Chapter 302

Chapter 302: Xu Jiamu is Responsive (2)

Translator: Paperplane Editor: DarkGem

After a long while, Qiao Anhao lifted her head from between her knees . The tears on her face had dried up, and the rims of her eyes were red . As she had crouched for quite some time, when she stood up, her legs were numb . She fell back down to the floorboards .

Qiao Anhao bit the corner of her lip and got up from the ground . She glanced at the time on the wall . It was already quarter past twelve; his birthday had passed .

She stood dazed on the spot for a while, then lowered her eyes and walked out of the room .

The mansion was empty . The only sound was her footsteps . As she listened, there was an unspeakable loneliness at the bottom of her heart .

She went to the storage room, took out a cardboard box, and went back to the room . Then she kneeled on the floorboards, picked up the candles one-by-one, and put them into the box . With the box of candles in her arms, she went downstairs and put it in the storage room .

When she walked back into the room, Qiao Anhao rushed over to the wall with a sharp piece of iron wire in her hand and popped all the balloons . The loud popping entered her ears, one-by-one . She wasn’t the least bit frightened . Her expression was composed, and her fingers continuously stabbed into the balloons on the wall, shoving them into the rubbish bag .

When she tidied up the room, Qiao Anhao took the rubbish bag downstairs . As she was ready to throw it out, she thought about the cake in the fridge and stopped for a second . She walked over to the dining room, opened the fridge and took the cake out . Her hands slightly clenched into fists . A second later, she chucked the cake in the rubbish bag . She took the bag and walked out of the room, and threw the bag into the public bins in the district outside .

After Qiao Anhao finished up, it was already one in the morning . She removed her make up, showered, and climbed into bed .

Hard to say if it was because Lu Jinnian had recently come back home every night, she felt that something was missing by her side . She tossed and turned, but she couldn’t sleep no matter what . After much difficulty, she later fell asleep, but not long after, she suddenly woke up and looked out the window . The skies were already bright, and the other side of her bed was empty . Clearly, Lu Jinnian hadn’t come back .

Qiao Anhao hugged the covers and sat there for a while . Then she heard sounds of something unlocking coming from downstairs . She instinctively removed her covers and jumped out of bed, and ran out of the room bare-footed . Just as she reached the stairs, she saw Madam Chen carrying large and small bags into the kitchen .

Qiao Anhao felt a pang of disappointment from the bottom of her heart . She stood there on the spot for a while, then returned to the room . She wasn’t the least bit sleepy, so she quickly cleaned herself up . Thinking about having to go to the set today, she called Zhao Meng to pick her up early .

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Lu Jinnian didn’t sleep all night . At seven in the morning, he heard sounds outside the office and snapped back to reality . Then he got up from his office chair and went to the room in the back, took a shower, and changed into clean clothes .

At nine, there was a morning meeting . When it ended, it was only ten .

Today, he had to be on the set of “Alluring Times” . Last night, he left the car with Qiao Anhao, and his other cars weren’t at Mount Yi mansion, but at Mian Xiu Garden . And so, after the meeting, Lu Jinnian called his assistant to take them to Mian Xiu Garden .

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Though Qiao Anhao asked Zhao Meng to come over early to pick her up to go to the set, when she arrived, it was already late . The time was almost eleven in the afternoon .