Time Travel: The Queen's Coronation

After receiving the documents I sent, Xiao Yuan immediately flew to the United States. We also met up with him in New York to discuss the partnership with Zero. Since we had internships at Zero and performed exceptionally well there, Zero's senior management was impressed, so the deal was a no-brainer. While Yuanyuan could develop the system, we still needed to consider a partner for the equipment. Domestic equipment vendors mostly sourced their equipment from Zero. By cutting out the middleman and working directly with Zero, the original manufacturer, we've saved our project a significant amount of money. Furthermore, if this successful partnership continues, it will foster future collaborations, making it a long-term business.

"Wei Qing! It's great that you can get such a big project just by studying!" Xiao Yuan gave me a thumbs up.

"The purpose of studying is to improve my career, and of course I have to keep my career in mind all the time!" I answered proudly.

"Xiao Yuan, look at my wife, she's abandoned our family for her career!"

"Then you can return to your family!" Xiao Yuan smiled and patted Rong Zixuan's chest.

"How can we allow men to stay at home and women to pursue careers?"

"There are a lot of househusbands nowadays, and with Wei Qing's ability, it is more than enough to support you and two children!" Xiao Yuan said, hooking his arm around Rong Zixuan's shoulders.

"That won't do either. People will call me a gigolo!"

"Why do you care so much about what others think? Other people's opinions mean nothing to you!"

"If you live in the secular world, you have to care about what the secular world thinks!"

"Okay! But there are nannies taking care of children now, what are you afraid of!"

"But children still need their mothers to take care of them better. They will be happier with their mothers' company."

"Then isn't the father's company important? It's better for both parents to be there! Raising a child can't be pushed onto just one person; the child is the shared responsibility of both parents!"

"But traditionally, men are the breadwinners and women the homemakers, with dads earning money and moms staying home to take care of the family!"

"But you're different!"

"What's the difference!"

"Uh, nothing!" Xiao Yuan slowly withdrew his hand from Rong Zixuan's shoulder, "Where's your car? Take me to the hotel and have dinner together!"

"What's the difference?" Rong Zixuan asked as he chased Xiao Yuan, but Xiao Yuan walked faster and faster.

Rong Zixuan kept chasing Xiao Yuan to ask what was different, but Xiao Yuan avoided the topic, not even stopping during the meal. Then a girl came over and greeted us, "Hi! Which one of you is Wei Qing?"

I raised my hand, “Me!”

"Hello, I'm Zero's assistant to the president. Our president knows your child just had a birthday, so he asked me to bring you a gift he prepared for your child. I hope your child will like it!"

"Oh! Thank you so much! Please convey my gratitude to her when you go back!" I took the gift box from her hand.

After saying that, the assistant left, but Xiao Yuan's eyes followed the assistant. "Do you want me to help you get her phone number?" I whispered beside him.

Xiao Yuan came back to his senses, "My assistant should have it!"

"Look at your crazy look, are you attracted to her?"

"Charm! The charm of a mature woman deeply attracts me!"

"Ooooh! Mature women? I remember you don't like this type, right?"

"People! When love comes, you can't stop it!"

"No way, you want to chase me? Come on, don't harm me!"

"How can this be called a disaster? After being with Xiao Yuan, she can return to her family. Isn't that good?" Rong Zixuan interjected.

"No, why do you always think that women must return to the family? Women can also work hard in the workplace and compete with men. Returning to the family should not be their final outcome!" I sternly refuted Rong Zixuan.

"It's been like this for thousands of years, men working outside and women working inside! And there are some things that are inconvenient for women to do!"

"What's the inconvenience?"

"For example, when drinking at social gatherings, men can drink without hesitation, but if women do, it's simply..." Rong Zixuan didn't continue.

"What? Absurd? Why didn't I realize before that you're actually quite chauvinistic?"

"I don't, I just think women should focus on their families."

"Why? With the same abilities, why should women stay home while men can go out and pursue their careers with peace of mind?"

"Because men and women are different, this has been the truth since ancient times!"

"Traditional isn't necessarily good! Why are you so stubborn?"

"Hey, hey, hey! Stop arguing!" Xiao Yuan saw that we were getting more and more excited, so he spoke up to stop the situation from getting worse.

"Look, Xiao Yuan was born into a wealthy family, and he didn't ask his significant other to return to the family. Why do you insist on asking me to return?"

"So if I succeed in my career, you can stay at home and take care of the two children?"

"Then why don't you take care of them? Children need their father's company too!"

"I'm a man. Have you ever seen a man doing laundry and cooking at home?"

"Stop arguing!" Xiao Yuan stretched out his hand in front of us, stopping our quarrel. "It's normal for couples to quarrel, and it's understandable that they have different ideas. But Zixuan, times have changed now. Women can also show themselves in the workplace. And with your current abilities, hiring a few more nannies is not a big deal. Why do you insist on asking Wei Qing to take care of the child?"

"With the company of their mother, the child will grow up healthier!"

"Then why don't you ask yourself to accompany your child to grow up? Instead of pushing all this onto Wei Qing?"

"I didn't say I won't accompany you, but a woman shouldn't neglect her family and children for her career!"

"Has Wei Qing now neglected his family and children for his career?"

Rong Zixuan fell silent. "So there is no such thing, right?"

"But she works so hard, sooner or later she will ignore us!" Rong Zixuan said angrily.

"Why do you keep thinking about things that haven't happened? Wei Qing is working hard to balance career and family, and isn't neglecting or overemphasizing either. Don't be so pessimistic!"

"This is my prediction. It will happen sooner or later!" After saying that, Rong Zixuan stood up and left.

Xiao Yuan was helpless, "It's all my fault!"

“You didn’t do anything wrong.”

"I shouldn't have praised you in front of him."

"You're praising me for considering his feelings?"

"Well, let me tell you this, men are all very proud and have very strong self-esteem!"

"So what does this have to do with you praising me?"

"You are his wife. He should think that you should be behind him and provide him with family warmth, not fight for him. It would be embarrassing for him if his wife is better than him!"

"What's the word?"

"Another possibility is that he is jealous of you!"

"Ok?"

"He is a man, but you, a woman, are doing better than him. You are more capable than him in all aspects, so he is jealous. He wants you to return to the family and satisfy his fragile self-esteem."

"He didn't, did he? He's a very carefree person, how could he be jealous?"

"People change, especially men. And after all this time, I can honestly say that it was you who conquered Yuanyuan's kingdom. I was just providing resources, and Rong Zixuan was just a supporting role. Zero's people kept praising you today, and I praised you too, so today was just the fuse that sparked such a big explosion just now. I guess he's accumulated too much resentment before now."

"It's not that serious, is it?"

"I hope you can enlighten him. It's okay for men to be weaker than women. I'm also a man, and my abilities are worse than yours. It's okay. No one can always be better than others."

"But look at how stubborn he is today, I guess he won't listen."

"I guess so. Blame me for not treating him fairly. If I had praised him together before, taken him out for social events, and let others flatter him more, it would have been better."

"Forget it, I'll go back and talk to him properly."

"All right"

"Then I'm going to go back and talk to that stubborn donkey. He's going to label me a 'workaholic' again."

"go Go!"

I opened the car door and Rong Zixuan's face turned dark. He said to me sarcastically, "What? Are you finished with your workaholic?"

"I say, are you done yet? Are you jealous?"

"I'm jealous? What am I jealous of?" Rong Zixuan said with an excited smile.

"So what are you excited about now?"

"You inexplicably said I was jealous. Shouldn't I be excited?"

"Are you angry and embarrassed now?" I said calmly.

"Wei Qing, don't think that just because everyone praises you, you will become arrogant and think that you can see through everything and that everything is under your control!"

"So the reason you're angry is really because you're jealous of me?"

"I didn't!" Rong Zixuan argued loudly.

"That's what you're like now! Zixuan! Men don't necessarily have to be stronger than women. Don't put so much pressure on yourself!"

"What pressure? There's nothing!"

"You feel you're not as good as me, and everyone's just following me. You feel ignored, or even underappreciated!"

"Isn't it true? I'm so outstanding, but everyone only sees your efforts and ignores me!"

"So isn't it good to just say it out loud? We are husband and wife, there's no need to hide it."

"I just can't accept it. Why is it that we work together, but you are always the one who gets praised and applauded, while I am always the one who is ignored?"

"You've been wronged!" I said, holding his hand.

"Really, I've been giving all these years, but everyone says it's all your credit. I'm really angry! It's okay once or twice, but I really can't stand it if they say it too much! I'm a man, and I have self-esteem. When everyone says your wife is outstanding, and even says they envy me for having such an outstanding wife, I feel it's an insult to me! They're laughing at me for being a gigolo! They're laughing at me for being incompetent! They're all laughing at me!" Rong Zixuan became more and more excited and louder as he spoke, and finally he slapped the steering wheel frantically.

"Calm down first! Being angry will only make people lose their rationality." I grabbed his hand to stop him from hitting the steering wheel.

"I really want to prove that I'm no worse than you! I really want to prove that I can do it! I really want to prove that I can make you live a good life! I really, really want to!" He finally leaned over the steering wheel and started crying. He cried for a long time, and I gently stroked his back to comfort him until he stopped crying.

"Let's go home! I'll drive."

Along the way, he looked ahead with confused eyes. I tried to ease his mood, tell him jokes or talk to him, but he didn't respond at all. Finally, I gave up and could only let him empty himself.