"No..." Qingtan's expression shifted slightly as she listened to what Xiao Yan said. She had long known about Lin Jing's feelings for Xiao Yan and had even tried to play matchmaker between them before. Now that Lin Jing had achieved her long-cherished wish, she ought to feel happy about it, but the crux of the matter was that she still shared an ambiguous relationship with Xiao Yan!
Thinking of that relationship, Qingtan struggled out of Xiao Yan's embrace, pressing her palms against his chest in an attempt to leverage some force to crawl up. Before she could get up, however, she was pulled right back down by Xiao Yan. Looking at Qingtan, who was still struggling, he asked with some bewilderment, "What's wrong with you?"
"We can't go on like this anymore, this is wrong!" Qingtan hastily shook her head, saying with some urgency, "Jing'er previously took me as her adoptive mother, so I'm practically her mother. Since she's now your woman, I've naturally become your mother-in-law as well. Therefore, we..."
"So what? I told Lin Jing earlier that I now count as her adoptive father, didn't she still strip bare and crawl into my bed anyway? She isn't afraid of this, what are you afraid of?" Xiao Yan rolled his eyes, saying helplessly, "Surely you aren't going to be inferior to your precious daughter, are you?"
"It's different..." Qingtan bit her lower lip gently and said, "I watched Jing'er grow up. Even if she didn't acknowledge it before, I've long regarded her as my daughter. Xiao Yan, you're Jing'er's man, which makes you my son-in-law. I can't snatch the man she loves. Our relationship ends tonight, okay? Once tonight passes, we'll go back to our original relationship..."
"What nonsense are you uttering? How could it possibly end tonight?" Xiao