CHAPTER 302: CHAPTER 292 UNABLE TO REFUSE

Tu Hengsha chatted with Shu Hui at home in the evening, listening to Mom talk about some things at school.

"Some kids these days are really getting tougher to manage. At home, they’re the precious ones, can’t be too soft or too hard on them. If you’re lenient, you’re said to be irresponsible; if you’re a bit strict, you get questioned. Too much homework, and there are complaints; delay in study abroad, and there are complaints. Punishment by making them stand is considered corporal punishment, and even running a bit makes people worry about the child’s health," Shu Hui sighed. "We’re getting old. The ways we used to use don’t work anymore!"

Daily chatter.

Tu Hengsha chuckled, "You’re not effective? You get the excellent teacher award every year, who’s effective if you’re not? And that cabinet full of honor certificates, there’s more of yours than mine!"

Shu Hui laughed too.

"You just set your standards too high, expecting everything to be perfect. How can you not be mentally exhausted!" Tu Hengsha said again.

Shu Hui was displeased to hear this, "What do you mean by that? Is having high standards and striving for perfection wrong? I’m a teacher; if I don’t set high standards, can I be careless? Can I live with my conscience that way? Striving for perfection is the goal; we must work towards this goal. As for the final result, that’s also a regret in the teaching profession. Not all effort achieves the expected outcome."

Tu Hengsha knew it would be like this. Mom had a very firm and persistent attitude toward her professional pursuits. Whenever she expressed even a little bit of "holding back" sentiments, she would get a political lecture and an on-the-spot admonition not to be careless with her work.

Right as Shu Hui’s topic was about to turn to her, someone knocked on the door.

"I’ll get it!" Tu Hengsha jumped up in a flash.

Shu Hui laughed, "Mention you, and you run away like a monkey!"

Tu Hengsha giggled and walked to the door, suddenly realizing a question: Who would be knocking at this hour? Could it be someone specific?

When she looked through the peephole, it was Su Rongyu...

And he was carrying a few gift boxes.

"Who is it? Xiao Xu? Xiao Xu hasn’t come over for many days?" Shu Hui asked.

"Huh? No..." Usually, Mom found faults with Xiao Xu, but when she didn’t see him for a while, she began to miss him? What’s this psychology?

She opened the door, and Su Rongyu gave an embarrassed, silly smile outside, "Sis..."

"What are you doing here so late at night?" She scanned the things he was carrying, which were all nutritional products.

"Sis, I’m here to plead guilty with my apologies! I said the wrong thing, there was a misunderstanding..."

"What wrong thing did you say? It’s okay, it’s okay! What are you doing here so late at night? Hurry and go home!" Tu Hengsha didn’t want Shu Hui to worry about the matter between her and Su Ronggui. Mom didn’t know anything yet. Su Rongyu had better not blab.

Su Rongyu pouted his lips, "Sis, you’re still mad at my second brother..."

Tu Hengsha glared at him hard, scaring him into not even daring to finish his sentence.

"Who’s outside? Let them come in to talk, don’t be so rude!" Shu Hui spoke up.

Under the frantic hints with Tu Hengsha’s winks, Su Rongyu finally understood, immediately shut up, stepped inside the door, and greeted, "Aunt Shu, it’s me, Little Yu."

Su Rongyu had been diligently picking up and dropping off Tu Hengsha for a while and had been prominently visible during Fan Yue’s funeral matters, so Shu Hui got familiar with this younger brother of Xiao Xu and hurriedly said, "Little Yu is here. Little Sha, quickly pour some water."

"No need to be formal, I just came to chat with Little Sha." Su Rongyu wisely refrained from bringing up anything about his second brother.

Tu Hengsha handed him a cup of water, and he hinted that he had something to say.

Tu Hengsha had no choice, so she said, "Alright, alright, let’s go outside to talk then." She mentioned to Shu Hui.

Nowadays, Shu Hui also had some inkling of Su Rongyu’s feelings towards Fan Yue, and she just thought that he couldn’t let go and came to pour his heart out to Tu Hengsha, so she didn’t ask much and let the two of them out.

Su Rongyu had driven over, and after getting in the car, he wanted to find a café or bar to have a good chat. But Tu Hengsha refused, "No need, we’ll just talk in the car. It’s too late, and if I stay out too long, my mom will worry."

Su Rongyu had no choice but to give up and eagerly started explaining, "Sis, what I said to you last time, it was all me talking nonsense! My second brother and my sister have nothing going on! They’re not together, nor are they engaged! They just staged a play to draw out that hidden psychopathic murderer! They even kept it from me!"

With that, he recounted the entire process to her, "You see, the Weibo my sister posted back then has been deleted, and she even specially posted another Weibo to clarify. Also, all the previous misleading Weibos didn’t show my second brother’s face, nor did they mention his full name. Except for those with ulterior motives, really no one knew it was my second brother. Sis, please stop being mad at my second brother, okay?"

Tu Hengsha glanced at him, "Did your second brother send you here?"

"No!" Su Rongyu hurriedly denied, "My second brother is the type, he wouldn’t complain even if he suffocated himself. I discerned it myself; he’s unhappy, and Sister Qian said he hasn’t eaten in two days. Last night’s dinner sat out all night, untouched. Today he took one bite and put it down. Sis, I know my second brother made a mistake, and today I gave him a good scolding for you! Please stop being angry with him, okay?"

"Kid, don’t meddle in others’ business!" Tu Hengsha called him out.

"I’m not a kid anymore!" Su Rongyu argued, "You all say I’m a kid, treat me like I’m clueless, but I understand! My second brother actually has a lot of helplessness! Although he shares the Su surname, he’s not my dad’s biological son. On the surface, there’s no difference, but in reality, there is a difference. My dad beats my eldest brother like he’s beating a grandson..."

"What kind of talk is that!" Clearly a son, how’s that compared to a grandson?

"I was just using a metaphor! Just that meaning. As for me, he never hit me, but whenever he wants to scold, he scolds. It’s like thundering at me at home, but it’s different with the second brother, he never spoke a harsh word to him. Actually, that’s distance. It’s the difference in closeness. Our family is in decline now, but before things went wrong, my family was rich. Still, whether my second brother can get any of this wealth is uncertain. Even if he does, it can never compare with us three siblings. But indeed, he was raised by my dad, and the kindness of being raised is as great as heaven. It’s something he owes to the Su family and, later on, with you reporting it, even though you weren’t wrong, to us Su family people, he owes even more to the Su family. The entanglement between him and the Su family is something he can’t figure out in this lifetime. This kindness of being raised, he can’t repay. My dad used to tell me, owing money in this world isn’t scary; what’s scary is owing people. The human debt is hard to repay, hard to untangle, especially with my second brother carrying such a great kindness of being raised, so sometimes, he can’t refuse. My dad got embroiled in a lawsuit, my sister got threatened like that, he couldn’t refuse to act in a play." Su Rongyu felt surprisingly deep on his face.

Tu Hengsha laughed slightly, "Can’t refuse? Then if your family asks him to marry Su Rongxing, can’t he refuse that too?"