Yin Shixiu looked at his wife leaving him so heartlessly, showing little expression, but deep down feeling quite helpless. He called to have the driver pick him up.
The place was not far from home, and he arrived home shortly behind Su Xiaomeng.
The house was quiet, the lights in the living room were already dim, and he didn’t turn them on. He felt his way around the familiar environment toward the master bedroom, only to find the door locked from the inside.
Yin Shixiu leaned against the door, knocking softly and calling out to Su Xiaomeng.
Su Xiaomeng sat on the bed. She had taken off her shoes and stormed back into the room without even putting on her slippers.
Upon hearing the commotion outside, she immediately locked the master bedroom door. If asked what the point of this act was, she wouldn’t know.
She just needed to vent her inner frustration.
"Honey? Open the door, let’s discuss whatever’s going on face-to-face. Locking me out without saying anything... how does that solve anything?"
"Solve your ridiculous problems... anyway, so-called ’solutions’ are just listening to your various cunning arguments..."
Su Xiaomeng muttered, still not giving Yin Shixiu any response, and not only that, she directly turned off the bedroom light!
She leaned against the headboard; these pointless stubborn actions led to a deeply tiring cold war...
She doesn’t know when she learned this trick herself.
Perhaps it’s the years of rarely being together, and when they are, some complaints inevitably emerge.
Complaints arise from Yin Shixiu’s busyness, the pressure of her studies, and the upbringing and education of their two children...
As Shuangshuang and Huang Huang grew older, Su Xiaomeng felt the pressure on her shoulders intensify.
Yin Shixiu always said there’s no need to manage them too tightly, no need to be so thorough; Shuangshuang and Huang Huang are neither that delicate nor that ignorant.
But in Su Xiaomeng’s eyes, this is just an excuse Yin Shixiu uses for being busy with work and neglecting the children’s growth.
This is the United Kingdom, not China.
Open Western culture and education certainly have their advantages, but one cannot only see the benefits without acknowledging the downsides.
Campus violence, cultural conflicts, knowledge structure, and even... teenage dating.
In the United Kingdom, dating at fifteen or sixteen isn’t considered early at all; it’s extremely common.
Su Xiaomeng can accept Western open culture, but truly letting her brother and sister attend a boarding school and grow freely under environmental influence, she, relatively traditional at her core, cannot do it.
She wants to manage but doesn’t want to shoulder the burden alone.
She wants Yin Shixiu to help her, but reality is apparent—he really is a busy man, busier than ever before.
He’s so busy that even if he’s at the door of the house, he can’t bear to take a step to go in; busy enough to stay at a business club instead of going home.
No matter how busy he is, no matter how much work weighs on her, she can’t understand this "passing by home without entering" behavior of his, and she never will want to understand.
The noise outside faded away, Su Xiaomeng gave no response to Yin Shixiu, but her ears stood tall...
Roughly speaking, women are just such annoying creatures, becoming increasingly uncontrollable with age.
Just when Su Xiaomeng thought Yin Shixiu had completely fallen silent, suddenly...
The lights in the room turned on, and the master bedroom door beeped twice, and the electronic lock opened.
Yin Shixiu stood by the door, holding his phone,
"Didn’t you forget that the lights, air conditioning, and door locks at home can all be controlled with a mobile phone, right?"
Chapter 1108: 728: Locked Out
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