Jiang Yumo’s appetite had long been aroused, and she couldn’t wait any longer. She opened the disposable chopsticks and picked up the bacon from the teppanyaki, closing her eyes in satisfaction. “This unhealthy taste is exactly what I’ve been missing.”
Duan Ye sat beside her and took out a pack of tissues from his pocket.
He had just bought them at the supermarket.
He wasn’t used to carrying tissues with him, but when eating alone with her outside, he would buy a pack.
Jiang Yumo took the tissues he handed her and wiped her mouth. “Aren’t you eating?”
Duan Ye looked at her. “I’ll eat after you’re done.”
Jiang Yumo : “…”
The number of times they ate with just the two of them wasn’t very frequent, and she hadn’t paid much attention to it before. But now that she thought about it, Duan Ye really resembled her parents. When they were at home, as long as she liked a certain dish, her parents rarely took any and sometimes didn’t eat it at all, leaving it all for her. Duan Ye was the same. Sometimes he was really considerate. When they ate together, he would notice what dishes she ate. If she took a few more bites of a certain dish, he wouldn’t touch it.
All along, although her parents hadn’t explicitly opposed her relationship with Duan Ye, she could tell from some of her mother’s words that they didn’t approve of her and Duan Ye.
They felt that she was still too young, only seventeen years old, and didn’t understand anything.
It seems that all adults are like this, whether they are open-minded or narrow-minded, they are all “arrogant.”
They don’t believe that the two of them will last, they don’t believe that the two of them will make it to the end.
Jiang Yumo doesn’t know if she will become such an adult one day, but she thinks that even when she’s twenty, thirty, or forty years old, she will never deny Duan Ye’s feelings for her.
She is young, she is not yet an adult, but she is not a fool. She can really distinguish who genuinely cares for her and who just fancies her in passing.
Jiang Yumo picked up a pan-fried dumpling from another bowl and held it to his mouth, like coaxing a child, “Ah, open your mouth~”
Duan Ye’s eyes flashed a helpless smile, but he still opened his mouth and took a bite of the pan-fried dumpling.
“I ran into Aunt this afternoon,” Duan Ye spoke up after a while.
That was also the reason why he asked her to come here for a meal. Although he didn’t know what he wanted to say to her.
Jiang Yumo wasn’t surprised either and asked, “Hmm, and then?”
Duan Ye considered his words and replied, “She seemed to smile at me, but I’m not sure if I was seeing things.”
Jiang Yumo stared into his eyes, looking around with great seriousness. “Are you nearsighted?”
Duan Ye: “…”
He also stared at her and replied, “No.”
Jiang Yumo said, “Then there’s no problem. You saw it right. Isn’t my mother great?”
She wouldn’t tell him what her mother had said.
But even if her mother had said those things, her mother was still a very good and kind person.
Duan Ye nodded.
He knew how great her parents were. In fact, she didn’t know that when he saw her mother, he felt a sense of “guilt.”
“Right, right!” Jiang Yumo said proudly, “My parents are the best parents in the world.”
This topic ended there.
Both Jiang Yumo and Duan Ye laughed, but then fell silent for a moment.
In fact, even though they had known each other for a long time, Jiang Yumo had never heard Duan Ye talk about his parents. She knew he came from a single-parent family and lived with his mother, but beyond that, she didn’t know anything else. She believed that it wasn’t that Duan Ye wanted to hide something, but rather that he didn’t want to talk about it, and if he didn’t want to talk about it, she wouldn’t ask.
On the contrary, if she wants to know, as long as she asks him, no matter how difficult or reluctant he is, he will tell her everything.
He has always been like this towards her.
“My mother is also great.” After a moment of silence, Duan Ye’s deep voice came, his hand casually resting on his knee, gazing at the colorful sunset on the horizon. “I was mischievous when I was a child, playing around outside every day. Once, I went to the reservoir to play with my friends and got tired. I didn’t go home with them and fell asleep in the grass. She thought something happened to me…” He turned his head to look at her, warmth shining in his eyes. “She didn’t cry, but she couldn’t say a word. She was speechless, and it took a long time for her to recover.”
Jiang Yumo stared at him in a daze, listening to him narrate these things in a plain and deep voice.
“She’s a very strong person. When her husband was sent to study in another city by the factory, she raised me alone. Later, her husband came back and wanted a divorce. He thought the outside world was better and found someone who would save him twenty years of struggle.” Duan Ye said indifferently.
Jiang Yumo’s throat choked up for a moment.
She had thought that one day Duan Ye would tell her about his family.
But she didn’t expect it to be today.
Nor did she expect it to be like this.
Without thinking too much, she reached out and grabbed his wrist, holding on tightly.
“We shouldn’t bother with him anymore in the future.” She looked at him, her face innocent, but her tone was firm.
It was as if she was saying that she would always stand by his side.
Duan Ye’s eyes immediately lit up with a different brilliance. He smiled and said softly, “You don’t know, for years people have been advising me to talk to him.”
“Do you want to talk to him?” Jiang Yumo asked.
Duan Ye restrained the smile on his face and shook his head.
“Then let’s not bother with him. Never reconcile with him,” Jiang Yumo said.
“Do you still want to hear more?” Duan Ye turned his head to ask her, “If you want to hear, I’ll say it all.”
Jiang Yumo lazily stretched and said contentedly, “Today’s confessions end here.”
She knew how difficult it was for him to say all this. He didn’t even realize that the veins on the back of his hand were bulging.
This must be something that made him very upset.
She winked at him and said, “Well, we have plenty of time in the future, we can talk about it slowly.”
No need to rush.