"Xing Chun, I'm sorry, my parents, they are not..."

Xu Xingchun squeezed out an ugly smile and shook his head. "It's OK, I can understand."

if someone else had already yelled at her, Jane's parents would have been very cultured.

"as you can see, Anjie, we can't be together at all. Your parents can't accept me. Don't say any more stupid things, let's be friends all the time, OK?"

"that's why you don't want to be with me?"

Xu Xingchun smiled bitterly, "yes, being together is a matter of two families. Are you totally ignoring your parents' feelings in order to be with me?"

there was a flicker of firmness...