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The faint smile froze on Nian Juntingâs face. Younger brother? What the hell, he thought. I look like her mother? Does Sangsangâs dad have eye problems? Do I look younger than her?
The corners of Luosangâs mouth twitched because of what her father had said.
Xu Zhengxuan kept observing Nian Junting with a complicated look. âYou look older than you are. Have you and your mother been living a hard life these past few years?â
I look older than I am... Nian Junting took a heavy hit. He believed that he looked mature and reliable. His future father-in-law was not good at talking. Nian Junting wanted to burst out yelling, but he couldnât. Seeing him fighting himself, Luosang laughed so hard that her stomach even ached. âDad, you misunderstood. This is my boyfriend,â she said.
Xu Zhengxuan paused in shock. Realizing that he had mistaken Nian Junting for his son, he was a little embarrassed and disappointed. He thought that his son had come back. âYouâre only my daughterâs boyfriend. How could you just call me father? You even made me misunderstand.â He couldnât help but complain.
âI think Iâll be calling you father eventually. I donât care if it starts sooner or later. Changing how I address someone can be troublesome,â Nian Junting said seriously. âFather, good to meet you. Please let me introduce myself. My name is Nian Junting. Iâm thirty years old. I graduated from New York University, blood type B, and Iâm a Leo. I used to be a soldier, but I have retired and founded my own company. Currently, Iâm running a public company. My assets total thirty billion dollars. I have never married. I donât smoke, or drink, or gamble. My parents divorced a couple of days ago. My mother is running our family business. Currently, sheâs getting to know her new boyfriend. My father works in the army. Heâs not a good husband, but he has dedicated as much as he can to our country. I didnât get his shortcomings. Under my own supervision, I have become a great man. I also have a sister. Sheâs twenty-five years old, and sheâs a police officer in a low place. She recently broke up with her ex-boyfriend, so I think sheâs gonna become one of those leftover ladies. Your daughter and I have dated for five months and twenty-two days. I have proposed to her, and she has said yes. Today, Iâm here to visit you, my father, officially.â
Luosang didnât know what to say. She only wondered if Nian Xi would explode if she heard him call her a âleftover lady.â
Xu Zhengxuan was stunned by Nian Juntingâs long speech. When he was teaching, he had a rather great memory. However, he had barely used his brain ever since he was in prison, so his brain didnât work as well as it used to. He spent quite a while but only managed to process 40 percent of what he had just heard.
âIt sounds good.â A short while later, he nodded and said, âItâs just, New York University is a little non-ideal, isnât it?â
Nian Junting didnât respond. New York University is non-ideal? It ranked thirty-second among all universities in the United States, he said to himself.
âI graduated from the University of Tokyo, and I finished my study two years early. Sangsang got an offer from the University of Toronto when she graduated from high school, but she refused to go so far away to study, because she wanted to stay with me.â Xu Zhengxuan sighed.
Nian Junting couldnât continue the conversation. The University of Tokyo was one of the top 30 universities in the world, so indeed, it was much better than his school. He blamed Lu Kang for not making it clear to him before he came in and for making him lose face. However, he was also delighted to find that both his girlfriend and future father-in-law were good at studying. Nice. Our children will easily get into Haver, he thought.
âYou didnât need to mention that. Iâve been keeping a low profile.â Luosang rolled her eyes, then said to Xu Zhengxuan, âDad, he used to be a soldier. He went back to school after retiring from the army and then got into NYU. Itâs already good enough.â