Chapter 19: Don’t Pretend on Behalf of Your Adoptive Father

Chapter 19: Don’t Pretend on Behalf of Your Adoptive Father

TL: Etude

See, I told you I wasnt lying.

Guo Zihangs last words brought silence to the entire group.

Now, no one was speaking anymore, not even Qin Ziang, who was known for arrogantly offering to pay for everyone in the cafeteria.

To be honest, at this moment, they would rather believe their eyes deceived them than accept that what Guo Zihang, Huang Ying, and Yang Shuan said was true.

Three hundred thousand yuan was an amount far beyond what high school students could comprehend.

They would be over the moon to have just ten yuan in their pockets, let alone three hundred thousand it would be like shooting out of the Milky Way for them.

But then again, it was typical of Guo Zihang to brag on behalf of Jiang Qin, as he always clung to him, even back in school. However, it made no sense for Huang Ying and Yang Shuan to boost Jiang Qins claims without reason.

So, was everything Guo Zihang said true?

But how could we, who feel the pinch even for a yellow diamond membership (TL: I think the author is referring to his readers not subscribing to his novel lol), believe that Jiang Qin, that scoundrel, dared to spend three hundred thousand?

Are we even attending the same high school?

Among them, Chu Siqi was the most shocked. She couldnt fathom that Jiang Qin had done so much during the summer vacation, and every bit of it seemed unbelievable.

While everyone else was idly chatting online, accumulating game hours, stealing vegetables in FarmVille, or agonizing over puppy love, Jiang Qin was already engaged in business dealings worth tens of thousands.

Yet, he never boasted about it, as if earning hundreds of thousands was nothing to show off.

Thinking about this, Chu Siqi suddenly felt Jiang Qin become distant in her heart, evoking an unsettling feeling of unattainability.

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He was genuinely doing business.

While others wasted their time, proving their maturity through drinking, he had transformed into a person who dazzled the entire class.

After a moment of distraction, Chu Siqi suddenly felt a bit angry.

Jiang Qin didnt share such important matters with her, telling Guo Zihang but deliberately hiding it from her. This was too much. He used to share everything with her!

Guo Zihang, tell me honestly, where did his money come from?

I already told you at the last gathering. Jiang Qin has always been in business, obviously he earned it.

What kind of business can make three hundred thousand?

I wouldnt know that. If I did, wouldnt I have made three hundred thousand myself?

Today, she wore a white ladys dress with a small black bow tie, sitting quietly and gracefully, holding a thick book. Her gaze, however, wasnt on the book but out the window.

Since returning from the hot spring town, Feng Nanshu had been coming to the library daily, intending to finish the last part of The Magic-Eyed Girl Peggy Sue.

This installment was said to be the most interesting in the series.

It told of a catastrophic disaster on the planet Kandata.

A monster, asleep underground for a billion years, awoke and began frantically searching for crevices with its thousands of tentacles, snatching away sleeping children from their rooms.

As it grew over time, it became so enormous that it cracked open roads and caused cities to collapse.

Peggy Sue and her companions, after investigation, were shocked to discover that the planet was originally an egg, one that had been incubating in the universe for billions of years. The life that emerged on this planet was the real outsider.

If this were before, Feng Nanshu would have been utterly engrossed in the book.

Such a 396-page book would have taken her just three afternoons to finish.

But now

It had been half a month, and she hadnt even finished half of it.

Even the parts she had read seemed blurry in her memory.

Feng Nanshu looked out the sunny window at the lush trees, suddenly aware of an indescribable loneliness in her heart.

Just then, the chair opposite her was pulled out.

Startled, Feng Nanshu turned to see Jiang Qin sitting down silently, placing the bag of snacks gently on the table.

Ive been almost dead with busyness these past few days. Finally, Ive got some time to rest. How have you been lately, little rich lady?

Jiang Qin, I think Im really feeling a bit lonely.

A flicker of confusion passed through Feng Nanshus cool gaze.

Reading alone had always been her most basic way of life. Jiang Qins arrival was just an unexpected event in her life, like a peanut accidentally mixed into a vat of rice. Removing the peanut should leave the vat as it was, right?

But she couldnt understand why her life suddenly felt so lonely.

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