Lu Yinghan looked at Lu Jiansen and Butler Liu.
She clicked her tongue softly, finding it quite bizarre.
Ten thousand wasn't a lot???
In her past life, that kind of money would have made her feel like a little rich girl!
It was just that the Lu family's baseline was far too high.
Lu Yinghan understood.
“Big Brother.”
Lu Yinghan called out to Lu Jiansen.
Lu Jiansen turned to look at Lu Yinghan, a hint of panic in his eyes.
“It’s fine. I’ll raise your allowance... If there’s anything you want, just tell me and I’ll buy it for you.”
Lu Jiansen stooped down, a rare gesture of humility from him in front of Lu Yinghan.
Lu Yinghan had been living in this high-spending household on a mere ten thousand yuan a month.
A sharp prick of pain suddenly shot through Lu Jiansen's heart.
“No, Big Brother, I meant that ten thousand a month is enough. Before, it wasn't enough because I was buying things for the family, but now I don't buy those anymore. I eat my meals at home and go to school during the day, so ten thousand is actually a bit too much.”
Any more, and she wouldn't be able to pay it back.
Lu Jiansen was rendered speechless for a moment.
It was true that Lu Yinghan used to buy things that were good for their health.
He hadn't thought much about it back then...
So she had bought all of those with her own allowance?
“Ying...”
“Big Brother, it’s really fine. If there's too much, I won't know how to manage it, and taking it out from a bank account is a hassle anyway. I'm fine just having a single stack of cash like this.”
Lu Yinghan quickly cut off Lu Jiansen before he could say more.
“But Yingying, you're going to school now. If you don't have enough allowance, it won't be enough when you go out with your friends.”
For students attending an elite private school, ten thousand yuan spent at their hanging-out spots was like ten yuan—it was nowhere near enough.
Lu Yinghan shook her head.
“It’s fine. We won't go anywhere too expensive.”
!
That wasn't what Lu Jiansen meant at all!
“Ying...”
“Miss, your dinner is getting cold.”
Butler Liu chimed in at just the right moment.
Noticing the steam fading from the dishes on the tray, he spoke up hurriedly.
Lu Jiansen shot a glance at Butler Liu, but found himself unable to say anything.
He had indeed been interrupting Lu Yinghan's dinner.
“Eat first.”
Lu Jiansen let out a soft sigh, turned, and walked away.
“Miss, is this small amount of allowance really enough?”
Butler Liu stepped forward and asked softly, a trace of worry in his voice.
“It's fine, Grandpa Butler. Ten thousand is actually a bit too much for me.”
It really was too much. She only needed to take out a small portion to buy fabric, embroidery supplies, and basic tools for filming videos.
That would be more than enough.
She likely wouldn't make any friends at this school anyway.
So she wouldn't need money for outings.
Thinking back to her past life, her monthly income had been only three to four thousand, though thankfully she had lived in a rented shack for just a hundred and fifty yuan a month.
So she had managed to scrape by. But the environment of that rented shack was terrible, forcing her to skimp and save on everything.
She was simply used to being poor.
Looking at the ten thousand yuan sitting to the side, Lu Yinghan felt a bit more at ease.
“Miss, please enjoy your meal. I'll go prepare bathwater for you.”
“Okay, thank you, Butler Liu!”
As she ate, she browsed through the Peach app, looking at crafting materials.
With matters settled, Lu Yinghan's mind grew a bit calmer.
She slept soundly through the night.
The next morning, Lu Yinghan indulged in a rare chance to sleep in.
He Shu, however, forced herself to get up at six o'clock sharp.
Dazed and groggy, He Shu hurried toward the dining room, but there was no one inside.
“How... how is there no one here??”
The last remnants of her sleepiness vanished instantly. He Shu immediately turned around and walked toward Lu Yinghan's room.
She paced nervously outside the bedroom door, unsure whether she should open it.
After pacing back and forth for a while, she finally crept the door open and peeked inside with utmost care.
The room was still bathed in dim, warm light.
But there was no one inside...
“Yingying...”
He Shu looked into the empty room in disappointment.
Feeling the cold atmosphere lingering inside.
She had gotten up really early today, thinking she would be able to see Lu Yinghan and send her off to school.
Getting up early for the past two days was already becoming unbearable for He Shu.
“Forget it. It's better for the child to be independent anyway. I'll just let Yingying go on her own from now on. Besides, she has someone driving her.”
He Shu yawned and quickly retreated to her room to sleep in.
Meanwhile, Lu Yinghan was sleeping soundly in the storage room with a faint smile on her face.
Today, this area felt much livelier than usual.
Eventually, He Shu woke up again.
Feeling slightly annoyed, she unlocked her phone, only to see the date right beneath the time...
“Saturday?! Yingying is off today? If she didn't sleep in that room... could she still be in the storage room??”
He Shu felt convinced of her suspicion.
She immediately leaped out of bed and rushed toward the storage room to check.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Lu Yinghan was already awake and diligently doing her homework.
Although the storage room was small and crude, it felt very cozy to her.
If it were her younger self, she certainly would have complained about living in a storage room like this.
Having grown accustomed to small places in her past life, Lu Yinghan truly didn't care.
Only now did she understand why He Shu had cried that day when bringing her the strawberry crepe cake.
Was it because she pitied how terrible her living conditions were?
Was she feeling bad for her?
Lu Yinghan wasn't touched in the slightest; instead, she found it somewhat absurd.
That night, she had also asked Butler Liu to take the strawberry crepe cake back.
“Miss, this dessert is really delicious. You should give it a try...”
And Madam had been the one to bring it over.
Lu Yinghan had simply shaken her head and pushed the cake back.
“Grandpa Butler, I know. You must have thought to give me a dessert, and then she saw it.”
If Grandpa Butler had been the one giving it to her, she would have actually wanted to eat it.
When she was little, she would constantly watch Lu Xiong, He Shu, and her brothers bring back countless delicious treats for Lu Xuanyao.
She would stand off to the side, longing to try some too.
But Lu Xiong had always brushed her off, promising he would buy her some next time.
Yet time and time again, that “next time” never came.
Instead, more and more cakes piled up in the refrigerator.
All of them were leftovers Lu Xuanyao hadn't finished.
He would rather let those unfinished cakes sit in the fridge than remember his promise to buy her one?
Or was she simply an afterthought to him, completely insignificant?
“Hmph...”
With a cold scoff, the pen in Lu Yinghan's hand paused briefly.
She shook her head forcefully, trying to push them out of her thoughts.
In this life, they had indeed made a few changes.
But their fundamental nature would never change.
Lu Yinghan understood this with absolute clarity.
Even if they treated her better now, it was merely to satisfy their own cheap pity.
The premise behind all of this was that they had realized they did her wrong.
They would move themselves with self-serving guilt, treat her a little better for a brief moment, and then swiftly relapse into their old ways.
There was truly no point to it.
Lu Yinghan's eyes turned completely cold.
She stared fixedly at the exercise book in front of her, cold indifference radiating from her gaze.
She tightened her grip on the pencil in her hand...
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