185 Nowhere to Vent His Anger (2/2)

Indeed. A moment later a certain someone already leaned in Nie Chang's direction. ”I don't want to! Hug me!”

Nie Chang wordlessly pulled him into his arms and ruffled his hair again. ”Satisfied now?”

”No! You have to continue hugging me!”

Nie Chang laughed. ”Alright. I'll hug you as long as you want.” He pulled Su Yan over onto his lap and then looked at Madam Su who was happily observing them.

”Ah, I'm happy that the two of you are getting along so well.”

”Mn. Well, we've known each other for so long already it would be strange not to get along, wouldn't it?”

”That's also true. So, I guess dinner is over. But the two of you wouldn't want to go already, would you?”

Su Yan straightened up and turned around to his mother as good as he could. ”Of course not! So what do we do?” His eyes sparkled. It had been so long since he had spent a whole evening with his mother. Well, it was a bummer that his father was there but disregarding that this evening was pretty good. Mn, this was all Nie Chang's merit!

In a happy mood, Su Yan encircled Nie Chang's neck and rewarded him with a kiss on his other cheek. ”What would you like to do?”

”I don't know. But I'm happy as long as you're here!” Nie Chang gave a kiss back.

Unfortunately, or, well, maybe it was fortunate in regards to Su Yan's plan of steering his father into a fit of anger, this was exactly the moment when Mister Su returned to the dining room. He stopped dead in his tracks and stared at the way his precious son was sitting on another man's lap, hugging and kissing him.

He tightened his lips and wanted to drag Su Yan off but the next thing he noticed was the happy smile on his son's lips. He couldn't help but hesitate when he saw that. He had never seen Su Yan this happy with any girl.

Well, he hadn't seen him with many girls anyway but it wasn't like there hadn't been some in his school and some of his own friends had brought their daughters over too when there was an opportunity. Unfortunately, Su Yan had never really reacted.

It was as if those girls didn't exist in his eyes or as if they were just … well, something he saw, took note of, and then forgot. He never looked at them a second time or asked about them afterward. In fact, even if you tried to talk about them with him, he would just look at you, blink his eyes and ask you back who you were talking about.

Could it really be that he had hoped for something impossible all these years? Was there no way for his son to fall in love with a woman and start a family? Then … wouldn't it be better if he let him be with another man? After all, as important as the company was to him and as much as he wanted Su Yan to have a family, all of this was unimportant if it made his son unhappy.

Mister Su cleared his throat. ”How about playing Mahjong? We're four people today, after all.”