Jiujiu hung up the phone while the other party was still scolding her.
Mr. Cheng did not say a word when he was educating his child. However, when it came to showing off his authority as a parent, he was more proactive than anyone else. If he had spent the time to educate Cheng Nuannuan, it would be understandable for him to say that.
Even if it were Jiujiu, her daughter had nothing to do with the man. It would be embarrassing for her to go to the man's house for the New Year without informing him first.
However, ever since Jiujiu was born, Father Cheng had never cared about her at all. He even hired a caretaker to take care of Jiujiu and left when she was almost dying.
To put it bluntly, the care he gave Cheng Nuannuan was not as good as Aunt Li who had been by Cheng Nuannuan's side for three months.
As a father, he was simply too much of a failure.
A man who had never fulfilled his responsibilities as a father suddenly came to tell his child whether she had a boyfriend or not. He was really shameless.
Not long after Jiujiu hung up the phone, Mr. Cheng called. The first thing he said was, "Break up with me."
There was no greeting or foreshadowing. Instead, he went straight to the point, which was also very good.
Jiujiu asked in return, "Why should I?"
Mr. Cheng said matter-of-factly, "Because I'm your father."
Mr. Cheng said it as if he could dictate Jiujiu's life for the next few decades just because he was Jiujiu's father. This was no longer chauvinism. It was arrogance.
Jiujiu felt that people like Mr. Cheng might use his identity as her father to force her to take care of him when he was old and unfilial when his son was old.
It did not even cross his mind that he had never fulfilled his responsibilities as a father.
Jiujiu could not be bothered to reason with an arrogant person like Mr. Cheng. She asked directly, "Dad, when was the last time you transferred money to me?"
Jiujiu did not refute him. Instead, she asked when he had transferred money. Mr. Cheng was stunned at first. Then, he remembered that the last time he had transferred money seemed to be half a year ago.
He used to transfer money to Cheng Nuannuan because Cheng Nuannuan would ask him about it every month.
After Jiujiu had the ability, she wouldn't ask him for money at all. Therefore, he took it for granted that Jiujiu was rich and wouldn't transfer money to Jiujiu.
However, he had never thought about how a nineteen-year-old Jiujiu would have the money to support herself.
Father Cheng was not a child. He did not even understand this. To put it bluntly, it was just that he did not want to think about it and was unwilling to think about it.
He was such a selfish person.
Now that Jiujiu asked him about it directly, Father Cheng was stunned. His first reaction was not that he had neglected Jiujiu, but that she dared to talk back.
Father Cheng frowned and said rudely, "Money, money, money. Is money the only thing in your eyes?"
Father Cheng's rhetorical question was the same as the old couple's.
From this point of view, they were indeed a close family.
"If I only had money in my eyes, I would definitely ask you for money on time. But I didn't ask you for money. Doesn't that mean something is wrong?"
Jiujiu shook her head at Lin Xi. "I'm young and insensible. I think I can understand if I do something bad. But Dad, you're already forty years old. You've eaten more salt than I've eaten rice. It's a little puzzling if you do something unreliable."
Father Cheng asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Jiujiu smiled faintly. "I don't mean anything. I just want to say that I like my boyfriend very much. I won't go on blind dates. Not now, not in the future. Just give up on the idea of me going on blind dates."
Father Cheng did not expect Jiujiu to say such a thing when he called her personally. He said coldly, "Fine, don't go on blind dates. But you're a girl. How can you go to a boy's house during the New Year instead of staying at home? Hurry up and come home."
Towards the end, Father Cheng's tone softened. "If you don't have money, I'll transfer you money to buy a plane ticket."
Even if Father Cheng did not allow Jiujiu to go back, Jiujiu would still have to go back. Since he said so, she nodded decisively and said, "Okay."
Hearing Jiujiu's agreement, Father Cheng hummed in acknowledgment and hung up the phone.
After Father Cheng hung up the phone, Jiujiu received 5,000 yuan from Father Cheng.
He had not given her a single cent for half a year. Now that she had fallen out with him, he actually transferred money to her.
Jiujiu was not a fool. How could she not guess Father Cheng's intention of giving her money?
Father Cheng was an arrogant and conceited person. He had just fallen out with her, and now he was trying to earn money for her to go back. Jiujiu felt that he most likely did not take her words seriously. He was prepared to trick her into going back first and then let her go on a blind date.
However, she had already planned to go back once. Regardless of whether she was tricked or not, she had to go back once.
Jiujiu said to Lin Xi, "I'm going back to my father's house. Are you willing to go with me?"
After Jiujiu said that, she quickly added, "There might be a fight. Are you willing to face it with me?"
Although Lin Xi did not hear what Father Cheng said, he could more or less guess the content from Jiujiu's words.
Now that Jiujiu said that she was going back and that there would be a fight, as Jiujiu's boyfriend, he naturally had to stand on Jiujiu's side.
Lin Xi said without hesitation, "I'm willing."
If he was not willing to stand behind Jiujiu, who else would be willing to stand behind Jiujiu?
Lin Xi's unhesitant answer warmed Jiujiu's heart.
Jiujiu leaned into Lin Xi's arms and rubbed her head like a restless little puppy. After a long time, she raised her head and blinked her big watery eyes. She looked at Lin Xi and said, "Why are you so nice?"
Lin Xi lowered his head and kissed the top of Jiujiu's head. "If I'm not nice to you, who should I be nice to?"
Jiujiu hugged Lin Xi's waist tightly. "… You're so nice."
Not only was he willing to give her his heart and soul, but he was also willing to stand behind her unconditionally.
Compared to those hypocritical family members, Lin Xi was more like a family member.
However, because they had to go to Jiujiu's house, the two of them had to make a trip there.
However, Lin Xi and Jiujiu tacitly chose not to tell Lin Xi's parents about this. The two of them only said that they wanted to go there in advance and bought plane tickets to Cheng Nuannuan's father's city.
When the two of them arrived, no one from the Cheng family came to pick them up.
Ever since he found out that Jiujiu was coming yesterday, Father Cheng played the role of a loving father on WeChat. One moment, he asked if Jiujiu had eaten, the next moment, he asked if she had eaten and if she was short of money.
On the surface, he was simply a caring father who couldn't be more caring.
However …
Whether a person was good to you or not depended not on what they said, but on what they did.
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