ASSHKHME Chapter 107

Chapter 107: Helplessness

Xie Yu nervously awaited the verdict, but Cheng Tangyu said nothing.

She looked at her son’s head, lowered as if he had done something wrong, and the complexity of her emotions was difficult to express.

Frankly speaking, no one in this world hoped for Xie Yu’s happiness more than she did, and she didn’t want to criticize him too much.

But to make her accept that her son was gay, abandoning the smooth path in life that his parents had tried their best to pave, and insisting on taking a narrow path that went against the norms of the world, she found it a little difficult to accept.

It was like the needle wasn’t piercing your own skin; you could never truly empathize.

If it were a stranger or even a relative’s child, she could hypocritically and sincerely say, “Respect the child’s own choice.”

But unfortunately, the essence of people is double standards. This was her own son, and she couldn’t remain indifferent.

That child, Chen Zhuo, was also very good. She felt sorry for him and loved him, and she could even treat him as her second son, but if his identity changed to her daughter-in-law, it would be a bit…

Cheng Tangyu admitted that her understanding was not high enough. The biggest concession she could make at the moment was not to use her identity as a mother to force her child.

The attending doctor came with the nurse for rounds. Cheng Tangyu gave Xie Yu a look, signaling him not to kneel and to get up quickly.

Xie Yu and Xie Liangjun retreated to the side.

The doctor pulled the privacy curtain, changed the dressing on the wound, and told the family to massage the new mother’s lower limbs from time to time to prevent blood clots.

The pain pump was not continuously effective. The movements involved the wound, and Cheng Tangyu broke out in a cold sweat from the pain, cursing, “I’m never giving birth again, it hurts so much! Xie Liangjun, you go get a vasectomy right now!”

Xie Liangjun no longer had the airs of a chairman. At the age of nearly fifty, he was hit several times by his wife in front of his child, and he couldn’t care less about face, guiltily saying, “It’s my fault, my fault. After you and the baby are discharged, I’ll go have the surgery right away.”

As the crystallization of love, Xie Yu had no part to play at this moment. He was squeezed aside by his father and the caregiver, watching his father learn massage techniques from the caregiver.

Thinking that it was precisely because he was born into such a loving family, because he had seen what love looked like, because he had grown up nurtured by such an environment, that he was so certain that Chen Zhuo was the only one for him in this lifetime.

The neonatal intensive care unit could not be entered casually. The nurse brought a photo of the newborn baby, and Xie Yu leaned over to look.

Super tiny, lying alone in the incubator, looking so pitiful.

Cheng Tangyu’s tears flowed instantly, stroking her daughter’s photo, “The little one hasn’t been held by her mother yet.”

Xie Liangjun’s eyes also moistened, and he turned his head to wipe them, comforting, “This child is eating the bitterness of life first, and the future will all be sweet.”

Xie Yu also felt very uncomfortable, with guilt, heartache and other emotions intertwined. He took a step back and lowered his head to pick at his hand.

Cheng Tangyu noticed the change in her son’s emotions, wiped her tears, “Come, Big Treasure, give Little Treasure a name.”

Xie Yu didn’t react for a moment to who Big Treasure was, “Ah? Me?”

Cheng Tangyu glared at him, “Nonsense, is there any other Big Treasure in our family? Choose a nice one, college student.”

Xie Yu’s eyes lit up, “Then I have to check the dictionary, should I choose three characters or two characters?”

Cheng Tangyu pondered for a moment, “Either way, just don’t make it something like ‘Thank you, Emperor,’ think carefully, your sister’s first big event in life is entrusted to you.”

Xie Yu said seriously, “I’ll take care of all the big events in her life from now on.”

Cheng Tangyu and Xie Liangjun exchanged a look, and smiled, “Okay, you do have the look of a good brother. The older brother has to set a good example for the younger sister.”

Xie Yu didn’t know if there was any deeper meaning in his mother’s words, hesitated, and nodded, “I understand.”

Cheng Tangyu didn’t say much more, “Little Yu, I have your dad and the caregiver here, you go back to school, don’t delay your studies. I’m going to sleep for a while, you go do your thing.”

Xie Yu ultimately didn’t get the answer he wanted.

But he understood that his parents not forcefully breaking them up was already a good result.

Slowly, he couldn’t force it. Anyway, the relationship was between him and Chen Zhuo, and they didn’t necessarily need a blessing.

The son left, and the caregiver was also sent out.

Xie Liangjun massaged Cheng Tangyu’s calves, and sighed, “This is our own son, are we really just going to let him mess around? A tree that isn’t pruned won’t grow straight. As parents, we have to urge our children to walk the right path.”

Cheng Tangyu asked him to rub her temples, and said troubledly, “I’m also worried, but you can only change if you know you’re wrong. I thought about it for a long time and couldn’t figure out where our son went wrong. Alas, if only Xiao Zhuo was a girl, this betrothed from the womb, how could God just randomly match them up regardless of gender?”

Xie Liangjun’s hands were gentle, his expression complex, “Wife, your son found us a son-in-law, isn’t that wrong? If everyone was like this, humanity would have gone extinct long ago.”

Cheng Tangyu closed her eyes and said leisurely, “Did dinosaurs go extinct because they were gay?”

Xie Liangjun choked, “…So you mean, we’re just acquiescing?”

Cheng Tangyu “tsk”ed, “You’re so annoying, isn’t it because I don’t know what to do that I chased Xiao Yu away? That little brat is definitely going to find Xiao Zhuo now. It’s really strange, they even had a fight when they first met, how did they get together? Being this kid’s mom is really exhausting.”

Xie Liangjun comforted, “Don’t get anxious and worked up, leave it to me, I’ll handle this. You should rest well.”

Cheng Tangyu opened her eyes to look at him, “How do you want to handle it? Hey, Xie Liangjun, let alone the fact that I’m old friends with Xiao Zhuo’s parents, just the fact that the child has been so pitiful without parents since he was little, don’t bully the kid!”

Xie Liangjun complained, “Wife, look at what you’re saying, am I that kind of person? How could I bully a kid at my age? Do you remember Xiao Yu saying that his girlfriend wanted to study abroad as an exchange student? That girlfriend is probably Chen Zhuo.”

Cheng Tangyu asked suspiciously, “Yes, I remember, so what?”

Xie Liangjun’s temples flashed with silver, he squinted at the midday sun outside the window, “If I remember correctly, college exchange students can only go abroad one year after submitting their application.”

Cheng Tangyu’s brow twitched slightly, “You want to send Xiao Zhuo out this year?”

Xie Liangjun massaged her temples, “I have some connections with their school leaders. I’ll pay for this batch of students’ scholarships and tuition, and I’ll send people to contact foreign universities. Isn’t it just donating a little more money? They’re young men who haven’t even turned twenty yet, can they withstand a long-distance relationship?”

Cheng Tangyu moved her lips, struggling, “Is that appropriate? If your son finds out, he’ll tear the roof off.”

Xie Liangjun said calmly, “He wouldn’t dare! Going abroad to study, isn’t that a good thing for Xiao Zhuo? And he was going to go anyway, just a little earlier. We’ve been good enough as parents, we haven’t forced them to break up. If they can’t get through a long-distance relationship, it can only mean their feelings aren’t strong enough.”

Cheng Tangyu “ai”ed, “What if Xiao Zhuo doesn’t want to go?”

Xie Liangjun said, “I’ve been working in the business world for so many years, I’ve seen too many people. That child doesn’t seem like he has a love brain.”

Cheng Tangyu hesitated again and again, “Okay, let’s do that for now. As parents, we can only do this much. If these two children can hold on, then in the future, sigh, let them do as they please.”

Xie Liangjun said, “Let’s take it one step at a time, they’re still young.”

Cheng Tangyu thought of something and said, “Husband, what if Little Treasure also…”

Xie Liangjun was silent, “Don’t scare me, I have a son and a daughter, can I still have no descendants? Then there must be something wrong with the ancestral grave.”