Less-Angry Father (for now)

"It's the man that your father doesn't trust!!" 

Beside Xue Ning, Jingwei raised a surprised eyebrow. He wasn't shocked by her father's words, because they made sense, but he was surprised by the way they were spoken. 

So there were fathers that could talk evenly when they wanted to lecture their child. He knew logically that there had to be soft-spoken, calm fathers in the world, but his father, and the fathers of his associates weren't like that at all.

When he was a teenager, he honestly thought calm, reasonable fathers were a myth!

  It made him sigh. Why couldn't his dad just be a bit like Xue Ning's dad?

"Who's that next to you Xue Ning?" Her father asked curiously. "I heard someone sighing." 

The both of them stared at each other, startled. Did Xue Ning's dad hear her sigh from the phone? How was his hearing so good? Weren't old people supposed to be hard of hearing?