64: 064 So what?
64: 064 So what?
“Shu Rui, you’re finally back!”
Saturday.
Li Shuru, who had been missing for four days, finally returned to school.
As soon as she entered the dormitory, Zheng Jingjing and Guo Ran ca up to her with concern.
“What happened?
Why did you suddenly decide to go ho?”
“My dad fell ill.”
Even with her best effort to disguise it, the imnse stress on her mind and body was still evident in Li Shuru’s haggard expression.
“Your uncle fell ill?”
“It’s not serious, is it?”
“Just a small issue.”
Li Shuru forced a smile, reluctant to say more.
Her inherent pride made her unwilling to accept the sympathetic gazes of others.
“Why is Si Yi still sleeping?”
She looked towards the bed on the left, changing the subject.
“She went out drinking last night and had too much.”
Li Shuru nodded her head.
Even though they sensed that sothing was off with her, Zheng Jingjing and Guo Ran, seeing that she did not want to talk, exchanged a glance and did not press further.
Noon.
Li Shuru received a phone call.
Zheng Jingjing and Guo Ran had gone out to buy food, and she took the phone out to the balcony.
“Uncle.”
“Rui Rui, how is your dad doing now?”
“The doctor said he must have a heart transplant.”
“Ah, so there was no solution even in East Sea?”
A sigh ca from the other end.
“No wonder your mom wants to sell the house.”
“What?”
Li Shuru was taken aback and confird, “My mom wants to sell the house?”
“Yeah, didn’t you know?”
“My mom didn’t tell .”
“Your mom probably didn’t want to stress you out.
She’s always been strong, and now with your dad’s serious illness, she doesn’t want to trouble us either.
A heart transplant, even if a donor heart is found, will cost at least one or two million for the surgery.
Your mom is out of options.
But if she sells the house, where will she live afterward?”
“Uncle, you must persuade my mom not to sell the house.
I’ll find a way to deal with the surgery expenses.”
This issue was sothing Li Shuru truly hadn’t considered.
After all, she was still too young, unable to realize many things.
Moreover, her mother Xue Mingqin had remained tight-lipped, never ntioning how much the surgery would cost.
If it weren’t for this phone call, the house might have changed hands without her even knowing.
Although their ho couldn’t be considered a mansion, it was where she had grown up, and it held the most precious mories for their family.
“You have a way?
What can you do?”
The voice on the other end spoke gravely, “I also don’t support your mother selling the house, but under the current circumstances, to save your dad’s life, the only option is to have the money ready in advance.
After all, hospitals don’t care about personal feelings.
The only solution now is to mortgage your house, take out a loan to deal with the imdiate crisis, and figure out how to pay it back later.”
One or two million could be an astronomical figure for the average person, enough to be suffocating, but not for Li Shuru.
At the very least, her account currently held more than two million, not to ntion the fixed asset that was her Porsche Panara.
But these things, she could not reveal to her uncle right now.
How could a girl still in school have so much money?
With her father still in the hospital, she did not want to stir up gossip within the family at this ti.
“Shu Rui, your family is selling the house?”
Possibly awakened by the phone conversation, Xu Siyi climbed out of bed, walked to the balcony, and looked at Li Shuru with suspicion as she put down the phone.
Li Shuru was restless, her mind preoccupied with how to solve this dilemma; she didn’t hear what Si Yi said, nor did she respond.
Talk to her mother about making hundreds of thousands from live streaming?
Let alone her mother, even she herself, without any prior preparation, would find it difficult to accept such news if it were suddenly sprung on her.
Li Shuru had intended to gradually and thodically reveal her situation to her family, but her father’s illness had completely disrupted her plans.
But no matter what, their family had only that one house, and it definitely could not be sold.
“Jiang Chen, where are you?”
She picked up her phone again.
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“What’s so urgent?”
Downstairs at the girls’ dormitory.
Li Shuru pulled open the door and got into the eye-catching Panara.
“I need to ask a favor of you.”
Facing Jiang Chen’s puzzled gaze, she got straight to the point.
“What is it?”
“First you tell whether you’re willing to do it.”
Jiang Chen was puzzled and said with a wry smile, “Shu Rui, if you don’t tell exactly what it is, how will I know if I can help?”
“You can.”
Li Shuru looked straight at him, and whether it was the expression on her face or not, at that mont, this proud and aloof belle of the art college appeared to have a touch of pitiable stubbornness.
After a mont of eye contact, Jiang Chen pressed his lips together and nodded, “Okay, since you’ve brought it up, I naturally wouldn’t hesitate to go through water and fire.”
“It’s not that serious.”
Li Shuru took a deep breath.
“I want you to pretend to be my boyfriend.”
Jiang Chen started, his eyes unconsciously widening, doubting whether he was hallucinating.
“What did you say?”
He was in disbelief.
“I want you to pretend to be my boyfriend.”
As shaless as those words sounded, at this point, Li Shuru couldn’t care less.
“A heart transplant surgery costs at least one to two million, conservatively estimated.”
Jiang Chen nodded.
He knew this.
“My mom is going to sell the house,” Li Shuru continued.
“Wait a mont.”
At this, Jiang Chen sensed sothing was off and interrupted, “Sell the house?
Why is she selling the house?”
“Because we can’t co up with that much money.”
“Don’t you have it?”
Jiang Chen frowned.
“That’s why I’m asking for your help.”
Li Shuru stared intently at him.
“My mom doesn’t know I’ve earned so much money, and I can’t tell her now, or she’ll definitely get the wrong idea.
So, I need your help.”
As their eyes t, Jiang Chen seed to gradually understand.
“You an…
you want to pretend to be your boyfriend, and then I co up with the money?”
As expected of a scholarship winner year after year, his thinking was indeed quick.
“Exactly.”
Li Shuru said calmly, “I give you the money, and you give it to my mom.
Only this way she will be able to accept it.”
“But will your mom believe it?”
Jiang Chen questioned, “Will she believe that I’m a person who can co up with hundreds of thousands?”
“Aren’t you?”
Li Shuru shot back the question without hesitation, which was quite thought-provoking.
Jiang Chen was montarily taken aback.
“On the day I went ho, at Banqiu Court, you paid the bill, and you even settled Xiang Xingren’s account without using my card,” Li Shuru said, looking into his eyes.
Jiang Chen fell silent.
“So, the problem you ntioned is not a problem at all.”
These days, because she was too busy, she had no ti to investigate this matter, but Li Shuru at least understood one thing: everyone in school had underestimated this young man.
“But aren’t you afraid…
that the pretense might turn into reality?”
Facing his aningful gaze, Li Shuru turned her head to lean on the leather seatback, looking out the windshield at the envious students outside, and slowly exhaled.
“If my dad can get through this safely, then what does it matter if the pretense turns into reality?”
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