Chapter 332
Ji Wanmei remained silent, sitting quietly in front of Ji Xingguo, waiting for him to calm down.
After a long while, a time that felt like at least ten minutes, something really long, it was over.
Ji Xingguo finally calmed down and found his voice: "Meimei, dating is not a game, and marriage is not a game either. You are still young, and many times you can't tell what you really want. You are deceived by sweet words from others, and Dad doesn't blame you. If anything happens to you, it is Dad's responsibility, and the fault is mine."
"Dad, what are you saying?" Ji Wanmei frowned, feeling that Ji Xingguo's attitude was strange. "I know very well what I want."
"Let bygones be bygones. You and that Lei Tingjun break up immediately," Ji Xingguo said decisively. "Dad will absolutely not let him dare to bother you again. I'll break his legs. Your most important thing right now is your studies. I think this shop can be closed down. It's affecting your studies too much."
"Dad!" Ji Wanmei exclaimed in surprise, looking up. "How could you be so arbitrary as to make decisions about my life for me?"
Ji Xingguo forced himself to calm down so as not to lose his temper, and said firmly, "Meimei, Lei Tingjun is not right for you. I don't care what he's doing now, but he is definitely not the right person for you. He grew up without parents, an orphan. People like that have no sense of family and wander around without a fixed home. You won't be happy with someone like him. Listen to your father, even if he likes you now, it's only temporary. If you insist on being with him, you'll suffer the consequences in the future."
"Dad is doing this for your own good. Right now, you're just a young girl experiencing the first stirrings of love, and you're only a little naive. But as time goes on, you'll realize that what Dad is saying makes sense."
Ji Wanmei stared at her father as if he were a stranger.
“Dad,” Ji Wanmei said incredulously, “I always thought you were a very open-minded, wise, and insightful father. But what you said today makes me feel nothing but your prejudice against him.”
"Yes, that's right. Lei Tingjun comes from a bad family background, but that's not his fault. He didn't want to either. Does one's background determine their character?"
Ji Wanmei said, "You've never really tried to understand Lei Tingjun before rejecting him. That's not fair!"
Ji Xingguo was stunned by his daughter's attitude.
He originally thought that it might just be because Lei Tingjun, a scoundrel, had entered society early, had experience and skills, and knew how to charm girls, while his daughter had grown up in his greenhouse and had never seen the complex world outside.
He met Lei Tingjun and was deceived by his sweet talk.
This isn't the daughter's fault; the blame lies with him. He failed to educate her properly and protected her too much, which led to her being easily fooled by those scoundrels.
Therefore, Ji Xingguo immediately made a decision to first soothe his daughter's emotions, help her regain her senses, and make her realize the gap between herself and Lei Tingjun and the impossibility of the future.
Then he turned back and slowly settled accounts with Lei Tingjun.
But now it seems that the daughter's feelings for Lei Tingjun have become so deep.
This realization made Ji Xingguo even angrier and more furious, wishing he could immediately tear Lei Tingjun to pieces.
But he couldn't get angry at his daughter, so he could only patiently persuade her: "Meimei, you're still young, you need to figure out what's important in your life. You can't go against your father because of Lei Tingjun."
“Dad, we’re not going against you.” Ji Wanmei also spoke the truth. “If you hadn’t come here suddenly today, we were planning to tell you about our situation after I graduated from university.”
"And Lei Tingjun isn't as bad as you think. He's always been hardworking and ambitious. He has his own career now, and he even got into our school's nationally recognized civil engineering program for my sake. He's now..."
“I know all of that!” Ji Xingguo said sternly, “But so what?”
"My daughter, Ji Xingguo, isn't looking for a nouveau riche. She wants someone from a respectable background, well-educated and reasonable, who will treat you well, take care of you and your family, and whom she can entrust to with peace of mind when her father passes away, not some drifter like this!"
Ji Wanmei couldn't help but sarcastically say, "Really? So back then, you took it upon yourself to find me a blind date, Yang Zhiping. Didn't you think he was pretty good? How about I go and be with Yang Zhiping?"
Ji Xingguo choked, unable to breathe, and leaned on the chair for support: "Are you deliberately trying to anger your father to death?"
Ji Wanmei had never spoken as calmly as she did now: "Dad, I didn't mean to upset you. On the contrary, I kept this from you because I didn't want to upset you. I wanted to wait until Lei Tingjun achieved something so that you would no longer have the prejudice against him, and then I would bring him to you and tell you openly that I chose to be with him."
Ji Wanmei took a deep breath and said, "I know what you're worried about. You're worried that Lei Tingjun is approaching me with ulterior motives, using sweet words to deceive me. But your daughter can tell you that the truth is not what you think."
“From the very beginning, I was the one who took a liking to Lei Tingjun. It was me who went to him. He never intended to approach me. I was the one who proposed to him that if he could get into university, I would agree to be with him. He was a student who only had a junior high school diploma, and he only spent half a year getting into Professor Liang's most prestigious civil engineering program at East China University. Do you know how much effort that took?”
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