Director Xiao didn't really fight. He was angry but he didn't ignore the seriousness of the matter. In addition, Jiang Jincheng was there to stop him. In the end, Director Xiao just kept on talking to Xiao Ling for a few words and then stopped.

Director Xiao looked at Xiao Ling lying on the bed with gritted teeth. He stuffed beef noodles and steamed buns into Jiang Jincheng's hands, and personally brought him soy milk, but his eyes were fixed on Xiao Ling.

"What the hell are you looking at! Haven't you ever seen your uncle eat?"

Director Xiao cursed viciously: "Fuck you, if it weren't for you, your uncle would have eaten twice in two days? Look at how thin he has become!"

After scolding someone, Director Xiao quickly turned around and held the soy milk: "Come on! Lao Jiang! Eat slowly! It's a bit spicy! If you choke, drink some soy milk! I put sugar in it! I know you like sweet things!"

Jiang Jincheng choked and coughed as he took a big gulp of the soy milk. He smacked his lips and said helplessly, "You're exaggerating... What do you mean by eating two meals in two days... I ate normally yesterday! Didn't you buy me a midnight snack in the middle of the night?"

"You also didn't eat well, drink well, or rest well! What's wrong with Jiang Jincheng? You just spoil him, don't you? You don't even allow people to tell the truth!"

"How can this be called spoiling him?"

Jiang Jincheng took a bite of Shaomai and frowned to correct him: "I am his girlfriend and his elder. Xiao Ling is someone I have watched grow up. If I don't feel sorry for him, who will?"

Director Xiao looked at Jiang Jincheng and then turned his head away and snorted coldly, his voice was sour and mocking: "I finally know what it means to forget friends for the sake of beauty! Jiang Jincheng, I always speak in your favor but you help my son to attack his brothers! How can you be so mean!"

"You think you're so awesome about dating, right? Now you're even talking in a tactful way! My brother is so sincere to me, but you treat him like this! You're really mean!"

Jiang Jincheng was too lazy to pay attention to him. He finished his noodles and drank soy milk in silence and prepared to go out to throw away the garbage. However, Director Xiao glared at him, snatched it away and cursed, "What are you doing! I bought it! The garbage is also my garbage! Who told you to throw my garbage! Go sit aside!"

Director Xiao cursed as he went out to throw the garbage into the trash can outside. He said with a stern face, "Don't you see how you are? You still want to throw garbage at me! Go where you want!"

Jiang Jincheng was so amused that he turned his head to look at Director Xiao and just replied, "You feel sorry for me and I'm being honest. You're serving people in a roundabout way. What's wrong with you? You're not happy if I don't scold you, right?"

"Humph!"

Director Xiao sat down on the stool, crossed his legs, turned around and left Jiang Jincheng with a lonely and proud back.

Xiao Ling just lay there watching his wife and father perform crosstalk. He wanted to laugh but held it back.

Jiang Jincheng glanced at him and then stretched out his long legs to kick Director Xiao's stool: "Hey! Old Xiao, don't you have something to say to Xiao Ling? What did you want to say?"

Director Xiao swallowed and rubbed his hair: "No! Jiang Jincheng, can you please let me go? You like to execute people in public! He made such a big fuss and I haven't beaten him yet, and you do this!"

Jiang Jincheng looked at him with a smile: "It just so happens that we are all here. Xiao Ling is in good spirits now. Since such a big thing has happened, you two should have a good talk."

When Xiao Ling heard that he was going to have a heart-to-heart talk with his father, he couldn't help but clutch the quilt tightly with his hands, fearing that he would be hit by his own father before he could say a few words.

Director Xiao gritted his teeth and sighed. He glanced at Xiao Ling calmly. Xiao Ling's body stiffened instantly and he couldn't help but move back.

Neither of them spoke. After a moment of silence, Director Xiao took a deep breath and said, "Xiao Ling."

"Ah... Dad..."

Xiao Ling responded with gritted teeth, his body already moving towards the bed unconsciously, just waiting for Director Xiao to beat him so that he could run away quickly.

"Dad was wrong. Dad apologizes to you."

"what?"

Xiao Ling was prepared to be scolded and beaten by his father, but his father's words "Dad was wrong" completely confused him.

Xiao Ling carefully glanced at his own father and then at Jiang Jincheng. The ward suddenly returned to an eerie calm. Director Xiao also had a panicked look on his face. He hesitated for a long time and then said nothing.

"Tell me exactly what went wrong."

Jiang Jincheng kicked Director Xiao's chair again. Director Xiao could only bite the bullet and said, "Xiao Ling... Dad... Dad shouldn't compare you with Old Jiang every day, and shouldn't criticize you every other day."

"You two are living a good life. You come back once a week, and dad has never given you face in front of relatives and friends."

Director Xiao took a breath and looked at his son who was still stunned on the bed with a little embarrassment. He scratched his head and whispered, "Dad has always been quick to speak without considering your feelings. He has never considered whether you would feel uncomfortable or embarrassed to be exposed in front of so many people."

"Actually, Dad doesn't have so many other thoughts. Dad said that you are not worthy of Lao Jiang just to tell you that it is not easy for Lao Jiang to date you. You have to treat him well and cherish him."

"If I really thought you were not worthy of Lao Jiang... I would never have agreed to you dating someone in the first place..."

"But that's true... it's really hard to be told every day that you're not worthy of your partner..."

Director Xiao coughed and forced a smile: "Dad was wrong... I won't say that again... Dad just wants you and Lao Jiang to live a good life..."

"Ah... because you know your uncle's situation... he lives a rough life and doesn't pay attention to any details. He just wants to get by."

"I just want him to have a better life since he's dating you. He's my buddy after all. I don't want to cheat him given our relationship. I'm also afraid that you'll get carried away and say you like a guy, and then you'll regret it once he gets you and the novelty wears off..."

"dad…"

Xiao Ling raised her eyes and looked at him, interrupting his unfinished words: "I don't like men."

"I just like my uncle. I just like him as a person."

Jiang Jincheng turned his head and coughed, feeling somewhat embarrassed, but Xiao Ling was calm and composed, as if he didn't think there was anything wrong with saying these things in front of his father.

"Dad, you and my uncle both think that I was just acting on impulse. I chased after my uncle because of an impulse."

Xiao Ling frowned slightly and clenched his palms, seeming to feel a little uncomfortable: "I admit that I am impulsive and reckless. I do whatever I think of... But being impulsive doesn't mean I am irresponsible! Being reckless doesn't mean I don't know how to distinguish right from wrong!"

"I have liked my uncle for more than ten years...My feelings for him are not a spur of the moment but are accumulated slowly over the years!"

"When I said I liked him, I was more sober than ever! I knew what I was saying and what I was going to do better than anyone else!"

"I like him... I like him very much... I can't tolerate anyone else in my eyes... I can't tolerate anyone getting close to him!"

Xiao Ling bit his lip and drooped his head weakly. His ability was questioned again and again, and even his feelings were questioned and looked down upon...

"Dad...tell the truth..."

"Every time you said I was not good enough for my uncle... and jokingly said my uncle would dump me sooner or later..."

“I feel really bad…”

"It's like he really doesn't want me anymore..."

Xiao Ling breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes slightly warmed, and his voice became slightly hoarse: "Dad...you said I was childish...you said I only knew how to cling to my uncle...do you know why I like to cling to my uncle..."

"On the one hand, I do like to pester him. I'm afraid that someone as good as him will be coveted by others. I'm afraid that one day someone who is better than me in every way will come out and snatch him away..."

"I can't grab what others have... I've always been the one left behind..."

"After all, you've abandoned me so many times, haven't you..."

Director Xiao lowered his head guiltily and didn't dare to say anything, but Xiao Ling seemed to want to spit out all the resentment that he had suppressed for more than ten years. He suddenly laughed: "From childhood to adulthood, I have never been as good as others... and then you abandoned me again and again..."

"My uncle always accompanies me... He picks me up like trash..."

"What should I do if even he doesn't want me anymore..."

"Dad...you can't understand the pain of being abandoned by the only person who won't abandon you..."

Xiao Ling held back his tears. When he looked at Jiang Jincheng with such aggrieved look, Jiang Jincheng couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

"You're kidding me about this...you keep poking at the place I want to avoid and fear the most..."

“I can’t get angry…”

Xiao Ling smiled and whispered: "On the one hand, you are right. I am not worthy of him and I might be thrown away..."

"On the other hand, it's because... you finally agreed to let me chase my uncle..."

"Dad, I have never hated you. I feel guilty about my poor health and that I have never fought for you since I was a child..."

"I have never been anyone's pride, I have never made you happy... I have always felt guilty... That's why when you asked me to do various physical exercises despite my asthma when I was a child, I didn't say a word..."

"Because I feel that the only way I can make it up to you is by listening to you. If I listen to you and do what you say, you'll be happier, right?"

"But I'm still too bad... Otherwise, how could I have pissed you off and left you alone in the stadium..."

"Dad... I took the initiative to catch fugitives and drug lords. I didn't do it to show off and make them look at me with new eyes..."

"I just want to save my own face..."

"I know I'm not worthy of my uncle... I just want to prove myself! Let those of you who never believed in me... didn't believe in my relationship know that I'm not that bad! I can deserve him! I can do anything to deserve him!!"

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