Chapter 44: I Won’t Just Let It Go
After dinner, Yan Ai helped to clear the dishes and volunteered to wash them. Yan Zexun refused, so Yan Ai had to follow him to the kitchen to continue chatting with her father who was washing the dishes.
"By the way, Dad, are you familiar with the girl we met in the Chinese restaurant last time?" Yan Ai brought up the topic casually.
Yan Zexun continued washing dishes and asked, "Are you talking about Zhong Zhuoying?"
Yan Ai smiled and said, "Yes, it's her."
It’s not surprising that her father is impressed by Zhong Zhuoying. After all, Zhong Zhuoying looks really like her mother. If she imitates her voice deliberately, it would be even more similar.
And her biological daughter only looks about 40% similar to him.
"She's just a student in Dad's elective class. I'm not that familiar with her." Yan Zexun said while washing dishes. "But speaking of this classmate, she came to my office specifically to see me at noon and this afternoon. I happened to be away at the time because of something else. I only found out about it later when Director Song from the office told me. I don't know why she came to see me in the office. I'll ask her when I see her in class next time."
A hint of coldness flashed across Yan Ai's eyes, but her tone remained normal, even with a hint of joking, "Maybe she wants you to be her master's advisor?"
Yan Zexun laughed and said, "How do you know that he wants to take the postgraduate entrance examination?"
"Besides, I'm only teaching a very unpopular elective course. Even if Zhong wants to find a master's advisor, he shouldn't look for me, your father."
"and……"
Yan Zexun did not continue speaking.
But Yan Ai understood her father, and she knew what her father wanted to say, that even if Zhong Zhuoying really meant that, he might not agree.
Her father has very strict requirements for academic research. The graduate students he accepts must have outstanding abilities and good character.
But including the time at the Chinese restaurant, they have mentioned Zhong Zhuoying twice, and my father has never said a word of praise for this girl.
Not to mention that in her previous life, until her father had the accident, she had never heard anything about this girl from her father.
You must know that when she chats with her father, her father likes to praise his beloved disciples in front of her the most.
From this we can see that Zhong Zhuoying's learning ability or conduct does not meet her father's requirements for admission as a graduate student.
"Xiao Ai, do you care about her so much because she looks a lot like your mother?" Yan Zexun asked.
"You could say that." Yan Ai didn't deny it, and even followed this topic to make an analogy. "Dad, you're so handsome, you must be very popular in school. As the saying goes, everyone likes handsome guys. Maybe that classmate Zhong..."
Yan Zexun was stunned for a moment, as if he had thought of something. He stopped washing the dishes, and his handsome and elegant face suddenly became a little serious. "Girl, don't think too much. Does your father look like such a reckless person?"
Yan Ai blinked her eyes and said, "Of course you wouldn't do that, Dad, but there's no guarantee that others wouldn't do that."
As she spoke, she reached out and poked the detergent bubbles in the sink and continued, "If rumors start spreading, then these sounds will become these bubbles. The more you poke, the stickier they become, and you won't be able to get rid of them."
Yan Zexun stared blankly at his daughter's index finger covered with bubbles and fell into deep thought.
My daughter was right. In fact, he had always had this problem at school, but he always prided himself on being upright and fearless. As long as he didn't have any bad intentions, there would be no problem in communicating and getting along with the students normally.
But his daughter's words just now woke him up.
No matter what the facts are, once a rumor becomes popular, it can kill people without them even noticing. This is what we need to be most vigilant about.
For his own sake and that of his students, he should keep an absolutely safe distance from them, especially from the female classmates.
"Dad knows what to do." Yan Zexun's eyes had returned to their usual gentleness and calmness when he said this. He added, "Rinse it with clean water quickly. It hurts your hands."
"Yeah." Yan Ai smiled sweetly and obediently put her fingers that were just stained with detergent bubbles under running water to rinse them clean.
She knew that her father had taken her "reminder" to heart and would be wary when faced with Zhong Zhuoying's deliberate approach in the future.
But for Zhong Zhuoying, she won't let it go.
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