Taking a deep breath, Ning Wan sat up straight and tried to sound casual as she spoke into the phone, "Besides, you used to take care of me and treated me to delicious food, but you’ve also suffered a lot. Now, you should enslave me even more!"
Hearing Ning Wan’s words, Song Qiao felt a surge of emotion and suddenly remembered the time when they first met and when they first moved out together. Her eyes involuntarily warmed up, and it took her a while to say a few words, "Wanwan, thank you!"
"Five hundred thousand is indeed an astronomical sum for us!" Ning Wan thought for a moment, her gaze somewhat dazedly fixed on the blackboard in front of her. She was the only one in the empty classroom, and a strong resolve surfaced in her mind. After a while, she said with a smile, "Qiaoqiao, maybe I should return to the Ning Family..."
"No, no, Wanwan, I don’t agree!" Before Ning Wan could finish her sentence, Song Qiao had already stood up abruptly, holding her phone tightly, her face pale and her tone urgent as she spoke to Ning Wan on the other end of the phone, "Wanwan, I forbid it. Once you return to the Ning Family, your future will be doomed. I absolutely won’t allow you to go back!"
The Ning Family... a famously philanthropic family in An City—yet who would have thought that such a well-regarded family would treat the so-called second daughter with such an attitude. In the Ning Family, Ning Wan had no status at all, and her days there were even more miserable than Song Qiao’s time in the Song Family. The rightful source is novel-fire.ɴet
"But Qiaoqiao, we simply can’t scrape together five hundred thousand for grandpa’s surgery in such a short time. To the Ning Family, five hundred thousand is nothing more than fifty bucks. Once I return, grandpa will have the money for the surgery..."
"Wanwan, I don’t want you to make sacrifices for me; otherwise, I’ll be uneasy for the rest of my life!" Song Qiao interrupted Ning Wan abruptly, her voice exuding a deep-seated determination. If Ning Wan returned to the Ning Family, her life would be ruined at the hands of those people. "We’ll think of another solution, there are still a few days left! You should be done with class, head back first. I’ll cook you something delicious!"
Ning Wan was well aware of the consequences, and from the very beginning, she had shared everything with Song Qiao, who, after learning about the many more things that happened, knew about the inhumane experiences Wanwan had endured.
Hearing Song Qiao’s words, Ning Wan had no choice but to give up her own thoughts, nodded with a smile, and said, "Okay, I’m heading back right now!"
After hanging up the phone, Ning Wan did not leave her seat immediately but stared blankly ahead for a while before slowly gathering her things and standing up.
When Song Qiao received the call from Lu Jingchen, she had just hung up on Ning Wan and was preparing to go out to sell vegetables.
Seeing the caller ID, Song Qiao’s heart skipped a beat, her face flushed red, and after hesitating for a moment, she still swiped to answer the call and put it to her ear, "Hello!"
"Qiaoqiao, I’m on the plane now!"
The man’s low and mellow voice was very pleasant to the ear, like a finely aged wine, intoxicating Song Qiao as she listened.
Suddenly stopping in her tracks, Song Qiao looked at the clock on the wall, only to realize that it was almost time for Lu Jingchen’s flight to take off.
Her cheeks reddened further as she remembered the words Lu Jingchen spoke to her in the villa, and now hearing his voice whispering in her ear, the girl didn’t know what to say and could only softly hum in response.