"What are you talking about!"
Lin Haitang’s face turned red, her expression a mix of slight annoyance.
"No nonsense here, I’m serious. I was just thinking, when can you arrange for us to officially et," ng Lang said earnestly.
et?
Isn’t this about eting the parents?
Seeing his expression, which seed far from joking, Lin Haitang suddenly felt a bit uneasy.
"Who said I’d arrange a eting for you?"
"But you’ve t my parents, haven’t you?" ng Lang argued as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"That’s not the sa thing! Besides, what does my business have to do with him!"
Her voice grew fainter with the second half of her sentence.
By now, she had pretty much cut ties with Mr. Lin as a daughter.
Even if she really were to et parents, it shouldn’t be her father...
"I know there’s conflict between you, but blood is thicker than water. Perhaps there’s so misunderstanding?" said ng Lang, intending to be helpful.
"What misunderstanding?"
"Like... maybe there’s an excruciating reason behind so of his hurtful actions?"
"Favoring the new and loathing the old, starting in chaos and ending in abandonnt, not taking responsibility, all have excruciating reasons?"
ng Lang was at a loss for words, coughing awkwardly with a fist in front of his mouth.
"Of course, that’s indefensible. After all, a man as devoted as is extrely rare in this world."
Lin Haitang served ng Lang a taphorical cold shower.
"Cough! But thing is, matters of the heart are really complex, not sothing you can explain in a sentence or two. Sotis fate plays cruel jokes...
Take Brother Baoyu, for example. He loves Lin Daiyu, but Xue Baochai is the choice of his parents, the matchmakers... what can one do when you’re against your will?
You know, life sotis is full of various kinds of helplessness, especially... in another dinsion..."
ng Lang beca rather impassioned, as he spoke up in defense of his "predecessor."
Indeed, he believed Mr. Lin’s reason for a second marriage was most likely a similar predicant...
After all, not all n can withstand the test of a "vulnerability"...
Even soone as devoted as he was, had been successfully seduced by Yan Weiwei twice in such a short ti; it was hard to say how much "debt of romance" the almost father-in-law had accumulated over his "vast experience."
Apart from those High Monks who had taken the path of "emptiness", there were probably very few "predecessors" who could stay untouched by the troubles of multiple romantic entanglents.
As for the earlier predecessor Zhuangzi... umm... they practiced polygamy back then...
Sigh! Happiness is that simple...
Look at Xiang Shaolong, who traveled back to the Spring and Autumn Period. Didn’t he also succumb to convention and gain the fury of gods and n in the end?
From a certain perspective, just having a second marriage in his lifeti was already a testant to that predecessor’s "exceptional resolve"...
Putting aside ng Lang’s complex inner thoughts, Lin Haitang’s expression was sowhat peculiar.
Why bring up Brother Baoyu again...
If she rembered correctly, on the train to Zhongnan Mountain, this guy seed to have said similar things before.
Only, ng Lang had used "another era" last ti, whereas now he referred to "another dinsion."
But Lin Haitang failed to notice this subtle "difference"...
"Then what would you do, if you were in that situation?"
She stared at ng Lang, asking the sa question as the last ti.
If the last conversation seed more like idle chat between friends, this ti it had a few shades more seriousness.
ng Lang sighed, giving the sa response as before.
"I still think that whom to choose isn’t the point; the point is how to prevent tragedy..."
"So you don’t think the current situation counts as a tragedy?"
"Uh..."
ng Lang didn’t know how to respond.
Should he say that his future father-in-law likely ssed up, exhausted his chances, and was unable to escape a tragic end, so he chose , his successor, to keep trying? And also to hand over his legacy?
"Cough! I was just thinking that maybe the more stories a man has, the more complicated his emotional life might be..." he ventured weakly.
Lin Haitang looked at him with a peculiar gaze, "Stories? You haven’t even t him, have you? How co it sounds like you understand him so well?"
"Cough! How could I? It’s exactly because I don’t understand, which is why I want to get to know him up close. Of course, this is also to show my gratitude."
"Gratitude?"
"To thank him for entrusting such excellent daughters to my care."
Lin Haitang thought ng Lang was trying to get fresh with her again verbally.
"Ha! So you really believe he would agree to entrust us to your care?"
"Of course I trust my father-in-law’s judgent!" ng Lang puffed up his chest.
In fact, whether he believed it or not didn’t matter; the important thing was that he was already taking such action...
Objectively speaking, if there ca a day when he couldn’t withstand the side effects brought by the autobiography, and had to pick a "successor" for the autobiography, he’d surely employ the world’s top "multiple universal ti test" and use a multitude of "life experiences" to comprehensively evaluate the person’s moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor qualities...
And most crucially, he must be good to his own daughter!
It seems I’ve already passed the most rigorous test in this world. The good man is ... I am ng Xiaolang!
Watching the man brimming with inexplicable self-confidence, Lin Haitang was left rather speechless.
Overconfident in the face of a stranger you’ve never even t, aren’t you jumping to conclusions a bit rashly?
Her mind raced with thoughts, and a wry smile curled on her lips.
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