Chapter 426: Chapter 308: Has Family Affection Gone Awry? (2)

Li Qiyuan began to feign ignorance, or rather, until Li Peifeng admitted to the truth of the matter, he held onto the slim hope, unable to believe his son’s audacity and nerve, his great errors, and his reckless mistake of actually bringing two girls to meet his parents.

But Li Peifeng was destined to shatter Li Qiyuan’s hopeful illusion, weakly saying, "Dad, they’re both my girlfriends. You’ve known it for a while. You saw those three rings, don’t just give me vague words."

"..."

The other end of the phone fell silent, so Li Peifeng decided to lay everything out: "This time coming home, they both are coming to see you and mom as my girlfriends, and they have bought a gift for you both. Plus, I funded your new car and house upgrades, I’ve made a big financial contribution. You can’t just sit idle now, please help me convince mom, do some persuasion work."

Li Qiyuan remained silent for a while, then suddenly asked, "What did you call me?"

Li Peifeng quickly said, "Dad, dear father, please help me!"

Li Qiyuan’s voice seemed to come from far away: "Your dad is still your dad, but your mom might not be your mom anymore."

What does that mean? Li Peifeng’s heart tightened.

"Your mom wants to talk to you; I’m driving, and she’s been sitting in the passenger seat."

Before Li Qiyuan could finish, Yu Huizhi’s voice, thick with suppressed anger, came through the receiver.

"Li Peifeng, I don’t have a son as outrageous as you!!"

Li Peifeng panicked, "Mom, don’t be like this, I’ll always be your Fengfeng."

"You are not! My Fengfeng isn’t this shameless!"

"Motherly love is selfless." Li Peifeng was both humble and sincere: "No matter how the child turns out, a mother’s love is selfless. You can’t refuse to acknowledge me just because I have two girlfriends."

"Shut up!"

Yu Huizhi was extremely angry: "You’d better explain the whole situation to me. What’s going on with the three of you? When I visited your school last time, weren’t Wenyue and Manning a couple? How did you get involved?"

"That’s a long story!"

Meanwhile, the two girls were packing in the bedroom, while Li Peifeng sat on a chair and began recounting the entangled love and hate among the three of them. To make Yu Huizhi understand, he started from the time he first met Wu Wenyue years ago, then detailed how Xu Manning and Wu Wenyue started dating, then how Xu Manning and he fell in love, and finally how the three of them developed, went through many twists, and eventually confirmed their complex romantic relationship, while jointly starting a business and achieving remarkable success.

In short, to evoke empathy from his mother and ease her resistance, Li Peifeng described their relationship as profound and unwavering, a match made in heaven, seamless, and indispensable.

She loves her, she loves her, she loves him but can’t say it, she hates him but eventually falls for him too, she loves him and eventually reveals her heart, finally, all three of them love each other, love, love, love...

"So, you want to bring them home to meet us?"

Yu Huizhi’s tone was calm, but her anger hadn’t dissipated: "With things between the three of you like this, is there any need to meet us? Do you plan to abandon one and marry the other?"

Li Peifeng frowned and said, "It’s too early to discuss marriage. Bringing them to meet you and Dad is necessary unless you want me to keep this from you for as long as I can..."

Yu Huizhi snorted coldly, "Dare you?!"

Li Peifeng quickly said he wouldn’t dare, then added, "We should be home around noon tomorrow. Mom, you and Dad have the day off, right?"

Tomorrow is January 1st, New Year’s Day, a three-day public holiday. Since both Li Qiyuan and Yu Huizhi are university teachers, they have time off, but this holiday is destined to be uncomfortable...

"We’re off, come home."

Yu Huizhi said irritably, realizing another issue, nervously asking, "What are Wenyue’s parents planning to do? If Uncle Wu and Aunt Qiao find out and come to our house to hold you accountable, you better not come back!"

"Don’t worry, Wenyue and Manning plan to keep it a secret from their parents for now."

"How long can you hide it?"

Yu Huizhi was displeased: "Are Wenyue and Manning there with you? Give them the phone!"

The two girls had already heard the commotion from the bedroom, stopped what they were doing, and looked at Li Peifeng from afar in the living room.

"You want to talk to them? Alright..."

Before Li Peifeng could finish, Yu Huizhi immediately regretted it, possibly not ready to face the two ’future daughters-in-law’, sighed and said, "Forget it, we’ll talk when you come home."

"Alright."

After hanging up, Li Peifeng breathed a slight sigh of relief. Things were going relatively better than expected; his parents’ reactions weren’t as fierce as he feared, and they didn’t shut the girls out. His explanation must have worked. More importantly, in his relationship with Wu Wenyue and Xu Manning, he carried no so-called ’moral stain’.

The two girls had feelings for each other and also for Li Peifeng, so the three naturally came together. They accepted and enjoyed the relationship, not feeling wronged. What could the parents do? Call their son a jerk for playing with girls’ feelings?

That wasn’t the case. The girls hadn’t said anything adverse and were willing to meet Peifeng’s parents. Even though Yu Huizhi and Li Qiyuan found it absurd and incomprehensible, they could only opt to meet first and then discuss more...