You call Final Destination a safety education film?

The hot pot restaurant was bustling with noise.

After ordering their meal, Lin Ye and his family waited for the food to be served.

"So, tell me, what brought you back?"

"Make money."

Lin Ye was both amused and exasperated by Jiang Qiong's "I knew it" look in her eyes.

"I'm shooting my graduation project and I'm planning to scrape together a budget," Lin Ye explained. "I wasn't planning on asking you for any money."

"Didn't you save up quite a bit of money before?"

"I've finished filming a short video."

"What short film?"

"Safety Education Warning Video for College Students"

"You think you can spend all your money making a safety education video?"

Jiang Qiong and Lin Yuncheng did not believe it.

Lin Ye started working part-time like crazy from his sophomore year, and he hardly ever went home during winter and summer vacations.

I've saved at least tens of thousands.

"Show us the safety education and warning video you made."

"Are you... sure you want to see this?"

Lin Ye hesitated.

Under constant urging from the two, Lin Ye posted the video link to "A Loving Family".

"Death...has come?"

Jiang Qiong was only slightly puzzled when she saw the video's title, but Lin Yuncheng's expression froze.

Lin Ye suppressed a laugh.

Jiang Qiong has always been fearless, and Lin Ye knows that this video means nothing to his mother.

But Lin Ye also knew that his father had always been very timid, and even when he went to the toilet at night, he had to leave the lights on and do it quickly.

He was often ridiculed by Jiang Qiong for this.

"I filmed it exactly according to the requirements of a safety education and warning video. It absolutely meets the requirements of a promotional video, and the students all said it was good."

After Lin Ye's repeated assurances, Lin Yuncheng clicked the play button to continue watching the video.

……

Jiang Qiong watched the video with great interest, and even told Lin Ye with some regret that the scene wasn't scary enough. Lin Yuncheng, who was next to her, left halfway through the video to pee.

"Not bad, this horror movie is quite well-made."

Jiang Qiong nodded in agreement.

"Mom, I'm filming a safety education and awareness video."

Lin Ye tried to explain.

"Not bad, shameless enough, just like your dad."

Lin Ye gave up struggling.

Fine, you're my mom, so you're in charge.

Lin Ye was helpless.

"Oh? The video's over? I was thinking of rushing back to watch it, what a pity." Lin Yuncheng, who had made an excuse to pee, sat back down with a regretful expression. "What were you two talking about?"

Lin Ye covered his face.

Jiang Qiong smiled but didn't say anything.

……

Is food the theme of your graduation project?

"Um."

Lin Ye ate the hot pot lamb with gusto.

"Have you come up with any ideas?"

"Yes, the script is all written."

"What is the initial budget?"

"Two hundred and fifty thousand, I guess."

Jiang Qiong and Lin Yuncheng looked up in surprise.

They suspect they have heard it wrong.

They knew that a typical director's graduation project only had a budget of tens of thousands of yuan.

Jiang Qiong quickly figured it out.

Her face was gloomy.

"Want to be famous? Want to make a scene? Want to prove you're good enough for that guy surnamed Song?"

Not entirely.

"So that's part of the reason?"

Lin Ye lowered his head and ate his meat, without answering the question.

The spicy broth was bubbling away, its pungent aroma constantly surging, making one's appetite soar.

"The beef is going to get overcooked, why don't we eat something first..."

"Shut up!"

Lin Yuncheng lowered his head, only able to give Lin Ye a helpless look.

Lin Ye couldn't help but chuckle as he watched his little antics.

"You have no chance."

"Give it a try."

"Try it?" Jiang Qiong laughed angrily. "Given your status, it's not just a class difference, it's almost like a reproductive barrier between different species."

Lin Ye was amused by his mother's amazing analogy.

"What if my species evolves?"

"What? Do you have an extra mouth? An extra life?"

"What if some kind of system suddenly appears and befalls me?"

"Have you gone mad from reading novels?" Jiang Qiong looked at him with the eyes of someone who pitys a mentally challenged person. "You might as well fantasize about winning a hundred billion in the lottery."

"I've fantasized about it, but I'm not that bold," Lin Ye said seriously. "Winning a five billion lottery would be enough for me; I'm not greedy."

The two got more and more off-topic and started discussing how much money they should win in the lottery to be realistic.

As expected of mother and daughter, they're both equally nonsensical.

Lin Yuncheng smiled helplessly, got up, picked up some cooked beef from the hot pot, and shared it with the two of them.

……

on the way home.

"This hot pot restaurant doesn't taste as good as it used to."

Lin Ye said casually.

"The past is the past, the present is the present; things change, and people's tastes change too."

Jiang Qiong responded with a pointed remark.

Lin Ye promptly shut up.

"Without us, how do you plan to raise the money to film your graduation project?"

Lin Yuncheng asked.

"Selling songs."

Upon hearing the reply, Jiang Qiong sneered.

She thought this kid would grow up to be something, but he's still so naive, thinking he can raise money for his graduation project just by selling a song.

Jiang Qiong asked dismissively, "Where's the sheet music?"

Lin Ye pointed to his head with one finger. "It's here."

Jiang Qiong took a deep breath, trying to convince herself not to act impulsively.

Lin Ye said smugly with a smile, "I'll go to your company to record a song tomorrow, and I'll sell it directly to your company while I'm at it."

The veins on Jiang Qiong's hands bulged.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lin Yuncheng decisively distanced himself from Lin Ye.

"By the way, Mom, could you... Mom!"

While Lin Ye was still imagining the scene that would shock everyone tomorrow, his mother's iron fist had already come down on him.

Punch him in the mouth to prevent him from begging for mercy.

A kick to prevent escape.

Then came a barrage of attacks.

Lin Ye tried many times to awaken Jiang Qiong's maternal love, but to no avail.

……

"Mom really went too far."

"Don't be ridiculous, your mom didn't even use any force."

Lin Ye looked at Lin Yuncheng with a puzzled expression, as if to ask, "Shouldn't we be on the same side?"

Lin Yuncheng subtly gestured with his lip that the person in question was right behind Lin Ye.

Lin Ye understood, then sighed, "Of course I know. How could Mom, who loves me so much, possibly kill me? I'm just worried about whether her hand was hurt."

The person next to him burst out laughing.

Lin Ye tilted his head, feigning surprise: "Oh dear! Isn't this my dear mother..."

"Shut up!"

Lin Ye raised his hand as if to pinch something, and then mimed zipping it up in front of his mouth.

"I've already spoken to them. You can just go to the recording studio tomorrow." Jiang Qiong rolled her eyes at him. "Just do your best. I've asked someone from head office to evaluate you."

Lin Ye had heard Jiang Qiong talk about her work before and knew that only exceptionally outstanding works received such evaluations.

"mom……"

"Don't make that disgusting face at me."

Lin Ye was somewhat moved.

So he decided to cook a hot pot at home that evening to express his feelings.

But Lin Ye was quickly stunned.

"Mom, where's the meat you asked Dad to defrost? I can't find it in the fridge."

Lin Ye ran to the bedroom and asked Jiang Qiong in a low voice.

There's no meat at home at all.

"Then why did you let...?"

"Your dad likes that hot pot place," Jiang Qiong chuckled. "He hasn't been there in ages."

Lin Ye was stunned.