Dumped?!
Seeing Bai Mama say that, Bai Xiaoche was furious. She answered bluntly, "If this family doesn't welcome Wang Yue, then I'm leaving too."
"Stop right there!"
Bai Mama shouted, her expression stern. "You're not going anywhere today. Stay here and behave. From now on, you're not allowed to see Wang Yue."
Bai Xiaoche could hardly believe her ears. It seemed incredible, as if she were meeting her mother for the first time. Furious, she asked, "Why? You weren't like this before."
Bai Mama knew that if she forced a confrontation with Bai Xiaoche, she would only make her daughter more rebellious. She took a deep breath and said, "Xiaoche, your father will talk to Wang Yue. If he's willing to be with you, he can wait patiently until you finish your doctorate. If you still want to marry him after that, I won't oppose it anymore. But for now, the two of you have to break up!"
Seeing that her mother was starting to relent, Bai Xiaoche breathed a sigh of relief and quickly asked, "Why do we have to wait until I finish my doctorate? Why can't we be together now?"
Seeing that Bai Xiaoche was no longer so resistant, Bai Mama explained earnestly, "If your former boyfriend Liu Xiangdong were the one you were seeing, we'd feel more at ease. After all, you'd been together for four or five years. But you've only been dating this boyfriend for a few months, and you're already talking about marriage. How can you expect us to feel comfortable?
"So give us at least a year or two to assess him. Then you can get married afterward, and you'll be graduating around then anyway, won't you?"
Bai Xiaoche was persuaded by Bai Mama. She said, "Then I'll go out and talk