After four years of living alone after marrying far away, he went back to his parents' home and

The smile on Qin Zhang's face gradually faded, and he began to pick at the stickers on the beer bottles.

"Nonsense! You've already seen it, why ask?"

After saying that, Qin Zhang picked up a beer bottle, clinked it against his own, and took a big gulp.

"Then you should marry the woman you like and take care of her yourself! I can't keep an eye on her..." Chen Mo said calmly.

Qin Zhang turned and glared at him, saying irritably, "If I could marry her, would I have waited until now?"

Chen Mo's gaze shifted meaningfully downwards. "Can't I?"

"Hiss!" Qin Zhang gritted his teeth in anger and immediately sat up straight. "What are you thinking?"

"What I mean is, she's my sister, I can't marry her!"

"It's not that I can't do that!"

Chen Mo glanced at him while drinking:

"I didn't expect you to have such high moral standards?"

"She's just the neighbor's sister, not my biological sister, and we're not related by blood."

"Wouldn't a childhood sweetheart be better? Why can't you marry one..."

"And this morning, I noticed that your parents seemed to really like the little guy."

Thinking of that little guy, Qin Zhang couldn't help but grin. "That's him!"

"Xiaoman looks exactly like her mother when she was a child, and her personality is just like hers too!"

"That surname is bad; we'll have to change it!"

Chen Mo raised an eyebrow and casually said, "Hmm, how about changing your surname to mine and being called Chen Xiaoman?"

Upon hearing this, Qin Zhang was immediately enraged and punched Chen Mo in the biceps.

"You wish!"

Chen Mo did not dodge the punch.

Even he himself couldn't quite explain why he would say such absurd things.

Qin Zhang thought he was joking, but only Chen Mo knew in his heart that he was speaking from the heart and that he was indeed thinking very highly of himself!

Qin Zhang was stunned for a long time when he saw his friend remain silent.

He then downed the bottle of wine in one gulp, slowly got up, and walked toward the refrigerator.

This time, he brought over four more bottles, saying as he walked:

"Chen Mo, tell the truth!"

"Do you also feel in your heart that the reason I don't want to marry Lan Yujuan is because she's been married before and has a child?"

Chen Mo shook his head, slowly took a sip, and said sincerely, "I didn't think that way."

"You know my family's situation. How could I possibly have such thoughts?"

Qin Zhang tapped his head, then suddenly realized, "That's right!"

"You're a returnee from overseas, you've seen so much of the world abroad with your sister since you were little, your thinking is definitely much more open-minded than my parents'!"

Chen Mo frowned slightly and hesitated before asking, "What, are your parents against it?"

Qin Zhang shook his head with a smile, "How could that be?"

"Our two families know each other very well. They've always treated Lan Yujuan like a daughter, and they'd love for me to marry her!"

"My parents mistakenly thought that I didn't want to marry Yujuan because she was divorced and had a child."

"I was completely innocent! I almost got beaten up because of this!"

"What era are we living in? I've received higher education, do you think I'm such a conservative person?"

Chen Mo chuckled, picked up the remote, and turned on the TV.

Then, while selecting a channel, he asked casually:

"Since you like her and don't care about her past, you're fine too."

"What else could be standing between you two, hindering your further development?"

Qin Zhang sighed, picked up the wine bottle, and gulped down two large mouthfuls. Then he wiped his mouth and said:

"Of course!"

"We're too close! Before we even had a chance to develop romantic feelings, we already had a familial bond."

"Moreover, this kind of familial affection has long surpassed romantic love!"

Chen Mo glanced at his friend with disdain, shook his head, and said, "I don't understand."

Qin Zhang immediately moved a few steps closer to him, then casually turned off the television sound, and said seriously:

"Let me put it this way!"

"I just want to protect her and take care of her, even if it's for the rest of my life! It doesn't matter who she ends up with, as long as she's happy!"

"But just thinking about marrying her makes me feel wonderful, though it also makes me feel strangely awkward..."

"Besides, you know my current work situation. Either she comes with me to join my military unit, or she has to stay at home, living alone with both sets of parents and a marriage certificate."

"No matter which one it is, I can't bear to part with it..."

"Oh well, let's just drink! I don't want to think about it anymore, it's just getting more and more troublesome!"

Chen Mo picked up the wine bottles, clinked them together, and looked at his friend with a playful expression.

Have you ever been in a relationship?

Qin Zhang's face flushed red instantly, and he stood up abruptly, looking rather embarrassed and angry.

"Who do you think you are!"

"I'm pouring my heart out to you, and you're just sitting on the sidelines watching the show, huh?"

However, the more Qin Zhang got angry, the more meaningful Chen Mo's smile became.

"It seems they really haven't talked about it!"

The moment he was exposed, Qin Zhang deflated like a punctured balloon.

He slowly sat back down, muttering under his breath, "Hmph, even if I haven't eaten pork, haven't I seen pigs run?"

With a "thump!", Chen Mo placed the wine bottle on the coffee table, then leaned back casually, propping himself up on the sofa behind him with his elbows:

"Love is about possession. Family is about care."

"You're probably just attracted to the girl's looks and mistaking familial affection for romantic love!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Zhang immediately laughed disdainfully:

"Hahaha, I don't understand, but you do?"

"Chen Mo, we're both pretty much the same!"

"With your completely blank slate of experience, you dare to be my strategist? Give me a break!"

Chen Mo leaned back on the sofa, closed his eyes to rest, and chuckled softly as a slight smile played on his lips.

"If you don't believe me, go ask Li Huan and see what he has to say."

"Look at Li Huan, how does he treat his wife?"

"It's no exaggeration to say that he sees every woman, from eight to eighty years old, who gets close to his wife as a potential rival!"

Qin Zhang blushed and said, "How can that be the same? This is pure love!"

"How despicable is Li Huan's mind? All he thinks about all day is having his wife's babies!"

Chen Mo turned his head and glanced at him with one eye.

"You say you like her, don't you want to...?"

Before Chen Mo could finish speaking, Qin Zhang had already put down the wine bottle and pounced on him, gritting his teeth and using his actions to stop him:

"What are you thinking about?"

"Chen Mo, I never imagined you had such filthy thoughts..."

In the Qin family home, two grown men, fueled by alcohol, were locked in a fierce struggle on the floor, neither willing to back down.

At the Lan family home, Lan Yujuan was playing with her daughter, building blocks, while sprawled out on the children's playmat, busy replying to Li Rui's messages:

"Brother Qin Zhang is single, go for it!"

She had just finished sending the message and put it down when her phone rang.

Lan Yujuan, seeing the unfamiliar number, mistook it for Li Rui and instinctively answered the phone with a smile:

"Feed?"

Suddenly, my sister-in-law's familiar voice came through the phone:

"Sister-in-law! Please bring Xiaoman home quickly! Dad suffered a brain hemorrhage and is dying!"

Lan Yujuan's heart skipped a beat, and the smile on her face gradually disappeared.