Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 286 - 281 Complete Failure

"How do you know that I hate having to fill out forms and write addresses when returning items?"

"You don’t think that just because you understand me so well, everything will be sorted once and for all, do you?"

"As a designer of my caliber, with a bunch of assistants following me around, do I really need to fill out the return forms myself? What am I paying my assistants for?" Yan Yan continued to challenge Qi Yi; how could this guy adopt such a carefree attitude?

"Are you so busy now that you even need someone else to handle returns for your boyfriend?" Not being overly anxious didn’t mean Qi Yi wasn’t frustrated.

Over the past year, the time Yan Yan could "spare" for Qi Yi had become increasingly scarce.

Qi Yi and Yan Yan had recognized their feelings for each other quite early on, but this couldn’t continue, where even meeting had become a luxury.

No matter how deep the feelings, living apart permanently simply wasn’t possible.

A compromise had to be made eventually.

At the beginning of the year, Yan Yan joked half-seriously to Qi Yi that living her life immersed in designing day and night wasn’t what she wanted.

If Qi Yi could sort things out with his mother, then after her first Haute Couture show following her official title induction, she might consider quitting her career to become a devoted wife and mother.

Yan Yan’s words were largely in jest, but Qi Yi took them to heart.

That is why, after Yan Yan redeemed her investment from Ian, Qi Yi left everything behind and returned to China, putting in a month of "arduous" effort.

Qi Yi had tried every method at his disposal.

If these efforts were a debating contest, he would have won a hundred times over.

Yet, Qi Yi hadn’t been able to "conquer" his own mother.

He now somewhat understood why his father had left home.

Disagreements between spouses are normal, after all, human relationships are a process of seeking common ground while respecting differences.

But if once a person is set, they cannot change or make any compromises, over time it becomes unbearable.

Especially someone like Qi Yi’s mother, who seems very amiable on the surface, appearing willing to compromise on anything.

But in the end, everything has to follow the path she has set, and she would not change her initial plan even slightly.

Mrs. Qi wanted to introduce her son to a "better" girlfriend, but now, not to mention a better one, there wasn’t even anyone willing to be matched with such an "oddball" as Qi Yi.

When Mrs. Qi talked about finding a match for her son, people would say to her:

"Doesn’t your son have a ’very famous’ designer girlfriend?

One who makes millions of euros a year? With a net worth of hundreds of millions?

Your son is so outstanding, accustomed to grand scenes, our ordinary families simply can’t catch his eye."

In Wenzhou’s "matchmaking circle", Qi Yi had already gained an infamous reputation.

At least in the circles that Qi Yi’s mother could reach, no one would push their children into Qi Yi’s "pit of fire" anymore.

Haute Couture is a very rare community, and those outside of it seldom hear about anything related to Haute Couture; not many even pay attention to haute couture clothing, let alone the designers’ circumstances.

Yan Yan was thriving in Paris’s Haute Couture circles.

But she started with "mystery," always keeping her distance from the media.

Moreover, Yan Yan hadn’t registered her studio in Paris under her full name.

The low-profile Yan Yan, apart from two regular clients from Wenzhou, was unlikely to have her fame in the Haute Couture scene reach Wenzhou.

So, those four words "very famous" were actually sarcastic when others mentioned them to Qi Yi’s mother.

How could China have such a famous designer in Europe?

If there really was one, how come no one had ever heard of them?

Some of the idle, somewhat bored matchmaking prospects even asked Qi Yi what his ex-girlfriend’s name was.

Qi Yi wasn’t stingy; he told them the name.

But when these girls looked it up, there was no designer brand by the name Yan Yan.

Every girl who had been matched with Qi Yi said that he was just a pretentious "pervert," dreaming of living off a woman, boasting about how rich his ex-girlfriend was while refusing to even pay for a drink during a matchmaking date, an absolute piece of work.

Perhaps it was because Qi Yi’s appearance was truly exceptional, there were still girls who, after meeting him once, were interested in pursuing something further.

During that month in China, Qi Yi would agree to meet up whenever asked; he was there for matchmaking, after all, with nothing more important to do.

For the second meeting, of course, deeper topics came up. For instance, Qi Yi would tell the girls that his ex-girlfriend could casually gift him clothes worth hundreds of thousands.

Then Qi Yi would ask his date what kind of clothes they would gift him if they were to be in a relationship.

He asked these questions in detail.

On one hand, a "pervert," and on the other, showing off the love he shared with his "ex-girlfriend."

In short, although Qi Yi suffered defeat after defeat in his battles with his mother, he was invincible, winning all other conflicts handily.

Qi Yi’s mother was starting to move from seeing her son as the best child in the world to a state of exasperation.

After a month of limitless struggles, her son had become completely undesirable.

Logically, for such an unworthy son, if Yan Yan still didn’t disdain him, Mrs. Qi should have been able to accept Yan Yan with a bit of reluctance.

But she didn’t.

Qi Yi’s efforts were not only useless in his mother’s eyes but had the opposite effect.

She blamed everything on Yan Yan.

If her son hadn’t met this shameless girl, he wouldn’t have turned out this way.

Her husband had ruined her life; she couldn’t allow Yan Yan to ruin Qi Yi’s.

Qi Yi had returned home for a month to compete for the "final round" with his mother.

But he couldn’t leave with a victory.

Therefore, he also couldn’t bring his girlfriend home to be a devoted wife and mother.

If he couldn’t find a truly effective method, Qi Yi would have to admit complete defeat in his tug-of-war with his mother.

Setting aside his mother’s issue, there was also the issue of distance.

With these two major problems before him, at least one had to be resolved first.