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“Shen Qingyou, that was prepared for the baby. How can you have such thoughts about it?” Yuan Mufang threw the torn tie messily onto the sofa and then pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, something he had never done at home before. The smoke swirled around, making it increasingly difficult for Shen Qingyou to see Yuan Mufang's face.
“Yuan Mufang, we don’t have a baby yet. We are still young. I can find another job, and we will earn money back slowly. Right now, we need to pay for Dad’s medical treatment; it’s not for anything else. How can you think like this?” Shen Qingyou raised her voice, feeling flustered as she couldn’t believe how unreasonable Yuan Mufang was being about money.
“Still young? I’m almost thirty! People my age already have kids!” The thought of this made Yuan Mufang even more frustrated. Because of the child issue, he felt he could hardly hold his head up at work. After four years of marriage, Shen Qingyou had shown no signs of pregnancy, and some colleagues were even gossiping about his fertility behind his back.
“Yuan Mufang, I…”
“Serene, I know you are filial, but we also need to plan for our future. You know how expensive it is to have a baby nowadays. Do you want our child to worry about food and necessities right after being born?”
Yuan Mufang understood that Shen Qingyou, though seemingly gentle, was also stubborn. He decided to take a roundabout approach; as long as he could persuade her not to touch that two hundred thousand, what did it matter if he softened his stance a little?
“Yuan Mufang, don’t you think you are being unreasonable? My dad is seriously ill; as his son-in-law, shouldn’t you help out?”
Shen Qingyou was angry—truly angry. She never expected that the man she loved deeply would reveal such a side in front of money. Just earlier at the hospital, she had seen him as her lifeline, but now he seemed so foreign, so unfamiliar…
“Serene, stop throwing a tantrum. I have my own family; I have my own parents to support. I don’t have that kind of spare money. And over these years of marriage, who has been supporting you and providing for you? That two hundred thousand is what I’ve worked hard to save for our baby; you have no right to touch it…”
After saying this, Yuan Mufang wished he could bite off his own tongue. Shen Qingyou looked at him with despairing eyes like a ghost, biting her lip tightly, her body trembling uncontrollably like a begonia battered by autumn frost, broken and pitiful.
“Serene, I’m sorry; I shouldn’t have said those terrible things. I’m sorry, I’m sorry…” Yuan Mufang knelt by Shen Qingyou’s knees, repeatedly apologizing, but it seemed like Shen Qingyou didn’t hear him at all. In her mind echoed Yuan Mufang’s earlier words: she had no right; she had no right…
“Yuan Mufang, we have no right? The down payment for this house was paid by my parents, right? The renovation costs were covered by my parents too, right? Haven’t my parents helped us out plenty over time? And now you say I have no right?”
Once the old account is brought up again, it reveals the trauma of both individuals. When they initially bought this house, they had just graduated from college not long ago. During those two years, China's real estate market inflated dramatically, like a balloon. Yuan Mufang was sensitive enough to realize that there would be a period of price increases in real estate, so he decisively proposed the idea of buying a house. However, with his limited means at that time, buying a house seemed like a distant dream. His monthly salary was not even enough to buy a square meter, and he also developed a serious sense of insecurity regarding his relationship with Shen Qingyou. Several times when he went to pick her up from her company, he often saw several young men surrounding her. Shen Qingyou was the belle of the class back in college, and it took him considerable effort to win her over. He did not want to end up feeling like he had wasted his efforts. After much thought, he decided to discuss it with Father Shen and Mother Shen. They readily agreed to provide the down payment but with one condition: Father Shen's name had to be on the property deed. This was always a knot in Yuan Mufang's heart, but at that time, due to his limited financial situation and his parents' poor health, he had no choice but to agree to Father Shen and Mother Shen's request for their names to be included on the deed alongside his.
Although Father Shen and Mother Shen had never mentioned the house over the years, Yuan Mufang could never let it go. They only contributed the down payment while he was responsible for repaying the mortgage. According to current market value, this house was now worth over a million, while they had only spent 150,000 back then. Now there was an equity of 500,000 involved. He only thought about this in his heart and had never mentioned it to Shen Qingyou for fear that she would think of him as a petty man. Who would have thought that today she would bring up the issue of the house?
"Shen Qingyou, are you kidding me? This house has shares just like your father's! Did he pay unfairly? He got a great deal out of this! Do you know how much this house is worth now?"
After holding back for years, his words burst out all at once. Shen Qingyou looked at the man before her whose eyes were bloodshot and bulging with doubt. Had he really been harboring these thoughts all along? Did he care so much about what her parents did back then? If he cared so much, why didn't he refuse outright when her parents made their suggestion?
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