Yin Chengjue took it as a compliment from his mother and replied, "Of course, what can I do? I'm your son."

Rong Yu finally found an opportunity to speak, raising her hand and swearing, "Mom, I promise I will treat Cheng Jue well! I will do everything in my power to protect him, and I will never let anyone have the chance to hurt him!"

Upon hearing this, Yin He frowned, her expression clearly disbelieving: "How can you guarantee something like this? Anyone can make empty promises. Let me ask you, if one day A-Jue is ruined and has nothing left, would you still be willing to stay with him?"

Rong Yu: "There is no 'what if'. As long as I am by his side, I will not let that kind of thing happen. I will eliminate all factors that may hurt him! Even if there is such a 'what if', I will never let him fall into destitution. He will have me."

Yin Chengjue: "...Xiaoyu, that's a bit melodramatic."

Rong Yu's gaze immediately shifted from fierce to innocent: "Ah? Is that so?"

Yin Chengjue smiled gently: "It's okay, I like you no matter what."

Rong Yu's cheeks flushed slightly: "Me too."

Yin He: "..." I clearly added sugar to my coffee just now, so why does it taste sour now?

Yin He slammed down her coffee: "Fine, you're all set on being together now. I know you won't listen to anything I say, so I won't waste my breath. Now, let me ask you, how are you going to get past your grandfather?" Yin He snorted: "It's not as simple as just a few empty words to convince your grandfather."

Yin Chengjue said, "It's okay, take your time, no rush. At worst, when Xiaoyu and I have our wedding, we'll just accept less of Grandpa's wedding gift money."

Yin He: "..." So you convinced me just to get a gift of money from me?

Yin He felt her fist harden, and she wanted to beat her son for the first time ever.

Her gaze fell on Rong Yu sitting next to Yin Chengjue, and Yin He couldn't help but ask, "What about you? Do you think the same way as him? You also think it's just a matter of gift money?"

Rong Yu replied without hesitation, "He's right!"

Yin He: "..." Could this child have been tricked into coming here by my son?

On the way back, Rong Yu was overjoyed. He could tell that although Yin He had not explicitly approved of their relationship, she had not ordered them to separate either.

This was already a huge surprise for Rong Yu.

“Brother, your mother is so gentle. She didn’t say a single harsh word to me. I thought she would at least call me a vixen and blame me for leading you down this path of no return.” Rong Yu held Yin Chengjue’s hand, her fingertips idly drawing circles in Yin Chengjue’s palm.

Yin Chengjue: "We're all adults, capable of independent thought. Why blame others for everything that happens?" Yin Chengjue laughed: "Besides, who said we're on a path of no return?"

Yin Chengjue pulled Rong Yu into the elevator, pressed the floor number, and said, "We're clearly on the way home."

Rong Yu hugged Yin Chengjue's arm, pressed her face against it, and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, that's right! We're on our way home, not on a road of no return."

After a pause, Rong Yu added, "Brother, I'm so happy today!"

Looking down at his smile, Yin Chengjue's already good mood improved even more. Taking the opportunity, Yin Chengjue ruffled Rong Yu's hair and said, "Have you ever considered taking me to meet your parents?"

Rong Yu's smile froze on his face instantly. After a while, he put on a bitter face and said, "If they could agree, I wouldn't be running away from home right now."

Rong Yu sighed: "When I confessed to them that I like men, the old man immediately grabbed a stick and chased me from upstairs to downstairs. My mother immediately called my psychologist... While I was dodging the old man's stick, I could hear my mother yelling and cursing on the phone, questioning why the treatment methods were wrong and that they hadn't cured me, leaving me with this illness..."

“Brother, they really think I have an illness. My parents think so, and although my older brothers haven’t said it explicitly, I know they think so too.” Rong Yu said with a wry smile, “In addition, I did suffer from mental illness in the past and underwent long-term treatment, which makes them even more convinced that this is a sequela or something.”

As the smile on Rong Yu's face gradually disappeared, Yin Chengjue wanted nothing more than to slap himself across the face a few minutes earlier—serves you right for talking so much! Bringing up things you shouldn't have!

"I'm sorry, Xiaoyu, I was too hasty. I won't bring this up again. Don't be sad." Yin Chengjue comforted Rongyu as they walked out of the elevator. "Let's not talk about this anymore. Think about something happy."

Rong Yu: "But you're right. You've already introduced me to your mother, so I should introduce you to my parents too."

Upon entering, the house was exactly as it had been before she left. Rong Yu skillfully turned on the lights, looked up at the room's furnishings, and couldn't help but sigh, "Speaking of which, it's been over a year since I moved in here. It's been a long time since I've been back to visit my father."

Yin Chengjue observed Rong Yu's expression: "If you miss them, you can go back and see them. Your parents will definitely miss you too. If you're worried that they won't be able to accept it, you don't have to take me with you."

Rong Yu shook her head: "Sigh, brother, you don't understand. I came out to them and that's why I ran away. Actually, I did try to call them and communicate during that time, but I failed every time. If I go back, they will definitely lock me up, and that would be a real problem!"

Yin Chengjue was taken aback: "Close?"

Rong Yu smiled bitterly: "Doesn't it sound unbelievable? The version that others hear is that after I came out, I had a falling out with my family, beat up the bodyguards, climbed over the wall, and ran away from home. But in fact, I did it because I had no other choice."

"Why did I fight with the bodyguards at home? Because they had already surrounded me. Why did I have to climb over the wall? Because they had already locked the door tightly." Rong Yu leaned back on the sofa, put her arm over her eyes, and sighed, "In the beginning, they sent people everywhere to arrest me, so I could only hide everywhere and tell everyone that I had run away from home."

“At that time, I had only been back in China for a short time. People had only heard that the Murong family had such a son who had returned to China. They had never seen what I looked like. Even if I went out, no one would recognize me.”

“Originally, the old man wanted to introduce me to people, but after those rumors spread, he probably wished he didn’t have a son like me, and wished he could completely erase my existence from the world. Naturally, he gave up the idea of ​​taking me home.” Rong Yu seemed to have thought of something funny, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly: “Actually, I saw through the old man’s thoughts, so I deliberately threatened him that if he sent someone to arrest me again, I would reveal my identity and then have a proper talk about my sexual orientation.”

Sure enough, he called back the men he had sent to arrest me, leaving me to fend for myself.

Yin Chengjue was surprised: "Are they just going to abandon you like this?"

Rong Yu: "It's not that I didn't care. Actually, the old man did hand me the stairs down, but I just didn't go down them."

Rong Yu stared intently at the ceiling and said, "He said I can only go back after I've revised it, or want to revise it."

Yin Chengjue frowned as he listened: "Is that why you haven't gone back? Don't they want to accept you?"

“Yes, after all, in their eyes, I’ve always been a freak who’s different from everyone else.” Rong Yu laughed self-deprecatingly. “Brother, isn’t it strange? If they don’t love me, they’ve basically given me whatever I wanted since I was little. My mom often stayed by my bedside all night, and my dad often forced himself to learn some weird magic tricks just to make me laugh.”

"To be honest, I don't think I lack love. On the contrary, I can clearly feel that my family spoils me and indulges me. I can feel their love and care for me. But... I have indeed been watched countless times by them as I lay on the snow-white sheets next to me, covered with various medical instruments, taking all kinds of bitter, astringent, and disgusting medicines."

"I used to not understand why my family, who seemed to love and care for me so much, would make me feel this kind of pain. Later, I gradually realized that they really thought I was sick. You know, if they transformed my condition into one that required regular chemotherapy, wouldn't their behavior become quite normal?"

Rong Yu: "This time is the same. They really think that I like men and that I have relapsed into my illness, so they want to cure me. But I am going through a rebellious phase now. I don't want to listen to them or accept treatment, so I argued with them and it was very unpleasant... At least in their eyes, that's how things are."

Rong Yu looked up at Yin Chengjue, who had unknowingly pulled her into his arms, and asked earnestly, "Brother, you told me that existence is its own justification, so we are not wrong, we are not sick, but how can we make them understand these things?"

“Perhaps…” Yin Chengjue tentatively suggested, “We can first expose them to this kind of thing, so that they can realize that a person’s sexual orientation is not limited to the opposite sex, and being different from others is not a disease.”

Rong Yu sighed: "It's easy to say. Do you think I haven't tried all these years? Before I decided to come out, I had already tried to let them understand this industry in all sorts of ways, but it was no use. They just believed that this was a disease that needed to be cured. They thought that others didn't get cured because they didn't have the means. Isn't that infuriating?"