Chapter 329: The Choice
There were still many things An Han wanted to ask about Su Peng going abroad.
Questions like: Can he stay? How long will he be away? How many times will he come back each year? How much are international phone calls? What major will he study…?
But when the words reached her mouth, she only frowned a little and nodded softly. She was still not very used to expressing herself.
After quietly finishing her lunch, An Han lifted her head and looked at Su Peng’s face, which always had a gentle smile when he looked at her. Seeing that smile, the anxious feeling inside her heart suddenly grew stronger.
Even though she wanted to trust Su Peng, after all his favorability was almost 110, her mind still kept imagining bad things.
If he went abroad for several years, maybe his personality and values would change and no longer match hers.
Maybe he would meet a prettier girl he liked more. Maybe after coming back from studying abroad, he would start looking down on her, just an ordinary undergraduate…
An Han rubbed her temples with both hands, trying to stop those negative thoughts.
“Maybe I just won’t go abroad?” Su Peng asked carefully after seeing her expression.
Actually, he didn’t really want to go abroad either. He finally had a girlfriend he liked so much, who would want to go far away for years?
An Han was just about to answer, but the system popped out to make trouble again.
[Option 1: Go abroad with Su Peng. Reward: Advanced Learning Skill]
[Option 2: Stop Su Peng’s plan to study abroad. Reward: Parents’ Blessing]
[Option 3: Let Su Peng go abroad. Reward: Random attribute points]
She sighed helplessly, quickly reading the three lines of text. Her mouth twitched.
I didn’t need you to tell me, I already knew these would be the options!
She wasn’t interested in the rewards. She read the tasks seriously.
Going abroad together was the hardest option. Her previous visa rejection left a bad record. It was basically impossible for her to get a visa within ten years.
Not to mention her English… She passed CET-4, but she returned most of the knowledge to the teacher. Even if she went abroad, she couldn’t get into the same school as Su Peng.
Letting him go, or stopping him from going, were much easier. As long as Su Peng agreed, she could settle it with some acting cute, fake crying, or pretending to be pitiful.
Since when did my problem-solving skills turn into these kinds of tricks…?
She checked the countdown for the task, she had a full day to choose. So it wasn’t urgent.
But originally, she could avoid the problem, ignore it and forget it, but now the system was forcing her to decide sooner.
For someone who could take half an hour just to choose what takeout to order, this kind of choice was too hard.
“…Let me think about it.” An Han answered Su Peng softly.
She felt she should respect Su Peng’s choice. After thinking for a moment, she asked with curiosity.
“If you don’t go, then what…?”
“Then my parents will break my legs.”
“No wonder…”
So the difficulty of Option 2 was actually Su Peng’s parents. Whether he studied abroad or not was not really for him to decide.
She had heard that rich people sometimes had to donate a lot of money to help their children get into top universities abroad.
“What ‘no wonder’?” Su Peng looked confused.
“It’s nothing…”
Lunch was finished. The two stood up together and put their trays back.
Today was the weekend, and they had originally planned to go shopping in the afternoon.
But now neither of them was in the mood.
With his hands in his pockets, Su Peng followed behind An Han as they walked out of the school gate. When she wasn’t looking back, his face finally showed some sadness and worry.
“Su Peng.”
He immediately changed back to a small smile. “What’s wrong?”
“I want to eat McDonald’s.”
“Then I’ll order delivery for you.” Su Peng took out his phone without hesitation, but when he checked the delivery apps, he found that there was no McDonald’s near the school. “Is KFC okay?”
“No. It’s not Thursday.”
“Then should I take a taxi to buy it?”
He was still talking when he noticed that An Han was looking at him with a strange expression.
He didn’t realize what he had said wrong at all…
An Han scratched her hair and sighed. “That’s why I’m becoming lazier and lazier…”
Or maybe she was becoming more and more dependent on Su Peng.
Whenever she wanted to buy something, Su Peng would run to buy it right away. Whenever she wanted to eat something, he would find a way to get it for her. For small things like carrying things or bringing water, he was even more attentive.
Even a very independent person would slowly be spoiled if treated like this for a while.
“Being lazy is good.” Su Peng grinned. “Be lazier, get a bit chubby, then no one except me will want you.”
“You’re evil!”
An Han snorted through her nose.
“So are you still eating McDonald’s?”
“No!”
She stepped back a bit and walked next to Su Peng.
In fact, she really hoped Su Peng would stay. Before and after she changed into a female body, Su Peng always took care of her. She was already used to this feeling, and she couldn’t even imagine what her life would be like after he left.
But her reason told her she couldn’t continue like this. She would slowly become someone who relied on Su Peng too much… And she didn’t want to become, as her sister said, someone who depended on a rich man and became just a pretty vase.
Besides, it was actually hard for Su Peng too…
“I’ve decided! When I take leave these days and go home, I’ll tell my family clearly.”
Su Peng suddenly interrupted her messy thoughts. He finally made up his mind, “I’m not going to study abroad!”
“Uh… won’t they be angry?”
“They will definitely be angry.” He smiled casually. “But I’m their only son. What can they do to me?”
“What if they get sick from being too angry?”
“They have family doctors. I’m not a doctor, so what can I do if they get sick?”
Su Peng looked carefree and rebellious. “I’m rebelling! Why should they control what I want to do?!”
“……”
“I never liked going abroad anyway. How can it be better than staying in our own country? Even if I take the graduate school exam myself, I can get into a good one.”
An Han had never seen Su Peng like this, a little rebellious and a little wild.
But instead of making him look unreliable, it made him look especially dependable at this moment.
“Isn’t this a bit too much?”
Su Peng finally showed his bossy side again, completely breaking An Han’s hesitation. “My life is my decision! Why are you interrupting?”
As someone who had trouble making choices, An Han immediately understood her own choice.
Then I’ll decide too!
[Task 2 accepted. Please complete as soon as possible.]
An Han’s eyebrows curved like a crescent moon, and her long, thick eyelashes overlapped as she smiled. “It’s okay. If your parents get angry, I’ll stay with you.”
“What do you mean my parents… they’re your future parents-in-law!”
“I never said I would marry you.”
“That’s also my decision. You can’t say no…”
“Ugh~” An Han crossed her arms and turned her head away, smiling as she complained. “Marriage is about two people, okay? How can you be this bossy?”
But Su Peng put his arm around her shoulders and ignored her words. With high spirits he said, “Let’s go. I promised to go shopping with you this afternoon.”