Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 225 - 222 Shameless

Except for Bao Bao and Qi Yi, it was the first time everyone at today’s dinner party heard about the "dream" of the Yan siblings.

"Little Yan, take me with you. I can serve tea and storm the front lines," Ye Mo said excitedly after hearing Yan Ling’s recent remark.

If it weren’t because he was doing well in Italy with a very decent income, Ye Mo would have considered whether to return to China to develop his career when Yan Dabang sold his company shares.

"You keep calling me Little Yan, it’s hard for me to be interested in taking you just to add trouble for myself," Yan Yan casually replied to Ye Mo while still pondering over what Yan Ling had just said.

"Why would it add trouble? Marketing is my expertise."

"If you win the Graduate Fashion Award, surely many big companies will extend their olive branches to you."

"At that time, we can create a narrative about boldly rejecting invitations from international brands," Ye Mo’s marketing plan seemed to flow naturally as if it was ingrained in him.

"If the Graduate Fashion Week is in June, will you still be in Italy? If you need any support from the Commerce Department, you can come to me and I will figure out a way," Lei Pili felt a sense of "mission" as a diplomat after hearing this.

"Uh... each is more excited than I am. Isn’t everything still up in the air? I haven’t even decided if I want to participate in GFW," Yan Yan showed her brightest smile to the table of exceptionally excited boys.

However, Qi Yi was not included in this group.

If Qi Yi were here, he would definitely be excited, as it was a moment when his girlfriend’s dream was moving into the implementation phase.

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As Yan Ling talked about his and Yan Yan’s shared "dream," Qi Yi had stepped out to take a phone call.

It wasn’t a very special call, just his mother letting him know that a close colleague was going to New York for a business trip.

Qi Yi’s mother had arranged with her colleague to invite him for a meal if he was free these few days.

Qi Yi’s mother had already given her colleague Qi Yi’s number and then specifically called Qi Yi to explain the situation.

It wasn’t the first time Qi Yi’s mother had asked him to host a meal for her colleague.

With her son studying at Stanford University and then working on Wall Street, Qi Yi’s mother had never hidden these matters.

Qi Yi was her pride, and she didn’t mind announcing it to the whole world.

Qi Yi did not particularly resist hosting meals for his mother’s colleagues or friends.

He was the type with a gentle demeanor that everyone tended to like, at least on the surface.

Except for his year at Peking University where he wasn’t very talkative, Qi Yi had always been the most popular student in his class from childhood.

Now at work, he still maintained an excellent popularity.

This trip to Italy was a sudden decision for Qi Yi.

He had sorted his visa early, originally planning to visit Yan Yan next month.

The sudden "paid leave" didn’t give Qi Yi enough time to inform his mother before he left for Italy.

Qi Yi didn’t plan to stay in Italy for a long time, and his mother could easily reach him by phone if needed, so he didn’t feel it necessary to discuss his short trip with her.

"Why are you in Italy?" his mother asked Qi Yi.

"I came to see my girlfriend," Qi Yi was open about discussing his relationship with his mother.

"Didn’t you say before that you had a girlfriend in Melbourne? Why are you acting like this, having so many girlfriends?" Qi Yi’s mother disliked men who were not faithful, even if it was her own son, she felt she had to admonish him.

"Mom, when did I ever have many girlfriends? I’ve only ever had one girlfriend from start to finish. She just moved from Melbourne to Italy to study, and as my company had nothing urgent, I came over to see her," Qi Yi explained why he was not in New York.

"To say from start to finish you’ve only had one and still be able to say that, don’t think I know everything. Weren’t you already with someone in high school?" his mother straightforwardly confronted him with the truth she knew.

After Qi Yi went to Peking University, he hadn’t returned to China in Wenzhou until he reunited with Yan Yan and visited the country last Chinese New Year.

At that time, Qi Yi’s parents were proceeding with divorce, and when he mentioned having a girlfriend in Melbourne, his mother didn’t think to probe further.

After the divorce, the relationship between Qi Yi and his mother somewhat returned to old times.

The fraught relationship between Qi Yi’s parents made the divorce a relief for all three family members.

"How could I possibly think you wouldn’t know? I also know you approached people in high school.

But you are mistaken about one thing. My high school girlfriend, my girlfriend in Melbourne, and my girlfriend in Italy are all the same person."

Having a girlfriend from high school was something his mother would eventually know, and Qi Yi never thought to hide it from her.

Even when he graduated from Stanford, he initially told his mom that his girlfriend would probably come from Melbourne to attend his ceremony.

When Yan Yan didn’t show up, Qi Yi’s mom thought they might have broken up and didn’t bring up the topic of a girlfriend again with her son.

"I approached? When did I approach your girlfriend? Where did you have a girlfriend in high school?" Qi Yi’s mother didn’t recall any details from his high school beyond his excellent academic performance.

"It was during the second year of high school, you told me to apply to Peking University, and that’s why she really broke up with me, to let me go to Peking University," Qi Yi now spoke of the event without the heart-wrenching pain he once felt. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

"That’s not a real girlfriend then. Why are you still with that shameless girl?" Qi Yi’s mother expressed a very low opinion of Yan Yan.

"Mom, what nonsense are you talking about? Where’s the shameless girl?" Qi Yi couldn’t understand why his mother would use such a description for Yan Yan.

"In high school, instead of focusing on studies, she would frequently call home and audaciously cling to you. How is that not shameless?" Qi Yi’s mother had her own distinct interpretation of the word "shameless."