Heartthrob, Your Image is Crumbling!

Chapter 369: Mother-Daughter War!

Factoring in the time from their previous life, Su Qing and Zhou Yuwen had known each other for nearly ten years, and they had even legally registered a marriage. So, when Su Qing and Zhou Yuwen finally took that intimate step, she definitely didn't have the worrying about gains and losses typical of a young girl. Her heart was filled only with joy. In front of her mother, she even displayed a look of savoring the afterglow of that experience.Meanwhile, Pan Min, who was already incapable of accepting her daughter bringing a boy back to their home to do such a thing in her room, naturally flew into a rage upon seeing her daughter's expression.

Clatter, crash! After violently slamming a few objects around, she turned to scowl coldly at Su Qing.

Su Qing, on the other hand, was rather baffled. "What have I turned into? Mom, what are you doing? Zhou Yuwen is my boyfriend. It's not like it's a crime for us to do that kind of thing."

"Smack!"

Pan Min couldn't help but slam her hand on the table. She had dealt with plenty of cases of puppy love at school. Although her daughter's situation wasn't exactly puppy love, she hadn't known Zhou Yuwen for very long either.

"How long have you even known him?! Do you truly understand him? Do you know what kind of person he is? I'm asking you, when did this start!?"

Seeing Pan Min making such a massive fuss, Su Qing couldn't help but sigh. Her psychological age was quite mature, after all, so she wasn't going to start arguing with her mother. She could perfectly understand why her mother was so furious.

However, she could guarantee that she understood Zhou Yuwen thoroughly!

She had even married Zhou Yuwen in her previous life.

Besides!

"Mom, I promise you, you will definitely be satisfied with your son-in-law!" Su Qing was still an optimist.

Because Pan Min had been very satisfied with Zhou Yuwen in her previous life.

"You're that sure? How do you know that what he's telling you is the truth?"

"Hah!"

Su Qing found those words somewhat amusing. She chuckled, "Is there anyone in this world who understands him better than I do?"

Seeing her daughter so fiercely confident, Pan Min found it even more laughable. 'Have you ever even been with men? Do you understand men? Can you be absolutely certain that the words he tells you and the promises he makes aren't just to coax you and keep you happy?'

Su Qing firmly stated that it definitely wasn't the case.

Pan Min pressed on, pointing out that she had claimed yesterday that he was very wealthy.

"Yes! He's a writer and an entrepreneur! I even work at his company right now!" Su Qing said all this because she actually wanted to show off to her mother just how excellent her man was.

Yet Pan Min sharply retorted, "If he is so excellent, why on earth would he fall for you?"

"Uh..."

She had never said those words in the previous life. Back then, when Pan Min looked at Zhou Yuwen, she felt that this young man was dignified and handsome in appearance, as well as honest. She had even specifically warned her daughter not to be so headstrong and to treat Zhou Yuwen well.

She hadn't expected things to turn out so completely different in this life.

So you think I'm not good enough for him?

"Then tell me, what makes you think you are good enough for him?" Pan Min asked with a frosty expression.

Hearing this, Su Qing felt both angry and amused, almost about to go crazy. She exclaimed, "I am a perfect match for him in every single way, okay! Ugh, forget it, Mom, I can't explain this to you! Anyway, I believe in my choice. You just don't understand. You really don't understand at all!"

Having said that, Su Qing couldn't be bothered to explain further to Pan Min.

After tossing about with Zhou Yuwen for so long earlier, she still needed to tidy up the bed.

Su Qing went back to her room. In Pan Min's eyes, this was proof that her daughter was becoming increasingly disobedient. What did she know? She was just an eighteen-year-old little girl. She genuinely had no idea what kind of magic potion that boy had fed her!

"Su Qing, you must make things clear to me tonight! I'm asking you, when did you sleep with him?!" Four months. She had already brought him home within four months, which meant they must have crossed that line even earlier.

Pan Min had always maintained traditional views regarding matters between men and women, and she had raised her daughter to be traditional as well. She never expected her daughter to be this 'traditional'.

She had to get to the bottom of this!

"Oh my gosh, what is there to say? Mom, I'm eighteen now. I'm all grown up, okay!?"

"Even if you were eighty! You would still be my daughter!"

"Tsk!"

Pan Min followed Su Qing right into the room. Su Qing told Pan Min that tonight was her first time. They had indeed been intimate before, but they hadn't gone all the way.

Today, their emotions had run so deep that they were completely unable to control themselves.

At the mention of this, Su Qing couldn't help but let a smile touch the corner of the mouth.

Every time Pan Min saw this expression on Su Qing's face, she found it hard to accept that this was the daughter she had raised.

Just look at the state of her now!

She had taught her from a young age that men and women shouldn't touch each other inappropriately.

In these kinds of matters, the girl was always the one to suffer the most.

Yet looking at her expression, it felt like she was full of expectation for it.

"See, I told you it was my first time, and you didn't believe me!"

The bedsheets definitely needed to be changed.

Pan Min didn't even have the face to look at those sheets.

There wasn't much red, mainly because their previous intimate session at Zhou Yuwen's home had been interrupted halfway and didn't continue. This time, Su Qing had felt a sharp pain, and there was indeed a little red.

However, that wasn't the main point.

The main point was looking at her daughter's entire bedsheet, completely soaked through.

And her daughter was tidying it up without a single shred of shame.

How could Pan Min possibly bear this?

She rarely lost her temper with her daughter, but this time she was truly infuriated. "Su Qing, do you even hear the things coming out of your mouth?!"

Su Qing was just standing there, sorting out the sheets.

Unable to hold back, Pan Min ruthlessly pinched Su Qing.

Something like this had never happened before.

This time, it was because Su Qing had changed far too much since going off to university, so Pan Min didn't hold back at all and pinched her fiercely.

Her fingers dug straight into the flesh.

It hurt Su Qing so much she flinched.

"Ah! What are you doing!?"

Su Qing could tolerate her mother scolding her a bit without arguing back, but she never expected her mother to actually get physical. She was an independent woman of the new century; how could she just let her mother pinch her? With a flick of her wrist, she brushed her mother's hand away.

Su Qing lifted her clothes to take a look, discovering a red mark on her waist. Flashing with anger, she demanded, "Why are you throwing such a huge temper tantrum? Did I do something wrong?"

"Did you do something wrong? You really don't know what you did wrong!?" Pan Min glared.

Su Qing argued that it was just sleeping with Zhou Yuwen.

"I already told you, he and I are boyfriend and girlfriend!"

"Boyfriend and girlfriend aren't husband and wife. Just because you're dating, can you guarantee that you'll get married in the future?"

"Of course we will!"

"Su Qing!"

Before Su Qing could finish, Pan Min shouted her down. She looked at her daughter, utterly disappointed. "Have you forgotten everything I taught you?"

"I haven't forgotten." Seeing her mother like this, Su Qing really didn't want to argue with her anymore.

The Eastern intergenerational relationship had always been highly delicate. It was a situation where both generations cared for each other, but communication inevitably ran into problems. This had no direct correlation with being reborn or not.

Even without rebirth, the twenty-eight-year-old Su Qing used to argue frequently with Pan Min.

And now, inhabiting the body of an eighteen-year-old Su Qing, their conflicts wouldn't lessen. On the contrary, their divergent mindsets led to an even wider clash of ideas.

What Pan Min had taught Su Qing since childhood was simply that a girl's most important possession was her first time, that men's words were utterly unreliable, and that she must wait until after marriage to give her first time to a man.

One key could only fit one lock!

Su Qing hadn't forgotten any of this.

However, since she had clearly found her lock, why did she have to wait until after marriage?

"I am definitely going to marry Zhou Yuwen, and Zhou Yuwen will definitely marry me. Since we're already certain of it, why do we have to wait until marriage?"

"Mom, don't you know? A man's prime is very short. If you delay it by a few years, you'll be the one suffering in the end. It's much better to seize the moment and enjoy it early, right?" This was the practical experience Su Qing had brought over from her previous life.

Hearing such wild, shameless words absolutely floored Pan Min.

"You..."

"Are you even listening to the nonsense coming out of your mouth?"

Pan Min found herself surprisingly at a loss for words, while Su Qing genuinely felt she was just speaking the truth. It was bound to happen sooner or later anyway, so why not sooner?

"In the past, I listened to you far too much. Truly, Mom, I regret it to death now. Sigh," Su Qing said, her mind drifting back to savoring the feeling she had just experienced.

The sensation just now was a complete release of both body and soul. First of all, Su Qing held Zhou Yuwen in her heart, naturally feeling an intense attraction to him. Furthermore, Zhou Yuwen was right at the peak of his strength. The two of them hit it off instantly, truly achieving a profound, perfect harmony.

Even though it was her first time, that feeling couldn't possibly be described with mere words.

Just thinking about it now made her knees weak.

Pan Min couldn't believe this was truly her daughter.

She had only been away for four months.

She even started to suspect her daughter had been possessed by a demon.

Had Zhou Yuwen bewitched her daughter?

However, what Su Qing said next was even harder for Pan Min to stomach.

At first, Su Qing was merely reminiscing, even wanting to tell her mother about her own bashful demeanor just moments ago. But she suddenly realized that her mother hadn't experienced this feeling in a very long time.

That explained a lot.

"Sigh, Mom, honestly, it's been too long since you've felt this way. You wouldn't understand."

"Mom, you're still young. Why don't you find someone else?"

"Seriously, find someone a little younger. That feeling... hehehe!"

Su Qing was genuinely treating her old mom like one of her sisters.

If she were a true eighteen-year-old, she would definitely be avoiding the topic. But given the social climate of her later years, as a twenty-eight-year-old designer, girls talked about these things amongst themselves.

Never mind anything else, just following the development of the original timeline, a girl as simple as a little white rabbit like Su Qing would meet Zheng Yanyan at university. During those four years of university, would they rarely discuss such matters?

Back then, Su Qing hadn't understood, so she obviously wouldn't discuss it with her mother.

Now that Su Qing understood, she truly didn't want to watch her mother continue to live alone as a deserted woman. If things went on like that, her hormones would get imbalanced. She urgently needed to achieve a balance of yin and yang.

"Though, Mom, you're so pretty. It would be a total waste for you to find some old man. You should find a young guy."

"Someone like Zhou Yuwen."

"Mom, let me tell you, Zhou Yuwen is seriously amazing!"

Su Qing slung an arm around Pan Min's shoulders, as if she had an endless stream of private girl talk to share.

And she remained completely oblivious to the utter shock written all over her mother's face.

Pan Min, her face an icy mask, said, "What did you just say?"

Still failing to grasp the severity of the situation, Su Qing kept rambling on. "I said you should find a few more boyfriends to gain some experience, preferably young people like Zhou Yuwen."

"But then again, even if you found a strong young man around Zhou Yuwen's age..."

"...he still wouldn't be as fierce as your son-in-law."

"Hehehe!"

"Slap!"

Without a second thought, Pan Min delivered a sharp slap straight across Su Qing's face.

The resounding slap left Su Qing utterly stunned.

"Mom! What are you doing!?" Su Qing flared up in anger.

Yet she entirely missed the sheer fury burning on Pan Min's face.

She barked, "From now on, you are forbidden from associating with that Zhou Yuwen!"

"You will stay in this room and reflect on your actions!"

"Do you have any idea what you were just saying?!"

"Su Qing, I know my divorce from your father had a massive impact on you. But hand on heart, have I ever done anything to wrong you?"

"I poured my blood, sweat, and tears into raising you! Have I ever messed around with other men!?"

"Listen to the filth you just spouted! I raised you all these years, only to mold you into such a shameless woman!?"

Pan Min's reaction might have been slightly over the top, but she was genuinely traumatized by her daughter's words.

Taking the slap, Su Qing grew even more defiant. "Where am I wrong? I'm just telling the truth!"

"How is it messing around? Finding someone you like and being with them—how does that count as messing around? Zhou Yuwen and I are going to get married!"

"Shut your mouth!" Pan Min refused to listen to her daughter's nonsense any longer.

She was too disappointed in her daughter.

She had always believed she had raised her daughter successfully.

But who would have thought...

She was just too disappointed.

"Reflect on yourself in your room!"

With that, Pan Min stormed out.

Realizing something was wrong, Su Qing scrambled to her feet. However, she was a second too late. Pan Min slammed the door shut and locked it from the outside.

"Mom, what are you doing!?"

"This is illegal detention!"

"Mom, open the door!"

Su Qing frantically pounded against the room door.

From the other side, Pan Min's vicious voice echoed, "You sit there and reflect properly."

"I never imagined that sending you off to university would turn you into this!"

"Mom, I was wrong. Will you please open the door?"

Su Qing thought that since she was twenty-eight and a full-grown adult, she could establish communication with her mother like sisters. However, she never expected that she had pushed way too far.

She immediately started apologizing.

But Pan Min was already thoroughly disappointed in her. She had to forcefully wrench her daughter's twisted three views back into alignment.

"Mom! Open the door!"

"Pan Min! This is illegal detention! Open the door!"

Su Qing was so frustrated she was on the verge of tears. She cried, "Zhou Yuwen and I have known each other since high school! We really aren't what you think!"

Overwhelmed with gloom, Su Qing was at least thankful she still had her phone on her.

She hurriedly made a phone call and sent messages to Zhou Yuwen.

At that moment, Zhou Yuwen had just walked downstairs.

He had listened outside the door for a while earlier, but once Su Qing and her mother went inside the house, he couldn't hear anything. He figured it couldn't be anything major, and even if it was, an outsider like him had no place interfering.

Issues between a mother and daughter had to be resolved by the mother and daughter themselves.

Having figured this out, Zhou Yuwen finally headed downstairs.

To his surprise, right as he got into his car, he received Su Qing's call.

Over the phone, Su Qing sounded incredibly panicked, claiming she had been imprisoned by her mother.

"Zhou Yuwen, hurry up and come save me!"

Once Zhou Yuwen grasped the situation, he was utterly speechless. "No, sis, how do you have the guts to say absolutely anything to your mom? How am I supposed to face her in the future?"

"Where am I wrong!? Just because she doesn't have a man, doesn't mean I'm not allowed to have one!?" Su Qing seemed to flare up with anger as well. She practically shouted the words, intentionally making them loud enough for Pan Min to hear.

"Alright, alright, stop talking, sis! Do you still want me to come to your house or not!?" Zhou Yuwen hastily covered the phone, urging Su Qing to keep her voice down.