spring bite mark

Chapter 254 Extra: Matters Between Home and School 1
Will fatherly love really disappear?

If it were Yan Changye, he would tell you: Yes.

During the time when Yan Changye was filled with fatherly love, he stayed by the port city. His two extremely premature babies were on the verge of death, and he stayed by their side day and night, putting aside everything else. He was tormented by the life-or-death struggle of his children every day, signing countless critical condition notices. He gradually adapted from the bewilderment of becoming a father for the first time.

He provided them with the best medical care. This man, who was usually impatient, stayed by the tiny infant's side every step of the way. The child would open his innocent, adorable eyes and look into his gaze, eyes so pure that they could melt his heart. The child would also suddenly smile at him unconsciously, whimper softly, and his tiny, matchstick-like fingers would grab his fingers...

Yan Changye never knew that he would love these two children so much.

This love continued until the children returned to the capital, entered his and Jiang Manman's lives, and began their chaotic elementary school years.

The arrival of two little ones into his and his older child's lives inevitably disrupted some of the harmony.

At least, the extra-large bathroom specially designed for No. 1 Mansion has mostly become a playground for children to play in the water. If he wants to have some fun with his wife, he has to choose a time when the children are not in the villa, or find an excuse to send the children out to play.

Moreover, the two children, having finally found their biological mother, quickly forgot about their biological father.

They clung to his beloved wife day and night, taking up almost all of Jiang Manman's free time except when she needed him to help with her homework.

Similarly, the time he and his wife spent together became pitifully short. Before, they could spend all their time together during the day whenever they had a day off, but now his wife belonged to their son during the day and almost to him at night as well. He went to great lengths, fighting and snatching back the time they spent together, even threatening to send the child back to Hong Kong, to barely manage to win back their nighttime time.

But that's not enough. Not even a little bit.

He raises his children together to experience the joy of having his son around and the pleasures of marital intimacy, not to become a neglected bystander.

Yan Changye wavered between paternal love and marital love for only a few days before decisively leaving the child with Old Master Yan, only picking him up every weekend.

Back then, fatherly love still existed, but it wasn't as prevalent anymore.

Later, two more appeared.

Having experienced the immense psychological shock of having a daughter turn into a son, Yan Changye felt utterly disheartened. While he still held a sliver of warmth in his eyes as he looked at Yan Yu and Xie Jian, he was utterly disappointed when he saw the two even younger children. He then abandoned them to Old Master Yan once again, completely shattering Old Master Yan's happy retirement.

The father's love truly began to show its true colors after the third and fourth sons of the Yan family started kindergarten.

Yan Changye's phone already contains nearly thirty group chats related to the school.

Various class chat groups, parent communication groups, and extracurricular activity groups are filled with messages every day, either spreading anxiety or nagging and manipulative tactics. And to make matters worse, Jiang Manman won't let him leave these groups.
“When the teacher came for a home visit, she said she would pay attention to the children’s growth. Yan Changye, having given birth to them, I have to take responsibility.”

We cannot ignore what the lady says.

Even with dozens of groups on Do Not Disturb mode, I still have to check them every day. It's more tiring than discussing projects.

Unfortunately, none of the children are easy to deal with:

After the homeroom teachers visited Yan Yu and Xie Jian's homes, their attitudes changed drastically. They stopped tagging each other in the group chat, but frequently chatted privately about their children. Sometimes Xie Jian would stick a melted lollipop on the bottom of the student in front of him, and other times Yan Yu would hide under a tree during PE class and draw a simple group portrait, which was so lifelike that it attracted onlookers and seriously affected class discipline.

The kindergarten kids were even worse. The third kid wet his pants every day, was a picky eater, only eating three grains of rice, three strands of noodles, and three bites of a bun. When asked, he always said it wasn't tasty and he couldn't eat anymore. He lost two pounds in a month of school. The fourth kid... I don't know how to describe him—he often brought all the treasures from the old family home to school and gave them to female classmates and teachers. Once, he even dragged his brother's giant tortoise to school while his brother was away, making it whimper and whimper, so the kitchen could make tortoise soup…

Every day, Yan Changye received notices from the kindergarten, either to deliver pants or meals to the third child, or to collect the things the fourth child had brought to school.

Even though he didn't personally handle these matters, but instead assigned each of his four children a personal assistant to deal with them—it was still Yan Changye who lost face.

At this point, Yan Changye, the father of four children, no longer loved them, he really didn't love them at all!
……

When Xie Jian was in the second year of junior high school, Yan Changye accidentally joined a mutual aid group.

Why was it an accidental entry...?

Many girls in the second year of junior high school began to develop a vague sense of romance. Even Yan Changye didn't expect that, although Yan Yu was the white moonlight of all the girls in the school, one after another, they all went after Xie Jian.

Because they're easy to pursue.

Moreover, Xie Jian's looks are only not as good as Yan Yu's, but Xie Jian's looks are still top-notch. After his tenth birthday party, the child suddenly started to grow taller, his fleshy body lost its plumpness, and his excellent bone structure gradually appeared. He gets a lot of attention wherever he goes.

Several girls secretly gave him chocolates and expressed their desire to get closer to him.

Xie Jian, a second-year junior high school student, is fourteen years old.

Yan Changye recalled what he was doing at the age of fourteen. Back then, he had already become a sensation in the socialite circles of the capital city with his good looks, and he was starting to practice his skills with several subsidiaries of the group. He wouldn't say he was invincible, but he had more or less learned about human relationships and love.

At that time, he even helped Jiang Manman find a home.

Fourteen-year-old Xie Jian cannot be said to have low emotional intelligence; it's just that he's a bit slow to understand things.

On May 20th, a very sensitive date, he indiscriminately accepted chocolates from all the girls, took them home in a beautiful bag, and distributed one to each of them. Then, taking advantage of the situation, he used Yan Changye's WeChat account to create a mutual aid group and invited the girls' parents to join.

"Daddy." Fourteen-year-old Xie Jian was already taller than Jiang Manman, but his soft-spoken nature hadn't changed much. He patted his father's shoulder affectionately. "A few girls in my class who I get along with really well gave me chocolates today. I created a group on your WeChat and added their dads. You can chat with them when you have time."

On May 20th, I gave them chocolates...

He accepted it.

It wasn't that they only selected one girl; they accepted all of them without discrimination.

Not only did they accept the money, but they also added the other party's father to a group chat so they could "communicate" with him? What were they supposed to communicate about? How to juggle multiple relationships without getting entangled?
Yan Changye looked at his son with a complicated expression:
"Thank you for your help. Do you know what these chocolates mean?"

Xie Jian hummed in agreement: "I know."

(End of this chapter)