Paranoid Doctor Only Loves Me
Chapter 208 - 177 Parental Love (First Update)_1

Chapter 208: 177 Parental Love (First Update)_1

Tang Su really couldn’t understand. Before this, her dad clearly liked Lu Han even more than her mom did. Moreover, her dad had said that as long as it was someone his daughter liked, he would definitely support her to the end.

What happened today?

Had he forgotten what he had said? Did he have amnesia?

In slapping his own face like this, she wanted to ask her emperor father, does it not hurt?

Tang Su turned her head to look at Lu Han, who also had a helpless expression. Being clever, Tang Su rolled her eyes and after carefully pondering and digesting what Lu Han had said upstairs, she roughly understood what was going on.

No way?

Was the old man being this petty?

Just as Tang Su was about to say something, they arrived at the Chuanxiang Pavilion.

The hostess at the door welcomed them inside, and Lu Han had booked a private room. It was the peak dining time, and the tables in the main hall were all full.

Now that they had arrived, Tang Su didn’t have the opportunity to say much more to her father emperor. Lu Han had ordered a few dishes in advance. After the server reported the names of the dishes, they asked if they wished to add more.

Su Ruoan and Zhao Xinlan both said that it was enough and they didn’t need to add any more.

Tang Shengyi kept silent.

Lu Han took the menu from the server’s hand, "Uncle, please have another look."

His tone was humble and ingratiating.

Tang Shengyi silently snorted in his heart. Now he knows to ingratiate himself?

Just as he was about to take it, intending to make Lu Han spend more money, Tang Shengyi got a loud rebuke from Su Ruoan, "Are you still ordering? Can we actually finish all that? We already have plenty."

"It’s not that, if we can’t finish, we can take it home and eat it tonight. You’re so busy, and I have a surgery this evening as well, so I won’t have time to shop and cook," Tang Shengyi said defensively.

They could eat in the cafeteria if there was no time; they had always done that for many years.

Besides, Zhao Xinlan had eaten in their canteen with them the day before and even commented that their canteen’s food was decent. They had originally planned to continue eating there today.

If it weren’t for Tang Shengyi running back, muttering that they couldn’t contact Tang Su yesterday because she had been kidnapped, they would have hastily rushed over to find out what happened.

Speaking only halfway through and asking only half the questions had Su Ruoan at her wits’ end with this father of hers.

"If we don’t have time to cook, we can eat in the cafeteria. Why must we take leftovers? Oh, are you planning to swindle Lu Han? What did he do to deserve such treatment from you?" As his wife, how could she not know what kind of person her husband was?

Su Ruoan then directly warned him, "Let me tell you, stop acting up and put it down."

"Oh."

Tang Su’s father, with his ears flopping, immediately put down the menu, not daring to make a sound or glare at anyone.

Although Su Ruoan had scolded her husband, she truly loved him. Otherwise, back in the day, her own family went abroad or settled down in Beijing—she could have followed them.

All she needed was to abandon her husband and child, and she could have easily lived the life of a wealthy lady.

Just like her richer sisters.

Back then, her mother felt that, economically, she and Tang Shengyi were the most ordinary, and they had the enormous pressure of raising two children.

Tang Su’s grandmother even thought that Tang Shengyi, as a man attempting to uphold both loyalty and filial piety, was destined not to make it big in his career and wanted Su Ruoan to be more ambitious.

Even if she spent her life toiling in the medical industry, she could still broaden her horizons. Even if she lacked the ability to run her own hospital or clinic, she could have moved to a faster-developing city to earn more money.

She shouldn’t let the gap between her family and Su Ruoan’s siblings grow too wide; otherwise, it would be disadvantageous for both Tang Feng and Tang Su.

Later, when their siblings gathered, everyone’s vision was broad and lofty, while Tang Feng and Tang Su were just like rustic girls and villagers in their perspectives. Wouldn’t they feel inferior?

At the time, Su Ruoan had firmly told her mother that with parental love and company, how could the children feel inferior?

Whether a person feels inferior has little to do with their economic status. People with good material conditions can also feel inferior, and children from less well-off families can be raised to be confident and strong.

It all depends on how parents guide and teach their children.

If parents also like to compare, then their child will naturally get used to comparisons. There are always people better and wealthier than you, no matter what stage of development you reach.

You can’t just be confident when you’re ahead and inferior when you’re not, right?

A person, whether poor or rich, as long as they surpass themselves each day, will always continue to be confident.

At the time, Tang Su’s grandmother was so angry with Su Ruoan that she scolded her for being "lovestruck," saying all those noble-seeming reasons were just because she couldn’t bear to live separately from Tang Shengyi.

In a word, she can’t manage without a man, can she?

In the end, Tang Su’s grandmother thought Su Ruoan was unambitious. A child without great aspirations would remain unreachable by her mother’s efforts to help.

However, more than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye, and indeed, as her mother had said, Su Ruoan hadn’t lived the wealthy life her mother had hoped for her.

Even though both she and her husband were wage-earners, their combined salaries couldn’t cover the down payment for a commercial house, and their family of four continued to live crammed in an apartment funded by the unit.

In Tang Su’s grandmother’s eyes, the life her daughter led with Tang Shengyi was indeed very frustrating.

Look at her other two daughters, living in large villas, driving luxury cars, with husbands who brought home seven-figure sums every year.

The bags they bought could top their entire year’s living expenses.

Tang Su’s cousin’s monthly living expenses were more than Tang Su’s yearly expenses.

In reality, if Su Ruoan would just ask for help humbly, her sisters could use their husbands’ money to help pay for a down payment on a house and improve the living conditions for her family of four.

But Su Ruoan just wouldn’t open her mouth to ask, nor would Tang Shengyi give in.

Naturally, Tang Su’s grandmother didn’t want to persuade her anymore; out of sight, out of mind. She called her youngest son, using her health as a reason, and went abroad to enjoy life with him.

This year, it seems that it’s truly because of old age that the elders in their country, who could struggle anywhere when they were young, now yearn more and more to return to their roots as they age.

When young, they ventured far and wide, but in old age, they desperately wish to return home.

Informing Su Ruoan about the return home was also because the grandchildren had grown up, and the old lady wanted to take a complete and neat family portrait.

Luck was on Tang Su’s grandmother’s side; Tang Feng hadn’t returned home to visit for two years, but this year he just happened to be able to join as well.

That really meant the entire family would be gathered neatly together.

To be fair, Su Ruoan’s life wasn’t as affluent as those of her siblings, and her conditions were in fact the poorest. But Su Ruoan was content, believing that despite her unfavorable economic circumstances, she was the happiest woman among the three sisters.

Her sisters’ husbands could make money, but they spent very little time at home throughout the year.

But aside from trips for business or study, Tang Shengyi was always around the whole year, cooking for her, preparing her baths, massaging her during her periods, and being there when she was sick or unwell.

Even when he wasn’t there, he would do his utmost to rush home, calling her every five minutes to check on her, afraid she might faint.

A woman only understands at a certain age that it’s not entirely about whether a man loves her by the money he provides.

You have to look at the details in life: during stormy seasons or when the weather is harsh, Tang Shengyi never let her go out to pick up the kids, only on calm and sunny days when he wanted her to get some exercise would he give her the task of picking up the children.

Su Ruoan also had her own way of loving her husband, giving Tang Shengyi the freedom to spend money. If he liked to speculate in stocks, she let him, and if he earned money, they would be happy together; if he lost, she would bring out her savings to fill the gap.

For instance, just now, before the waiter left, Su Ruoan ordered a Dongpo pork knuckle for Tang Shengyi, which was his favorite dish.