"Good morning, Grandpa... Ah..." The next morning, Wen Sining yawned, looking terribly exhausted.
"Ningning, what's wrong with you? Didn't you sleep last night?" Grandpa Lu asked worriedly.
Wen Sining yawned again, her eyes brimming with tears. She reached out and rubbed her eyes.
"I was chatting with a friend last night and got so carried away that I went to bed a bit late."
Originally, Lu Luochen was standing beside, tidying up his shirt. Hearing this, he snorted coldly, grabbed his suit jacket and walked out.
"Luochen, you haven't had breakfast yet. Where are you going so early?" Grandpa Lu quickly asked him.
Lu Luochen cast a cold glance at Wen Sining and said, "You guys eat. I'm not hungry. I'll go to the company first."
"You brat! Why didn't I see you being so eager to go to work before? Wait a bit. Ningning hasn't had breakfast yet."
"Whether she eats or not has nothing to do with me. We don't go the same way." After saying that, he left without looking back, which made Grandpa Lu so angry that he tapped his walking stick on the ground continuously.
"This brat really makes me mad! I shouldn't have praised him yesterday. I don't know who he takes after with this temper!"
Wen Sining glanced at Lu Luochen's back, patted Grandpa Lu on the back comfortingly and said with a smile, "Okay, okay. Don't be angry. I'm off today. It's just nice to stay at home and accompany you more."
"Aren't you going to work?" Grandpa Lu was stunned and asked.
Wen Sining shook her head. "A friend I haven't seen for a long time is back from abroad. He said he would come to Licheng to find me today. I promised to show him around the city when he arrives."
Grandpa Lu's eyes flashed. He asked carefully, "Ningning, Grandpa is just asking. Is this friend of yours... a boy or a girl?"
"A boy. What's wrong, Grandpa?"
"Are you guys very close?"
"Extremely close. Although we've only known each other for a few years, I feel like we've known each other in our previous lives." Wen Sining truthfully described her relationship with Bai Baobei.
Grandpa Lu was stunned for a moment and then sighed deeply.
"I see... Grandpa understands. Ningning, no matter what decision you make, Grandpa will support you. That brat Luochen is, after all, not good enough for you."
Wen Sining blinked blankly. She didn't know how the topic suddenly shifted to this, but she didn't know what to say, so she could only force out a couple of laughs.
However, in Grandpa Lu's eyes, her smile seemed like an admission of something. Instantly, he felt even more melancholy. His eyes were full of reluctance as he looked at her.
Originally, he had planned to match Wen Sining and Lu Luochen together. But Lu Luochen's temper was so unpredictable. Not to mention getting together with Wen Sining, it was already Wen Sining's kindness that he didn't push her further away.
He had regarded Wen Sining as half of his granddaughter. He did hope that Wen Sining could become a member of the Lu family forever, but he didn't want to see her being wronged even more.
If Wen Sining wanted to pursue her own happiness... although he felt it was a pity, he would still support her.
The two people chatting on different wavelengths didn't notice someone who had returned to the door.
Lu Luochen stood quietly at the entrance, listening to every word of their conversation. His eyelids drooped, covering his eyes, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
"Sir, why did you come back? Did you forget something?"
Bai Shu saw Lu Luochen standing at the entrance and quickly walked over to ask. However, Lu Luochen just left again without looking back.
After a while, the roar of the car sounded, and it slowly drove away from the Lu family mansion.
This time, he really left.
At a traffic light, Lu Luochen slowly stopped in front of the stop line. His mind kept replaying the conversation he had just heard. The hand holding the steering wheel tightened involuntarily, and his knuckles turned pale.
After a long time, the traffic light in front turned from red to green. And he seemed to have figured something out as he let out a cold laugh.
He and Wen Sining were supposed to be strangers. They just got together because of various accidents. What did he care about? It was best like this, being irrelevant to each other. It was better to keep it this way until the end of the agreement period.
Lu Luochen convinced himself, and the inexplicable irritable mood that had arisen subsided.
...
Wen Sining was sitting on the sofa, watching Grandpa Lu and Doctor Xiao playing chess. The two old men were not serious at all when playing chess. You disliked my poor chess skills, and I disliked you for taking so long to think about the next move. They disliked each other extremely.
"Ningning, look at this old man Xiao. He's been thinking about this move for ten minutes and still hasn't decided where to place the piece. He's just wasting our time."
"Pfft! Old man Lu, do you think I'm like you, just making random moves? You don't even look at how many games I've won against you. If I played like your mess, I would have lost countless times already."
"What are you talking nonsense about? It's obviously me who has won more games."
"You're just talking nonsense with your eyes open. If you don't believe me, ask Ningning. Who has won more games between us!"
Saying that, the two old men turned their heads to look at Wen Sining in unison. "Ningning, tell us. Who has won more games between us!"
Wen Sining calmly stuffed the cantaloupe in her hand into her mouth, picked up the score sheet beside and took a look. Immediately, she burst out laughing.
"Grandpa, Grandpa Xiao, don't argue anymore. You two have won the same number of games. You've both won one game, and the rest ended in a draw."
The two old men snorted coldly and turned their heads away, not looking at each other.
Looking at the scene of the two of them acting like quarreling children, Wen Sining couldn't help covering her mouth and chuckling. Just as she was laughing happily, the phone she had casually thrown on the sofa rang. She picked it up and saw that it was Bai Baobei calling to tell her that he had already arrived in Licheng.
Wen Sining immediately jumped up from the sofa and said excitedly, "Grandpa, my friend is here. I'll go out first."
"Go ahead. Be careful on the way."
"Okay, I know, Grandpa. I probably won't come back for dinner tonight. You don't need to wait for me."
Grandpa Lu waved his hand, and Wen Sining rushed out of the house with her bag impatiently.
Looking at her excited appearance, Grandpa Lu couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh. He had no mood to play chess anymore. He casually threw the chess pieces into the chess box.
"Old friend, let's call it a truce. I'm not in the mood to compete with you today."
Doctor Xiao also put down the chess pieces and gave him a disdainful look. "I didn't plan to compete with you. It was you who pestered me to have a competition."
"We've been competing since we were young, and we still haven't achieved anything after all these years."
"...We were young and impulsive back then. We always wanted to rank ourselves... In the end, we just gave her to someone else. What's up? Your grandson is useless and can't keep Ningning?"
Grandpa Lu waved his hand. "Forget it. We're old. Let the young people handle their own affairs."