happened to her today, why she was so upset to see him.
But seeing him appearing in her house, and seeing him get along so harmoniously with her parents, she felt inexplicably irritated.
"Of course I can! Now that I saw you, there is no reason to stay any longer! Then I will go back first, goodbye uncle and aunt, and make an appointment to have dinner together some other day!" Ying Lingxuan was a little surprised at her. He stood up under his gaze, greeted Jiang Zongjie and his wife, then turned around and left.
Jiang Xingxing shook hands, she was the one who drove him away, but when he really left, she began to feel reluctant to part again!
"Okay, then go slowly! Come and play when you have time!" Fang Yunlan and Jiang Zongjie hurriedly got up to send him out.
Jiang Xingxing just watched their figures disappear outside the door, and his heart felt as if a piece had been dug out, feeling lost for a while.
"Since we have made an agreement, Xing Xing can be regarded as my fiancée. I hope... you won't embarrass her, right? I don't want to see any scars on my fiancée!" Before getting into the car, Ying Lingxuan Turning around abruptly, looking at Jiang Zongjie with a smile, he said meaningfully.
"Of course!" Jiang Zongjie's due was a bit blunt, but he did not refuse.
"After I go back, I will ask my secretary to draw up an agreement, and I will notify you of the formal signing tomorrow. But I hope we can keep this matter a secret, and don't let the stars know! Don't interfere with me and her, let me Come on, can you?"
Ying Lingxuan's question was tactful, but it could not be refuted.
"No problem! Don't worry, we won't interfere in your affairs!" Fang Yunlan agreed, overjoyed.
"Then thank you Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang first. Goodbye!" Ying Lingxuan glanced at the gate of Jiang's house again, with a faint reluctance and unspeakable affection in his eyes.
When seeing Ying Lingxuan's car go away in the dust, Jiang Zongjie turned around and walked home impatiently.
"Wait a minute!" Fang Yunlan hurriedly pulled him back, and when she met his stormy eyes, she shook her head: "Calm down! If you go in like this, it's nothing more than a bad breath! But if you get angry, then, Ying Ling Xuan's agreement is in vain! You have to think clearly! We have already lost Mrs. Jiang..."
"Okay, I know what to do!" Jiang Zongjie frowned, as if moved by her words, his face softened a little.
"Then you should pay attention! Don't lose the big because of small things! The current Haitian is no longer the Haitian of the past! If Xing Xing is really blessed to marry Ying Lingxuan, then are we worried that we will not be able to make a comeback?" Fang Yunlan patted his arm, and once again told him worriedly.
"Hmm." After Jiang Zongjie turned around in his mind, he also relaxed. Thinking of the bright future in the future, he couldn't help but move the corners of his lips.
"Let's go!" Fang Yunlan said with confidence.
The two returned home one after the other, and Jiang Xingxing was talking to Aunt Lin again.
Seeing them coming in, the conversation came to an abrupt end, and the smile on her face also disappeared in an instant, and she looked at them with a sullen face.
"After going out for so many years and not going home, I didn't even give a phone call or message. I still have this home in my eyes. Are there our parents?" Jiang Zongjie also had a sullen face, and the father and daughter had a fight.
"Busy." Jiang Xingxing pursed his lips and replied lightly.
"Busy?" Jiang Zongjie listened to her reply, and the veins on his arms twitched. Fang Yunlan pressed him down and shook his head suggestively.
Jiang Zongjie withdrew his hand and just snorted coldly, but he was not as angry as before.
"..." Jiang Xingxing didn't know how to respond, and began to worry about whether to confess Xingyue's affairs to them.
"Have you got a boyfriend yet?" Fang Yunlan turned the topic in a different direction, lest the father and daughter have another disagreement and lose control.
"No." Jiang Xingxing froze for a moment, then shook his head.
This was the first time she heard her mother ask her in such a "democratic" way!
"You are also 27 years old, it's time to find a boyfriend! It was your parents' fault in the past, and you shouldn't be forced to marry someone you don't like. Now, your parents have figured it out, we are just like you Daughter, your happiness is what we want to see! In the future, we will no longer force you to marry someone you don't like, as long as you like it, no matter whether you are poor or rich, as long as you like it! "
Fang Yunlan sat beside Jiang Xingxing, held her hand, and said earnestly.
Jiang Xingxing was a little dazed, the contrast between the front and the back was too great, which made her unable to adapt.
She hasn't been at home these past few years, but has it made them all figure it out?
Jiang Xingxing looked at Fang Yunlan, then at Jiang Zongjie, but she couldn't see any clues from their faces.
Either they are too good at acting, or they have really figured it out and finally understand the responsibility of being a parent?
"Huh?" Seeing her half-believing expression, Fang Yunlan winked at Jiang Zongjie.
"That... we were not... not unreasonable before! We just hope that you can marry into a wealthy family and live the life of a rich wife, and at least you can live a worry-free life in the future!" Jiang Zongjie couldn't say the words that belittled himself.
"Yes! Parents will be old after all, so they will go ahead of you! At that time, you will be alone in this world, helpless! If you can't even guarantee your financial security, how can you let your parents die? Think about it, since you were young, we have forced you in marriage, which one of the other things have not followed you? Food, drink, everything is given to you, and pocket money has never been controlled. Excuse me! Ask yourself, is there anything I said that is not true?"
Fang Yunlan continued following Jiang Zongjie's words.
Jiang Xingxing bit her lip. What her mother said was indeed true. Although they controlled her freedom, her thoughts, and everything they could control, they never treated her materially badly!
It is precisely because they regard material things as the most important thing that they can't tell what she wants!
From childhood to adulthood, she was like the princess who lived in the ivory tower. Every day she faced a curse, no matter how glamorous she was dressed, she had never been happy!
Before she knew Shi Youxi, her life as a rich lady was almost like this!
Therefore, she didn't have too many pursuits and ideas, and she did everything according to what they said.
In her time, besides sleeping, she attends classes, from school to art training classes.
Almost, there is no time for her!
It wasn't until she got to know Shi Youxi that she realized that life shouldn't just be like this!
She began to yearn for the love of her parents, began to yearn for freedom, and began to yearn for a life outside the ivory tower...
Since then, she has changed from a good girl to a rebellious girl in their eyes!
Since then, father's slaps have become commonplace, and mother's scolding comes and goes in this family from time to time.
This home...
It has become a battlefield without gunpowder!
It is the battlefield where she fights for freedom!
Listening to Fang Yunlan's words now, she can really explain all this with the reasons she said!
It should be that all parents want their children to live a good life, sometimes, they go too far unconsciously!
"I see." Jiang Xingxing nodded, choosing to believe their reasons.
She didn't really want to have a falling out with her family. When she came back this time, she actually had an idea to take her parents to the United States, so that the family could live in the United States together.
It's just that her determination is not so firm, all decisions depend on their attitudes!
"My parents are getting old, and I don't know how long I can take care of you. You are our only concern. I originally wanted to give you Mrs. Jiang as a dowry, but it's a pity... Sigh!" Fang Yunlan sighed helplessly, The eye circles were red, a little choked up.
"Mom, in fact, Mrs. Jiang didn't..."
"It's all in the past, why bring it up!" Jiang Zongjie mentioned Jiang's, and started to lose his temper and roared at Fang Yunlan again.
Jiang Xingxing swallowed what he said in his throat, but was swallowed abruptly by his roar.
"Xing Xing, actually, my parents think that Ying Lingxuan just now is pretty good! In the past, it was because my parents were blind that they didn't know Taishan! He is actually a capable and responsible man. Both parents think that he can Give you a good life and protect you..."
"Mom, stop talking! It's impossible for me and him..." Jiang Xingxing shook his head, lowered his eyelids dimly, and looked at the hands clasped on his lap.
He has misunderstood her!
He must have heard those words last night, and believed them deeply!
How could she be liked by him like that?Even if she really wanted to be with him, he would probably dislike her and stay away from her!
Just like when she sat next to him just now, he quietly moved to the side...
(End of this chapter)
"Guests?" Jiang Xingxing was stunned. Isn't it normal for family members to have guests?
"That's right! He is Mr. Ying who was kicked out by Mr. and Mrs. four years ago!" Aunt Lin said it outright.
"Mr. Ying?" Jiang Xingxing's chest clicked, Mr. Ying who was kicked out by her parents?Could it be... Ying Lingxuan?
"Missy came back with this Mr. Ying before..."
Before Aunt Lin finished speaking, Jiang Xingxing opened the door and rushed in...
In the living room, the scene was surprisingly similar to the scene in memory.
only……
Ying Lingxuan took the seat where Chen Shuai used to sit!
Jiang Xingxing could only hear the deafening "thumping" heartbeat in his ears, and when he met Lingxuan's clear and gentle gaze like spring water, he felt like he was going to burst out of his chest.
Ying Lingxuan was sitting on the sofa, and didn't get up because she came in, but just looked at her with a smile, as if she would come, as if he had already expected her, or as if his existence and her arrival had come early As agreed...
She didn't know what he was planning. She thought that after the trouble last night, at least he wouldn't bother her again... At least, he would disdain to see her again!
But it was only one night, instead of looking for her, he came directly to her house!
Ying Lingxuan, what trick is he playing!
When Jiang Zongjie and Fang Yunlan saw her, they were stunned for a moment, and they looked up slowly, with complicated expressions.
Jiang Xingxing didn't know what was going on with the three of them now. The parents who had trampled Ying Lingxuan under their feet and looked down upon them could now be so amiable and chat happily.
Suddenly, she felt that her intrusion was an uninvited guest who broke their harmony.
Fang Yunlan recovered first, bumped her husband with her elbow, and said to Jiang Xingxing calmly, "Are you back?"
Only then did Jiang Xingxing's eyes turn away from Ying Lingxuan, and she looked at Fang Yunlan flattered. All this was completely different from what she had imagined!
Even if it wasn't a scolding, at least it shouldn't be the way it is now. The gentleness made her feel that something was wrong everywhere.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back!" Jiang Xingxing didn't dare to let himself get lost in Fang Yunlan's gentleness, so he greeted lightly with a sullen face.
"Come and sit!" Jiang Zongjie's face was not as friendly as Fang Yunlan's, and his tight jaw seemed to be suppressing something.
Jiang Xingxing secretly sighed in her heart, this is the scene she imagined.
Walking over, she was about to sit down on the sofa next to Fang Yunlan, but was pushed by Fang Yunlan, and Jiang Xingxing turned to look at her puzzled.
"Go and sit with Ling Xuan, you young people have more things to talk about!" Fang Yunlan pointed to the seat next to Ying Ling Xuan, and said to her with a smile.
"Ling Xuan?" Jiang Xingxing let out a "huh" and looked back at Ying Lingxuan. What did he say to her parents, what did he do? On the same front?
Ling Xuan?
It's so affectionate!
It doesn't matter if she shrugged her shoulders, she didn't want to cause sharp attacks on the seat issue.
When she walked slowly to his side and sat down generously, she felt him move to the side.
There was a pang in his heart, it seemed that he believed deeply what she said last night to provoke him on purpose!
If he really disliked her so much that he felt uncomfortable even sitting like this, why did he show up at her house?
"Don't be too cautious, just relax and chat!" Jiang Zongjie had to clear his throat under several hints from Fang Yunlan, and said in a stiff voice.
"Why is he at our house?" Jiang Xingxing looked at Jiang Zongjie and asked bluntly.
"he……"
"I heard that my old friend is back, so I came here to see it! I haven't seen you for so many years, you will always miss it, don't you?" Ying Lingxuan answered before Jiang Zongjie, tilting his head slightly, looking at it with a half-smile looking at her.
"I thought, we... have made it clear!" Jiang Xingxing pursed his lips, obviously displeased and impatient.
"To be clear is to be clear. This meeting is meeting, two different things!" Ying Lingxuan still smiled gently, and answered without haste.
"Then what do you mean now?" Jiang Xingxing suddenly lost his temper, frowning and staring at him.
"Didn't you tell me everything? You're back, and I'll come and see you!" She was angry with him and spread her hands without changing her face, expressing her intention to come innocently.
"Now that I see it, can I please go back?" She didn't know what happened to her today, why she was so upset to see him.
But seeing him appearing in her house, and seeing him get along so harmoniously with her parents, she felt inexplicably irritated.
"Of course I can! Now that I saw you, there is no reason to stay any longer! Then I will go back first, goodbye uncle and aunt, and make an appointment to have dinner together some other day!" Ying Lingxuan was a little surprised at her. He stood up under his gaze, greeted Jiang Zongjie and his wife, then turned around and left.
Jiang Xingxing shook hands, she was the one who drove him away, but when he really left, she began to feel reluctant to part again!
"Okay, then go slowly! Come and play when you have time!" Fang Yunlan and Jiang Zongjie hurriedly got up to send him out.
Jiang Xingxing just watched their figures disappear outside the door, and his heart felt as if a piece had been dug out, feeling lost for a while.
"Since we have made an agreement, Xing Xing can be regarded as my fiancée. I hope... you won't embarrass her, right? I don't want to see any scars on my fiancée!" Before getting into the car, Ying Lingxuan Turning around abruptly, looking at Jiang Zongjie with a smile, he said meaningfully.
"Of course!" Jiang Zongjie's due was a bit blunt, but he did not refuse.
"After I go back, I will ask my secretary to draw up an agreement, and I will notify you of the formal signing tomorrow. But I hope we can keep this matter a secret, and don't let the stars know! Don't interfere with me and her, let me Come on, can you?"
Ying Lingxuan's question was tactful, but it could not be refuted.
"No problem! Don't worry, we won't interfere in your affairs!" Fang Yunlan agreed, overjoyed.
"Then thank you Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang first. Goodbye!" Ying Lingxuan glanced at the gate of Jiang's house again, with a faint reluctance and unspeakable affection in his eyes.
When seeing Ying Lingxuan's car go away in the dust, Jiang Zongjie turned around and walked home impatiently.
"Wait a minute!" Fang Yunlan hurriedly pulled him back, and when she met his stormy eyes, she shook her head: "Calm down! If you go in like this, it's nothing more than a bad breath! But if you get angry, then, Ying Ling Xuan's agreement is in vain! You have to think clearly! We have already lost Mrs. Jiang..."
"Okay, I know what to do!" Jiang Zongjie frowned, as if moved by her words, his face softened a little.
"Then you should pay attention! Don't lose the big because of small things! The current Haitian is no longer the Haitian of the past! If Xing Xing is really blessed to marry Ying Lingxuan, then are we worried that we will not be able to make a comeback?" Fang Yunlan patted his arm, and once again told him worriedly.
"Hmm." After Jiang Zongjie turned around in his mind, he also relaxed. Thinking of the bright future in the future, he couldn't help but move the corners of his lips.
"Let's go!" Fang Yunlan said with confidence.
The two returned home one after the other, and Jiang Xingxing was talking to Aunt Lin again.
Seeing them coming in, the conversation came to an abrupt end, and the smile on her face also disappeared in an instant, and she looked at them with a sullen face.
"After going out for so many years and not going home, I didn't even give a phone call or message. I still have this home in my eyes. Are there our parents?" Jiang Zongjie also had a sullen face, and the father and daughter had a fight.
"Busy." Jiang Xingxing pursed his lips and replied lightly.
"Busy?" Jiang Zongjie listened to her reply, and the veins on his arms twitched. Fang Yunlan pressed him down and shook his head suggestively.
Jiang Zongjie withdrew his hand and just snorted coldly, but he was not as angry as before.
"..." Jiang Xingxing didn't know how to respond, and began to worry about whether to confess Xingyue's affairs to them.
"Have you got a boyfriend yet?" Fang Yunlan turned the topic in a different direction, lest the father and daughter have another disagreement and lose control.
"No." Jiang Xingxing froze for a moment, then shook his head.
This was the first time she heard her mother ask her in such a "democratic" way!
"You are also 27 years old, it's time to find a boyfriend! It was your parents' fault in the past, and you shouldn't be forced to marry someone you don't like. Now, your parents have figured it out, we are just like you Daughter, your happiness is what we want to see! In the future, we will no longer force you to marry someone you don't like, as long as you like it, no matter whether you are poor or rich, as long as you like it! "
Fang Yunlan sat beside Jiang Xingxing, held her hand, and said earnestly.
Jiang Xingxing was a little dazed, the contrast between the front and the back was too great, which made her unable to adapt.
She hasn't been at home these past few years, but has it made them all figure it out?
Jiang Xingxing looked at Fang Yunlan, then at Jiang Zongjie, but she couldn't see any clues from their faces.
Either they are too good at acting, or they have really figured it out and finally understand the responsibility of being a parent?
"Huh?" Seeing her half-believing expression, Fang Yunlan winked at Jiang Zongjie.
"That... we were not... not unreasonable before! We just hope that you can marry into a wealthy family and live the life of a rich wife, and at least you can live a worry-free life in the future!" Jiang Zongjie couldn't say the words that belittled himself.
"Yes! Parents will be old after all, so they will go ahead of you! At that time, you will be alone in this world, helpless! If you can't even guarantee your financial security, how can you let your parents die? Think about it, since you were young, we have forced you in marriage, which one of the other things have not followed you? Food, drink, everything is given to you, and pocket money has never been controlled. Excuse me! Ask yourself, is there anything I said that is not true?"
Fang Yunlan continued following Jiang Zongjie's words.
Jiang Xingxing bit her lip. What her mother said was indeed true. Although they controlled her freedom, her thoughts, and everything they could control, they never treated her materially badly!
It is precisely because they regard material things as the most important thing that they can't tell what she wants!
From childhood to adulthood, she was like the princess who lived in the ivory tower. Every day she faced a curse, no matter how glamorous she was dressed, she had never been happy!
Before she knew Shi Youxi, her life as a rich lady was almost like this!
Therefore, she didn't have too many pursuits and ideas, and she did everything according to what they said.
In her time, besides sleeping, she attends classes, from school to art training classes.
Almost, there is no time for her!
It wasn't until she got to know Shi Youxi that she realized that life shouldn't just be like this!
She began to yearn for the love of her parents, began to yearn for freedom, and began to yearn for a life outside the ivory tower...
Since then, she has changed from a good girl to a rebellious girl in their eyes!
Since then, father's slaps have become commonplace, and mother's scolding comes and goes in this family from time to time.
This home...
It has become a battlefield without gunpowder!
It is the battlefield where she fights for freedom!
Listening to Fang Yunlan's words now, she can really explain all this with the reasons she said!
It should be that all parents want their children to live a good life, sometimes, they go too far unconsciously!
"I see." Jiang Xingxing nodded, choosing to believe their reasons.
She didn't really want to have a falling out with her family. When she came back this time, she actually had an idea to take her parents to the United States, so that the family could live in the United States together.
It's just that her determination is not so firm, all decisions depend on their attitudes!
"My parents are getting old, and I don't know how long I can take care of you. You are our only concern. I originally wanted to give you Mrs. Jiang as a dowry, but it's a pity... Sigh!" Fang Yunlan sighed helplessly, The eye circles were red, a little choked up.
"Mom, in fact, Mrs. Jiang didn't..."
"It's all in the past, why bring it up!" Jiang Zongjie mentioned Jiang's, and started to lose his temper and roared at Fang Yunlan again.
Jiang Xingxing swallowed what he said in his throat, but was swallowed abruptly by his roar.
"Xing Xing, actually, my parents think that Ying Lingxuan just now is pretty good! In the past, it was because my parents were blind that they didn't know Taishan! He is actually a capable and responsible man. Both parents think that he can Give you a good life and protect you..."
"Mom, stop talking! It's impossible for me and him..." Jiang Xingxing shook his head, lowered his eyelids dimly, and looked at the hands clasped on his lap.
He has misunderstood her!
He must have heard those words last night, and believed them deeply!
How could she be liked by him like that?Even if she really wanted to be with him, he would probably dislike her and stay away from her!
Just like when she sat next to him just now, he quietly moved to the side...
(End of this chapter)
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