“Xiaoya knows about it too. She already doesn’t accept Doctor Lin’s feelings. Knowing that Doctor Lin is entangled ambiguously with a nurse from his clinic, how could she possibly choose him?”
“Doctor Lin is doomed to lose. Unless he forces himself on Xiaoya, he will never get her.”
“Xiaoya belongs to me. If he dares to be disrespectful to Xiaoya, I’ll make him understand how the word ‘death’ is written.”
In Zhan Yue’s view, Lin Jian was the rational type. For the sake of his future, Lin Jian would not really do anything to Xiaoya.
He was keeping a close watch anyway.
If that fellow surnamed Lin dared to disrespect Xiaoya, he could rush to the scene at any moment and perform a hero-saving-beauty act.
Hearing her grandson’s words, the old lady breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Good. My future granddaughter-in-law won’t be snatched away by someone else.”
Zhan Yue looked at Grandma and said, “Grandma, how little trust you have in your grandson. You’re actually worried that the person I’ve set my sights on could be taken by someone else. How could that happen? It concerns the happiness of the rest of my life.”
The men of the Zhan family were devoted. Once they truly gave their heart, it was one person for life.
No matter how difficult the path of pursuing a wife, they would persevere to the end and certainly win the beauty. Otherwise, they would remain bachelors for the rest of their lives, because they would not fall in love with anyone else.
After a pause, Zhan Yue said, “Doctor Lin is still a smart person. He won’t do anything like that. At most, he’ll just hesitate for a while. I can tell that he’s actually wavering about whether to continue pursuing Xiaoya.”
“Perhaps because he has admired her for many years, truly letting go isn’t that easy. So he hesitates, struggles, and wants to give it his all.”
“If he were truly confident, he wouldn’t have come to chat with me.”
When love rivals confront each other, the one who proposes a chat is often the one lacking confidence. If he were full of confidence, he wouldn’t seek out the rival at all.
The old lady laughed. “Facing a love rival like my grandson, it would be strange if he didn’t panic.”
“Fine. Grandma won’t worry anymore. As long as you know what you’re doing, that’s enough. Grandma is going to rest now. Tomorrow you don’t need to get up too early to make breakfast for me. Grandma plans to go back to your big brother’s side for breakfast.”
Zhan Yue said, “Is Eldest Sister-in-Law personally cooking breakfast tomorrow?”
It wasn’t that her cooking was particularly good. Grandma simply appreciated the filial piety of her granddaughter-in-law.
There was no helping it. The family had a serious imbalance with far more men than women. Grandma had waited decades to finally welcome a great-granddaughter. In the past, she could only dote on her daughters-in-law and granddaughters-in-law as if they were her own children.
“How could that be possible? As long as your big brother is there, Tongtong never needs to cook. It’s that Grandma can’t bear to see you so tired.”
“That’s not right, Grandma. Tomorrow you’re having me accompany you to the hospital for a check-up. You need to fast in the morning. I’ll prepare breakfast for you, pack it in a thermal lunch box, and put it in the car so you can eat after the check-up.”
The old lady slapped her forehead and laughed. “That’s right. Grandma completely forgot. When people get old, they easily forget things.”
“At Grandma’s age, your memory is still very good. You’re already better than many old ladies.”
The old lady said, “Then it’s settled. Tomorrow morning I’ll tell Tongtong that I won’t be going back in the morning. Let your big brother take Beibei to the company, or simply let him take half a day off to look after the child.”
In the old lady’s mind, the one who could take leave to stay home and look after children was the grandson, not the granddaughter-in-law. Granddaughters-in-law were all strong career women, and work was more important.
As for grandsons, they needed to experience the hardship of childcare so they would cherish their wives more and understand how tough it was for wives to balance work and caring for children.
They should not just lightly open their mouths and complain about how difficult or tiring it was to look after a child.
If they had never looked after a child themselves, they wouldn’t know how exhausting it was.
Some would rather herd cattle than look after a child.
If the Zhan Yin brothers knew Grandma thought this way, they would collectively cry injustice.
As husbands and fathers, they were already extremely competent.
