Chapter 16

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Go to work quickly. I’ll pick you up in the afternoon,” Lin Ziqian said, pretending to be gentle.

Wu Man, who was about to leave, was so disgusted by this sentence that she almost vomited. Was this person addicted to acting in front of her? She glanced at Lin Ziqian coldly. “There’s no need for that. I’ll stay at my mother’s house for the next two days. We’ll talk about it when you’ve settled the matter.”

Lin Ziqian wanted to say something more, but Wu Man quickly distanced herself from him and said in a swift tone, “It’s getting late. I remember that you still have to go to work today. If you keep delaying like this, I’m afraid you’ll be late.”

Seeing that Wu Man had left, Lin Ziqian wanted to catch up to her. He looked at the time and changed his mind. Although he had Wang Jiaojiao backing him up and was in the limelight in the company for a time, being late meant being late, the full attendance award that should be deducted was no less. Moreover, the listed company was very strict. Even asking for leave required a salary deduction. Lin Ziqian calculated his salary and could only go to work resentfully.

Wu Man, who was disturbed by the incident this morning, had been absent-minded all day. When she got off work, she realized that she had unconsciously drawn a bunch of unknown things on the paper beside her.

Wu Man sighed, crumpled the paper into a ball, and threw it into the trash can. Wu Man returned to her parents’ house just as she had said. As soon as she entered the house, Wu Man felt that the atmosphere was a little unusual. Her parents’ faces were filled with uncontrollable joy, and they were a little surprised to see her.

“Dad, Mom, I’m back.” She couldn’t sense anything wrong, so she braced herself to greet the two elders. It was normal for the two elders to be surprised, and she had forgotten to inform them before she came back. It had been a long time since she came back, so it was a surprise that she came home without saying anything. At least the two elders looked exceptionally happy and pulled her onto the sofa to talk about their daily lives.

“You didn’t even tell me you were coming back. Let Mom take a look. Aiyo, how did you lose so much weight again? Did you not eat properly again?” Mother Wu looked at her daughter lovingly and held her hand with concern as she rambled on.

Wu Man did not listen to a single word. She keenly grasped the key point and asked, “US?”

As soon as she finished speaking, the bathroom door moved and a head popped out. At a glance, the person met her eyes. “Wu Man is back?”

“Isn’t that right?” Mother Wu said with a smile.

Wu Man’s face fell, and the temperature in her eyes gradually cooled down. “Why are you here?”

“I’m going home.” Lin Ziqian came out of the bathroom. Wu Man was shocked to find that he was holding a mop in his hand.

It was really the half-burnt paper in July — What the hell. Wu Man was stunned to see Lin Ziqian holding a rag in one hand and a mop in the other. He dragged the mop across the living room and cleaned up the things on the coffee table. She pinched her thigh. It was not an illusion. Lin Ziqian was really doing housework.

Not to mention the Lin family, even if he accompanied her to her parents’ house occasionally and watched her parents work themselves to death, Lin Ziqian would not move even if he was laying on the sofa, let alone take the initiative to help. Wu Man looked at Lin Ziqian and then at her parents. What was Lin Ziqian’s personality? After being married for so many years, even if he occasionally went back to her parents’ home, her parents could roughly understand his personality.. She did not know what kind of heart he had to put up such a pretense!