Chapter 73

Liu Tong gave Shu Lingchen a meaningful look: "Xiao Chen's mother has long been living abroad, not at home; Chu Lian and her mother fabricated various tragic misfortunes. Xiao Chen, being pure-hearted, felt sympathy, not only letting them stay in his house but also giving them almost all of his monthly living expenses of fifty thousand."

That's why, in your eyes, Chu Lian can afford a luxury residence and buy luxury goods.

Upon learning of this, Xiao Chen's mother therefore recently asked me to take the property deed and reclaim the house. Liu Tong turned his head to look at Zhang Lu, his gaze calm yet sharp: "I have all the transaction records of Xiao Chen's transfers to Chu Lian. If this classmate still has any doubts, you can summon Chu Lian here, and we can confront her face to face with me and Xiao Chen."

Zhang Lu shrank his neck back, dumbfounded, his earlier momentum gone, and he immediately backed down.

The surrounding crowd erupted in an uproar.

So basically, Chu Lian isn't some rich young lady at all!

She lives in Chen-ge's house, spends Chen-ge's money, enjoys all the praise directed at her, yet when everyone calls Chen-ge a poor little thug, a toad wanting to eat swan meat, she just watches silently, saying nothing?!

Holy shit, this is too explosive! How can there be such a disgustingly fake person!

"……"

Thus, the people of Yi Ban finally realized why they had been waiting here for over two hours, Chu Lian not replying to messages or answering calls, and then disappearing.

It turns out Chu Lian always used Shu Lingchen's card to treat guests at Spring Star, never spending a penny of her own; now Shu Lingchen has cancelled the card, so what does she have left to treat guests with!

Then just now, relying on Chu Lian, they were full of confidence, eating and shouting here……

Help, this is so embarrassing!

A group of people lacked the courage to meet anyone's gaze, their faces flushed; they no longer needed the waitress's prompting, each one hurriedly fleeing Spring Star in embarrassment.

Hearing Liu Tong's words, the owner of Spring Star wore a teasing expression, patted Shu Lingchen on the shoulder, and said he could often bring his classmates to eat at Spring Star in the future, and if he needed anything, he could directly approach the manager.

Having said that, he left with his wife and child.

Shu Lingchen watched them leave.

He couldn't help but lament inwardly, ah, his reputation as a school tyrant!

His foolish dark history was just exposed like that!!!

Just as he turned around, feeling wistful, he met dozens of glowing stares, which startled him greatly.

The people of Class 12 surrounded Shu Lingchen in a circle, all staring at him with a gaze never seen before.

Someone spoke in a faint voice:

"……Chen-ge, you, a rich second-generation?"

"Rich second-generation!"

"Rich! Second! Generation?! The third sentence was Bo Luo Zai's voice almost breaking, as if he had just wrenched himself from that shocking emotion: 'Chen-ge! I've known you this long, you haven't leaked a whisper, you've kept it well hidden!'"

Shu Lingchen rubbed the back of his neck: "It's not that extravagant to be a rich second-generation, just a house."

"What do you mean just a house? Chen-ge, do you know how much housing prices are in Yujingyuan now?"

"Exactly."

"Hey wait——" Bo Luo Zai suddenly thought of something and asked: "Chen-ge, you didn't say you were an orphan? You said your mother left you early, so how come this uncle says……"

Shu Lingchen: "……" How could I have forgotten about this!

He had only told Bo Luo Zai and a few others about his mother's 'passing'; at the time he was stating the fact, but now——what should we say.

While Shu Lingchen was agonizing over how to explain this, he heard Bo Luo Zai's disapproving and accusing voice: "Chen-ge, how could you curse the aunt like that?!"

Shu Lingchen: "?"

"Although the aunt let you stay alone domestically to study, my mom said that women aren't obliged to revolve around their children after giving birth; they also have their own hobbies and ideals to fulfill. The aunt merely loves to travel a bit, yet you actually, actually said she died?!"

"Chen-ge, you are so unfilial! When I get the chance, I will tell her!"

Shu Lingchen: "…………"

Although there's no need to beat around the bush anymore, why do I feel an itch in my hands, wanting to hit someone.

…

A group of people parted ways at the entrance of Spring Star Restaurant.

Across the road, a Rolls-Royce with a license plate of six in a row was parked.

Shu Lingchen walked over and got close; the passenger-side door opened automatically, and indeed Shu Shu and Pei Muyin were sitting in the back seat.

He asked: "How did you guys come out?"

Shu Shu lifted the white mask she had taken off her face, implying: "You tell me."

Shu Lingchen realized that his mother couldn't appear in front of the Spring Star owner; n years have passed, and if the owner saw his mother looking the same or even younger than before, he'd think it was a supernatural event!

He glanced at his mother's sister beside her and quickly refrained from asking further.

After Chu Lian was 'asked' to leave the Yi Ban private room, she ran away.

She couldn't entertain this guest; besides running, there was no other option. Seeing the phone flooded with messages and missed calls, she dared not reply to a single one, nor answer a single call.

In her panic, she returned home.

How should she explain today's events to her classmates?

Chu Lian picked up her phone and composed a casual message in the class group: "Sorry sorry everyone, dinner's off, go home first, because I just got a call from home, my parents returned from abroad and said they'd personally accompany me for my birthday this year, so they sent someone to pick me up; I'm already on a private plane, will be back the day after tomorrow, and I'll definitely make it up to you all! 【crying】【crying】"

Chu Lian also specially searched for a picture of the night view from an airplane window and sent it along.

Five minutes, ten minutes, thirty minutes passed……

The group fell silent.

No one replied.

What's going on?

…

Monday, a school day.

As Chu Lian walked into the classroom, she put on a facade of sunshine and cheerfulness, as if she had just enjoyed a warm birthday with her parents.

But she discovered that everyone was present in the classroom, yet the atmosphere was unusually quiet.

The quietness was eerie.

Seeing Chu Lian enter, everyone looked at her with a sinister stare.

Chu Lian inexplicably felt her scalp tingle, and with a face full of apology she said: "I'm really sorry for standing everyone up that day; it's all my parents' fault, they didn't tell me beforehand that they threw me a party on the yacht, since it was a family internal thing, next time, next time I'll definitely invite everyone together."

"Oh, is that what happened? We're not angry."

Chu Lian breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, "These idiots are really easy to fool: As long as nobody's angry, that's fine."

The next second, someone asked: "Chu Eldest Young Lady, when do you plan to repay Shu Lingchen's money? That is, his monthly living expenses of fifty thousand?"

Chu Lian's smile froze: "What repayment——"

"You still want to trick us, huh!"