Chapter 71 Light as Touching Water
After considering her own emotional issues, Su Yanyi began to think about her attitude problem. She always felt that what she did was right and rarely found it necessary to reflect, but this time, Su Yanyi felt she should be more open-minded and not so petty.
She had already promised to protect Qin Jiran for a lifetime, to allow him to live well, and to have a good life with him. This naturally included acknowledging Qin Jiran’s status, so the home they shared was naturally Qin Jiran’s home too. She understood what respect and tolerance meant. Therefore, if Qin Jiran really liked it, she didn’t want to persist in refusing anymore; at most, it would just be like raising another pet. She didn’t really care that much, and besides, when she thought about it seriously, the Little White Tiger was quite cute. When she was little and visited the Su family’s private island overseas, she saw many animals, and her father even suggested she keep one. If Qin Jiran liked it, she’d take him to visit the island later.
One could say that Su Yanyi had come to terms with the situation on the way, but her cold demeanor, in Qin Jiran’s eyes, didn’t seem like she had accepted it at all.
"If you don’t like it, I won’t keep it," Qin Jiran said with a straight face, very insistent and serious.
In Qin Jiran’s mind, Su Yanyi was definitely not someone who would easily accommodate others or change her mind on a whim, nor would she adopt a tactic of seeming to agree while actually disagreeing to express her thoughts. So Qin Jiran understood that Su Yanyi had genuinely agreed, and it had nothing to do with whether she liked it or was angry—just as she had said, she recognized that it was his home too and felt that he had the right to decide!
This realization deeply moved Qin Jiran and warmed his heart, but it didn’t mean he would do something that Su Yanyi didn’t like. For Qin Jiran, even a slight grievance borne by Su Yanyi was absolutely inappropriate, especially when the inconvenience was to accommodate his own preferences – that was even more of a fault of his.
At that moment, Qin Jiran truly felt Su Yanyi’s recognition and care for him. He didn’t know why Su Yanyi had undergone such a significant change lately, but no matter the reason, he was touched and definitely wouldn’t let down the sentiment Su Yanyi had shown.
"Does that mean you won’t do anything I dislike?" Su Yanyi frowned and asked back, finding the man’s pledge of loyalty highly suspect. Everyone is an independent individual; she herself would never change for someone else’s sake unless she wanted to, like with the recent incident, but she would never change otherwise. So it was difficult for her to agree with the profound meaning contained in Qin Jiran’s words.