TSFLIP Chapter 443

By the time Fengguang was eleven, she was already in fifth grade. Her relationship with Ji You had grown even closer, and she liked Ji Mian more and more, especially because he always spoke to her so gently. To her, every day felt bright and full of joy.

Except for one small issue… her grades.

Compared to Ji You, who was also in fifth grade, her academic performance was way worse. As good as her language arts scores were, her math scores were just as terrible. In the most recent exam, she failed math again. She felt a bit embarrassed about it, but Xia Chao just patted her head and chuckled, saying, “It’s alright. Being bad at math just means you take after your mom.”

Good grades or not, it didn’t matter. It wasn’t like he couldn’t afford to support this daughter.

And since her dad said it was fine, Fengguang instantly perked back up, cheerful as ever. She knew full well that she wasn’t into studying.

Her moods always came and went quickly. Sitting at the dinner table, she happily picked up her chopsticks and dug into dinner.

Xia Chao’s smile faded a bit as he turned to the handsome, refined young man across the table and asked casually, “I heard you’re applying to medical school?”

“Yes,” Ji Mian replied politely, setting down his chopsticks.

Xia Chao chuckled. “Honestly, I thought you’d go into finance.”

Ji You chimed in innocently, “Big brother’s always wanted to be a doctor since he was little!”

Ji Mian smiled without responding. Looks like Xiao You had forgotten how she used to say she liked big brothers who wore white coats.

“Being a doctor… that’s not bad,” Xia Chao said thoughtfully. “The Xia family does own a few hospitals, after all.” That single sentence meant he wasn’t opposed to the idea.

Fengguang suddenly chimed in brightly, “Then I wanna be a painter! I saw the tulip fields in Holland on TV—they looked so pretty! One day, I wanna go there and paint them myself!”

“That’s exactly the kind of thing you’d say,” Xia Chao replied with a doting smile. “But don’t forget, Fengguang—you’re going to inherit the Xia family business. You can’t just run off wherever you like.”

“Huh? Inherit the family business… wouldn’t it be better if big brother did it instead?”

Ji Mian’s body tensed for a second.

Xia Chao shook his head. “That won’t work.”

“Why not? Dad, I don’t know anything about business.”

“That’s why… you’ll have to marry someone who knows business. Someone good to you.”

“Then I’ll just marry big brother!” Fengguang hopped down from her chair and cheerfully ran to Ji Mian’s side, wrapping her arms around his arm with a radiant, dazzling smile. “Big brother’s nice to me and super smart. If I marry him, everything will be fine!”

Ji Mian’s expression turned a little strange.

“That still won’t do,” Xia Chao said gently. He always had infinite patience when it came to his daughter. “Ji Mian is your older brother, and you’re his little sister. Siblings can’t get married.”

Ji You looked up from her food to echo, “Yeah! Brothers and sisters aren’t allowed to marry.”

Fengguang pouted, clearly unhappy with that rule.

Ji Mian didn’t offer any comment, and the conversation moved on from there.

By the time the second semester of Fengguang’s fifth grade was drawing to a close, Ji Mian was getting ready to take the college entrance exam. His grades had always been excellent, so even with the test coming up the next day, he wasn’t nervous at all.

But someone else was.

She was so nervous that she couldn’t sleep in the middle of the night and ended up knocking on his door.

Ji Mian had just been woken up, his expression still dazed. When he saw Fengguang standing there hugging her pillow, he felt a wave of helplessness, but he still instinctively stepped aside to let her in.