He was stunned.
Only three months had passed, yet his father had changed so much.
He looked much more weathered and aged, and even his hair had turned as white as snow.
"You..." Mu Xiaodong was at a loss for words for a moment, "Are, are you all right?"
"I’m fine," Mu Baicheng took a drag on his cigarette.
Mu Xiaodong continued, "Is there really no hope between you and Aunt Lin?"
"Yes," Mu Baicheng nodded.
Mu Xiaodong sighed softly.
Aunt Lin was the one person who had deeply moved his father over the years.
He had thought that the only issue between the couple were some ups and downs,
but he never expected that they would ultimately go their separate ways.
"Xiaodong," Mu Baicheng turned to his son, speaking very seriously, "I don’t want you to follow in my footsteps. If you find a girl who moves your heart, you should marry her quickly and not waste her youth."
This was being responsible to love.
And it was being responsible to the woman involved.
Mu Xiaodong nodded, "I understand."
Mu Baicheng continued, "Also, our family doesn’t need all these social connections to strengthen the family’s power, so no matter who you choose to be with, your dad will support you unconditionally."
He would definitely not become an obstacle on his son’s path to love.
And he would certainly not become another Old Lady Mu.
"All right, Dad," Mu Xiaodong thought carefully about his choice of words before continuing, "Also, about Aunt Zheng, I always feel that she’s not the victim you imagine her to be. Maybe she’s just like Grandma and Auntie, all people who add fuel to the fire."
Although his father and Zheng Niannian were caught up in drunken passion,
if Zheng Niannian hadn’t been cooperative and proactive...
things definitely wouldn’t have developed to this point.
A drunken man shouldn’t have the ability to force a woman.
Truthfully, these weren’t the kind of things a son should say,
but Mu Xiaodong still wanted to remind his father not to be used by someone with an agenda.
"Your Aunt Zheng is probably not the person you imagine her to be." At first, Mu Baicheng had also suspected that Zheng Niannian would blackmail him into registering the marriage, but Zheng Niannian hadn’t, and since that day, she had disappeared from the Zheng family, "I offered to take responsibility, but she refused."
If Zheng Niannian had really intended to calculate against him, she would have gone with the flow rather than avoiding him.
Mu Xiaodong was also stunned, "You mean, Aunt Zheng hasn’t been in contact with you at all until now?"
"Yes," Mu Baicheng nodded.
Complex emotions flickered in Mu Xiaodong’s eyes.
How could this be?
Mu Baicheng then said, "Moreover, your grandma and your sister have visited the Zheng family many times, but it seems that Grandpa Zheng and Grandma Zheng don’t know anything about what happened between us."
This indicated that Zheng Niannian hadn’t told anyone about that day’s events.
Mu Xiaodong squinted, somehow feeling that Zheng Niannian might have bigger moves planned for later.
He hoped everything was just his own overthinking.
As soon as Old Lady Mu entered the yard, she saw her precious eldest grandson and excitedly exclaimed, "Xiaodong is back!"
"Grandma!" Mu Xiaodong immediately walked a few steps forward.
Old Lady Mu held her grandson’s hand. It had only been a few months since they’d seen each other, yet Old Lady Mu acted as if it had been several years.
Mu Xiaoxiao looked at Mu Xiaodong, "Brother, how come you suddenly came back without letting us know?"
"The matters in Country C just ended; I had my assistant buy the ticket on the fly," Mu Xiaodong replied.
Old Lady Mu took Mu Xiaodong’s hand and walked with him towards the house.
Upon getting inside and not seeing her son following, Old Lady Mu lowered her voice and said, "Xiaodong, you must have heard about your dad’s situation. He’s been in a bad mood lately, can you try and talk some sense into him? There’s plenty of fish in the sea, why fixate on one person?"
"I have no idea what disagreement he had with your Aunt Zheng, now I can’t even get in touch with Aunt Zheng anymore..."
Towards the end, Old Lady Mu sighed.
She had hoped that after this affair, she could have a grandchild.
But that didn’t turn out as expected...
Mu Xiaoxiao squinted her eyes thoughtfully.
Even though she never feared Zheng Niannian.
If her father remained unmarried, it would only benefit her and cause no harm. freёweɓnovel_com
She had won this battle too brilliantly!
Not only had she completely cut off Lin Guixiang’s path, but she had also made Zheng Niannian retreat.
Mu Xiaodong glanced at Mu Xiaoxiao and then back to Old Lady Mu, "Grandma, I can’t help with this matter."
"Why not?" Old Lady Mu asked.
Mu Xiaodong didn’t want to say these things, as Old Lady Mu was an elder, but he thought his father was just too pitiable, especially just now, standing alone outside smoking.
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