He Shu and Lu Xiong stood in the room, facing each other, but neither could say a word…
“I’ll check tomorrow if there are any empty rooms in the house…”
For Yingying to stay in.
Before Lu Xiong could finish, He Shu shot him a glare, grabbed her pajamas, and headed off to wash up.
She didn’t want to talk to Lu Xiong right now.
If it weren’t for him, would she have been subjected to that kind of look from Lu Yinghan tonight?
And the school matter—he’d just sent her off without a word.
Not even asking for her opinion.
He Shu started pouting again, feeling wronged, and quietly sobbed as she washed.
Meanwhile, in the storage room, Lu Yinghan looked with satisfaction at her homework notebook filled with writing, washed up, and went straight to sleep.
The next day, Lu Yinghan, who woke up at six, put on her backpack early and left the Lu residence.
Not long after she left, He Shu, still in her pajamas, hurried into the kitchen.
“Madam? Are you going out to play with the young miss today?”
Butler Liu, who was clearing the dishes, was a bit surprised to see the madam up so early.
Usually, she only got up this early when she was going out with the young miss.
“Where’s Yingying?”
He Shu scanned the dining room, looking for Lu Yinghan.
“The young miss has already left for school. Did you need something with her, Madam?”
“She left for school at 6:40?!”
He Shu’s voice went sharp, completely losing the hoarseness of just waking up.
“Yes, Madam… The young miss usually leaves for school around this time.”
He Shu’s shoulders drooped in disappointment. Even if she went back to bed now, she wouldn’t be able to sleep.
“Butler Liu, prepare some coffee and breakfast for me.”
“Very well, Madam. Please wait a moment.”
Butler Liu nodded at He Shu with a smile and began making her breakfast.
Lu Xiong was almost always up at five, reading the newspaper, drinking coffee, and eating breakfast.
Then he’d go for his morning exercise around the neighborhood.
When he came back and saw He Shu eating in the dining room, he froze on the spot.
Shocked, he turned his head to look ahead, blinked, then looked back at the dining room.
“Honey?!”
The word burst out of his mouth in surprise.
“Are you going out to play with Yaoyao today? Where to? Is it far? Why are you up so early?”
His questions made He Shu feel inexplicably annoyed.
“I wanted to get up to take Yingying to school!”
Lu Xiong gave a simple, foolish smile.
“Oh, I see. Well, you can go wake her up now, or it’ll be too late.”
He Shu gave her husband a look like he was an idiot.
“She’s already gone to school. Didn’t you know?”
Lu Xiong’s smile froze on his face.
“Now? School?”
“Yes, she left not long after finishing breakfast.”
Lu Xiong’s brow furrowed slightly.
“It’s fine, honey. We’ll wait for Yingying to come back tonight and tell her that we’ll drive her to school tomorrow.”
He Shu nodded listlessly.
Lu Xiong sat down right next to He Shu, attentively offering her food, grinning as he tried to feed her, hoping to make her forget last night’s anger.
He Shu silently ate the food he offered.
That counted as forgiveness.
Lu Xiong’s lips finally curled upward.
His mood visibly improved.
“Here, here, have some bacon.”
Lu Xiong quickly took the opportunity to give her more.
“Enough! Find a proper room today! For Yingying. How ridiculous is it for her to be seen like that? The Miss Lu living in a storage room?”
Lu Xiong nodded repeatedly.
“Yes, yes, you’re right. I’ll go look into it today!”
He Shu wiped her mouth and went back to her room to do her skincare.
Lu Xiong’s expression turned serious. He set down his fork, looked coldly at Butler Liu, and said, “Find a suitable room for the young miss by the end of today.”
This was Lu Xiong’s retaliation against Butler Liu.
After all, it was Butler Liu who had “tattled” to He Shu last night.
Butler Liu bowed respectfully to Lu Xiong.
But inwardly, he disagreed with Lu Xiong’s approach. Still, he had no reason or right to refuse or confront him.
After all, when he was originally told to arrange a room for the young miss, the guest rooms were off-limits.
“Master, if we exclude the guest rooms, there are no spare rooms left for the young miss.”
Lu Xiong’s brows knitted tightly.
He looked at Butler Liu with a warning in his eyes.
Butler Liu met Lu Xiong’s gaze with composure, showing not a trace of fear.
“Find a guest room that isn’t used much and give it to the young miss.”
“Yes.”
Butler Liu acknowledged in a low voice.
Only then did Lu Xiong leave the dining room to attend to his own matters.
Butler Liu had the servants clear the dishes, then promptly called in a renovation crew to make some adjustments to the guest room.
They had to give the young miss a surprise before she came home!
Over at the Lu residence, the room was being renovated with great bustle. The designer Butler Liu had brought in began planning the layout for Lu Yinghan based on Butler Liu’s description.
Meanwhile, at school, Lu Yinghan was dealing with a headache—the contents of her desk.
The desk was a classic rosewood desk with a hollow compartment underneath.
After Lu Yinghan sat down, she shoved her backpack straight in.
“Hiss!”
A sharp, stinging pain made her pull her hand out immediately. She abandoned the backpack and let it drop to the floor.
The commotion was loud enough to make the whole class turn and look at her.
Lu Yinghan quickly lowered her head to peer inside her desk.
The inside was covered with small thumbtacks, the bottoms of which had already been glued down by them, so when she had just put her hand in, these tacks had still mercilessly hurt her.
Lu Yinghan looked at the situation inside the desk, then immediately raised her head to look at these children.
Sure enough, more than half of the class was secretly laughing at her.
The moment they met her gaze, they immediately turned their heads and busied themselves with what they were doing.
Her eyes narrowed slightly.
Watching these children pretend to do their homework, Lu Yinghan let out a cold laugh, then took out a small knife from her pencil case.
She began to pry out the thumbtacks one by one.
The sound of the knife striking against the tacks was especially piercing in the quiet classroom.
There were also some sharp, teeth-grating sounds.
Everyone started off gloating, but upon hearing Lu Yinghan rhythmically prying out the tacks one by one,
the sense of luck in their hearts gradually extinguished.
A chill began to creep up their spines.
They felt that if they angered Lu Yinghan again, the next second, she would directly pick up the knife and charge at them.
Everyone involuntarily shuddered.
The hands holding their books began to tremble.
“Hey… should we mess with her again next time?”
“Hmm… let’s see, she feels a bit scary.”
“Yeah! Did you see how skilled she is with that knife…”
The class began to whisper among themselves.
A low buzz filled the room.
Xie Chengsheng walked into the classroom and immediately sensed that the atmosphere was different from usual.
He instantly looked toward Lu Yinghan’s seat.
He saw her crouching on the ground, surrounded by thumbtacks scattered all over, some with glue still stuck to their bottoms.
On Lu Yinghan’s arms, there were also some red, long, thin scars, quite a few in number.
Xie Chengsheng immediately understood what had happened.
He looked at the other students in the class, some of whom lowered their heads guiltily, and he understood right away.
His brows furrowed slightly.
Tsk.