Still feeling dazed, He Shu led Lu Yinghan to her new room.
Only now did it belatedly occur to her that Lu Yinghan had been injured from her fall.
“Yingying, does it hurt? Mom will apply some medicine for you in a bit.”
“It's fine. Most of this will be better by tomorrow.”
Lu Yinghan had no intention of giving He Shu that chance.
Seeing He Shu lead her to a guest room, Lu Yinghan generally understood what this surprise was.
“Look, Yingying! This is the room your father and I prepared for you! Take a look. Do you like it?”
This guest room was considerably smaller than the one she used to live in, but it was larger than the storage room.
The interior was designed in a natural wood style, featuring the clean, solid-color palette that Lu Yinghan liked.
“How is it? Do you like it, Yingying?”
He Shu asked cautiously and tentatively, observing Lu Yinghan's expression as she spoke.
Still, there was no change. Her expression remained as calm as still water, betraying neither joy nor sorrow.
He Shu watched Lu Yinghan's face closely, wanting to see what she would say.
Lu Yinghan turned to look at He Shu. Seeing the anxious look in her eyes, she let out a helpless sigh.
“It looks very nice. I like it a lot!”
Raising her tone slightly, the anxiety hanging over He Shu's heart instantly vanished.
“It's good that you like it! As long as you like it! You have to be good and obedient from now on, okay?”
Lu Yinghan scoffed in cold laughter in her heart.
Obedient?
They had taken away the room meant for her, shoved her into a storage room, and only after two whole years had passed did they finally realize it and change her room.
And they called this a surprise?
Since when was having a room in one's own home such a difficult accomplishment that it could be presented as a gift?
Giving one's child a comfortable room was only natural.
In her past life, before she was thrown out, she had tried to talk to them time and time again.
In the end, it always came to nothing.
Lu Yinghan suppressed the discomfort in her heart, slowly breathing in and out through her nose.
If she hadn't gone out with Lu Xuanyao to retrieve her homework notebook, they would never have even noticed.
Looking at the clean new room before her, Lu Yinghan felt no genuine happiness at all.
She was merely playing along to save face for He Shu.
Everything in this room was brand new, including some new clothes in the closet.
All her old clothes were left back in the storage room.
Lu Yinghan's eyes grew cold and gloomy.
“Grandpa Butler, are my things in the storage room still there?”
“They're still there, Miss. Is there anything you need? I can fetch it for you.”
Lu Yinghan shook her head.
“Grandpa Butler, I'd like a key to the storage room.”
Butler Liu instantly understood the meaning behind Lu Yinghan's words.
It seemed Miss didn't like this room.
He had worked so enthusiastically today hoping Miss would be happy, but it seemed to have backfired.
Feeling a bit disappointed inside, he nevertheless leaned down to bring himself closer to Lu Yinghan.
“Very well, Miss. But I can only give it to you tomorrow after I have a spare key made.”
Lu Yinghan stared unblinkingly at Butler Liu. Just as he was starting to feel a bit unnerved by her gaze, Lu Yinghan smiled and spoke.
“Butler Liu, I really like the color of the room and the way it's decorated. Thank you!”
Now that things were spelled out like this, how could Butler Liu fail to understand who was really responsible for Lu Yinghan disliking this room?
Right now, he desperately wanted to step forward and give Lu Yinghan a tight hug.
If such a sweet little girl were his own granddaughter, he would dote on her with everything he had!
Dote on her to his very core!
Whose child could possibly be this sensible and well-behaved?
But immediately following that was a deep ache in his heart for her.
Sniffling slightly, he secretly raised a hand to wipe a tear from the corner of his eye.
“Miss, please do your homework first. I'll go fetch your dinner.”
Butler Liu left the room with a smile, quickening his pace toward the kitchen to fetch her dinner.
He couldn't let Miss go hungry.
After Butler Liu left, Lu Yinghan immediately tossed her backpack onto the bed and looked around the room.
“Knock, knock, knock...”
“Butler Liu? Didn't you go...”
Lu Yinghan walked over to open the door in confusion, thinking Butler Liu had returned.
But what met her eyes was Lu Jiansen's solemn face.
Her open mouth froze mid-sentence, and the warmth she had shown Butler Liu vanished completely in an instant.
Lu Jiansen was not a man of many words either, so the two of them stood face-to-face in awkward silence.
“You... I heard you were injured.”
In the end, it was Lu Jiansen who broke the awkward silence.
“Oh, it's fine. I just took a tumble.”
Lu Yinghan spoke casually, as if it were nothing.
But Lu Jiansen's expression did not look so pleasant.
He suddenly dropped to one knee and gently reached out to grab Lu Yinghan's arm, carefully inspecting it.
The more he looked, the darker his face became.
“Hurry up and apply some iodine...”
“Oh... okay.”
They were almost healed already; why bother with iodine?
Lu Jiansen's fingers were very cool, forming a sharp contrast with Lu Yinghan's warm skin.
The difference in temperature gave Lu Yinghan a slight jolt inside.
She covertly applied force, trying to pull her arm away.
Lu Jiansen naturally felt it, tightening his grip slightly on the hand she was trying to pull back.
As his fingertips gently wiped over her wounds, an inexplicable surge of anger welled up in Lu Jiansen's heart, along with an indescribable, complex emotion.
Recalling the scene in the car that day when she had looked as though she were about to vanish, he unconsciously squeezed harder.
“Hiss... Big Brother!”
Lu Yinghan cried out in pain.
Coming to his senses, Lu Jiansen hurriedly released his grip and looked at her arm, which had already turned red.
“I... I didn't mean to.”
“Big Brother, if you have something to say next time, just say it directly...”
Lu Yinghan took the opportunity to back away and put distance between herself and Lu Jiansen.
Lu Jiansen's fingers trembled slightly uncontrollably.
He took a deep breath and stood up.
“Take care of yourself.”
Saying that coolly, the two of them fell back into an awkward silence once more.
“Miss, your dinner...”
Butler Liu stood off to the side holding the dinner tray, speaking softly.
His arrival helped break the awkward impasse between the two.
Lu Jiansen turned to Butler Liu, his gaze landing directly on the cash next to the food tray.
“What's this?”
“Ah, Young Master, this is Miss's allowance for this month.”
The gloom in Lu Jiansen's eyes dissipated, replaced by sharp disbelief.
“Allowance? I recall allowances are directly transferred into everyone's individual accounts. Why is hers in cash? Besides, such a tiny amount of allowance—are we out of money?”
Lu Jiansen's tone turned somewhat dark and sharp.
A little over ten thousand in cash given to a young lady of the Lu family as her allowance?
People would laugh themselves to death if word got out.
Even the regular servants working for the Lu family earned a monthly salary of eight thousand.
Butler Liu's salary might even be over a hundred thousand a month.
Yaoyao's monthly allowance was a full million.
Yet when it came to Lu Yinghan, it was only ten thousand???
What could that even do?
Butler Liu was not frightened by Lu Jiansen's tone.
Instead, maintaining his dignified composure, he raised his voice slightly and said,
“Indeed, Young Master. I also felt it was quite inappropriate. However, back when Master set up the bank account for Little Miss, he did not take Miss along, nor did he specify how much allowance she should receive. Thus, we did not dare to assign an arbitrary amount and could only issue Miss ten thousand a month.”
Butler Liu's slightly raised yet tactfully sharp tone made Lu Jiansen stare deeply at him.
But he couldn't bring himself to say anything.
Because it was the plain truth.
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