Chapter 140: Chapter 140: Ji Family’s Matchmaking Banquet! Chapter 140: Chapter 140: Ji Family’s Matchmaking Banquet! Lu Xining didn’t want Zhou Jiawang to be entangled over this matter anymore.
She turned around and said earnestly and calmly, “The reason I don’t want to go abroad is very simple, because I want to stay in the country.”
“Aunt Zhou is a very nice person and took good care of . When I left Port City, I left you a letter, so it wasn’t exactly leaving without saying goodbye, was it?”
Was it not?
Zhou Jiawang rembered how he had returned ho excitedly, wanting to share with her that he had gotten a recomndation letter. With their consistently first-place grades and awards from competitions, they would surely be admitted to the school of their dreams. But instead, he found an empty room.
No, it wasn’t entirely empty.
She had left behind all the clothes and jewelry the Zhou family had bought for her and only took her own belongings, along with a letter left on the table.
[Brother Jiawang, I’ve gone back to Yunqiao Village, do not worry.]
Snapping back from his mories, Zhou Jiawang looked into Lu Xining’s eyes, knowing sothing unknown to him must have happened in between.
But he had asked his grandmother and his parents, and they all said they didn’t know, only that Lu Xining had gone back to her place of household registration to take the college entrance exam.
It wasn’t until during a New Year’s Eve dinner, his mother, having had too much to drink, let sothing slip, saying that although Lu Xining was good, she wasn’t a match for the only son of the Zhou family.
That was when he began to uncover so clues. When he asked his mother once she was sober, she claid not to rember what she had said.
Zhou Jiawang had always been outstanding, and coming from a distinguished family, his friends were mostly interested in his background. Although Lu Xining was not talkative at the ti, he could sense that she sincerely regarded him as a friend.
He too sincerely considered Lu Xining his confidante.
They went to school together, did howork together, and researched topics of interest together. He admired her way of thinking and thoroughly enjoyed every day spent with her, feeling as if he had found a kindred spirit.
He wanted to tell the whole world that Lu Xining was his best friend!
In the end, though, only he remained in the Zhou family.
“Ningning…”
Lu Xining thought of Mrs. Zhou kneeling down and crying, and she resolutely refused Zhou Jiawang’s desire to continue the conversation.
“Brother Jiawang.”
It had been over ten years since he had last heard the na Brother Jiawang.
Zhou Jiawang looked at her intently.
Lu Xining said, “It’s getting late, you should head back and rest.”
She smiled politely and nodded her head, then spoke slowly to the three children who looked at her curiously, “Say goodbye to Uncle.”
The three children said goodbye in unison.
The car door closed, and soon it drove out of Zhou Jiawang’s sight.
He picked up a business card from nearby and handed it to his assistant when they arrived, instructing him to keep it safe as they might need it later.
Lu Xining had spoken to the restaurant manager in advance and had Zhou Jiawang’s al paynt refunded to him after an hour.
When Zhou Jiawang returned to his hotel and saw the refund ssage, he imdiately had his assistant contact the restaurant to inquire about the situation.
When he learned it had been per Lu Xining’s instructions, Zhou Jiawang’s heart sank into a bitter swirl, realizing…
Their relationship had beco so estranged.
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When Lu Xining returned to the Lu Family, she saw Ji Muye’s car.
The black Maybach was parked under the streetlight, in exactly the sa spot where Zhou Jiawang had parked two days earlier.
She didn’t know if it was coincidence or if Ji Muye had learned sothing from the bodyguards left to protect the children.
With Shi’an Group bringing in several new projects, Ji Muye was working day and night at the company and his visits to the Lu family had beco less frequent.
“Daddy—”
Ji Chao and Ji Ze hadn’t seen him much recently and ran toward Ji Muye as soon as they got out of the car, their faces showing their excitent to see him.
Lu Nuonuo instinctively followed and ran a couple of steps, with Little Jiu Jiu swinging left and right, when suddenly she rembered sothing was off.
He was her uncle, not her daddy, so why was she running after her brother?
Little Dumpling ca to a sudden stop as she halted, her body swaying a bit due to the abruptness, prompting Lu Xining to quickly reach out to steady her by grabbing her clothes.
Lifting her head sweetly, she called out, “Mommy, hug~”
Lu Xining picked her up, playfully hooked her nose, and teased, “You little lazy bug, we’re right at the doorstep, and you still want mommy to carry you?”
Little Dumpling planted a kiss on her face.
“Love mommy.”
“Super, super… love mommy.”
Lu Xining was amused by her daughter but corrected, “It’s ‘super’, not ‘knock-tier’.”
Lu Nuonuo nodded and tried to repeat, “Super… super… knock-tier!”
Little Dumpling gazed up at her with fluttering eyes, awaiting her mother’s praise like a picture, and Lu Xining shook her head helplessly.
“Baby, it seems mommy needs to send you to school sooner rather than later.”
Hearing the words ‘school’, Lu Nuonuo’s eyes brightened, and she nodded, saying, “With brother, together.”
The diploma-less little girl was really quite adorable.
“You can’t be with your brother at your current age, but maybe when you start elentary school, there’ll be a chance…”
Carrying Lu Nuonuo, Lu Xining walked into the villa without disturbing the father and sons’ bonding ti with Ji Muye.
Ji Muye caught his two sons as they ran over to him.
“Why are you running? What if you fall?”
A little embarrassed, Ji Chao smiled, “Daddy, I missed you.”
Grinning broadly, Ji Ze chid in, “Daddy, we haven’t seen you in so long. Have you been away on another business trip?”
Every ti Ji Muye went on a business trip, Ji Ze would not see him for two days and had gotten used to it, especially since each return brought gifts for him and his brother. He wondered if there would be any this ti.
Today, more than gifts, he was curious about sothing else.
In a low voice, Ji Ze asked, “Daddy, did you see my ssage and rush back straight away?”
Ji Muye patted his head, “I haven’t been on a business trip. The company has been very busy lately, and daddy has been working overti. As soon as I finished, I ca to see you guys.”
Feeling a little let down, Ji Ze had thought that his dad ca back straight away after seeing his ssage.
“Alright, let’s go. Daddy will take you back.”
Ji Muye had not seen Lu Xining in the living room and learned from the butler that she took her daughter back to their room. Glancing at the ti, he noted it was indeed Little Dumpling’s bedti.
Earlier, when Little Dumpling ran towards him and then stopped, Ji Muye thought Lu Xining had instructed her not to get close to him—a thought that brought a faint sadness under his long lashes.
Hearing that Ji Muye would tell them a bedti story, Ji Chao and Ji Ze rushed upstairs to bathe, both eager. Each had their own room, but to listen to the bedti story together, Ji Ze took his pillow to sleep with his brother.
After Ji Muye saw his sons were asleep, he closed the book, turned off the bedside lamp, and left the children’s room with light footsteps.
Directly across was Lu Xining’s master bedroom.
The door was closed tight, signaling no desire to see him.
Ji Muye stood in the dimly lit corridor for a long while before leaving. When he heard the sounds of a car starting downstairs, Lu Xining gradually closed her eyes.
In a few days, the arranged marriage event set up by Old Sir Ji for Ji Muye arrived, and to her surprise, he had sent her an invitation as well.
The family estate butler personally delivered it.
“Miss Lu, Old Sir Ji misses you very much. He heard you have a daughter now and specifically instructed you to bring her along when you co.”
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