Chapter 189 - The New Neighbors

The morning sun shone brightly in the sky.

The Sunday holiday had ended and Mo Roulan had to wake up when the alarm clock rang.

Today she had college and Mo Chen also had to go to school.

An hour later, Mo Roulan exited her room and entered the dining room.

"Good Morning, Mom"

"Good Morning, Chenchen"

She greeted her small family and was about to sit down for breakfast but at this moment, she heard the doorbell ringing.

Mo Roulan frowned in confusion and Lin Qianru had the same face. 

"I will go and see."

She said firmly when she saw that her mother was about to get up from the chair. 

However, now Lin Qianru didn't obey her daughter so easily.

Although she didn't confront Mo Roulan after whatever He Jian had told her, inside her heart she had grudges that Mo Roulan didn't tell her anything and hid so many things.

She thought that Mo Roulan doesn't take her as her strong mother who had the right to know everything about her children at least when she was that young.

So Lin Qianru doesn't want to look weak anymore in front of her daughter.   

She stood up from the chair and looked at her already standing daughter with narrowed eyes.

"I am your mother and eldest in this house so I should go and look who is there at the door."

Mo Roulan was surprised at this sudden change of behavior in her mother. She raised her eyebrows as she glanced at Mo Chen in a questioning manner who shook his head innocently indicating that he doesn't know anything.

Mo Roulan frowned and looked back at her mother.

The doorbell rang again and Mo Roulan moved her eyes away from her mother and looked towards the door.

The next moment she saw her mother leaving the dining room quickly as if she was afraid that Mo Roulan would leave before her.

Mo Roulan chuckled a little as she glanced at her mother disappearing back and sat down on the chair with a sigh.

It was just opening the door.

Why was her mother behaving so childishly?

Mo Roulan smiled as she served the food on her plate.

A few moments later, Lin Qinaru entered the dining room with a joyous smile on her lips. Mo Roulan smiled seeing this and asked her mother teasingly

"Mom, what did you get to make you smile so much?"

Lin Qianru's smile immediately disappeared and she looked at her daughter with narrowed eyes.

"Why should I tell you when you don't tell me anything?"

Mo Roulan again looked at the loss of words.

"What are you trying to say, Mom? Did I do anything wrong?"

"Yes, you did…you …"

Lin Qianru pointed her finger at her daughter as she stopped speaking suddenly. She had wanted to say many things but she suddenly remembered the promise she had made to He Jian.

'Auntie don't tell Lanlan that I told you all this otherwise she will get very angry with me.' CEO He had said with a wooden face.

Lin Qianru who knew her daughter that much immediately agreed with He Jian's words and hence promised her.

So now she couldn't say anything except 'you'.

Frustrated Lin Qinaru looked away from her daughter and murmured

"I just don't want to talk to you."

Mo Roulan's mouth was parted as she looked at her mother speechlessly while Mo Chen just shook his head at this mother-daughter childish banter like an elder of the house.

Picking up his school bag from the chair, he announced with a serious face

"I am going to school. I am not free to fight childishly like you two ladies."

Mo Roulan's lips twitched when she heard her brother's words.

"Come here my busy man …I'll make you busier…"

She was about to grab her brother and spank him for what he had said just now. However, Mo Chen seemed to have predicted his sister's move and easily slipped away from her hand.

"Hahaha…Jiejie…"

Mo Chen laughed nervously when he was about to get caught but still slipped away from Mo Roulan's hand. At the door of the dining room, he suddenly turned around and stuck his tongue out while looking at Mo Roulan.

"You stinky boy…"

Mo Roulan pretended to get up from her chair and Mo Chen laughed as he immediately ran away from there.

With a breathless laugh, Mo Roulan sat back down on her chair.

With the same smile on her lips, she looked at her mother who didn't seem to be amused at all.

Lin Qianru raised her eyebrows questioningly at her daughter who immediately shook her head with a nervous smile.

Her face only got more emotionless with this act of hers and she said coldly

"Eat and go away."

Mo Roulan immediately picked her chopsticks as she wondered inside her heart whether her mother's change of behavior was because of menopause.   

It could be…

With this tacit understanding, she finished her breakfast silently and then got up from the chair.

"I am leaving, Mom"

Mo Roulan told her mother as she picked her bag from the chair beside her.

Lin Qianru only raised her head to glance at her daughter when Mo Roulan turned around to leave the room. She then glanced at the empty plate in which Mo Roulan was eating before and nodded her head in satisfaction.

On the other hand, Mo Roulan exited her apartment. She turned to walk towards the elevator but had to stop when she heard someone's voice.

"Excuse me, do you live in this apartment? Is the woman living inside your mother?"

The person asked without even waiting for Mo Roulan to turn around.

Mo Roulan frowned in confusion. According to her knowledge, on this floor, only she with her family and He Jian lived. All other apartments were vacant.

She slowly turned around to look at the person with a polite smile on her lips.. However, when she saw the face of the person, she couldn't maintain that polite smile on her lips anymore.