For Ito Xiong Yan, accompanying Nanako to leave their homeland and settle in China was partly because his legs had recovered as good as new, and he did not want to stay in Japan and cause a sensation. The other part was his hope that his daughter could soon achieve her happy ending with Ye Chen.
Nanako had given up Japan and come to Nanjing to join Ye Chen because she was pursuing true love. So, her father’s words did not make her blush. Instead, they made her feel tremendous support.
Because her father’s earlier words could be said to be going all out.
As long as she could marry Ye Chen, her father did not even care anymore about whose surname the entire Ito family would bear in the future. If she could truly step into the marriage hall with Ye Chen, the entire Ito family would be the dowry her father gave her. After she married Ye Chen, not only would she take her husband’s surname and change to Ye, but any children, whether boys or girls, would also bear the surname Ye. That would mean the Ito family ended completely with her generation.
However, if she had not met Ye Chen, with her father and the customs of those big Japanese families, the Ito family would surely have taken in a son-in-law. In Japan, a son-in-law had even less dignity than in China. Not only did the children born after marriage follow the wife’s surname, but the son-in-law himself had to change to the wife’s surname.
In that case, the Ito family could continue to pass on, continue to branch out and flourish, rather than come to a sudden end with her generation.
Thinking of this, Nanako felt moved but also a bit sad. She softly asked her father: “Otosan, if we do not take in a son-in-law, the Ito family may have no next generation. You… can you really accept that?”
Ito Xiong Yan smiled and said: “As long as in Otozan’s eyes, you marry well, what can Otosan not accept? What needs to be passed on is not just the surname, but also the bloodline. As long as the bloodline can continue, the surname is not that important.”
With that, he sighed and said: “Our Ito family once took in a son-in-law many years ago. The man sacrificed his own surname and married into the Ito family. The head of the Ito family at that time, to prevent him from changing the Ito family’s surname in the future, even hunted down the maids he had relations with and his illegitimate children. You see, even when taking in a son-in-law, it is not really that worry-free. There is still need to guard against this and that. Rather than that, it is better to simply not care anymore.”
“Moreover, Ye Chen is truly a rare good man in the world. If you can marry him, Otosan would die content immediately, even if it were right now. As for the two characters Ito, it does not matter if they are gone.”
When Ito Xiong Yan said this, Nanako’s eyes were already a bit red. She murmured softly: “Thank you, Otosan…”
At this moment, Ito Xiong Yan suddenly chuckled and said: “Of course, we exchange true heart for true heart. If you really marry Ye Chen in the future and give him four, five, or six sons, even if I kneel on the ground and beg him, I will beg him to let one of your sons bear the surname Ito…”
With that, he looked at Nanako and asked seriously: “Nanako, you think Ye Chen would understand and forgive me, right?”
Nanako had just been moved a moment ago, but now she was made to laugh and cry by her father.
Giving birth to four, five, or six sons, what did he take her for? Other fathers felt sorry for their daughters and did not want them to have too many children. But her own father was hoping she would give birth to four, five, or six sons.
