Su Yan replied truthfully, "Not for the time being."
It won't happen for now; who knows what the future holds?
Guo Ziming hummed in response, paused for a few seconds, and then suddenly said, "If you need a partner in the future, Jiang Jingxing would be a good choice. He can protect you and genuinely likes you."
Su Yan was a little surprised that he would say such a thing, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "I know, Senior Brother."
"Let's go, I'll take you home."
Half an hour later.
Siheyuan (courtyard house).
The car headlights illuminated the front door of my house.
Su Yan then realized that Li Juan was not asleep, but was sitting at the door with a stool, seemingly waiting for her to come back.
As soon as she got out of the car, she said, "Mom, do you have to do this? I'm not a child anymore."
Li Juan immediately stood up and said irritably, "I'm afraid you'll act impulsively. That Jing Mao isn't a good man. You shouldn't associate with him anymore."
As a mother, she naturally worries that even her usually clever daughter might have poor judgment.
Putting everything else aside, Jingmao doesn't even look a tenth as good as Jiang Jingxing!
Su Yan said helplessly, "Mother, I know, I don't like him."
"If you don't like him, why do you still go out to eat with him?" Li Juan didn't believe it.
"Mother!" she said, her head aching. "I'm an adult now, I have my own thoughts and my own private matters. Can you please stop prying into everything?"
After saying this, she went into her house, feeling extremely upset, without even greeting Guo Ziming.
Li Juan was stunned.
I never expected my daughter to say something like that.
Realizing what she'd done, she exploded in anger, "Hey! Is it wrong for me, your mother, to care about you? You really don't appreciate my kindness!"
Her voice was very loud, as if she was afraid Su Yan wouldn't hear her.
Li Juan only realized Guo Ziming was still there after she finished speaking. She forced a smile and said, "Ziming, I'm sorry to have troubled you. You went to all this trouble today. Ayan is so inconsiderate."
"It's alright, Aunt Juan." Guo Ziming hesitated for a moment. "Junior Sister probably just wants some peace and quiet. She knows what she's doing, so you don't need to worry about her."
Li Juan nodded awkwardly, then said, "It's so late now, why don't you stay the night? The room is all ready."
"No need, I have things to do at home and I need to go back. You should get some rest."
"Okay, then be careful."
Watching Guo Ziming's car drive away, Li Juan closed the gate and immediately went to find Su Yan.
Just as they crossed the pavilion, Granny Li's voice rang out, "Juanzi, come here right now!"
Li Juan was startled.
Turning my head, I saw that Granny Li was standing at the doorway.
"Oh dear, Mom, why were you so quiet all night?" She patted her chest, still shaken.
Grandma Li glared at her, "Stop talking nonsense, come here right now."
"I'm going to find Ayan, I'll come back to find you later."
"No," Granny Li said. "I came to you because of Ayan's matter, so hurry up."
After saying that, Grandma Li turned around and went into the room without waiting for her to agree or not.
Li Juan felt a bit awkward around her mother, so she had no choice but to follow her inside.
Grandma Li turned on the light and turned around to see Li Juan with a displeased expression. She said, "What's wrong? Now that you've made some money, you think I can't even get you to do anything? Does the whole family have to watch your face?"
"Mother! What are you saying?" Li Juan quickly replied, "How could I dare to give you such a hard time!"
Granny Li snorted coldly, "You dare not show it to me, but you dare show it to your daughter. Ah Yan is such a good daughter, and you're not satisfied? What? Do you want the Queen Mother of the West to be your daughter before you're satisfied?"
Li Juan immediately realized that Grandma Li was protecting Su Yan, and said unhappily, "Mother, Ayan is my daughter, how could I not want what's best for her? But what she did is complain that I'm nagging, and she even yelled at me just now, didn't you hear that?"
"That's because you were wrong first. She's such a grown-up, and you still want to control everything. I've told you eight hundred times that when children grow up, you have to learn to let go, but you just ignore what I say."
"How can I let go of something as important as a relationship? What if she... I don't want my daughter to end up like me."
Li Juan was very stubborn about this matter, saying, "Even if she wants to find a partner, she can't find someone worse than Xiao Jiang, right?"
In her heart, only a young man like Jiang Jingxing was worthy of Su Yan.
Grandma Li got angry when she saw that she wouldn't listen to reason. "Ayan said she doesn't like him, and she went out to eat for personal reasons. Why are you acting like you're deaf and won't listen to anything? Alright, go back and calm down. Don't go looking for Ayan, or I won't let you off the hook!"
Li Juan walked away with a long face.
Grandma Li was so angry her liver hurt. She slammed her hand on the table and said, "Now that life is better, people have become so temperamental!"
Grandpa Li said timidly, "Why do I feel that Juanzi's personality now is a bit like yours when you were young?"
Grandma Li glared at him and snapped, "You talk too much!"
Grandpa Li shut up.
...
Li Juan returned to her room, growing angrier and angrier, feeling incredibly wronged.
Unable to fall asleep for a long time, I got up and went to the living room to call Su Yu.
The other end answered immediately, and she said, "Is this Xiaoyu?"
"Mother, why are you still up so late?" Su Yu asked in surprise.
"Mother can't sleep, Mother is feeling wronged."
"What are you feeling wronged about? Who made you feel wronged?"
Li Juan naturally wouldn't dare say it was Grandma Li, "Isn't she your sister!"
"What? Ah Yan made you suffer?" Su Yu's tone was slightly hesitant.
This doesn't seem like something his sister would do.
Li Juan poured out everything that happened that night, wiping away tears as she finished speaking. "You know, I was just concerned about her, but she didn't appreciate it at all. She even took her anger out on me. And your grandma even sided with her, thinking I was meddling too much."
Su Yu on the other end of the phone was completely overwhelmed. After a moment's hesitation, he finally told Jing Mao about the matter between him and Zhong Jinghe.
“Jingmao is Jinghe’s enemy. Ayan and I are both trying to get rid of him, so how could she possibly like Jingmao? We didn’t tell you about this before because we didn’t want you to worry, but…”
Li Juan was dumbfounded. "Then...then I misunderstood Ayan?"
“Mom, Ayan is almost 19 years old, but she is much more mature than her peers. She is not the quiet little bun she used to be. Grandma was right about something. You shouldn’t ask her too many questions about her private life. Besides, she usually tells you what’s going on.”
In fact, Su Yu could more or less guess why Li Juan reacted so strongly to Su Yan finding a partner.
Because she had experienced a failed and painful marriage, she worried that Su Yan might have misjudged her and end up with the same fate as her.
It cannot be said that Li Juan was wrong in this matter; as a mother, her concerns were justified.
Li Juan's domineering and forceful behavior made Su Yan feel suffocated, which is why she lost her temper.
Su Yu is in charge of all the psychological counseling work at the company.
With more experience, he could also see through Li Juan and Su Yan's inner thoughts.
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