How to raise a father who is overly controlling of his daughter

"Hmm, that works too." Rena really hadn't expected Itsuki to be so observant.

Izuki laughed, "I know what's going on in your little head." She gently tapped Rena's head, "Stop hiding it, take out your phone quickly."

"Hmm..." Rena reluctantly took her phone out of her pocket.

Yi Yue took the phone and said, "Get some rest." Then she left the room.

Hearing the door close, Rena took an apple out of the drawer.

"Hmph, but this time, Dad, you're wrong." Rena picked up the fruit knife and continued peeling the apple.

……

Izuki's room.

Izuki yawned wearily. Makise sat on the bed, put his arms around Izuki, and said, "Izuki, go to sleep if you're tired."

"Hmm." Just as Yi Yue was about to turn off the light, the bedroom door suddenly opened.

Rena came in carrying a peeled apple.

"Why are you carrying an apple so late?" Yi Yue asked.

Rena laughed and said, "Daddy, eat!"

"No need." Yi Yue shook her head. "It's so late, I've already brushed my teeth, you can eat it yourself." She couldn't understand why Reina was peeling an apple for him so late.

Makise looked at Rena thoughtfully, as if she were thinking about something.

Rena pouted unhappily, "No! Daddy has to eat it. I worked so hard to peel it."

“But…” Yi Yue hesitated, as she wasn’t hungry and had already brushed her teeth.

"You can eat it, Tsuki," Makise said with a smile, speaking up for Rena.

"Well, alright." Yi Yue had no choice but to take it and take a bite, but the more she ate, the worse it tasted.

"Hehe." Rena laughed happily.

"Rena, what about my apple? You didn't just peel it for your dad, did you?" Makise noticed Rena's other hand hidden behind her back.

"Of course not, I 'specially' prepared one for Mom too. Ta-da!" Rena took out a plate of sliced ​​apples from behind her back and put them in large and small pieces.

“Why did you give your mother a pre-cut one? I gave her a whole one,” Yi Yue said.

Makise laughed and said, "Of course it's because Rena is closer to me, right, Rena?"

Rena chuckled and said, "Yeah, yeah." In her heart, she thought, "Idiot, who's going to kiss you?"

The apples that Makise cut into pieces were all deformed apples that Reina had peeled. But the one that Itsuki gave her was the one she had peeled for a long time and was most satisfied with.

"Come on, give me a kiss," Makise said, kissing Rena's forehead.

"Hehe." Rena was overjoyed.

Yi Yue ate the apple in her hand and asked in confusion, "Strange, didn't I buy a Fuji apple? It's so big, why does it feel so small?"

"Ahem." Rena said guiltily, "Mom and Dad, I'm going to sleep now." She quickly ran out of the room.

Makise took a big bite out of the bite mark on Itsuki's apple.

"Makise." Itsuki said helplessly.

Makise used a toothpick to stick a piece of apple in his mouth and brought it to Itsuki's lips: "What does it matter?"

……

……

Today is Saturday, and Yi Yue and her friends usually go hiking on weekends.

I went out at seven in the morning and didn't return until eleven in the morning.

As soon as I got home, I saw a little girl squatting at the door.

Upon closer inspection, I discovered they were grains.

"Lili, why are you squatting here all alone?" Yi Yue quickly helped her up and asked, "Where's your mother?"

Lili raised her head, her eyes were a little red, and there were tear stains on her face, clearly she had just been crying.

Rena hurriedly asked, "Who bullied you?"

Each grain shook its head.

Yi Yue asked, "What exactly happened?"

With a sob in her voice, Lili said, "I...I had a fight with my parents."

"Huh?" Itsuki and Makise exchanged a glance.

"Let's go in first and talk about it later."

Once inside, everyone sat on the sofa.

"What exactly happened? Why did you argue with Mom and Dad?" Yi Yue asked Lili to explain the whole story.

It turns out that last night, Lili and Xiahong were lying in bed watching TV.

Lili was sleepy, but there was a rerun of the morning's anime at 11 PM, which happened to be the last episode. Lili had something to do in the morning and didn't watch it, so she waited to watch the rerun.

But Lili was so sleepy that she asked Xia Hong to wake her up at 11 o'clock.

Xia Hong readily agreed. However, by the time Lili woke up groggily, it was already midnight.

Lili blamed Xiahong for not waking her up. Xiahong first vaguely said that she had called her and that Lili was the one who didn't get up. Then she said that it was so late and that Lili should go to sleep. Lili disagreed and they started arguing.

Lili said she wanted to run away from home. Xia Hong said, "Everything you have, everything you eat and wear was bought with her money. You can leave, but take off your clothes first."

I originally intended to scare Lili, but Lili actually took off her clothes and ran outside.

Xia Hong quickly stopped her. But that wasn't the end of it. She told Lili's drunk father about it, and Lili's father angrily hit Lili's arm with a clothes pole.

Lili felt wronged. The next day, while Xia Hong went out to buy things, she ran out to Yi Yue's house. However, Yi Yue's whole family was out, so she has been squatting there since eight o'clock.

"Don't be so silly, waiting so long at the door. Go sit somewhere else first." Rena's words were a mix of reproach and concern.

Lili shook her head: "I have nowhere else to go."

After hearing this, Rena didn't know what to say.

Izuki and Makise exchanged a glance.

Chapter 139 Running Away from Home

"Moon, should we inform Xia Hong? They must be very worried about the child running away from home," Makise said.

Makise and Itsuki were talking at the corner of the stairs, leaving Lili and the others in the living room.

Yi Yue shook her head and said, "Let's wait a bit longer. I'll talk to Lili alone later."

"Then at least inform Xia Hong and the others first."

Yi Yue sighed and said, "Let's inform them, in case they go back and punish Lili."

"No way."

“You didn’t see Lili’s hands, those whip marks.” Yi Yue noticed the bruises on Lili’s arms when she was at the door.

“They don’t know why the child ran away, so how can they take her back?” Yi Yue said worriedly. “If I inform Xia Hong now and they take Lili back, Lili will definitely be disappointed in us. What if she runs away again next time? Where will she go?”

Izuki had run away from home when she was a child, so she is particularly sensitive to this kind of thing.

"Moon, let's not meddle in other people's business," Makise said.

Yi Yue shook her head, took Makise's hand, and stood at the corner, looking down at the living room. She could still hear Lili and the others talking.

Rena said angrily, "Your parents are going too far. They don't care about you at all. My parents would never do that."

Yixue, however, held the opposite view. If she listened to her parents, how could they possibly beat or scold her for no reason?

"I actually wish Dad were a bit stricter. Dad is too gentle... because I would never make a mistake, and I would listen to Dad properly," Yixue thought to herself, her face flushing.

Lili became even more frustrated because of Reina's words, and lowered her head in disappointment.

Reina quickly said, "Don't be sad. How about this, next time you argue with your parents, come to my place." Unaware that her unintentional boasting made Lili feel frustrated and sad, "At worst, you can just not have these parents anymore. I'll ask my dad to take you in. You can call my dad 'Dad' from now on, and then you can rightfully call me 'sister'."

"What nonsense is Rena talking about?" Makise felt a headache coming on.

“Rena and Lili are such good friends, you can’t bear to see Rena sad,” Izuki said.

Makise sighed, and the two of them went downstairs.

Lili said to Makise, "Hello, sister. Are you also my cousin's daughter?" She had never met Makise before.

"Ahem." Rena suppressed a laugh.

Makise smiled and took Izuki's hand, saying charmingly, "Yes, I am Daddy's good daughter. You can just call me Makise-neechan."

"Hello, Makise-neechan!" Lili said innocently. "Makise-neechan is so pretty, she looks just like Rena-neechan."

Makise patted Lili's little head and said, "You can't say I look like Rena-neechan, you have to say Rena-neechan looks like me."

"Oh." Lili nodded, seemingly not quite understanding.

Rena scoffed, "You can only fool Riri, what are you pretending to be so young for?" She met Makise's smug gaze, turned her head away unhappily, and stuck out her tongue.

"Makise." Itsuki said helplessly.

Makise, engrossed in the act, blinked and asked, "Dad, what's wrong?"

Izuki was speechless, feeling a headache coming on from Makise Michi's perverse sense of humor.

Have you eaten your rice?

Lili shook her head, her stomach growling with hunger.

Makise took out a few bags of potato chips from the bottom cabinet: "Eat these first, to fill your stomach."

Rena protested, "This is mine!"

It wasn't that she cared about giving Lili food, but rather that Makise was using her snacks to give to Lili in her own name, pretending to be generous.

Makise said, "What's wrong? Don't be so stingy."