Tsk.
She had only wanted to disgust Ji Mo a little.
Instead, she’d scared her into fainting.
Who knew whether she had really passed out or was just pretending? If it was real, then that little white lotus was far more fragile than she looked.
Xu Jingya, however, didn’t rush to check on Ji Mo.
Instead, she hurried over and grabbed Li Wangshu.
“Why are you leaving in such a hurry? You just got here.”
Li Wangshu checked the time.
“Your house is pretty far from the train station. My train leaves at two this afternoon, and it’s already almost noon. I’m worried I won’t make it.”
Seeing that there didn’t seem to be any buses nearby, she added,
“Could you please have someone drive me there?”
“I’ll have someone buy you a plane ticket…”
Ji Father had barely finished speaking before he saw Li Wangshu shake her head.
“My home is in a county town. There’s no airport there, and the high-speed railway hasn’t reached it yet. Taking additional transportation would only make the trip more troublesome.”
Seeing that the couple still had no intention of letting her go, she could only explain further.
“Time is precious. I don’t want to disrupt my study schedule. I really can’t miss the two o’clock train.”
In the end, Ji Father and Ji Mother personally drove Li Wangshu back to the train station.
The two brothers stayed behind to look after the unconscious Ji Mo.
Watching Li Wangshu walk into the station without looking back even once, Xu Jingya held onto Ji Huaiyang’s arm and nearly collapsed herself.
“She really just left…”
“She didn’t even drink a glass of water in our house.”
“The child has emotional scars,” Ji Huaiyang said, remaining much calmer now.
“We can’t rush things.”
“It’s actually a good thing that she’s so close to her adoptive parents.”
“At least we know she was treated well afterward.”
Thinking of everything his daughter had suffered, Ji Huaiyang clenched his jaw.
“I’ll have people make the arrangements.”
“After the college entrance exam, we’ll visit them personally.”
“We’ll see our daughter…”
“And thank the people who raised her.”
“But… will they let her go?”
“Will they allow us to bring Little Moon back?”
“If they truly love her, they should understand that only by coming to Baijing can she receive the best education.”
“The place where she grew up doesn’t have a good education system.”
“Even if she gets into college, it’ll probably only be a vocational college.”
“We’ll bring her back and let her repeat her final year of high school.”
“As for her adoptive parents…”
“If they only raised Little Moon because they wanted something in return, then that’s even better.”
“We’ll simply give them enough money.”
“That should solve everything.”
…
Meanwhile, Li Wangshu was already lying on her sleeper berth.
She had spent the past two days constantly traveling.
She was utterly exhausted.
Just as she was about to get some sleep, Ji Lian appeared again.
“I think… I just felt something warm.”
“Was that… love?”
“I felt their love!”
“But why did you leave so soon?”
“That much love isn’t enough.”
“You need even more.”
“Haste makes waste.”
Li Wangshu’s reply was only half sincere.
Mostly, she was trying to comfort the original owner.
Of course she could have stayed, just like the heroines in those novels where the real heiress already knew the future and returned to seize everything that belonged to her.
But she was Li Wangshu.
Not Ji Lian.
As gratitude for being given a second life, she was willing to fulfill Ji Lian’s wishes.
At the same time, she wanted to live her own life.
“Don’t worry.”
“The college entrance exam is right around the corner.”
“I’m applying to a university in Baijing.”
“There will be plenty of opportunities to interact with them later.”
“But…”
“Be quiet.”
“…Okay.”
Ji Lian fell silent once more.
The two of them had interacted like this for the past several days.
Ever since discovering that the ghost couldn’t actually hurt her, Li Wangshu rarely bothered to hide her bad temper.
After all, anyone would become irritable when their peaceful life was suddenly thrown into chaos.
…
The train finally arrived around noon the following day.
“Dad? Why are you here?”
The moment she walked out of the station, she saw her father waving at her.
“Of course I came to pick you up.”
“You must be exhausted.”
“Sigh…”
“Forty hours of traveling back and forth. Even a grown man would have trouble enduring that.”
“Come on.”
“Let’s go home.”
“Eat something and get some sleep.”
“Don’t you still have studying to do this afternoon?”
Along the way, her father chatted nonstop.
Yet he never once asked about the family reunion.
Her mother was the same.
She simply kept putting food into Li Wangshu’s bowl.
She looked incredibly nervous but still forced herself not to ask anything.
“I didn’t acknowledge them.”
Originally, Li Wangshu had planned to explain everything after the exam.
But seeing how cautiously her parents were behaving made her heart ache.
“My only father and mother will always be the two of you.”
“As for those people…”
“If possible, I won’t keep in touch with them.”
“If I have to, it’ll only be as ordinary relatives…”
Before she could finish speaking, her mother slammed the table.
Liu Ping had always been straightforward and fiery.
“Our Moon is such an outstanding girl!”
“What?”
“They actually dared not accept you?”
“Hey, hey!”
Her father, Li Guangwei, immediately stepped in to calm his wife down.
“Keep your voice down.”
“You’re going to scare our daughter.”
“No, Old Li.”
“I told you that when Moon went to Baijing, you should’ve gone with her.”
“See?”
“They must’ve bullied her.”
Rolling up her sleeves, Liu Ping continued angrily,
“Did they look down on you because you grew up in our little county?”
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“Those are Moon’s biological parents.”
“They’d surely be overjoyed to see her.”
“Then why doesn’t our Moon want to go back?”
“Mom…”
Li Wangshu looked at Liu Ping pitifully.
“Are you trying to send me away?”
“Who said I want to send you away?”
Liu Ping’s temper flared quickly.
Her tears came just as fast.
Her eyes immediately reddened.
“You’re my precious daughter.”
“How could I ever bear to let you go?”
“Then why do you want me to acknowledge them?”
“They’re…”
“They are your biological parents after all.”
“I heard they’re much richer than we are.”
“If they truly love you, that’s a good thing.”
Li Wangshu hugged Liu Ping tightly.
“Mom…”
“I don’t care how rich they are.”
“I only care about you and Dad.”
“You silly child.”
…
The college entrance exam went very smoothly.
Although the results wouldn’t be released for a while, she felt confident there wouldn’t be any problems.
Afterward, she helped her parents at their snack stall.
Once the busiest rush was over, her parents chased her into a quiet corner to continue studying.
When the entire Ji family arrived, they saw a brightly lit desk lamp glowing in one dim corner of the shop.
Seated at the table beneath it was a casually dressed young girl, completely absorbed in her books.
The restaurant bustled with customers coming and going.
Yet she never once looked up.
It was as though the surrounding noise didn’t affect her in the slightest.