Since her falling out with her husband Yu Guochang, Duan Meiyuan has become increasingly protective of her two sons. At first, whenever Yu Jingchen didn't come home, Duan Meiyuan would desperately call him to come home for dinner.
Later, Yu Jingchen used the excuse of being busy with work to avoid answering the phone, and eventually even had his secretary answer the phone for him, telling Duan Meiyuan that he was very busy and was in a meeting.
It's possible that her husband's estrangement caused Duan Meiyuan's desire for control to intensify. After marrying Yu Guochang, she didn't have a job and didn't need to do anything. In her spare time, she would go out for afternoon tea and play mahjong with a group of wealthy women. Sometimes they would go to a beauty clinic for cosmetic procedures. She had nothing to do, and sometimes she could only achieve self-satisfaction by controlling her husband and son, thus proving her status at home.
The Yu family is becoming increasingly disharmonious, and Yu Guochang has gone even further by staying out all the time, sometimes not even coming home. After Duan Meiyuan had several arguments with Yu Guochang and realized that she could no longer control him, the sense of security she felt and the helplessness she felt about her family's decline made her need to hold on to something even more.
She wanted to control her son, but he was too old to come back, so she quickly turned her attention to her future daughter-in-law.
She began using the guise of helping her son find a suitable marriage partner, adopting the haughty demeanor of Mrs. Yu to search for a daughter-in-law. Rather than doing it for her two children, it was more for herself, because she desperately needed someone she could control.
Yu Xin stood out from the rigorous selection process.
It wasn't that other wealthy young ladies had their eyes on the outstanding and handsome Yu Jingchen, but only Yu Xin could be firmly controlled by Duan Meiyuan. The others were all young ladies with their own opinions and even their own careers. These girls had the potential to be strong women, and their better family circumstances also created better opportunities for them. Of course, they were very outstanding girls, but Duan Meiyuan, whose mentality was unbalanced, was satisfied.
She's already like this, and this is all she can do for the rest of her life. Rather than having an outstanding daughter-in-law who is also often away from home, what she needs more is someone like herself who can be controlled and ordered around, someone she can use to restrain her son.
She was wary of Ye Yingying, and her dissatisfaction with the Ye family stemmed from the fact that neither of the two members of the Ye family were easy to control.
Especially Ye Yingying, who had been sparring with her all day today.
She started making excuses. She wanted to tell her son that she was worried that he would be hurt because of relationship problems in the future. She started to say things about Ye Yingying's shortcomings and criticize her. She said all sorts of unpleasant things. Finally, she said to Yu Jingchen, "You should find Yu Xin instead of Ye Yingying. She is very suitable to be your wife."
Looking at Duan Meiyuan, whose emotions were becoming increasingly uncontrollable and whose controlling nature was becoming more and more pathological due to her father's situation, Yu Jingchen rubbed his temples and asked wearily, "Is she more suitable to be my wife or to be controlled by you?"
"Jingchen, what do you mean? How could you say that about your mother? You used to never argue with me. Is it because of her that you've been led astray? It must be because of her. Is it because of Ye Yingying that you're going to end up like your father, neglecting your family and your mother for other women?" Her voice rose higher and higher, and her emotions worsened.
Yu Jingchen stood there looking at his increasingly sickly mother, frowning as he said, "I have no relation to her, and we've never crossed paths before. You can just come to me about those things the media was spreading; why bother asking her out?"
"How could there be no connection? If there wasn't, why would the media report it like that!" Duan Meiyuan refused to believe it. "There must have been some subtle movement that was captured on camera. Even you looked at her like that—"
Duan Meiyuan still found the most sensitive point: Yu Jingchen's gaze towards Ye Yingying was strange, containing admiration, inquiry, and a lot of inexplicable emotions.
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