Chapter 5 (1/2)

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A slap came.

“What nonsense are you talking about?!”

Mother Ning’s expression changed visibly. In the end, her face was filled with resentment as she roared angrily.

“How can Su Su be related to that animal?! He can forget about getting involved with her for the rest of his life!”

The room fell silent.

“…”

Mother Ning realized belatedly that she had actually slapped Ning Qing!

Her eyes flickered and her mouth fell open. There was nowhere to put that hand.

“Qing… Qing.”

Her face hurt, but Ning Qing smiled and said sadly, “You can’t pretend anymore, right?”

This gentleness and love were just an illusion in the end.

Mother Ning was at a loss and flustered.

“Qing Qing, I didn’t do it on purpose. I mean…”

Ning Qing stepped back in rejection and avoided her hand. Mother Ning’s hands froze in midair.

She closed her eyes and took deep breaths again and again.

“I understand.”

She was calm and almost cold.

Mother Ning panicked, but she did not know how to explain. A pleading expression appeared on her gentle and refined face. “Qing Qing, I’m sorry. I really didn’t mean to.”

Ning Qing clenched her fists tightly and forced herself to calm down.

When she opened her eyes again, the light in them had completely dissipated, replaced by numbness and coldness.

“It’s okay. Take care of yourself and Dad. I’ll go back first.”

Ning Qing bypassed Mother Ning and ran out.

She ignored the shouts behind her and rushed out of the Ning family like a ferocious beast escaping from a flood.

In the taxi, Ning Qing’s heart ached when she thought of Mother Ning’s judgment of Nian Lie.

Beast.

If he had not done anything overboard, why would her mother scold him with those words?