Chapter 871 - Real Xiaohua (1/2)

Xia Ruoxin extended her hand, and Charlie opened his mouth to drop the apple onto Xia Ruoxin’s palm.

“You can have it.”

She passed the apple back to Charlie.

Charlie wagged his tail and ate the apple.

A cold wind blew over, and the ground looked like leaves had just rained on them. Charlie loved to roll around on them before he shook off the leaves on his body and sat in front of Xia Ruoxin obediently. If not, it would sleep.

At this time, there were sounds of footsteps coming from afar as they landed on the ground—shashasha.

It put down the apple and barked towards the incoming person before he wagged his tail.

A hand was placed on his head, and Charlie’s tail wagged even more enthusiastically.

“Don’t get cold.” Lu Jinrong walked over and pulled up the blanket on Xia Ruoxin’s legs. Then, he pushed her wheelchair. “I have something to discuss with you.”

Xia Ruoxin placed her hands on her knees. Even though she did not know what Lu Jinrong wanted to say—no matter what he wanted her to do, she would do it even if he wanted her to die immediately.

Lu Jinrong pushed her into a room. This should be his study as there were quite a few precious books, and the bookshelves were all filled. Besides, there were obvious marks of the books being flipped. As for those that were not flipped, they might be precious pieces.

Not many people still liked to flip paperback books despite being in the digital age. There was another book on the table, and it should have just been read by him.

Lu Jinrong let go of the wheelchair and pulled open his drawer. He took out a picture frame and looked at it; his gaze turned warm, and there were no calculations in it, just pure liking and love. However, within this love, there were some forms of light hurt.

“Look at this.” He passed the picture frame to Xia Ruoxin.

Xia Ruoxin took it and saw a girl inside who was around seven or eight years old and very pretty. Her eyes and brows had Lu Jinrong’s shadow. She gently caressed the picture frame in her hands, and the frame was relatively new. However, she could tell that the picture was from quite a few years back. The photo must have been treasured; if not, it would not be kept in such a good manner.

“This is my younger sister.” Lu Jinrong leaned his back against the bookshelves behind him. “At that time, she was only seven; and I watched her grow up. I only have this one sister, and no matter how busy I was, the first thing I did when I went home was to play with my sister. Just that, my sister’s age stopped at seven forever. She’s not around anymore.

“My mom could not take the impact and is still in a daze up till now. The plastic surgeon told me that your bone structure is very similar to my sister.”

So… Xia Ruoxin knew. She placed the picture frame on his knees and pressed on it carefully with her fingers as she was afraid that it would fall on the floor.