Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 305 - 300: Seeking Solutions in the Absence of Solutions (1)
When the Vast Starry Sky Launch took place, Qi Yi returned to China to avoid being mobbed by the media.
Qi Yi was well aware that after the latest launch of Maison Yan II, Yan Yan, the co-founder and creative director of Y.Y., transitioning from behind the scenes to the forefront, would ignite a wave of attention.
Just the title of co-founder of Y.Y. was enough to ensure that Yan Yan received the same treatment as Yan Ling, a "star", in New York.
Moreover, with the fashion media keeping tabs on the creative director, Yan Yan’s popularity was imaginable.
Qi Yi didn’t want to capitalize on Yan Yan’s popularity, but he hoped to use it to handle his own mother.
If that didn’t work, Qi Yi would have no choice but to give up on persuading his mother and resort to the solution he least wanted to use.
Qi Yi exhausted himself to the extent that no one was willing to meet him for an arranged marriage, yet his mother still lacked a sense of urgency and continued to believe that Yan Yan did not meet her standards for a daughter-in-law.
But Qi Yi’s sense of crisis had reached an unprecedented height.
Qi Yi chose such a time to return, precisely when "Designer Yan Yan" was at the peak of her popularity.
Qi Yi hoped that upon seeing such evident facts, his mother would change her long-held views and prejudices about Yan Yan.
However, the outcome was contrary to his wishes.
Qi Yi had not even begun discussing Yan Yan with his mother when she once again placed the label of "shamelessness" on Yan Yan.
All the efforts were in vain.
Qi Yi no longer wanted to stay in Wenzhou; as he was leaving, he asked his mother only one question, "If I were to marry Yan Yan, would you not even attend the wedding?"
Qi Yi asked already knowing that his mother’s answer would undoubtedly be affirmative.
After asking, Qi Yi left home.
As Qi Yi was leaving, his mother hysterically left him with harsh words, "If you marry that kind of woman, you are no longer my son."
If being a son or not could be resolved with a single sentence, the world wouldn’t have so many problems between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law.
Qi Yi had always been very concerned about his mother’s feelings, especially after his father left home. Qi Yi’s efforts were all to make his mother happy and to provide her more reasons to boast about his achievements to friends and relatives.
Usually, boys mature late, but Qi Yi was exceptionally precocious, not having made any demands on his mother since he started middle school.
Perhaps precisely because of this, Qi Yi only now realized the particularly stubborn part of his mother’s personality.
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After leaving home, Qi Yi dialed a number.
He had had this number for many years, but Qi Yi had hardly ever initiated calls.
Before going to the United States, it was this number that occasionally called or sent Qi Yi a few messages.
This call, Qi Yi made to his father.
Qi Yi hadn’t seen or seriously talked to his father in many years.
Normally during Chinese New Year in Wenzhou, Qi Yi’s father would ask him some trivial questions.
Having a girlfriend was, of course, also within the scope of their chats.
The Spring Festival after Qi Yi and Yan Yan reunited happened to be when his parents were officially divorcing.
That time, there wasn’t much opportunity to communicate, and afterward, Qi Yi’s father no longer came back to Wenzhou for the New Year.
When his father initially resigned to start a business in Yiwu, Qi Yi found it challenging to understand why his father could stay away from home year after year.
It felt as though he had no desire for this home, or even any concern for his own son.
No matter how hard Qi Yi tried, his father still only came home once a year.
His mother would argue with Qi Yi’s father on the phone at home, while outside, she would talk about how harmonious her family relationship was.
Qi Yi had always sided with his mother; his father was the one who would leave without a backward glance, while his mother was the one who had always been by his side as he grew up.
But now, Qi Yi began to somewhat understand his father’s resolute way of leaving.
With his mother’s stubbornness, his father would come home once a year and tell others that their marital relationship was very good. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
If he came home more often, Qi Yi’s mother might really start to believe that what she said was the truth.
A large part of Qi Yi’s appearance was inherited from his mother.
Thus, Mrs. Qi’s appearance and temperament were quite impressive.
Back in the day, the men who pursued his mother lined up, and Qi Yi’s father had to pass many challenges before he finally won her over.
The first few years of Qi Yi’s parents’ marriage were indeed very happy.
Mr. Qi was completely devoted to Mrs. Qi, obeying her every command.
When Qi Yi was young, he had a good relationship with his father.
At that time, the relationship between his parents was also relatively normal, and they hardly argued.
Later, for some reason, his parents began to argue, and once they started, it was unstoppable.
Qi Yi had always felt that his attitude towards his father was not quite right.
His father, one, did not commit domestic violence; two, did not abuse alcohol; and three, had no obligation not to support his child on his travels.
When he was still studying, his father often deposited some living expenses into his bank account.
After Qi Yi went abroad, his father maintained this habit, but Qi Yi never touched the money in that card.
The breakdown of his parents’ relationship should not have affected his relationship with his father.
But sometimes people are like that, they do not stay in touch, and over time, when they want to make contact, they do not know where to start.
When his father first went to Yiwu for business, if Qi Yi ever asked about his father, his mother would either have a breakdown or force him to study.
Or she would become hysterical and argue with his father over the phone for an hour or two.
After a few times, Qi Yi’s father told him not to contact him and to talk to his mother about anything, or wait until he came back to Wenzhou for the New Year.
Over time, Qi Yi also stopped mentioning his father in front of his mother.
During Qi Yi’s upbringing, there was a lack of his father’s company.
When he was in middle school, it was his mother who outright prevented Qi Yi from having any contact with his father.
Later, this became a habit.
If his father wanted to find him, there were clearly many ways to do so, but his father did not.
In Qi Yi’s heart, there was no way he could be completely untroubled by his father’s departure.
Ultimately, the estrangement between Qi Yi and his father was the "trajectory" orchestrated by his mother.
Looking back now, once his father had left Wenzhou, his mother did everything she could to keep him from finding his father.
His mother might have thought that if Qi Yi didn’t go looking for his father, Qi Yi’s father would come back to see him more often.
However, this matter, in the end, did not develop according to the trajectory set by Qi Yi’s mother.
