The plan to have another child was never carried out. Wang Yue was Zhao Xiaomai's glory now, and she would never agree to let him quit his job. So, while he'd certainly enjoyed plenty of perks, he'd also been careful to use protection.
They might as well enjoy themselves while they could, but that didn't solve the problem. Wang Yue was still buried in his endless work. Half a year passed just like that. Tuan Tuan was thriving at military academy, apparently right at home there. He even called to say he wouldn't be coming back for the New Year.
After Zhao Xiaomai took the call, she was terribly upset. She'd raised her son all these years. They'd often been apart before, but he'd only ever been a hundred or so kilometers away. Wang Yue and Zhao Xiaodong both had cars, so they could at least see him once on the weekends.
But now that he was in college, he was like a kite with its string cut. They went six months without seeing him. At last, they had a chance to meet, and that brat called to say he wasn't coming home. It was deeply disappointing.
Seeing how upset Zhao Xiaomai was, Wang Yue didn't know how to comfort her. After all, as the saying went, a mother worried when her son traveled far away, but a son didn't worry when his mother traveled far away.
It wasn't that sons truly didn't worry. The saying described children who were still too young to take charge of a household, carefree by nature. Having finally escaped their mothers' nagging, they just wanted some peace and quiet.
Wang Yue put an arm around Zhao Xiaomai and tried to comfort her helplessly. "If you miss him, you can go visit him anytime. I