Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!

Don’t be fooled by Xu Huizhen acting as if she’s the one who’s aggrieved.

In reality, Xu Huizhen really doesn’t treat Ye Fei well.

Even Ye Dezhang thinks it’s too much.

They’re both her daughters, Ye Fei wasn’t picked up from the street, so how can Xu Huizhen be so heartless towards Ye Fei?

Because Xu Huizhen is unkind to Ye Fei, Ye Dezhang wants to make up for it.

But he’s also tightly controlled by Xu Huizhen.

He can’t provide financial or material compensation.

He can only express concern for Ye Fei and offer her some emotional comfort.

Ye Dezhang asks himself, he’s really done what a father should do for Ye Fei.

If Ye Fei was leaving, why didn’t she tell him?

Five years have passed, and she’s never contacted him, leaving him worrying all along.

Ye Fei is a smart girl; she can’t possibly not know that he’s worried about her.

Moreover, as Xu Huizhen mentioned, judging by Ye Fei’s appearance on TV, she really looks well.

She hasn’t suffered in B City.

Why doesn’t she contact him?

Even if he went to B City to find her, it would be out of longing and concern, never to take advantage of her in the slightest!

Ye Dezhang feels chilled, but he still says, "Ye Fei is not that kind of child."

"Then go find her!" Xu Huizhen knows Ye Dezhang too well.

Seeing Ye Dezhang’s reaction, she knows his ear is soft and that he’s been swayed by her words.

After decades of marriage, Xu Huizhen knows how to handle Ye Dezhang.

"Don’t blame me for not warning you; if you go and she doesn’t acknowledge you, you’ll come back humiliated, all embarrassed. We, our family, I and Ning Ning wouldn’t laugh at you. But the neighbors, while they won’t say anything to your face, they’ll definitely laugh behind your back."

Ye Dezhang has soft ears and cares about his face.

He’s exactly been hit on the point he cares about by Xu Huizhen.

"All the old neighbors know Ye Fei’s attending events in B City. If you go find her and return empty-handed, when the neighbors ask you how things went in B City, what did Ye Fei give you, you’ll have nothing to say and have to fake it. Wouldn’t that suffocate your heart?" Xu Huizhen jabbed at her own heart, questioning.

"We haven’t been able to contact Ye Fei. But Ye Fei knows the home phone number. Her mind is sharp, she remembered it long ago. Yet, not once has she called home. Don’t you know what that means?"

Xu Huizhen steps aside, waving her hand toward the door: "Go ahead, go find her, I won’t stop you."

Xu Huizhen, the elder, presses Ye Dezhang step by step.

Xu Huizhen says nothing as Ye Dezhang doesn’t move an inch towards the door.

Eventually, he sighs, sits back on the sofa with his head down, and pulls out a cigarette to smoke.

Xu Huizhen coldly laughs to herself.

With the kind of soft ear and vanity, though he claims to care about Ye Fei, there’s no real action seen.

Otherwise, with Ye Fei missing for five years, he should have been searching everywhere long ago.

But what’s the result?

He didn’t even file a police report, fearing shame, people thinking the daughter ran away, sure to have been abused at home.

Else why would she leave without a word, running off on her own?

He didn’t even spend money to look for her.

Just sits at home all day sighing deeply, pretending, just to show he’s a caring father.

If Ye Dezhang doesn’t file a report, Xu Huizhen naturally happily leaves it alone.

Otherwise, finding Ye Fei would still be a hassle.

Though Ye Dezhang pretends, he still cares for Ye Fei.

Knowing Ye Fei has been schemed against, he’d clash with them.