novelraw Chapter 558: Shall We Give It a Try?
Chapter 558: Shall We Give It a Try?
What does it mean to feel as if pierced by a thousand arrows? That was exactly what he was feeling now!
Qin Nanyu caught a glimpse of the bank card that Little Glutinous Rice Dumpling had carefully put away, then glanced at Ji Weitian, whose lips were curled in a smile. He opened his mouth, trying to explain himself.
In the end, finding no words, he gave up on explaining and forcibly tried to salvage his dignity.
"In the face of money, people who abandon their principles are a dime a dozen. Adults do this all the time, so you can’t expect Yaoyao, who is still young, to adhere to such high standards. It’s not fair."
Although that statement wasn’t entirely true, it had its reasoning.
Ji Weitian had already proven that Qin Nanyu wasn’t "the only dad" in Little Glutinous Rice Dumpling’s eyes and didn’t continue to argue with him. She turned her head and persisted in urging the two little ones to eat.
She continued to eat as well.
The dining table fell silent for a few seconds before Qin Nanyu, whose first plan had failed, came up with a second one.
"Ji Weitian, have you been keeping up with the news these past few days?"
"..." Ji Weitian paused in the middle of her meal, glancing at him sideways.
She didn’t know what kind of trick he was planning to play now.
When Qin Nanyu was discharged from the hospital, he spouted so much nonsense in front of the reporters. Now everyone was speculating whether she was pregnant and desperately trying to find out their wedding date.
Ji Weitian no longer even had the courage to open a web page, yet he had the audacity to ask if she had seen the news.
What news? The fake news that he had deliberately led the reporters to cover?!
"I’m not talking about us, I’m referring to the recent social news," Qin Nanyu shifted his chair, closed the distance between them, and pulled out his phone to show Ji Weitian a news report.
The content of the report wasn’t anything rare, just a piece on a stepmother abusing her husband’s daughter from a previous marriage.
Ji Weitian was initially startled, and Qin Nanyu quickly scrolled to the next piece of news.
Coincidentally, this time it was about a stepfather abusing his wife’s children from a former husband.
The photos of young children covered in scars tugged at everyone’s heartstrings.
As a mother, Ji Weitian found it hardest to bear this kind of news.
It pained her just to look at it.
Although she knew these were isolated incidents and not all blended families were like this, her heart still went out to the children in the reports. She was about to ask him what happened to those cases and whether the children were safe or not,
but before the words could leave her mouth, Qin Nanyu spoke first.
"Do you think that if we were to marry other people in the future, Ruirui and Yaoyao would meet stepfathers and stepmothers who were good to them?"
Ji Weitian: "???"
"I mean, adults find it easy to say they should separate, but it’s always the children who suffer. Even if it’s just for the sake of the children, shouldn’t we strive to seize any opportunity to stay together? Don’t you agree?"
"A family forced together just for the sake of the children might not necessarily be happier than a single-parent family," Ji Weitian reflexively countered.
"But how do you know if you don’t give it a try?" Qin Nanyu blurted out without thinking.
Ji Weitian’s brows furrowed, and she sized him up, feeling somewhat baffled.
"If a divorce has happened, surely it means they’ve tried and found they weren’t compatible. How can you assume others haven’t tried?"
"What about single-parent families that have never been married then?"
Seeing that she was still discussing the news with him, Qin Nanyu took a deep breath and murmured.
"Like you, and like me... Our kind of small families."
"..."
"If Ruirui and Yaoyao could grow up with their biological parents, that would surely be the best option, right?"