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

  TL: Etude

  “See, I told you I wasn’t lying.”

  Guo Zihang’s st words brought sileo the entire group.

  Now, no one eaking anymore, not even Qin Zi’ang, who was known fantly to pay for everyone in the cafeteria.

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

  Three huhousand yuan was an amount far beyond what high school students could prehend.

  They would be over the moon to have just ten yuan in their pockets, let alohree huhousand – it would be like shooting out of the Milky Way for them.

  But then again, it was typical of Guo Zihang t on behalf of Jiang Qin, as he always g to him, even ba school. However, it made no sense for Huang Ying and Yang Shu’an to boost Jiang Qin’s cims 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 sdrel, dared to spend three huhousand?

  Are we even attending the same high school?

  Among them, Chu Siqi was the most shocked. She couldn’t 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, accumuting game hours, stealiables in FarmVille, onizing 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 bee distant in her heart, evoking an uling feeling of unattainability.

  It turned out he wasn’t just hiding to avoid embarrassment.

  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 css.

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

  Jiang Qin didn’t 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 holy, where did his money e from?”

  “I already told you at the st gathering. Jiang Qin has always been in business, obviously he ear.”

  “What kind of business make three huhousand?”

  “I wouldn’t know that. If I did, wouldn’t I have made three huhousand myself?”

  “But didn’t you say the business was selling boxed lunches? I saw you guys selling them before!”

  Guo Zihang replied with a string of ellipses: “Old Lady Mao (Lao Ganma chilis) used to sell wontons, did that stop her from starting a pany?”

  At this point, Qin Zi’ang became a bit restless: “Impossible, I don’t even have three huhousand, where would he get that muonsense!”

  Guo Ziha a smiley face: “Don’t pare yourself to Jiang Qin. Relying on your father isn’t a skill.”

  “What are you guys talking about?” Wang Huiru suddenly popped up from her lurking state.

  Chu Siqi: “Huiru, they’re saying Jiang Qihree huhousand to rent half a bar!”

  “Ah????”

  “Do you find it hard to believe too?”

  After hesitating for a while, Wang Huiru replied: “Not really, I saw something even more unbelievable on Jiang Qin a few days ago.”

  Chu Siqi instantly sent a surprised emoji: “What else happened?”

  “…”

  “Huiru, did you lose e?”

  “No, no, I was just joking.”

  Wang Huiru hesitated and decided not to reveal the matter between Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu.

  Three huhousand yuan was indeed shog, but no matter how astonishing, it was just a number. Everyone would marvel, but only at the magnitude of the figure. However, Feng Nanshu was different from a mere number; she was a living, breathing “white moonlight.” Revealing this would undoubtedly cause an explosion in the group chat, and within a night, the entire school would know.

  Jiang Qin was also the group chat at this time, mainly because the QQ messages were too annoying. Despite his attempts, he couldn’t mao mute them, w if it was because the 2008 version of QQ cked this feature.

  If it were Qin Zi’ang, he would have definitely jumped in to show off by now.

  Ah, yes, yes, it was all my doing. I am that awesome!

  But Jiang Qin disdained such behavior and cked such a desire for attention.

  Why would he bother showing off, only to end up a dozen free bar seats? Was he that idle?

  Moreover, he felt he o crify to Guo Zihang that not showing off was because he found such things too childish. Couldn’t Guo stop ag as his stand-in?

  But it was a bit pleasing, after all, to have someone bragging for him.

  Jiang Qin held down the hang-up button, waiting for the s to turn off, then walked into the Jizhou City Library carrying a bag of snacks.

  Half a month had passed siurning from the hot spring town, and he hadn’t seetle rich dy again, nor had they chatted mu QQ. With the bar not yet open, he decided to stop by the library.

  Upon reag the sed floor, he immediately spotted the little rich dy.

  Today, she wore a white dy’s dress with a small bck bow tie, sitting quietly and gracefully, holding a thick book. Her gaze, however, wasn’t on the book but out the window.

  Siurning from the hot spring town, Feng Nanshu had been ing to the library daily, intending to finish the st part of “The Magic-Eyed Girl Peggy Sue.”

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

  It told of a catastrophic disaster on the p Kandata.

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

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

  Peggy Sue and her panions, after iigation, were shocked to discover that the p was inally an egg, ohat had been incubating in the universe for billions of years. The life that emerged on this p 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 hadn’t 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 ulled out.

  Startled, Feng Nanshu turo see Jiang Qin sitting down silently, pg the bag of snacks gently oable.

  “I’ve been almost dead with busyhese past few days. Finally, I’ve got some time to rest. How have you been tely, little rich dy?”

  “Jiang Qin, I think I’m really feeling a bit lonely.”

  A flicker of fusion passed through Feng Nanshu’s cool gaze.

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

  But she couldn’t uand why her life suddenly felt so lonely.

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