Li Mujia clutched her file folder, glancing back at the elevator three times before finally stepping inside. Her mind was caught in a loop: how wonderful it would be if that man were her boyfriend. If that were the case, she could bring him home for the Lunar New Year and let her mother meet him.
There were two main reasons Li Mujia didn't want her current boyfriend, Li Guang, to accompany her home for the holidays. For one, he was divorced with a child, and he wasn't much younger than her own mother. The thought of the three of them standing together was simply mortifying. Secondly, Li Guang had no interest in visiting her family; he intended to fly to the United States to spend the holiday with his daughter. While this showed he was a responsible father, it left a bitter taste in Li Mujia’s mouth. She often wondered what exactly she meant to him. Whenever she brought up marriage or children, he would deliberately change the subject.
Li Mujia felt deeply aggrieved. She was in the prime of her youth, dating a man nearly twenty years her senior—was it really so wrong to want some form of commitment? She recalled the words of her best friend, Tian Rong, who had warned her to be wary of such older men. She had said they were too experienced and calculating, with hearts that were never simple, and that Li Mujia was no match for him and would eventually get hurt. At the time, Li Mujia had been so infatuated that she couldn't take the advice to heart; she even suspected her frien…
Chapter 608