Chapter 425: Normal Couples Need the Warmth of Daily Life

Facts proved that at a time like this, no one would help him at all; there was only heckling and people refusing to let the matter drop.

"Mommy, Daddy said he was fooling you," Shi Ran added, twisting the knife.

Shi Youxuan seized upon the slip of the tongue and wouldn't let it go.

"Sheng Hanyu, be honest and confess: what else have you been fooling me about?"

"Confess quickly! Confession brings leniency, resistance brings even more severity!"

Sheng Hanyu:...

Since it was severe either way, what was there to confess?

Choosing the lesser of two evils, Sheng Hanyu announced the answer, and the answer was simple—he had seen Wang Cuihua holding that wedding dress!

"If you saw it, why didn't you say so earlier?" Shi Youxuan asked, dissatisfied.

If he had said so earlier, she wouldn't have wasted so much time applying face masks and putting on makeup.

As it turned out, it was all for nothing, and she had to wash it all off.

Sheng Hanyu said righteously, "I didn't know at the time that what she was holding was your wedding dress. I just thought that woman looked very strange over there, and I was afraid she might do something to harm you, so I took a few extra glances."

"You know Wang Cuihua?"

Shi Youxuan found it strange; logically, the two of them shouldn't know each other, as Sheng Hanyu hadn't returned from L Country yet when she was dealing with Wang Cuihua.

"Nonsense."

Sheng Hanyu glared at her: "You never clean up the messes you make after you're done; don't I have to go behind you and tidy up the aftermath?"

To clean up her messes, he needed to understand who was trying to harm her, both on the surface and in the shadows.

Shi Youxuan felt warm inside and was very moved.

But being moved was one thing; it didn't change the fact that she thought Sheng Hanyu was black-bellied!

This guy had been acting all serious and mysterious, but it turned out everything before that was just a smokescreen.

He had seen the woman holding the wedding dress, yet he acted like a detective, bluffing the people in the photo studio into a daze.

The three of them had just arrived home when the photo studio manager called.

She reported that she had already called the police, and the police had taken that woman away for investigation...

Sheng Hanyu wasn't interested; he told the manager not to tell him about such things, as he wasn't interested.

Shi Youxuan teased him from the side: "Did the manager take a fancy to you?"

"Don't talk nonsense, that's not the case," he hurriedly denied.

One couldn't talk recklessly about such things, and certainly couldn't admit to them.

However, the little "knife-twister" Shi Ran added: "Yes, Mommy, I think that manager did take a fancy to Daddy. When you were putting on makeup, that manager auntie kept fawning over Daddy, and as soon as you came out, she immediately kept her distance."

"Is that so?"

Shi Youxuan glared at him.

"Of course not. You can't listen to a child's nonsense. The photo studio is hers, and we are the customers.

Isn't it normal for a manager to be enthusiastic toward customers for the sake of the business? Right?"

This answer could be said to show a very strong will to survive.

But Shi Youxuan remained relentless, insisting on pursuing the details; she was a total vinegar jar, and even Shi Ran couldn't bear to watch.

The little girl told her mother to be more tolerant, not to be jealous of everything, and to learn to adapt to the environment.

One must use strategy with one's husband to achieve twice the result with half the effort and get good results!

Being so "open-minded" at such a young age, both Shi Youxuan and Sheng Hanyu were very worried.

At her age, most girls were still acting like spoiled children in their parents' arms, wanting Barbie dolls and pretty new clothes and Spring Shoes.

Yet Shi Ran was much more mature and calm; she was too rational.

It wasn't that being rational was bad, but for a child of Shi Ran's age, there was no need to be so rational.

The two of them would rather she be more emotional, have more imagination, and be an innocent and carefree little girl.

And a child's personality development, besides being innate and hereditary, was largely a feedback to the outside environment.

Growing up in a happy family makes it easy for a child to develop an innocent, carefree personality.

But Shi Ran, despite her young age, had experienced too many things she shouldn't have at her age.

And she was too smart.

Naturally, she had to use a shell to protect herself; the sunshine and innocence were just on the surface, while in reality, she was calm and mature—mature to the point that it made her parents' hearts ache.

Sheng Hanyu held his daughter's shoulders with both hands and said to her very seriously: "Ranran, what you said is wrong. Women don't need to be tolerant. Being jealous is right. Mommy being jealous makes Daddy very happy, because this is a sign of Mommy's love for Daddy. If other women were good to Daddy and your mommy didn't even get jealous, Daddy wouldn't be happy either."

Shi Ran: "Why? The National Studies class says women should be tolerant and magnanimous to show character, and shouldn't control everything or be jealous of everything... Women like that are narrow-minded."

Sheng Hanyu really wanted to tear the mouths of the people who said these things.

Being tolerant and magnanimous was fine, and having character was even better, but it depended on what the matter was!

This word didn't need to be used at all when it came to one's husband.

A woman's way of expressing deep love for a man is—to bully him, bully him, and bully him hard.

Being jealous, acting spoiled, and being unreasonable were all normal.

What is a home?

A home is a place to talk about feelings, not a place to talk about reason.

Sheng Hanyu decided that he would gradually instill these "concepts" into his daughter, and the school's National Studies class needed a new teacher!

Some people, under the guise of National Studies and the virtues of propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame, were spreading the dregs of feudal society, and he had zero tolerance for that.

Shi Youxuan suddenly said: "Hanyu, let's go get our marriage certificate, let's go now."

Huh?

Sheng Hanyu did not react in time and said, "The Civil Affairs Bureau doesn't open until tomorrow; no one is working today."

She did not make a sound, but instead sat on the sofa and used the remote to turn on the television: "I'm hungry, go cook."

"Alright."

Sheng Hanyu had just prepared to go to the kitchen when he suddenly reacted, turned around, and questioned her: "Wait, what did you mean just now? Is it that even at this point, you are still preparing to leave me at any time?"

Shi Youxuan was likely not thinking of getting a marriage certificate with him, but only wanted to hold a wedding ceremony and then live together, considering that enough.

He guessed correctly.

That was indeed how it was.

That was exactly what Shi Youxuan thought; to her, a marriage certificate was a shackle.

Although she was only in her twenties, she had already possessed two marriage certificates, and neither had a good ending.

Although she had decided to reconcile with Sheng Hanyu this time, she did not want to get another useless booklet; besides being a shackle, it had no use at all.

But a wedding was different; there was no young girl who did not yearn for a wedding, or yearn for how she would look wearing a wedding dress.

Shi Youxuan had also yearned for it.

Furthermore, having a wedding would make it more legitimate when Shi Ran went out and spoke of her mom and dad in the future.

Now that her thoughts were exposed, she did not deny it.

She admitted it very frankly: "Mm."

Sheng Hanyu:...

He never expected that while trying to counsel his daughter, he would end up discovering Shi Youxuan's true thoughts.

"Why?"

He was angry, truly very angry.

Was it not enough that the two of them had experienced so many storms together?

Sheng Hanyu asked himself if he had already taken his heart out and placed it before Shi Youxuan, yet she still held something back from him; he could not understand it at all.

Shi Youxuan: "No reason, I just feel that thing is useless. It's nothing more than a piece of paper; it has no use in daily life, but at critical moments, it becomes a big trouble."

Her so-called "big trouble" referred to her previous two divorces.

Although Shi Youxuan and Zhu Yiwen were only husband and wife in name and had no actual marital relations, it was still very difficult when they divorced; Zhu Yiwen refused to sign the agreement, wanting to keep her shackled for a lifetime.

Later, it was only with great difficulty that she got him to sign; it had taken so much effort, and Shi Youxuan did not want to go through it again.

"Fine, I understand."

Sheng Hanyu grabbed his coat, prepared to leave; not getting angry did not mean he had a good temper.

Shi Youxuan had touched his bottom line once again, and this time, he was truly very angry!