Su Tao is very cunning; Sun Lifang thought she only wanted money.
But now, it's unclear what she's trying to do.
He played games with Zhou Xinya with a smile, trying his best to perform well. When the waiter called out that the food was ready, he immediately got up to pick it up.
Sun Lifang grabbed her arm and told her, "You don't have to do that."
It's heartbreaking to see them trying so hard to please the other person and constantly serving them, just wanting to ask, "Auntie, could you call my mom and tell her I'm here with you and she doesn't need to worry?"
OK, making a phone call is a must.
Parents are bound to worry if their child is away from home.
Just as Sun Lifang was about to dial Su Tao's uncle's number, the little girl came over and asked, "Can I not go home?"
Huh? What do you mean by not going home?
Before Sun Lifang could react, Zhou Xinya clapped her hands happily and said, "Yay, yay, we'll sleep together tonight."
Kids love to sleep with their best friends and whisper secrets. Guo Zhimeng, Tong Beibei, and Pei Lin all slept with Zhou Xinya.
Those are all fine, but when it comes to Su Tao...
Sun Lifang couldn't quite describe the feeling, but she felt uncomfortable.
It's as if you're being manipulated and led step by step into someone's trap.
This time it was sharing food and sleeping together, what will it be next time?
When it comes to sharing resources, Sun Lifang is willing to give Su Tao money and help, but she doesn't want Su Tao to take advantage of her own daughter.
Su Tao is very good at "raising her status". She managed to get a train ticket to Shanghai by persuading her stepfather, saying that she was going to collect the money she had given him as a gift.
But when she got to Shanghai, she didn't want the money anymore.
To put it simply, Sun Lifang didn't want her daughter to become Su Tao's pawn.
Maybe she's overthinking it, but you can talk to me about the business; why involve Zhou Xinya?
Although Zhou Xinya is also very smart, her intelligence is not on the same level as Su Tao's.
So Sun Lifang paused, put down her phone, and asked Su Tao, "How's your uncle's family? Did you see them today?"
When asked this question, Su Tao didn't look up and made a loud noise while drinking her soup.
It looked like the spiciness was burning; she wiped her eyes with her sleeve.
She said, "It's alright. My aunt said she'd take me shopping for new clothes and out to dinner tonight. She even cleaned up a room with a balcony for us. The cotton quilt smells wonderful from the sun, and there's something else on the balcony—"
At this point, she gestured with her hand, "There's a flowerpot this big."
Hearing her say that, the little girl next to her, who still had food in her mouth, grabbed Su Tao's arm and asked excitedly, "Is that so? When will you take me to see it?"
Su Tao smiled and touched Zhou Xinya's cheek, then casually handed her a spoon, "There will be a chance, I'll take you to see it when there's a chance."
The two were laughing and chatting happily on one side, but Sun Lifang noticed something was off.
Su Tao's acting skills could fool Zhou Xinya, but not Sun Lifang.
She is a very hardworking girl who knows how to use her strengths and portrays herself as a "loved and well-regarded" girl.
What is the purpose?
Obviously, the goal was to get closer to Zhou Xinya.
Only those who stand on the same level can become friends.
Su Tao kept quiet about negative things and only talked about things that Zhou Xinya was interested in.
It's too "vague". Sun Lifang wants to know what she really wants to do.
Her true intentions are elusive and difficult to discern.
“You don’t really need to do this.” Around nine o’clock in the evening, Sun Lifang called home. Zhou Xinya had fallen asleep in her arms, so she finally had a chance to talk to Su Tao.
“Just take the money I’m giving you. You don’t need to act. I’m giving it to you because I genuinely want to, not to test you.”
Fearing that Su Tao might have concerns, Sun Lifang even came up with an excuse for her, "If your mother asks, just say that this is a gift from your aunt."
In rural areas, don't elders always give gifts when they see their relatives' children?
Sun Lifang reassured her that she could accept the money without worry, saying, "If parents ask where the money came from, it's hard to say."
Holding my daughter in my arms, my arms felt a little heavy.
With her right hand supporting her head, it was inconvenient for her left hand to reach for her bag, so Sun Lifang made her point clearly in one go.
“You want to come and help us, which is kind of you, and we appreciate that.”
But matters of the heart are unpredictable. Sun Lifang knew Haiyan was coming to Shanghai for a month or so, so she extended an olive branch to Su Tao, "While you're in Shanghai, you can eat whatever you want, do whatever you want, Auntie can take you, but—"
Sun Lifang stopped there, knowing that Su Tao understood what she meant.
The smile on her lips froze for a moment, and the girl lowered her head, not daring to meet Sun Lifang's gaze.
All her hidden thoughts were laid bare.
Indeed, after a moment of silence, Su Tao replied, "Indeed, I want to get closer to Zhou Xinya and become good friends with her."
However, the girl blinked her bright eyes, leaned back slightly, and revealed the wound on her arm.
“I said I didn’t want to go home because I was afraid my mother would worry if she saw this, not because I wanted to go home with Zhou Xinya.”
After a pause, the girl continued, "You guessed right, I do hope to stay at your house."
Of course, that's just the best-case scenario.
In reality, Su Tao knew that she "was going to stay in a hotel by herself, and would go back home after her hands had scabbed over and were no longer red."
The scratch itself isn't scary; what's scary are the raised welts around it.
Su Tao knew her mother would ask questions if she saw this, so she didn't want to go home and worry her mother.
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