Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 108 - 105: The So-Called Escape from Disaster

Yan Ling had never lost a fight with his classmates, and dealing with second graders was like making them run home to their moms with black and blue faces in just minutes.

When Yan Ling was young, the fights with his classmates were mostly just for fun.

But when it came to classmates who bullied Yan Yan, he definitely fought for real.

So, it was because of his "talent" for fighting that Yan Ling was sent to study in the United States, which was indeed related to Yan Yan.

Yan Yan and Yan Ling shared a very deep class emotion, something that neither time nor distance could change.

Even if they didn’t contact each other for a whole year, there wouldn’t be any feeling of estrangement when they met.

"How come you need to escape? Tell me so I can feel happy about it," asked Yan Yan as soon as she saw Yan Ling, bringing up the topic she was most "concerned" about.

"Ah, your uncle said that if I don’t come back to the country, he would disown me, and my wife said if I go back, she’d divorce me. After thinking it over, I figured I can remarry, but I only have one dad, so I chose to get divorced. Now without a house, car, or savings, I can only go to Melbourne to depend on my cousin," summarized Yan Ling, a McKinsey guy expert in summing things up.

But Yan Yan was still a bit surprised, "You got divorced? Weren’t you determined to marry no one but her? When uncle and aunt were against it, didn’t you say you’d disown your own father to marry her? When did your logic suddenly make a 180-degree turn?"

"Your former sister-in-law, ah, she said before marriage that she temporarily didn’t want kids, and I understood that; she’s a dancer and her figure is more important than anything. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

But now she decided to have an ovary removed and frozen, saying this way, she could still have children at fifty.

First, I didn’t want her to undergo surgery, and second, I didn’t want to start fatherhood in my fifties.

Since our views didn’t align, and neither of us could persuade the other, divorce was the only conclusion," Yan Ling made another succinct summary.

"Ah? Freezing ovaries? What’s that about? That must be a major surgery, right? Isn’t it usually just a few eggs that are frozen? Why freeze an ovary?" Yan Yan hadn’t heard of anyone freezing their ovaries in good health.

"She plans to freeze it for over twenty years, apparently because eggs can’t be frozen for that long, it’s not safe, I guess.

I didn’t look into the specifics.

Anyway, I just couldn’t accept it.

I could even understand if it was about being DINK by choice.

Thinking about having kids at fifty, I think that’s generally hard to understand," sighed Yan Ling with a hint of helplessness.

"When did you become ’general people’? Aren’t you usually quite out of the ordinary?" Yan Yan wasn’t sure if she needed to comfort Yan Ling.

Yan Ling spoke of escaping, but he seemed in good spirits.

"I haven’t told my mom and dad about my divorce yet. I don’t want to go back home right away, so I’m delegating that task to you," Yan Ling assigned his cousin a mission.

"Ah? How can you delegate this kind of thing? Besides, uncle and aunt were never keen on having an American daughter-in-law, so they probably won’t object to your divorce. You literally have no reason to come here to escape," Yan Yan resisted her new task.

"My parents are old-fashioned, whether they accept my foreign wife was one thing, getting a divorce is another.

They couldn’t accept my marriage, and they surely won’t accept the divorce.

If I just went back like this, I’d definitely get beaten up by my dad," Yan Ling had a profound understanding of his parents.

"So, if I talk to uncle and aunt, they’ll let you off?" Yan Yan didn’t believe she had such an influence.

"Sure, I’ve already thought about how you should put it," Yan Ling conveyed his confidence in Yan Yan through his gaze.

"Really? Let’s hear it," Yan Yan was curious about what her cousin was plotting.

"You just say you saw your sister-in-law when you were in the United States, you talked, and she said she wants to be DINK and doesn’t want to have children. Then, you advised me to just find someone else, but I refused to. That should do it," Yan Ling had his expression down to a simple sentence.

"Just like that? I carry this weird blame and that’s settled?" Yan Yan was skeptical.

"I’m not making you take the blame. My parents will surely join your side once they know the ’truth.’

Give them a night to stew over it, I guarantee they’ll be persuading me to get a divorce the next day.

If they bring up the topic of divorce themselves, it would elevate me from being beaten up by my dad to making him feel guilty.

This way, we won’t face any obstacles in running the family brand in the future," Yan Ling provided a detailed explanation.

"Where did you learn these tricks?" Yan Yan looked at Yan Ling with a bit of unfamiliarity.

"Wharton," Yan Ling quickly responded.

"Wharton Business School taught you all this?" Yan Yan glared at a talking-through-his-hat Yan Ling.

"Yes, from Professor Stuart Diamond’s negotiation class at Wharton Business School. It cures all sorts of complex issues, from family negotiations to war negotiations. There’s nothing he can’t handle. If you don’t believe me, try taking his class," Yan Ling’s spontaneous answer was indeed true.

"Can you stop boasting about being a Wharton graduate? By your logic, this is just a matter of words for me, couldn’t you have just called me or sent an email instead of making this trip?" Yan Yan continued to express her bafflement at Yan Ling’s actions.

"Didn’t I tell you I’m without a house, car, or savings? Who else am I supposed to turn to if not you?

Would I have been sent to the United States if it weren’t for teaching your bully a lesson?

And would I need to leave everything behind if I hadn’t gone to the United States?" Yan Ling’s questions followed one after another.

"Are you sure this have-nothing-to-my-name thing is related to me? You talk as if it’s true. Brother Ling with no house, no car, no savings, did you rob someone for your plane ticket?" Yan Yan couldn’t believe that Yan Ling was truly homeless and needed to escape.

"I still have a credit card, right? Just wait until you sort out my parents, and I’ll go back," Yan Ling’s intention was clear, a credit card is debt, not savings.

Yan Ling said those things, but in reality, even though the house and car were left to his ex-wife, the money in his investment account was definitely not zero.

Ultimately, Yan Ling came to Melbourne because he hadn’t seen his cousin for a long time and was soon going to take over the family business. He feared that if he didn’t visit Melbourne now, he might not have another chance.

Because Yan Yan was graduating at the end of the year and had no plans to stay in Melbourne, the trip was certainly a win-win situation for numerous reasons.