Why it never ends

"What's the reaction?" Ding Xueyang joked, "Let's see if Dad will also find three helpers?"

Ding Yuqing laughed when she heard this, and then turned to Hesta, "Is the afternoon drama good?"

"I didn't think so," Hesta replied, "I shouldn't have taken Eleven there. The child was too noisy and couldn't control himself."

"As long as you have the strength," Ding Yuqing said, "I can't stand that kind of kid."

"Is there any child more noisy than Miaomiao?" Ding Xueyang said with a smile.

Miaomiao heard her name and immediately raised her head. She jumped off the chair and threw herself on her mother's lap. She looked at Ding Xueyang with a groan, as if she wanted something anxiously, but she didn't speak.

"Ah, Miao Miao is anxious, isn't she?" Ding Xueyang looked down at his daughter, "We are talking about adult matters."

Miaomiao remained silent, but stamped her feet harder.

"...This child," Ding Xueyang leaned over and held Miao Miao in his arms, "Why is it that he is even more coquettish than before after recovering from his illness..."

Miaomiao grabbed the clothes on Ding Xueyang's chest, "Where's dad?"

"Dad is on a business trip."

"Will you be back tonight?"

"Tomorrow night."

"Can't you come back tonight?"

"Dad has to work." Ding Xueyang said softly.

"But tomorrow is Sunday! Let dad come back!"

"Miaomiao, be good," Ding Xueyang changed his position so that Miaomiao could lean against his chest more appropriately, "Mom, stay with you."

After Ding Xueyang finished eating, Miao Miao pestered her to record a video. In the open space of the living room, Miaomiao sang a nursery rhyme and danced. At the end, she suddenly ran to Ding Xueyang's hand and said to the camera, "Daddy, come home soon. Miaomiao misses you."

This video was quickly sent to Shi Pingchuan. Everyone waited for a while, but there was no reply.

Later, Aunt Hong left, and Ding Xueyang sent her downstairs. The two left for a long time without seeing Ding Xueyang come back. During this period, Hesta kept playing chess with Miaomiao, and the child did not cry.

"Has your sister been away for too long?" Hesta asked.

"She and Aunt Hong have something to talk about," Ding Yuqing looked at the chessboard. "Aunt Hong wants to invite me back to her hometown in a few months, but with the current situation at home, my sister wants to persuade her to stay for two more weeks."

"Is she going back to her hometown for vacation?"

Because of this outrageous guess, Ding Yuqing couldn't help but glance at Hesta.

"What's wrong?" Hesta stopped the chess piece in his hand.

"No," Ding Yuqing replied, "...her daughter-in-law is about to give birth, and the due date is in October. She is anxious to go back and help take care of the child." Before Ding Yuqing could finish speaking, she suddenly saw a figure in her peripheral vision. She turned her head, "Mom! Why did you get out of bed by yourself again!"

"...You can't move anywhere."

Xu Ruyi also walked to Miaomiao and sat down slowly. As soon as she sat down, the sound of a key turning was heard at the door. The mother and daughter at the dinner table looked at the door at the same time.

"...No," Ding Xueyang just shook his head when he returned, "Aunt Hong said she could stay a few more days at most."

"You told her we could -" "It's useless, it's not about money." Ding Xueyang took off her shoes, "Her family will be unhappy if she comes back late."

Several people sighed.

For the rest of the day, everyone sat around the table. Miaomiao was extremely sleepy, but she still refused to go upstairs to sleep in order to wait for Shi Pingchuan's reply. She only wanted to lie in Ding Xueyang's arms and sleep for a while.

Ding Yuqing found the glass tea set, brewed a pot of jujube tea, and found a few jars of short scented candles. After turning off the lights, the firelight swayed in the room, adding a bit of dreamlike haziness.

Ding Yuqing looked at her sister and suddenly said, "A few years ago, you would mention divorce when you and Shi Pingchuan were quarreling, but it seems that you haven't mentioned it in the past two years."

Ding Xueyang laughed a few times and was about to speak, but Xu Ruyi on the side had already taken the lead, "Why are you bringing this up again? You were urging me and your father before, and now you are urging your sister and brother-in-law - why don't you hope to do something good for others?"

"Where is sister doing now?"

"Isn't it good enough?" Xu Ruyi said, "When we were in love before, we mixed the honey with the oil. Now that we are married, your brother-in-law cares about the family and is very capable... If you find a partner who is half as good as your brother-in-law in the future, I will burn the incense." It’s—”

"I don't even want someone like Shi Pingchuan to give it to me. I'll give it half as much. I didn't like him when he first came to my house for dinner. It was you who praised him to heaven, but I didn't."

Ding Xueyang narrowed his eyes slightly, "It seems so. When I brought him home for the first time, everyone liked him, but you didn't like him. When I asked you at that time, you still refused to say...why?"

"I just said it to make you laugh at me." Ding Yuqing held up her face, "You were like that at that time, how could you listen to what I had to say."

"Anyway, Xiaoqing always does the opposite of others." Xu Ruyi said with a smile.

"So why?" Ding Xueyang said seriously, "Why didn't you like him at that time?"

"He was kidding you."

Ding Xueyang recalled with some confusion, "...What's the joke?"

Ding Yuqing stepped on the edge of the chair with her feet and hugged her calves with her hands. She looked at the candles on the table and whispered, "After you confirm your relationship, his niece's birthday will be celebrated, and their family will invite you to go with them. When choosing gifts, , he wanted to choose a plush doll or a princess dress, but you refused and said, 'Who stipulates that gifts for girls must include dolls and dresses? Maybe she will be an engineer in the future?' Then you picked it. A toy truck that can be remotely controlled. But when you take out the gift at someone's house, his niece holds the truck box and looks at it again and again. She looks up and asks you, "Don't you have a doll?" - If it hadn't been for that meal, Shi Pingchuan You tell this thing as a joke, I didn’t even know it happened!”

Ding Xueyang finally understood, "It seems like this happened. I would have forgotten it if you didn't tell me...how do you remember it so clearly?"

"I remember everything!" Ding Yuqing looked at her sister, "How does he understand you? I felt at that time that he was not worthy of you at all -"

"The more you talk, the more you go too far." Xu Ruyi frowned, "Stop talking."

Ding Yuqing looked at her sister, "Do you really plan to spend the rest of your life with him?"

Ding Xueyang didn't answer, just looked at the dancing candlelight, feeling dazed for a moment.

Suddenly, Miao Miao, who was sleeping soundly in her arms, moved and slid down a little. Ding Xueyang hugged her daughter tightly again and smiled, "I'm already running towards my forties, so to speak..."

"What if you are already forty? Even if you are fifty or sixty -"

"Ding Yuqing!"

"Mom." Ding Xueyang called to his mother softly, "Don't worry."

Xu Ruyi glanced at her eldest daughter and swallowed what she wanted to say.

"So what if we get divorced," Ding Xueyang said softly, "There will be no better life if we get divorced."