An 80s female translator was spoiled rotten by a rough and jealous man.

Chapter 189 Nacho
For the long half hour, Huo Qingshan did all the talking. At the end, he said, "I don't know how to dispel your concerns, so I can only tell you about how I fell in love with her. I will show you the rest."

Meng Zhengping's hands remained clasped on his lap with his knuckles interlaced throughout. After listening to Huo Qingshan's last words, he raised and lowered his palms, making a rhythmic clapping sound. His tone showed no emotion as he spoke: "So what if you love my daughter?"

I, Meng Zhengping, know my daughter well. There won't be only one man in this world who admires her. You may not be the most outstanding one, and you may not even be the one who loves her the most.

Meng Zhengping's attitude remained as cold and arrogant as ever.

Upon hearing this, Huo Qingshan lowered his eyelids, seemingly looking at something on the ground. He remained silent for a long while, then smiled faintly and agreed, "You are right. There will be many people in this world who admire her, and I am not necessarily the most outstanding one among them."

To be honest, I'm sitting here trying to persuade you to let me be with Youyou, but I don't really have any confidence or leverage. You are her father who gave birth to her, raised her, and loves her. If you continue to oppose it, I really don't have any other options.

But I still want to refute your last point. If I were to swear to you that I am the man who loves your daughter the most in the world, that would be too vague, and I'm afraid you'd laugh at me, but I can't bring myself to say it.

Believe it or not, what I can promise is this: I can give my all for her.

My father and I are not the same. In this life, I will never marry anyone but Youyou. If she is with me, I will not introduce her to the Huo family unless she is willing, and I will not allow anyone to talk about her.

At this moment, Meng Zhengping had to admit that he had considered everything very thoroughly. Before he could say anything, the person in front of him had already provided complete answers to almost all of his concerns.

But... Meng Zhengping did not respond to this, seemingly indifferent, appearing heartless and unyielding.

The man slowly lifted his eyelids, turned his head to look in Meng Zhengping's direction, and Huo Qingshan asked a question: "Do you know how Youyou got that scar on the inside of her left forearm?"

Meng Zhengping hadn't seen it with his own eyes, but his wife had mentioned it. The night before last, when she was changing their daughter's clothes, she noticed a long scar on her arm. It didn't seem to be caused by this injury; it looked like it had been there for some time.

Hu Shulan asked her how it happened, but she wouldn't tell her and just gave a vague answer.

Meng Zhengping spoke in a flat tone: "Tell me about it."

The streetlights cast a dim yellow light, casting a shadow beside his high, straight nose. The man looked away and slowly said, "Once, she was working in the field with a terrain survey team. When we were going down the mountain, I accidentally stepped on a landmine. Later, she realized something was wrong and went back the way she came to find me, who was preparing to clear the mine by myself."

She said she was going back to get reinforcements and asked me to consider whether to wait for her to come back with people.

As she ran alone down the mountain, she used a dagger to cut her forearm in order to mark the route.

The story could have been told in just a few words, but the man's throat tightened several times, and he couldn't continue.

He simply summarized, "That's how I was finally rescued."

Meng Zhengping's eyes trembled, and he opened his mouth as if to say something, but remained silent for a long time.

After pausing briefly to compose himself, Huo Qingshan continued, "I'm telling you what Youyou did not to tell you how much your daughter loves me. If you insist on separating us, she will definitely resent you in the future."

I certainly don't want a day when Youyou is caught between family and love, torn between the two. She won't be happy, and that's the last thing I want to see.

I just want to beg you... to give me a chance, to stay by her side and spend my whole life answering for what she did.

Huo Qingshan looked up at a window of the tall building in front of him and murmured something as if talking to himself: "I promised her that I would live with her until I was ninety-nine, and I really don't want to break my promise."

The voice was very soft, and Meng Zhengping didn't hear the last sentence clearly, but he saw the sincere tenderness and longing in the eyes of the person next to him, which was hard not to be moved.

……

As soon as Meng Zhengping entered the room, the gazes of the two women simultaneously fell upon him, each with their own intriguing expressions. Meng Youyou simply laid it all out: "What did you say to him?"

Meng Zhengping feigned ignorance: "With whom?"

Meng Youyou stopped talking, her eyes wide open, looking like she was about to argue with her father.

"What are you doing? Are you afraid your dad will eat him?"

What I said... I just said he's not good enough for my daughter, and he'd better have some self-awareness and give up his unrealistic fantasies as soon as possible.

Meng Youyou called out loudly, "Dad!" Her tone was reproachful, "How could you do this?"

“How could I do this? Meng Youyou, your father raised you all these years and never once laid a hand on you. My daughter had fair and tender skin before she left home, and you came here and, in less than two months, you got such a long scar on your hand for a man. If you dare to do it again, don’t call me your father.” Meng Zhengping said all this in one breath, and only after he finished did he catch his breath.

After hearing this, Meng Youyou turned her head away angrily, refusing to look at him.

Ms. Hu Shulan stepped in to mediate the situation, saying, "Father and daughter, please talk things out calmly. Why are you arguing? This is a hospital ward. You two should both calm down."

Immediately afterwards, Ms. Hu Shulan pulled Meng Zhengping out of the ward. Before closing the door, she instructed the person on the bed: "Youyou, I'll go outside and talk to your dad. You stay in there by yourself for a while. Don't sulk. Mom will talk to you when she gets back. You still have injuries. Getting angry is not good for the wounds to heal."

"Hmm," Meng Youyou replied awkwardly.

……

In the corridor, Hu Shulan was also a little annoyed: "Meng Zhengping, didn't I remind you before you came downstairs that you should talk to people nicely?"

"How could I not have spoken properly? I think we communicated quite well."

Hu Shulan found it unbelievable: "Harmonious?"

"That kid's attitude was passable, I guess. He's usually quite arrogant, but the fact that he spoke to me to that extent shows he's sincere. He made all the promises he was supposed to, and his stance was fairly firm," Meng Zhengping said, nodding his chin.

Hu Shulan was completely confused: "What do you mean?"

"It means it's passed for now, so-so, but further investigation is needed."

"Weren't you firmly against them being together before?"

"How could I possibly do the same despicable things that Zhu Yingtai's father did? Look at your daughter, how independent she is now, and how stubborn she is. Who can stand up to her!"

The tone shifted, a hint of melancholy in her voice: "To be honest, I really don't want our daughter to get involved with the Huo family, but things have come to this. Since they're already in love, there's not much we, as parents, can do. Our children have their own destinies and their own paths to walk."

Hu Shulan was still puzzled: "Since you didn't intend to break them up, why were you so rude to Youyou's boyfriend before?"

"Tch, do you think I'd let that kid get away with it so easily? He can't even handle this much anger, yet he wants to marry my daughter, Meng Zhengping? Dream on!"
And who said I didn't intend to break them up? If this kid isn't right, I would never agree to it.

Besides, if I don't act tough now, what if my daughter suffers some injustice in the future? I'll have to hold him accountable. So I need to test his sincerity and sense of responsibility now.

However, to be fair, this kid seems more reliable than his father so far, like someone who can handle things. At least she didn't have Youyou do any persuasion for us; she took the lead herself.