The reputation of Qing University was no less prestigious than those universities abroad, and there was no issue with timing if he pursued a degree in China before heading overseas. She and his dad were still young, and fully capable of supporting him for a couple more years of study.
Moreover, he was still young too, just eighteen. To outsiders, he might be considered an adult, grown up, but in her heart, he was still a child. She really wasn't comfortable with the idea of him going abroad to study alone, without family or friends. She thought it better for him to spend two years at Grandpa Shu's, to broaden his horizons. When he got a bit older and had seen more of the world, she would be more at ease with him studying abroad.
Shu Lang and Shu Jiao had quite an argument over this at first, but in the end, it was Ruan Hao himself who decided to stay in the country for one to two years before going abroad.
