"Cough, I understand, and I promise it won't happen again. But son, after giving it some thought, I think that if you really like that young lady, it wouldn't be completely out of the question, just not right now. I believe you could wait another couple of years, until the young lady graduates. When the time comes and you both want to be together, there would be no one to stand in your way," said Mother Xu who, when she had nothing else to do at home, liked to watch TV dramas. She thought that what they showed in the dramas about daughters-in-law being groomed wasn't entirely impossible.
Of course, this all presumed that they could gain the approval of the girl's parents.
