Serenity and Zachary York novel Chapter 2861

“If I’m dating Julian, we can still move out after marriage and maintain some distance from the in-laws, right?”

After a moment of silence, Zoey said, “Even if you don’t live together, it will be easy for Mrs. Bucham to find faults with you and try to ruin your marital relationship if she doesn’t accept you. She’s his mother, and he can’t just cut ties with her for you, right?”

Quinn remained silent.

After a while, Quinn sighed and said, “Mom, are you suggesting that I shouldn’t accept Julian? I had just made up my mind, and now I’m confused again. I don’t know what to do. I feel it might be better to live alone and not deal with these complicated interpersonal relationships.

“My temperament is not suitable for dealing with people who are scheming. They say it’s difficult to get along with mothers-in-law in wealthy families. Not many can be as reasonable as Serenity, Jasmine, and their mothers-in-law. I heard from Serenity that when she first got together with Zachary, his mother couldn’t accept her wholeheartedly.

“But she has never done anything to harm Serenity or damage their relationship. When people gossip about Serenity, she publicly defends her and scolds those who spread rumors about her. Serenity says Zachary’s mom has always been elegant and well-mannered and even curses people to protect her.

“Although she hasn’t spent much time with Mrs. York, she respects her immensely. Such a mother-in-law, I think, is relatively rare.”

Zoey replied, “You haven’t even met Julian’s parents. How do you know they don’t like you? You should at least meet them first.”

“But I’m afraid that if I fall in love with him, and then his parents don’t like me, they might try to break us up. Wouldn’t that be extremely painful? In that case, it’s better to not develop anything from the beginning and maintain the current status, just like now—being buddies, being friends.”

Zoey did not know what to say.

“Mrs. Crawford, are you home?”

During Zoey’s speechlessness, both mother and daughter heard someone downstairs calling for Zoey. From the sound of his voice, it seemed to be Julian.