By the time Chen Lu slowly returned home, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon.
Chen Pingsheng cooked meals at home, and before he knew it, he had lived in this three-bedroom, two-living-room house for several years.
Although I don't live here all the time, I spend most of my time here.
He also knows many of the neighbors in the community.
This small house has undergone a major renovation and is worth five or six million yuan in itself.
The renovation cost more than 10 million yuan.
This area is not the most prosperous place in Pengcheng, and the housing prices are only considered medium to low in the whole Pengcheng.
It’s just over 40,000 yuan per square meter.
Those in the city center with good locations still cost 150,000 yuan per unit. Shenzhen is also the smallest among the four super first-tier cities.
It is only one-third the size of the Magic City, and only one-eighth the size of the capital.
In such a small super first-tier city, land resources are naturally tight.
So, the scarcity of land is also a means to maintain high housing prices.
After millions of dollars in renovations, this small house is still very cozy to live in.
There is a master bedroom, a study, and the remaining room is a small room where Chen Lu lives.
As for the two halls, they are quite convenient for activities.
This is the situation of a house of over 130 square meters with no public area.
Chen Pingsheng cooked the dishes and Chen Lu brought them to the table himself.
"How's your study been lately?"
"fine!"
"You call that okay? Do you think I don't have your teacher's phone number or something?"
"Dad…I was just a little distracted, that's all."
"You call that a little distracted?"
After putting down his bowl and chopsticks, Chen Pingsheng consoled her, "You should also be a little understanding of Su Xiaoxi. It's very stressful for her to be just friends with you. And as for you, your grades are so up and down, it all depends on how that girl treats you. How can I say anything good about you?"
Seriously speaking, if this kind of girl were placed in the ancient royal family, she would be able to have such a great influence on the mood of an heir.
She would have been dragged out and chopped off by a mistress like Song Yanxi long ago.
Out of ten aristocratic families, all ten would make this choice, without any exception.
Chen Lu is still a little too young. He can't even see such basic things.
The more he did this, the more Song Yanxi would resist and hate this little girl surnamed Su even more.
Maybe he's already calling her a vixen in his heart.
Alas... A society ruled by law and a peaceful society have invisibly saved Su Xiaoxi's life.
"Dad...I will be fine, don't worry."
"Your grades are secondary. The key is your emotions. You're too easily influenced by the outside world. Dad just doesn't want you to be stuck in the middle of a situation and not be able to see through it."
The father and son have been communicating in a plain way over the years.
When children grow up, corporal punishment is meaningless.
Moreover, when he was little, Chen Pingsheng couldn't bear to hit him, let alone now.
"Don't worry, it won't happen again!"
"A real man should never make promises lightly, even if you are 100% sure, let alone a promise that you have no confidence at all."
Chen Lu was a little embarrassed. He just said it casually, but he didn't expect to be criticized.
Just don’t say it again next time.
Fortunately, he didn't say this out loud, otherwise Chen Pingsheng would definitely criticize him again.
I completely forgot what I just said.
Chen Lu was under a lot of pressure having to deal with such a reasonable father.
After dinner, Chen Pingsheng would take him to run one or two laps outside the community as usual.
Half an hour of exercise after dinner is essential.
When meeting someone familiar on the road, Chen Lu would greet them affectionately, "Good afternoon, Grandma Zhang."
Grandpa Liu is practicing Tai Chi again?
Politeness is just a basic upbringing of a noble family, and Chen Lu has done very well in this regard.
However, his wish to meet Su Xiaoxi downstairs was doomed to fail.
After all, Su Xiaoxi is not from the Chen family.
After her mother lost the remaining eight hundred thousand yuan, she was not depressed but happy.
Su Xiaoxi was originally very happy, but after knowing her mother's plan, she became silent.
It can be said that every time Su's mother calculated, she deepened her desire to stay away from Chen Lu.
It further deepened her inner inferiority and lack of confidence.
"Xiao Xi, you did a great job helping Chen Lu fight. Even though we lost all our remaining assets, this little bit of money is nothing compared to the kindness shown by the old Chen family. It's just that both my mother and I are broke now. Mom has decided to find a new job. You have to take good care of yourself when you're alone at home. Do you understand?"
"Hmm..." Su Xiaoxi nodded softly, as soft as a mosquito's voice. Her mother was still very confident in her.
I know my own daughter well. She has been very sensible and pretty since she was a child.
The only pity about a daughter like this is that she follows an unreliable mother like me.
A gloomy look flashed across Su's mother's face, and she blamed Xiaoxi's stupid biological father.
He actually abandoned the mother and daughter like this. If they had not left that home.
There wouldn't be such strong opposition from Chen Lu's mother.
If she had not been ruthlessly driven out of the Magic City and had not seen any hope, she would not have become a mistress to those old men.
Who doesn’t have a moment of innocence and romance?
She was really afraid that all this would completely destroy her daughter's innocence and romance.
No matter how bad Su's mother was, she was always thinking about Su Xiaoxi.
Parents always have long-term plans for their children.
She is no exception, but she is too concerned and confused. She is not as smart as outsiders think.
She just has a pretty face that is 70% similar to Su Xiaoxi.
Otherwise, she wouldn't mention these things so often in front of her daughter.
In Su's mother's opinion, Chen Lu must love her daughter very much. If the two of them continue to develop in this way, they will grow up together and be childhood sweethearts.
The future is very likely to be the same as that of the legendary Chen couple.
I have protected you since you were a child, and I will marry you when you grow up.
For the rest of my life, when we grow old, you will be the only one by my side.
Who doesn’t envy such love? The only one who can truly achieve it is that legendary couple.
If only her daughter had any chance of achieving such happiness.
As a mother, she naturally has to find ways to help her achieve all this.
But reality and ideal are often far apart.
Just like she is now, the more she pushes in this direction, the further the result will be from what she imagined.
Su Xiaoxi is indeed very sensible, so sensible that she knows that many of her mother's actions and words are wrong.
But she would not make any accusations, let alone loudly refute.
She is just like the middleman, stuck in the middle and unable to please either side.
She wanted to be a good friend with Chen Lu purely, but her mother was always thinking about the Chen family's property.
I even hoped countless times to get some free help from their family.
Even if this help is so insignificant to Chen Lu's family.
It will also put too many shackles on her invisibly.
Because in Su Xiaoxi's opinion, why would you ask friends for help with everything?
After Su's mother left, she opened her small drawer and found a little doll that Chen Lu had given her when she was a child.
She lay on it with her face tilted to the side, observing, the setting sun shining on her face.
It is so beautiful and poignant.
If there are ten most beautiful women in the world, she will probably be one of them when she grows up.
Even Shen Xi couldn't complain about her looks, she just said that she had such an unreliable mother who was a mistress.
With a mother like this, you are destined to never marry into a wealthy family.
A wealthy family is like a prejudice in people's minds, just like a mountain. No matter how you try to move it, it will remain motionless.
It will not change because of your efforts, nor will it change in the slightest because of your relationship since childhood.
In the eyes of Chen Lu's mother, all of this was a deep and malicious conspiracy.
She can still meet Chen Lu normally because he has the most open-minded and wise father in the world.
And she would not hate Chen Lu's mother, because she was not wrong. Her mother had indeed been plotting for her since she was a child.
Su Xiaoxi envied every girl who had a father to teach her, and she envied Chen Lu even more for having such a great father who was willing to spend time every day to accompany him in his growth.
A sensible girl like Su Xiaoxi is the envy of thousands of parents.
But they don’t know that besides being sensible, there is endless internal friction.
They will also be confused and have many emotions, but they hide everything under their sensible appearance.
This is a kind of mental torture and also a kind of mental pain.
An An has been sensible since she was a child, but she does not have the kind of pain that Su Xiaoxi has.
Because she has a father who can take care of everything for her and will take good care of her all the way.
It was obvious that Su Xiaoxi was not accompanied by such an elder.
Everything depends on herself.
Or maybe it was the mother who had her best interests at heart but only made her suffer more.
(End of this chapter)
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