On this side, Butler Ji went downstairs and found Ye Lan, and told her that Li Shu wanted to change rooms.
Ye Lan was already angry with Li Shu, so she refused without a second thought: "Why change rooms? You're already picking on me right after I got back. What's going on?"
"Besides, she has already moved in and rested."
Butler Ji: "But..."
Ye Lan was in no mood to listen any further. She raised her hand to interrupt him, "Alright, stop talking about buts. Go down."
Butler Ji didn't dare to say anything more, "Yes."
Ji Qianya, who was sitting beside him, had her eyes flickering slightly. Suddenly she thought of something and called out to him, "Butler Ji, please wait a moment."
She placed her hands on Ye Lan's shoulders and began to massage her. "Mom, calm down. If your sister wants to change rooms, just give her one. It's not a big deal. We have so many empty rooms at home anyway."
"I think the attic on the top floor is pretty good. Not only can it get sunlight, but the moonlight can also shine in at night. However, it's a little small. I don't know if my sister can accept it."
Ye Lan closed her eyes and enjoyed her massage for a while. Her anger subsided a lot. She waved her hand nonchalantly and said, "Butler Ji, just do as Qianya said and let her live in the attic."
Butler Ji sighed inwardly upon hearing this. He knew that he was just a butler and could not change his master's decision. He only said, "Yes, madam."
Ji Qianya glanced at the back of Butler Ji as he left, a smug smile appearing on the corner of her mouth.
Even if Li Shu comes back alive, I still have a way to replace her.
So what if she is a fake daughter? The position of the eldest daughter of the Ji family and the love of the Ji family will all be hers in the end.
And she, Li Shu, is just a poor creature that no one cares about.
*
It was already past five in the afternoon when Li Shu woke up, simply because she was hungry.
She didn't stay in the room for long. After washing her face, she went downstairs directly.
As soon as I came out of the elevator, I met Butler Ji coming towards me.
"Second Miss, you're awake. I was just about to go up and call you. The Master and the Eldest Young Master just returned and are now in the restaurant. I'll take you there."
Li Shu raised her delicate eyebrows slightly when she heard this, a little surprised, "I have a brother?"
Housekeeper Ji then realized that no one had introduced the Ji family's personnel situation to her. She nodded and said, "You have three brothers, but they seldom come home. Only the eldest young master comes home more often."
Li Shu put her hands in her pockets and said nonchalantly, "Well, let's go."
"Second Miss, please follow me." Butler Ji walked in front and led her to the dining room. "By the way, the mistress agreed to change your room, but it's to the attic on the top floor..."
Li Shu: "Then let's go to the attic."
Meanwhile, in the restaurant.
Several members of the Ji family were sitting at the dining table and talking.
"Brother, I practiced a new piano piece today. I'll play it for you after dinner." Ji Qianya affectionately took the arm of the young man beside her.
Ji Jingchen patted her head and said softly, "Okay."
Seeing that the relationship between the brother and sister was as good as ever and there was no estrangement due to the lack of blood relationship, Ye Lan felt relieved and said with a smile: "Jing Chen, if you don't come back, your sister will talk about you every day. From childhood to adulthood, you and Yaya are the closest."
Ji Qianya covered her face shyly, "Brother, don't listen to mom, I don't miss you."
Ji Jingchen chuckled softly, his deep and magnetic voice carrying a hint of doting, "Okay, okay, I didn't think about it."
He paused, looked at Ye Lan, and asked, "By the way, Mom, why don't you see Li Shu?"
Ye Lan frowned, and her voice instantly faded. "He should be sleeping. I asked Butler Ji to call him."
Ji Heng, the father who had been silent the whole time, naturally noticed that something was wrong with his wife and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Ye Lan opened her mouth and was about to speak when she heard the sound of the restaurant door being pushed open.
At once, everyone in the restaurant looked up at the door.
The next second, a tall and slender figure walked in slowly.
Ji Jingchen's gaze slid across the girl's face, and he was slightly stunned, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Although he had never seen a photo of his newly adopted sister, he didn't expect her to be a thousand times prettier than he had imagined.
He didn't look like someone who grew up in the slums, nor was he as timid as Butler Ji described him to be.
Ji Heng coughed dryly, looked at the girl who stopped in front of the table, and spoke first: "Xiao Shu, please sit down."
Li Shu nodded, pulled out a chair and sat down opposite Ji Qianya and Ji Jingchen. She didn't look awkward at all and seemed quite comfortable.
Ji Heng turned his head and instructed Ji Guanjia: "Ask the kitchen to serve the food."
"Yes." said Butler Ji.
Soon, the dishes prepared in the kitchen were served one by one, and there was no other sound on the dining table except the sound of eating.
Not only was it extremely quiet, but the atmosphere also became inexplicably awkward and stagnant.
Ji Jingchen had been secretly observing Li Shu since she came in. Thinking of some things he had heard from Butler Ji before, he looked at the girl who was nibbling her meal across from him and was the first to speak up, breaking the silence. "I heard Butler Ji say that you didn't continue your studies after graduating from high school last year?"
Li Shu raised her eyes to look at him, her black and white eyes were quite pure, "How can you study without money?"
As soon as she said this, the expressions of Ji Heng and Ji Jingchen became a little complicated, and even Ye Lan felt a little guilty.
Seeing this, Ji Qianya suddenly felt a sense of crisis in her heart, and clenched her hands around the chopsticks. She never expected that this bitch had such little tricks up her sleeve.
"It's okay. Now that my sister is back, I can go back to school. If you have any questions about your studies, you can ask me."
Upon hearing this, the guilt that had just arisen in Ye Lan's heart instantly dissipated. "Yaya is right. Let's arrange for Xiaoshu to study the same major as Yaya, so that we can look after each other in school."
Ji Heng nodded and looked at Li Shu again, "It's settled then. I'll contact the school later and spend some money to get you in."
Li Shu raised her eyebrows slightly, her porcelain-white face delicate and beautiful, "Oh."
Ji Heng frowned, feeling inexplicably unhappy with her lukewarm attitude, but thinking that she had just returned and might not be used to the situation yet, he simply didn't make a fuss about it.
"By the way, you have to change your last name now. Let Butler Ji take you to change your name tomorrow."
"No need, my current name is good enough." Li Shu said in a rather dull tone.
"What's good?" Ye Lan looked at her, eyes full of disapproval, "Now that you've returned to the Ji family, you naturally have to take the surname Ji."
Li Shu put down her chopsticks, picked up a napkin and wiped the corners of her mouth. "Then I'll leave?"
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