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.

anyway to save face, teeth-clenched.

her brother said, his expression

sobered up from her drunken stupor as though someone had sloshed cold water all over her. Although she did live a better life now, she did not have that much money on hand. In

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

getting the money. "You're different from before, Lydia," she said. "Surely you can part with twenty

felt gratified when she heard those words, but she really

loan from the bank, if you

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

to your mother," she said. "A

when you were still unmarried, Lydia. So many relatives said that you married into a faux-rich family. If the relatives know about you lending money to us, can they say that you're not successful then?" Flora turned her attention and

relatives, but the price of twenty thousand was too much. Besides, she had no way to take out that much

coldly. "Lydia, don't tell me you rented those cars to

want to visit your family home with pride

but think about how she would go back to her family home, so she nodded

she agreed.

They did not have twenty thousand to lend to Ferdinand. The

"Mom..."

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