Although Yan Ming’s father and Yu Tian’s mother had known each other long ago, Yan Ming still very much hoped to meet each other’s parents again in a different capacity.

However, plans never kept up with changes. Even though Yan Ming and Yu Tian had reached a consensus on meeting the parents, every time they planned to schedule a meeting, various unexpected situations would arise.

Of course, Yan Ming had nothing to complain about, because most of the disruptions were due to himself – sometimes there were suddenly emergency patients needing surgery; sometimes colleagues in the hospital department were successively struck by flu, and Yan Ming had to cover shifts; or sometimes the hospital finally decided to advance some charity eye surgeries, requiring doctors to go to remote mountainous areas to perform free cataract or strabismus surgeries for elderly people and children with mobility issues. After Yan Ming signed up, he discovered that the number of people needing surgery was much higher than he had estimated, so he coordinated the time and stayed in the local area several more days than originally planned…

However, his relationship with Yu Tian remained very stable, and because of their occasional business trips and busy schedules, these brief separations added longing and gave both parties their own space and sense of distance. This often brought the freshness of “a brief separation feels better than a new marriage,” making Yan Ming feel that life with Yu Tian had become even sweeter.

But while he and Yu Tian could wait for the meeting with the parents, Yan Ming’s father, Yan Wenhua, couldn’t wait anymore.

Yan Wenhua had been feeling quite frustrated recently. First was his own love life. His previous romantic interest, who had seemed gentle and considerate during their courtship, caring about his well-being and appearing gentle and kind, had begun to subtly change her attitude as their relationship progressed. When Yan Wenhua put remarriage on the agenda and they simply agreed to have an engagement ceremony first, followed by finding a good date for the wedding later, her attitude began to change subtly.

She was still gentle and considerate as before, but someone who had never asked about his assets and cash before was now frequently trying to gain some of Yan Wenhua’s financial control through gentle manipulation—

“Wenhua, since we’re about to become family, I see you’re busy with work and don’t have time to manage the money in your accounts. Think about it – such a large sum just sitting there earning dead interest is such a waste. My nephew happens to work at a fund management company and is very knowledgeable about financial planning. Why don’t you let him manage these idle funds? I guarantee he’ll give you a satisfactory return by year-end.”

“Also, Chen Xi is graduating this year and looking for work. She’s interviewed at several companies, but either the job doesn’t match her major, or those interviewers weren’t polite to her. There was one company where the work pressure was high during the probation period, but the pay was very low. I was thinking, does your company have any suitable positions for her?”

She studied finance. How about letting Chen Xi help with your company’s accounting in the future? It matches her specialty without wasting her professional knowledge, and she’s one of our people. For accounting matters, it’s still more reassuring to entrust them to our people. Don’t you think so, Wenhua?”

…

The requests from his soon-to-be fiancée weren’t that big. For Yan Wenhua, arranging a job for Chen Xi and giving some spare money to her relatives as a favor to help with financial performance weren’t difficult matters.

But for someone like Yan Wenhua who had been through the business world for many years, some things weren’t about size, but about principles and bottom lines.

When they were just about to get engaged and already showing such subtle signs, what would happen once he first satisfied her? As they became legal spouses in the future, her appetite would only grow bigger. And if he refused these requests from the beginning to show his attitude, it would inevitably plant mines for their future married life – after all, they were both middle-aged couples with their children, and at this age, they couldn’t have common children anymore. So what was the point of continuing a relationship that would create discord and conflict over money from the start?

Yan Wenhua wasn’t someone who dragged things out. He could almost foresee a series of future troubles.

At his age, while having a confidante would be nice, more importantly, he didn’t want to create problems for his son.

If he had a legally remarried spouse who had designs on his family’s money, even if he prepared a will in advance, once he passed away before his remarried spouse, as a widow, if she had ulterior motives, she could still create many troubles for Yan Ming.

Moreover, Yan Ming was devoted to medicine and couldn’t possibly resign from the hospital to manage the company. Without Yan Wenhua, the company would have had to be handed over to professional managers.

Even if professional managers could handle most company affairs, he couldn’t completely trust them. Because human nature was such that even the best professional managers, once there was no one to restrain and supervise them, would develop greed and corruption when their power was infinitely magnified.

Rather than finding a stepmother with no blood relation to Yan Ming to help supervise professional managers, it would be better to let Yan Ming find a reliable wife.

First, after Yan Ming’s spouse had children with Yan Ming, their interests and bloodline would be highly intertwined. Second, this girl would be young, and as long as she was smart and sensible, even if she didn’t understand business management, young people learned things faster than older ones. Yan Wenhua could arrange some business management training to give her concepts about running a company, so she could keep an eye on professional managers and not be led around by them.

Therefore, Yan Wenhua was more concerned about Yan Ming’s romantic situation than his own.

However, his concern was useless because Yan Ming himself seemed completely unconcerned.

Of course, he couldn’t blame his son for not caring. Yan Ming had grown up in affluent circumstances. Although Yan Wenhua and his mother had divorced, the divorce hadn’t involved disputes – they parted peacefully. When Yan Ming was young, even after the divorce, his mother would regularly come to have dinner and chat with him. For Yan Ming, his lifestyle hadn’t changed much. His parents would still take him out together on weekends, just that his parents had changed from a married couple to friends.

So it could be said that Yan Ming hadn’t suffered much since childhood. His academic performance was good, his looks weren’t bad, and everything went smoothly. Yan Wenhua also knew that with his son’s appearance, there had always been many people pursuing him. But perhaps because of this, Yan Ming didn’t have much urgency about love.

Medical school was indeed tough, and Yan Ming had skipped grades. Before graduation, Yan Wenhua hadn’t pressured him. When he first started working after graduation, Yan Wenhua could still barely maintain respect for his son’s choices. But now it had been several years since graduation, his work was on track, and despite Yan Wenhua’s direct and indirect urging so many times, Yan Ming remained incredibly calm.

He was already around thirty!

Yan Wenhua had married early, by thirty, he already had Yan Ming!

But what about Yan Ming!

Most hatefully, starting this year, Yan Ming had changed his strategy. He no longer directly and coldly refused Yan Wenhua’s blind date suggestions or found excuses not to attend the alternative blind date dinners Yan Wenhua arranged. Instead, he started deceiving Yan Wenhua.

For example, not long ago, when Yan Wenhua was having dinner with Chen Xi’s family, Yan Ming didn’t show up and told Yan Wenhua that he couldn’t come because he was with a girl.

Yan Wenhua still remembered how Yan Ming sounded on the phone – he seemed somewhat embarrassed but surprisingly proud. Although his tone was calm, as a father who knew his son well, Yan Wenhua could still hear that Yan Ming was in a very good mood, appearing to be with a girl he liked.

This answer had made Yan Wenhua extremely happy at the time. It sounded promising! Maybe before long, Yan Ming would bring the young lady home.

However, Yan Wenhua waited and waited, but never saw any follow-up from Yan Ming. This kid still went to work and came home every day as usual. Several times when he called, Yan Ming was peacefully at home on weekend evenings, answering Yan Wenhua’s calls using his apartment’s landline.

Where was the behavior of someone with a girlfriend?!

Yan Wenhua was simply furious. His son had now learned to use delaying tactics and acting.

The problem was that lying was even worse than direct refusal, because direct refusal wouldn’t give Yan Wenhua false expectations and hope.

But now, just when Yan Wenhua thought he could finally meet his son’s girlfriend, he was given a devastating blow.

Just as Yan Wenhua was about to have an honest talk with Yan Ming about this matter, Yan Ming proactively approached him, saying he wanted to arrange for him to have dinner tomorrow with his girlfriend and his girlfriend’s family to formally meet.

After a brief moment of excitement, Yan Wenhua’s mood quickly calmed down.

Fake.

It was fake.

He thought back – Yan Ming had been home on recent weekends. If he was really in love to the point of meeting parents, he would definitely want to be together all the time.

It must be Yan Ming coming up with new tricks to make him think he indeed had a stable relationship, so he wouldn’t continue pestering him to participate in various disguised blind date meetings, thus avoiding the matter of finding a partner.

So, at the last minute before the meeting, Yan Ming would find an excuse claiming he suddenly had something come up and couldn’t meet, continuing to delay.

Everything seemed to go in the direction Yan Wenhua expected. Every time Yan Ming said he wanted to bring his girlfriend to meet the parents, he would have various reasons to postpone shortly after – either saying there was suddenly a patient needing surgery; or he had to go to mountainous areas for “Bring Light” charity activities; or he had to cover for colleagues…

Yan Wenhua felt he had seen through Yan Ming.

His so-called girlfriend was fake beyond belief.

After regaining rationality, Yan Wenhua also felt that he had been deceived before, which was indeed quite ridiculous.

With Yan Ming’s work intensity, who could tolerate a boyfriend who was always like this? Even spending a great weekend time staying home, even if he once had a girlfriend, she was gone by now.

He still had to arrange blind dates for himself.

The current task was to first expose Yan Ming’s pretense, so this guy couldn’t continue using having a girlfriend as an excuse.

This was what Yan Wenhua thought, and he immediately acted on it.

This weekend, Yan Wenhua had finally finished the board meeting. After pretending to care about Yan Ming and calling him to confirm he was home, Yan Wenhua drove straight to Yan Ming’s residential complex with a stern face, deciding to catch him in the act.

Yan Ming had brazenly claimed to be at home with his girlfriend and said he would bring his girlfriend to formally meet Yan Wenhua tomorrow. Yan Wenhua still remembered clearly how he had said it—

“Speaking of this girlfriend, when you meet her and her mother tomorrow, don’t get too excited.”

Yan Ming chuckled on the other end of the phone, his voice quite proud: “I’ll keep it mysterious and not reveal information about my girlfriend, but you know the person too.”

Although he knew Yan Ming was most likely deceiving him again, Yan Wenhua still instinctively asked: “I know her? Who is it?”

Speaking of this, Yan Wenhua couldn’t help but complain: “Gao Mei, whom I introduced to you before – such a good girl, but you stubbornly didn’t click with her. She was so enthusiastic and proactive, not minding that you were busy with work, visiting your hospital every day. But you didn’t cherish it. I just heard from Old Gao that because Gao Mei kept visiting your hospital, she met another young male doctor in your department, and now they’re lovey-dovey and have even met parents!”

As a result, when he said this, Yan Ming on the other end of the phone was quite confident: “I indeed wasn’t suitable for Gao Mei. She’s found her happiness now, which is good. I sincerely bless her, and I’ve also found a girlfriend more suitable for me. I won’t say more – you’ll know when you meet tomorrow. She’s usually busy with school, too, so we haven’t been able to meet several times.”

Hah, meet tomorrow?

Yan Wenhua wanted to see what excuse Yan Ming would come up with tonight, like suddenly finding some reason to say he couldn’t meet tomorrow at midnight.

However, Yan Wenhua couldn’t wait anymore. Before tomorrow came, he decided today to charge straight to Yan Ming’s apartment and catch him red-handed, alone at home but claiming to have a girlfriend’s company.

But when Yan Wenhua impulsively rushed to Yan Ming’s door, he discovered that Yan Ming had changed the electronic password on his door lock, and he wasn’t home at the moment.

Yan Ming had a habit when setting passwords since childhood. He never used his own birthday as passwords, fearing they would be easily cracked. Instead, he used the birthdays of the people closest and most important to him. The electronic lock password had been Yan Wenhua’s birthday not long ago, but now it had been changed.

Yan Wenhua tried Yan Ming’s mother’s birthday, and even the birthday of a dog Yan Ming once had, but found none of them worked…

Because of too many wrong attempts, he even accidentally triggered the alarm and entered an automatic lockdown phase where no more attempts were allowed.

Yan Ming showed no signs of returning, didn’t answer Yan Wenhua’s calls, and didn’t reply to his messages.

With no choice, Yan Wenhua had to go downstairs.

He originally planned to find a café downstairs in the residential complex, order a drink, and wait for Yan Ming to come home. However, just as he pushed open the café door, he encountered a familiar person – it was Yu Tian, the daughter of his previous blind date.

The young lady was wearing casual cotton clothes, not from any luxury brand, but the material looked comfortable. Combined with her excessively beautiful face, it added several points of elegance. She wasn’t wearing makeup, but her features were still bright and moving.

This blind date had once made Yan Wenhua very regretful. He unilaterally had a very good impression of her, but unfortunately, she still refused him as unsuitable. Even after learning about his financial background, her rejection showed no reluctance – it was a family that didn’t care about money and didn’t only look at money.

Yan Wenhua hadn’t seen this family’s young lady many times, but his impression was deep, because such a beautiful girl was indeed rare. She was also smart and had graduated from the same school as Yan Ming, except unfortunately, after undergraduate graduation, she didn’t pursue further education but went into self-media entrepreneurship.

Meeting her in the café was somewhat unexpected for Yan Wenhua, but he soon warmly greeted Yu Tian.

“Xiao Yu, what a coincidence!”

However, the girl who had always been gracious when seeing him before was somewhat awkward this time, even looking nervous: “Yan… Uncle Yan…”

Yan Wenhua also knew he was being somewhat abrupt. After all, he and her mother had broken up long ago, but at this moment, his mood was quite desolate. Living to this age, not only was his own love life unsettled, but even his son’s love life showed no progress. Looking at him approaching thirty, in a few more years, he’d be approaching forty, and he didn’t know if he’d live to see grandchildren.

“Xiao Yu, are you waiting for someone?” Yan Wenhua was somewhat dejected but still couldn’t help wanting to find someone to confide in: “If you don’t have anything else, could you keep uncle company and chat?”

Yu Tian was indeed stunned, but didn’t refuse Yan Wenhua: “It’s okay, Uncle Yan. I’m not waiting for anyone. Did you encounter some trouble?”

Yan Wenhua didn’t know what was wrong with him, but usually, in front of subordinates and employees, he had to maintain the image of a decisive leader and couldn’t show his vulnerable and troubled side. Now facing Yu Tian, he felt completely relaxed.

“Sigh, if only Yan Ming were as sensible and caring as you, willing to chat with me more.”

Yan Wenhua sighed: “It’s still better to have daughters. My son has a pile of problems.”

“But I think Yan Ming gege is a very good person.” Yu Tian seemed to disagree and looked seriously at Yan Wenhua: “He still has many, many good points.”

Yu Tian sincerely believed this. Today, she and Yan Ming had arranged to meet at his home. On usual weekends, they would spend time together at Yan Ming’s place. Sometimes she would study while Yan Ming read the latest ophthalmology literature. When they encountered interesting discoveries or questions, they could discuss them with each other. When relaxing and entertaining themselves, the two would also cuddle on the sofa watching movies together.

Of course, many things became natural because they were in a private setting. Sometimes, when there was kissing in the movie, Yu Tian and Yan Ming on the sofa would also kiss along with the scene. Often, halfway through the movie, there was no one left on the sofa – Yu Tian and Yan Ming had already returned to the bedroom.

These things always happened very naturally.

When the atmosphere was right, it naturally happened, and Yu Tian didn’t mind.

The only thing that made her somewhat annoyed was Yan Ming’s push for more.

Just because she complained once about never being able to finish watching a movie, Yan Ming last night pulled her onto the sofa and seduced Yu Tian into “finishing” a normal movie in an alternative way. Most hatefully, even when the movie was playing the end credits, Yan Ming was still unsatisfied…

This afternoon, Yu Tian came to Yan Ming’s home as usual. She had a case she wanted to discuss with Yan Ming, but because she suddenly craved something sweet, she casually mentioned wanting the coconut milk cake from the internet-famous shop at the street corner downstairs. Because of this, Yan Ming went downstairs to queue without a second thought.

“Wait for me for another quarter hour. It should be my turn soon.”

Seeing Yan Ming’s message, Yu Tian didn’t idle either. She decided to go downstairs and buy two cups of coffee. The coconut milk cake was too sweet, but paired with coffee’s slight bitterness and richness, it would become sweet but not cloying, with richer layers of flavor.

She just hadn’t expected to encounter Yan Wenhua in the café.

Due to some accidents, although Yan Ming had talked about meeting parents for a long time, they always missed each other due to various circumstances. This time they finally arranged for tomorrow, but…

But Yu Tian hadn’t expected to encounter Yan Wenhua in advance.

Yan Wenhua, who had once been her mother’s potential remarriage partner, had never made Yu Tian nervous or flustered. But now with the change in identity, when he was about to become her boyfriend’s father, Yu Tian felt somewhat at a loss.

She didn’t know if she should reveal her identity first, but how to find an opportunity to reveal it stumped her, because Yan Wenhua was deeply invested in complaining about his son’s inconsideration and lack of caring…

Out of a girlfriend’s duty, Yu Tian tried several times to speak well of Yan Ming, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she was angrily interrupted by Yan Wenhua—

“Good points? Xiao Yu, maybe because you’re Yan Ming’s junior in school and heard many of his ‘glorious deeds’ at school, you have a kind of worship for academic achievers. But, if you interact with him, you’ll discover he has a pile of problems.”

“Do you think his grades are so good that he can skip grades? It’s because he’s cold-hearted and cold-blooded, not interested in normal human warmth. He’s thirty and doesn’t even have a girlfriend! He even lied to me, saying he spends weekends at home with his girlfriend. What girl nowadays would be willing to stay home all the time? Not go out to spend money, eat, drink, and have fun? I think he’s raised an electronic pet! And he calls it a girlfriend! No normal girl would be like this!”

“…”

Yu Tian, who was just about to clarify that Yan Ming’s girlfriend was herself, fell silent.

Yan Wenhua didn’t notice anything unusual and continued pouring out his troubles: “I’m not the old-fashioned type requiring matching family backgrounds or political-business marriages. I just hope she’s a normal girl with a decent education and some cleverness. But now I think I was being excessive myself. Why would a clever girl choose Yan Ming?”

“Yan Ming usually just wears those few casual clothes, wears a white coat at work, and doesn’t even drive an expensive car. He won’t even let my driver bring the Lamborghini to the hospital to find him. But in modern society, being low-key isn’t a virtue. Just with his doctor’s income and a doctor’s busy schedule, which clever girl would be willing to marry him?! Of course, he should show off his family’s strength!”

Yan Wenhua became more agitated: “He even lied to me saying he found a student! That part is quite realistic – only students would be silly enough to think a doctor husband is a good choice.”

Yan Wenhua was quite sincere, looking at Yu Tian honestly: “Xiao Yu, I also consider you half one of our own. Although things didn’t work out with your mother, I have some heartfelt words for you, uncle tells you: never find a doctor as a boyfriend. When they’re busy, they don’t recognize family. Several times when I had diarrhea and acute gastroenteritis and asked Yan Ming to accompany me for IV drips, this little rascal would suddenly say a patient had post-operative complications and just run off, leaving me behind. He even brazenly told me that my gastroenteritis wouldn’t kill me without him, but the patient might lose their eyesight without him…”

“Although I understand the reasoning, is this human speech? If he said this to his girlfriend, who could stand it?”

Yu Tian couldn’t hold back: “But uncle, have you considered that someone who would be with Yan Ming would inherently understand his work nature, wouldn’t mind these things, and would support him?”

Yu Tian continued with crazy hints: “Like me – someone like me who is also a medical student, sort of Yan Ming’s colleague, would understand him very well, even appreciate him more because we’re in the same profession. I’d think it’s not easy for him to do this much for patients, and he has great medical ethics…”

“And Yan Ming was cold and aloof before, but maybe he just hadn’t met the right person? If he met a girl he truly loved, he wouldn’t completely abandon her when she’s sick…”

Unfortunately, Yu Tian’s words didn’t comfort Yan Wenhua. He said sadly, “So I’m not his right person? He’ll take care of the right girl when she’s sick, but his old father can just be brushed off?”

“…”

Yan Wenhua forced a smile: “Xiao Yu, thank you for chatting with this old man about these things. I know you have a good temper, good nature, you’re smart and clever, and as a medical student, you can better understand doctors’ busy schedules. Sigh, don’t blame Uncle for rambling. Uncle just feels it’s a pity – it would be great if you were my future daughter-in-law.”

Yu Tian’s eyes brightened – this was a good opportunity to reveal her identity!

She decisively declared: “Then I’ll be your future daughter-in-law!”

This earth-shattering statement indeed made Yan Wenhua pause, but soon his eyes dimmed again as he looked gratefully at Yu Tian: “Xiao Yu, thank you for comforting me like this. Uncle is already very happy.”

“But I also know you and Yan Ming don’t click.” Speaking of this, Yan Wenhua continued sighing regardless of Yu Tian’s bewilderment: “Although I don’t know if Yan Ming would be your type, our Yan Ming works in ophthalmology, but his eyes are blind. When I asked him what kind of partner he wanted so I could help him find someone, he said he wanted someone with a rather ordinary appearance, thinking that would be better for home life. He thought pretty girls preferred going out and playing, so they’d be less likely to accept his busy work schedule…”

Was there such a thing???

Yu Tian was truly puzzled now: “Isn’t this discriminating against good-looking girls? Not all pretty girls like going out and playing?”

Yan Wenhua looked up at Yu Tian, also quite embarrassed: “So I said his eyesight isn’t good. Anyway, when I wanted to introduce him to someone, he was very resistant to pretty girls, so most likely my future daughter-in-law will be a gentle, ordinary-looking girl…”

“…”

This was too ridiculous!

Yu Tian didn’t know what to say for a moment and felt like no matter what, she couldn’t continue the conversation to reveal that she was Yan Ming’s girlfriend…

It was then that the café door was pushed open again. Yu Tian looked toward the sound and saw Yan Ming, who had already bought the coconut milk cake and came to find her after seeing her message about going to the café.

“They said there might be thunderstorms later. Why did you come downstairs to buy coffee yourself?” Yan Ming didn’t immediately notice Yan Wenhua, who had his back to him. He quickly took the coffee takeout bag from Yu Tian’s hands and said gently, “Just tell me next time you want coffee. I could have brought it up with the cake after buying it…”

“Yan Ming?”

Yan Ming was stunned by this familiar voice. He looked toward the speaker: “Dad? Why are you here?”

Yan Wenhua stared wide-eyed, turning to look at Yan Ming, then at Yu Tian: “Xiao Yu, did you arrange to meet Yan Ming for something?”

“Uncle…”

Just as Yu Tian was feeling awkward, Yan Ming took the initiative to hold Yu Tian’s hand, gently supporting her waist and bringing her forward: “I originally wanted to introduce you two tomorrow, but since you came today, let’s meet again with new identities.”

“Yu Tian, my girlfriend, your future daughter-in-law.”

???

Yan Wenhua’s eyes showed real confusion, as if he hadn’t completely reacted: “What are you talking about? Isn’t Xiao Yu…”

Yu Tian was quite embarrassed, but Yan Ming was very calm: “She’s not my blood-related sister, and I’ve never treated her as a sister.”

Yan Wenhua was stunned for a long time, but soon, instead of joy in his eyes, there was anger: “You actually brought Xiao Yu to act and deceive me. I was wondering what’s wrong with blind dates. Do you want to be alone without even a child when you’re seventy or eighty?!”

“…”

“Dad, Yu Tian is my girlfriend, not acting. It’s the real kind.” Yan Ming was also somewhat helpless: “What’s unbelievable about this? My friends all say we’re very compatible.”

Yan Wenhua quickly found a loophole: “But didn’t you say your girlfriend was a student? Xiao Yu isn’t doing self-media entrepreneurship? At least draft your lies!”

“Yu Tian went back to school and plans to pursue academics. She’s indeed a graduate student now.”

Yan Wenhua was still shocked and disbelieving. He looked at Yu Tian, then stared at Yan Ming, as if trying to find traces of lying on his face: “Didn’t you say before you didn’t want someone pretty?”

To this questioning, Yan Ming remained calm. This man said righteously, “Is Yu Tian pretty? I don’t think so.”

Not only Yan Wenhua, but Yu Tian also frowned slightly after this statement, somewhat displeased.

What did he mean?

However, just as Yu Tian was about to get angry, she heard Yan Ming say calmly: “Yu Tian isn’t pretty at all – she’s especially pretty. I indeed didn’t plan to find someone pretty, so I found someone especially pretty.”

Yan Wenhua was almost driven to death by Yan Ming’s bandit logic: “You clearly said before you just wanted someone with decent, ordinary looks!”

Yan Ming just slightly raised his eyelids and said calmly: “Dad, you’re also a man. Did you believe that?”

“…”

Looking at how Yan Ming looked at Yu Tian, and those intimate body language that couldn’t be faked, the intimate atmosphere between Yu Tian and Yan Ming, Yan Wenhua gradually began to understand.

Yan Ming was telling the truth.

He and Yu Tian were indeed boyfriend and girlfriend.

Therefore, it wasn’t surprising that he encountered Yu Tian in the café outside Yan Ming’s residential complex.

Yan Ming had a girlfriend, which made Yan Wenhua very happy.

That the girlfriend was Yu Tian made him one hundred percent more satisfied.

It was just that this kid had hidden it so well. He and her mother didn’t work out, but this little rascal had sneakily pursued their daughter.

Yan Wenhua was a bit angry but also wanted to laugh.

He felt he didn’t need to worry anymore. No wonder his son could shine in ophthalmology – his eyes were bright and very effective.

Yan Wenhua’s conviction about Yan Ming and Yu Tian’s relationship was strengthened when he followed them back to Yan Ming’s home and watched Yan Ming enter Yu Tian’s birthday as the door password.

Yan Wenhua was a careful person. During his previous relationship with Yu Tian’s mother, he had thoughtfully remembered both her and her child’s birthdays.

Once they entered the house, Yan Ming hardly needed to explain anything.

There were traces of Yu Tian everywhere in the room – her carelessly thrown pink notebook, neatly arranged slippers, and photos of her and Yan Ming openly displayed in the living room…

Everything was self-evident.

Yan Wenhua finally became happy.

He almost immediately found an excuse to leave—

“Tomorrow’s meeting can’t be delayed anymore. I need to hurry and buy meeting gifts for Xiao Yu and her mother. We’ll be family from now on. And I need to find my friend who understands feng shui and astrology to calculate auspicious dates for your wedding, and I need to research wedding procedures…”

As Yu Tian watched in bewilderment, Yan Wenhua walked away with steady steps and a radiant face.

Once he left, only Yu Tian and Yan Ming remained in the house.

Yan Ming was somewhat surprised by their encounter: “What did my dad say to you before I came?”

Yu Tian thought for a moment and summarized the key points: “Uncle said you have a pile of problems.”

“Only someone blind would find you as a boyfriend.”

“He warned me never to find a doctor as a partner.”

“He also said you don’t like pretty girls.”

…

Yan Ming was somewhat amused and speechless: “Is my dad my biological father? Does he hope I can get married, or does he hope I’ll be alone forever?”

“He’s your biological father.” Yu Tian teased while looking embarrassedly at Yan Ming: “He’s already unilaterally planning wedding procedures. Thinking quite far ahead.”

“Not too far.” Yan Ming moved closer to Yu Tian and kissed her cheek: “Frankly speaking, he’s not thinking as far as I am.”

?

“He only thought of the step of marriage, but I’ve already imagined how many children we’ll have after marriage, what to name them if they’re girls, what to name them if they’re boys, what interest classes each child should take, what elementary school they should attend…”

After saying this, Yan Ming lifted Yu Tian horizontally: “Alright, we’ve eaten cake, drunk coffee, we’re well-fed, and gained a lot of calories. We should exercise after meals.”

This man said seriously: “And regarding my imagined future, especially having children, although I’m not in a hurry and respect your opinion – we won’t have them now – it doesn’t prevent us from practicing and simulating some preliminary steps of how to make children.”

“When we want to have children in the future, we’ll be able to do it skillfully through practice.”

Yu Tian had to bury her face in this rogue man’s chest with a red face.

She regretted eating those cakes.

But having eaten them after he waited in line for so long, Yu Tian couldn’t just not show some appreciation.

So…

It seemed she could only reciprocate…