Nan Ge'er was stunned by his mother, and Lin Hairu chuckled, thinking that her son was really funny.

Aunt Guo brought Luo Xuanyuan to pay her respects to Lin Hairu. This was the first time that Shi Ning saw Luo Xuanyuan. He was now studying with Luo Chengzhang.

He was already ten years old, looking a bit like a teenager. He was quite unfamiliar with Yining and treated Lin Hairu indifferently, but he was very kind to Concubine Guo. When Concubine Guo ate dried longans, he would help peel them.

Aunt Qiao was still the same, often ill with leg pain and not coming to pay her respects. Hearing that her son had returned today, well and feeling better, she hurried over to Lin Hairu, supported by Luo Yilian, to see how much taller and older her son had grown.

Luo Xuanyuan, however, was even more unfamiliar with them. To him, Aunt Qiao was just a concubine in the family who always gave him two winter coats during the Lunar New Year. None of the young men in the families he interacted with were raised under the name of a biological mother or concubine. He would be embarrassed to tell others that he had a biological mother or concubine.

When Aunt Qiao saw how nice he was to Aunt Guo, she felt lost and distracted.

"Your method is still the best." After Aunt Qiao left, Lin Hairu said to Yi Ning, "She hasn't been able to make trouble these years, and her son doesn't even recognize her."

Yining said goodbye to Lin Hairu. Luo Shenyuan had not come back, and she was always absent-minded.

She held an umbrella herself and prepared to wait for him at the screen wall.

As a result, she met him halfway. Luo Shenyuan frowned when he saw her: "You are so ridiculous - it's raining so heavily outside!" What was she doing outside!

He took her umbrella and held it up for her, escorting her to the veranda. Once inside, Yi Ning realized his back and shoulders were soaked. Luo Shenyuan went to the bathroom to change, and when he came out, he saw her sitting cross-legged at the table, studying a chess game.

Yining saw that he was only wearing a single layer of clothing.

The scene in the morning was still vivid in her mind. Seeing the strong chest, she avoided his gaze and asked, "Third brother, why did you come back so late today?"

Luo Shenyuan sat down opposite her: "I just took office at the Ministry of Industry not long ago, and I have a lot of things to do."

He took a white jade chess piece and put it down without much thought, easily breaking Yining's dilemma. He asked her, "Thinking about this?"

Yi Ning shook her head. She looked up. Outside the partition, the rain was pouring down. The sky had already darkened completely. The candlelight in the room reflected on him, casting his tall shadow in front of her. It was as if he was blocking her out, blocking out the wind and rain. Silence was silent, but very peaceful.

"I asked the maid to leave dinner for you. Since you don't come back often, everyone is hungry so let's eat first." Yining asked the maid to bring the food.

Luo Shenyuan shook his head, paused, and asked, "Yining, did you meet Lu Jiaxue at Xiangyun Restaurant yesterday?"

Yining froze in his movement to collect the chessboard.

"What did he do to you that made you jump off the building and run away? He is your adoptive father, but what did he do that is against human ethics?" Luo Shenyuan continued to ask.

How did he guess that!

Luo Yining was silent and said, "I don't know."

Luo Shenyuan shrank his fingers slightly, thinking about how he hadn't followed her yesterday, and how such a big mess had happened. Lu Jiaxue's attitude towards Yining was obviously wrong. If Lu Jiaxue hadn't been trying to flirt with her yesterday, she would have jumped out the window and escaped. With her personality, she wouldn't climb up a pomegranate tree to pick pomegranates.

Seeing his jaw tighten, Yi Ning could only smile bitterly and said, "I'm serious. Even I don't understand why."

If she could understand Lu Jiaxue, she would not have died.