Ge Xiaotong felt somewhat uncomfortable when she heard this, but she had already decided not to return to the Ge family. Everything there no longer had anything to do with her; the disposition of her old room wasn’t up to her anymore. Whoever wanted to live there could do so.
"When we went back today, we actually found someone rummaging through our stuff in our room!" Liu Pei gritted her teeth and said, "Our room is usually locked when we leave, but the lock had been picked."
At this point, Liu Pei looked towards Ge Dejun.
Ge Dejun immediately hung his head and said, "I was wrong. Last time, when we went back, Mom said to leave the keys with her so we wouldn’t have to carry them around and risk losing them—which would be bad if someone picked them up. I didn’t think much about it and just left the keys with her."
Chiang Xiao almost couldn’t help but call him an idiot.
Even if the keys to the house were dropped outside, who would know what lock they opened? If someone picked them up, then they picked them up.
In this era, most locks were those very old iron ones, and the keys were small, likely to go unnoticed even if dropped outside.
Ge Dejun also felt very guilty.
Liu Pei, however, didn’t say anything more to him, but continued speaking.
Meanwhile, at the auditorium entrance of Provincial City’s Xingmeng District.
Du Jinruo was wearing a bright blue cinched waist lantern sleeve dress with black leather sandals, looking in the direction of the dormitories.
On her wrist, she wore a delicate ladies’ watch, around her neck a fine gold chain, and on her feet were the leather sandals—every article on her suggested that her living conditions were excellent, a life of luxury and ease.
Du Jinruo felt she had arrived a bit early; it was only seven o’clock, and the performance was at half-past seven.
But she didn’t feel she’d come too early, as her team was already backstage getting ready, and many of the squad members had also arrived early.
She initially stood at the entrance of the auditorium, but quickly realized standing there was like being constantly on display as if she were an animal, with earlier arriving squad members always coming up to greet her and talk to her.
Not wanting Meng Xinian to see her surrounded by so many people when he arrived, Du Jinruo moved to the side next to a large tree and simply stood behind it. She could still see people approaching, and when Meng Xinian came, she would just step out.
It had been several years since she last saw Meng Xinian, but she believed that no matter what, she would recognize him instantly.
However, she waited for a long time, until it was twenty past seven, and Meng Xinian still hadn’t come.
The auditorium was nearly full. Could it be that he had already come, and she had failed to recognize him, thus missing him?
Du Jinruo felt that was impossible.
Considering Meng Xinian’s appearance, how could she possibly fail to recognize him?
Since he was little, he had always been very distinctive.
"Jinruo, Jinruo, why are you here? I’ve been looking for you for so long!" Another Female Supervisor Guard ran over, took her hand without any explanation, and said, "Hurry up, it’s almost time. Although your act is later, you still have to announce the performances. You didn’t forget, did you?"
With no other choice, Du Jinruo followed her backstage.
And a few minutes after she went in, Meng Xinian casually strolled over.
He’d always found this kind of performance uninteresting, but to keep Zhao Xin from making a fuss, and also because he’d just come back from special training with no other tasks for the day, he thought of it as a chance to relax, so he’d timed his arrival accordingly.