These words were like stirring up a hornet's nest. Li Hanting's face suddenly darkened. His cold eyes narrowed slightly and stared at Xia Yunxi dangerously.
"What did you say? Say it again."
Xia Yunxi shrank her neck and muttered, "It wasn't decided in the first place. Why are you so fierce?"
Li Hanting just stared at her. After a long moment, he shouted coldly, "You're right. It's my fault. We should have announced the engagement first. Don't worry, I'll take care of it."
After saying this, Li Hanting stood up and was about to leave.
Xia Yunxi was dumbfounded. Was this going to be announced to the public?
She seemed to suddenly think of something, and immediately jumped up and grabbed Li Hanting's arm, "No, no, no, I just made a slip of the tongue, why are you so anxious?"
Li Hanting glanced at her sideways, his tone very light and calm, as if he had everything under control: "Am I anxious?"
"No, no, I said the wrong thing just now, really, really." Xia Yunxi was almost about to point to the sky and swear to prove himself.
Unexpectedly, Li Hanting suddenly asked, "Do you really not want to get engaged to me?"
What do you mean?
Xia Yunxi did not loosen her grip on his arm. She couldn't help but look up at him. The man looked very calm, but his stern face still revealed a hint of coldness due to uncertain anger.
Xia Yunxi swallowed her saliva in a helpless manner. She was stiff, and a smile was forced on her face. "You're getting off topic. I just think that regardless of whether grandma wants to make trouble or not, there are many elderly people of the same age in the nursing home, and the environment there is not bad. I've seen it, so there's no need to make trouble."
Li Hanting listened to her explanation calmly.
Then when it came to the next question, Xia Yunxi hesitated a bit: "As for engagement, I don't think there's any rush - although we have children, but we don't have a foundation of love.
Do you understand me? You can't propose an engagement just because you don't hate her right now.
What if after getting engaged, you get tired of it and don’t like it anymore?
Outsiders will just think you're treating marriage like a joke!"
"So I think we still need to get to know each other better, and wait until our relationship is stable and we are sure that we like each other.
That kind of marriage is based on mutual affection, not a muddled one where you just go along with whatever you think is okay."
"Do you think so?" Li Hanting frowned slightly.
"Is it not possible?" Xia Yunxi looked at him cautiously.
Li Hanting pursed his lips slightly: "It's not impossible, but I think that we have been together for so long, you don't necessarily hate me."
Li Hanting raised the corners of his mouth slightly, looking directly into her eyes, as if he had the ability to see through her from the inside out, "Miss Xia, you don't have to deceive yourself."
After saying that, Li Hanting turned around and went upstairs.
Xia Yunxi stood there for a long time without moving, and the words he said kept lingering in her mind.
Are you deceiving yourself?
Xia Yunxi was not sure. Could it be that she really fell in love with such a man?
"Mom, did you and Dad have a fight?"
A child's voice suddenly rang out.
Xia Yunxi turned around and saw the little guy standing next to her. She thought it was Xia Yu'an. "It's not that we're arguing, I just feel that there are some things that need to be explained clearly."
Li Jinchen tilted his head and looked at his mother: "Mom, don't you like Dad? Dad is very good."
Xia Yunxi just felt that Xia Yuan was so well-behaved today. He was no longer as noisy and mischievous as before. When he spoke in childish words, he gave people a feeling that his soul was purified.
"You think your father is a good person, too?"
Li Jinchen nodded without hesitation. Apart from being a little difficult to approach and being cold all over, his father was really a very good person.
Li Jinchen looked at his mother cautiously. He only vaguely heard the conversation between his parents just now. His father asked his mother why she didn't want to get engaged.
In the world of children, marriage is still ignorant and they don’t understand its meaning.
But for Li Jinchen and Xia Yuan, they knew that only after they got married would their father and mother be together.
In this way, they will have the company of their parents and have a complete family.
"Mom, can you be with Dad?" Li Jinchen finally expressed his inner hope.
For him, such a request was too cautious.
In the past, he didn't dare to analyze his inner thoughts and show them to others, not even his father.
But at this moment, he wanted to express his feelings to his mother and fight for her support.
Only then did Xia Yunxi notice the difference, "You are... Jinchen?"
Li Jinchen nodded.
Xia Yunxi laughed. No wonder he was so well-behaved.
She squatted down and asked, "Why did you change clothes with your brother again? Are you testing our eyesight?"
"I heard everything you said to Dad." Li Jinchen didn't let her change the subject.
Xia Yunxi sighed, "Then can you explain yourself, Mom?"
Li Jinchen thought about it, then looked at his mother's serious expression and nodded uncertainly.
Xia Yunxi then said, "Marriage is a matter between two people. The formation of a family is not just a test of whether two people can live together in harmony. There are many other things to test, so Mom has to think about it and avoid it in advance.
So that you won’t regret it when something bad happens in the future.
Do you understand what Mommy means?"
In fact, I didn’t understand it, or even comprehend it.
But I understood the last sentence. My mother was afraid that something bad would happen and she would regret it.
Li Jinchen was a little disappointed. He couldn't explain why, but he just felt uncomfortable.
I feel that my mother doesn't love me, so she hesitates.
But Xia Yunxi's next words made all of Li Jinchen's doubts disappear.
“It’s not that I don’t love you and your brother enough, so I hesitate.
Because I love you so much, Mommy has to think carefully about this. Otherwise, if Daddy and I quarrel or we can no longer live together, you and your brother will be hurt!"
Li Jinchen didn't understand what his mother meant, but he knew a lot of his classmates at school, so he asked, "Will their parents get divorced like other classmates' parents?"
Xia Yunxi nodded.
In many things, she will not be perfunctory when it comes to issues concerning children.
Instead, we should tell them seriously and explain the reasons to them so that they can understand how adults do things.
In fact, it is time for children, especially when they are five or six years old, to be sensible.
They understand everything, but because of adults' impatience, they do things perfunctorily. At this time, they create a good guiding image but do not do it.
This will invisibly create a defect for the child's growth.
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