The phone on the other end remained silent for several seconds.
Su Jianheng’s heart jumped straight to his throat.
Would his wife believe it?
The very next moment, Fang Meixia’s loud and fiery voice echoed throughout the entire office.
“Su Jianheng, if you have nothing better to do than go to the factory next door and sew shoe soles, I don’t have time to listen to your nonsense!”
Beep, beep, beep.
The other side hung up.
Su Jianheng: “(Sigh)”
Seeing Su Jianheng’s awkward expression, Su Ning wanted to laugh but didn’t dare, her shoulders trembling slightly as she held it in.
So her mother had such a fiery personality.
Her mouth was as sharp as if it had been dipped in poison.
You couldn’t tell from the photograph; you could only see that her mother possessed peerless beauty.
“If you want to laugh, go ahead.”
Su Jianheng was genuinely afraid Su Ning would burst from holding it in.
“Hahaha, hahaha, hahaha, hahaha, hahaha!”
Su Ning obeyed completely, laughing so hard that her body shook like a blooming flower as she collapsed onto the sofa.
Su Nanye let out a chuckle as well.
Su Jianheng picked up a pen from his desk and threw it at him. “What are you laughing at, kid? Shut up!”
Su Nanye: “(Silence)”
Su Nanye’s mouth straightened out, instantly losing his smile.
Looking at his well-behaved and soft daughter, Su Jianheng’s voice unconsciously softened quite a bit. “This matter is indeed hard to believe. Your mother is currently out of town negotiating business. Once she comes back, I will take you to see her right away.”
“Once she sees you, she will definitely believe it.”
With this kind of face, a paternity test wasn’t even necessary.
Having laughed to her heart’s content, Su Ning straightened up. “Oh.”
Sensing that Su Ning was unhappy, Su Jianheng stood up from his desk, walked over to the edge of the sofa, and sat down right next to her. “Xiao Ning, did Daddy do something to upset you?”
Su Nanye rolled his eyes dramatically.
He was already calling himself daddy?
This old man changed his face way too fast!
Su Nanye squeezed right between the two of them and sat down. “Dad, what do you think? Just now, Auntie Wu said those things to Little Sister. Who would be happy hearing that?”
Su Jianheng’s deep eyes glared at Su Nanye, his dyed hair looking like an absolute thorn in his side. “Why are you sitting in the middle? Get lost!”
“Don’t yell at my brother!”
Su Ning unconditionally defended her older brother.
Su Nanye once again felt a wave of warmth, like lying under a thick, cozy blanket in the dead of winter.
His sister was just too good to him!
Their parents had been busy with work and living apart for all these years.
He couldn’t even remember the last time he had felt any family affection.
His nose suddenly stung, but he tilted his head back to keep the tears from falling.
A real man! How could he let others see him cry?
Su Ning suddenly noticed that her giant, rainbow-haired, single-eyed brother was staring forty-five degrees up at the ceiling with a deep frown on his face. “Brother, are you striking a pose right now? It looks so ugly!”
Su Nanye: “(Speechless)”
Right, now it felt like he had just pissed the bed while wrapped in that thick blanket.
Su Jianheng was naturally glad that his children had such a good relationship.
It showed they had raised them well.
So he stopped minding that Su Nanye was sitting in the middle and asked Su Ning, “You said you time-traveled from twenty years in the future. What are your mom and dad like twenty years from now? Are our feelings good?”
Su Jianheng cared deeply about this point.
Su Nanye wanted to know as well.
When he was little, his parents’ relationship had been pretty good.
For some reason, the two of them suddenly started arguing frequently until they ended up living separately.
If Su Ning hadn’t appeared, he would have thought his parents were going to divorce after his college entrance exams.
Su Ning lowered her long, slender eyelashes and shook her head.
Su Jianheng’s heart suddenly plummeted.
“Your mother and I separated?”
Su Nanye’s face fell.
His guess had been right on target!
Su Ning looked at her father, her voice dropping a little. “We didn’t separate. You and Mom both passed away together one month after I was born, two years from now.”
“As long as we didn’t separate, that’s good.” Su Jianheng’s emotions eased slightly before he reacted a second later. “Wait, what? We both passed away together?”
“Two years from now, your mother and I will only be in our forties. How could we pass away?”
Su Nanye was completely caught off guard as well, his expression turning somewhat dazed.
Su Ning let out a breath. “People don’t only die when they grow old.”
Over the years, she had experienced the sudden passing of loved ones several times.
Su Nanye’s voice sounded a bit dry. “What happened?”
Su Ning was just about to say something when the office door was pushed open. “President Su, the freshly squeezed orange juice is here.”
It was Wu Lili who walked in.
She bent over to hand the orange juice to Su Jianheng on the sofa.
There was a look of deep astonishment in her eyes.
Why were these three people still sitting together on the sofa?
What had happened while she was gone?
Su Jianheng took the orange juice and handed it to Su Ning. Remembering his son’s words earlier, he looked at Wu Lili and commanded, “Apologize to Xiao Ning.”
Wu Lili furrowed her brow. “What? Apologize to whom?”
Su Nanye pointed at Su Ning. “To her.”
Wu Lili instantly burned with fury. “Why should I? What kind of thing is she?”
Su Jianheng’s cold voice rang out in the air. “If you don’t apologize, you don’t need to come to work tomorrow.”
Wu Lili: “(Gasp)”
Wu Lili had no idea what medicine Su Jianheng had taken wrong to actually want her to apologize to a strange girl.
She was his secretary!
“President Su!”
Unwilling to apologize, Wu Lili gave a light stamp of her foot, her tone carrying a hint of spoiled grievance.
Su Ning almost gagged, her gaze moving casually to rest on Su Jianheng.
Even though her father had died to save her mother, did he really have nothing to do with Wu Lili?
And why had he tacitly allowed Wu Lili to treat her brother like that?
Su Jianheng’s expression turned even colder, his voice frosty like ice and full of crushing pressure. “It looks like you don’t want to work here anymore.”
Wu Lili’s face turned pale and green in alternating flashes.
Of course she wanted this job; the pay was high and everyone treated her like royalty.
Gritting her teeth, she looked at Su Ning. “I’m sorry.”
Even though she was sitting down, Su Ning’s aura was entirely that of a high-and-mighty young miss. “Apologizing to me isn’t enough. Apologize to my brother, and you are never allowed to scold my brother again!”
Brother?
Wu Lili was completely baffled. “President Su, I’m sorry.”
Su Jianheng: “(Facepalm)”
Su Jianheng had never seen someone so foolish. “Apologize to my son, not to me!”
Wu Lili’s brain was about to fry.
What did that mean?
Su Nanye’s sister?
Was this girl the child Su Jianheng had with some woman outside?
Looking closer, she really did look a bit like Su Jianheng.
Wu Lili’s gaze turned icy.
Who on earth had hooked up with Su Jianheng so early and beaten her to the punch by bearing him a child?
This girl was really smart, sucking up to Su Nanye!
Reluctantly, she looked at Su Nanye. “I’m sorry.”
Su Nanye raised an eyebrow with a cocky attitude. “Get out.”
Wu Lili was about to die of anger.
Could anyone just boss her around now?
Yet Su Jianheng didn’t say another word, and that girl was also haughtily looking her up and down.
Wu Lili once again felt an incomparable sense of humiliation and could only walk out of the office.
She had to find out who Su Jianheng had this girl with.
Once Fang Meixia found out, she would definitely divorce him, and she could just step right in and take advantage of the vulnerable moment!
Su Ning didn’t even want to drink the orange juice Wu Lili had bought.
She shoved it to Su Nanye. “Brother, you drink it.”
For some reason, Su Nanye didn’t want to drink it either and shoved it to Su Jianheng. “Dad, you drink it.”
Su Jianheng: “(Speechless)”
A vein throbbed at Su Jianheng’s temple. He placed the orange juice on the coffee table and continued the previous topic: “How did your mother and I die?”