CH 332

Adopting and Raising the Male Lead and the Villain 332

When Lang Jinzhi saw refusal, he wouldn’t feel angry. Instead, he felt comfortable.

He slowly learned how to show his emotions and found that showing them wouldn’t make other people uncomfortable.

“Your smile seems to be much more real,” Secretary Cheng suddenly said after he handed a stack of materials to him.

“Really?”

“Yes.”

After Lang Jinzhi finished dealing with the more urgent matters, he went to the bathroom.

The mirror in the bathroom was big and clearly reflected his current state.

At some unknown time, his facial features had subconsciously relaxed and weren’t as tight as before.

Lang Jinzhi washed his hands, then took out his phone, sending another message to Zhong Yuhuan.

【Huanhuan.】

【Hm?】

【I feel a bit happy.】

【Heehee, did you guess that I brought you a new present?!】

Lang Jinzhi didn’t.

But he felt like he was, indeed, much happier.

***

Ding Qiuyue could finally talk with Doctor Qian properly.

Psychotherapy was a long process, but despite that, Ding Qiuyue slowly regained some moral conscience. She understood why Lang Jinzhi hated her, why she became lonelier and lonelier by the day, and how her actions may have raised an outstanding son but also one with shackles that would take his entire life to get rid of.

The more she understood, the more pain Ding Qiuyue felt.

Time after time, she realized that she was the root cause of this pain.

It was raining heavily on the day that Ding Qiuyue finally set foot in the Lang’s house, a place she hadn’t been to for many years.

A car quickly drew near. The car door opened and Secretary Cheng came out, looking at her with shock.

Lang Jinzhi also came out.

“Jinzhi…” Ding Qiuyue followed him.

But Lang Jinzhi brushed past her.

Ding Qiuyue didn’t have an umbrella, so the heavy rain made her wet.

“Jinzhi…” She couldn’t help but call again.

At this time, a person ran out of the house, holding an umbrella. “Cousin! I came to receive you… quick, quick…”

It was Zhong Yuhuan.

Zhong Yuhuan brought the umbrella over Lang Jinzhi’s head and looked at Ding Qiuyue with a frown.

Ding Qiuyue resisted her impulse to be angry and leave, wanting to mend their broken relationship.

But Lang Jinzhi finally looked at her and lightly said, “I’ve said this before. I’ll give you everything I should, but you running here in the rain doesn’t make any of us look any better.”

Ding Qiuyue opened her mouth.

But I don’t want cold, obligatory support…

Lang Jinzhi took the umbrella from Zhong Yuhuan and slightly tilted it towards her.

Then, they stepped inside together, not giving Ding Qiuyue another glance.

“I know that I was wrong back then. Jinzhi, I know that now. I’m willing to change. Won’t you give your mother a chance?”

“Lost things cannot be returned, so you need to focus on controlling your current state without even relaxing for a moment. That’s what you taught me back then.”

The door closed, shutting Ding Qiuyue out.

Ding Qiuyue shivered. Clutching her chest, she felt like she was about to die.

She had blindly compared herself with others, comparing their marriages, their husbands, their sons, their money… After muddling around like this for so many years, she found that there was no one waiting for her when she looked back.

Lang Jinzhi walked into the dining room, a bit of gloom still hanging around between his eyebrows.

Zhong Yuhuan gave him a large box, patting it and saying, “New present.”

The gloom gradually disappeared and Lang Jinzhi opened the box, taking out two boxes of puzzles with over 10,000 pieces each.

“Cousin, we each have one. For mine, you should help me complete it.”

Lang Jinzhi: “…”

That night, Lang Jinzhi totally broke free from his usual routine.

He did puzzles for three hours. When he looked at the time, it was already 1:00 am.

Lang Jinzhi frowned and gave up on completing them.

So, he opened his computer and began rewatching all of the variety shows Zhong Yuhuan had starred in, tirelessly sending messages on the bullet screen:

【Huo Chengming’s so dumb.】

【Li Jinyuan’s also stupid.】

【Huanhuan’s cute.】

***

Lang Jinzhi passed something called a salted fish* weekend for the first time in his life.

*Means he spent a weekend doing nothing productive

He went through those videos without paying too much attention to the time. He also went through some online posts and gossip.

Without realizing it, an entire day and night had passed.

When Lang Jinzhi got up to eat dinner, he had large bags under his eyes.

Even his father was shocked when he saw him.

Lang Jinzhi was very tired. He held his chopsticks and stared at the food on the table.

Unconsciously, he smiled.

He had just indulged himself for the first time in his life.

He finally took the first step to escape the shackles that had chained him for years.

To become someone who wasn’t so disciplined but more happy.

The author has something to say:

When meeting parents with a strong desire to control, you should really advise them to see a psychiatrist. _(:зゝ∠)_ But most parents feel like they don’t need to see a doctor. This extra is only to allow Cousin a bit of happiness. There won’t be a CP for him. That’s all!