Chapter 566: – After the engagement
The engagement ceremony wasn’t too complicated. After about half an hour, Lin Jin realized, with a confused look on her face, that all the engagement procedures were done. All that was left was for her and Xia Tian to step off the stage and toast each table.
Toasting was pretty troublesome. Lin Jin was someone who rarely drank, while Xia Tian had already drank too much last night and still reeked of alcohol right now. There were more than ten tables on the second floor alone. Even though Lin Jin only needed to drink one cup per table, that would still be more than a bottle after toasting ten tables. Plus, there were seven or eight more tables of fans downstairs. If she drank a cup for all of them, it would probably add to over two full bottles.
After toasting around, Xia Tian, who had already been half drunk, could now barely walk. Lin Jin, someone with terrible alcohol tolerance, felt a bit dizzy.
The restaurant started serving dishes in turns. Lin Jin and Xia Tian sat at the same table as their parents and began accepting everyone’s blessings.
The banquet had officially started. While Lin Jin and Xia Tian were on stage, the tables had already been filled with some dishes, but no new dishes were brought out. After the half hour ceremony ended, those original dishes had all been finished. Only now were new dishes starting to be brought out.
The restaurant Xia Tian opened felt a bit like a tavern. No matter what type of food you wanted, you would be able to find it here.
The three chefs Xia Tian hired were indeed really skilled. Although the dishes might not be able to match those of Michelin starred restaurants, they were at least much better than most small hotel restaurants.
Lin Jin even felt that the food here was better than several restaurants she tried at Wanda.
After everyone finished eating and drinking, the banquet ended. But even though the banquet was over, the engagement ceremony wasn’t yet.
Lin Jin’s mom wanted to follow their hometown traditions and go back to continue worshiping their ancestors and burning paper money as offerings. This time, both Lin Jin and Xia Tian had to be present, even Xia Tian’s parents had to go.
Lin Jin didn’t really get these traditions, but she could only follow whatever her mom had planned.
“Lin Jin?”
“Mm?”
She looked up at her currently busy mom.
“When do you plan to marry Xia Tian?” Her mom set aside the ancestral worship stuff for now and asked Lin Jin in a serious tone.
Lin Jin blinked. She didn’t really have too much thoughts about this. She just uncertainty said: “Probably three or four years after graduating, right? I can just get married as soon as I graduate, right?”
Her mom’s expression instantly relaxed. She carefully calculated, according to the nominal age, Lin Jin was just twenty one. If it was three or four years after graduation, Lin Jin would be around twenty six, just right for a normal girl to get married.
In Lin Jin’s hometown, people actually got married relatively young, especially girls. Lin Jin had even heard of a girl who got married right after finishing high school. However, her mom had lived in Guangdong for a long time and couldn’t bear to be separated from the daughter she had had for only half a year.
“Alright, then I’ll go and talk with your in law’s side.”
Lin Jin helplessly sighed and turned to look at Xia Tian, who was sitting in a corner of the room, leaning on the wall, his head tilted back as he slept.
Apparently, he had stayed up all of last night drinking with his friends, so it made sense for him to be tired and asleep right now.
Lin Jin pulled her feet up on the bed and stared at Xia Tian in a daze.
To be honest, she had never thought of marrying a man.
She had thought that even if the black cat turned her into a girl, she would just stay single for the rest of her life, or continue fooling around with other girls.
Anyway, that was what Lin Jin had always thought ever since she met the black cat and realized she couldn’t resist.
Then she met Rabbit. She had wanted to date Rabbit using her identity as a man, but she found her face had already turned into a woman’s face
She didn’t know what was wrong with her head at the time, but she suddenly realized that her mom would never accept her being in a lesbian relationship.
And it wouldn’t be just her parents, but the other party’s parents wouldn’t accept such a thing either.
Lin Jin sighed. She had never imagined she would actually fall in love with a man. At the time, she just thought about how disgusting it would be to live with a man. But now, she just felt happy and satisfied being with Xia Tian.
Well, even she herself wasn’t sure when she started liking Xia Tian.
Lin Jin crossed her legs on the bed, rested her chin in her hands, and blankly stared at the soundly asleep Xia Tian.
“Lin Jin, come out here a bit.”
Her mom called from outside.
Lin Jin quickly put on her slippers and went out. She found that her dad was sitting on the sofa, while her mom and future in laws were sitting at the table, discussing something.
“What is it?”
Lin Jin hadn’t interacted much with Xia Tian’s parents. They had just had a meal a couple of days ago, but his parents seemed quite pleased with her.
“We’re talking with your in laws about when you and Xia Tian should get married.” Her mom smiled and pulled Lin Jin to sit beside her. Then she turned and said to Xia Tian’s parents “Lin Jin thinks she should wait until she’s about twenty seven or twenty eight before getting married. What you mean is they should get married right after graduation?”
“Right, since they’re already engaged, why delay it for another six or seven years? Also, by the time Xia Tian waits until Lin Jin is twenty seven or twenty eight, he’ll be almost thirty. What if something unexpected happens right before they’re about to marry?”
“By then, if Lin Jin or Xia Tian suddenly don’t want to get married anymore, or if they break up, the two would have spent so many years together, they would definitely need a few years to get over it. If we wait for them to get over it before finding a boyfriend or girlfriend again, then wouldn’t they be around thirty five or so before they actually get married?”
Lin Jin’s mom knew what the in laws said made sense, but she just couldn’t accept her daughter getting married so soon.
She had wanted to bring Lin Jin back to Guangdong after graduation. No matter if Lin Jin stayed at home or found a job in Guangdong, she would be able to spend more time with the daughter hadn’t spent much time with in the last decade.
Her mom looked conflicted and turned to Lin Jin for her opinion.
Lin Jin was also unsure about this. Even though she and Xia Tian were getting along right now and had no problems, who could say for sure what it would be like in a few years?
She blankly returned her mom’s look.
“Then let’s do this, twenty five?” Her mom once again started discussing it with the in laws. “Wait until lin Jin is twenty five in nominal age before marrying. She has to have her own life, she can’t just marry right after graduating and then become Xia Tian’s full time nanny, right?”
“What do you mean full time nanny, that’s called full time housewife. Isn’t that how it’s always been in our generation?”
Lin Jin’s mom rolled her eyes. That wasn’t how it had been for her.
Then, her mom and her in laws started a heated discussion. Lin Jin just awkwardly sat there by the side. Her dad on the sofa saw there was nothing for him to do, so he just hurried off to prepare for his own wedding the next day.