At least there was no problem on his mother's side, and Sui Yu felt a little relieved. He couldn't help but reach out and hold Ye Anning's hand, smiling, "Mom, if Dad beats me up, you must remember to collect my corpse."
Liu Hua rolled her eyes, "Cut it out. You two stay here. I'll go downstairs first."
Tsk tsk, little Ye Anning's face turned red.
She went downstairs in a good mood, but as soon as she descended, she met the gaze of the few troublemakers in the family.
"What are you all looking at?" Liu Hua clapped her hands and walked over to Sui Yan, snatching the cookie from her hand.
Sui Yan didn't dare show anger or resentment and even proactively gave her mother a back rub and shoulder massage, "Mom, where are my brother and sister?"
Liu Hua stuffed an entire cookie into her mouth, then pinched Sui Yan's cheeks with both hands, "Yan, when did you find out your brother and sister were dating?"
Sui Yan averted her gaze, "Mom, what are you talking about?"
Liu Hua narrowed her eyes, "Hm?"
Sui Yan weakly shifted to the side, "Mom, I only found out in the past couple of days... but Ge Ge Qiao Ze and the others knew long ago!"
Qiao Ze thought, "..." What a touching younger sister of the Chinese nation!
Liu Hua snorted, "Whatever, I'm too lazy to argue with you all."
Sui Zhi hesitantly spoke up, "Mom, you're not going to do anything about Ge Ge and Ye Anning being together?"
Liu Hua rolled her eyes, "Qiao Ze is even together with the underage Nian Nian, what can I do?"
Shen Nian softly reminded her, "Auntie, I'll be an adult in a few more months."
Liu Hua said impatiently, "Even when you're an adult, you need to be careful! Especially Qiao Ze, as a boy, he must take good care of Nian Nian. Did you hear that?"
Qiao Ze obediently replied, "Yes, I heard."
Sui Yan cupped her face and joined Sui Zhi and Qi Linhan in watching the commotion. Suddenly, Liu Hua grabbed her, "You naughty kid! Do you have anyone who likes you at school?"
Sui Yan looked puzzled, "Hm?"
Qi Linhan narrowed his eyes, ready to listen to how the little girl would respond.
Liu Hua pinched her daughter's cheeks, "What do you mean 'hm'? Do any boys like you or not?"
Sui Yan frowned in thought for a moment, "It doesn't seem so. And I think the boys at our school are so childish. I don't want to play with them at all."
Liu Hua was a little curious, "How childish do they have to be for even you to think they're childish?"
Sui Yan slowly developed a question mark on her head, "Mom, I'm not childish at all, okay? I can beat up ten of them single-handedly!"
Liu Hua nodded, "Okay, okay, I know now that no boys like you at school."
Sui Yan threw herself into her mother's arms in a tantrum, "No, no! I'm not childish!"
Liu Hua opened her mouth, but ultimately just sighed, "No, that would be too unscrupulous of me to say."
The smile on Sui Yan's face gradually disappeared, "Hmph!"
On the side, Qi Linhan curved his lips in a pleased smile.
Not long after, Sui Yu brought Ye Anning downstairs.
He went straight to leave, "Mom, I'm going to beg for mercy from Dad. Wish me luck."
Liu Hua waved dismissively, "Good luck getting home safely."
Sui Yu sighed helplessly, and Ye Anning's face was still flushed red.
Not long after the two left, Sui Zhi and the others rushed out together.
Liu Hua saw what they were up to and called after them, "Yan, remember to tell me what happened when you get back!"
Sui Yan bounced and waved, "Okay!"
They squatted down by the window of Sui Jinhong's house, carefully listening for any sounds from inside.
However, the scenes they imagined – Sui Jinhong furiously raging, Sui Yu getting beaten up, Ye Anning pleading... none of that happened.
Sui Yan tried to open the window gap wider, "Why won't this window open? I can't hear anything from inside."
Qi Linhan helplessly grabbed the little girl's prying paws and said in a low voice, "Yan, if you move around any more, we'll get caught."
Sui Yan cautiously retracted her paws, then began even more brazenly trying to peek inside, "Okay then..."
Suddenly, the window in front of them was pushed open, and Sui Jinhong stood inside, looking at them, "What are you all doing here?"
Sui Yan stared at her dad in puzzlement for a moment, then reacted quickly, "Dad, we're looking for something here."
Sui Jinhong pinched his daughter's chubby cheeks, "Looking for what? And you came all the way under the window to look?"
Sui Yan glanced around before pointing to a nearby flowerbed, "We're looking for bugs in there!"
Sui Jinhong's expression was full of black lines, "Alright, alright, you just wanted to watch the commotion, didn't you? Come in through the front door."
Sui Yan maintained some restraint, "Well, not exactly... Dad, I'll go in right away!"
The little girl excitedly pulled her group of brothers and sisters inside Sui Jinhong's house, then obediently sat in a row to observe Sui Yu and Ye Anning.
Sui Jinhong's feelings were complicated. His eldest daughter had been deflowered, and to make matters worse, the perpetrator was from their own family.
How frustrating!
Sui Yu sincerely spoke, "Dad, you can hit me."
Sui Jinhong said impatiently, "Are you asking for a beating?"
For some reason, Ye Wan felt a little like laughing. She pulled Sui Jinhong to sit down, "Okay, okay, let's talk slowly."
Ye Anning's mood was also quite apprehensive, but she immediately calmed down when she saw her mother. She said earnestly, "Mom, we're not joking around."
She really liked Sui Yu and wanted to be properly together with him.
Of course, she also had a small thought: Originally, she hadn't planned to be with anyone else because she wanted to use this lifetime to fully make it up to a certain little girl. But she couldn't be sure that her partner would also wholeheartedly treat that little girl well.
However, if that person was Sui Yu, then she wouldn't have to worry at all.
Ye Wan gently took her daughter's hand, "Anning, Mom knows."
Sui Yu spoke seriously and sincerely, "Auntie Ye, I really love Anning."
In fact, he and Ye Anning had also shared similar thoughts before, and they had talked about it with each other.
But he did truly love Ye Anning as well. He could only say... he was very fortunate.
Sui Yan had no idea that her brother and sister being together had a little to do with her. She was still observing the scene with full seriousness.
Sui Jinhong took a few deep breaths, "Alright, alright, you're both grown up anyway. I can't control you."
Sui Yan couldn't help but raise her hand: "Dad, when my brothers and sisters were little, you couldn't control them either."
Sui Jinhong: "..."How to deal with a professional saboteur daughter?
Ye Wan: "Pffft!"
Sui Zhi and Qi Linhan each covered the little girl's mouth with one hand, and each grabbed her restless little paws with the other, both whispering in her ear: "Yan, don't say anything for now."
Sui Yu cleared his throat: "Dad, so we..."
Sui Jinhong was frustrated again, he slammed the table in frustration: "Don't even think about it, you two will have to undergo at least three years of observation."
