C9

At the Mu residence.

Mu Qiqi, who had not seen her grandfather for four years, could not hide her joy as she excitedly knocked on the heavy wooden door. She was preparing to give her grandfather a good surprise.

As a result, the moment the wooden door was opened, the smile on her face froze.

"Aunt Su?" The Aunt Su she was referring to was her stepmother and her sister Mu Xue'er's biological mother.

When she was twelve, her mother died of an illness. Not even a month after she died, her father, Mu Lengsheng, brought her Su Xiaofeng and her daughter, Mu Xue'er, home.

Since then, she had never been able to get her father's eye on her.

Because of this, her grandfather doted on her even more. In order to prevent her from being wronged in front of her stepmother, he directly took her to the old mansion, so their relationship was always particularly good.

It was her grandfather who had helped her get the idea of going abroad to study her favorite painting major. He had even sold a painting he loved to pay a high tuition fee for her.

These little things Mu Qi deeply remembered in her heart, the four years she spent studying abroad had been very diligent, all for the sake of earning a lot of money to honor her grandfather.

But at this moment, the house that only her grandfather lived in wasn't opened by her grandfather, it was this woman that her grandfather had always loathed. This time, she unconsciously became vigilant.

"Where's grandpa?"

The person who opened the door didn't seem to expect her to suddenly come back. He hugged her in his arms with a sharp and unkind expression.

"Why did you come back?"

This question made Mu Qiqi want to laugh. Could it be that she couldn't come back?

The hand holding the suitcase slightly increased her strength. She calmly straightened her back and said in a neither humble nor haughty manner, "I've graduated from university. Naturally, I'll be back."

After saying that, she carried her luggage and walked towards the gate. As she walked, she called out to the courtyard, "Grandfather, I'm back."

"Grandfather, I'm back!"

"Stop shouting, stop shouting, don't you find it annoying? As soon as you return home, you will wail like ghosts and howl like wolves. Your grandfather passed away after more than ten days due to illness, and your father didn't dare tell you about your studies because he was worried." Su Xiaofeng impatiently said as he caught up to Mu Qiqi's footsteps.

This news was like a bolt from the blue, and without any warning, it smashed onto Mu Qiqi's body. She slowly turned around and looked at the impatient woman with her clear eyes, and her lips unconsciously shivered.

"What did you just say?"

Seeing her expression as if she had seen a ghost, Su Xiaofeng's face was filled with disdain. He rolled his eyes at her and bluntly said: "I said your grandfather is dead, dead."

"Impossible!" This was Mu Qiqi's first reaction. Dozens of days ago, she was still on the phone with her grandfather. His grandfather's bright smile didn't seem to be sick at all, so how could it disappear so easily?

Besides, her grandfather's health had always been very good. She had never heard of any problems, not even the old ones with high blood pressure. How could he have left so suddenly?

"What's impossible? Every part of a person's body has aged. It's natural for them to die from old age. Do you really think that your grandfather can live forever?" Faced with Mu Qiqi's doubts, Su Xiaofeng's face was filled with disdain. From start to finish, her extremely well-maintained face did not reveal even the slightest hint of sadness.

"Then … what disease did my grandfather have?" Mu Qiqi could not accept this fact. Her mind was in a mess, and she hoped that this was a joke from her stepmother.

"The whole body is suffering from organ failure. The doctor said it was a natural death due to birth and age. As for the specifics, we don't study medicine, so how can we understand that!"

Tears welled up in her eyes, and she bit her lip to the point of bleeding. "Where's Grandpa buried?" she asked.