After lunch in the afternoon, Chen Yao's parents huddled together, sitting on the living room sofa discussing their next strategy.

If possible, they'd better find a way to keep Lin Nan for a few days, let this girl experience their family atmosphere. A good family atmosphere was one of the important conditions for girls choosing marriage partners.

"How about we give her a red envelope first?"

Chen Yao's mom suddenly remembered this matter and hurriedly picked up the wallet from under the coffee table to look for bills inside, complaining: "How could you not mention such an important thing? She's been here so long and I never thought of it."

"That girl's relationship with her family doesn't seem very good. From what Chen Yao said, her family seems to favor sons over daughters..." Chen Yao's dad thought for a moment before deciding: "Chen Yao thinks he's still young and not in a hurry, but we need to keep this girl around."

"Chen Yao! Chen Yao!" Chen Yao's mom shouted toward the bedroom a few times. After a moment, Chen Yao walked out of the room looking irritated.

Finally having a chance to be alone with Lin Nan, why did his mom have to be so brainless!

"Tell us about her situation?" Chen Yao's mom pulled him onto the sofa and asked curiously: "How did she get kicked out by her dad?"

Chen Yao was stunned for a moment and began considering whether he should tell them about Lin Nan's intersex condition.

But after thinking it over, he felt that although his parents were open-minded, they might not necessarily accept this kind of thing. So he took Lin Nan's story and edited it slightly, making things up.

From Lin Nan being bullied at school in middle school to him standing up for her, then to Lin Nan's parents divorcing recently, to her father's preference for sons over daughters. The original trigger of male-to-female transformation was changed to parental divorce disputes and being disliked by her father.

Although he wasn't good at making up stories, he had at least read plenty of urban novels and been influenced by Tu Junhui who always talked nonsense. Various plot devices came naturally, making Lin Nan's background even more tragic than reality.

Though it was a fabricated story, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent false. Plus Chen Yao's mom had also suffered unfair treatment due to gender preference before, so the two elders immediately became indignant.

"No wonder she was startled when I first saw her." Chen Yao's mom cursed angrily: "What kind of people dare to have children!"

The two elders had originally only been satisfied with Lin Nan's personality and appearance, but now they were also filled with pity for her. Chen Yao's dad couldn't help cursing too, making Chen Yao silently roll his eyes.

"You did well last night! Of course I didn’t raise a coward! Tomorrow I'll go to her house to ask about the bride price!" Chen Yao's dad was a man of action. He stood up and rolled up his sleeves, ready to go out and get bride price money. "If her dad doesn't like her, we'll spoil her! And beat him up while we're at it! You didn't give him a beating last night to vent your anger?"

Chen Yao and his father had similar personalities, both fired up with anger: "That girl is also foolish!"

"Don't you dare, I keep telling you we haven't reached that kind of relationship!" Chen Yao hurriedly stood up and grabbed his father. "It's fine, her mom still cares about her quite a bit."

After finally calming down his two indignant parents, Chen Yao was physically and mentally exhausted.

"If you haven't reached that kind of relationship, why did you sleep with her?" Chen Yao's mom looked at him like he was a scumbag.

"I didn't! Damn!"

Chen Yao was so anxious he was going crazy. He had clearly been worse than a beast when Lin Nan deliberately hinted at him, so why did he have to take the blame now?

"You're cursing at me?" Chen Yao's mom was incredulous.

"I..."

"Son, you're not having problems in that area, are you?" Chen Yao's dad patted his shoulder. "It's fine, go see a doctor when you have time. It can be cured."

Wait, why do I need medical treatment now?

Chen Yao hadn't slept well last night, and encountering this situation today made everything worse. The more he explained, the darker it got.

"I give up on you two. Don't worry about my business with her." Chen Yao could only surrender in the end. "Just take good care of her, and don't meddle with anything else, okay?"

He was furious and turned to walk toward the bedroom. Chen Yao's parents could only look at each other helplessly and sigh that their son had grown up, become disobedient, and hadn't been beaten enough.

"Why was it so noisy just now?"

As soon as Chen Yao entered the room, he saw the girl sitting cross-legged at the head of the bed. Afternoon sunlight streamed through the window onto half her body, her crystal-clear skin seeming to reflect light, making her look like a carefully photographed portrait.

He swallowed hard, somewhat regretting not being a beast last night.

"Did they argue because of me?" She felt somewhat guilty. "Maybe I should go stay at an internet café for a while?"

"It's nothing, they have problems with their brains." Chen Yao sighed heavily and sat at the computer, complaining: "No matter how I explain, I can't make it clear."

"I really shouldn't have come..."

"I told you it's fine. It wasn't arguing, it was debating, very normal." Chen Yao opened a game on his computer and asked: "Are you gaming? I need to catch up on sleep."

"It was so loud though..."

"Not loud, just discussing some things with poor tone, like when gaming. Like how you think trading one for one under tower is profitable, I think it's a loss."

The analogy was quite vivid. Lin Nan imagined it and indeed felt that arguing about such things didn't count as fighting.

But if she applied it to parents, she had difficulty imagining that scene. After all, her parents had basically never been around since childhood. Forget arguing with them, she'd never even been beaten.

"If you're not gaming, I'm going to sleep."

Lin Nan hurriedly got up from the bed and switched places with Chen Yao.

Obviously Lin Nan in this unfamiliar environment was somewhat cautious, afraid of doing something wrong, her spirit seemingly always in a tense state.

Chen Yao didn't know how to comfort her. His head was swelling from tiredness, so he could only temporarily give up on this idea and lie down on the bed. He was about to fall asleep within minutes.

However, Chen Yao's mom suddenly pushed open the door and entered, holding a stack of money in her hands, happily coming forward to stuff it into Lin Nan's arms: "First time meeting, Auntie didn't prepare anything. Take this quickly."

Lin Nan was stunned. Although she should theoretically be very happy to see money, this money obviously couldn't be accepted.

If she took it, wouldn't that confirm her status as Chen Yao's girlfriend?

For the first time, she frantically shook her head refusing money delivered to her door. She didn't dare accept this kind of money, hurriedly trying to return the money stuffed in her arms: "No, I can't take this money!"

"If you don't take it, you're not giving me face."

What? Taking it would be the real trouble!

Lin Nan kept refusing, but Chen Yao's mom was very skilled at this kind of scene. She pretended to accept the money back, then suddenly stuffed it into Lin Nan's pocket and turned to run away.

When Lin Nan reacted, she found the money was already in her pocket. She turned helplessly to look at Chen Yao who had been woken up.

"You'd better take it. After I leave, give it back to your mom." Lin Nan hurriedly placed the money beside Chen Yao's pillow.

The sleepy Chen Yao didn't answer either. He turned over, yawned, and went back to sleep.

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