I have only been loyal to myself in this life, and all the choices I have made are the result of willingness and free will. I have never been enslaved or held hostage by anyone or anything, not even God! I can do it with worship and respect.
Bow to others, but never bow to submission. - Raistlin
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The sharp and harsh sounds in the living room finally subsided. Ruochu breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to go out to see the situation. He remembered Xiaochuan's words, so he pressed his back against the door and waited for the result.
At this time, Qin Bei and Xiaochuan were both exhausted. The two of them were leaning disheveled on a sofa. Xiaochuan kept wiping his nosebleeds with tissue paper while raising his head. Qin Bei sat opposite and looked at Xiaochuan.
Chuan's movements made him gasp for breath.
When the last piece of paper was used up, Xiaochuan got up and went to the bathroom. When he came back, he had an ice pack in his hand. He walked up to Qin Bei and reached out to hand the ice pack to him.
At first, Qin Bei turned his head away, as if he was refusing to accept anyone thousands of miles away, but Xiaochuan just held it up without any intention of taking it away. Qin Bei had no choice but to take it and apply it on his red and swollen skin.
In terms of fists, it had been a long time since they had fought. Neither of them were young people. After such a big exertion, it took a long time for their breathing to stabilize.
"Let's end it. Just pretend this never happened..." Qin Bei said weakly, watching the ice in the ice bag slowly melt into water.
"This is not my business alone. I have to consider Ruochu's feelings." Xiaochuan glanced at Qin Bei and replied calmly.
"You go back to the United States, and we will do Ruochu's work. She is still young and doesn't understand many things yet..."
"Why do you all treat her as a child who has not grown up?" Xiaochuan interrupted Qin Bei eagerly, "She has grown up, has the ability to think independently, and has the right to pursue the life she wants.
, why don’t you think about her from her perspective, Qin Bei, fortunately you have stayed abroad. Although she is your daughter, she is equal to us in terms of personality. It is precisely because I respect her, no
Only by treating her as a child will she trust me..."
"Does the fact that she trusts you mean that you can possess her?" Qin Bei was worthy of having participated in the college debate competition when he was in college. His style and ability were still the same as before, and he knew how to find opportunities and exploits. Coupled with his unsatisfied mood at this time, what he said
It is inevitably harsh and harsh, even a bit forceful.
"Bei, don't call me a flower-picking thief who does all kinds of evil? If I can possess whoever I want, then think about what I said to Qin Nan when I was in the United States..." Xiaochuan was also confused by Qin Bei's words.
I became angry and began to lose my sense of what I said.
Qin Bei suddenly sat up straight, "So our happiness is your charity, right? We owe you, but we don't have to use our daughter to repay the debt. If that's the case, I really misjudged you.
,Besides, is Qin Nan yours to take possession of if you want?" This was beginning to be close to a childish quarrel.
"Okay, I take back what I just said. I didn't hesitate to speak. But Qin Bei, please calm down and speak properly. You know I didn't mean that." Xiaochuan said with a frown.
Qin Bei thought for a while and leaned back on the sofa.
For a moment, neither of them knew how to start the next topic. The two people who had talked about everything since childhood were actually speechless at times.
"Bei, I have to think about Ruoruo's happiness..." It was Xiaochuan who broke the oppressive silence.
"It's for her sake that you let her go. How old are we? How many more years can you still love her? When you die, what will she do? Be a widow?" Qin Bei doesn't know what's wrong now, Xiao Xiao
As soon as Chuan opened his mouth, he wanted to throw a bomb.
"Why do you say it so harshly? Do you really want me to die now?" Xiaochuan couldn't help but glare at Qin Bei.
"Uh, I'm sorry." Qin Bei also realized that what he said was a bit extreme, and his basic literacy prompted him to apologize to Xiaochuan. "But have you really never thought about this problem?" he continued to ask.
Xiaochuan suddenly remembered something at this moment. He groped around on his body and found that the cigarette case had been knocked to the ground by Qin Bei. He picked it up and took out one, then threw the cigarette case on Qin Bei. Qin Bei
They also hurriedly took out one. Only then did the two smokers think of smoking.
"How could I not have thought that she is also my daughter? Do you think I am not worried about her happiness after my death? But she made me understand one thing, that is, whether to make her a widow after my death or to make her a widow from now on.
Which one is more harmful?"
"Are you so confident that she won't be happy without you?" Maybe he wasn't smoking and irritated just now, but now the two of them started to smoke. Qin Bei's mood calmed down a lot, and his words were not so sharp.
"Oh, I didn't believe it at first, but now it looks like this. I suggest you talk to Ruochu and listen to her thoughts?" Xiaochuan suddenly suggested. Qin Bei was angry before, and he was afraid that Ruochu would
After being wronged at the first meeting, and now seeing Qin Bei regaining his senses, it would be much better for the father and daughter to communicate with each other than for him to sing to himself here alone.
Qin Bei thought for a while, got up and knocked on the door of Ruochu's room. After only knocking once, the door was eagerly opened by Ruochu. "Let's talk." Qin Bei entered Ruochu's room sideways.
Looking at Xiaochuan at the door, Xiaochuan nodded at her, and then the door was closed.
Xiaochuan lay back on the sofa, blowing out smoke rings at the ceiling and watching them slowly dissipate, but the clouds in his heart became more and more intense.
Even if he couldn't hear what Qin Bei and Ruochu were talking about, Xiaochuan could predict it. But even so, as time passed by, he was still getting more and more anxious. On the one hand, he wanted the two to talk.
If the time is longer, the communication may be more in-depth, but I also hope that Qin Bei can come out immediately and tell him that he has understood Ruochu and her feelings and is willing to help them convince others. This would be great.
, although we know that this is just a luxury wish, but people always love to fantasize about things that are not easy to obtain, don’t they?
Finally, Ruochu's door was opened, Qin Bei walked out, and Ruochu followed to the door, "Wait a moment, your dad and I still have something to say." Qin Bei looked forward and faced Ruo Chu behind him.
Chu said, Ruochu paused for a moment, then retreated into the room and closed the door consciously. Xiaochuan suddenly sat up from the sofa and looked at Qin Bei's expression nervously, but the fact was that Qin Bei had no expression at all.
Qin Bei walked to the sofa where he had just been sitting, sat down, picked up the cigarette case and looked for cigarettes, and sighed when he found that Xiaochuan had finished smoking them.
"Boss, I'm not going to hide it from you, I have a student who is about the same age as Ruo Chu..." Qin Bei was a little hesitant to tell this matter.
Xiaochuan keenly understood what Qin Bei was saying, "You can't let Qin Nan get hurt."
Qin Bei glared at Xiaochuan, "I really can't hide anything from you. What I mean is that I encountered the same situation as you..."
"What?" This time it was Xiaochuan's turn to stand up from the sofa excitedly. "How can you fall in love with someone else? What about Qin Nan?"
"I'm not in love with someone else. I always love my wife, okay? You sit down first." Qin Bei's brows knitted together, feeling that it was more difficult to communicate with Xiaochuan than with Ruochu.
"Well, how can it be like me? We are in love, but you are secretly in love, okay?" Xiaochuan looked at Qin Bei with contempt and sat back down.
"But I think it's the same..." Qin Bei waved his hand to stop Xiaochuan's imminent rebuttal, signaling to listen to him.
"Ruochu, this child has not been with me since he was a child, and he is very dependent on you. After that, you were not together for a long time, and then you lived together again. That sense of dependence came back, and Ruochu felt that he couldn't live without you.
, and girls of their age group, especially those who have studied, like older ones very much. It is easy for students to think that they have fallen in love with the teacher because of their admiration. Ruochu also admires you, plus the original dependence.
, I mistakenly thought it was my love for you..."
"Just like my student, Ruochu is in the same situation as her..."
"Bei, what about you and Nan? Wasn't Nan your student at the beginning? Didn't she fall in love with you from admiration?" Xiaochuan stunned Qin Beiwen with just one sentence.
"I just want to say this to explain that your basis is not tenable at all. Love that develops from worship is also love. Some people even say that a woman can only fall in love with a man if she worships him first. Regardless of whether it is so absolute or not, I and I
Ruochu's relationship is definitely different from your relationship with that female student. Your student has a one-sided crush on you and you don't love her, but Ruochu and I are in love. There is no comparison at all.
In this sense, I think our relationship is more like that of you and Nan."
"Listen to me, you must want to say that you and Nan are equal, that's why we fell in love with each other, but how do you know that Ruochu and I are not equal? Could it be that just because of the age gap, the harmony in our hearts should be erased?
Equality of ideas? She can love me because of admiration, can't I love her because of appreciation?" Xiaochuan said in one breath and looked straight at Qin Bei, waiting for his continued refutation, ready
The posture of continued debate.
Qin Bei also looked at him, but suddenly rubbed his temples, "It seems that I can't convince you, but that doesn't mean I can accept it."
"Can I ask you something?" Qin Bei's voice was calm, and his eyes were indeed begging.
Xiaochuan nodded.
"Can you promise me not to let anyone know before I figure this out? Especially her mother, you know I'm worried..."
"Don't worry, I promise you." Since he is preparing to fight a protracted war, Qin Bei must pass this level first, otherwise everything else will be useless.
"Qin Ruochu, come out, let's go home." Qin Bei suddenly shouted into Ruochu's room.
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Off-topic: Yesterday I talked about the limited perspective of this book in the discussion forum. This chapter can be used as an example to serve as circumstantial evidence. When Qin Bei entered the room to talk to Ruochu, Xiaochuan’s perspective was used here. Xiaochuan’s perspective was used here.
They were locked out, so no one knew what Qin Bei and Ruochu said. If I write out everything they said in the room, it would be God’s perspective. Of course, I can also switch to Ruochu’s perspective and write about the room.
Things, but I have left a blank here to avoid covering everything. Don’t blame me Tang Monk, I just said it when I thought of it, hehe.