Chapter 1332: Laying the Groundwork While Things Are Going Smoothly

The son was firmly opposed, so Jian Yixin had no choice but to let go of this idea.

While chatting as a couple, Jian Yixin sighed, wondering why Shi Youxuan's children were so happy to have a little sister, while their own son Moli felt that an extra sister was a burden and a shameful thing?

Her husband hit the nail on the head, pointing out that Shi Youxuan's parenting style was different from theirs.

Shi Youxuan appeared lenient with her children, yet she was very capable of grasping the key points; she was unyielding where it mattered, and completely hands-off where it didn't.

Every one of the children in the eldest brother's family had a very upright worldview.

Tolerant, magnanimous, sunny, kind, and possessed of great vision.

Usually, if her husband said things like this, Jian Yixin would not like to hear it; she was a person with very strong opinions, and people with such personalities were usually very hard to change.

But today, her son's attitude had touched her too deeply!

Moli was the person who grew on Jian Yixin's soft spot.

One word from her son was more effective than a hundred words from her husband.

Today, her son pointed at her nose and roared loudly: "Please, look in the mirror and see how old you are, okay? You're already over forty, and you still want to have a child? If you hadn't had me so late, you would be grandparents by now. Isn't it shameful to want to have a child at this age?"

"I can't even hold my head up in front of my classmates."

"Adopting is even worse. What's the point of raising her if there's no blood relation? I don't need a companion either. When I was little, I envied the children in my uncle's family for having many siblings to play with, while I was always all alone. Why didn't you talk about finding me a companion back then?"

"Now that I've gotten used to being alone, you finally think of wanting a little sister to play with me. I'm sorry, we can't play together anymore. That's not having a companion; that's adding a burden to me..."

Her gentle-as-jade son had lost his temper with her in a big way.

And all of this was just because of one sentence from her!

The son's reaction was too intense, causing Jian Yixin's plan to be shelved, yet she was deeply moved. After an in-depth conversation, the couple unanimously agreed—their education of Moli was still not up to par, and it had gone off track yet again.

From childhood to adulthood, this child had given the couple no shortage of worry; they once feared he would melt if kept in their mouths, and shatter if held in their palms.

Their precious son, raised with such meticulous care, had almost been raised to be incapable of taking care of himself!

Fortunately, it was corrected in time by Shi Youxuan, and he had changed.

But because he was an only child, it was inevitable that he would develop a selfish personality.

Jian Yixin and her husband were very afraid that Moli would end up like his biological father, and they didn't know how to change it, so they wanted to ask Shi Youxuan for guidance!

Shi Youxuan suddenly realized: "Oh, so this equity document is tuition? That's too much, I don't want it."

Jian Yixin curled her lip: "Tuition? Do you think I'm stupid? I've been doing business for decades, surely I can still do the math; tuition isn't that expensive."

"Then what is it?"

This was the third time Shi Youxuan had asked this question.

She had told a long story, but still hadn't made it clear.

Shi Youxuan suspected that Jian Yixin was going through early menopause; she hoped she wouldn't be like her mother, that would be too terrifying.

Fortunately, she had overthought it. Jian Yixin used a long story as a preamble, then stated the main points in a few sentences: "First, Sheng Hanyu has taken good care of their family business over the years; this counts as a share of the profits."

"Second, the two families have common interests, which is the only way for long-term development. Now that the two of us are here, we can ensure Moli's well-being, but in the future when we are gone, we will have to rely on your children to give Moli a hand so that his life won't be too bitter."

Jian Yixin argued persuasively: "This is called laying the groundwork while things are going smoothly, so that one can have a retreat when surrounded by enemies on all sides."

Shi Youxuan:...

Damn it, to be so calculating and yet so righteous about it—in this world, there was probably no one else but Jian Yixin.

She accepted it.

There was no help for it; who told her to be soft-hearted?

However, Shi Youxuan liked to put things out in the open. Although she was managing this twenty percent equity on his behalf, it was not in Yueyue's name.

The owner of the equity was Moli, it was just converted into invisible equity, and it would not be handed over to him unless absolutely necessary.

The reason Jian Yixin could do this, besides being smart and having long-term vision, also fully demonstrated her trust in Shi Youxuan!

"I still owe Yueyue a full-month gift; I must make up for it."

Jian Yixin kept her word; if she said she would make up for it, she would.

But she didn't make up for it all at once. She returned to coming every day, but she never came empty-handed; she brought one thing today and another thing tomorrow.

The time she arrived at the Sheng Family was still the same.

She came every day while Sheng Hanyu was at work and left before he got off.

But the habit of bossing people around in other people's homes had been corrected, and she was very polite to the nanny and maternity matron who took care of Yueyue, often bringing them small gifts.

Jian Yixin was quite skilled at managing people; within a few days, she had won back the hearts she had lost, but she didn't overstep her bounds and acted as a qualified guest.

At Shi Ran's home.

The mother-in-law had come again.

The couple felt completely uncomfortable.

But they couldn't say anything; the moment they did, Ma Ling'er would cry and ask what she had done wrong.

If they were dissatisfied, they could just bring it up, and she could change!

Actually, there was nothing else that needed changing.

It would just be best if she weren't here.

She was the mother-in-law, yet when she came to her daughter-in-law's house, she acted like a servant, doing laundry, cooking, and cleaning the rooms, taking care of the young couple in every possible way.

Being too attentive was also not good.

Young people needed a sense of distance and needed their privacy protected.

But the mother-in-law, under the guise of cleaning, had rummaged through their drawers more than once.

She even beat around the bush to "popularize" physiological knowledge.

Shi Ran endured it the first time.

The second time, she told her husband.

Her husband Yun Qitian became anxious and lost his temper with his mother, and his mother apologized to her... what could she do?

She could only beat her husband up fiercely out of his mother's sight to vent her anger!

Yun Qitian had a serious and earnest talk with his mother—demanding that his mother move out of their small home, as they needed private space, and his mother's reach was too long and she meddled too much.

Ma Ling'er put away her soft demeanor in front of her son.

She stated to her son with a tough attitude: "Give me a grandson now, and I will leave immediately."

Yun Qitian:...

Speechless.

This is not about being reasonable anymore, is it?

She is a doctor, after all; can she have a little bit of medical common sense?

Having a baby isn't like molding a clay doll; can you just have one whenever you want?

A bright idea struck him in his desperation.

Yun Qitian said to his mother: "If you truly want a grandson, move back home; it will be convenient for Ranran and me to produce a grandson for you without distractions. With you here, we are under too much pressure; high pressure and a bad mood make it difficult to conceive."

This was medical common sense; why hadn't he thought of it sooner?

Although it wasn't too late to think of it now, it didn't work.

Ma Ling'er curled her lip: "Are you teaching me how to do things? I've been a doctor for decades, how could I not know such a simple principle? Have I ever put pressure on you to make you focus on making a baby?"

She had not.

Although he did not want his mother to live in their small home, he could not speak against his conscience.