Chapter 73 - 072: Food (First Update)
When Ye He Ping came in from outside, he was met with such a scene: Bai Xue sitting alone beside their younger daughter, glaring at the older daughter who was sulkily eating with her head down, while the younger daughter was diligently working on her homework at the dining table.
It should have been a lively scene, yet what he saw was discordant.
Ye He Ping knew that some things needed to take time. Previously, he was dissatisfied with and even disapproved of many aspects of his elder daughter due to his limited interactions with her. However, these days, as he tried to embrace everything about his elder daughter and learn to be more forgiving, he found her to be more mature than he had imagined. The deeper he understood her, the more he realized she had always kept a distance from the family. It was at that moment Ye He Ping understood that everything he and his wife did was not unnoticed by their elder daughter. She remembered deeply and observed quietly, yet she never expressed it, rebelling and resisting the family’s affection in her own way.
After washing his face, Ye He Ping sat down beside his elder daughter, looked up at his wife, and asked, "Why aren’t you eating?"
With her heart blocked, Bai Xue wondered what she should say. Should she mention waiting for the younger daughter to join? But then her husband would definitely compare the younger daughter’s homework to the elder daughter’s. Waiting for the younger daughter to eat not only failed to make her feel better but also got her dragged into a comparison.
Having thought it through, Bai Xue smiled, "Waiting for you."
Finally, she cast a glance at the elder daughter.
When she did so, Ye He Ping was busy serving himself some rice, so of course, he didn’t see it and wouldn’t think the elder daughter was being inconsiderate for starting to eat first.
"Eat, before it gets cold. Ye Qian, you should eat first as well. You can do your work after eating." Ye He Ping put down his own bowl, picked up the younger daughter’s bowl, filled it with rice, and handed it to her. "You’re not well now, so don’t push yourself too hard like other students. If there’s too much homework to finish, don’t force it; I’ll talk to your teacher."
"Yes, this child is too competitive," Bai Xue said as she reached out to help when she saw the younger daughter obediently put away her homework.