"You can’t be too decisive about everything. The feeling of being unable to achieve what you like is very unpleasant. Our daughter secretly bought a sketchbook several times; don’t pretend you didn’t see it!"

Xia Zhengyang pressed his lips together and said nothing.

"Let’s not bring up those old matters. Does Yuanyuan even lose the right to like someone now? Shouldn’t parents support their children? Are you really going to break them up?"

These words, Xia Zhengyang was unwilling to listen to, "What do you mean by breaking them up? Do you all really know what that person is like? It’s said that Xu Kun is now the vice president of Beichen Group, a major shareholder with considerable wealth, compared to us small business owners. Do you really want our daughter to marry and live with her head bowed one day? The more successful a person is, the more temptations there are around them. If they were really together, could Yuanyuan handle that kind of situation?"

Bai Wei pressed her lips together, "Is it really as serious as you say? Right now, it’s just Yuanyuan one-sidedly liking him; she hasn’t even explained the situation to him. You don’t know what the other person thinks at all, and you’re already imagining things far ahead. What are you planning to do? Let her like who she wants, and if the boy really doesn’t feel that way, Yuanyuan can find her way out of it herself and won’t feel regret later. If you stop her from liking him directly, it’ll just provoke her emotions!"

For the first time, Xia Zhengyang felt that his wife was unusually eloquent. She usually spoke gently, but she held an opposing view on this matter.

"Anyway, we as parents shouldn’t interfere and let things develop naturally. If you insist on meddling, and really push Yuanyuan to the edge, don’t cry when something happens!"

Xia Zhengyang: "..."

Is it really his method that’s wrong?

Even after Bai Wei left, he couldn’t figure out the answer.

At the dining table, Xia Zhengyang sat in the main seat, looking at the empty spot originally meant for Xia Yuan, then turned to the servant, "Go call Yuanyuan down for dinner."

The servant remained standing still and replied, "Called already. Miss said she didn’t want to eat."

Still quite a temper...

"If she doesn’t want to eat, then let her be! Don’t eat even if she gets hungry!"

He picked up the chopsticks, said nothing, and started eating.

Xia Yuan cried enough, then slowly got up, stretched her numb legs, found the phone that had accidentally fallen on the floor earlier, walked to the bed and sat down. After hesitating for a long time, she unlocked the screen and dialed a number.

The phone rang three times before it was picked up. Xu Kun’s slightly low voice came from the other end, "Hello." 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

After a few seconds without a response, he asked again, "Xia Yuan?"

Still no response.

Feeling a bit worried, he asked again, "Xia Yuan, are you there? Why aren’t you speaking?"

"I’m here..."

Xu Kun was startled; her voice now was incredibly hoarse, with a strong nasal tone, like she had just been crying.

"What happened? Who bullied you?"

Listening to his concerned words, she couldn’t help but feel a sting in her nose once again.

Suppressing her emotions, she cleared her throat and said, "I really want to eat at that teppanyaki place you took me to last time, but I don’t know the way. Can you take me there?"

Xu Kun glanced at the pile of documents on the table in front of him, "Can you come out?"

"I..."

Xia Yuan bit her lip tightly, guessing that her father would still have someone monitoring her room. She just suddenly wanted to hear his voice earlier and now didn’t know how to continue the conversation...