55 Family and Friends

Everyone falls into stunned silence. Tianwei thinks his father might have just stopped breathing completely.

"So Father, you can't give her a sum of money and chase her away like in all the dramas, or try to get people to intimidate her, or purposely match me with someone else, or - "

"Jingwei hush," Tianwei advises, watching his father's face slowly turn purple with rage.

"What? I'm serious!" Jingwei exclaims.

"Hmph, are you scared that your love can't handle such challenges? If the both of you split because of this, this relationship is not worth cherishing!" Sun Haowei declares, his mind already whirling with plans. 

He's going to prove to his son that this new infatuation with his bodyguard was just a passing fancy, by all means necessary. 

"Father, I mean it," Jingwei says, staring at his father's strict eyes without flinching.