Chapter 44: Calling my father-in-law and mother-in-law. The truth is revealed. ...

The night we saw him off.

After dinner, Yu Han was in a good mood and planned to go back to her room to play with her phone for a while, and then video chat with classmate Qin.

Suddenly, her father called her softly from behind, "Hanhan, come here for a moment. Daddy has something to ask you."

"Um?"

Dad smiled, waved goodbye and walked towards the tea room at home, with Mom following behind him.

Yu Han was at a loss.

Later, she found a place to sit at the tea table. She held her chin with her hand, which had not yet been removed from the plaster, and hung it on the table. She looked curiously at her father who was sitting opposite her. Her mother was sitting next to her.

"What's the matter?"

Yu Wensheng boiled water to make tea and was in no hurry to speak. "Come sit down and have some tea with Dad."

Ms. Xia asked her how her hand was today and whether she felt any discomfort two days after being discharged from the hospital.

They would ask about it every night, worried that she would feel unwell after being discharged from the hospital, so Yu Han didn't suspect anything and said obediently, "It's okay, I'm fine."

Ms. Xia smiled and said, "That's good." Then she hinted, "You went out this morning. I was worried you were tired or that you might have bumped your hand."

“…” How do they know? ?

Yu Han's heart trembled, and she blinked, trying to deny it harmlessly: "No."

Yu Wensheng, who was pouring Pu'er tea into the teapot across from him, said, "Dad called home this morning looking for you, but your aunt said you weren't home. Your grandparents came to see you, but they also said you were out."

“…” The Filipino maid!!! Oh my god, did she betray her and tell her parents?!

Normally, my parents wouldn't contact her through Auntie when they're out. Is it because they don't have her WhatsApp or WeChat? At the very least, they could call her!

It was obvious that the aunt said this on her own initiative and they were making excuses for her.

Seeing her surprised and extremely silent expression, her parents almost confirmed her actions today.

It doesn't matter that she went out, the key is that she lied to her parents, which means she must have gone out to meet that boy. There is no need to hide the fact that she met a female classmate.

Xia Yue continued tentatively, "Just go out and play. There's no need to hide it from Mom and Dad. It's normal to be bored at home. You just need to go somewhere safe. Where did you go? Are any of your friends not in class? Today is Friday."

"Well, he doesn't have to go," she said emotionlessly.

The father across from him raised an eyebrow slightly: "Why? No one else has to go to class at this time except you?"

Yu Han: "No, I'm a Singaporean student."

"Where is that student from?" Mom immediately responded, confused.

"In the country." Yu Han said painfully.

The couple immediately looked at each other quietly across the smoky tea table.

Yu Han watched this, feeling completely disheartened. She felt like she was sitting at a judgement table.

As expected, Xia Yue turned her head and asked her daughter, "A student from China? Who were you playing with? Was it the friend who went to the hospital to see you?"

Unable to come up with any other friends, Yu Han could only say "hmm" in a depressed mood.

"It really is him. But from what you said before, it seemed like you two hadn't seen each other since the East Coast. How come you're so familiar with each other now?"

Her mother spoke to her earnestly and gently, "You still secretly went out to meet him? If you know him well, you can tell mom and dad directly. He has helped you before, so it's good to have friends."

Yu Han really didn't know how to explain this so-called friendship.

After a while, under her father's inquiring gaze and her mother's pointed questions, she broke down.

Xia Yue: "You two are so close that you're not just ordinary friends? Hanhan?"

"No." She was frightened and immediately denied it, "We are just ordinary friends."

While making tea, Yu Wensheng asked nonchalantly, "So you've been in contact with him for the past year? You two are good friends now."

"Um."

"Then what is your relationship with the boy you agreed to study with in China?"

Yu Han: “…”

Yu Wensheng served a cup of tea to his wife and daughter.

The aroma of tea lingered in the air, and Ms. Xia smiled sweetly, but in Yu Han's opinion, that cup of Pu'er was simply Hedinghong.

Then, under her parents' friendly, curious gazes, she could only confess, "The guy I knew on the East Coast is coming back home today. I'm going to the airport to see him off."

"He's coming back to China, and you're going to see him off. Is he here to travel during his vacation? And will he come to the hospital to see you?" asked his father.

Yu Han lay on the table in pain and half confessed: "He didn't come here for a trip. He came for something. Seeing me was a coincidence, but not a coincidence either."

"What?" the parents said in unison, neither of them understood.

Yu Wensheng held up the teacup, but did not drink it, and waited quietly for what was to come.

Yu Han lowered her head, stroking the teacup, and sighed: "Actually, actually, that person is the boy who saved me in Italy."

parents:"……"

The couple both raised their eyebrows for a moment, and then their faces were filled with disbelief.

After a long while, her mother finally withdrew her gaze from her father and turned her to face him. Her tone was filled with disbelief: "Come on, baby, explain clearly. Was the person who helped you on the East Coast the boy from China? Are they the same person?"

Yu Han nodded. "Ah, I only found out recently. I was talking to that guy in China about studying in the US. After we lost contact, he found out I had been in a car accident. Coincidentally, someone in his family works here, and he had something to come over for, so he stopped by to see me. He helped me up on the East Coast that time. He was wearing a mask, so I didn't recognize him. Of course, if he hadn't been wearing a mask, I wouldn't have known he was the guy in China. You've seen him, but I haven't."

Yu Wensheng: "And then?"

"Then he came to see me for the first time. We ran into each other downstairs in the hospital. He wouldn't reveal who he was." She sipped her tea and muttered, "Mom saw him that day. He was wearing a mask and watching the rain with me on the porch. But actually, he was there to see me. He lied to me and said he was seeing someone else. The lisianthus I received later that day was from him."

Xia Yue took a deep breath and recalled the scene of that day, "Oh my god, that boy, the one from Italy... Well, come to think of it, he seems a little familiar."

Yu Wensheng looked at his wife and then went to look at his daughter.

After finishing the cup of tea that was not meant to be drunk in vain, Yu Han could only confess: "Then two days ago in Jinsha, we ran into each other by chance, and he told me. I, I even kicked him twice."

“…”

Xia Yue was speechless for a moment, then suddenly said, "You kicked him? Baby, if he's the boy from before, he's the one who saved you. Mom and Dad are very grateful to him, so you should be polite and respect him."

"Well... let's be fair, it was him who lied to me. I'm glad he didn't kill me."

parents:"……"

Seeing her childish nature of holding grudges and a face full of resentment, Yu Wensheng couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

He poured her another cup of tea and handed it to her: "Then she is not angry with you."

"Angry?" She sneered as if she had heard something funny. "He went to the hospital openly to apologize to me the next day."

parents:"……"

"I forgave him." She confessed frankly, "And he went there on the third day. I didn't let him go to the ward because I was afraid you would think too much."

“…”

The couple exchanged a knowing look. Going on the second day was understandable, but going on the third day was something that really made one think twice.

How many days does it take to apologize?

Yu Han secretly glanced at her parents, then lay on the tea table and sipped tea to ease her uneasiness.

I don’t know if my parents will still have ambiguous suspicions if I say this.

Her father came back to his senses and asked her, "The man who saved you in Italy before, I remember his last name was Qin, what was his name?"

Ms. Xia: "Her name is Qin Yi, I remember."

"Oh, right. Then why did he come to see you, Hanhan, and for several days in a row?"

"He had nothing to do and didn't have to go to school. He knew I was bored in the hospital and came to see me. We were able to kill time together."

Both her parents looked at her answer quietly, which was very effective.

Although she still had doubts, her expression was very bad and the couple did not continue to ask questions.

Her father poured her some tea and gently explained, "Mom and Dad are just worried that you've been scammed and it's affecting your studies, baby. It's nothing serious. If we had known it was that guy from China, we wouldn't have had any problem having him come home."

“…” Her cheeks suddenly turned red.

…

Domestic high schools officially began classes on September 1st. Spring passed, autumn arrived, and in the blink of an eye, two years had already passed since I missed my appointment with Lanzhong that year.

When they didn't see each other, they were thousands of kilometers apart. If Qin Yi was at home, they would video chat, and if he was in the school dormitory, they would call.

Yu Han was studying while recuperating from her injuries. Her headache had improved recently and she was able to take online classes. However, not being able to write had affected her learning progress.

Whenever her hands hurt or her handwriting became messy, she felt that her future was bleak. She was afraid that she would not be able to fulfill the agreement with Qin Yi, and would not do well in the exam, so she would have to take a year off next year.

So when her hands hurt, she would get irritated easily, and when she got irritated, she couldn't help but throw away her pen.

Mom and Dad both said that we don’t need to go to school anymore and we won’t be attending this class this year, but she insisted on it, so I’ve been feeling even more upset recently than the last time we talked about taking a leave of absence.

This kind of irritability was transmitted to people far away in Lan City through the video. A few days later, Yu Han received a courier.

Inside was a gift for her, a doll she had recently fallen in love with, and two pens.

The moment she saw the pen, Yu Han was in a daze for a long time, and finally she lay on the table, quietly shedding tears and sniffing.

She just felt that she was being too unfair to him by breaking her promise all the time. The purpose of studying was to fulfill the promise, and her irritability was because she felt that the promise was untenable.

She immediately understood why someone had traveled thousands of miles to send her two pens. It was to cure her temper and calm her down.

He didn't agree with her taking a leave of absence from school, but what he always said was, just give it a try, and if it doesn't work, I will tutor our Hanhan again next year, and it will definitely work next year.

Someone has been comforting her recently, saying that if she fails, she can take the exam again next year, and that he will not fall in love with someone else or be with anyone else in college. He is afraid that she will feel pressured.

He no longer talks about the fact that they studied for a master's degree together.

But the less he said, the more pressure Yu Han felt.

But she was cured by this miracle doctor. Afterwards, when her hands hurt from writing, she picked up the pen to study it. She thought it was so beautiful. There were words engraved on it, one with "Han Han" and the other with "Dan Dan".

She remembered that someone had told her under a fake identity that he didn't want to call her Hanhan because it seemed too intimate, so he called her Dandan.

After studying the pen, she turned over and over the letter he had written to her. Qin's handwriting was so handsome, she really wanted to frame it and hang it on the wall.

Moreover, she originally wrote four pages, and his reply was five pages.

One of the words appears a lot, sorry...

I feel sorry for being two years late, but Yu Han doesn’t think it counts as he is doing it for her own good.

Before the accident, she was still very childish and thought that everything would be fine if she returned home. She was optimistic. After this incident, the sentence her parents said most often was that it was a good thing that it happened in Singapore. If it happened in China, others would not know her physical condition and delay treatment, and she would be in great danger.

After this incident, she felt that she had matured a lot and that a healthy and safe body... was more important than anything else, including love, returning home, and meeting someone.

Her parents are really worried about her health.

So, he asked her to stay here and wait for him to come to see her, and she agreed obediently, without saying that she would go back to see him during her vacation.

More than two years have passed and both of us have matured a little.

…

At the end of October, Singapore welcomed the final high school graduation exams.

Qin Yi had originally planned to visit her in Singapore once a month, but during the few days in October when he could arrange time, Yu Han happened to be going out, so her parents flew her back to China, but not to Lan City, but to Beijing to have her hand checked.

So Qin Yi was unable to go in October, and they were unable to meet in the country.

Yu Han took the final exam, but her performance was just average.

Qin Yi knew that her grades were actually only a little bit lower than usual. Her grades were usually among the best in the class. She just kept comparing herself with him and thought that she was not good at studying.

Yu Han graduated in November.

In any case, she has successfully completed her high school career. If her A-level exam in December does not perform well, she can just take it again next year.

Just leave it to fate and go to college a year later.

Qin Yi’s mentality is that she cannot give up now, but he will fully accept whatever the outcome is.

Anyway, I'm happy that I've graduated for now.

Yu Han got tickets to a concert of Wei Wei, a singer she admired, but it was not a world tour, only a few stops in China, so she planned to go back to China to watch it.

Mom and Dad didn't object to her going back. She had already graduated, and she had been injured in recent months, hadn't done well on her exams, and was in a bad mood. Her A-level exams were also very uncertain, so the couple agreed to let her go back and have some fun to relax.

It was just that Xia Yue was ready to accompany her, but Yu Han declined, saying that she wanted to go and play with her classmates by herself.

Now Ms. Xia felt that this was not feasible: "Who did you arrange to see the concert? Was it Chen Man or Bao Tong?"

Yu Han: "He, Tongtong."

"Then Tongtong doesn't have to go to class?"

"I'll go see it on Saturday."

"Then you said you would go back a week early to play. You will be alone this week, and Tongtong will have classes until the weekend to be able to accompany you."

“…”

In the room late at night, Yu Han lay under the quilt on the bed, tilting her head and looking into the eyes of her mother who was sitting beside the bed.

Ms. Xia Yue immediately noticed something was wrong, "Did you really make an appointment with Tongtong?"

"OK."

"Are you going to play by yourself this week? Mom is really worried. I can accompany you for a week, and then you can go to the concert with Tongtong on the weekend, and then you and Mom can go back to Singapore."

"..."Wuwuwu, how could that be possible? Then she could only look at Qin Yi.

Under her mother's increasingly suspicious gaze, Yu Han felt confused and didn't know how she could survive the night.

Ms. Xia Yue suddenly asked, "You and the boy you met in Italy before, the boy named Qin..."

“…” It’s over, it’s over. This concert will be canceled.

"Hanhan, tell me the truth, did you go to the concert with him?"

“…” Yu Han looked at her mother in silence.

Ms. Xia took a deep breath and narrowed her eyes: "Really, baby?"

Yu Han immediately explained, "Mummy, yes, but, it's because Tongtong and the others have to make up for their lessons, so they don't have any rest time, but, but Qin Yi, he, he doesn't have to make up for his lessons."

"Why doesn't he need to take extra classes? I remember he should be graduating this year, just like you."

Yu Han lowered her head: "He has been recommended for admission."

"..." Mom was surprised, "It's only the first semester of senior year, and he's already been admitted?"

"Yeah. He won a gold medal in the International Biomedical Olympiad last year and was admitted to Chongzhou Medical University. He has a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree." The more she talked, the more she felt that the two of them were extremely far apart.

Upon hearing this, Ms. Xia couldn't hide her surprise. "Oh my god, this child is so outstanding, it's unimaginable." She couldn't wait to ask her daughter, "So what did you say?"

"He, he was the one who would ask me how my recovery was going after I was discharged from the hospital. I also asked him a lot of questions, so he knew that I had recently graduated."

"So, you two made a date to see the concert?"

"I asked him if he had time, because Tongtong and Shen Man were both busy, and I didn't want you and Dad to take time out to accompany me. I wanted to play for a few more days, and it would be a waste of time for you to accompany me."

Ms. Xia stared at her for a while and asked, "Is this really the only relationship you have?"

"..." Yu Han remained calm and asked, "Then, what else is there?"

"Why is he so nice to you?"

"He's a good guy to begin with, otherwise he wouldn't have risked so much to save me."

That's right. Ms. Xia nodded, but she still felt uneasy. "So, are you just going to play with him this week?"

"..." Yu Han asked her mother shyly and cautiously, "Is it not possible?"

"No, baby, you're going to play with a boy for a week?" Mom said in disbelief.

Yu Han explained: "No, no, I study at home during the day, and then if Tongtong and Manman are free in the evening, I will have dinner with them. If not, I will have dinner with that person. He told me that if I have no one to accompany me, he can accompany me to... a movie or an amusement park, and have dinner with me, that's it.

Then I go to a concert on the weekend and come back home after that. I am still a mother who focuses on studying during the week, so I won’t be with him all the time.”

Ms. Xia rubbed her brows and stood up: "I'll go discuss it with your father."

“…”

Xia Yue went straight to the study to find her husband.

Standing at the desk, she repeated the conversation verbatim to her husband, then raised an eyebrow and asked, "Do you think there's really nothing going on between Hanhan and this person?"

"I've thought about it carefully recently and I think it's unlikely." Yu Wensheng explained to her, "It's like this. Hanhan has basically not returned to China in the past few years, and she hasn't returned at all this year. Even when she comes to Singapore, it's only once or twice during the winter and summer holidays. How can this be a possibility?"

“But they have contact information.”

"How do we talk about contact information?" He raised his eyebrows.

"Online dating."

"Network..." Yu Wensheng smiled, "I don't think so. The main thing is that the kid is quite reliable."

"But I'm really worried about her going to the concert with others like this." Ms. Xia frowned. "You go and persuade her. I can't persuade her. She gets really upset when I stop her from making up her mind."

Yu Wensheng: "If I don't let her go, she won't be happy, and I can't bear to let her go. She finally graduated, so let's have some fun. I might as well just go back for a few days."

"So that's it?" She shook her head. "No, no, it really can't be possible. Even if we're not in a relationship, we haven't seen that boy for so long. I'm worried."

Yu Wensheng thought for a moment and said, "We have all the information about that child. Let Hanhan contact him and I'll confirm it myself."

"That...that's possible."

The couple got up and went to their daughter's room.

Yu Han was lying on the bed playing with her cell phone and chatting with someone, but when she saw her parents came, she was scared to death.

With twinkling eyes, she watched as the couple treated her room like their own. One of them sat down on a nearby sofa, the other sat down beside her bed. Then her father said to her straight away, "Are you going to the concert with that boy you met in Italy, Hanhan?"

“…”

She glanced at her mother.

Ms. Xia said to her daughter innocently, "Mom and Dad can't help but worry. How about this, baby? Tell him we're going to call and I'll check with him."

"..." Yu Han wanted to die, she was extremely shocked, "No need, wuwu."

"You have to." Her mother patted her head, her tone firm yet gentle, and she coaxed her, "Be good, do you know how dangerous it is to play with a stranger? If we hadn't seen that boy, had his detailed information, and knew that he used to be an upright person, Mom and Dad wouldn't agree to you playing with a boy."

“…”

All right.

Yu Han was in so much pain that she was about to explode, yet also extremely shy...she tremblingly sent a WeChat message to someone, telling them about this.

Qin Yi was playing billiards at the time. When he received the news, he raised an eyebrow in surprise. Then, he coughed lightly, handed the pool cue to Han Zhou, raised his chin to signal him to play for him, and finally, he walked out of the billiard hall with a cigarette in his mouth while typing a reply on his phone: "Okay, Hanhan, I'll call."

"I'll fight, I'll fight. If you hit me, it seems like we're too familiar with each other."

“…”

Lying on the bed, Yu Han held the phone and prepared herself mentally for three seconds before making a voice call.

Then, he silently handed the phone to his father.

Yu Wensheng took it calmly.

The voice on WeChat was loud and nerve-wracking, like a death accusation.

In the few seconds before Qin Yi answered the phone, Yu Han felt like she was being tortured to death.

With a click, the voice call was connected.

At this moment, Yu Han felt that her heart stopped beating.

A familiar and magnetic voice floated out from the voice chat: "Hello? Hello uncle and aunt, I'm Qin Yi."

"Hey, Qin Yi..." Yu Wensheng smiled, "I didn't expect that after all these years, I can still get in touch with you. I'm very happy."

"Me too."

"You're a senior this year, right? You and Yu Han were both going to high school together."

"Yes. I'm in my third year of high school, uncle." Qin Yi's breathing was a little deeper, and he was still a little nervous.