Seeing her daughter's guilty look, Zhang Ru became even angrier.
Her face was as cold as ice, and her voice was much colder than usual."You don't usually use makeup, but this morning, I found out that you secretly used my makeup. At that time, I guessed that something was wrong, but I didn't expect you to go on a date with a man.”
"Ji Yan, how did Mom teach you? It's not that I don't allow you to date, but you're still young and should focus on your studies. Besides, you rarely interact with boys. Can you tell if they're sincere to you or if they're after something?”
"Mommy won't say that there are no good men out there, but you're an innocent child. You can't tell the difference between a person's heart and a person's stomach. When a person approaches you for a certain purpose, you can't tell if the other party is good or bad.”
"You used to be a very obedient child. How did you suddenly become like this?”
The cold and pretty lady was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. The more she spoke, the more agitated she became. Her voice unconsciously became higher, causing Ji Yan to lower his head even more.
But at the end, she couldn't help but argue in a low voice,"I'm not stupid. I know who's good and who's bad. Qin Luo…he really likes me.”
Zhang Ru's eyes widened as if she had been further angered.
"Do you know what you're saying?" She had a look of disappointment on her face as she said angrily,"How do you know that he really likes you? What right do you have to say that? Just because he sent you home?"
Ji Yan shook his head and explained,""In the beginning, I didn't intend to pay attention to him, but…but he kept pursuing me and confessed to me 99 times in a row for more than three months. If he didn't really like me, why would he do this?”
He had confessed 99 times over the past three months…
Zhang Ru instinctively found it hard to believe. She felt that her daughter was lying to her because this kind of thing was ridiculous even to her.
In today's exaggerated society, even if young love was pure, how many people could persist to this extent?
However, out of trust and understanding of her daughter, she knew that Ji Yan was not lying to her.
When she thought about how the young man was neither servile nor overbearing, but also obedient and sensible, Zhang Ru's hostility toward him receded a little, but her expression was still not good.
"Even if that's the case, do you really intend to date him?" she asked coldly. Didn't you promise Mom that you would never date before graduation?”
" I…" Ji Yan stammered, unable to refute.
She had indeed promised Zhang Ru that she would never fall in love before she graduated from university, because this day would come.
If she hadn't met Qin Luo, she wouldn't have thought that there would be someone who would still persist after being rejected so many times.
She never thought that she would care so much about someone in her heart. She cared about what he thought of her, about his emotions, about his likes and dislikes…
Now that she had experienced all this firsthand, she did not know how to answer her mother's question.
Therefore, she chose to remain silent, as if she was protesting silently.
Zhang Ru's breathing gradually became rapid. She seemed to be angry with her daughter's attitude, but this time she didn't lose her temper.
After a short silence, Zhang Ru calmed down a little. She gently held Ji Yan's hand and said in a sad and painful tone,"Ji Yan, it's not that I don't want you to date, but I'm too afraid that you'll get hurt.”
"I raised you alone and never dared to let you suffer the slightest bit of harm. However, what happened to you when you were young has really left a huge shadow in my heart. I definitely don't want that kind of thing to happen again.”
Her words caused Ji Yan to remain silent, but tears slowly flowed out of her eyes. An old incident from her childhood surfaced in her mind. That incident had been a psychological trauma for her mother.
Ji Yan had never seen his father since he was born. It was only later that he found out that his father had abandoned them.
His mother had originally lived in a very wealthy family, while his father was a poor boy. Because of unreasonable love, his mother had gone far away with his father.
The two of them had been living a happy life, but when their mother became pregnant, their father left without a word.
This incident dealt a huge blow to her mother. Later, her grandparents accepted her again and comforted her to live well and give birth to the child in her stomach.
Later, when Ji Yan was born, Zhang Ru also took Ji Yan as her spiritual sustenance.
As for the incident that traumatized Zhang Ru, it happened more than ten years ago.
One day, when Zhang Ru took Ji Yan out to withdraw money from the ATM, Ji Yan disappeared.
Zhang Ru almost went crazy and cried for help from the people around her. In the end, under the police's full investigation, they finally found Little Ji Yan that afternoon.
The surveillance video showed that when Zhang Ru withdrew the money, a woman wearing a mask appeared at the door and waved a lollipop at Ji Yan.
The young child did not understand the dangers of society at all. She only knew that lollipops were sweet and delicious.
Hence, she couldn't help but walk over. In the end, she was grabbed by the woman. She covered her mouth and nose with a towel and quickly fainted.
When she found Little Ji Yan, she was sleeping in a corner. Beside her were a few other children of the same age.
Since then, Zhang Ru seemed to have some kind of mental illness and did not dare to let Little Ji Yan disappear from her sight.
From kindergarten to elementary school, from elementary school to middle school, and then to high school, Zhang Ru would personally send Ji Yan to school every time he went to school.
During this process, Zhang Ru kept instilling the idea that the outside world was dangerous into Ji Yan's mind.
She made those who deliberately approached Ji Yan look like bad people with ulterior motives, telling Ji Yan to protect himself at all times and not to casually interact with strangers, let alone be alone with strangers.
Over time, Ji Yan had developed his current apathetic personality. He was always aloof when dealing with strangers. Coupled with the departure of her biological father, she had an inexplicable dislike for men since she was young.
Ji Yan knew that it was because of what happened when she was young that had left a shadow in her mother's heart, so she had never blamed her mother and had always listened to her since she was young. She was a very obedient child and did not make her sad.
Therefore, when he saw his mother crying as she spoke, Ji Yan was also affected by her emotions. He sobbed and said,"Mom, don't cry. I know you're worried about me…"
" It's good that you know. It's good that you know." Zhang Ru cried as she hugged Ji Yan and gently stroked his hair.
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