Since she didn’t understand the full story, Cheng Xi’s mother’s heart was forlorn upon seeing Lin Fan. This was the perfect son-in-law for her daughter: capable and thoughtful, possessing a good pedigree, a good education—and from abroad, no less! This was someone she’d be proud of bragging about.

More importantly, he was old classmates with her daughter, so they knew each other through and through.

But since her daughter already had Lu Chenzhou, she could only restrain her feelings and say, “Picking up Cheng Xi? How could we trouble you to do something like that? Her boyfriend’s already here to pick her up.”

Although Cheng Xi couldn’t see Lin Fan’s face, she could imagine what kind of expression he was making. It was undoubtedly a complicated one, impossible to describe.

She quickly walked out, already exasperated with her mother. “Mom, what are you saying?” And then she looked at Lin Fan....

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