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Although Zhu Zhitao's parents made a fuss several times afterward, Zhu Zhitao stopped them each time.

Unable to find Zhu Zhitao, Zhu's parents could only come to his workplace to look for him, accompanied by Zhu Zhitao's sister.

He Tiantian walked past them, glanced at them briefly, and then left with Cui Ying without saying goodbye.

After He Tiantian had walked away, Zhu's mother said indignantly, "What a piece of trash! She just pretended not to see us."

Mr. Zhu sighed, "That's not pretending; they really don't want to pay attention to us."

“My son is her coach, why doesn’t she respect us?” Zhu’s mother said. “Let’s find Zhitao and talk to our son, and have him teach his players a lesson.”

Some athletes were passing by, and they kept staring at them.

The gatekeeper quickly notified Zhu Zhitao to come out and not to let the two people in.

When Zhu Zhitao saw his parents coming, he remained expressionless and said, "There's a teahouse over there. We can go there and talk about whatever it is."

Seeing that their son looked unwell, Zhu's father and mother had no choice but to follow.

Once inside the teahouse, Zhu Zhitao ordered a pot of tea, poured a cup for each of his parents, and asked, "What brings you here?"

"Zhitao, how can you talk to Mom and Dad like that?" Zhu Zhimin frowned. "Mom and Dad told me before that you were not good to them, and it's true."

Zhu Zhitao looked at his eldest sister and sneered, "If I had been a little more assertive with my parents before, I wouldn't be divorced now. Now that I'm divorced, what else do you want? Are you only satisfied when you've made me lose my job and become a failure?"

Zhu Zhimin, displeased with his younger brother's words, said, "Our parents don't want you to get divorced either. They came here this time hoping you and Yuanhua will remarry. Couples can argue, but why get a divorce?"

"Heh!" Zhu Zhitao laughed and cried at the same time. "Who do you think your brother is? How capable do you think he is? I don't think I have that much charm. If you did, you wouldn't have divorced and brought your child back!"

Zhu Zhitao's words made Zhu Zhimin's face turn red. He said, "We just didn't get along, so there's no need for us to be together. I'm different from you, and we can't be compared."

"Hehe, what's the difference?" Zhu Zhitao retorted. "You were cursing your ex-brother-in-law's family on the phone before. I also have a family of scoundrels here, so naturally I can't keep Yuanhua either."

Mr. Zhu was taken aback, and said with a stern face, "How could you say that? Of course we want you to be happy. We didn't know things would turn out this way."

"You don't know?" Zhu Zhitao sneered. "Then what were all those things you did before? Even I don't forgive you, let alone Yuan Hua! I don't know why you came to see me, but I can tell you, don't interfere in my affairs. I'll say it again, don't go looking for trouble with He Tiantian. Although I'm He Tiantian's coach, there are plenty of people in the swimming team who want to be her coach. It's not that they're begging me, it's that I'm clinging to He Tiantian. If you want to ruin my career, I've already lost my wife and children. If I'm still unsuccessful, I'll just buy a bottle of pesticide and drink it all, then you can keep causing trouble."

After saying that, Zhu Zhitao put twenty yuan under the teacup as payment, then got up and left.

Zhu Zhitao resented himself, but he also resented his parents.

He has now lost his family and doesn't want to lose his job and career because of his parents' unreasonable demands.

Zhu Zhitao left, leaving Zhu's parents, Zhu Zhimin, looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Look, look, it's become like this now..." Zhu's mother was furious, tears streaming down her face as she looked at Zhu Zhimin. "Zhitao is so disobedient now."

Mr. Zhu frowned, sighed, and said, "Let's stop making trouble. Zhi Tao hates us now. He's divorced now, and if he has problems at work, he probably won't be able to handle it. Sigh, no matter how you look at it, we went too far back then."

Zhu Zhimin nodded and said, "Now that my younger brother is directly preventing us from talking about the property, he probably doesn't want to sue for a division of the property. In that case, we don't need to be the bad guys."

"That...that's a lot of money!" Zhu's mother hesitated, somewhat reluctant. She didn't want too much; if she could get half, the family's life would be much more comfortable.

Mr. Zhu said in a deep voice, "If Zhitao hadn't divorced, everything would have belonged to the Zhu family. Now that they're divorced, it has nothing to do with our family anymore. Zhitao clearly doesn't want to bring it up again, and there's nothing we can do no matter how anxious we are. If we push him too hard and it affects his work, then we'll have lost both our wife and our army."

Zhu Zhimin nodded and said, "I've heard of He Tiantian abroad too. She's a big favorite for this year's Olympics. What my younger brother said is true. There are plenty of people who want to be He Tiantian's coach. Whoever becomes He Tiantian's coach will break the domestic swimming gold medal record. What an amazing resume that would be! If we offend He Tiantian or cause trouble for Yuan Hua, given how good He Tiantian is to Yuan Hua, she certainly won't stand idly by."

Upon hearing this, Zhu's mother dared not go to Zhu Zhitao's workplace, let alone go to see He Tiantian.

"Sigh, let's go home then," said Zhu's mother. Now that things had come to this, she realized that if she made a scene, it would only make things worse.

At this moment, Zhu's mother was filled with regret.

However, Zhu's mother was still not giving up. She couldn't come to her son's workplace or go to He Tiantian, but she could go to Yuan Hua or Xiao Xiao.

"Dad, what did your in-laws say when you went to talk to them?" Zhu's mother asked. "If possible, we should try to persuade them to come to us!"

The in-law here is naturally Yuanhua's father.

Mr. Zhu shook his head and said, "My in-laws said that everything depends on the children. If the children want to remarry, they can; if they don't want to, there's nothing they can do and they won't interfere."

“Then I’ll go and beg Yuanhua,” said Zhu’s mother. “I refuse to believe that Yuanhua won’t agree even if I kneel before her. I was wrong before, I’ll go and admit my mistake…”

“If admitting their mistakes were enough, they wouldn’t have gotten divorced,” Zhu Zhimin advised, not wanting her mother to humiliate herself. She had tried to persuade her mother before, especially after her parents moved to Yuanhua’s courtyard, but her parents wouldn’t listen, so there was nothing she could do.

Upon hearing this, Zhu's mother sighed repeatedly.

Zhu's mother secretly went to Xiaoxiao's busy elementary school when no one was looking.

Because of his work schedule, Yuan Hua would always pick up his child after school.

That day, Xiaoxiao got out of school early and waited for her mother through the school fence.

Zhu's mother walked over with a smile on her face and gently called out, "Xiaoxiao, Grandma has come to pick you up from school."

Xiao Xiao was startled and quickly took a few steps back. She remembered the times her grandmother used to beat her and was a little scared, not wanting to get close to her grandmother.