Love’s Serious Moment

　　Experiencing a “normal” family life for the first time, Tang Xueqian felt deeply troubled. 　　Of course, when he saw his parents come to pick him up together, he happily rushed into his mother’s arms, so excited that he forgot self-restraint and propriety. But precocity and quietness were still his nature. After the initial excitement faded, he looked puzzled at the intimacy between his parents, not understanding why his mother no longer seemed afraid of his father. Previously, his father had always given orders and everyone obediently followed. However, his mother had never dared to look his father in the eye, and if his father touched her hand or body, she would instinctively shrink back. But today, she allowed his father to hold her hand, embrace her waist without fear, and even showed a faint smile, her beautiful face turning slightly red. 　　What was going on? 　　He remembered his father had done the same with Aunt Jiang, and remembered that his father hadn’t treated his mother this way for many years; in his memory, it simply hadn’t happened. 　　If “divorce” was as adults explained to him, and “pursuing” Aunt Jiang represented his father’s new “spring” 　　(Grandmother had been talking about this word lately), then the current situation seemed utterly unreasonable. 　　Like now, the three of them were having dinner at a restaurant. Dad ordered cod for Mom, removing the bones before letting her eat. When his own pork ribs arrived and he found them delicious, he cut a piece and placed it on his mother’s plate, carefully separating the ribs from the meat before eating his own. Of course, Tang Xueqian received the same care, but he keenly noticed the eyes were very different. 　　He rarely had the opportunity to witness his parents dining together, especially since the home cook would always prepare boneless, perfectly cut food that wouldn’t require much effort. However, Xueqian knew that while his father was good at caring for others, he shouldn’t be this intimate or smiling. 　　In fact, his father had always been self-controlled and rarely smiled, perhaps because he was unhappy. But this apparently happy father – what could this mean? 　　Did it mean he now enjoyed dining with his mother? 　　They were divorced, and Dad had a girlfriend. Last week, he even saw Grandmother’s favored Aunt Zhou, so Dad shouldn’t be behaving like this, right? 　　Tang Xueqian’s beautiful little face suddenly turned serious.