"Father!!"
After a brief silence, Chen Yuying stepped forward and pushed Chen Zhongping toward the door. The blush on her face rippled like waves, looking quite lovely, but the words from her mouth were anything but: "You can go now, go! If you keep saying weird things like that, I'm getting mad!"
"Sorry, Xiao Ding, Xiao Qu, I'm leaving Yingying to you—thud!" Chen Zhongping and his words were shut outside the door together.
Xiao Lin and Xiao Bai seemed to have been ignored, or perhaps there simply hadn't been time to entrust them with anything.
Well, he had definitely forgotten to entrust them with anything—at least, that was what Xiao Lin thought.
After closing the door, Chen Yuying pressed her face to the peephole, watching to see whether her father had really left.
"My dad's gone. He can be unreliable sometimes, so don't take what he said to heart." After a while, she moved away from the peephole and spoke with both apology and helplessness.
It wasn't that she didn't understand her father's concerns. She had already promised, assured, and explained everything she could at home, yet this was still how things turned out.
"Actually, I can understand him. If I found out that among the classmates going out with my daughter and staying overnight, there was a guy whose first topic of conversation was night raids and perverts, then my daughter wouldn't be able to take the civil service exam for the rest of her life. I can only blame myself."
Lin Li wasn't angry or resentful. It was only human nature.
Acquaintances knew he was just joking, but strangers didn't. Though Lin Li would never act like this in front of strangers in the first place.
But he couldn't blame Chen Yuying for not telling them in advance,