Chapter 355 (One Update)
Three-five-five:
"How are you?" Ye Qingxi asked with concern as she saw him leave Mu Feng's bedroom.
“Your grandfather has relented,” Mu Shaoyan said. “Although it’s only a slight relent, it’s still implied in his words and not shown on the surface, but it’s not easy for him to relent at all.”
Ye Qingxi thought so too.
"It seems that Brother Duan Yi's performance today has satisfied Grandpa."
"Probably," Mu Shaoyan pondered, otherwise his father would have already made them break up.
However, his father actually quite liked Duan Yi.
If they hadn't suddenly gone from friends to lovers, his father would probably still have pure admiration for Duan Yi right now.
Mu Shaoyan put his arm around Ye Qingxi's shoulder and led him down the stairs back to the living room.
Mu Feng relented, and Mu Shaoyan planned to tell Mu Shaowu and the others about his relationship with Duan Yi.
After everyone had finished dinner that evening, and after Mu Feng left, he took his older brother and sister to his bedroom.
"What are you doing?" Mu Shaowu asked, puzzled.
Mu Shaoting also asked suspiciously, "Sneaky."
Mu Shaoyan: ? ? ?
Why are you acting so suspiciously!
Mu Shaoyan sighed helplessly, "I have something to tell you."
"Is there anything I can help you with?" Mu Shaowu asked him.
"Didn't I record a new promotional song for you a few days ago?" Mu Shaoting asked, puzzled.
Mu Shaoyan: ...
No, can't they think of something good about him?!
Why does he always have to contact them because he needs their help?!
Mu Shaoyan was utterly helpless.
"I'm getting married."
"Just get married already, why make such a fuss... wait!" Mu Shaowu belatedly realized, "What did you just say? You're getting married?! Married!!! When did you even start dating?!"
Mu Shaoting was also dumbfounded, "You got married in a flash?!"
Mu Shaoyan: "I've been dating for five years."
Mu Shaowu: !!!
Mu Shaoting: ? ? ?
"What did you say?!" the two exclaimed in unison.
Mu Shaoyan: ...
"Well... I actually already have a boyfriend, I just haven't told you guys."
"Wait a minute!" Mu Shaowu thought he might have misheard: "What friend? Your girlfriend's surname is Lan?"
Mu Shaoyan: ...
"Nan, Annan, the 'nan' in 'man,' boyfriend!"
Mu Shaowu: !!!
Mu Shaoting: ...
Mu Shaowu couldn't believe it. Good heavens, how could his brother, the walking male protagonist of a shonen manga, have become gay?!
"Are you kidding me?"
Mu Shaoyan: ...
“I’ve already told Dad.”
Mu Shaowu: !!!
Mu Shaowu looked down at his leg: "So you're using a prosthetic leg now?"
Mu Shaoyan: ...
"He didn't break your legs?" Mu Shaowu exclaimed in disbelief!
Mu Shaoyan: ...
"Your legs aren't broken, let alone mine!"
Mu Shaoting: ...
Mu Shaoting felt a bit confused. What was going on?
Her brother is gay, and now her younger brother is gay too?!
Is their family from Wanchai Ferry Pier?!
How convoluted this is!
"So who is your boyfriend?" Mu Shaoting asked curiously.
“You all know each other.” Mu Shaoyan smiled. “Duan Yi, we even went to cheer you on during the finals of ‘The Voice of China’ back then!”
Mu Shaoting: Is that for me?
It's clearly for Xiaoxi!
But it was him!
Mu Shaoting exclaimed in surprise, "He actually likes men?!"
Mu Shaoyan looked at her, "You must be surprised too! I was surprised when I found out! I still considered him just a brother back then!"
"And then you two became bed partners?" Mu Shaowu said coolly.
Mu Shaoyan: ...
"No, it's just that his affection was so genuine that I couldn't resist."
Mu Shaowu: ...
For the first time, Mu Shaowu realized that his father had also had a tough time.
He has three sons, two of whom are of the same sex. It's only because his father has a strong heart that he's able to see his father right now!
It must have been tough on his old, feudal-traditional father!
"So what did Dad say?" he asked.
"Yes, what did Dad say?" Mu Shaoting asked with concern.
"Of course he didn't really agree," Mu Shaoyan said truthfully, "but he didn't particularly object either, since he didn't intend to forcibly separate the two of us."
Mu Shaowu: ...It seems his father really likes Duan Yi.
Otherwise, even if he doesn't forcibly demolish the property, he has plenty of ways to make the other party give up on their own.
Mu Shaoting patted his younger brother on the shoulder, "You're really something. You managed to keep your relationship a secret for five years. With that kind of patience, no wonder you were able to succeed in your business."
Mu Shaowu: ? ? ?
Isn't now the time for you to praise him?!
Upon hearing this, Mu Shaoyan looked at his sister and said, "I think so too."
Mu Shaowu: ...What do you think?!
How dare you think that!
Mu Shaowu was exasperated. "So, if you're with Duan Yi, do you want children in the future? How? Should we get one from the Mu family? Or should you two adopt one? You're already planning to marry him, shouldn't we have discussed this by now?"
“We don’t plan to have children,” Mu Shaoyan replied.
Mu Shaowu: ? ? ?
Mu Shaowu: ...
"You're not still thinking about Xiaoxi, are you?"
“How could that be considered missing?!” Mu Shaoyan said righteously. “Xiao Xi is my nephew, your son, my second brother. He is my own nephew, and I naturally treat him with the warmth of a spring breeze.”
Mu Shaowu: ...
"So your older brother isn't your biological older brother? Qin Cheng isn't your biological nephew?"
“That’s different,” Mu Shaoyan argued. “Qin Cheng has an uncle, and the two of them are going to each other’s destinations. It’s not my turn.”
After saying that, he turned to look at Mu Shaoting, "Sister, don't worry, when you have children in the future, I will definitely treat them with the same warmth as Qin Yuan treated Qin Cheng, like a spring breeze—a good Chinese uncle!"
Mu Shaoting: "Hehe."
Mu Shaoting felt utterly exhausted!
It is known that his eldest brother's son is surnamed Qin, and his second brother's son is surnamed Ye. This bastard Mu Shaoyan does not plan to have children now, but plans to share children with his second brother. So now, in the Mu family, not a single child has the surname Mu!
What a wonderful surname, Mu!
It sounds great, looks great, and is suitable for both men and women!
result!
They're practically disappearing from the Mu family's household!
That's outrageous!
Sure enough, in the end, it all comes down to her!
Mu Shaoting looked at her troublesome younger brother and said, "When I have children in the future, I'll give one to you as an adoption."
"No, no, no," Mu Shaoyan repeatedly refused, "There's no need."
"How can this be unnecessary? Are you really planning to share a child with your second brother?"
"I didn't," Mu Shaoyan denied stubbornly. "I just felt that we didn't need to have a child."
"What's the use of having children?" Mu Shaoyan asked, his mind racing. "Look at our dad, if it weren't for me and my second brother, wouldn't he have half the troubles?"
Mu Shaowu: ...I'm talking about you! Don't involve me!
"If you're talking about retirement, just look at Dad. Does he need his children to support him? He's almost seventy, and he still looks like he could punch two of me to death. He's healthier than anyone else!"
"So, I don't think it's necessary."
"Your child with Li Jing is the fruit of your love, the continuation of your bloodline, so you want it. But Duan Yi and I are destined not to have the so-called fruit of love, the continuation of our bloodline, so there's no need for us to raise a child. What's the point? It's just that we're getting old. In our daily lives, we need a nanny, and when we're sick, we need a doctor. A child can't take care of us all day, nor can they treat our illnesses. It's almost the same whether we have one or not."
"To put it another way, if something really happens that requires a younger person to come, given Xiao Xi's personality—I'm not thinking about Xiao Xi," Mu Shaoyan turned to Mu Shaowu and explained to him.
Mu Shaowu: ...You're just trying to cover your tracks.
After emphasizing this, Mu Shaoyan continued, "Given Xiaoxi's tendency to worry since he was little, he probably won't even have time to deal with things for my adopted child before he takes care of everything."
Mu Shaowu: ...
Mu Shaoting: ...
Believe it or not, it's actually quite possible!
After all, his son/her nephew is really good at taking care of things.
"Besides, when other people adopt a child, the child's parents are already gone, but your biological parents are still alive. It's not appropriate for me to adopt. The child won't understand why they became my child. Will they think, 'Is there something wrong with them? Do their parents not like them?'"
“I’m not good at disciplining children, especially when everyone is together. If a child makes a mistake, should I discipline them or not? If I discipline them, they’re still my biological mother, my sister. If I don’t discipline them, what kind of father am I? So there’s no need.”
Mu Shaoyan concluded, "You're my own sister. As long as I treat your children well, even if I get old and they're no longer my children but just my nephews, how could they refuse if I asked them for a favor?"
"Even if they wanted to, you, their own mother, wouldn't agree, and they wouldn't dare. They still have to obediently come and work for me."
"So you can just let them be my nephew and niece." Mu Shaoyan put his arm around Mu Shaoting's shoulder.
Mu Shaoting: ...
Mu Shaoting realized that he seemed to have really grown up, and was actually able to think about so many things.
He spoke with surprising logic and conviction.
"Do you think Duan Yi and his mother will agree to this?"
“Of course,” Mu Shaoyan said. “His mother is very open-minded. She even thinks he’s marrying above his station.”
“That’s how it is,” Mu Shaoting said.
Mu Shaoyan didn't think so. Duan Yi himself was quite outstanding. In terms of personal strength alone, he was actually climbing the social ladder.
However, he wisely kept quiet, after all, Mu Shaowu and Mu Shaoting were his older brother and sister, not Duan Yi's.
The three siblings chatted for a long time before parting ways around 11 p.m., each returning to their own bedroom.
Ye Qingxi heard a knock on the door, turned around, and saw her father push the door open and walk in.
"What's wrong?" Ye Qingxi asked, puzzled.
Mu Shaowu sat down next to him and asked, "Your uncle is getting married, did you know that?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Qingxi knew that Mu Shaoyan had been honest with them, so he obediently nodded.
Mu Shaowu knew it!
Ye Qingxi and Mu Shaoyan have been playing together since they were little. There are some things that their older siblings don't know, but Ye Qingxi, their little nephew, knows perfectly well!
"Do you know that your uncle doesn't plan to have children?"
Ye Qingxi was surprised.
He really didn't know that.
Why?
What else could it be?
Of course it's because of you.
Mu Shaowu could actually understand Mu Shaoyan.
Ye Qingxi left too many marks on Mu Shaoyan's growth. He witnessed Ye Qingxi's life trajectory from the age of five to thirteen, and will continue to watch him grow up.
In a sense, he has already raised a child.
Therefore, he naturally didn't feel the need to raise a second child.
In particular, Mu Shaoyan always liked to save the best for Ye Qingxi.
They're opening a steamed bun shop, and he wants to give Ye Qingxi one-third of the shares.
If you want to start a game company, he also wants to give you one-third of the shares.
He never forgets Ye Qingxi, no matter what he does.
He just wanted to give everything he had to Ye Qingxi.
Under these circumstances, it was indeed not suitable for Mu Shaoyan to have another child.
That's so unfair to his child.
"Because he felt it was unnecessary."
Mu Shaowu didn't want to put too much pressure on Ye Qingxi, fearing that if he knew it was because of him, he would feel guilty and uneasy.
So he answered as Mu Shaoyan had said, “He said he and Duan Yi couldn’t have children, so there’s no need to raise one. Anyway, when he gets old, you younger generation won’t abandon him.”
Ye Qingxi: ...
Ye Qingxi felt that there didn't seem to be any major problems.
Even if others are too busy to attend to it, he certainly won't ignore it.
Moreover, to be honest, given their current situation, as long as they don't go bankrupt in the future, they probably won't need anyone to take care of them—they have a live-in nanny and a family doctor.
He saw that his grandfather was almost seventy years old, but he was still vigorous and strong. Not only did he not need his children to take care of him, but he also planned and paved the way for his children every day!
“That’s true,” Ye Qingxi said. “I see many couples on TV who don’t have children these days, and some don’t even get married. My uncle and Duan Yi couldn’t have children to begin with, so it’s fine that they don’t.”
This kind of thing mainly depends on personal willingness.
Ye Qingxi felt that respecting the other person's personal wishes was enough.
If his uncle doesn't want it, then he doesn't want it.
Anyway, he's here!
"Then you're going to have a tough time from now on. In terms of closeness, no one else can compare to you, so if your uncle needs anything, he'll definitely come to you first."
“Sure.” Ye Qingxi said nonchalantly, “Dad, you said it yourself, in terms of closeness, my uncle is the best to me, so naturally I should be responsible for anything that happens.”
Hearing his words, Mu Shaowu felt that if it were him, he would probably do the same as Mu Shaoyan.
Having seen the ocean, other waters seem insignificant. Mu Shaoyan has already experienced what he loves most, and he also loves his child.
Therefore, he would naturally not want to accept other children.
He reached out and hugged Ye Qingxi.
I just feel that time really flies by, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
They used to watch Ye Qingxi grow up and take care of him carefully and clumsily.
But now, they are saying that Ye Qingxi will take care of them in the future.
They grew old slowly, while Ye Qingxi grew up little by little.
"Next month is your fourteenth birthday. What do you want?" Mu Shaowu asked him.
Ye Qingxi didn't want anything.
He has received so much from childhood to adulthood.
As a result, he's almost lost all interest in gifts now.
"Anything is fine," Ye Qingxi said. "We can all celebrate together then."
More than gifts, Ye Qingxi actually cares about the people who attend his birthday celebrations every year.
Fortunately, he is always with the people he cares about each year.
"Of course," Mu Shaowu said with a smile, looking at him. "When has your birthday never been celebrated by everyone together?"
Ye Qingxi smiled and said, "Then I don't want anything else."
Upon hearing this, Mu Shaowu felt that he was indeed very simple and unpretentious.
And so, Ye Qingxi turned fourteen and entered his high school years.
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