Chapter 172: Can't Find a Reason to Object

"Dad!"

"Uncle Xia!"

Xia Nuannuan and Qin Tian greeted him one after another.

Xia Zhengping nodded, frowned slightly, and asked, "Why did you come over so late?"

Qin Tian looked embarrassed and was about to explain, but Xia Nuannuan beside him grabbed the answer, "Dad, we only played until ten o'clock, how is that late? It took half an hour just to take a taxi over."

"Uncle, this is my fault. I went to an internet cafe to play games with a friend and didn't pay attention to the time."

Qin Tian explained with a sheepish smile.

Xia Zhengping looked at him, didn't say anything, and changed the subject, "Let's go, let's go to my place first!"

After speaking, he turned and walked away.

Qin Tian and Xia Nuannuan looked at each other and hurriedly followed.

"Why did you suddenly come to Jiangcheng? Your mom is the same, she only told me about this this afternoon."

Xia Zhengping looked at his daughter beside him and said with a tone of reproach.

Qin Tian, who was following a step behind, thanked his future mother-in-law in his heart.

Clearly, this was his future mother-in-law's doing.

If Xia Zhengping had known about this in advance, it might have been quite troublesome, for example, he would have insisted on driving to the train station to pick them up and then arranged their itinerary, etc.

"Qin Tian had some things to do, and I came along to have some fun. There's nothing to do at home, it's too boring!"

Xia Nuannuan hugged her father's arm and said in a spoiled tone.

"Things to do? What things?"

Xia Zhengping turned his head with a look of surprise and glanced at Qin Tian.

"Collaborating with a friend to do a little business."

Qin Tian replied with a smile.

Compared to his father-in-law's net worth, his internet cafe really only counted as a little business.

"A little business?"

Xia Zhengping frowned slightly.

"Dad, let me tell you!"

Xia Nuannuan took over the conversation and told him about Qin Tian opening an internet cafe.

As Xia Zhengping listened, his expression gradually turned surprised, and he looked at Qin Tian with a skeptical gaze.

Qin Tian nodded with a smile and agreed, "Everything Nuan Nuan said is true."

No matter how hard it was to believe, Xia Zhengping confirmed that this should be true.

His daughter had never been good at lying since she was little, and Qin Tian had no need to do so.

"How much did you invest?"

Xia Zhengping turned his head and asked again.

Qin Tian quickened his pace, walked to the left side of his future father-in-law, and replied, "A total of 1 million yuan. Mainly because Brother Zhao has been in the internet cafe business for many years and has rich experience, so the cost was kept relatively low."

Xia Zhengping nodded slightly, wanting to say something but stopping, "This money..."

"I earned it myself."

Qin Tian replied with a smile.

Xia Zhengping stared at him in silence for a moment, half-believing this.

He had a rough understanding of Qin Tian's family conditions.

A high school graduate who just finished school saying he earned 1 million yuan was even harder to believe than the news that he was collaborating with others to open an internet cafe.

Don't look at how wealthy he was now; when he was the same age as Qin Tian and his daughter, he was still just an ordinary high school student, and even one with relatively poor grades at that.

Therefore, he found it very hard to believe, or rather, very unwilling to believe, that this pig-like boy who had tricked his precious daughter could have this ability.

"Dad, Qin Tian wouldn't lie to you. We went to a clothing company this afternoon and met the president of the company. Qin Tian even sold some clothing design drawings and earned 800,000 yuan!"

Xia Nuannuan noticed her father's skeptical attitude and spoke up to help.

"Oh?"

Xia Zhengping paused again.

Qin Tian smiled helplessly and briefly explained the process of earning money twice using clothing design drawings.

He could also understand Xia Nuannuan's thoughts.

After seeing that information about Xia Ji Seafood in the car just now, Xia Nuannuan was intentionally letting her father know how excellent he was, and also giving him some confidence.

"So you also know clothing design!"

After listening, Xia Zhengping was even more shocked than before.

If all of this was true, he had to admit that the Qin Tian in front of him was much more excellent than he had imagined.

"Mm, I know a little!"

Qin Tian nodded with a smile.

"Your modesty is too fake; it just makes you look even more smug!"

Xia Zhengping said calmly.

Qin Tian paused, then smiled awkwardly but politely.

"Besides these, what else is there? Just say it all at once!"

Xia Zhengping said with a look of annoyance.

Qin Tian scratched his head and confessed honestly, "There's also an online shop I opened to help people boost their game levels. The business is also quite good, and I earned some money. Then there's stock trading, where my luck was quite good. In the end, I managed to save up this 1 million yuan investment."

"Nothing else?"

"Mm, really nothing else, just these!"

"You're a high school student, how do you have time to mess around with all this?"

Xia Zhengping asked with a look of speechlessness.

Qin Tian smiled modestly and said, "Uncle, you know, my grades are okay, so I don't need to spend too much time on studying."

Xia Zhengping's mouth twitched slightly, and he suddenly didn't want to talk to him anymore.

But then again, he really did have a new level of respect for Qin Tian in his heart now.

Academic performance didn't represent everything. He naturally appreciated good grades, but he didn't value them that much.

Just like when he was studying, his grades were just average.

Until now, among those old classmates he once studied with, who could say they had achieved more than him?

Everything Qin Tian and his daughter just said proved that he wasn't just top-tier in academic performance, but also had the ability to give his daughter a happy and affluent life.

Thinking about it this way, Old Xia suddenly couldn't find a reason to object to the two dating, which made him feel quite sorrowful and helpless.

Chatting one sentence after another, the three soon arrived at the place where Xia Zhengping lived.

Although he hadn't bought a house in Jiangcheng, with his net worth, he naturally couldn't treat himself too poorly.

The place he was living in now was also a very nice, fully furnished apartment.

It had a two-bedroom, one-living-room layout, and the bathroom, kitchen, balcony, etc., were all fully equipped.

"Dad, you cleaned this up just now, right?"

Xia Nuannuan looked around and teased with a beaming smile.

Xia Zhengping didn't deny it, just nodded with a dry laugh.

For a middle-aged man living alone, it was naturally impossible for it to be this neat and clean.

After learning this afternoon that his daughter was coming to Jiangcheng and might stay here, he hurriedly called a cleaning service to come and tidy it up carefully.

"Last time Mom and I came to Jiangcheng, we went to a place Old Xia rented before. It was so messy, there was nowhere to sit."

Xia Nuannuan smiled and exposed her father to Qin Tian.

"That's because you and your mom launched a surprise attack. Otherwise, I would have definitely found a cleaning service to tidy it up in advance."

Xia Zhengping tried his best to save face, looking at his daughter with a bitter smile.

They weren't even family yet, why did this girl have to spill everything?

"Uncle, it's okay, I understand."

Qin Tian smiled at Old Xia. In his past life, he had also lived alone. ===== CHAPTER 173 =====