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Chapter 101 Parting ways?

There should be very few boys who don't like cars, and serious enthusiasts even have a kind of admiration for internal combustion engines.

Lu Changge didn't reach that point. In fact, he later bought an electric car, but he was reluctant to sell his fuel car.

In his eyes, the 07 Audi was a bit old, especially the interior, but old things have their emotional value, so he just drove it for now and made do with it.

After all this trouble, it was already evening when I returned to school.

Since Hui Chuankun and Zuo Shuya were not at home, he thought of going to the garage to take a look himself.

The income of Taobao store is still considerable now. No matter how much fortune he makes in the stock market, he cannot refuse this free money.

So when he drove the car to the entrance of Juyuan, he asked Li Ming to go back first, and he turned right and drove around to the teachers' and staff dormitory.

There is a parking space at the door of the garage. There are fewer cars these days, so parking is very convenient.

But while he was still backing up, he saw that the garage door was ajar and there was a light inside.

Lu Changge was confused for a moment and didn't know who it was until Zuo Shuya came out and stood in front of the headlights.

She wore a long brown wool coat, jeans and boots, and was still as elegant and beautiful as ever.

"I was wondering who would park the car here. What? Did you buy a car?" Zuo Shuya looked a little surprised when she saw that the person who got out of the car was Lu Changge.

"My sister came over, and because I wanted to take her out for some fun, I suddenly realized how inconvenient it was to not have a car." Lu Changge explained briefly, then held onto the car door and asked, "Didn't you go see your daughter? Why are you back today?"

Zuo Shuya only smiled briefly and didn't say much. She just focused on leading him inside and said, "I'm still a little worried about your roommate not being here. Besides, Xiaoying has interest classes to attend, so she can't play every day, so she came back."

For some reason, Lu Changge felt that she was hiding something with her smile.

"Nothing happened, right?"

"No," she shook her head, then sat down in front of her computer and explained, "National Day is actually a small peak period, and office workers just happen to have time to watch such long video courses. I see that sales have increased compared to last month. But recently I found that Taobao stores similar to ours are also selling these things. The content is similar, but the prices are deliberately lower than ours."

"How many shops are there? How much do they sell for?" Lu Changge bent over to look at the computer screen.

"About a dozen or so. The ones that sell more can get about a hundred orders a month." When Zuo Shuya looked up, she saw Lu Changge's profile approaching, but she didn't hide and pretended to be normal.

"We haven't been significantly affected yet. We'll see after a while."

To be honest, Lu Baiwan's store has received so many positive reviews, and to be honest, it's not because the content Lu Changge selected is so good, but most of them are praising Zuo Shuya's good lectures.

“What if we are affected?”

"If it's affected, the price will be lowered a little. It doesn't cost much anyway."

Lu Changge's answer was somewhat casual, but it couldn't be said to be completely casual, because this was his original plan for the matter.

But when Zuo Shuya heard it, she became a little worried.

"Then I have to find a job in advance."

Lu Changge's expression paused. He now knew that Zuo Shuya must have something on her mind.

"What happened?"

Zuo Shuya stood up and pointed at the A4 outside and said, "Now that we've bought a new car, how about taking me out for a ride?"

"to make."

In fact, Lu Changge could vaguely guess some of the clues.

She went to see her daughter. Besides, apart from her daughter, no one else could be on her mind, so it was probably because of this.

After the car turned out of Jiangzhou Polytechnic, he spoke, "I'm not particularly good at comforting people, but I'm still a good person to talk to. Tell me, what's wrong?"

Zuo Shuya opened the car window, and the cool night wind blew her soft short hair. Looking at the bustling city outside the window, her expression was a little complicated.

"My ex-husband was not happy when I went to see Xiaoying this time. I didn't take it too seriously at first because our relationship was already strained. But when I got there, I found that Xiaoying was hurt."

"What's the injury?" "Here on the back of my hand. There's a long cut." She gestured. "When I first saw it, I was immediately overwhelmed with emotion. I asked my ex-husband what had happened. He wouldn't tell me, only saying it wasn't deep and that the doctor said it wouldn't leave a scar. But I couldn't calm down, so I kept asking him.

When I pressed him, he told me that he and his current wife were busy with work and hadn't been paying attention to Xiaoying. The child accidentally knocked over the mirror on the coffee table, and the glass shards caused the scratch.

"Is everything alright? I don't think you'll need stitches?"

This kind of injury is very dangerous for children, and the consequences can be disastrous if one is not careful.

Even when she talked about it afterwards, Zuo Shuya seemed very angry. "Luckily, the wound was relatively shallow. Later, I asked Xiaoying if she was doing well over there. She started crying and said she missed me..."

It was fine at first, but when she mentioned the words "miss me", her emotions suddenly broke down and tears jumped out of her eyes.

She could only cover her mouth. "At that moment, I was really filled with guilt. I didn't know how I could have ended up like this as a mother. So on the way back, I made up my mind to bring Xiaoying to my side."

Lu Changge turned at an intersection and got on the only elevated road in Jiangzhou. He drove into the slow lane and slowed down.

The noise of the wind also died down, allowing him to hear the sobbing more clearly.

"One summer vacation, I had a cat." He suddenly said, not caring whether Zuo Shuya was listening or not, and continued, "British shorthair, blue cat. At that time, our family was renting a house, not a commercial house, but a self-built house in the countryside with a yard. The landlord's female cat gave birth to a litter, and she gave us one as a gift. It was very cute.

My parents don't like to take care of it, so I have to feed it, which is really annoying. Think about it, I used to be able to play outside every day during the holidays. But now that I have a cat, every time I play outside and it's time for dinner, I think about the kitten at home who hasn't been fed yet, and then I really have to go home to feed it. Just like parents, no matter how busy they are at work, they are always worried about whether their children at home have eaten.

Zuo Shuya sniffed. She had just burst into tears, but now she managed to control her expression. "What happened next?"

"Later, my mother gave in. She fed the kitten more diligently than I did and was more reluctant to part with it than I was."

"So does it have a name?"

"Yes. It's called the test paper."

Zuo Shuya thought she had misheard, "What's it called? Test paper?"

"Yeah, I hated studying at the time, so I gave it this name. It means that you two are my ancestors."

"You're quite funny too."

"But we only had this cat for over a year. One day, Test Paper suddenly disappeared and was nowhere to be found. My mother was very sad, so I comforted her by saying that maybe she had found true love and left with the male cat. So, I think I understand how you feel about Xiaoying. If I were you, I would do whatever it takes to get the child back."

Lu Changge had actually been a father, so he completely understood. He used the kitten as an example only because his experience as a parent was from his previous life.

"Changge, I want to ask you for a favor."

"You said."

"Let's start a training course? Let's officially register a training organization. If you don't have time, I'll do it. I'll do my best and won't let you lose money or cause any trouble."

This is the third time she has mentioned this.

Lu Changge could actually guess the reason, he had known it for a long time.

"You're fighting for custody with your ex-husband, but you're struggling with the issue of ability. Even though you're rich and raising a child isn't a problem at all, your job and income aren't stable, so you want to set up a formal company, right?"

"Yes. I don't know why you keep refusing to agree. It's obviously more promising."

"You have your reasons for insisting on your beliefs, and I have mine. It's impossible for one person to completely agree with another over a period of decades, not to mention that the lives we've experienced are completely different."

Lu Changge was not sad. Many people who started a business together eventually went their separate ways, and there were even many who stabbed each other in the back.

He has seen this kind of thing many times, so it’s nothing.

Of course, he has also read some novels in which the people around the protagonist are like NPCs, always putting the protagonist's interests first. If this were true, there wouldn't be so many partings of ways in real life.

In fact, everyone lives in a world of his own. No matter how ordinary it is, he will fight for the world he lives in.

From this perspective, Zuo Shuya's persistence is essentially no different from his persistence.

(End of this chapter)