2025.
An Huan was about to celebrate her eighty-seventh birthday, but she didn't want to celebrate it because it would only remind her that she was another year older.
Ever since turning 85, An Huan felt that her physical condition had plummeted. Her teeth fell out, her back became hunched, and her eyesight was getting worse. She used to be able to read novels with her reading glasses, but now it hurts if she overuses her eyes. She can only listen, and she has to turn up the volume very loud because she is hard of hearing!
The consequence of turning up the volume was that the old man heard it.
[...The man beside me had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, a handsome face, and eight distinct abdominal muscles, each one rising and falling with his breathing. xxx felt strangely compelled to touch him... Is this the perk of a female supporting character in a time-travel novel? ...]
An Huan was watering the flowers and listening to a novel with great interest when she felt a chill on her back. It was strange. Why did it feel like someone was staring at her?
An Huan turned her head in confusion, only to meet Xiao Zheng's shocked gaze.
"Wife, what obscene things did you listen to?"
An Huan was speechless. "What's so obscene? I'm listening to novels, serious novels!"
"Will there be abdominal muscle content in a serious novel?" Xiao Zheng didn't believe it. He picked up the phone beside him and started reading.
God is so unfair! Xiao Zheng is even older than her, already over 90. Aside from a little arthritis, a slightly hunched back, and slightly high blood pressure, his eyes and ears are better than hers! He can even read a newspaper through a magnifying glass for half an hour without getting tired.
"xxx felt the hard abdominal muscles under his hands, and remembered that the original female character in the book was half disgusted with this husband. He couldn't help but complain, "The dead girl didn't know how to cherish such a good meal, and ran off with a greasy little face..."
Xiao Zheng was reading the novel word by word. An Hua couldn't stand it anymore and snatched the phone away, angrily saying, "Don't look at my phone, you're disgusting!"
Xiao Zheng pondered, "Why does the plot of this novel sound so familiar? Disdaining her husband, she ran off with the little girl..."
"This is a Liuxian, a Liuxian template, many novels are written like this! Don't make random assumptions!"
Xiao Zheng didn't pay too much attention to the plot of the novel, and started to nag again: "I don't care, you can't read this kind of thing behind my back anymore."
"...Is it okay in front of you?"
"Do you still have me in your heart?!"
An Huan felt that the old man was about to start making trouble again. In order to avoid more trouble, she coaxed him, "Hey, I won't watch it anymore. Let's forget it."
Xiao Zheng, however, persisted, "I had abdominal muscles when I was young, and my body is very strong now, even stronger than those young men in their seventies. Why don't you look at me more?"
An Huan muttered, "I'm with you every day, and I haven't seen enough..."
Xiao Zheng: "I'm with you every day, but I still can't get enough of you. Isn't that the case with you?"
An Huan blinked.
"Um?"
"Yes, I can't get enough of looking at you!" An Huan said quickly.
Xiao Zheng was finally coaxed into a good mood.
However, he still felt uneasy when he saw An Huan holding her phone tightly in her pocket, as if she was guarding against him as if he were a thief.
When the youngest came over, he pulled him aside.
Xiao Li went to university abroad, majoring in finance. After graduation, he worked on Wall Street for two years and then returned to China. With the platform built by his mother, he founded his own venture capital company and helped manage all of his mother's assets.
However, Xiao Li is a free-spirited person with little ambition for his career, and he spends a lot of time on eating, drinking, having fun and family.
Although he did not live in the courtyard house with his parents, he came here eight times out of seven days a week.
As soon as he arrived that day, his old father stealthily pulled him aside. He asked in confusion, "Dad, did you make Mom mad again?"
"Nonsense! Am I such a troublesome person?" Xiao Zheng blew his beard and glared.
Xiao Li quickly coaxed: "Yes, yes, you are the one who has the least worries. It's me who can't speak."
Xiao Zheng snorted, then said, "I want you to do me a favor."
"What's the matter?"
Xiao Zheng looked around and didn't see An Huan. He leaned close to Xiao Li's ear and said, "Help me steal your mother's phone."
"Stealing a cell phone? Why??"
"Why are you asking so many questions? If I tell you to steal, then steal!"
Xiao Li was not willing to do bad things for his old father.
Xiao Zheng had no choice but to say, "If you don't help me steal the phone, I'll tell your mom that you're divorced again!"
“…”
Xiao Li has been divorced twice, and this is the third time.
Although he had always agreed with his wife, there was no infidelity, no domestic violence, and no issues of anyone abusing anyone, because the marriage lasted short-lived and he found a new girlfriend within half a year, his mother suspected he was a playboy and nagged him for a long time.
Xiao Li didn't want to be nagged by his mother anymore to learn from his brothers and sisters, to be loyal, to find a lifelong partner of true love, and to stop playing around with other women.
God knows, he truly loves every one of them, and he is loyal to every one of them, but this love comes quickly and ends just as quickly.
Besides, it’s probably because he attracts people who are similar to him, and everyone has the same concept of love. Some of them even break up with him first.
After some thought, Xiao Li decided to listen to his father.
It’s just taking mom’s cell phone, no big deal!
Xiao Li easily took the phone and asked Xiao Zheng, "Dad, what are you going to do next? Let me tell you first, if the consequences of what you want to do are too serious, I won't help you."
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