Chapter 80

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Lin Yanchen pressed his lips together tightly; he had walked right into a trap. “Is that so?”

“Why do you think I would do something like that? Look for someone to follow someone you know? Although I’m not clear on who that Chu person is… But I never thought that I was such a person in your heart. You’ve distanced yourself from me again in recent months. I don’t know what I did wrong. Before, you even learned to properly say ‘thank you, dad’…” 2NSYTf

Lin Yanchen became silent. In fact, he still felt suspicious. Besides his dad, who would have a motive to have someone tail Chu Xun? Or was his dad just pretending that he didn’t know?

Father Lin said, “How about you tell me who Chu Xun is? I can go investigate who is tailing him and prove my innocence.”

Lin Yanchen sat down and took a deep breath. “Chu Xun is my boyfriend.”

Father Lin was stunned. A man? He remembered that as a teenager, Lin Yanchen didn’t make friends, and just mingled with that small group of brothers of his all day long, and was very close to them. He had even thought that Lin Yanchen had that orientation, and had mentally prepared himself to have a good talk with his child to express his tolerance and understanding – in the end, he was scolded severely by Lin Yanchen. At that time, Lin Yanchen had resolutely insisted that he wasn’t homosexual. lPrH4X

Father Lin asked blankly, “Didn’t you say before that you didn’t like men?”

Lin Yanchen: “When?”

Father Lin: “When you were around 16 years old.”

Lin Yanchen frowned and thought for a while. When he quarreled with his father before, he seemed to have said something like that in a moment of anger. 1Vltdw

Lin Yanchen blushed. “I was still young then. I said that casually.”

Father Lin nodded slightly; whether it was true or not, he accepted it. “Are you planning to make it permanent? Find some time to bring him home and let me meet him.”

Lin Yanchen couldn’t quite believe it. “You’re really okay with it?”

Father Lin asked, “Why not? Is a parent like me no good? Am I that terrible? Why are you looking at me like that, do you think I’m plotting something?” Ba9k3O

Lin Yanchen: “You didn’t even ask about his background. How can I believe that so easily?”

This was what it meant to “see a bow reflected as a snake in a cup,” and to be unnecessarily suspicious.

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Lin Yanchen was reprimanded by his father, and somehow felt that he was wrong. He was silent for a moment, before he said in a shy and slightly restrained voice, “His name is Chu Xun; the Chu in ‘outstanding talent,’ and Xun in ‘river flood.’ (name = flooding with outstanding talent :D) This year… this year, he’s thirty-one years old.” HBQdCd

Speaking up to this point, Lin Yanchen stopped. Of course, it didn’t matter to him, but he was worried that his father would be biased. After all, everything else could be changed except for age, and one couldn’t just be reborn.

Father Lin looked at him again and said, “What’s the matter? Your mother was also two years older than me; I don’t mind. Do you want to continue with your explanation?”

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But Chu Xun was five years older than Lin Yanchen. He said, “He’s from an ordinary family. His father is a high school teacher, and his mother is a painter who’s not well-known.”

Father Lin nodded. “Oh, good, a literary family.” TGrjeY

It was going along so smoothly that Lin Yanchen just didn’t dare believe it. He asked, “You can accept all this? Didn’t you introduce a lot of girls to me? Each of them had a good family background; Chu Xun can’t compare with them.”

Father Lin patiently explained, “That’s because… the people I can get in touch with are people with that kind of family background. In fact, I don’t care what kind of person you date. If you like them, and they’re a good person, I don’t have any objections. It doesn’t matter whether they have money or not. Mainly, I just asked my friends if they knew any young women suitable for you. Think about what all those uncles are like, we usually don’t run into girls with ordinary backgrounds… I never thought about asking about men. It’s not that I discriminate against this. If you had told me earlier that you like men now, I could have still helped you ask around, although I don’t have to now.”

Lin Yanchen was worried again, and asked cautiously, “What is a ‘good person’ to you? Saying it like that is too general.”

Father Lin reassured him again. “I think a good person is someone who hasn’t ever flouted the law and sincerely loves you.” a4cWgf

Lin Yanchen breathed a sigh of relief.

Father Lin said, “I really don’t know why you think so poorly of me… What do you plan to do in the future? Will you bring him and introduce him to me, or will you take me to see him? I can do anything, it’s up to you.

“You don’t have to be so afraid; I’m not a villain who will break apart a happy couple. The reason I asked you whether you wanted to go on blind dates wasn’t because I wanted to force you to get married. You don’t think that I would sell you off through marriage, do you? I just saw how hard it was on you when the person you liked before passed away… You’re still so young, so I was thinking that you couldn’t be alone for a lifetime… ai…

“It’s good that you can still fall in love with others now.” wlRf4j

At this point, Lin Yanchen felt uneasy. He hesitated, then said, “It’s that person.”

Father Lin didn’t understand. “Who?”

Lin Yanchen said, “Chu Xun is that person. Because of some misunderstanding, I mistakenly thought he passed away. He actually didn’t – I found him.”

Father Lin: “Ah?” qeJKoP

With this opportunity in front of him, all the complaints Lin Yanchen had been suppressing all these years suddenly burst out. “I didn’t fall in love with another person, I love only him. I didn’t go look for a new flame a year or two after! I’m not like you. Mom had only been dead for around three years, and you already went looking for a girlfriend… You really get over things quickly – right, people have to look forward, is that it?”

Father Lin was so depressed and frustrated that he didn’t respond for a long time. He said, “Rome wasn’t built in a day. I’m sorry I didn’t have a good talk with you earlier. You have a deep prejudice against me. Maybe even if I speak now, you’ll think I’m just quibbling. At that time, you resented that I didn’t accompany your mother much, and I also resented myself. But the circumstances at that time, if you can understand a little… how could I be as free as I am now? I walked on thin ice every day. If I didn’t pay attention, I would fall into a deep abyss and even implicate the both of you.

“The beginning of the fourth year after your mother’s death, you had your eleventh birthday, and you hated me so much. I really couldn’t think of anything. I thought you might be lacking a mother’s love, so I wanted to find a mother for you, someone who could take care of you.”

Lin Yanchen said, “You had so many girlfriends. I remember that there were always strange women coming and going.” Fl7R8

Father Lin said, “So many? There were only two formal girlfriends ah. The rest were just introductions, and I didn’t contact them again after that. You should remember the two aunts… I was also always the one who was dumped. Aunt Huang, you should remember, I thought you liked her, but then you made her lose a lot of face. ”

Lin Yanchen said, “Wasn’t it because I wanted to look independent that I acted like that back then?”

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Thinking about what happened back then, Father Lin was a little sad. “I thought about it later; you really didn’t want a stepmother, and me treating other people so half-heartedly like that wasn’t good, so I gave up.”

Lin Yanchen thought about it. It had been nearly ten years since then, and his dad really hadn’t found someone else. Rkvjcd

He was the one who had blamed his dad wrongly.

Lin Yanchen remembered that Chu Xun had said to him before that if a man was determined to take a mistress, he wouldn’t listen to his children.

He hadn’t listened to Chu Xun at that time.

But his attitude toward his father still couldn’t be overturned right away in so short a time. 2c5fr3

Father Lin didn’t mind at all.

After today’s long and intimate talk, his old heart was already comforted.

He finally saw the dawn of a reconciliation with Lin Yanchen.

Father Lin said softly and cautiously, “You still haven’t said whether I can meet Chu Xun or not. It seems that you really like him. Since you were small, you would hide all your favorite things very well and not want me to know about them. ” 7TSVrw

Lin Yanchen blushed. “I’m already 26 years old, I’m not a child anymore. I want to marry Chu Xun.”

Father Lin said, “Okay.”

He suddenly understood why Lin Yanchen secretly moved his “mole hole” a while ago; it should be because he thought his dad wouldn’t agree with it.

Father Lin saw that when Chu Xun was mentioned, Lin Yanchen’s eyes glowed with a tender light, and he was very curious. “What kind of person is Chu Xun?” o6YSnQ

Lin Yanchen didn’t realize that his voice turned extremely gentle. “I can’t describe him in just one or two sentences. Chu Xun is a very, very good person… but I only have money.”

How nice; Father Lin still believed in Lin Yanchen’s foresight. The boy had been very picky since childhood, and held no regard for just ordinary people.

Even if beauty was in the eye of the beholder, Chu Xun shouldn’t be a bad person.

Father Lin said, “What are you worried about? Since you’re confident that he’s a very good man, I would like to meet him.” jUz31r

He suddenly thought of something, and added, “What does he like? I have to prepare gifts. Can you tell me?”

But Father Lin saw that Lin Yanchen seemed to have thought of something which made his face change again. “What’s the matter now?”

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Lin Yanchen said, “There’s something else I still have to tell you…”

Father Lin nodded. What big billows and waves hadn’t he seen before? So much had happened today that he didn’t think there was anything else that would be able to startle him. Lin Yanchen said that he liked men; Father Lin wasn’t even that surprised, and quickly accepted such a fact. W9ozei

Lin Yanchen said seriously, “I’m not joking with you. First of all, Chu Xun is a man, but he… His body is rather special.”

Father Lin thought, Ah? Special how? Disabled? Or was he born with a disease that was hard to treat, and that was why he was mistakenly thought to have died? There were only a few possibilities.

They weren’t big problems, but the last one might be difficult to resolve. If it was a disease that even money couldn’t solve…

Father Lin had just heard Chu Xun say that his lover wasn’t dead, and he was very happy. Before, he thought that all the men in the Lin family were destined to become widowers at a young age, and that their Lin family would never be happy. 4KdEVA

If the other person was sick… then Lin Yanchen would still have to be sad again. It was the cruelest thing in the world to watch one’s most loved one die.

Last time, half his hair turned white.

The more Father Lin thought, the graver his mood became. “Say it.”

Lin Yanchen took a deep breath and said simply, “He can get pregnant.” c2VFqU

Father Lin: “???”

Lin Yanchen continued to throw bombs. “We already have a child; his formal name is ‘Chu Yu,’ and his nickname is ‘Jiu Jiu.’ He’s nine and a half months old already.”

Father Lin: “?????????????????”

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