“I have homework to do too, so let’s do it together.”
Bai Xia showed an innocent, angelic expression.
Lu Lin only felt a wave of pressure in his head; if it were any other time, maybe he would have been happy.
Bai Xia immediately took her little schoolbag from the butler, then went straight into the study, dragged over a small stool, and spread out all her homework on the desk.
The butler also looked like he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Because of Miss Bai, the President was clearly in a bad mood these days, and yet Little Miss was unusually clingy today. Who knows why.
Maybe blood really is thicker than water.
Today’s homework was to write an English essay.
As Bai Xia wrote, she kept glancing at the man by the desk.
She was obviously distracted.
The man was tapping away at the keyboard, his eyes fixed on the desktop, lost in thought.
What could he be thinking about?
He’s definitely plotting how to ruin the male lead, steal the female lead, but because of his recently established “loving father” persona, he’s just holding back for now.
No doubt, anger is already raging in his heart.
Knowing he definitely wouldn’t be willing to let the female lead marry the male rival, Bai Xia decided she would keep a close watch on him during this period, just in case he tried anything.
As long as she stopped him in time, maybe the male lead would back off.
What else could she do?
She’d just drawn this lot for a father.
When she finished her essay, suddenly the door to the room sounded.
“President, Miss Xu is here.”
The butler’s voice came from outside the door.
Lu Lin pressed his fingers to his forehead, his voice cold: “I’m busy.”
Bai Xia suddenly walked over and stared at his blank page.
“I’ve finished all my homework, and you haven’t finished any of your work. How can you be the president of a company with efficiency like this?”
Looking at his daughter’s adorable little face, Lu Lin suddenly felt a trace of comfort.
He and Ruan Wen had a child—this was a fact that could not be erased.
And that Song guy?
He was nothing.
“Is that so? Let me check your homework for you.”
Lu Lin’s mood seemed to improve.
Bai Xia couldn’t be bothered to talk to him.
After packing her homework into her schoolbag, she walked out of the study.
When she got to the first floor, sure enough, she saw a young woman with delicate features sitting in the living room, wearing a cream-colored Chanel-style dress.
Her softly curled long hair was like silk, and she was elegantly sipping coffee at that moment.
Perhaps sensing something, the woman glanced out of the corner of her eye and saw a dainty, porcelain-like little figure in her line of sight.
The girl’s eyebrows and eyes faintly resembled Lu Lin’s features.
“So you’re Bai Ruan Wen’s daughter?”
Her tone was far from friendly.
The butler hurried over to take Bai Xia’s hand.
This Miss Xu was no pushover, and Miss Bai was a straightforward child who always spoke her mind.
If the two quarreled, the whole villa might get turned upside down.
“Yes, my mom always praises how pretty big sister is. I didn’t expect you to be so beautiful—just like a fairy from a painting.”
Bai Xia blinked as she walked over.
Hearing the girl’s childish voice, Xu Yawen’s proud expression softened a little.
She looked Bai Xia up and down again and said stiffly, “You’re very pretty too.”
Would Bai Ruan Wen really praise her to her daughter?
Impossible—it must be fake, just to win favor with Lu Lin.
That woman was always so hypocritical and pretentious.
“Big sister, your hair is so beautiful. Will my hair be as pretty as yours when I grow up?”
Bai Xia looked at her with curiosity all over her face.
Meeting the girl’s clear, bright eyes, Xu Yawen seemed to think that a child wouldn’t lie.
The corners of her mouth lifted slightly.
“If you take good care of it, you’ll be very pretty too.”
“Are you here to see Lu Lin?”
Bai Xia asked curiously.
Xu Yawen’s brows furrowed at Bai Xia’s lack of “Dad” address.
“He’s not your father?”
Bai Xia climbed onto the sofa and sat down, shaking her head.
“He doesn’t respect my mom. I don’t want him to be my dad.”
Hearing this, Xu Yawen couldn’t help but laugh.
Kids really were naive and clueless.
To be Lu Lin’s daughter meant one third of the Lu family’s fortune would be hers in the future, and yet she didn’t even want it.
Bai Xia asked the butler to pour her a glass of milk, then hugged the pillow and watched Xu Yawen.
The female supporting character really was as beautiful and proud as described in the novel, but, as always, the fate of a “vicious” supporting female was to inevitably turn dark.
Although it wasn’t the female supporting character who drugged anyone back then, Xu Yawen had liked the male lead since childhood.
She just went abroad to study for a while, and when she returned, she found that the male lead had fallen for the female lead and even had a daughter.
In a fit of anger, she turned dark, constantly targeting the female lead, and in the end, her family went bankrupt and she ended up in jail.
Bai Xia really didn’t get it.
The supporting female had money and looks—why was she so hung up on the male lead, who was all wrong for her?
Was it his cold attitude she liked?
Or did she like that he was violent?
“Big sister, are you here to see him?”
Bai Xia asked with a face full of official concern, “Do you like him?”
Xu Yawen’s eyelids lowered as she looked steadily at the little girl.
“Who told you that?”
Could it have been Bai Ruan Wen again?
Bai Xia shook her head.
“I watch TV dramas and they’re always like this. Big sister, you must like him, that’s why you came to see him. But he’s hiding in the study playing on the computer, refusing to come out and see you. Someone so rude doesn’t deserve you at all.”
Hearing that Lu Lin was in the study, Xu Yawen’s expression shifted slightly.
She’d heard that Bai Ruan Wen and Song Tong were getting married, so she’d come specifically to find Lu Lin, just to make him see Bai Ruan Wen’s true face.
“That’s adult business, you wouldn’t understand.”
She stared thoughtfully at the second floor.
Bai Xia moved closer to Xu Yawen and said seriously, “If he were a good person, would I refuse to call him Dad? He not only loves to scold people, he drinks too much, and he likes to hit people. Today he even beat up Uncle Song, no one could stop him. If you marry him in the future, he’ll definitely be violent at home. And with the mandatory cooling-off period for divorce, it’ll be even harder to get out.”
“He hit someone?”
Xu Yawen’s face looked a bit odd.
The butler nervously handed Bai Xia the hot milk.
Miss Bai never missed a chance to air grievances against the President.
“That’s right, it’s not even the first time he’s hit someone. My mom couldn’t take it anymore, so she’s marrying Uncle Song. He loves grabbing my mom by the neck—super scary!”
Bai Xia said animatedly.
She wasn’t wrong.
If the male lead dared to beat up the male rival today, who knows who he’d hit tomorrow?
In the original story, he never hit the female lead, but he wasn’t gentle either.
No telling when he’d turn violent at home.
If he treated the female lead like that, he’d be even worse to others.
If she could save one person, she would.
With the supporting female’s conditions, she could find any man she wanted—no need to go down the path of turning dark.
As long as she stayed away from the male lead’s abyss, everyone could have a bright future.
Of course, Yao Yun was an exception.
That couldn’t be helped—entanglements of interest are the hardest to untangle.
No one doesn’t like money, and all those disputes among wealthy families are not for nothing.
“Maybe there are other reasons. Maybe he’ll change in the future.”
Xu Yawen took a sip of coffee, hiding the hesitation in her eyes.
In her memory, Lu Lin had never been violent.
But a child wouldn’t lie.
Why else would Bai Ruan Wen refuse to be with Lu Lin and insist on marrying Song Tong?
Could Lu Lin really be a drunken, violent man?
“How could he possibly change? If he were a good person, my mom wouldn’t have been scared into hiding abroad for so many years.”
Bai Xia’s face was serious.
Hearing the girl’s earnest words, Xu Yaxue frowned, glanced upstairs, and seemed to make up her mind.
“I’ll definitely make him change.”
Bai Xia could only wonder if the other’s brain was just a single track.
When a woman thinks she can change a man, her tragedy has already begun.
At least for now, the male lead was absolutely not someone you could entrust your life to.
Domestic violence might be uncertain, but emotional abuse was one hundred percent guaranteed.
“Haste makes waste, big sister. You have to be patient. If you need my help, just say so. Although I don’t think he’s good enough for you, if you come visit me often, I’ll be very happy.”
She could only keep up her polite smile.
Haste makes waste.
She couldn’t change the supporting female’s obsession overnight, so it would have to be a gradual process.
“Thank you.”
Xu Yawen’s expression was no longer haughty, but much gentler.
She reached out and pinched Bai Xia’s cheek.
“If only your father were as cute as you.”
Bai Xia shook her head.
“He’s not my dad. I don’t want him to be my dad.”
Xu Yawen couldn’t help but laugh, checked the time, picked up her bag, and stood up.
“One day your father will understand that I’m the one who suits him best.”
With that, she clicked away in her high heels and left.
Although she didn’t like Bai Ruan Wen, she hadn’t expected Bai Ruan Wen’s daughter to be so close to her.
If she really did marry Lu Lin in the future, she’d definitely treat this little girl as her own child.
Maybe raising a child wasn’t so troublesome after all.
Watching the supporting female leave, Bai Xia downed her milk in one gulp, then dashed upstairs.
She still had class—her teacher had been waiting a long time.
She couldn’t let the supporting female turn dark, or her mom would be in danger.
The butler looked on in disbelief at this scene.
Miss Xu never got along with anyone, but somehow Miss Bai could chat happily with her.
What a pity Miss Bai just didn’t like the President.
At dinner, the Lu family was nowhere to be seen.
Lu Lin had even less appetite, so Bai Xia had to eat alone.
The next day, her mom sent over the custom jewelry.
After Bai Xia distributed the orders, she immediately received the final payment of five hundred thousand yuan.
The female lead’s ability needed no explanation—every child praised her endlessly.
Of course, this was just a small sum.
The big money was in Lu Qihui’s batch of necklaces—five million.
After transferring all the final payments to her mom, the female lead was clearly shocked that they’d made so much profit in just a week.
Even the backlogged designs had sold out.
She kept asking Bai Xia how she’d done it.
Bai Xia didn’t know how to explain.
She’d just talked a bit, that’s all.
With all those connections right in front of her, she couldn’t just not use them.
So she suggested the female lead use the wedding as an opportunity to give out sample pieces as wedding favors.
After all, everyone attending the Song family wedding was rich.
Such a big advertising opportunity couldn’t be missed.
What niche brands lacked was exposure.
As long as they leveraged the Song family’s connections and got a few foreign royal queens and princesses to promote them, industry recognition would follow.
Hearing her suggestion, Bai Ruan Wen was shocked and couldn’t recover for a long time.
She hadn’t expected her daughter to understand social influence.
Her daughter had given her too many surprises, but she could only digest them herself.
During break, Bai Xia began watching the milk tea shop’s surveillance cameras on her computer.
As long as the funds were in place, the shop would be easy to open.
But with the school year just starting, foot traffic was still less than the nearby chain brands.
She needed to think of a way to boost the numbers.
“Bai Xia, can we walk home together after school today?”
Qi Mo approached her desk, fidgeting, his ears gradually turning red, his eyes darting everywhere.
Bai Xia gave him a sidelong glance.
“Did your family’s driver take the day off? Why not go with Lin Yan? Aren’t you two good friends?”
Hearing this, Qi Mo shook his head solemnly.
“Who’s friends with him? I don’t even know the way he takes.”
Bai Xia stared straight at him.
“So you know my way home, then?”