Mingrui stood up, poured a glass of water for Xu Zhiyi, and took the opportunity to calm down.
A bit of a headache.
From a young age, for him, learning was not a thing, let alone a goal. It was just a process and one of the means to achieve a certain goal.
That's all.
In his ranking of values, learning is not an item at all.
Xu Zhiyi actually ranked studying ahead of him.
Did she forget that they were engaged and she was his fiancée and would become his legal wife in two months?
He was her fiancé, her future husband, the one who would spend the rest of her life with her, the one who would have children and grow old together with her, yet how could he be more important than her studies?
It hurts my self-esteem.
In his cognition and values, his spouse is more important than his parents and children.
Parents will grow old and have their own lives, and they cannot accompany their children forever; children will grow up, and one of their growth goals is to live independently from their parents.
Your spouse is the only person who will accompany you throughout your life.
There is no substitute.
It’s the same old saying: companionship is the longest confession of love.
He poured himself a glass of water and drank slowly, staring at Xu Zhiyi who was holding the water glass in both hands and lowering his head to take a sip of water.
She is really beautiful and looks so well-behaved.
Inexplicably, his heart softened, and his eyes softened unconsciously when he looked at her.
He pondered what she just said, quickly analyzed the essence behind the phenomenon, and wanted to solve the problem as soon as possible.
After drinking half the glass of water, he had an idea in mind, put down the water glass, and sat across from her again.
Xu Zhiyi watched him sit down, looked up at him, and held the water glass in both hands obediently, like a giant panda holding bamboo shoots.
Octavia looked directly at her, gave her a gentle smile, and said:
"Zhiyi, first of all, I tell you clearly that I will not have sex with you before we get married. We can reach an agreement on this, right?"
Xu Zhiyi blushed and nodded.
In the past few days, she thought about it and felt that Octavia didn't know it. It was her mother who thought too much, and she thought too much.
"Okay, this problem is solved, we won't mention it again in the future. Let's talk about the second question. According to my guess, you are not just afraid that I will affect your study, but you are actually worried about everything that affects your study, right?"
Xu Zhiyi frowned, rolled his eyes a few times, and nodded, "Well, I'm afraid I won't be able to graduate as a graduate student."
"Anyone who is studying for a graduate school will be worried if they can't graduate. This is normal. If you can't get a master's degree, you will have a series of troubles later. That's for sure, but I think you are more afraid of getting a master's degree than this conventional reason. You were scolded and denied by your father for not getting a diploma, right?"
Hearing this, the water glass in Xu Zhiyi's hand trembled slightly, he pursed the corners of his mouth, the flesh of his cheeks trembled slightly, and looked into his bright eyes, gradually filled with tears.
She didn't want to admit it, but it was the truth.
She was looking forward to Xu Cheng's affirmation.
During Xu Zhiyi’s academic career, the most satisfying thing about him was that all through his own efforts, his grades in the four years of university remained among the top three in his class, and he finally successfully obtained a recommended quota for postgraduate students exempted from the examination in Hangcheng Normal University’s “Master’s Program”.
Once she entered college, she stayed away from Xu Cheng. No matter how strict he was, he could not always supervise her or help her like he did in high school.
Her studies in college were entirely on her own, without Xu Cheng's intervention and help.
Although the path she is taking now was planned by him for her, she walked the road to realization step by step alone.
She did not do well in the college entrance examination, and the provincial normal university she reluctantly entered had a particularly poor academic style. The Academy of Fine Arts was even worse than other departments. The surroundings were full of temptations and bad influences. For her outstanding appearance, this kind of thing , only a little more.
It is said that those who are close to red are red, and those who are close to ink are dark. In such an environment, she was able to study like a senior in high school, focusing on nothing, and resisting the negative influences of the outside world. Only she knew the difficulty.
In the end, she succeeded in achieving her goal through her own efforts.
This success gave her great confidence and made her feel that she was not bad and could accomplish something.
She thought Xu Cheng thought the same way, and she wanted to get his praise and affirmation.
As a result, he said to her coldly: "It's just a general among the cripples. In the end, he is still a cripple."
This sentence shattered the confidence she had built up during her four years of college.
It turned out that no matter how hard she tried, in Xu Cheng's eyes, she was still a cripple.
When she entered the workplace, she fell into self-doubt. She always felt that she could not do anything well. Once it involved what Xu Cheng expected of her, she would be overly nervous and did not want any interference factors, lest something happen.
For example, this is the case now.
Octavia's words directly pointed out what she feared and cared about most in her heart.
Seeing her reaction, Octavia knew that he was right, and immediately felt heartbroken. He stood up and held her in his arms.
Xu Zhiyi hugged Mingrui's waist tightly, buried her head deeply in his arms, and began to sob silently. Slowly, her tears wet the hem of his clothes.
She couldn't help but tell Mingrui about her father Xu Cheng's situation, with a strong cry:
"I really try my best. Even if I don't like reading or am not good at studying, I never get lazy. I have been working hard from the age of four to now.
But I found that no matter how hard I worked, no matter how good I got at my abilities, my dad thought that I was a general among cripples, but in the end, I was still a lame.
Brother Octavia, have you thought clearly, do you really want to marry me?
I have a pretty face and figure, and I have a solid foundation in painting after practicing for more than 20 years, and my handwriting is not ugly. In other aspects, I really can’t stand shoulder to shoulder with you, not now and never in the future. I am powerless.
I don’t have any big ambitions or career aspirations. Am I really the wife you want?
Do you want to marry a woman who will always be a cripple in the eyes of your father? "
Mingrui hugged her tightly and felt a lump in his throat. He kissed her ear and spoke softly and forcefully:
"I want to marry you, I want to marry you, I'm attracted by your face and figure, I'm attracted by your handsome handwriting, I'm attracted by your neat paintings, I'm attracted by your cute and innocent look when you quarrel... …In my place, you are very good, very good, and the woman I want.”
"Zhiyi, I don't care what your father thinks. I just want you to know that from now on, if you don't like or don't want to do anything, you don't have to work hard. You just need to be my wife, that's enough."
Mingrui couldn't understand her fear and expectations for Xu Cheng, but she understood the deep-rooted impact of the original family's own problems on a person.
This impact, whether good or bad, will accompany a person throughout his or her life.
Some injuries will be healed, but most people can only move forward with injuries throughout their lives.
He didn't want Xu Zhiyi to go forward with injuries, he wanted to cure her.
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