"My mom asked him to come and see us."
Li Ke answered honestly.
Jun Li hummed and said, "Okay, I'll choose a room, order some food, and then go downstairs to find you. I'll also wait for Miss Jiang."
After saying that, Jun Li hung up the phone.
Li Ke didn't think Jun Li wanted to meet her stepbrother.
After she finished talking to Jun Li, Chu Mu called her again and she answered.
"Mr. Chu, I'm right here in the rest area."
Li Ke stood up and looked around, looking for Chu Mu.
In fact, she didn't know Chu Mu. She had seen him but didn't know what he looked like.
But she stood up and Chu Mu saw her.
"I see you."
Chu Mu hung up the phone and strode towards Li Ke.
Li Ke saw a tall and handsome man striding towards her and guessed that he was her stepbrother.
"Mr. Chu?"
She asked Chu Mu who was walking over with a smile.
Chu Mu stopped in front of her. He was very tall, about 1.9 meters tall, wearing a black suit. He had handsome features, but his expression was a little cold and his eyes were sharp. He seemed difficult to get along with.
When she looked at him, she had to look up. When he stood in front of her, she felt oppressed and felt that she was particularly petite.
"Li Ke?"
"It's me."
Li Ke smiled and said, "Hello, Mr. Chu."
Chu Mu nodded and asked her, "Is it convenient? I'll treat you to a meal at the automatic restaurant on the first floor."
"Thank you, Mr. Chu. I have an appointment with someone to have dinner here. She will be here soon, so it's not convenient for me to have dinner with you."
Chu Mu said "oh" and didn't force Li Ke to have dinner with him.
He looked Li Ke over and said in a low voice, "You seem to be doing well."
"It's been pretty good lately."
Chu Mu took out his cell phone and said to Li Ke, "I need to take two pictures of you and send them to Auntie to make her believe that you are doing well."
Li Ke let him take two photos. After he finished, she said, "Can you let me video chat with my mom?"
In order not to disturb his mother's new life, Li Ke had long lost his mother's contact information.
The last time her mother sent her 20,000 yuan through someone, she only told her to take good care of her younger siblings.
Don't go looking for her.
Li Ke knew that her mother was afraid that she would bring her younger siblings with her to look for her, which would make life difficult for her mother. After all, her mother and stepfather had been married for nine years, and her two half-siblings were eight and six years old.
When the mother had new children, she gave all her motherly love to her two half-siblings.
In fact, Li Ke doesn't hate his mother at all. It's not his mother's fault. His mother also has her difficulties and hardships.
As long as her mother and siblings are doing well, and as long as her stepfather treats her mother well, she will feel relieved.
She is already 26 years old and is capable of taking care of her own siblings, so her mother doesn't have to worry about her anymore.
Chu Mu didn't say anything, but he directly made a video call to his stepmother. After his stepmother answered the phone, he handed the phone to Li Ke and asked Li Ke to talk to his stepmother. He was also considerate enough to walk away so as not to disturb the mother and daughter from talking privately.
"mom."
Seeing that the mother in the video was not much different from ten years ago, Li Ke called out "Mom" sadly.
Li Ke's biological mother, the current Mrs. Chu, couldn't help but tear up when she heard Li Ke call her "Mom." She asked, "Ake, are you all okay? I just found out about the Li family's bankruptcy. I'm really worried about you three siblings. I also thought about taking you in, but..."
"My mother-in-law doesn't agree, so I can only ask someone to send you 20,000 yuan... Ake, please forgive me. I'm in a difficult situation right now. I've been unemployed and have no income. I saved 20,000 yuan from your stepfather's pocket money, and I'm giving it all to you."
Before the divorce, Mrs. Chu returned to her family and gave birth to her second and third children. After that, she was busy taking care of the children and had no intention of returning to the workplace. Li Yongtai also did not allow her to return to the company to manage things.
She was out of touch with society for several years. After her divorce, she remarried her current husband and soon became pregnant and gave birth to a child. She still did not work because she had no source of income.
Her current husband treats her very well, but her mother-in-law is still around. She doesn't like her husband giving her too much money to spend, fearing that it is Tu Chu's family's money. She bought herself a house with the little property she got when she divorced Li Yongtai.
The remaining money has been spent over the years. The pocket money given by her husband is actually quite a lot, but the expenses of raising children are also high, so Mrs. Chu can't save much money.
"Mom, I don't blame you."
Li Ke forced herself to smile, "Don't blame yourself. I know I have my own difficulties. I'm an adult now and can take good care of my siblings. Don't worry, Mom. As long as you live a good life, I'll be relieved."
In fact, she felt uncomfortable.
Blame it on her, she doesn't blame her mother.
But her mother told her not to go look for her, which made Li Ke feel very uncomfortable.
Her parents divorced and got married separately. Her father got a stepmother. It seemed that they were still in the same family, but in fact, her three siblings had been separated by their stepmother a long time ago. They could not get the warmth of family with their father.
She also had to fight with her stepmother every day to protect her younger siblings.
My mother also has a new home, and they can't integrate into my stepfather's family.
The three siblings, although they still have parents, are no different from orphans.
"How is your sister-in-law?"
Mrs. Chu cried for a while in the video, wiped away her tears, and then asked about the situation of Li Yan and Li Ming.
"That's great. They're in school. Xiaoyan will take the college entrance exam next year. She has excellent grades. As long as she doesn't fail the exam, she'll definitely be able to get into a good university."
"That's good, that's good."
Mrs. Chu was very pleased to hear that her second daughter had good grades.
"Your father... is in so much debt, what's going on?"
"I made money to pay off my debts."
Li Ke downplayed the incident and did not tell her mother that she and her sister were almost sold by their father to pay off debts.
"He's back in the cardboard box business, but business isn't doing too well. Regardless, he's willing to fight, which is better than just drinking at home."
Mrs. Chu said, "He deserved it. It was retribution! As long as it didn't implicate you three siblings, I'd be so eager to set off firecrackers to celebrate. Where's his so-called true love? Did he kick him?"
Mrs. Chu felt very happy and gloated when her ex-husband ended up bankrupt.
And there was the mistress who destroyed her family and stole her husband.
"Now it's not causing trouble for us. That woman wants a divorce, but she can't. My dad won't divorce her. She's also responsible for all the debts he owes. He won't divorce her until they're paid off."
"She now works at a nightclub to pay off her debts. She only has 500 yuan left each month for living expenses, and the rest goes directly into the creditor's account."
Hearing that the mistress was living such a miserable life, Mrs. Chu kept saying on the phone: "Serves her right! It's retribution, retribution!"
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