Chapter 100 Likes

After returning from his mother-in-law's house, Zhou Mingshi brought up the matter of Master Qian taking on apprentices.

Lin Yi'an asked in surprise, "Is it that national champion, Mr. Qian?"

Zhou Mingshi nodded: "If you have an idea, you can give it a try."

Lin Yi-an said, "Someone from our school once tried to use connections to become his apprentice, but he refused, saying he was too old and didn't plan to take on any apprentices. Why is he suddenly taking on apprentices?"

Zhou Mingshi was unclear about the specifics. He said, "I'll go back and think about it. If I want to go, I'll ask my aunt to help me ask."

Lin Yi'an looked at him: "Learning has no end. Of course, I'd like to become Qian Lao's student if I have the chance. If I don't succeed, I won't say anything more. But if I do succeed, I'll have much less time at home in the future, and you..."

Zhou Mingshi squeezed her hand: "You're busy, and so am I. Although I hope you can be by my side when I'm resting, I hope even more that you can shine in your professional field."

“I know.” Lin Yi’an grabbed his hand: “If you didn’t want me to go, you would have kept it from me when your cousin told you about it.”

She paused for a moment, then said, "Mingshi, thank you!"

Zhou Mingshi joked, "So serious?"

Lin Yi'an smiled and said, "Several families that the Lin family do business with have their daughters-in-law stay at home to have children after their sons get married. Although we didn't discuss these things before the marriage, you respect my opinion and even take care of my career. This makes me feel again that marrying you was the right thing to do."

"Just right?" Zhou Mingshi asked with a smile, clearly unsatisfied.

Lin Yi'an: "...Should we give them some more rewards?"

The two sat on the sofa. Zhou Mingshi didn't answer her. Instead, he slowly said, "If we were to grade feelings, with each grade being out of 100, and then upgrade after reaching the maximum score, starting from liking, what level are Lin Bao'er's feelings for her husband?"

Can emotions be categorized?

Lin Yi'an laughed: "You're kind of funny."

After she finished laughing, Zhou Mingshi asked, "So what level is Lin Bao'er at now?"

Lin Yi'an: "You only said you liked it, what about the other levels?"

Zhou Mingshi laughed and said, "Ji Jingfeng posted it in the group chat, I saw it by chance."

He slowly opened his phone and showed her the group chat history: "Do you think this is a good way to divide things?"

Looking at the chat history above, Lin Yi'an read aloud: "First comes good feelings, then liking, then love, then deep love, and finally, life and death together?"

After reading it, she began to ponder. They had been married for less than a month, and she had already reached the stage of liking him. They had many years to spend together, and they were sure they would reach a higher level...

She said, "That's good. With some effort, we should be able to finish."

Zhou Mingshi is three years older than her. If they take good care of themselves, they should both live to be over ninety years old. If nothing unexpected happens, they can be considered to have lived together through thick and thin.

Zhou Mingshi's face was full of joy: "Bao'er is so confident?"

Lin Yi-an: "I have confidence in you."

Zhou Mingshi seized the opportunity to ask, "So what level are you at now?"

Lin Yi'an smiled slightly: "It's a secret for now."

His rank is a bit low, so I'm embarrassed to tell him.

"..." Zhou Mingshi put his phone on the table: "Shouldn't you have told me? So I could have worked harder to help you upgrade."

Lin Yi-an: "I'll upgrade secretly."

Zhou Mingshi chuckled softly: "How do you mean secretly?"

He roughly knew where her feelings for him stood, but he wanted to hear her say it even more.

She didn't want to talk about it, and he wouldn't force her.

Lin Yi-an: "For example, what happened today really touched me. I think you are a very good husband, so I would add ten points to that."

"So generous?" Zhou Mingshi laughed. "After adding ten points, is it a perfect score?"

Lin Yi-an asked, "Does a perfect score mean I get promoted?"

"Hmm." Zhou Mingshi asked, "Did you get a perfect score?"

Lin Yi'an: "...It will be soon."

“You can take your time, there’s no rush.” Zhou Mingshi couldn’t bear to pressure her.

Lin Yi'an's expression relaxed slightly, and she tentatively asked, "Then I'll take my time?"

Zhou Mingshi ruffled her hair helplessly: "Just do what you're supposed to do."

Lin Yi'an felt relieved: "I'll listen to you."

Zhou Mingshi: "..."

Although I felt like I was shooting myself in the foot, I didn't want to make things difficult for her.

He hoped that in their married life, she would feel comfortable and at ease, and that she wouldn't see developing feelings for him as a burden. He wanted her to develop feelings for him naturally in their daily interactions, which was what he most wanted to see.

The next day, the couple went to work separately.

After lunch break, Lin Yi'an received a call from her second sister, Lin Jingyun.

Lin Yi'an laughed and said, "Why are you calling me at this time?"

Lin Jingyun lay on the bed in her eldest sister's lounge and whispered to her, "Guess what happened to me today?"

Lin Yi'an had been busy all morning and didn't want to do anything mentally right now: "If you can't guess, just tell me directly."

Lin Jingyun said, "When I came to work at the company, my older sister assigned me to the human resources department. Everyone in the company knew who I was, and they didn't assign me much work. The company was hiring, so I helped screen resumes. Guess who I saw?"

Lin Yi'an had a sudden inspiration: "Could it be Yuan Xin?"

"It's her." Lin Jingyun exclaimed in surprise, "How did you guess?"

Lin Yi-an: "She came to apologize to me yesterday. She is a very purposeful person. She would never have bowed her head to apologize to me or even tried to shake hands and make peace with me if she didn't have an ulterior motive."

Lin Jingyun snorted: "She must have taken a liking to Big Brother and wanted to get in touch with him through you. Since it didn't work out here, she came to our company to apply for an assistant position, hoping to take advantage of her proximity to him."

"She's a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, and she's treating our company like a hospital? I removed her resume right away. Traditional Chinese medicine doctors should be treating patients, why is she sending her resume to our company?"

Lin Yi'an frowned: "A few days ago, the TCM clinic was recruiting, and she also sent her resume, but I didn't hire her."

Lin Jingyun: "Your TCM clinic offers high salaries and benefits, but you don't hire renowned doctors with good medical skills. Why do you have to hire a doctor who has just started practicing and is also scheming? You're hiring a troublemaker at a high salary and creating trouble for yourself? Are you crazy?"

Lin Yi-an: "If a Chinese medicine clinic is willing to train new people, the first requirement is that they must have good character."

Lin Jingyun: "That's right. A traditional Chinese medicine clinic is not an ordinary place. You can't joke around with a patient's health. If she gets upset and prescribes medicine indiscriminately, it will damage the reputation of the clinic."

Lin Yi'an: "Mm."

Yuan Xin waited at home for several days without receiving any notification, so she guessed that she might have been rejected.

She gritted her teeth inwardly. She knew her own abilities, which was why she only applied for an assistant position. Was that not acceptable?

Zheng Yunhui excitedly returned from outside. Upon seeing her daughter, she quickly said, "Good news!"

Yuan Xin asked with little interest: "What good news could there be?"

Zheng Yunhui said, "I heard that Master Qian is going to take on a disciple. Your chance has come."

In the two or three years since graduation, Yuan Xin has suffered many setbacks and has lost interest in becoming a doctor. She said, "Even if I became his apprentice, how much money could I earn in a year? And if I married into the Lin family..."

Seeing her like that, Zheng Yunhui secretly regretted bringing her to the Lin family, which had given her the idea to do so.