jQuery toggle submenu a href is not working - html

Question

I have a menu and the link or "a href click" is not working.
jQuery does not give any errors that I am aware of, and the menu opens as desired, but nothing seems to take the user to stackoverflow.com for the link in my code below. I tried .parent a, but maybe this is not correct.
I made this example based on the example below which is slightly different from the code I posted below.
jsfiddle
$(function () {
$(".submenu").hide();
$(".parent a").click(function (e) {
var elems = $(this).closest('li');
elems.siblings('li').find('ul').hide();
if (elems.find('.submenu').length) {
$(".submenu:first", elems).toggle();
}
return false;
});
});
.year_2014 .monthly-archive {
display: none;
}
.january .archive {
display: none;
}
.february .archive {
display: none;
}
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.js" integrity="sha256-QWo7LDvxbWT2tbbQ97B53yJnYU3WhH/C8ycbRAkjPDc=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li class="parent"> Hello
<ul class="submenu">
<li> Hello
</li>
<li> Hello
</li>
<li class="parent"> Hello
<ul class="submenu">
<li> Hello
</li>
<li> Hello
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="parent"> Hello
<ul class="submenu">
<li> Hello
</li>
<li> Click
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

Answer 1

If I using $(".parent > a").click(function (e) can click a link and redirect to link
$(function () {
$(".submenu").hide();
$(".parent > a").click(function (e) {
var elems = $(this).closest('li');
elems.siblings('li').find('ul').hide();
if (elems.find('.submenu').length) {
$(".submenu:first", elems).toggle();
}
return false;
});
});
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.js" integrity="sha256-QWo7LDvxbWT2tbbQ97B53yJnYU3WhH/C8ycbRAkjPDc=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li class="parent">Hello
<ul class="submenu">
<li> Hello
</li>
<li> Hello
</li>
<li class="parent"> Hello
<ul class="submenu">
<li> Hello
</li>
<li> Hello
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="parent"> Hello
<ul class="submenu">
<li> Hello
</li>
<li> Click
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>