How are you now?
In the bedroom, Lin Yanwan made a phone call, her tone tinged with anxiety.
"It's okay. My head was a little buzzing at first, but it's much better now. Thank you for the frozen mineral water, it feels very comfortable."
Jiang Xia sat on the threshold of the residential area, gently rubbing her swollen face with ice water. The burning sensation from before no longer seemed so intense.
"Your face is so swollen, and you still have the nerve to joke around with me? Go see a doctor!" Lin Yanwan said anxiously.
"It's alright, the swelling has almost gone down now, baby, don't worry." He changed the subject, "By the way, you didn't yell at Dad, did you?"
"My own daughter is biased towards outsiders, so throwing a tantrum would only add fuel to the fire. Am I that unreasonable?"
Lin Yanwan was at the window, looking at the sweltering heat outside, and sighed softly: "Jiang Xia, if you're angry, just say it. Don't hold it in. My dad really did something wrong. No matter what, he shouldn't have hit someone."
"What can I possibly be angry about?"
He chuckled softly, "As an old father, it's already a good thing he didn't break me on the spot. If my own daughter were being held like that by a strange man, I might be even more ferocious than him. He just told me to leave, which was giving me a way out, and also giving himself a way out. Otherwise, the atmosphere would have been even more awkward if the two of us were at home. I can understand."
"You really think so?"
"Isn't that obvious?"
Jiang Xia let out a long breath and said, "In my past life, when we were dating, my dad had some complaints about me, but it was just that the cabbage he had raised for eighteen years had been eaten by this pig. Any father in the world would be unhappy with his son-in-law."
“But after we got married, when has your dad ever been harsh on me? During the years when housing prices were at their highest, even though his own business was gone, he still paid for our down payment. After my parents passed away, he treated me like his own son. During the time when I was arguing with you, he came downstairs to find me by himself with two bottles of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor) and poured his heart out to me while he was drunk. With all these kindnesses, even if he punched me a few more times, I wouldn’t even flinch.”
“Honey, tell me, why should I be angry with a father-in-law like this? He’s my dad,” Jiang Xia said with a smile.
Lin Yanwan's eyes welled up with tears as she listened, as there were some things she didn't know about these events.
"But he's really angry today. When I bombed my college entrance exam, he didn't say anything. Instead, he comforted me, saying, 'A prestigious university is good, but who says you can't succeed if you don't go to a prestigious university?' I cried all night that day, and he stayed with me all night. I'm just afraid he's made up his mind this time..."
Jiang Xia couldn't help but laugh: "Wife, you know him so well, are you afraid he'll stop us? In his eyes, his daughter's happiness is the most important thing. Those words were just an old father's angry outburst. At most, he'll grumble a bit, but in the end, he'll still happily hand you over to me, won't he?"
"Yes!" Lin Yanwan nodded emphatically.
Where are you now?
"It's downstairs in the residential area. The sun is still quite strong outside. I'll go to the internet cafe to wait for you in a bit. You'll come, right?"
"How will you pay them if I don't come?"
"That's true."
"Then I won't come to see you for the next couple of days. I'll go drinking with Dad after he's calmed down."
"good."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Yanwan patted her sister's head, tiptoed to the door, and listened intently to the sounds coming from the living room outside.
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Lin Gaoyuan silently smoked on the balcony. Now that he had calmed down, he realized that his actions were somewhat inappropriate.
However, that kid was still a man. At this age, he was at the peak of his pride and arrogance. After being punched twice for no reason, he didn't utter a sound or refute anything.
He took the beating, stood at attention, admitted his mistake, and got out. He did everything he was supposed to do, and he also did things he shouldn't have done.
If I hadn't gotten so angry that I lost control, the situation might be completely different now.
Who knows, he might actually be quite happy to hear that kid call him "Dad"? After all, his wife has praised him several times.
Now his eldest and youngest daughters are ignoring him, and he's also driven away his future son-in-law. When his wife comes home from get off work, won't she have to argue with him?
Thinking of all this, Lin Gaoyuan suddenly slapped himself.
"Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Gaoyuan, your name contains the characters 'Gaoyuan,' why did you have to be so impulsive this time?"
He sighed, stubbed out his cigarette, walked to the door to pick up the gift that had fallen to the ground, and gently knocked on his daughter's bedroom door.
"Yanwan, Xiaoman, Dad brought you two gifts on his trip. Open the door and let Dad in, okay?"
"No, no! Daddy's fierce!" Xiaoman pouted.
"I'm sorry, Xiaoman. I was angry just now, but I've calmed down now. Can I apologize to you?"
"But you hit Jiang Xia! And you yelled at me. It's the first time you've yelled at me. Xiao Man is going to tell Mom!"
Behind the door, Lin Yanwan couldn't help but give her younger sister a thumbs up. Those words were truly brilliant. It seemed that the rift between father and daughter still needed to be bridged by the younger daughter.
Lin Gaoyuan was quite helpless. He didn't know what kind of spell that kid had cast on his wife and daughter, making them all speak up for him.
"It's a long story about me and your brother Jiangxia, but Dad promises that he will never yell at Xiaoman again, okay?"
"Really?"
"I'm not kidding you. Daddy will still let you ride him like you did when you were a kid."
The bedroom door slowly opened a crack, revealing only one eye. Seeing that her father's anger had subsided, Lin Xiaoman timidly opened the door.
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