"I was actually planning to tell my mother about us today..."
The atmosphere had just started to relax when a single sentence from Song Jing made Ji Huan's nerves tighten again.
"D-d-did you tell her?"
What she really wanted to ask was, 'Didn't we agree not to tell Mrs. Meng about us yet?'
'Meeting his parents right after we confessed our feelings... that's a terrifying thought, no matter how you look at it.'
'It's one thing if his parents aren't satisfied.'
'But if they *are* satisfied, won't they immediately start pushing for a proposal, then a wedding, then children?'
'If I can't produce a son, I'll have to keep trying. And after one son, they'll want a second. Then come the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts...'
'I can see the whole process laid out before me. Just thinking about it makes me lose the will to live.'
Besides, being put in a passive position, to be scrutinized and picked over, would be deeply unsettling.
