Chapter 62

At the private room, they drank multiple rounds after the meal. Godfrey and Lydia were slightly tipsy, and Flora took the opportunity to remind her husband of his job. "Lydia, I need your help with something," Ferdinand said.

Lydia waved her hand. "Whatever it is, just tell. I'll definitely help you if I can," she said carelessly.

"My wallet's been a bit tight lately. Since Yvonne is so successful now, I want to borrow some money," he replied.

Flora quickly chimed in, "We wouldn't ask you if we had any other way. You have money now, Lydia.

Surely you'll help us?"

Lydia immediately became more conscious when she heard the words 'borrow some money'. She was well-aware of her brother's characteristics. It was a 99 percent probability that she would not get her money back once she 'lent' it to him.

"How much do you want to borrow?" she asked.

Her brother raised two fingers.

"Two thousand?" she said.

"What are you thinking, Lydia? Would I ask you if it was just two thousand?" Ferdinand said, irritancy in his tone.

face, teeth-clenched. It had not been easy for her to

thousand," her brother

all over her. Although she did live a better life now, she

five-star hotel for your meals. Isn't twenty thousand a drop in

say something flattering to raise the chances of getting the money. "You're different from before, Lydia," she said. "Surely you can part with twenty thousand. I see you living such a luxurious life now.

those words, but she really could not

her mother's conflicted expression. "Uncle, Aunty, why don't you apply for a loan from the bank, if you really need that much money? But you better

sentence evidently implied that they had no capacity to return the money- then why should they

darkened. "I'm talking to your mother," she

the relatives know about you lending money to

twenty thousand was too much. Besides, she had no

don't tell me you rented those cars

visit your family home with pride this year?" he

could not help but think about how she would go back to her family home, so she

she agreed.

thousand to lend to Ferdinand. The only way they could

"Mom..."

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