Chapter 221 Everyone has become a social animal
"You always say that I'm rebellious, but in fact it's you, Dad, who has always been against me." Xia Anruo couldn't help but say after hearing what Xia Jianjun said.

"Hey, do you mean that I'm rebellious?" Xia Jianjun looked at his daughter sideways as he listened.

On the contrary, it belongs to Tiangang.

"Dad, have you never been rebellious?" Xia Anruo stuck out her tongue and asked back.

"I?"

Xia Jianjun fell silent when he heard that. He looked up at the starry night sky. His thoughts flew back to a time in the past when he was full of vigor and vitality. He finally couldn't help but smile, "If I hadn't rebelled before, there wouldn't be the company I have now, and there wouldn't be you."

When he started his company and married Wang Yandan, he also encountered opposition from his parents and argued with them, but in the end he chose to go his own way.

Think of it this way, it's just a cycle.

"You used to be rebellious, so why do you blame me every day?" Xia Anruo complained.

Xia Jianjun glanced at her and said, "Well... you'll know when you have a child."

Perhaps in another ten or twenty years, it will be my daughter's turn to worry about her rebelliousness.

Thinking of this, Xia Jianjun was actually looking forward to the scene at that time.

Watching her daughter being so angry that she jumped up and down, she could gloat over her misfortune and tell her that this was the retribution for her rebelliousness in the past...

It should be interesting.

This moment is just like that moment.

Seeing Xia Jianjun's serious mouth showing a rare smile, Xia Anruo pursed her lips and said hesitantly: "Then Dad...are you satisfied with Chu Ze now?"

This question made Xia Jianjun's smile freeze and he fell silent. For a moment, the whole yard was silent, with only the sound of the cold wind whistling in the ears of the two.

Asking the father-in-law whether he is satisfied with his son-in-law is an unanswerable question. No matter how outstanding the son-in-law is, in the eyes of the father-in-law, he will obviously not be impressed by his behavior of picking cabbages just because he has a handsome face.

But Xia Jianjun had to admit that Chu Ze was indeed a good candidate for son-in-law.

His original worst expectation was that Xia Anruo might bring back a young male celebrity from the entertainment industry one day, and he would be so angry that he would break the other person's legs.

But fortunately, Xia Anruo didn't bring back any young meat, but brought back some salted fish.

So after comparing like this, since you will be pushed aside sooner or later anyway, you might as well pick the one you like.

It is much more comfortable to have Peppa Pig pushing the ball than to have Zhu Bajie pushing the ball.

After a long silence, Xia Jianjun finally spoke: "Do you like it?"

"what?"

Xia Anruo didn't react to what Xia Jianjun was asking at first.

"I'm talking about Xiao Chu." Xia Jianjun said.

Xia Anruo understood and turned around to glance at Chu Ze in the room. The happiness in her eyes made Xia Jianjun feel a little sour.

"I like it, of course I like it." Xia Anruo said softly.

Xia Jianjun had never heard this kind of tone from his daughter before. It seemed that she really liked it.

His eyes were complicated: "Does he like you too?"

"Of course." Xia Anruo nodded affirmatively.

"As long as you like it, as long as you like it."

Xia Jianjun finally sighed and showed a rare gentle smile.

If you can find someone you like and who likes you, no matter what the future holds, at least you won’t regret it now.

He touched his daughter's head and said, "Go back, it's cold outside."

"You haven't answered me whether you are satisfied or not?" Xia Anruo muttered.

"You have already received the certificate. What's the point of me being dissatisfied?" Xia Jianjun rolled his eyes.

If he was really dissatisfied, Chu Ze would have been in a wheelchair by now.

……

After returning home, Chu Ze realized that he had forgotten something very important.

I haven’t even posted my marriage certificate on my Moments yet.

How can this work!
So he quickly called Xia Anruo over: "Ruoruo, quickly take out your marriage certificate."

"What for?" Xia Anruo asked puzzledly.

"I'll take a picture and post it on WeChat Moments."

"Don't you say you never post on WeChat Moments for a long time?"

"Things like marriage must be announced."

This is a major event worthy of being reported to the United Nations and must be made public.

Xia Anruo took out the marriage certificate and put it together with Chu Ze's. Then they put their hands together in front of the marriage certificate, made a heart shape, and took a photo, but of course their faces were not shown.

Chu Ze uploaded this photo showing their affection to his circle of friends with great satisfaction.

Then, a group of the 604 Four Heavenly Kings, who had been silent for a long time since graduation, suddenly exploded:

"Oh shit, my son of a bitch got the marriage certificate?" Cheng Ran sent a screenshot of his Moments to the group, along with a shocked emoticon.

This news also shocked Lu Zihao: "Oh my god, they are getting married? Where is the wedding banquet? Why didn't they invite us to the wedding banquet? Are they father and son?"

"We've just got the marriage certificate, we haven't had the wedding yet." Chu Ze explained.

"When is the wedding?" Yu Yang also popped up.

Chu Ze: "In the first half of next year."

Cheng Ran: "Okay, okay, I'll give you a share of the money."

Lu Zihao: "Then I'll follow one too."

Yu Yang: "How much is appropriate?"

Cheng Ran: "Oh, five hundred or one thousand is fine."

Yu Yang: “OK.”

After a while, the three of them each gave Chu Ze an exclusive red envelope.

Chu Ze opened Cheng Ran’s red envelope and saw: fifty cents.

"?"

Then open Lu Zihao’s: one piece.

Chu Ze: "Are you sending away beggars?"

Cheng Ran: "The gift is small but the sentiment is great."

Lu Zihao: "Yes, yes."

Chu Ze looked at the chat history with a twitching mouth, and then opened Yu Yang's red envelope: one thousand.

Chu Ze: "Fuck, the boss is generous, the two of you should learn from the second dimension."

Yu Yang: "No, why did I really give it to you?"

Lu Zihao: "Happy, there are honest people."

Cheng Ran: "The ACG world is like this, it's very easy to cheat people out of their money."

Yu Yang: “…”

Cheng Ran: "Of course, the gift money should be given at the wedding to show sincerity."

Lu Zihao: "Don't worry about the money. Let's post what our daughter-in-law looks like first. We haven't even seen what your wife looks like."

"Don't worry, you'll be able to see it after the wedding." Chu Ze kept it a secret.

Cheng Ran: "Tsk, you're still hiding it even after you're married. Is your wife some big star? You can't show her to us now."

Chu Ze: "Yes, he is a big star, and a big star you are very familiar with."

Cheng Ran: "Okay, okay, I'll obey you for the sake of your marriage." Chu Ze: "Don't talk about me first, when are you guys getting married?"

Cheng Ran: "People here haven't graduated yet, you should ask Yu Yang."

Yu Yang: "It's too early for me. I haven't even earned enough money for the down payment on the house. How can I get married?"

It has been more than a year since graduation, and the four of them took this opportunity to chat for a long time.

Everyone who was full of vigor and freedom on campus now has to fight for survival and life.

Chu Ze couldn't help but sigh: "Everyone has become a social animal now."

Lu Zihao: "Office animal? What is an office animal? I only know how to collect rent."

Group member Lu Zihao has been removed from the group chat by group owner Cheng Ran.

……

New Year.

January 1st, the new year.

Xia Anruo's Weibo also suddenly released news on the first day of the new year, that Anruo's new album "The Rest of My Life" will be officially released on February 5, the eighth day of the first lunar month.

After such a long time, An Ruo finally has news about her new album.

All the fans were very excited, as if it was Chinese New Year.

Oh, it seems like today is indeed Chinese New Year.

"I was wondering why An Ruo hasn't been very active recently. Turns out she's been holding back a big thing."

“The last album was two years ago.”

"After waiting for so long, a new album is finally released. I thought An Ruo had given up."

"The songs An Ruo has released in the past two years are enough for several albums, but An Ruo is not like other singers who perfunctorily use these songs to make albums and reap profits."

"I wonder what good songs An Ruo will come up with this time."

In response to fans' expectations, An Ruo quickly announced information, saying that half of the songs in this album will be written by her personally, and she hopes that everyone will like it.

As soon as this news came out, there was a lot of controversy in the comment section.

"Is it true that An Ruo wrote a song?"

"Has An Ruo ever written a song before?"

"No, it should be the first time."

"Wow, this is An Ruo's first time writing a song. I'm really looking forward to it."

Fans are extremely looking forward to An Ruo's songs, but there are also many rational and passive passers-by who are not optimistic.

"It's so hard to release a new album. Will An Ruo fail if she writes her own songs?"

"Is there no more song written by Tudou in the new album? Then I won't buy it. I'm still looking forward to Tudou's new songs."

"Didn't you say that half of the new song was written by An Ruo? You guys didn't even check the title? The other half must have been written by Tu Dou."

"It's good to have Tu Dou's songs, at least the album quality can be guaranteed."

"Are all of you fake fans? Why are you so pessimistic about the songs written by An Ruo?"

"An Ruo spent so much time preparing for the album, so the songs she wrote must be good."

This kind of doubt is quite normal. After all, there are many singers who can sing these days, but there are relatively few singer-songwriters who can both sing and write songs, and An Ruo has never shown her talent for writing songs before.

Xia Anruo didn't care about these doubts, because they were only a small part after all, and most people were looking forward to it.

Moreover, after I finished writing and recording the new song, I naturally let Chu Ze play it as soon as possible. At least Chu Ze said that he liked it very much.

The songs she wrote were not for others. It was enough as long as Chu Ze liked her songs.

Also because the album is about to be released and the warm-up has begun, Xia Anruo, who has been slacking off for so long, has finally started to get busy and has to run around to promote her album.

This is the album she has put the most effort into, and if nothing unexpected happens it will also be her last one, so she naturally takes it very seriously.

Chu Ze also used almost all of his available resources to promote Xia Anruo's new album.

It can be said to be a huge momentum.

Xia Anruo was busy promoting her album. Jiang Huiqin and Chu Mingtao specially invited Xia Jianjun and Wang Yandan out for dinner because Chu Ze and Xia Anruo had just received their marriage certificate. After all, they were in-laws now, and it was a good opportunity for both parents to sit down and discuss the upcoming wedding arrangements.

After dinner, Chu Ze asked his parents to go to his apartment to rest for a while.

It was Jiang Huiqin's first time to come to this apartment, and she observed the layout of the room with some curiosity.

"Do you and An Ruo usually live here?"

"Yes, how is it, is it okay?" Chu Ze put his parents' bags on the sofa and made two cups of tea for them.

"It's a little small." Jiang Huiqin shook her head.

"It's quite big. There's another floor above." Chu Ze pointed to the second floor.

Chu Mingtao looked up at the railing on the second floor, lowered his head to drink a sip of tea, and asked, "Did you buy this house?"

"No, it belongs to An Ruo. I rented it before, but now..."

Chu Ze couldn't remember when he hadn't paid rent. Anyway, it seemed no different from his own house now, and he felt at ease living there.

"This house is fine for two people to live in, but it will be inconvenient if we have children in the future." Jiang Huiqin said after observing the house.

"Why is it inconvenient?"

"Look, there are stairs going up and down the stairs. It's so dangerous for children at home." Jiang Huiqin pointed to the stairs.

Some children are naughty and playful, and accidents might happen if there are stairs.

"Mom, it's not that exaggerated." Chu Ze felt that Jiang Huiqin was making a big deal out of nothing.

"You still don't believe it? Didn't you almost fall down the stairs once when you were a kid? Luckily I found it in advance." Jiang Huiqin directly brought up Chu Ze's dark history.

Chu Ze scratched his head awkwardly: "Why don't I have any impression?"

"You were only three or four years old at the time. Isn't it normal that you don't remember it?"

"Mom, do you mean you want me to move house?" Chu Ze said.

"I saw your house and suddenly thought that you seemed to have not yet prepared a wedding house." Jiang Huiqin explained.

"Marriage room?"

Chu Ze was stunned when he heard this, as if he had indeed forgotten about this.

Getting married requires a wedding house...

But it seems unnecessary for them to buy this. They have lived together in this house for so long, and it is no different from their wedding house. Wouldn’t it be a waste of money to buy another house?
"No need to buy. The current house is good enough." Chu Ze felt that the current house was more than enough for him to live in. Although it was not luxurious, he had gotten used to it after living here for so long. If you asked him to move to a bigger villa now, he might not be able to get used to it.

Chu Ze thought so, but Jiang Huiqin didn’t.

"We must buy a house. How can we get married without preparing a wedding house?" Jiang Huiqin said unhappily with a frown.

"Wouldn't it be nice to use this house as a wedding house?" Chu Ze said.

Jiang Huiqin rolled her eyes at him: "Is this house yours? You sound quite self-satisfied when you say this. Isn't this An Ruo's house?"

"What does it matter? We are all family. What's hers is mine." Chu Ze said as a matter of course.

"How can you use your wife's family's house as your wedding house after getting married? Do you want to marry into the wife's family and become a son-in-law?" Jiang Huiqin said unhappily.

"It's not impossible." Chu Ze said.

"Huh? What did you say?" Jiang Huiqin glared.

Chu Ze coughed dryly and immediately changed the topic: "Well, I mean let Ruoruo and I discuss the matter of buying a house first."

"Anyway, you two can decide for yourselves whether to buy a new house in Jiangcheng or in Ancheng. You are not short of money." Jiang Huiqin waved her hand, not wanting to get involved in too many specific matters.

Now that Chu Ze is already a married man, he can just discuss these things with An Ruo himself.

She was just reminding that, at least on the man's side, all kinds of etiquette and betrothal gifts must be prepared in place to avoid gossip.

(End of this chapter)