Luo Yilan stood aside waiting for the condolences to finish. After a while, she felt a little tired of standing. She relaxed her feet slightly and turned her head inadvertently, just in time to see He Yue in a daze.

He Yue didn't know what she was thinking, her brows were unconsciously frowned, and Yue Zhou fell asleep leaning against her. He looked haggard, and the fingertips that were holding He Yue were white.

Luo Yilan sighed and turned her head back.

Lin Xia Ning was also helping to see out the guests who had paid their respects, one group after another, not giving Zhu Huaining a chance to speak.

Zhu Huaining stood aside and looked at her with a sullen face.

When he didn't speak, he was like a huge iceberg, scaring away those who wanted to say hello and not daring to approach him.

"Lolo, are you tired? Do you want to sit for a while?" Song Xiaobai patted his chest, "I can do it."

Luo Yilan touched his head and said, "Our Xiaobai is the best."

Normally, if Song Xiaobai received praise, he would be extremely happy. But today, he couldn't be happy. Everyone here looked unhappy.

Although he is stupid, he is very sensitive to emotions.

Luo Yilan glanced at Zhu Huaining, and their eyes met: "Let's treat this as our last chance to make things clear."

As she spoke, Luo Yilan called out to Lin Xianing: "A Ning, go buy something for everyone to eat. It's already past one o'clock."

After Luo Yilan said this, Lin Xia Ning felt hungry. She nodded: "Okay."

"Thank you." Zhu Huaining said when passing by Luo Yilan.

Luo Yilan looked at the backs of the two people and couldn't help sighing.

-

Lin Xia Ning was upset in the rain. There was not a single convenience store here! She was not familiar with the place and didn't know where to buy food.

"There's a fried noodle shop at the turn of the traffic light ahead."

Zhu Huaining, who was following behind her, reminded her, but Lin Xia Ning ignored him and kept walking forward.

Zhu Huaining followed closely behind her. The noisy sound of raindrops hitting the umbrella really annoyed Lin Xia Ning: "Can you please stop following me?"

Who would have thought that Zhu Huaining stepped forward and grabbed Lin Xia Ning's wrist and pulled her back. Only then could Lin Xia Ning see Zhu Huaining's face clearly.

He looked haggard and thin, and the spirit that used to be in his eyes was gone.

Lin Xia Ning suddenly realized one thing: he was being tortured badly by her.

Amid the noisy sound of rain, Zhu Huaining spoke slowly.

"Lin Xia Ning, I had another dream."

-

"Morning, Xiao Zhu, you are so virtuous."

"Where's Ning? Why didn't she go shopping with you?"

Facing the teasing of the neighbors, Zhu Huaining smiled and replied: "She was working on her homework very late yesterday."

“Is college this busy?”

"Why can't I be busy? I'm making progress."

The topic was quickly changed. Zhu Huaining was walking home carrying fresh vegetables. The fresh fish in his hand jumped from time to time, urging Zhu Huaining to go home quickly.

The vegetable market is very close to the residential area, only ten minutes away. The alleys are crowded and he didn't expect that he could get used to living here.

Suddenly, a flash of car lights nearby caught Zhu Huaining's eyes. He squinted and looked over. An Su was hanging his head guiltily beside the car, and standing behind him was his mother, Yan Jing.

"come over."

Her red lips parted slightly, with an air of majesty that could not be ignored.

"Brother Ning, come here. Auntie has bought all this land." An Su glanced at Yan Jing cautiously and kindly reminded Zhu Huaining, "If you don't obey, she will demolish the house."

Zhu Huaining turned abruptly and walked in front of Yan Jing with a cold face: "Go ahead."

"Zhu Huaining, have I spoiled you too much since you were a child? Don't you even have the most basic respect for your mother now?" Yan Jing looked at Zhu Huaining's twenty-one buy-two-get-one-free tattered T-shirts and got angry, "Get in the car."

Zhu Huaining looked up at the window of his house. The curtains were still drawn and Lin Xianing had not woken up yet.

He didn't want Lin Xianing to see this, so he stuffed the food into An Su's hands: "Help me hold it, don't let her see it."

Yan Jing never thought that one day she and her son would end up in such a quarrel. Only silence remained between the two of them.

Unable to bear this torture, she spoke first, her tone was exactly the same as Zhu Huaining's: "How long are you going to make trouble?"

"I didn't ask you for money."

When Zhu Huaining and Lin Xia Ning first moved out, they shared a bowl of instant noodles. If it weren't for An Su's occasional help, the two of them probably wouldn't even be able to live in this 20-square-meter house.

"Zhu Huaining, your father and I trained you in the hope that you would take over the Zhu Group, but what about you? You actually went to work in a car repair shop. Do you know that you have brought shame to your father and me?"

Zhu Huaining looked at Yan Jing calmly while she accused him, and waited indifferently for her to finish her temper before saying, "I don't want the Zhu family."

"You don't want Zhu Shi?" Yan Jing's voice became piercing. "Then who should I give Zhu Shi to? Who else can I give Zhu Shi to?"

Zhu Huaining couldn't hold back his temper after all, and retorted, "Zhu Huai'an?" He laughed and shook his head, "No, he is the child of Dad and another woman, you will definitely not agree."

"Zhu Huaining, it's good that you know it." Yan Jing said gritting her teeth.

"Zhu Huaisu, oh, that's not possible either, because he is the son of you and Dad's secretary."

A slap landed hard on Zhu Huaining's face. Faced with this fact, Yan Jing could only hide her embarrassment by getting angry.

"Zhu Huaining, are you going to go against me for a woman?"

Unexpectedly, Zhu Huaining just sneered: "You are wrong, I am not doing this for a woman, I am doing this for myself."

I originally thought that my life was just a controllable puppet, used to cover up a terrible family.

His future life might be about balancing the Zhu and Yan families, and taking over a business he completely dislikes when he grows up, until Lin Xia Ning appears.

She is unrestrained, free and generous. He envies such a life and wants to have such a life.

Zhu Huaining felt that there was nothing more to talk about. He opened the car door and was about to leave when he heard Yan Jing say behind him: "Zhu Huaining, you will regret this."

But Zhu Huaining did not look back. He was eager to escape from where Yan Jing was.

"Thank you."

He took the dish from An Su's hand, and An Su took the opportunity to comfort him: "Don't return the money to me. I'm not short of money. The money you send me every month is not enough for me to open a bottle of wine. Save it for yourself. Aren't you going to marry An Ning in the future?"

"Send it here."

Zhu Huaining stopped An Su's steps. An Su looked at his back and sighed. He knew that what he said was useless. Zhu Huaining never liked to owe others anything.

-

Lin Xia Ning didn't expect to meet an old friend of Qu Cheng at school. She could only be called an old friend because they had a bad relationship and had even fought.

"Lin Xia Ning, your painting is full of emotions. You even said that you are a latecomer, but you must have secretly learned it before." The teacher teased her.

Lin Xia Ning waved her hands: "I really haven't learned it."

She had previously applied for the major of psychology, but was not admitted even though her scores met the requirements. So she had no choice but to come to this school as a second choice. At least she had to graduate with a diploma, right?

"The school will have an exchange spot for an international art exhibition later. Would you like to go and have a look?" The teacher blinked. "It's free."

He knew his students were struggling, having to work two jobs in addition to going to school.

"Okay!" Lin Xia Ning was very happy, but she didn't expect a voice to come from the door: "Wait a minute."

Lin Xia Ning turned her head and saw Pei Xin standing at the door. She was wearing a high-end dress and a white gauze skirt decorated with crystals. Her exquisiteness was out of place here.

"Why are you here?"

Pei Xin didn't want to see her at all, but still walked into the studio with a look of disgust: "I came to see you."

Pei Xin curled up the corners of her mouth with a fake smile: "I want you to go somewhere with me."

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