Chapter 24
A Huge Misunderstanding
Looking at their dumbfounded expressions, it was obvious that they were still taking it in.
Lu Ning picked up the milk and stood up. She looked at them and smiled. “Good night, Mom and Dad.”
With that, she turned around and left.
Lu Qing leaned against the door and watched Lu Ning walk past.
Lu Ning did not even look at him. She knocked on Lu Jingzhi’s door and said goodnight before returning to her room.
Lu Qing stared at her door in silence for a long time. He felt as though a part of his heart was crumbling…
Shen Yunci and Lu Zhi looked at each other and blinked. There was silence as they both did not know what to say.
She looked at the bank card in her hand, then at him, and finally turned to look at the end of the corridor.
“…”
“…”
Um…
“Old Lu, about this… Could it be that you deliberately got someone to spread the news?”
Lu Zhi shook his head like a rattle.
“How could I do something so foolish? What if our daughter didn’t dare come after hearing news of us being in dire straits?”
Shen Yunci opened her mouth in a daze. “Yet, why can’t I help but feel that our daughter instead became even more determined when she learned that we’re poor?”
Lu Zhi: “Does she have some misunderstanding about our family?”
Shen Yunci said, “It’s a huge misunderstanding! It sounds like she thinks we’re in a lot of debt and can’t even afford to pay off our mortgage. No wonder she seemed so apprehensive when she saw the dishes on the table, the renovation of her room, and the clothes in her closet on the first day!
“She just doesn’t want to cause any trouble for us, she’s afraid she’s adding fuel to the fire that’s roasting our destitute family!”
Lu Zhi was lost in thought. “We were pretending to be poor, but we weren’t supposed to end up looking so ridiculously poor… What exactly went wrong?”
Shen Yunci suddenly leaned closer. “Say, do you think our son did it on purpose…”
Before she could finish, Lu Qing, who had yet to enter the room, bluntly said, “I didn’t.”
Then, he turned around, went back to his room, and shut the door.
“…”
Lu Zhi looked at the card in Shen Yunci’s hand. “In any case, with the situation being as it is, our daughter must really think that our family is poor, even penniless.”
Shen Yunci was a little dissatisfied. “Do you think we should tell our daughter directly? We can’t let her end up working part-time. Although she said it’s easy, she’s still working under someone so she’s bound to suffer stress. I can’t allow my precious daughter to be stressed, I’ll go tell her now!”
As she spoke, she already got up.
However, before Lu Zhi could hold her back, she had already returned after a couple of steps.
When she came back, she sat down beside Lu Zhi and grabbed his arm.
“Old Lu! Something tells me that Little Ning will leave us.”
Lu Zhi was shocked by her jumbled train of thought and could not understand what she meant.
“Huh? Why do you think so?”
“Look, when she found out that our family is poor, she wasn’t scared off and even came home. And she gave us her card to relieve our financial situation. If we tell her now, won’t she think we’re liars and disown us in a fit of anger?
“Back then, when we were about to tell An’an about our family situation, she left because she thought our family wasn’t wealthy.
“But Little Ning, I have a feeling that she’s the opposite. She might leave if she learns that her family is wealthy. What should we do?!”
Lu Zhi: “…”
He placed a hand on the restless Shen Yunci and comforted her with a soft voice. “Don’t panic, Little Ning won’t do that. Besides, we don’t have to tell her so quickly, we can drop some hints here and there. She’s smart, so she’ll get it.
“I’ll call the accounting and finance departments right away and have them not come tomorrow. If Little Ning bumps into them it’ll become a sticky situation.”
“Yes, you’re right. Hurry up and call them.”