"Your uncle can't! Watching her go home intimately with someone else, Uncle has no right to step forward..." Fu Wenxuan said with a bitter smile.
"Let's go! We'll go home and eat snacks, without your mom!" Fu Wenxuan said with a smile. Just as he was about to take Lu Ze'an home, a slender figure rushed over and blocked his path.
Fu Wenxuan froze, looking at Chu Yao in surprise. How could she be behind him? And what had he just said...
Lu Ze'an stuck out his tongue.
"Comrade Chu Yao, is there something you need? I'm taking the child home!" Fu Wenxuan's face darkened, and he spoke coldly to Chu Yao.
If Chu Yao hadn't already heard what Fu Wenxuan said to Lu Ze'an, she would have truly believed that Fu Wenxuan didn't like her.
So he liked her. It was because of her mother that he was so distant and rejected her...
Recalling the day her mother forced her into an arranged marriage with another man, he deliberately did those things to her, intentionally played with her hair, and acted intimately, all for Fu Wenxuan to see.
Although they had grown up together as neighbors, she truly disliked that man.
The calculations in his eyes were too terrifying.
Chu Yao grabbed Fu Wenxuan's hand and signed to him. Seeing her desperate attempt to explain, Fu Wenxuan hardened his heart, picked up Lu Ze'an, and ran.
Chu Yao watched Fu Wenxuan's retreating figure and could no longer hold back her tears, lowering her head in sadness...
"You should go home, it's not safe here." Just as Chu Yao was wiping her tears, Fu Wenxuan, who had just sent Lu Ze'an home, ran back, panting, and pulled Chu Yao's hand to lead her back.
Chu Yao looked at Fu Wenxuan's feigned coldness and the unconcealed worry, and broke free from his hand.
"Chu Yao, don't be difficult, it's not safe for you here." Fu Wenxuan frowned and domineeringly took Chu Yao's hand again, pulling her outward.
"Where is your car parked? I'll drive you back."
Chu Yao broke free from Fu Wenxuan's hand again, then reached out and intertwined her fingers with his. She couldn't speak, but she could tell Fu Wenxuan with her actions.
She wanted to be with him.
"Chu Yao, my parents are just ordinary workers. I can't be willful." Fu Wenxuan's heart ached, and he slowly unclasped her fingers one by one.
"Your mother said that if I continue to be with you, my father and mother might lose their jobs. For an ordinary family like mine, I can't give you happiness."
Chu Yao shed tears, looking at Fu Wenxuan, her heart clenching into a ball, her freed hand feeling as torn as her heart.
Chu Yao didn't do anything further, just obediently returned to her own car. Finally, with tears in her eyes, she took one last look at Fu Wenxuan through the car window as the car slowly drove away.
Fu Wenxuan's heart also sank to the bottom of the sea.
A pair of hands gently patted Fu Wenxuan's shoulders. Startled, Fu Wenxuan turned around and saw Fu Wenwen and Lu Chengsen.
"Explain?" Fu Wenwen looked at her elder brother. If she hadn't come to deliver clothes for An An, she wouldn't have known her brother had such a romantic entanglement!
"What is there to explain! She's from a good family, and I'm not good enough for her." Fu Wenxuan gave his sister a white glance and said with a bitter smile.
"Brother, you're lacking confidence now?" Fu Wenwen laughed, stepped forward, grabbed Fu Wenxuan's neck, and dragged him home.
"Let go! I can walk myself!" No matter how much Fu Wenxuan struggled, Fu Wenwen refused to let go. Fu Wenxuan gritted his teeth, "Brother-in-law, you're just going to watch your wife bully me like this?"
"Cough, this is my wife." Lu Chengsen cast a sympathetic glance at Fu Wenxuan and shrugged helplessly.
"You're a henpecked husband! I despise you!" Fu Wenxuan said angrily.
Lu Chengsen followed behind them, carrying An An's clothes.
He looked left and right, offering no reply.
"What's going on here?" Fu Wenwen dragged Fu Wenxuan home. Fu Jing and Fu Mu had already calmed down and were holding Lu Ze'an, playing Nine Rings Puzzle with him.
Seeing his daughter return with Fu Wenxuan by the neck, accustomed to his sister bullying his brother, he asked with a smile.
"Brother is dating someone outside, do you know about it?" Fu Wenwen said directly to their parents.
"Yes, I heard people say that, but when I asked your brother, he always said no." Fu Mu glanced at Fu Wenxuan. Her son didn't tell her anything. It was some aunts who saw him with a girl and told her.
She had been waiting for Fu Wenxuan to bring the person back for her to meet, but there was still no news.
"Tell us?" Fu Jing looked at his son, signaling him to speak for himself.
"Don't listen to her nonsense, I don't have a girlfriend." Fu Wenxuan refused to admit it.
"Brother, this doesn't sound like you. You weren't this cowardly before!" Fu Wenwen said with dissatisfaction.
"What can I do? She and I are naturally separated by a chasm, people on parallel lines, just a mistake." Fu Wenxuan said with a long sigh, his face grim.
Seeing Fu Wenxuan like this, Fu Father and Fu Mother became serious.
"Wenwen, you tell them." Fu Jing looked at Fu Wenwen.
"Grandpa, I'll tell you!" Lu Ze'an raised his hand and answered.
"Oh my, even An An knows. Then tell us, An An." Fu Mu said with a smile, adoring her well-behaved little darling.
"Uncle likes that auntie, and that auntie also likes Uncle, but that auntie's mother doesn't like Uncle and won't let Uncle and auntie be together," Lu Ze'an said loudly.
As soon as the soft, milky little voice spoke, the adults understood.
"Is it that their family looks down on you?" Fu Jing stated with certainty.
"Not only do they look down on him, but they also threatened him." Fu Wenwen snorted. She had just heard Fu Wenxuan say that the other party threatened to make his parents lose their jobs.
Knowing their family situation, if both parents lost their jobs, it would be a devastating blow.
This was clearly targeting their weaknesses! Her brother was completely at their mercy.
"Tsk tsk tsk, with your personality before, you definitely would have retorted. You didn't curse back this time?" Fu Jing looked at Fu Wenxuan. It seemed the other party's family background was indeed very good, no wonder their son didn't even try to fight for her.
"I was already planning to retire early, so I might as well retire sooner!" Fu Mu patted her son's hand and encouraged him.
"If you like someone, don't give up. It's not easy to meet someone you like in a lifetime."
"I support this. Your maternal grandfather didn't like me back then either, and I fought tooth and nail to get him to approve of me and marry your mother," Fu Jing said seriously.
"Life is short. You should meet a woman you want to spend your life with at the right age. If you miss her, it will be difficult to find another one."
"Brother, I can see that sister-in-law really likes you. Are you really going to give up on her?" Fu Wenwen also persuaded him.
"What's the point of not giving up? The gap between our family and theirs is too large. Their family will never agree. Do you want me to elope with her? This isn't ancient times anymore, where can we escape to?"
Fu Wenxuan was very rational and calm. He knew the huge difference between him and Chu Yao.