Um!I'm the stepfather

"You've been married for a while, have you ever thought about what you want to do in the future?" The eldest son rarely came home, but the father and son were not chatting in the living room, but locked in Ling Yicheng's study alone.

"You know, I'm not interested in doing business." Ling Yue said helplessly.

"It doesn't have to be business. You can do something you really like. You are not young anymore, so you can't just do nothing all day long." Ling Yicheng was more helpless and powerless than him.He couldn't find a suitable way to get along with this son.No matter what he said, Ling Yue would never object violently, but he always expressed his indifference with actions.

"What are you worried about? You gave me enough protection when I got married. Even if I have nothing to do all my life, I won't starve to death, right?" Ling Yue had already passed the age of rebellion, so he naturally didn't think that his father was afraid of accomplishing nothing. The son will make himself lose face.

"Even though Xiedong is young, he is already the real power in the Far East. Your partner is too good, and your father—I am not completely useless. Under the halo of your partner and father, you want to do nothing for the rest of your life, and you are not afraid of outside comments. Are you so overwhelmed that you can't lift your head?" It was rare to get together with his son, and every time he said something that Ling Yue didn't like.Ling Yicheng wanted to be a warm father, but found that this is a much more difficult task than doing business.

Ling Yue was a little irritable. He could calm down with anyone, but his father could easily stir up his rebellious psychology, "I know what you said, let me decide my own affairs, okay?"

"Since you were a child, what matter have I not let you? You have stayed abroad for eight years, have I interfered? You want to have a boyfriend and refuse to date girls, have I told you?" Looking at Ling Ling Yicheng couldn't help being anxious because of the way he didn't listen, and there was even a trace of pleading in his voice, "I'm doing it for your own good, so just listen to me once, okay?"

"Let's talk about it later." Ling Yue didn't want to escalate the conversation into a conflict, but just wanted to end the topic quickly.

"If you find it troublesome, I will give you a few subsidiaries first, and you just need to take over—"

Before finishing speaking, Ling Yue interrupted, "I will think about it."

Why can't Ling Yicheng hear the perfunctory in it, but he really can't do anything about this son who doesn't like oil and salt.

"Let's go down, don't make Lin Xiedong wait." Ling Yue walked out of the study first.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was a bit dull, Ling Yicheng, Lingyue and his son spoke very little, and only a few words between the hostess Zhang Xueqing and Lin Xiedong made the atmosphere less awkward.Zhang Xueqing behaved dignified and polite from the beginning to the end, her attitude towards her stepson's partner was neither too enthusiastic nor too alienated, and her sense of proportion was extremely appropriate.

Lin Xiedong was distracted by Ling Yue's situation while dealing with the concern of his nominal mother-in-law.Even though Ling Yue didn't say anything when he came down, Lin Xiedong could tell that something must have happened.At the dinner table, he basically doesn't speak or speak, and his smile is also very cold, which is completely different from when he was at home.

I don't know what their father and son talked about in the study, but what Ling Yue is showing now is a look he has never seen before.This is a Ling Yue that I am not familiar with... I feel a little bored, as if isolated by an invisible barrier, isolated from Ling Yue's world.

Lin Xiedong just wanted to finish dinner quickly and take Ling Yue back to their own home.He hoped to see Ling Yue smiling easily as usual, even if he played a small prank sometimes, he was cute and cunning.

After dinner, Lin Xiedong hurriedly said goodbye to the Ling couple on the pretext that the children at home were worried about him.All the way back home in silence.Ling Yue didn't want to speak, but Lin Xiedong didn't know how to speak.

It wasn't until the car drove into the underground parking lot of the community that Ling Yue seemed to recover from the depression: "Sorry, did my emotions affect you?"

"It's okay. I wonder what happened?" Makes you so unhappy.

"My father doesn't want me to be so idle all day long. What's your opinion?" Ling Yue looked at him and smiled. In Lin Xiedong's eyes, this smile was so faint that it would disappear when the wind blows.

"...You can do what you like, or you can do nothing." Lin Xiedong didn't know if this answer would satisfy Ling Yue, he just expressed his true thoughts.

"Aren't you afraid that I will make you lose face?" Ling Yue couldn't help but narrowed his eyes with a smile, and there was a little bit of light that Lin Xiedong was familiar with in his eyes.

"If your choice will make me lose face, then I am very glad that I am the one who shares weal and woe with you." Lin Xiedong looked at him seriously, with unquestionable firmness in his eyes.

Bewildered by such gazes, Ling Yue suddenly couldn't control himself, "Come here."

I don't know what Ling Yue's plan is, but Lin Xiedong leaned over cooperatively.Then, he was hugged firmly.

The young man didn't have the habit of wearing perfume, but he had the familiar smell of shower gel on his body, and now this smell surrounded him, and more importantly, the owner of this smell was hugging him.He hugged so tightly, as if trying to draw strength from himself.This kind of Ling Yue made him feel soft-hearted, he never thought that one day he would have such feelings for a grown man.Obviously the other party is not weak, but he still wants to hold him in the palm of his hand and take good care of him, and wants to isolate him from even the slightest bit of unhappiness.

He knew that a certain trajectory in his life had completely changed.

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I don't know when, Ling Yue and his father became more and more estranged.

Maybe after spending a few years alone abroad.

Maybe it was the year when there was a new member of the family.

Or maybe earlier, at the moment when the most important person in your life leaves you.

Ling Yue's mother died young due to illness, which is known to everyone.But few people know that his mother died not of physical illness, but of mental illness.

The cause of his mother's illness has always been blamed by the young Ling Yue on his father, who was busy with his career and neglected his wife and children.If the father can care more about the mother, will the mother not be sick?

Time does not come back, hypothetical questions never seem to have correct answers.

But this question, together with another question, has puzzled and tormented Ling Yue for many years.

If I were a little cuter, would my mother choose to stay because she couldn't bear to bear herself?

Yes, in the young Ling Yue's heart, his father was the reason for his mother's illness; and he was the reason why his mother chose to die without hesitation.Because I didn't work hard enough, because I wasn't cute enough, my mother left without the slightest nostalgia.Children are very narcissistic. They always think that they are the protectors of the family. Once something goes wrong with their parents, they will attribute it to themselves.

After the death of his mother, it seems that his father finally realized the importance of family.He would put down his important work just to attend the parent meeting of his child's school in person; he began to take a regular weekly rest like an ordinary employee, just to spend the weekend with his children; he postponed the signing of important contracts just because the teacher told him that his son was ill up...

His father has changed a lot, but Ling Yue's confusion has not changed.Until I was 16 years old—that is, the second year when my stepmother Zhang Xueqing married into the Lin family, I was tormented almost insane by the confusion that accompanied me, and my father, who felt powerless, finally sent me abroad for recuperation.

Perhaps this is the most correct decision father has made in family matters.During the years abroad, he received good care, and his professional and experienced doctor helped him to reconcile with his confusion smoothly.After countless painful struggles, he was finally able to admit that his mother's illness was caused by herself, and that his father could not and did not have to take responsibility for it.

However, in many cases reason and emotion are not the same thing. Rationally, he understands that he should not blame his father anymore. In fact, every time he sees his father, he will always involuntarily start the reverse procedure.

The authorities are fascinated.

Who can tell whether this is rebellion, or whether the child is unconsciously willful in front of relatives?

The author has something to say:

I called China Mobile yesterday because of the broadband problem, and the voice prompt after connecting:

“现在人工客服忙，中国移动推出了3元5句、5元10句、10元25句……”

I converted it in my head, what?It’s so expensive to talk to China Mobile’s customer service now [instantly experienced mental activity such as doubts, stunned and panic] and then heard the second half of the sentence,

"...'s data monthly package..." [smiles and hangs up manually]