"I hope everyone in our family can be safe and sound, healthy and strong. I hope Yousheng can get first place in the grade for his final exams, I hope your grandpa can climb the mountain next year without losing his breath, I hope I can help more people in need, and I hope... my Xizeer can find a girlfriend..."
Xizeer, of course, it still comes back to this.
He cleared his throat and said what he'd already thought up: "Mom, I've told you, it's still too early for me. After the New Year, I'll just be 17; early romances don't last long. I'll wait until it's closer to getting married and then start dating."
Ming Mei snorted, "I knew you'd say that again."
When chatting with some wives and ladies she does charity work with, they often talk about their sons bringing girls home, teachers calling about their sons dating early, or seeing their sons holding hands with a girl while shopping, etc., all sorts of complaints about sons dating early.
