Chapter 197, Section 196: The Daughter Can't Take It Anymore

"Hmm...you can put it there, I'll look at it in a bit." Ji Wanqiu glanced at it briefly before turning back to continue writing and drawing in her notebook.

Lin Yanwan stuck out her tongue, went back to her room and lay on the bed. Thinking about Jiang Xia's wanton behavior towards her tonight, she couldn't help but tighten the blanket around herself, her face growing redder and redder.

After midnight, Lin Gaoyuan finished reviewing the toy factory's development plan and walked behind his wife, gently massaging her shoulders and neck.

"Wanqiu, aren't you going to sleep yet?"

"I'll go to sleep after I finish this. You go and run the water."

Lin Gaoyuan glanced at her sketches; the selected shots looked quite good. Whether made into dolls or desktop ornaments, they should sell very well.

"Thank you for your hard work." He said softly, "So, to lighten your load, just stand still for a bit, and I'll help you wash. I'll make sure everything is spotless."

Ji Wanqiu couldn't help but roll her eyes at him: "Is that what you call washing?"

"Hehehe... Anyway, I'm going to wash up first, hurry up and come over."

"Go ahead, go ahead."

A while later, the sound of running water came from the bathroom. After finishing the current design, Ji Wanqiu slowly put down her pencil and glanced at the time. It was almost one o'clock in the morning.

She stretched, got up, took some clothes from the closet, and was about to take a shower when her eyes happened to catch sight of her daughter's drawing paper on the stereo.

It seems she was saying that this was something her son-in-law gave her?

She picked it up and was immediately stunned.

The drawing paper contained a comical image of Tom, shown from three different angles: front, back, and side. She suddenly realized that this was a perfect design sketch for a figurine.

Most importantly, this painting is better than hers!

So Ji Wanqiu quickly looked at the remaining few sheets of paper, and they were all figure design drawings?!

Each one is incredibly lifelike, and there's something indescribable about it—no one could draw it better than him, as if he were the original artist of Tom and Jerry.

Ji Wanqiu clicked her tongue slightly. Her son-in-law seemed a bit too outstanding. Compared to him, the manuscript she had spent two days considering and then drew seemed rather inadequate.

She was puzzled as to how Jiang Xia knew that the family was worried about the design drawings. After thinking about it carefully, she realized that Yan Wan must have told him, so he drew these drawings and then gave them to her through his daughter.

This child has really put a lot of thought into it.

Ji Wanqiu sighed silently, after all, these pictures had really helped the family a lot, like sending charcoal in snowy weather.

The sound of running water in the bathroom had stopped at some point. Lin Gaoyuan walked into the room, drying his wet hair with a towel, his tone slightly reproachful: "Didn't you say you'd be right away? Look, I'm already finished showering."

"Look, your good son-in-law drew this." She smiled and handed the design to her husband.

"What is this?"

Lin Gaoyuan muttered something, but after only one glance at the drawing, his eyes widened as if he were about to fall asleep: "This...this...is this a design for a Tom and Jerry figurine?"

"Yes, although I hate to admit it, that child's drawing is indeed better than mine. He completely grasped the essence of Tom and Jerry." Her helpless tone was mixed with a hint of sarcasm. "Gao Yuan, you didn't agree to this marriage before. Look, we're the ones who are marrying above our station."

"Did I? No, absolutely not. I saw long ago that that kid was a talent with unlimited potential." He vehemently denied it, never mentioning the fact that Jiang Xia Bangbang had taken two punches from him.

Lin Gaoyuan looked at the Tom and Jerry design in his hand with a look of surprise and delight, already thinking about how to turn the design into a finished product and start selling it through various channels.

"So you should treat Xia better in the future. He's genuinely good to Yanwan and treats you like his father-in-law. Otherwise, he wouldn't care about these things and would just leave you with a headache," Ji Wanqiu said.

Lin Gaoyuan blushed: "I've already agreed to marry my daughter to him, how could I not treat him well?"

"Isn't this how it should be?"

"Uh..." He was momentarily at a loss for words when asked the question. "Then what do you think we should do?"

"What do you mean, 'what to do'? Just treat your daughter the same way you would your son-in-law. Don't think that just because you're his father-in-law, he should be filial to you. Show each other more respect and care. As long as it doesn't involve matters of principle, we shouldn't pry into their affairs."

Lin Gaoyuan breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought you were going to say that if that kid wanted to stay overnight, he would sleep with Yan Wan."

"This...this..." The mother-in-law pursed her lips: "Actually, it's not impossible."

Lin Gaoyuan: "???"

His eyes widened. Was this really something his wife, his daughter's mother, had said? Letting that kid sleep in the same bed with Yan meant that in ten months he'd be going from being parents to grandparents.

You have to understand, my daughter is only eighteen years old this year!

She's still a long way from the legal marriage age.

Seeing the incredulous look in her man's eyes, Ji Wanqiu blushed slightly.

“I was worried before that Xia was young and didn’t know what responsibility meant. But now it seems that he is more mature than we thought. Besides, can we guard against him for a while, but can we guard against him for a lifetime?”

She sighed softly: "Young people these days are much more open-minded than we were back then. If they go to the capital and the young couple secretly rents a place to live, or goes out to book a room every now and then, can you stop them? You probably won't even know it."

"So, you mean that it's better to guide than to block?" Lin Gaoyuan frowned.

"Yes... Our country is great in every way, but it's particularly strict about sex education, especially for this generation of kids. They're in a rebellious phase, and the more you forbid them from doing something, the more they want to do it. Sometimes, getting exposed to it early isn't a bad thing, so that when they go to university and are no longer under their parents' control, they don't completely let loose and seek temporary thrills."

Ji Wanqiu paused, then looked up at her husband: "You don't want to be a grandfather this time next year, do you?"

Hearing this, Lin Gaoyuan felt a sharp pang in his heart.

He wasn't unreasonable; on the contrary, he thought his wife's words made a lot of sense. But Yanwan was his precious daughter, and as a doting father, how could he just stand by and watch another man climb into her bed?

It's not a question of whether I can figure it out, it's simply impossible to do it!

The cabbage that was carefully nurtured and raised from a young age was taken by someone else as soon as it came of age. Who could bear that? It was worse than being killed.

Seeing his conflicted expression, Ji Wanqiu coughed lightly: "Actually, I was just saying it casually. Don't overthink it. In my opinion, Yanwan and Xiaxia are not those kinds of people. They know their limits. Even if you don't trust your son-in-law, don't you trust your daughter?"

The more he said this, the more complicated Lin Gaoyuan's expression became.

That guy's a smooth talker, always spouting sweet nothings. How many women could resist his flattery?