Chapter 216 Old Man

“Why is our Xuan obsessed with Piano these days?” Gu Yanxi asked when he heard Lu Xuan playing piano once again.

“Maybe, it’s a phase?” An Qinyan suggested. “Shangyan said music is good for someone hot headed as Lu Xuan. Music soothes your soul and helps you control your anger. As long as he is cultivating good habits, I don’t mind.”

“You are right, ” Gu Yanxi said. “Raising children can be scary.”

An Qinyan placed his head on his shoulder and nodded her head. When they had gotten married, many people had asked them if they would like to have their own child. They never had thought about this matter.

However, they sat together and thought about this matter. Then, they came to the conclusion that they didn’t want another child because they had given seventeen years of their life to their children and they would like to live their own life together with any child. Maybe, it was selfish but that’s what they wanted.

A life where they could care for them and live with each other out of love. For now, they didn’t want more children as they had three of them.

“Are we going to Lu Xun’s birthday party?” An Qinyan ended up asking.

“Up to you, ” Gu Yanxi said. He didn’t like Lu Zhaolin. End of story. But both of them never fight with each other. They were moving on and trying to look for a way to peacefully coexist with each other for children.

An Qinyan was not the unflawed mom.

Lu Zhaolin wasn’t a good father either.

What was important was to learn from their mistakes and correct them?

Lu Xuan and An Xiulan gave their parents another chance and consequently, they were getting a complete family in a new form. It was not perfect but it was theirs.

“Then, let’s stay there for half an hour and then we can return home. Lu Xuan and An Xiulan will stay the night as it’s Sunday tomorrow, ” An Qinyan said. Oftentimes, the kids even spend an entire week at their father’s house but since Shangyan was here, the twins tried to go to their father’s house one by one so their big bro won’t be alone.

Gu Yanxi hummed. He leaned over to kiss his wife but was interrupted by his annoying nephew once again. Why was it that his romantic moments were always interrupted?

“Auntie Yan, ” Gu Shangyan entered the living room. He was having a complete meltdown. “What do I do? I couldn’t find that girl again? She was really hurt by my words? Where do I find her? I feel guilty?”

Lu Xuan, who was playing the piano, felt as if his ears were ringing when he heard his brother talking about a girl. Was the sun rising from the north today? His brother talking about a girl?

“Yanyan, pinch me, ” Gu Yanxi asked, dazed.

An Qinyan smirked and bit his hand.

“Ouch, ” Gu Yanxi winced in pain. “Wife, I asked you to pinch me not bite me. Never mind, I think I heard my pure as paper nephew talking about a girl. Are my ears playing a trick on me? Is it true?”

Lu Xuan who jumped to sit next to Gu Yanxi put his arm around his stepfather’s shoulder and said, “Uncle, I think I heard the same. It couldn’t be that my ears are fooling me too?”

“Both of you, stop teasing Shangyan, ” An Qinyan chided him. These two always team up to bully the poor boy!

“Mom, why are you so overprotective of him?” Lu Xuan grumbled.

“Because he is the most sensible child of the family, ” An Qinyan replied without beating around the bush. “If you are as sensible as him, I wouldn’t worry about you too.”

“Wait!” Lu Xuan held his hand as he felt something was wrong with his mother’s sentence. “Mom, I think there is something wrong with your sentence. You worry about him the most because he is the sensible one of us three?”

An Qinyan nodded her head. “He thinks too much. He appears insensitive but he has the most sensitive heart. You have a lethal tongue but Shangyan is just bad with words. He feels bad after being rude to anyone. He is not unintentionally trying to be hurtful, it’s just how his tone is. He is the most sensible one as he thinks about others so much that he forgets about himself most of the time. “

What An Qinyan was saying was not wrong. Gu Shangyan had grown up without a mother’s gentlemen. Gu Yanxi had done his best to give him the love of both mom and dad but the child didn’t have normal upbringing as he had to grow up too soon to be helpful to his uncle.

A child raised in a proper loving family is always different from a child raised by a single parent.

“Why do I have a feeling that I’m not my wife’s favourite Gu boy?” Gu Yanxi asked Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan snorted. He patted his shoulder and said in a consoling tone, “Old man, you were never her favourite boy.” He jumped out of the sofa as Gu Yanxi threw his slipper at him.

“Who are you calling old man?” Gu Yanxi asked angrily.

Lu Xuan burst into laughter. “I just saw gray hair and you said you aren’t an old man?”

“Yanyan, tell me do I have gray hair?” Gu Yanxi panicked.

“Both of you, keep quiet! I’m talking to Shangyan!” An Qinyan announced. “Yanxi, accept it now that you are as old as Chris Evans! The only difference is that he is slightly handsome than you.” She looked at Lu Xuan and said, “Ah Xuan, only I can call my old man an old man. No one else has the wife’s privilege.”

Gu Yanxi was about to nod his head but then he paused. He realised what his wife just said. She called him an old man? How could she?

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A/N: I hate puppy love so much that I feel guilty while writing about the teenage love. Sob Sob.