Obediently, Ning Ran accepted the call.
“Ran, where are you?”
“Get straight to the point,” she said in a neutral tone.
“I want to see you.”
“It’s too late so it’s not very convenient for me. Just say what you want.”
“Well, the thing is, I received a call from the courthouse today informing me that they’re going to auction off our old house. I was wondering if you still wanted that house. If you do, you should buy it. You could keep it as a souvenir or something.”
“That’s my mother’s house! How could you have mortgaged it off?”
“I didn’t have a choice! The company was bankrupt so the only thing I could do was mortgage the house. The bank is filing a lawsuit now. That’s why they’re auctioning the house. I thought I should let you know...”
Ning Ran hung up, unwilling to listen to him anymore.
Once again, grief threatened to swallow her whole.
“What’s wrong?” Nan Chen queried in concern.
“Ning Ziqiang says that Mom’s house is going to be auctioned off. He mortgaged it to the bank. The house... I can’t even keep the house...”
She choked up, unable to continue speaking.
Nan Chen knitted his brows. After a while, he said, “Stop thinking about all this and go to sleep.”
“Sorry for affecting your mood as well. I didn’t mean to.”
“It’s fine. How about this? Agree to meet with Ning Ziqiang tomorrow at the snooker bar.”
“Why?”
“It’s already been proven that you’re not his biological daughter. He must be thinking that you owe him all this. You have to do something to repay him.”
owe him anything!” she
will repay him for the years of care he’s given
Am I really supposed to
that money can solve is not
most wealthy people had. Nan Chen had the right to say that but Ning Ran most
problem for me! Besides, why should I give him money? He and Luo Yi took all of my mother’s property! Why should I give him any
Nan Chen said nothing.
with you. You were the one who suggested I meet with him. Now
her voice
your mother left behind is so meaningful to you, you should get them back. I’ll pay for them first. Think of it
words left his lips, she already suspected that was what he
to loan her the
larger. She had no idea
that honesty was the best policy, she declared bluntly, “I don’t
of liability. Nearly every
don’t have the ability to pay off my
well. People who don’t have liabilities live their lives with minimal income and are content. Yet that kind of life is meaningless.
trying to wax philosophy at me so I’ll keep on borrowing money from you? Then I’ll have to work as a slave for
an adult and can make your own judgment. There’s no point
“Well, I refuse then.”
a decision after you
planning on sleeping here, are
in the same room. We can’t disappoint them.” Somehow, he made it sound so reasonable and
excuses but she
that he was a gentleman and would not do
whatever
burrowed under
turned off the lights before lying
wrapped around her. She wondered if she
...
next afternoon, in the same snooker bar
was hiding behind the partition again since he had no intention
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