He Shu and Lu Xiong stood in their room, staring at each other, but neither could utter a single word...
“Tomorrow, I'll check if there are any vacant rooms left in the house...” for Yingying to live in.
Before Lu Xiong could even finish, He Shu glared at him, grabbed her pajamas, and went to get ready for bed.
She didn't want to talk to Lu Xiong right now.
If not for him, would Lu Yinghan have looked at her with that kind of gaze tonight?!
And about school—he had sent her off without saying a word, without even asking for her opinion!
He Shu pouted again, feeling deeply wronged, and wept softly as she washed up.
Meanwhile, in the storage room, Lu Yinghan looked with satisfaction at her completed homework workbook, washed up, and fell fast asleep the moment her head hit the pillow.
The next morning, Lu Yinghan woke up at six, put on her backpack early, and left the Lu family residence.
Not long after she left, He Shu hurried down to the kitchen in her pajamas.
“Madam? Are you going out to play with Little Miss today?”
Butler Liu, who was clearing the dinner plates, was somewhat surprised to see her up so early. Usually, she only woke up at this hour when she was going on an outing with Little Miss.
“Where is Yingying?” He Shu looked around the dining room, searching for Lu Yinghan's figure.
“Miss has already left for school. Is there something you needed her for, Madam?”
“She went to school at six forty???” He Shu's voice rang out sharp and clear, completely devoid of her usual morning hoarseness.
“Yes, Madam... Miss usually leaves for school around this time.”
He Shu's shoulders slouched in disappointment. Going back to sleep now was out of the question.
“Butler Liu, prepare some coffee and breakfast for me.”
“Of course, Madam. Please wait a moment.” Butler Liu gave He Shu a smiling nod and began preparing her breakfast.
Lu Xiong almost always woke up at five to read the newspaper, drink coffee, and eat breakfast before going for a morning exercise around the area.
When he returned and saw He Shu eating in the dining room, he froze dead in his tracks.
In utter shock, he looked straight ahead, blinked, and turned back to look into the dining room again.
“Honey?!” he burst out in astonishment. “Are you going out with Yaoyao today? Where are you going? Is it far? Why did you get up so early?”
Lu Xiong's stream of questions made He Shu feel inexplicably annoyed.
“I wanted to get up to drive Yingying to school!”
Lu Xiong gave a silly laugh. “Oh, right! We can go wake her up now, or she'll be late.”
He Shu looked at her husband as if he were an idiot. “She's already gone to school. Didn't you know?”
The smile froze on Lu Xiong's face. “Now? School?”
“Mhm. She finished eating a little while ago and already left.”
Lu Xiong's brows furrowed slightly. “It's fine, honey. Tonight, when Yingying comes back, we'll talk to her and tell her that we'll drive her to school tomorrow.”
He Shu nodded listlessly.
Lu Xiong sat down right next to He Shu, thoughtfully passing her food and coaxing her with a grin, trying to feed her so she wouldn't be mad about last night.
He Shu silently ate the food he offered. That served as her forgiveness.
The corners of Lu Xiong's mouth finally curled up, his mood noticeably brightening.
“Here, have some bacon.” Lu Xiong quickly seized the chance to hand her another serving.
“Enough! Find a proper room for Yingying today! How embarrassing would it be if word got out? A daughter of the Lu family living in a storage room?!”
Lu Xiong nodded repeatedly. “Yes, yes, yes, you're right. I'll look around today!”
He Shu wiped her mouth and went back to her room for her skincare routine.
Lu Xiong wiped the smile off his face, put down his fork, and fixed a cold glare on Butler Liu.
“Find a suitable room for Miss by the end of the day.”
This was Lu Xiong's petty retaliation against Butler Liu for tattling on him to He Shu last night.
Butler Liu bowed respectfully to Lu Xiong. In his heart, he disapproved of Lu Xiong's behavior, but he had neither the reason nor the authority to refuse or confront him. Back then, he had been told to arrange a room for Miss, but he wasn't allowed to give her any of the guest rooms.
“Master, if we exclude the guest rooms, there are no extra rooms left for Miss.”
Lu Xiong's brows knitted together tightly. He looked at Butler Liu, his gaze laced with warning.
Butler Liu met Lu Xiong's gaze neither servilely nor arrogantly, without a trace of fear.
“Find a rarely used guest room and give it to Miss.”
“Yes, Master,” Butler Liu replied in a deep voice.
Only then did Lu Xiong leave the dining room to attend to his own business.
Butler Liu had the servants clear the table and immediately brought in renovators to remodel the guest room. He was determined to give Miss a wonderful surprise before she returned home!
While a grand renovation was underway at the Lu family residence, the designer brought in by Butler Liu began planning the layout for Lu Yinghan based on Butler Liu's description.
Meanwhile, at school, Lu Yinghan was dealing with a headache inside her desk.
Her desk was a classic rosewood design with an open cubby in the middle. After sitting down, Lu Yinghan shoved her backpack straight inside.
“Hss!!”
A sharp, stinging pain made her yank her hand out instantly, leaving the backpack to drop straight to the floor.
The noise was quite loud, drawing the eyes of the entire class to her.
Lu Yinghan immediately looked down into the cubby of her desk.
Inside, it was covered with tiny pushpins glued to the bottom, so when she had shoved her bag in earlier, the pins had dug sharply into her skin.
After seeing what was inside the desk, Lu Yinghan immediately looked up at the children.
Sure enough, more than half the class was snicker-watching her. The moment their eyes met hers, they hurriedly turned away and pretended to be busy with their own work.
Her eyes narrowed slightly.
Watching these children pretend to do their homework, Lu Yinghan let out a cold sneer, then took a utility knife out of her pencil case. Bit by bit, she began scraping out the pushpins glued inside.
The clinking and scraping of the blade against the pushpins sounded excruciatingly harsh in the quiet classroom. Every sharp, grating screech made people's teeth feel weak.
Their initial gloating gradually died down as they listened to Lu Yinghan scrape out the pushpins in a slow, rhythmic fashion. A chill began to creep up their spines.
They felt that if they angered Lu Yinghan any further, she might come at them with that knife the very next second.
Everyone shuddered involuntarily, their hands holding their books beginning to tremble.
“Hey... should we prank her again next time?”
“Umm... let me think. She seems kind of scary.”
“Yeah! Look at how skillfully she handles that knife...”
The classroom broke out into hushed whispers, buzzing softly.
When Xie Chengsheng walked into the classroom, he immediately sensed that the atmosphere was different from usual.
His eyes instantly swept toward Lu Yinghan's seat.
To his shock, he saw her crouching on the floor, surrounded by pushpins scattered everywhere, some still bearing bits of glue on their bases.
On Lu Yinghan's arm were numerous long, thin red scratches.
Xie Chengsheng instantly understood what had happened.
He looked at the other students in the class, immediately noticing those who looked away with guilty expressions.
His brow furrowed tightly.
Tsk.
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