Although, I haven't been able to sleep recently, and I may even not be able to sleep in the future.
But... isn't it better not to talk about this hobby?
But under Mr. Chen's eager and curious gaze, Jing Ming still mustered up the courage to say: "My hobby is - my hobby... Chen Ning."
Looking at Mr. Chen's dazed look, Jing Ming still lowered his head and said dryly: "I know this is very presumptuous... but I just don't want to lie. I like Chen Ning."
As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Ning sat behind the curtain and couldn't help but smile at the corners of her eyes.
This stupid girl is really... being upright is an advantage in her.
Mr. Chen looked at the girl with her head lowered and her back in front of him, and suddenly sighed.
"For Miss Jingming, are these likes enough for you to marry him, and from then on, you will serve your parents-in-law and take care of your children?"
Jing Ming raised his eyes and looked at Mr. Chen steadily: "I don't want to. I just want to serve the eldest lady and realize my dream of martial arts. In the future, I will either travel alone in the world, or start a sect like my adoptive father and have disciples all over the world."
Mr. Chen was stunned and couldn't help but glance behind the curtain.
Chen Ning sat behind the curtain, her heart feeling like it was immersed in the cold lake water.
Mr. Chen turned back to Lian, looked at the facial expression icon, and sighed——
"Guan Yuecheng must be sorry that you are not a man, otherwise there would be no heirs."
Jing Ming said calmly: "My adoptive father also has a successor now. I am a girl, but I am better than any male disciple he has ever taught. Therefore, I am his successor."
Mr. Chen was shocked and only paused, but suddenly he couldn't help laughing and handed her a cup of tea.
"Miss Jingming has great ambitions and is determined. I believe that you will be able to establish a sect like the head of Emei, and I also believe that you can make a name for yourself on your own."
He paused: "It's just that I heard that brat Chen Ning say that you... ahem... are already husband and wife."
He felt really uncomfortable saying this in front of the little girl, but there was nothing he could do about it, who made him love his eldest son the most.
Jing Ming lowered his eyes and said softly: "Sir, Chen Ning and I were a temporary solution at first, but later... we were in love."
She paused and said, "Children in the world have never abided by secular rules. You actually come from a scholarly family, so it is normal for you to look down on me."
Mr. Chen was stunned: "My Chen family is from such a pedantic family."
He didn't expect Jing Ming to say such "sensible" words, and he thought she was a stupid little girl.
Jing Ming suddenly looked at him: "Sir, can Chen Ning accept that I won't have children, won't serve my parents-in-law, and will make achievements on the battlefield and establish a sect in the world?"
Mr. Chen was not questioned, and he pondered for a moment: "In the past, Princess Pingyang Zhao of the Tang Dynasty, after marrying Chai Shao, she also made great achievements, conquered Chang'an, and even later guarded Niangzi Pass."
"This will not delay the princess from giving birth to a child and accompanying her husband. As for serving the parents-in-law, our Chen family does not want to pay attention to the pedantic Chen Zhu Neo-Confucianism..."
"But I'm not Princess Pingyang Zhao, I'm Jing Ming. I have my own ideas. I don't want to have a baby. I just don't want to have a baby."
Jing Ming said calmly——
"Moreover, why must a woman be like Princess Pingyang Zhao, who can be a successful wife and mother? Why does the world only require men to earn money and support the family?"
Mr. Chen looked at her and was speechless for a while: "There are three types of unfilial piety, the first being not having children. If a woman doesn't have children, wouldn't her life be unsatisfactory? Even the eldest lady gave birth to Master Xiaoxi."
"Who defines the perfection of life? At least the perfection of my life is to realize my ideal. Although I serve the eldest lady, the eldest lady cannot live my life for me."
Jing Ming looked at him again and said seriously without being humble or arrogant.
Mr. Chen looked at her quietly: "Even if you will lose Ning'er because of this?"
The information he had been inquiring about and the things Chen Ning revealed.
They all just made him think that Jing Ming was too simple and honest, a martial arts fanatic who might not be enlightened in some aspects.
But now it seems that this is not the case. She actually understands the ways of the world, but...
She has her own set of dialectical thoughts and ways of thinking, and she understands them.
But in her world, she uses her own standards to judge what is right and wrong.
Jing Ming looked at him intently, and the young man behind the curtain also looked at her intently.
It was as if I could look at her and see the world grow old.
After a long while, Jing Ming said softly: "I like Chen Ning, but there are too many compromising women in this world. Not everyone has the conditions to do what they want to do like me. They want to be good wives and loving mothers, including me.
,so……"
She paused and looked at Mr. Chen: "I don't want to compromise. I just want to do things that men can do."
Mr. Chen looked at the girl in front of him. She had a small body, but what she said was so deviant and deviated from worldly knowledge.
He was silent for a while and sighed: "But Chen Ning also likes you. Lovers should not be separated."
If he and Hongting hadn't missed a lifetime, he wouldn't have the patience to marry a daughter-in-law for his son who doesn't meet the secular definition at all.
Jing Ming said softly: "A person like me shouldn't delay Chen Ning. I know there are not many people in the world who can accept my idea. I'm sorry."
She was talking to Mr. Chen and also to Chen Ning.
This is why later, after she found out that Chen Ning was angry because of her identity as Mr. Chen, she did not try to change the relationship between the two.
Chen Ning's biggest deviance was that night with her and the "sweet" nights that followed.
After that, she couldn't become Chen Ning's wife in the traditional sense.
She doesn't want to, and in the end, they are both disgusted with each other, so it is better to end it as soon as possible.
"I understand, you should go back first." Mr. Chen sighed deeply.
Jing Ming stood up and looked at the curtain quietly. She had waited until now, but he still hadn't come out.
She smiled, feeling a little sad in her heart. The tip of her nose was very sore, so that was okay.
From now on, let’s just be brothers.
Don't hate me.
She turned around and walked out slowly without looking back.
I do not know how long it has been.
Mr. Chen said calmly: "Come out."
Only then did the slender and silent figure come out from behind the curtain.
"You are not like a man, you are worse than a little girl. They dare to face the different life paths between you and admit it. How about you?"
Mr. Chen looked at his son coldly.
If Chen Ning just likes this girl, then she has to face two things -
Jingming can never be the good wife and mother he imagined.
She could never sacrifice the life she wanted for him.