Chapter 178

Four Beauties Pavilion group.

Xiao Han: 【Please help me, sisters!! My mom is driving me crazy!!】

【Tearing my hair out.jpg】

Xia Miaomiao: 【Huh?.jpg】

Su Mo: 【Gossip alert.jpg】

Sang Li: 【What's going on? Is your mom trying to set you up on blind dates again?】

Xiao Han: 【I've been using work as an excuse to avoid the blind dates, but now she's gone and brought a blind date home directly. Help!!】

Su Mo: 【You really need to find a boyfriend!】

Xia Miaomiao: 【Have Weiyin or Gu Zhi heard anything about Xiao Zimo?】

Su Mo: 【No, just that he went abroad and we don't know when he'll be back.】

Sang Li: 【Gu Zhi doesn't have any news on him either.】

Xia Miaomiao: 【Xiao Han, why don't you do this - find someone to pretend to be your boyfriend to get your mom off your back for now?】

Xiao Han: 【Please, where am I going to find someone? Sisters, I'm counting on you all since you know more guys. Find me someone reliable who won't cause trouble, I'll pay, I really can't stand my mom anymore! The guy is still at my house, I'm hiding in the bathroom just to message you all!】

Sang Li: 【Gu Zhi has a good friend called Chen Lin, I think he should be pretty reliable. I'll talk to Gu Zhi.】

Su Mo: 【Bai Yichen has a younger brother called Bai Zhan who should be reliable too. I'll ask him. Or worst case I can lend you my brother, haha!】

Xiao Han: 【I owe you all big time, dinner is on me!】

Su Mo: 【Speaking of food, you wouldn't believe it - me and Bai Yichen are both useless in the kitchen. Our married life is going to be so tough, wah!】

Su Mo posted a photo in the group chat of a plate of unidentifiable blackened mess.

Su Mo: 【This is a new dish Bai Yichen tried to make, called Pitch Black Darkness! Sad times.jpg】

Xiao Han: 【Hahahaha laughed so hard!】

Xia Miaomiao: 【Try not to laugh.jpg】 Just then, Sang Li posted a photo of a table full of delicious looking dishes, all made by Gu Zhi.

Su Mo: 【Wahhh, ignorance is bliss!】

Su Mo was lying in bed happily chatting away, unaware that Bai Yichen was standing behind her and could see all her messages.

He silently took out his phone and looked up cooking classes, quietly signing up for one.

No more words needed, he's always been a man of action.

Xiao Han: 【Gotta go, my mom is calling!】

...

Xiao Han steeled herself and left the bathroom.

"Hannah, we have a guest, how could you not even greet them? You have no manners."

Xiao Han rolled her eyes internally and muttered a greeting to the man sitting in the living room. "Hi."

"Hi." The man nodded back, seeming a bit shy.

"Why don't you chat for a bit, I'll go cut up some fruit." Xiao Han's mom happily went into the kitchen.

Seeing her mom leave, Xiao Han immediately asked the man, "Hey, did your mom force you to come on this blind date?"

"No no, at my age it's normal to get married and have kids. My mom wants grandkids too." The man answered shyly.

"..." Xiao Han was a bit speechless. "Sorry but we're definitely not compatible. I'm still in grad school."

"It's fine, it's fine, my mom said you can still get married and have kids in grad school."

"????"

"My mom can help look after the kid when you're studying, it won't affect your schooling."

"????"

"I think you look...quite pretty, I'm quite satisfied. But you'll need to come home and meet my mom too, if she approves we can get married..."

The man spoke in a matter-of-fact tone despite his shyness.

Xiao Han rolled her eyes hard. "Do you even know what I do?"

"Oh right, I know, your mom told me you're a doctor. I told my mom too and she thought a doctor is pretty good, we can save some money on medical bills in the future."

Xiao Han was truly speechless now. She pointed at her head, "I think there's something wrong with you here, you should get your mom to take you to the hospital."

The man was taken aback. "Wha...what do you mean?" Xiao Han put her hands on her hips and stood up. "I mean there's something wrong with your brain, you need to get a craniotomy!"

"You...you...you shouldn't say such things to people... My mom said girls who use bad language are no good..."

"You and your mom can get lost! Mama's boy, get the hell out of here!"

"You...you... No wonder you can't get married!"

"Get out!"

The man was chased out. Xiao Han plopped down angrily on the sofa.

Her mom came out with a fruit platter. Xiao Han looked at her reproachfully, "Mom, this is the blind date you set me up with?"

"I heard everything just now. I'm sorry, this one's on me, I didn't vet him properly. He seemed like a good honest boy, I didn't think he'd be a mama's boy. I wouldn't have been so hasty if you hadn't kept refusing the blind dates..."

"Mom, can you stop trying to set me up? Can we wait until I finish my Master's?"

"I'm not forcing you to get married, I just want you to meet some guys and not spend all your time with your surgical knives!"

"Why do I have to date or get married? Isn't my life good enough as is?"

"Hanhan, do you think I don't know whether you're happy alone or not?" Xiao Han's mom's eyes started welling up. "I raised you all by myself after your dad passed. I wish so much he was still here!"

Seeing her mom getting emotional, Xiao Han softened her tone. "I know you struggled raising me alone. That's why I want to study harder and earn more money, so you can have an even better life."

"What's the use of making so much money? Your dad made a lot too but ultimately still couldn't cure his illness. Hanhan, I don't want you to work so hard for money. I just want you to have a normal, happy life. I don't want you to be alone after I'm gone!" Xiao Han's mom said as she started tearing up.

Seeing her mom like this, Xiao Han didn't want to argue anymore. "Alright mom, don't cry. I'll go along with the blind dates next time, okay? But on one condition - no more weirdos!"

Xiao Han's mom quickly wiped her tears. "Don't worry, next time I'll find out everything about him before introducing you."

"......"

Back in her room, Xiao Han sighed as she looked at the family photo on her desk.

In the photo, her dad was carrying her in one arm and holding her mom's hand with the other. All three were smiling happily.

"Dad, I wish you were still here..."

She did yearn for a happy family like that.

But her dad had fallen ill and passed away when she was still in primary school. Her mom never remarried, raising her all alone.

She understood her mom just wanted the best for her, but she really wasn't ready to date right now!

"Sigh..." Xiao Han lay down on her bed with another sigh.

An image of Xiao Zimo suddenly popped into her head.

She took out her phone and flipped to the group photo from Lotus Village. The memories came flooding back.

"Xiao Zimo, where could you be?"