Encouragement Under the Spotlight Chapter 8

"That's right, my mom is always beautiful." Ava threw the towel aside, walked over and sat down, lowered his head and sniffed hard a few times beside the candle on the coffee table.

"It smells so good~" She looked up and smiled, "We Platinum are awesome, right?"

The candle was a handmade Christmas gift from a fan.

Professor Jin nodded and smiled, pushing the empty wine glass in front of him. Ava picked up the bottle on the coffee table and poured it for her, smiling and asking: "Mom, are these the two bottles that Caleb sent?"

"Well, I looked for a long time, and you don't even have a bottle of wine besides this."

There was no wine, beer, or soju. Apart from the bottle of medical alcohol in the first aid kit, she didn't find anything else containing alcohol.

When she went to the convenience store in the afternoon, she should have brought back a bunch of beer and soju!

Ava said, "I don't drink, so of course there's no alcohol at home."

The two raised their glasses and clinked them. Unlike Professor Jin who enjoyed the wine after drinking it, Ava frowned slightly. She really couldn't find what was so good about the red wine. She felt that it didn't taste as good as beer.

Taking in her little expression, Professor Jin laughed and reached out to rub her head.

Ava twisted his body to escape from Professor Jin's hands, and asked, "What plans do you have for tomorrow?"

"When you are sleepy, you sleep; when you are hungry, you eat; when you are neither sleepy nor hungry... you just keep looking at our daughter." Professor Jin smiled; "What can I do? I really can't get enough of looking at you."

"Oh~" Ava raised his hand and touched his arm up and down, shaking his head and said, "Oh my God~ I can't stand my mother's cheesiness."

"Why?" Professor Jin dragged out the last word and said angrily, "That's what my mother really said. My mother just can't get enough of our Ava~"

"Stop, stop, stop. Mom, stop talking." Ava picked up the wine glass and took a big sip. He lowered his head and curled up, leaving only the red tips of his ears exposed.

"How can this be cheesy!" The more shy she was, the more excited Professor Jin became. He smiled and touched the tip of her ear: "Our Ava is so cute~"

Ava raised his head and changed the subject very abruptly: "Isn't my mom gathering with friends these days?"

She wanted to change the topic to a more serious one, but the person she was talking to was Professor Jin, who was many levels higher than her.

Ava only heard her smiling and waving her hands, saying, "Turn it off, turn it down, no matter who invites me, I will turn it down. For me, nothing is more important than spending time with our daughter."

Sure enough, no matter what the topic was, Professor Jin could continue to tease her and then laugh at her reaction.

Ava picked up the wine glass and took a few sips, his tone helpless and coquettish: "My mother~"

"I know, I know. I won't tease you anymore." Professor Jin nodded with a smile and suddenly asked her: "Did Caleb call you after he got home?"

Ava nodded: "Yes, he called me when he got home in the afternoon."

"That's good." Professor Jin nodded without comment, picked up the wine glass in front of him and took a sip, and when he looked at her again, his expression suddenly became serious.

"In fact, ever since that illness and surgery, I never dared to think that someone would call me 'oppa mom', and I never thought that I would have a child."

"Ava, this is the first time you call someone mom, and it's also the first time for me to be a mother to someone. I'm definitely inexperienced, and there will be things I don't do well, and there will be things I can't even think of." Professor Jin's eyes were red, and she suppressed her choked voice and continued to speak as steadily as possible: "Although you are a child who doesn't need much care, I will work hard to be a better mother."

"Thank you for always trusting and tolerating an imperfect mother like me, and thank you for letting me enter your life from the beginning." Professor Jin opened her arms with a smile on her face: "Ava, I really love you so much."

Ava knelt up and threw herself into Professor Jin's arms. Her eyes were also red, but she imitated her mother, smiled brightly, and said seriously: "Me too, I really love you, my mother."

"Meeting my mother and being her daughter is the happiest thing in my life. It makes me feel that those who didn't have my mother in the first 20 years were very happy, because they were waiting to be my mother's daughter."

She spoke very seriously, with a solemnity in her voice that no one else knew about, as if she was risking everything to guarantee the truth of her words.

"Stop it. I'm going to cry if you keep saying this." Professor Jin patted Ava on the back and joked, "I look really ugly when I cry."

"Even if my mom doesn't want to talk, I should stop." Ava let go of Professor Jin and sat back on his mat, lowering his head and saying, "I don't know how to say corny words, and I've tried my best with just these few sentences."

Professor Jin rarely responded with a joke. Instead, he picked up the wine glass and took another big sip. As if he had made up his mind, he took out a box from under the coffee table and pushed it in front of Ava.

"As I said earlier, I'm a first-time mother and I have no experience with many things. I don't know what to do. Although you've passed the infant and teenage stages when you need extra care, I don't know what to teach a child at what age. I don't know what I should teach you at your age, but... I think there are some things I still need to tell you at your age."

Professor Jin looked up at Ava, who had been stunned for a long time, and finally said the last sentence: "Especially since you are still in a relationship with a boyfriend, I think it is necessary to say this."

Ava looked at the boxes of condoms at his feet. His heart was filled with anxiety, but his expression was completely petrified the moment he saw the boxes clearly. He couldn't believe what he saw.

"You two are already adults, some things are... actually normal. But the premise is to protect yourself! Girls, more or less, will have a little trouble and suffer. Although I don't think so, most people in this world and the reality are like this. Women have some problems that they are born with and cannot avoid, and they must be considered."

Listening to my mother's endless voice, Ava hurriedly spoke out to interrupt, but the words he said were stammering and intermittent, and he couldn't even form a sentence: "That... Mom, no, the two of us... don't have... that... it's just..."

Ava: Oh my god! How can I explain this!!! I’m so embarrassed!!! My ears are so hot! My face is so hot too! What should I do!!!

Professor Jin coughed a few times, a little embarrassed, and tried to regain his serious look: "I know this topic is a bit embarrassing, just think of it as a serious academic discussion! If every parent in conservative Eastern countries like us can have a serious chat with their children like I do, and clearly tell them what they can and can't do, and what methods they should use to protect themselves, I think... this problem can be effectively improved!"

Professor Jin: Yes! That's right. Why should I be ashamed? This is a serious academic discussion! This is how parents should educate their children about s3x! Yes, that's right. I'm not ashamed! I've lived in a foreign country for several years. I've seen all kinds of exciting scenes. How can I be embarrassed about these few words?

Ava: "......."

"You have a boyfriend, which means you have one more person who loves you. I am very happy, but I hope that you can protect yourself while enjoying love. You can love him very much, but never love him more than yourself. People must first learn to love themselves before they have the right to love others."

Professor Jin stared at her seriously: "Do you know what my mother means? You should understand, right?"

"........" Ava picked up the wine glass on the coffee table, raised his head and drank it all, then nodded seriously and solemnly: "I understand!"

If you ignore the red ears and cheeks of both mother and daughter, and just look at how serious they are, the academic discussion is really well said.

"That's right!" Ava suddenly stood up from the ground, ran quickly into the cloakroom, took out an envelope and handed it to Professor Jin, smiling with satisfaction: "Look what this is, mom."

Ava blushed and thought: Let's change the topic quickly. We can't continue this question. Although he was a little touched, he was still mostly shy.

"What?" Professor Jin took the envelope, took out the contents, and asked in confusion: "Fifty thousand yuan?"

Although Professor Jin was looking at the 50,000 yuan, she felt a great sense of accomplishment: Well, it's finally over! I have passed another difficult stage on the road to becoming a perfect mother.

"Yes, fifty thousand." Ava smiled and nodded vigorously: "It's the New Year's money Auntie Tian gave me. Where's my mother's?"

In previous years, she couldn't ask for New Year's money, but this year is different.

"Me? Lucky money?" Professor Jin pointed at himself and asked with a smile, "My family only gives lucky money to students. Are you a student?"

"Yes, I still have a month to graduate from university." Ava nodded and hooked his finger at Professor Jin, "Thank you, mom~"

"Feel your neck." Professor Jin smiled and tapped her collarbone, then shook the envelope in his hand: "That thing on your neck is much more valuable than this lucky money! You don't know the value of it!"

A few days ago, when she took the gift to Professor Jin's house, Professor Jin accepted the gift and also pushed out a small box, saying it was a New Year's gift for her.

A diamond necklace from a well-known luxury brand, with a thin chain carrying a small but very transparent diamond, it is expensive yet very low-key.

Ava raised his hand and touched the sparkling diamond on his neck, shook his head and smiled: "This doesn't count. A gift is a gift, and New Year's money is New Year's money."

"I, your mother, am almost broke trying to give New Year's gifts to the children at home. I have no money at all." Professor Jin shook his head and moved away, smiling, "No, no, no, no money."