“That…I…”

Lin Qianru blabbered and suddenly thought of something.

“I didn’t have breakfast in the morning. So I asked a friend to sit here and went to eat something. Yes…”

She explained to her daughter with a smile.

Mo Roulan’s scrutinizing eyes almost made her spurt out the truth but he controlled herself by looking through the book in her hand.

  Although her mother looked a little weird, Mo Roulan couldn’t find any other fault. She looked at her mother’s dress which was not the one that a waitress would wear.

She sighed after a few moments.

It seemed that she was just overthinking. Her mother didn’t lie to her.

“I should leave now. I have classes to attend.”

She glanced at her phone to see the time and told her mother.

A sigh supposedly of relief escaped from Lin Qianru’s lips and she said smilingly.

“Yes, Yes. You shouldn’t get late now.”

Mo Roulan had thought that her mother would come to the exit gates with her but she saw her mother writing down something in a notebook.

She seemed busy. So she didn’t stay anymore.

“Take care of your health. Don’t overwork yourself.”

She left the restaurant with these last words.

While Lin Qianru slumped down on the chair placed behind the reception table as if all of her energy has been drained.

“Your daughter is very beautiful.”

“Yes, you’re right. Qianru you never told us about your daughter.”

She turned her head and smiled a little at the two women. One of them looked young and one of them was middle-aged just like her.

She sighed and stood up from the chair.

“Thanks to both of you for your help. I will go and change clothes. You will have them in a few minutes.”

She told the young woman.

“Ayyy what is need of thanks? Since you are Tiantian’s friend then you are my friend also.”

“Yes, Yes.”

The middle-aged woman Tiantian agreed.

Lin Qianru chuckled at both of them. She really didn’t understand both the woman’s friendship. Despite the age gap between them they could talk so freely and were best friends.

“And it is not like you don’t help us. Yesterday when I had some work, you went to that Song Mansion in my place as a waitress for an hour. So there is no need of all these formalities.”

Tiantian told Lin Qianru.

Lin Qianru nodded her head and walked to the changing room.

Although the two women were very generous, the manager wasn’t. If he found out that she was doing something else other than her job, he will eat her ears with his harsh words.

So she hurriedly changed her clothes and wore the waitress’s dress.

In the mirror, Lin Qianru looked at herself wearing that waitress dress.

Life had brought her to a place she had never imagined before. When had she thought that she would also have to work like this? When had she thought that she would have to lie to her daughter to do a small job?

She knew that Mo Roulan was worried about her health but she doesn’t want to be a burden on her daughter.

By doing this job, she can at least help her.

————-

When Mo Roulan reached the college, Shen Youlin had just parked her car outside. As she stepped out of the cab, she saw Shen Youlin entering the college with a sulking face.

She followed her and when she was near she patted Shen Youlin’s shoulder.

Shen Youlin turned around ready to fight whoever it was but when she saw Mo Roulan, her face became instantly bright and a wide smile appeared on her lips.

“Roulan…”

She hugged Mo Roulan and smelled her flowery scent.

After she had blabbered something she should not have in front of CEO Song, she just ran out of the mansion as if her tail was on fire. She was panicked and irritated after that.

But after seeing Mo Roulan, all the irritation and other emotions she had felt with that ‘CEO Song’ vanished instantly.

Hmmm…Her Roulan was best.

Shen Youlin thought as she snuggled against Mo Roulan more.

But her happiness ended very soon when Mo Roulan separated her from herself. She pouted and Mo Roulan again thought that she was just handling a big baby.

“We have class.”

Shen Youlin whined at Mo Roulan’s words.

“Who wants to attend the class of those baldy professors?”

Although she said that, she started walking beside Mo Roulan holding her arm. She knew that Mo Roulan would not miss the class and where there was Roulan, there was Shen Youlin.

So of course she would follow her.

———–

“Brother Fengju, please tell me the truth. Does Brother Jian really have someone else in his life?”

Shi Fengju was surprised to hear Shen Yiling’s question.

“No, Yiling. Who told you that?”

“I saw a girl with Brother Jian in yesterday’s banquet.”

Shi Fengju was confused. As much as he knew Jian, he never attended these parties and banquets with a female partner. So he told Shen Yiling to describe the girl to him.

After he heard Shen Yiling’s description of the girl, the image of the young girl in that apartment flashed in his mind.

His knitted eyebrows loosened.

“Yiling, that girl…I know her. She saved Jian a few years back so Jian is just repaying her now. You don’t have to worry about anything and…she is so younger than Jian.”

When Shi Fengju didn’t hear any reply from the other side, he continued.

“I asked Jian and he himself told me that he doesn’t have that kind of feelings for that girl.”

There was a few moments of silence and then Shen Yiling asked in a low voice.

“Brother Fengju, are you saying the truth?”

Hearing her hoarse voice, Shi Fengju knew that she had cried for long before calling him and felt distressed for her.

“Why would I lie to you?”

“That’s right. Thanks to Brother Fengju for telling me about this.”

Shi Fengju shook his head with a chuckle and said

“Silly girl, when did you start to thank me for these small things?”

Shen Yiling also giggled and then said

“Then I’ll hang up now, Brother Fengju.”

The call was cut after that. Shi Fengju looked at the phone with a wry smile.

To her, only He Jian mattered.