Inside the private room, Chu Yi's family questioned Fei Jie about various aspects of his life: family, career, salary, friends, and so on...
As the night deepened, everyone finished eating and left the hotel.
Qian Liyan said, "Xiao Jie, you can go now."
Chu Yi said, "I'll go with Fei Jie."
Ye Shan stopped Chu Yi, "We just arrived in Shanghai, you have to arrange for us to stay at your place."
Fei Jie's expression remained unchanged as he hailed a taxi and left.
Once the taxi disappeared from sight, Chu Yi turned around, "Mom and Dad, how could you treat Fei Jie like that? He's my boyfriend."
During the dinner, she had noticed her parents' attitude towards Fei Jie, not treating him like a son-in-law, but rather like an enemy.
Qian Liyan said, "Yi Yi, break up with Fei Jie."
"I don't want to!" Chu Yi's voice rose an octave, "Fei Jie is the man I love, I don't want to break up with him."
"There's a big gap between you two. You're a celebrity, and he's an ordinary teacher. Your daily expenses are his monthly salary, you live in Zhonghai Mingyuan, and he can't even afford a house," Ye Shan advised her sister-in-law, "Love is beautiful, but reality is cruel. After marriage, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea are all huge expenses."
"I can earn money!" Chu Yi retorted, "Besides, my brother is so rich, and he can still be with my sister-in-law, loving each other to this day. Why can't Fei Jie and I be together?"
"Xiao Fang is different," Chu Hong said, "Xiao Fang is a male, and Yue Yue is a female. In traditional culture, it's normal for men to earn money to support the family and for women to be beautiful, but this can't be reversed."
Chu Yi argued, "If that's the case, my sister-in-law controls my brother at home. He does whatever she says. Isn't that a reversal?"
"That's your brother letting your sister-in-law have her way."
Chu Yi said a lot, but she couldn't change the views of her parents, older brother, and Ye Shan.
Helpless, she threw her hands up and said, "No, my life can't be arranged by you. For the first ten years, I was a rebellious girl and never listened to you. Today, I won't listen either."
With that, Chu Yi hailed a taxi, left her parents behind, and left.
Chu Hong, Qian Liyan, Chu Yongquan, and Ye Shan looked at each other, all seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.
They didn't want to ruin Chu Yi's relationship, but as people who had been through thick and thin, they knew one thing: marrying someone of equal social status isn't a neutral term or a derogatory term, but a commendatory term.
They hoped that Chu Yi's future marriage would be happy, rather than finding out that they weren't suitable for each other after seven or eight years and having children, which would be even more tragic.
... ...
"Hey, sir, you haven't paid yet."
"Oh, oh." Fei Jie turned around and scanned a hundred yuan for the driver.
"Hey, sir, you scanned too much." The driver watched Fei Jie's departing figure, scratching his head, "What's wrong with this kid? So absent-minded?"
Fei Jie returned home and lay directly on the sofa, staring at the ceiling.
The door of the next room opened, and his roommate walked out, his voice loud, "Yo, isn't this the rumored boyfriend of the big star?"
"Why are you back so late?"
"Did you go on a secret date with the big star again?"
"As your friend and roommate, when I heard this news, I was... ...heartbroken."
"You really found a big star as your girlfriend."
"How did you do it? Teach me some experience in finding girls. Dad, I'll kneel down for you." The roommate knelt down directly.
There was no way around it, he was desperate and hungry.
These guys who studied mathematics had very few girls in their major, and the boys had never been in love, so they desperately needed Fei Jie to be their guiding light in life.
"Alas~~~" Fei Jie sighed deeply, "Perhaps, Chu Yi and I will never see each other again."
"What's wrong?" The roommate straightened up.
Fei Jie didn't answer.
Tonight, he could clearly feel Chu Yi's family's attitude towards him, and it was obvious that they weren't satisfied, hinting that they wanted them to break up.
He knew that his family background was vastly different from Chu Yi's, and this was a reality.
Fei Jie fell into a daze.
Suddenly, his phone rang. It was from Chu Yi.
He answered the phone, "Why are you still calling me?"
"I'm your girlfriend, why can't I call you?" Chu Yi's voice was loud, "Come down quickly, I want to talk to you."
"I don't want to talk."
"If you don't come down, I'll go up."
Fei Jie had no choice but to go downstairs. Under the streetlights, he saw Chu Yi wandering around the car.
Seeing her boyfriend's figure, Chu Yi ran over quickly and said, "Why didn't you answer according to what we rehearsed?"
Before meeting her family today, Chu Yi and Fei Jie had rehearsed a story, embellishing Fei Jie's identity to satisfy Chu Yi's family.
"You're making sense, aren't you?" Chu Yi argued, "No matter what, let's get through it first, and solve the future problems later, instead of being so opinionated like you. Do you have me in your heart? Do you have our relationship in your heart?"
Fei Jie: "Sorry."
"Apologizing now is too late!" Chu Yi said, "My family wants me to break up with you, what do you say we should do?"
Fei Jie lowered his head, "If you want to break up, I'm fine with it."
"What about you?"
"I won't be in a relationship again. I'll focus on mathematics. Mathematics is the simplest thing in this world."
Originally, Chu Yi was furious, but seeing her boyfriend's situation, her anger disappeared at once.
Chu Yi took Fei Jie's arm, "Let's forget about today's matter. You can't make decisions on your own in the future."
"What about your parents wanting us to break up?" Fei Jie asked.
"Do I listen to everything they say? Am I that filial? If I had that filial piety, I would have been admitted to a better university and worked in a bank, just living a life of eating, drinking, and waiting to die, instead of being a singer."
Chu Yi wasn't someone who could be easily manipulated, not in the past, and not now.
She could run away from home for thousands of kilometers to Shanghai, and she could also do something outrageous for love.
"However, I don't want to fall out with my parents," Chu Yi stroked her chin, "I still have to get them to change their minds."
"Then what should I do?"
"Hmm... ...Perhaps, I should ask Chu the Second for help. He can persuade my parents and older brother and sister-in-law."
The more Chu Yi thought about it, the more she felt it was possible.
Chu Fang changed the entire Chu family's situation with his own strength. Chu Yongquan's company was built with Chu Fang's help, and her parents also received Chu Fang's favor. She was also cultivated by Chu Fang.
In the entire Chu family, although Chu Hong had the highest status, Chu Hong would also agree with whatever Chu Fang said.
Chu Yi clapped her thigh, "It's settled then. Tomorrow, you'll accompany me to find Chu the Second."
"Ah?" Hearing this, Fei Jie was shocked, "Should we just forget about it?"
Chu Yi's parents, older brother, and sister-in-law were already too much for him to handle, and now he had to find the ultimate BOSS of the Chu family. He felt a lot of pressure.
"Do you want to break up?"
"Let's go!"
