Chapter 196 Whatever Woman You Like, Just Take Her!
"Xiaoyue, you're back."
Zhu's mother came over, smiling and asked.
Zhu Xiaoyue hummed a response and introduced, "Mom, this is Li Xiaoyao, my boyfriend."
Zhu's mother sized him up, her eyes brightening.
This Li Xiaoyao was really handsome, with a buzz cut, giving off a spirited vibe. Especially with his tall and imposing stature, he easily gave people a sense of security.
Li Xiaoyao made a very good first impression on Zhu's mother.
"The young man seems quite good." Zhu's mother complimented, then said, "Have a seat first, Xiaoyue, pour Xiaoyao a cup of tea. I'll go make some soup, we'll be having dinner soon."
Zhu Xiaoyue felt much more comfortable with her mother's attitude.
Zhu Xiaoyue sat Li Xiaoyao opposite Zhu Haishan and made him a cup of tea.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Zhu Haishan shifted his gaze from the television screen to Li Xiaoyao.
"Kid, what do you do for a living?"
Li Xiaoyao didn't hurry to answer. Instead, he took a sip of the steaming tea elegantly, then said, "I work at Pan-Blue Company, currently as the chairman's personal bodyguard."
"Bodyguard?" Zhu Haishan looked at him with undisguised contempt and continued to ask, "Are you a local from Ling City?"
"No."
"Do you have a house in Ling City?"
"I'm renting a place in Classic Home."
"Renting a place?" Zhu Haishan said bluntly, "Do you plan to always rent a place even after marrying Xiaoyue?"
Li Xiaoyao spoke neither servile nor overbearing, "I'll buy a house."
"You'll buy a house?" Zhu Haishan laughed as if he'd heard a huge joke, then asked, "As a bodyguard, how many years will you need to work before you can afford to buy a house in Ling City?"
"Dad!" Zhu Xiaoyue said, discontent, "Xiaoyao has a high salary, and besides, I can buy a house with him."
"A high salary?" Zhu Haishan scoffed, "How much can a bodyguard make? At most two or three thousand a month. Xiaoyue, I'm not against you dating him, but you must understand that dating and marrying are two different things. I don't want my daughter to marry a man who can't even afford a house."
Li Xiaoyao knew that Zhu Haishan was dissatisfied with him because he wanted to become in-laws with Liang Zhengdao.
"Uncle Zhu, may I ask, what size of house do you think I should buy to meet your expectations?"
"I don't expect you to afford a villa, but at the very least, it should be two hundred square meters. Two hundred square meters, with Ling City's current housing prices, that would be about four million." Zhu Haishan thought to himself that after saying this, the kid would surely back off.
Li Xiaoyao nodded and said, "Okay, as soon as I'm done with these next few days, I'll go buy one."
"What?"
Zhu Haishan looked at Li Xiaoyao in surprise, then with a face full of anger said, "Kid, don't you understand what I'm saying?"
Zhu Xiaoyue couldn't hold back anymore and said, "Dad, stop it. Although Xiaoyao is a bodyguard, he has an annual salary of five million. Buying a house in Ling City is more than manageable for him."
"What?" Zhu Haishan's face was full of shock, clearly disbelieving Zhu Xiaoyue's words.
A bodyguard with an annual salary of five million?
Zhu Haishan, after all, was a department-level director at the city bureau and had much broader horizons than most, yet even so, he had never heard of a bodyguard earning an annual salary of five million.
"Even if you have an annual salary of five million, I still won't agree to your marriage with Xiaoyue." Zhu Haishan came out of his temporary shock and said, "Xiaoyue will inherit my mantle in the future and rise to an even higher position, so it's destined her husband won't be an ordinary man."
"Dad, what are you talking about?" Zhu Xiaoyue's eyes reddened with urgency; she thought that by bringing Li Xiaoyao home today, even if her father disagreed, he wouldn't make it too embarrassing.
But what was happening now let Zhu Xiaoyue know that her father's prejudice about social status had reached a point of obsession.
Zhu Haishan said, "You can date, but I will not agree to your marriage. The Liang Family has already come to propose, and the engagement will be set in the next few days."
"Dad, have you ever considered my feelings? Just for the sake of your career, you're willing to sacrifice my happiness!" Tears rolled down her face as Zhu Xiaoyue said emotionally, "I've said I won't marry if I don't want to!"
Zhu's mother heard the commotion in the living room and hurried out, only to see Zhu Xiaoyue's tearful and sad face.
"What's the matter, what happened?" Zhu's mother approached, and Zhu Xiaoyue threw herself into her arms, sobbing, "Mom, Dad's bullying me, he wants me to marry Liang Wenshuo."
Zhu's mother's brows furrowed tightly as she spoke reproachfully, "Old Zhu, what are you doing? Let our daughter marry whoever she wants to marry, why do you even control this?"
Zhu Haishan snorted, "If I don't take control, she will run off with that security guard. Wenshuo might not be good, but he is a hundred times better than this security guard."
Zhu's mother was taken aback and asked, "Security guard? What security guard?"
Li Xiaoyao stood up, approached Zhu Xiaoyue, and said softly, "As long as you're not willing to marry, no one can force you."
His voice wasn't loud, but it was as steady as Mount Tai, filled with boundless confidence.
Zhu Haishan said contemptuously, "Big talk for a mere security guard, who do you think you are?"
Li Xiaoyao ignored Zhu Haishan and said to Zhu's mother, "Auntie Zhu, I have some matters to attend to, so I won't stay for dinner."
Zhu's mother wanted to keep him, but upon remembering Zhu Haishan called him a security guard, the words died in her mouth and she pulled back.
"Xiaoyao, where are you going?" Zhu Xiaoyue asked as she emerged from Zhu's mother's embrace, her voice somewhat flustered.
Li Xiaoyao gave her a slight smile and said, "I have some matters I need to take care of. Don't worry, with me here, no one can force you to marry someone you don't like."
Li Xiaoyao left the Zhu Family, driving away from the upscale villa area.
Zhu Xiaoyue stood at the door, watching Li Xiaoyao leave, pursed her lips, turned around, and shouted at Zhu Haishan, "Are you satisfied now?"
Zhu Haishan sighed deeply and said, "Xiaoyue, Dad is doing this for your own good, you'll understand one day that Wenshuo is the best match for you."
Even Zhu's mother, who had always been on Zhu Xiaoyue's side, now said, "Xiaoyue, he's just a mere security guard, indeed not quite suitable for you."
"He's not a security guard, he's a bodyguard!"
Zhu's mother, unaware that Li Xiaoyao had an annual salary of five million, said, "Bodyguard, security guard, what's the difference? Both are manual labor. What will you eat and drink when he gets old and can't work anymore?"
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When nearing the neighborhood, Li Xiaoyao called Jiang Lichun to come down.
The car stopped at the entrance of the community, and the fashionably dressed Jiang Lichun got into the car.
Jiang Lichun glanced at Li Xiaoyao and pinched his fingers, saying, "You've faced a setback in your love life."
Li Xiaoyao, expressionless, replied, "Continue."
Jiang Lichun continued pinching his fingers, "Her parents disapprove, and then you came back."
"Do you have any good suggestions?"
Jiang Lichun chuckled lightly, leaned back in his seat, and said, "Kid, you must understand one principle."
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Jiang Lichun's smile faded, and his expression turned unusually serious as he said, "Cultivators are the mighty ones of this world. In your actions, you need not adhere to mundane social norms. The path of cultivation is like rowing upstream; if you have the heart to defy the heavens, you should wield your sword and set the world right, following your heart's desire!"
"Whatever woman you fancy, just take her. Why bother fretting over such trifles?"
Li Xiaoyao, who was driving, heard Jiang Lichun's words, and a flash of brilliance sparked in his eyes. He abruptly stepped on the brake and said, "Old man Jiang, you've finally said something human!"
Jiang Lichun, with his palm against the windshield, cursed, "You little brat, are you trying to kill me?"
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