Chapter 659: , you are different

Building No. 27.

After lunch, the guests in the house left one after another.

Wei Xiaozhu, Bai Wanying, and Dai Qing went to Wujiaochang, saying they would come back later.

Ye Ning and Sun Manning very tactfully went next door, and the aunt's husband returned home.

The large small building was suddenly left with only Zhou Shihe, Zhou Mu, the aunt, and the younger aunt.

After washing up, Zhou Mu pushed open the door to her daughter's bedroom, walked in, and closed the door behind her.

At this moment, Zhou Shihe was sitting gracefully on a chair reading a book, seemingly having anticipated that her mother would seek her out privately, and had been waiting there for a long time.

She quietly sized up her daughter; her appearance and temperament were the ultimate rarity among women, as always making her, as a mother, feel proud, but the series of events that happened today...

Thinking of this, Zhou Mu sat on the side sofa and tried to ask her daughter in the calmest tone possible: "Shihe, is there nothing you want to say to Mom?"

Zhou Shihe kept her eyes on the book, not even raising her head, and said quietly: "Doesn't Mom already have a guess in her heart?"

Zhou Mu stared at her daughter's left cheek for a long while, and finally couldn't help but ask: "You and Li Heng..., what exactly is your relationship with Li Heng?"

Zhou Shihe said gently: "I don't know."

Zhou Mu frowned: "You don't know?"

Zhou Shihe gave a light 'hmm'.

Zhou Mu asked: "Then how do you explain your jealous behavior today?"

Zhou Shihe said: "It was just jealousy."

Zhou Mu's eyebrows furrowed again; she secretly took a deep breath, let her mindset slow down, and asked: "Have you developed feelings for Li Heng?"

Zhou Shihe turned a page of the book, her attention still on the book, and after a long time, she answered calmly: "I have fallen in love with him."

Zhou Mu was stunned, staring blankly at her daughter.

Although she had guesses in her heart, and although she had already prepared herself mentally before entering the room, when she heard these words with her own ears, when she heard the word "love" spoken from the mouth of her daughter who had been proud and arrogant since childhood, Zhou Mu still found it somewhat unbelievable.

She was still somewhat dazed, feeling that it was so unreal.

Before meeting Song Yu, she had always believed that her daughter was the best in this world, pouring her life's efforts into raising her, only for her to fall in love with a "married man."

Well, although Li Heng wasn't married yet, the women around him were one after another, dizzying to behold, and her daughter, whom she viewed as a treasure, said she had fallen in love with the other party, fallen in love with such a playboy.

For a moment, Zhou Mu only felt her head spinning, wishing she were dreaming, and that after waking up, all of this would be fake.

That none of it had ever happened.

The study was a bit eerie, quiet, with the sound of a pin dropping audible.

After a long time, Zhou Mu finally returned to her senses and pressed: "Between you two, who was the initiator? Was it him pursuing you that made you move your heart?"

Zhou Shihe answered lightly: "I don't know."

Zhou Mu asked: "Still don't know?"

Zhou Shihe said as gently as water: "He has a great attraction to girls, and your daughter is no exception. In the process of interacting with him, I sank into it unknowingly."

This statement couldn't be faulted.

Hearing her daughter's words, Zhou Mu couldn't help but think of the women gathered around Li Heng: Song Yu, Xiao Han, Mai Sui, and Yu Shuheng.

Which one of them wasn't a one-in-a-million existence?

Which one of them wasn't a great beauty unreachable by ordinary people?

Yet they were all entangled with Li Heng, especially Song Yu, and especially Yu Laoshi, whose family background was explosively good; the existence of these two women already explained Li Heng's charm.

Thinking that both Song Yu and Yu Laoshi were entangled with Li Heng, and thinking that Shen Xin had also gotten involved, Zhou Mu suddenly believed it a little, believing that her daughter really might have developed feelings for Li Heng.

Zhou Mu asked: "So speaking, you were the initiator?"

Zhou Shihe said: "Not entirely."

Zhou Mu asked: "How so? How is it not entirely?"

Zhou Shihe quieted down and said warmly: "We could be considered mutually attracted, mutually admiring."

From a certain perspective, it could be considered that Li Heng pursued her crazily, but Zhou Shihe hid this, and her purpose was simple: naturally, she wanted Li Heng to have a good impression on her mother.

After all, Li Heng was very unfaithful; if he pursued her while already having so many women, Mom would likely have her favor for him greatly discounted.

Sure enough, this explanation made Zhou Mu feel a bit more comfortable.

If it were Li Heng unilaterally pursuing her daughter, her impression score for Li Heng would definitely drop to the lowest.

If it were her daughter unilaterally setting her heart on Li Heng, she would be super depressed.

But, Li Heng and her daughter had developed feelings for each other invisibly, which made it much more acceptable.

After all, whether it was Li Heng or her daughter, both were dragons and phoenixes among people.

Zhou Mu asked: "When did you two start?"

Zhou Shihe said: "There was already a good impression long ago, and it only started to become uncontrollable this year."

Hearing "uncontrollable," Zhou Mu's heart skipped a beat, and she pressed: "To what extent?"

Zhou Shihe finished a page of the book before speaking softly: "Mom, there are some things that it's better if you don't know specifically, otherwise you won't be able to sleep tonight."

Zhou Mu said: "I already can't sleep tonight, and I won't be able to sleep tomorrow night or the day after. If you don't tell me, I probably won't be able to sleep for the next half a year."

Zhou Shihe smiled cleverly, silent and still.

After waiting for a long time without hearing her daughter speak, Zhou Mu asked: "Is there still a way back?"

Zhou Shihe said: "We have kissed."

Zhou Mu's mouth opened wide, closed shortly after, and then uncontrollably became slightly agape again.

Yu Guang took in her mother's look of astonishment, Zhou Shihe paused, put down the book, and then leaned her whole body against the back of the chair, slowly closing her eyes.

Zhou Mu's gaze wandered over her daughter, finally fixing on her daughter's cherry-red lips.

Thinking that Li Heng had kissed these extremely tempting lips of her daughter, a complex emotion that was hard to describe welled up in her heart.

A pearl in the palm, treasured for twenty years, was snatched away by someone the moment one wasn't paying attention.

How could Mother Zhou not feel bitter in her heart?

At this point, she was finally able to understand a little. She could understand why her daughter would be jealous and competitive with Song Yu today; it turned out that her entanglement with Li Heng had already reached such a stage.

She understood the subtext in her daughter's words: since she had already kissed Li Heng, there was no turning back—at least not in the short term.

Mother Zhou asked, "When did this happen?"

Zhou Shihe said weakly, "I don't remember very clearly; it happened in Singapore and the Netherlands, I suppose, and at school too."

How could it be possible not to remember clearly?

She remembered every scene of Li Heng kissing her with absolute clarity; that feeling was something she would never forget for the rest of her life.

The reason she said it this way was that she wanted her mother to give up hope completely.

At the same time, she didn't want her mother to interfere.

"Singapore, the Netherlands, and school—it, it happened in all of them?" Mother Zhou confirmed, her mind in complete turmoil.

As things stood, it completely overturned Mother Zhou's imagination. She had originally thought her daughter and Li Heng were merely mutually attracted, but she never expected it to have developed to such an uncontrollable degree.

In this instant, Mother Zhou felt especially miserable.

Zhou Shihe slowly opened her eyes and turned her head to meet her mother's gaze: "Mom, can you let me handle my own feelings?"

Mother Zhou took another deep breath and asked, "Don't you know he has so many women around him?"

Zhou Shihe's red lips parted lightly: "I know."

Without waiting for her mother to respond, she continued softly: "But what if I know? Matters of the heart come very fiercely and very suddenly; when they arrive, there is simply no logic to speak of. If your daughter could still struggle, she wouldn't have fallen for him so easily."

From these words, Mother Zhou could hear that her daughter had struggled and felt helpless, but she hadn't escaped fate.

The mother and daughter looked at each other and fell silent.

Mother Zhou could not bear to blame her daughter.

Zhou Shihe also didn't want her mother to worry too much, so she poured it all out today. It was just that she slightly concealed certain facts.

After looking at each other for a while, Mother Zhou said, "Even if you have given your heart to Li Heng, I still find your behavior today somewhat unfamiliar."

What behavior?

Naturally, this referred to what happened during the birthday banquet and the cake-cutting.

Zhou Shihe said, "Half of it was being provoked, I suppose, and half of it is that I care about him very much."

As she finished speaking, Zhou Shihe lowered her eyes: "I only realized this level of caring today. I'm sorry, Mom."

Mother Zhou found this hard to hear, yet she suddenly understood—she understood why her daughter was like this today.

Mother Zhou knew clearly: for other women to provoke her daughter's competitive spirit, they were still lacking. But Song Yu truly had the qualifications and the capital.

Mother Zhou asked earnestly, "Then what are your plans for the future?"

Zhou Shihe pondered for a long time before saying softly, "Either he marries me and takes me home, or I disappear from his world. There will be no third path."

These were two extremes.

But Mother Zhou let out a huge sigh of relief, thinking to herself that the daughter she knew had returned.

Mother Zhou reminded her, "Yu Laoshi has already resigned."

Zhou Shihe said, "It's already too late; it's useless."

Mother Zhou was thoughtful: "Because of Song Yu?"

Zhou Shihe glanced at her mother, picked up her book again, and began to flip through it.

Mother Zhou was speechless, realizing she had said something her daughter didn't like to hear.

Mother Zhou left. After coming out of her daughter's bedroom, she packed her things and left Lushan Village.