Zhen Yu didn’t react when she was pulled aside, but suddenly looked up when she heard Mrs. Zhen’s last sentence!
"Who is your upline?!"
"It’s Aunt Gu! It’s always family who comes to mind first with such a good thing!"
Zhen Yu lowered her head again.
After a few seconds of silence, she finally spoke softly, "Mom! You’re so far along in your pregnancy, you should be taking care of your health first! Making money can wait."
"What waiting!" Mrs. Zhen’s eyes widened. "This isn’t something I need to handle much! Just like Gu Qing’s Aunt... As long as you’re willing to join me, you can make big money even while lying at home!"
Zhen Yu didn’t want to keep the truth from her mother, but seeing her mother so enthusiastic, it was clear she had been thoroughly brainwashed!
Zhen Yu felt she wasn’t eloquent enough to persuade someone so deeply convinced, especially since she didn’t have any examples among acquaintances who had been harmed to cite! With no solid proof, no matter what she said, her mother wouldn’t believe her!
Having tried to persuade gently and not being heard, Zhen Yu could only firmly refuse.
She looked up at her mother seriously and said, "Mom! In the future, please don’t involve us in anything related to the Gu Family! Even if it could earn a mountain of gold! My brother and I are not interested at all!!"
A hurt flashed quickly through Mrs. Zhen’s eyes.
Zhen Yu saw it, but she didn’t say anything to comfort her.
Mrs. Zhen hesitated for a few seconds, and when she spoke again, her tone carried a hint of pleading: "Even for the sake of your mother, can’t you and your brother—"
Zhen Yu didn’t let her mother finish.
She simply cut her off harshly at that moment: "Cannot!"
Mrs. Zhen didn’t stay for dinner at her daughter’s urging.
She came alone and left alone.
Zhen Yu didn’t offer to take her mother home, nor had Mrs. Zhen expected her daughter to offer.
After Mrs. Zhen left, Zhen Yu returned to her room.
As soon as she entered, she flopped onto her bed and started staring blankly at the ceiling.
Zhen Yu felt she wouldn’t easily forget the expression on her mother’s face as she left, especially that slightly resentful look in her eyes...
But what was she resentful about? Did she realize she was trying to drag her daughter into a pit of fire today?! It sounded incredible, but its essence was still—pyramid selling!
Zhen Yu really hadn’t expected it!
In just three short years, her mother’s selling skills had grown to such an extreme level!
Luckily today it was her, the one with the past life memories and awareness of this brand’s malpractices at home! Otherwise, if Zhen Yan, who knew nothing about it, had been brainwashed by their mother, then it would have been a sure thing that Mrs. Zhen would have trapped him!
Keep in mind, this brand is best at boiling frogs in warm water! At the beginning, it might just encourage people to buy a few hundred sets of products, and later as one becomes deeply hooked, they’d be prompted to open a store! Opening a ’Unlimited’ store is like opening a bottomless pit! By that time, the uplines won’t stop until they’ve sucked the store owners dry!
When the siblings have nothing left, what will they eat or drink?
What will they use to attend high school? Or go to college?!
Are they supposed to shamelessly go to the Gu Family for shelter and handouts?
Or should they borrow money to sue their now penniless gambler father for support?
Thinking about it, Zhen Yu felt it was like a huge joke!
Even if she was reborn, she is still the stubborn mule from her past life who would rather starve with her backbone straight than bow and beg her father and stepmother for money to survive!
What’s the Gu Family anyway!
Han Mingyue deliberately left her room door open so that she could hear any movements in the living room anytime.
She didn’t know what the Zhen mother and daughter discussed behind closed doors.
But she found that when Zhen Yu saw Mrs. Zhen downstairs, there wasn’t even a word of farewell exchanged between the two!
Clearly, the conversation didn’t end on a happy note.
Immediately after, Zhen Yu went back upstairs to her room alone. The whole process was silently executed, and if Han Mingyue hadn’t been watching the living room, she’d almost not have noticed her return.
After hesitating for two minutes, Han Mingyue stood up and walked out of the room. Zhen Yu’s room door was open; from the living room, he could see her lying on the bed, motionless as if truly asleep.
But Han Mingyue knew she must be awake! Because she was never a careless person!
She is... the kind of person who never talks about her problems but buries them deep inside her heart.
Han Mingyue stood at the doorway of Zhen Yu’s room, knocking on the open door, "Can I come in?"
Several seconds later, just as Han Mingyue thought she would ignore him and was about to shamelessly go inside, Zhen Yu suddenly said softly, "Come in and have a seat."
Han Mingyue bit his lower lip, but still walked to the bedside. Looking at Zhen Yu’s expressionless face, Han Mingyue frowned and softly persuaded, "Don’t be sad for those who don’t care about you, it’s not worth it. Zhen Yan and I will always be here for you!"
Zhen Yu seemed moved, yet remained silent.
Han Mingyue also persisted in standing beside the bed, motionlessly watching her! Finally, he waited for Zhen Yu to speak.
Zhen Yu spoke without looking at him, as if talking to herself.
Yet Han Mingyue sighed in relief upon hearing it! He immediately reached out his hand to Zhen Yu without hesitation, encouraging her, "Get up! I’ll take you out to have something delicious!"
Zhen Yu then looked at Han Mingyue.
With a single glance, she grabbed his hand and, with his help, sat up, saying faintly, "Let’s go! I want to eat hot pot."
Before the summer vacation started, Zhen Yan was very busy! So he could only eat in the cafeteria for all three meals! After Zhen Yu and Han Mingyue called Han Jiayang over at the Martial Arts Hall, the three of them took a taxi directly to Little Sheep!
A circle of ingredients surrounded the central yin-yang hot pot! Half of the soup in the pot was white like milk, the other half red like blood!
Zhen Yu suddenly felt that perhaps her relationship with her parents was just like the two broths of the hot pot! Even though they are from the same family, even in the same pot, there’s an insurmountable gap dividing them!
"Xiao Yu! The soup is boiling, add some ingredients!"
"Don’t just eat from the spicy side! Can you handle it?"
"Look at you! Your tears are coming out from the spiciness, eat some from the clear broth side!"
A meal, merely a few dozen minutes. The soup in the hot pot reached boiling point several times, but only a few droplets splashed to the side! Spicy remains spicy, non-spicy remains non-spicy, inconsequential.
Just like Zhen Yu! It’s not the first time that she has lost control emotionally because of her parents! Apart from shedding a few tears with the help of the spicy hot pot, once the meal ended, she would continue to live her life just as before.
No asking about the origin, no questions about directions, just being herself.