Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 253 - 248 Just by Seeing, You’ll Like It

"But doing so offered no help to the existing problems between Yan Yan and Qi Yi.

Qi Yi’s mother’s objections to Yan Yan weren’t something that could be resolved by simply turning off a phone or canceling an account.

Having been targeted was nothing new for Yan Yan.

Though she hadn’t been targeted in a while, the "experienced" Yan Yan had plenty of counter strategies.

That day, after crying while holding Bao Bao in the Armani Hotel in Milan, Yan Yan felt that being scared to tears by a phone call from Qi Yi’s mother was incredibly childish.

Moreover, no matter what Qi Yi’s mother said to Qi Yi on the phone, Mrs. Qi had only kindly asked Yan Yan whether Qi Yi was with her.

So many years had passed since high school graduation, yet there had been no progress at all.

It was truly inexcusable.

Yan Yan decided to conquer her own "inner demons."

After collecting her emotions, Yan Yan began to feel that being unreasonably targeted by Qi Yi’s mother didn’t really concern her all that much, when you got down to it.

Because of love, she was supposed to degrade herself to the dust, crying and begging for Qi Yi’s mother’s acceptance.

Excuse me, but how exactly do you write the word ’debase’?

Those two characters were simply nonexistent in Yan Yan’s dictionary.

Back in high school, Yan Yan had never considered doing such a thing, and now she was even less likely to.

The eldest Miss Yan, if nothing else, had a pride that was inherent in her very bones.

After convincing herself, Yan Yan was already back in full strength before Qi Yi left Italy.

For Yan Yan, it was only after she and Qi Yi became legally family that she and Qi Yi’s mother would truly be related.

Before that, to be honest, Qi Yi’s mother wasn’t that important.

Even taking a step back, Qi Yi’s mother, of course, was something for Qi Yi to deal with.

There was no reason she should be tasked with that.

If Qi Yi couldn’t even handle "such a small matter," then he was far from being able to pass even the simple test posed by Yan Yan’s already very open-minded parents.

Why then should Yan Yan bother with the formidable challenge posed by Qi Yi’s mother?

Yan Yan and her parents had been getting along like friends for a long time.

She always believed that the relationship between the older and younger generations should be equal, and whether they were elders or juniors, they should all be reasonable.

One must not be overly confident or impose their own thoughts on others.

Regardless, when Yan Yan began to feel that dealing with his mother was Qi Yi’s own responsibility, the wound in her heart no longer felt raw and bleeding.

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Over the past three years, Yan Yan had been waiting for Qi Yi to sort things out with his mother.

Such a long period of three years.

There had been direct confrontations between Yan Yan and Qi Yi’s mother.

Especially when Qi Yi felt that he had successfully handled his mom.

During the Spring Festival of 2013, after expending a ton of effort persuading, Qi Yi finally convinced Yan Yan.

Qi Yi made Yan Yan believe that once his mother met her, she would definitely like her.

That year, the Yan Dabang couple also happened to return to Wenzhou for the Lunar New Year."

Having just successfully completed Maison Yan II’s debut at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, Yan Yan took three days off to return home for the Chinese New Year.

After enjoying the New Year’s Eve dinner and staying up to welcome the New Year at home, Yan Yan accepted Qi Yi’s warm invitation to have lunch at his place on the first day of the new year.

Qi Yi rarely had the chance to return home to China after moving to the United States.

For the past two years, Qi Yi’s father had insisted on getting a divorce on New Year’s Eve. To spare his mother from being reminded of unhappy memories, Qi Yi would make time to return to Wenzhou during the New Year holidays.

In the spring festival of 2013, Qi Yi’s mother had already moved into the new house Qi Yi had purchased for her.

With the joy of housewarming and the delight of having her son back in the country, Qi Yi’s mother had no reason to feel down at all.

She would praise her son’s accomplishments to anyone who would listen.

What Mrs. Qi said was indeed true.

The cost of housing in Wenzhou was so exorbitant that many parents bought properties for their children, but it was far less common for young people in their twenties to buy homes for their parents.

After all, it wasn’t a small sum, and there was also a "tradition" in Wenzhou for parents to buy houses for their sons.

Qi Yi’s new home wasn’t very large or luxurious; by Wenzhou standards, it was a median apartment complex.

But it was certainly incomparable to the area where Qi Yi used to live.

Qi Yi had bought this house in 2012. Just one year into his career, being able to buy a house in Wenzhou was definitely something to be proud of.

It was at such a moment that Yan Yan was invited to Qi Yi’s new home to "meet the parents."

Deep down, Yan Yan was actually quite resistant to the idea.

After all, the two previous "battles" she had with Qi Yi’s mother had ended in tragic defeat for Yan Yan.

But as the boyfriend repeatedly requested his girlfriend to meet the parents as soon as possible, as Qi Yi’s only official girlfriend, she felt obligated to cooperate.

When Yan Yan arrived at Qi Yi’s family home, what she saw was a particularly harmonious scene of maternal love and filial piety.

Qi Yi’s mother brought out a pile of certificates, which even Qi Yi himself might not remember, and together they reminisced about "the good old days."

Yan Yan knew exactly what high school Qi Yi was like, but she had no idea what he was like before high school, as she was only his classmate during that time.

Upon her arrival, Yan Yan joined this harmonious scene without any sense of discord.

Qi Yi glanced at Yan Yan with a hint of pride.

He was communicating through his gaze: See, I told you my mom would like you once you met.

Yan Yan returned a "I hope you’re right" expression to Qi Yi.

If it really were as Qi Yi said, that his mother would start liking Yan Yan upon meeting her, nothing could be better.

Qi Yi’s mother had cooked a large table of dishes to welcome Yan Yan.

During the meal, Yan Yan asked why Qi Yi’s grandparents had not come over for the New Year, and Mrs. Qi replied that they were now at the home of Qi Yi’s uncle.

Yan Yan asked because, in Wenzhou, meeting the parents usually entailed one person being scrutinized by a crowd.

At Qi Yi’s home, meeting just one parent seemed a bit odd.

However, Yan Yan had only heard about such things from Jin Jin and others; she had never experienced the process of meeting the parents herself.

Previously, when Yan Ling had married his ex-wife, since they never went through the process of meeting the parents, Yan Yan never had the experience of being a "family follower" scrutinizing her former sister-in-law.

What the experience of meeting the parents should be like, Yan Yan had no clue.

Whether there were many people or few wasn’t the key issue; when it came to meeting Qi Yi’s family, the most important was his mother.

If there were no issues with Mrs. Qi, then there certainly wouldn’t be any problems in the future for Qi Yi and Yan Yan.

Then, the parents from both sides could sit down and talk directly about when to get married.