Two Months After the War

"Exactly."

William rose as he spoke, walked over to Ivan, raised his left hand, and patted his son's right shoulder. His tone grew more serious as he said,

"My son, you've already turned Xia from a girl into a woman. You have to take responsibility, don't you? That means getting married, of course."

"This... I know." Having come back to his senses, Ivan nodded without hesitation and said,

"Actually, Father, Xia and I were just discussing something related to this. We're planning to move out."

"Move out?" Hearing Ivan's words, Halsey immediately turned her head and asked in confusion,

"Is our home not big enough for you? Are you really going to become the kind of person described by that Chinese saying—'having a wife and forgetting your mother'?"

"" Listening to Halsey's string of accusations, Ivan instantly wore a dead-fish-eyed expression as he stared at his mother.

When all was said and done, wasn't Halsey's earlier "breaking down the door and barging in" the reason Ivan had firmly decided to move out of the villa?

However, the final decision rested with William.

Ivan looked at William and asked for his approval again. "Father, I hope you'll support me moving out."

"Uncle, I also hope I can live together with Ivan." Xia gathered her courage and spoke to William as well.

"Hm..." William knew that Ivan wanted a certain amount of privacy.

After thinking for a moment,

William gently shook his head and said, "Ivan, you don't need to move out. I'm planning to renovate our villa."

"Renovate it?" Ivan asked doubtfully.

"Not just renovate it." William turned his head toward the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room and looked out at the estate square as he said calmly,

"The reason this place was decorated like this was so that you