Chapter 119: Buffer Time
Jiang Ying stroked her hair and looked away, the movement a bit unnatural. “Let’s eat first.”
“Mom,” Qi Feng said forcefully, a rarely seen serious expression on his face, “You can tell us now.”
Jiang Ying was stunned. She looked at the two brothers. Finally summoning up the courage, she walked over to sit opposite the two and said solemnly, “Qi Yu, Xiao Feng, your father and I are together again.”
In the few seconds after she finished saying that, the whole living room was immersed in a strange atmosphere – Qi Feng’s lips were slightly open and his expression was solemn; Qi Yu was completely motionless, without any expression on his face.
The reaction of the two was somewhat unexpected to Jiang Ying. This woman, who in the workplace was straight-talking and fearless, now faced with her adult twin sons, shifted awkwardly in her seat. For a while, she didn’t quite know what to say.
When she separated from Qi Yuancheng back then, she said that it was because they were unwilling to give up their careers for each other, but it was undeniable that her arrogance had been at play when the two reached the “divorce” stage.
She was angry that that man couldn’t compromise for her and she pulled out the ‘divorce’ card to spur him into action. She never expected that her acting was so good that it made Qi Yuancheng feel disheartened. Neither of the two gave in, so they cut off their marriage.
Ten years ago, she had been at the prime of her youth; she had thought ‘then, let’s separate!’, she felt that it was no big deal.
In the twinkling of an eye, the children had grown up. She watched as Qi Feng and Ling Ke fell in love. She remembered her own youth, the only man she had ever loved, and that long overdue regret came.
——Meeting the right person at that most beautiful age; such pure feelings; losing him and letting go; she might never have it again in her life.
Fortunately, the person she loved, loved her deeply as well and now, they were back together again.
It’s just that she could no longer make a willful decision like she had eleven years ago, forcing the children to accept their situation.
She yearned for their understanding and blessings. She also hoped to rebuilt this broken home through her own efforts.
But Jiang Ying knew that the divorce that year not only made the brothers suffer the undeserved pain of separation at that age, but also made Qi Feng have a great prejudice against his father. She was afraid that eleven years of misunderstanding was going to be difficult to quickly eliminate…
As for Qi Yu, although he looked more stable on the surface, the child’s inner delicacy and sensitivity was no less than that of Qi Feng’s. The absence of his mother at such a young age made him grow up prematurely. He liked to conceal everything in his heart. What the other party thought now, even she was a little uncertain.
Just when Jiang Ying was becoming apprehensive, Qi Feng suddenly let out a sigh. He raised his hand to cover his face and said, “Ah, what are you two doing…”
Qi Yu glanced at Qi Feng, a “Sure enough, I guessed right.” expression on his face. “I told you so.”
Jiang Ying was stunned. “Y-you know?”
Qi Yu: “Dad and I talked about it once during Chinese New Year.”
Qi Feng was annoyed: “No, Gege hinted it at me when came to see me at Christmas last year. He already knew way before!”
Qi Yu looked at Jiang Ying and explained, “I wanted to go home that day, but you said you were out on a date. I also heard that Dad returned to China that day, so I just had some vague guesses.”
Qi Feng raised his eyebrows. “That’s it? You guessed our parents were getting back together from just that?”
Qi Yu: “Of course there were other details. I just don’t feel like explaining.”
Qi Feng: “Are you Detective Conan?”
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Qi Yu said without even thinking about it. “Of course, as long as you and Dad have decided, I have absolutely no problem with it.”
However, Qi Feng kept his expression fierce, saying nothing. Jiang Ying’s heart was in her throat once again. She was about to say something when Qi Yu spoke again, “I have already asked Xiao Feng. He said that as long as Dad doesn’t object to him and Ling Ke being together, he can accept it.”
Qi Feng: “…”
Qi Feng turned his head and stared at his brother. “Who said I only have this one condition? I haven’t raised my other demands!”
Qi Yu narrowed his eyes. “What other conditions do you have?”
Qi Feng: “I haven’t thought about them yet!”
Seeing this scene, Jiang Ying laughed with relief. She said to Qi Feng, “Xiao Feng, your father agrees.”
“I…” Qi Feng wanted to continue bickering with his brother, but when he heard the words, he was suddenly stunned. “What?”
Jiang Ying smiled and said, “I said your father agrees with you being with Ling Ke.”
Qi Feng’s face went slack. “When has he been this good-natured?”
Jiang Ying: “It’s a long story, but don’t worry, with mom here, I will never let your father force you to do things you don’t want to do. Mom also hopes that you won’t have any mental burden because of this.”
Qi Feng: “…”
Perhaps seeing that the atmosphere was much more relaxed, Auntie Liu, the housekeeper, took advantage of the situation and said, “Madam, the food is ready. Why don’t you eat while it’s hot?”
“Okay,” Jiang Ying stood up and invited them, “Let’s have some dinner.”
The brothers followed and stood up. Qi Feng nudged his brother and whispered, “You traitor, you must be Dad’s accomplice!”
Qi Yu pushed back: “Are you this naïve?”
At the dinner table, Qi Feng kept thinking about it, feeling unreconciled. He asked Jiang Ying again, “Mom, was Dad the one who took the initiative this time? Did he take the initiative to ask you to get back with him?”
Jiang Ying personally served him a bowl of appetizing lotus root pork ribs soup and said, “I did.”
Qi Feng couldn’t believe it. “Why?”
Jiang Ying: “I’ve been separated from your father for so many years, but I haven’t been able to forget him. The same is true of your father. There must be someone between us who takes this step first.”
Qi Feng stirred the soup in the bowl and said dejectedly, “But with you like this then all my anger at him for your sake all these years have been for nothing.”
Jiang Ying wondered, “Why are you angry for me?”
The “ding ding” sound as the spoon hit the walls of the bowl showed Qi Feng’s anxious mood at the moment. “It was Dad who didn’t want us back then. He quietly took my brother away and even lied to me saying he would pick me up within a year. He said he was taking us to move house when in fact, he just didn’t want us!”
Jiang Ying and Qi Yu both got strange expressions when they heard this.
Qi Yu asked him, “Who told you this?”
Qi Feng: “That Auntie Qin told me when I was a kid. She also said that Dad was too rich and he couldn’t stand this family anymore. And that’s why he divorced mom and moved abroad.”
Jiang Ying & Qi Yu: “…”
Because Jiang Ying and Qi Yuancheng had both been busy with work, they had hired two Aunties to run the household back then. One was a nanny, who was responsible for taking care of the brothers’ day to day and the other was housekeeper, who was responsible for cooking and cleaning. The Auntie Qin that Qi Feng spoke of was the latter.
Qi Yu frowned and thought back, remembering that that aunt would sit down to watch the afternoon dramas whenever she was free, often moved by the dogblood plots or even brought to tears from anger.
Later, Qi Yu went abroad with Qi Yuancheng. He had no idea when that Auntie Qin left. By the time he had come back again, the housekeeper had changed to the current Auntie Liu.
Qi Yu looked at his brother with sympathy. “All these years, you wouldn’t call Dad because you felt wronged and acted impetuously. You wouldn’t even greet him when you saw him. Was it all because of what that Auntie Qin said?”
Qi Feng said blankly, “Well, isn’t it true?”
Jiang Ying put down her chopsticks, looked at him and said, “Xiao Feng, I’m sorry…”
The spoon made a ‘clang’ as Qi Feng dropped it. He belatedly reacted. “Was I lied to?”
Qi Yu explained, “Mom brought up the divorce first. Not wanting you and Mom never even crossed Dad’s mind. They just didn’t want to give up their careers.”
Qi Feng was completely dumbfounded. He believed in what Auntie Qin said back then, and didn’t dare to say it for fear of making his mother sad. He’s been one-sidedly hating his father for so long but it turned out to be just a misunderstanding!?
Jiang Ying’s eyes were a little red. “It’s due to my negligence. Mom always treated you like a child before. I didn’t explain it to you in time and didn’t set a good example, which caused you to misunderstand your father…”
“Ah…!” Qi Feng raised his head and sighed, “How could this happen? I’m so stupid, I’m as stupid as Xue Niu!”
Qi Yu smiled: “Self-awareness is a good thing. Learn to be smarter in the future.”
Qi Feng said angrily, “Then, how did you know?”
Qi Yu: “I asked Mom myself.”
Qi Feng: “Sh*t! If you knew, why you didn’t tell me earlier?”
Qi Yu: “As soon as I bring up Dad in front of you, you get mad. Why would I go asking for trouble? Besides, it’s a fact that our parents divorced. Who could have thought you had such a big misunderstanding?”
Jiang Ying quietly wiped the corners of her eyes and said with a smile, “Okay, it’s good that we’ve cleared that up now. Then again, I didn’t intend to tell you so soon but your father proposed to me on Valentine’s Day this year…”
The spoon that Qi Feng had just picked up was dropped once again. “Proposed?”
Qi Yu was also stunned. He didn’t expect that just half a month after he finish chatting with his father that New Year’s Eve, his father would take action. It was really very efficient.
Jiang Ying nodded. “En, I thought about it for a month and decided to say yes to him. If you both accept it, we plan to hold a simple wedding abroad in July this year.”
Qi Feng collapsed and said, “F*ck, the date of the wedding has already been decided!? You guys are too fast!”
Qi Yu was much calmer than Qi Feng. “Our parents are almost fifty. How many more years can they delay? Isn’t a bit of speed a good thing?”
Qi Feng said in a muffled voice, “No, it’s not that. Dad and I haven’t seen each other for so many years. You suddenly want to get back together and have a wedding. I didn’t even have a buffer time…”
Jiang Ying hurriedly said, “It doesn’t matter. If you feel that you can’t accept it for a while, I’ll tell your father that it’s okay for us to delay a little bit. I’ll have your father find time to meet you a few times and re-cultivate your father-son relationship.”
Qi Feng’s scalp went numb hearing it. He raised his hand and said, “Don’t! Don’t! You should get married immediately!” Re-cultivating their father-son relationship was too embarrassing. It was Mom that Dad wanted to marry. What did they have to ‘cultivate’?
Jiang Ying: “…”
Qi Feng slumped to eat, digesting the reality of the situation for a while. He then asked curiously, “Then how will your living arrangements be after your remarriage? Is Dad coming back to live here?”
Jiang Ying: “It depends on the situation. Your father intends to shift the focus of his business back to China. I have pursued all I’ve need to pursue after so many years at the TV station and now, I have no regrets. I’m considering doing other freelance work and when the time comes, I can go anywhere.”
Qi Feng said suspiciously, “You’re not thinking of going abroad with Dad, are you?”
Jiang Ying smiled: “There’s nothing wrong with that.”
Qi Feng: “Mom, you weren’t like this before!”
Jiang Ying: “Everyone can change…”
Qi Feng ate two bites of his food and then asked, “Then, can I bring Ling Ke to the wedding?”
Jiang Ying: “Of course, even if you hadn’t said anything, your father and I were going to invite him too.”
“Really?” Qi Feng was beaming with joy, “Then I’ll call him in a while! Ah, if I’d known earlier, I would have told him to skip club and come today.”
Qi Yu was secretly laughing while listening to it. What did he mean he didn’t have buffer time? Wasn’t buffer time already over?
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【Little Theater】
Auntie Qin: One must perform one's duties silently, shying away from acclamations and fame.
#On the far-reaching impact of misconception implantation#
Qi Yuancheng: I hate it!
Fu Yansheng: Old man, the bigger pit is still with your eldest son.
Qi Yuancheng: I’ll settle the accounts with you later, I want to marry my wife first!
XDDDD That little theater- I can’t- AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA “I wanna marry my wife first,” he said AHAHAAHAHAHAHA Teacher Fu should prepare for a complete Parent-Teacher Interview soon- And double the dowry. LOL
lmaooo
Woohooooo finally they get back together 😍😍
thanks for the chapter!
That xiao Feng has was a buffering time span of a gold fish ma? 9 seconds passed and he already hop to the wedding guest list 😂