Chapter 179. What about the promised ’sour for boys, spicy for girls’?
The soft and tender little cutie looked at you with tearful eyes, full of pleading light, and affectionately called out "daddy." It completely melted Lianshan’s heart, his eyes filled with tenderness.
However, his wife was easy to talk to about everything else, except when it came to Lian En’s education, where she was particularly persistent.
She constantly reminded that "a tree untrimmed is not straightened; a person unwatched is unruly." She said a child at three will see the man at eighty; children should be taught from a young age. Otherwise, if they’re inherently not good, and without careful and strict supervision, once they show signs of deviating, it will be a real worry and effort to correct them later.
Lianshan understood this reasoning well.
But as the saying goes: a cat loves its own kittens, and a dog loves its own puppies. Which father wouldn’t feel distressed seeing his child suffering?
Although there was no biological connection, he had been reading to the little one for prenatal education while he was still in the womb. After birth, he was washing diapers, changing clothes, bathing, feeding, teaching him to walk and talk. Whatever a biological father would do, he had done everything.
Emotionally, this was his own eldest son!
At the beginning, he often pleaded and talked things over. He even had small disputes with Shuzhen due to her excessive strictness, something they had never experienced before.
Until he saw that after his pleas, not only did the son not receive forgiveness but was held to even stricter standards, Lianshan completely gave up on pleading. He was afraid that the more he helped, the more trouble it would bring, causing Little Lian’en to suffer more punishments.
If he really provoked his wife to upgrade the lessons to "spare the rod and spoil the child," wouldn’t it still be his beloved son who suffers?