night.
Chu's mother stared intently at Chu Fang, making him feel uneasy.
"Mom, why are you looking at me like that?"
Chu's mother raised an eyebrow, as if teasing the child: "Don't you want to say anything to me?"
Chu Fang pondered for a moment: "Hmm... Take care of yourself."
"Hehe." Hearing this, Chu's mother revealed a row of white teeth. "Alright, I won't say anymore."
The day has finally come... Chu Fang sighed softly. His mother's calm tone carried a hint of threat, so he had no choice but to get straight to the point: "When did you find out?"
"Wow!" Chu's mother craned her neck. "How did you know what I was thinking?"
He paused, then asked in return, "When did you find out I knew?"
"Mom, I'll ask you first."
"I am your mother."
"... ... " Chu Fang smacked his lips, "The necklace you gave to Zhong Tingyue is worth more than two million.
A few days ago, upon seeing the necklace around Zhong Tingyue's neck, Chu Fang immediately knew that his mother had already figured out the relationship between the two.
No one would give away a necklace worth millions for no reason, not even her half-sister, let alone her biological sister.
"Oh." Chu's mother nodded knowingly. "I made a mistake. I forgot how much that necklace cost."
"Was it a miscalculation, or did you deliberately give yourself away...?" Chu Fang scratched the back of his head and asked, "When did you find out?"
Chu Fang couldn't understand it. He and Zhong Tingyue were both pretty good actors, and they didn't usually communicate much, just to avoid being seen through.
unreasonable!
“A tiny bit earlier than you,” Chu’s mother gestured with her little finger.
Hearing this, Chu Fang let out a breath.
Thank goodness, it seems my acting skills had fooled my mother. I felt a little relieved, but then my mother said something that made me want to vomit blood. She said casually, "I only realized it when I saw you after getting off the plane."
Snap!
Chu Fang could clearly hear the sound of his own heart breaking, as if glass had fallen to the ground and shattered into pieces.
As if sensing her child's heartbreak, Chu's mother narrowed her eyes into slits, like a fox.
"Cough cough cough..." Chu Fang coughed a few times, finally managing to piece the fragmented heart back together and place it in the center of his chest. Barely managing to use it, he raised his voice a few decibels, using the broken heart as leverage: "You didn't even see Zhong Tingyue, so how could you sense her?!"
I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out.
He didn't tell anyone in his family, and even Chu Yi had never heard of or seen Zhong Tingyue. How could his mother, who had just arrived, possibly sense it?
Do you really know how to tell fortunes?
"Hehe." Seeing her child's exasperated look, Chu's mother was particularly happy and replied in a serious tone, "You are my child."
He paused, then continued, "It feels like..."
"Feeling?" Chu Fang swallowed hard, looking serious. "I think I can accept the word 'metaphysics' more easily."
At least metaphysics can be categorized as feudal superstition, while intuition has a certain scientific basis, so that he and Zhong Tingyue won't seem too foolish, incredibly stupid.
"It's just a feeling." Chu's mother insisted on her opinion, "When I saw you at the airport, I felt that you had undergone a complete transformation. You were no longer as lazy and indifferent as before, but instead you were living each day with your heart and full of hope for the future."
Chu Fang scratched his face: "Are the two attitudes really that different in terms of life?"
He admitted that his attitude towards life changed before and after meeting Zhong Tingyue, and his empty psychological illness was relieved, but that was healing of the soul, and his real life did not change much.
“Big,” said Chu’s mother. “Anyway, I could tell at a glance.”
Unable to figure it out, Chu Fang decided to stop thinking about it and asked again, "Then what makes you so sure that my change is because I have a girlfriend?"
Chu's mother said seriously, "I'll say it again, you are my child."
Tilting his head, he pondered for a few seconds before continuing, "Actually, I wasn't quite sure at the time, so I specifically brought you to that class reunion to see if you were still as ruthless towards girls as before. Your behavior was the same as before, but you were a bit more... gentler than before."
If it were before, you wouldn't even bother to say a word to Liu Siyi, but this time you at least chatted with her for a few words. Wow, Mom is so happy with how you've changed!
At this point, you shouldn't be saying this... Chu Fang twitched the corner of his mouth.
Chu's mother paused for a moment, then continued, "But I was still not sure, so I specifically asked Chu Yi if he had seen anything unusual about you. Chu Yi said that apart from living in an ordinary residential area, there was nothing unusual about you."
When I told you I was coming to stay at the Tanhua residential area for a few days, your expression was off, and I started to have some doubts. But love is a big deal, and without absolute certainty, it's just speculation, until I met my younger sister that morning.
Chu Fang asked, "That was the first time you met her, right?"
Chu's mother nodded firmly: "Yes. What's wrong?"
He mistook a young woman he didn't know for his son's girlfriend the first time he met her.
Is that correct?
What a load of rubbish!
"Isn't your idea a bit too audacious?" he asked.
“No.” Chu’s mother shook her head. “Firstly, the moment I saw my little sister, I felt a special sense of closeness, and that closeness came from the bottom of my heart. It made me happy. In the whole of Shanghai, only you can give me that feeling. Even Chu Yi can’t give me that feeling. And that feeling actually appeared in a strange girl. It was natural for me to connect you and my little sister in my mind, like two points naturally forming a line.”
Chu Fang gritted his teeth: "At a time like this, you shouldn't call me 'little sister' anymore."
“No way.” Chu’s mother firmly objected. “I need to cooperate with my younger sister’s plan to hide her relationship, so I have to immerse myself in the script. Right now, I’m not Tingyue’s future mother-in-law, but her older sister.”
“... ..."
Chu Fang's gums hurt, a piercing pain.
So this old woman already knew the whole plan, yet she still insisted on becoming sworn sisters with Zhong Tingyue.
"Alright." Chu Fang sighed, "Mom, you don't have to be so smart."
"You didn't ask me what the second reason was, did you?"
"Forget it, there's no need to ask anymore. That's pretty much it." Chu Fang waved his hand sadly.
"No, you have to ask." Chu's mother said seriously.
"... ..., then what is the second one?"
"Secondly, I borrowed my younger sister's phone to call you and ask you to come out and pay for that orange juice drink for me. But when I opened the call history, the first thing I saw was your phone number and the nickname my younger sister had given you..."
At this point, Chu's mother stopped abruptly.
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