“Let’s go, let’s go eat.
I’ll have someone take you back later,”
Zhong Yumeng called Zhou Yining to go downstairs to eat.
Her parents had to manage company affairs, so they were very busy.
Zhong Yumeng usually ate alone, so she was quite happy to have a friend with her.
“Eat more.
You lectured me all afternoon.
I had someone cook pear soup.
Take a bottle with you later, or your throat will hurt tomorrow.”
Zhou Yining didn’t decline.
She didn’t expect Zhong Yumeng to be so thoughtful.
“Okay, thank you.”
“What are you thanking me for?
You said so much for my sake.
Eat quickly,”
Zhong Yumeng said quickly.
“Okay.”
Zhou Yining picked up the food in front of her and ate.
After all, it was a wealthy family, and the food cooked by the chef tasted very good, no worse than the food made by the aunt at Jiang Xizhi’s house.
Zhou Yining ate very happily.
Plus, with the matter of Lin Shaohui settled, Zhou Yining was even more relieved.
After Zhou Yining had dinner and rested for a while, Zhong Yumeng arranged for the driver to take her back.
When she left, she didn’t forget to give her a thermos of pear soup.
Zhou Yining glanced at it.
Zhong Yumeng’s driver was driving a Mercedes-Benz G-Class, which cost more than two million.
After all, Zhong Yumeng’s family was rich, so it was normal for the driver to drive a car of this price.
She sat in the back seat, and soon, the driver sent Zhou Yining back according to the address.
When Zhou Yining arrived home, it was almost 8 o’clock.
When she got out of the G-Class, she happened to meet Zhou Jiaming, who had just returned from a classmate’s house.
Zhou Yining didn’t see Zhou Jiaming.
She got out of the car with the thermos and walked towards the residential area.
Zhou Jiaming stared at the car like a thief.
He saw that the car was rare and quite good-looking, and thought it should be expensive.
Zhou Jiaming took a picture with his phone and looked at Zhou Yining, who was already walking away, with a wicked smile.
Zhou Jiaming searched the car logo and model and found that the car was actually worth more than two million.
His mouth widened.
Zhou Jiaming couldn’t wait to run to the residential area.
Zhou Yining had just entered the door for a while when Zhou Jiaming returned, panting.
“Mom, Mom, I know where Zhou Yining went.”
Zhou Jiaming entered the house and said something out of nowhere.
Zhou Yining had just put the thermos on her desk.
She got up and walked to the living room.
“Are you sick, Zhou Jiaming?
Okay, then tell me where I went.”
As Zhou Yining spoke, she crossed her arms and stared straight at Zhou Jiaming.
“Mom, look at her.
She now dares to threaten me openly.”
Zhao Xiuna glanced at Zhou Yining and patted her precious son on the back.
“Yining, your brother is also doing this for your own good.
It’s been two weeks.
You’re not at home on Sundays.
Mom and Dad are very worried about you.”
Zhou Yining laughed mockingly.
“Are you worried about me, or are you afraid that there’s no one at home to help you work?”
“Yining, how can you say that?
Is that what I mean?”
“That’s right.
How can you talk to Mom like that?” Zhou Jiaming echoed.
Then, he showed a lewd smile.
“Mom, when I came back from my classmate’s house just now, I saw Zhou Yining getting out of a luxury car.
Don’t tell me she’s hooked up with some big boss?”
“Zhou Jiaming, you’re disgusting.
The things you think of are just as disgusting.
With your kind of cockroach in the gutter, don’t even think about achieving anything great in the future.
Just live and die.”
Zhou Yining only felt disgusted.
How did this family’s brains grow?
She cut her hair, and Zhao Xiuna said that she was dating at school.
Now, she was just going to tutor a classmate, and Zhou Jiaming said she was going to hook up with a rich man.
“You still have the nerve to talk about me?
How old are you?
You already know how to hook up with rich men.
Don’t tell me you’ll have a child before you graduate from high school.”
Seeing that Zhou Yining’s face was not good, Zhou Jiaming immediately hid behind Zhao Xiuna.
Zhao Xiuna’s face was also very ugly.
She stared at Zhou Yining.
“Tell me honestly, is what your brother said true?”
“I don’t have a brother.
This kind of lewd man who likes to gossip doesn’t deserve to be my brother.”
As Zhou Yining spoke, she wanted to go back to the dining room to rest, but Zhao Xiuna grabbed her wrist.
“Yining, you can’t be confused.
You’re not even 18 years old yet.
You can’t do this kind of thing, or how will your dad and I face people in the future?”
Zhao Xiuna’s eyes were red with anxiety.
Zhou Yining broke free from Zhao Xiuna’s hand.
“In the end, it’s still for your own face, not for me.
I’ll only explain once, listen carefully.
That’s my classmate’s car.
We were studying all afternoon.
I ate at her house.
She saw that it was already dark, so she had her family’s car send me back.
It’s as simple as that.
If you insist on thinking in an unbearable direction, then I can’t help it.”
“Classmate is also a male classmate,” Zhou Jiaming muttered softly behind Zhao Xiuna.
Zhou Yining glanced at him coldly, then met Zhao Xiuna’s eyes.
Zhao Xiuna was already crying.
She reached out to grab Zhou Yining, but Zhou Yining took a step back and dodged.
“If you have something to say, just say it.
Don’t pull me around.”
Zhou Yining said.
Zhao Xiuna was speechless.
If it were the past, her daughter would never be so indifferent when she saw her crying.
“Yining, why have you changed so much now? Mom is really doing this for your own good…”
“I’ve already explained it to you, but you don’t believe me, so I can’t help it.
After all, I can’t wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep,”
Zhou Yining said, and went straight to the dining room.
Zhao Xiuna didn’t expect her daughter to leave like that.
She wanted to ask more questions, but when she remembered Zhou Yining’s cold eyes just now, she didn’t dare to go over.
She looked at Zhou Jiaming.
“Jiaming, did you see anyone else getting out of that car?”
Zhou Jiaming shook his fingers and said dryly,
“No, just she got out of it, but I checked.
That car is a G-Class.
It really costs more than two million.
With Zhou Yining’s appearance, how could she know such a rich classmate?
I don’t believe it anyway.”
“What if?
Your sister said it was a classmate.
Let’s just leave it at that.
Don’t talk nonsense in the future, or you’ll push your sister away.
After your dad and I are gone, who will help you?” Zhao Xiuna said, wiping her tears.
“I don’t need her help.
She’s so bad at studying.
She won’t be able to find a job in the future.
Don’t come to me to borrow money.
I don’t have a poor sister like her,” Zhou Jiaming said unconvinced.
They were talking loudly, and Zhou Yining could hear them in the dining room.
Of course, the main reason was that the house was too small, only a little over 60 square meters.
Speaking a little louder could be heard.
Zhou Yining mocked,
“That’s great.
I don’t have a mentally retarded brother like you either.
Even if you starve to death in front of me in the future, it won’t have anything to do with me.”
“Okay, that’s enough, you two, stop talking, stop talking, Yining, how can you curse your brother to die?”
Zhao Xiuna started crying again.
“I don’t want to, but who told him to spew shit tonight?
I hate people who gossip the most,” Zhou Yining said unceremoniously.
She had already understood these past few days that in this family, if she didn’t resist, she would be PUAed to death.
She wasn’t the original owner, and she had no feelings for these people, so she didn’t need to save them any face.
Zhou Jiaming was about to explode with anger.
Zhao Xiuna had no choice but to persuade Zhou Jiaming in the living room for a long time.
Zhou Yining had already taken her clothes to take a shower.
She had been lecturing all day, so she was a little tired.
After Zhou Yining came out of the shower, she went back to the bed in the dining room, reached for the thermos, and drank a few sips of the pear soup inside.
Zhou Yining felt much better.
Zhou Yining opened her phone and saw that Jiang Xizhi had sent a message on WeChat.
Jiang Xizhi: [Are you home yet? Are you busy this afternoon?]
It was a WeChat message sent at 6 o’clock in the afternoon.
Zhou Yining had been eating and didn’t look at her phone.
She was in a hurry to take a shower when she got back, and it was already after 9 o’clock.
Zhou Yining quickly typed a reply.
Zhou Yining: [I’ve been back for a while.
I just took a shower.
What about you?
What are you doing?]
Jiang Xizhi had been waiting for Zhou Yining’s reply.
She didn’t know what she had been doing all night.
Anyway, her attention was focused on her phone, waiting for Zhou Yining to reply to her.
When she saw the reply, Jiang Xizhi’s eyes lit up.
Jiang Xizhi: [Playing on my phone. Are you busy?]
Zhou Yining: [A little. I have a lot of things to do, but I’m free now.]
Jiang Xizhi: [Okay, then you should rest early.]
Zhou Yining: [Okay, if I’m free tomorrow, I’ll go find you.]
Jiang Xizhi: [Waiting for you. (Cat being cute.jpg)]
After chatting with Jiang Xizhi for a while, Zhou Yining played with her phone while drinking pear soup.
She only had 600 yuan on her, so the plan to earn money by writing short stories had to be put on the agenda.
In the future, she would go home for lunch and then leave, and she should be able to squeeze out more than an hour to write.
Zhou Yining rested for a while and went to bed early.
High school students lacked sleep the most.
The next morning, Zhou Yining was busy with classes all morning.
She was almost lecturing people, of course, the snacks on Zhou Yining’s desk were piled up like a small mountain again.
At noon, she ate a simple meal and came out of her house.
Zhou Yining went to the Internet cafe and wrote about 3,000 words before rushing to school.
During the first class in the afternoon, Zhou Yining received a message from Zhong Yumeng.
Zhong Yumeng: [I got that video. Let’s talk in detail at dinner later.]
Zhou Yining: [Okay, see you later.]
Zhou Yining thought that she had promised Jiang Xizhi to go find her, and she would be going to find Zhong Yumeng during dinner later.
Therefore, Zhou Yining simply went downstairs to Class 1 after the first class.
“Excuse me, can you call Jiang Xizhi for me?” Zhou Yining grabbed a student who came out of Class 1 and said.
The student shouted inside, “Jiang Xizhi, someone is looking for you.”
Jiang Xizhi was originally doing problems, and because she didn’t want to disappoint Zhou Yining, she had been working very hard on math recently.
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