River Immortal

After Liu Chang'an finished his noodles, Zhou Dongdong volunteered to clear the bowls and chopsticks from the table. Zhou Shuling found a crumpled one-yuan bill beneath the blanket of the heated table and gave it to Zhou Dongdong as payment for doing chores. Zhou Dongdong immediately became even more industrious, declaring that she would sweep the floor later and wouldn't need any more pocket money.

"Who dropped this money?" Liu Chang'an asked Zhou Shuling as he watched Zhou Dongdong swish her broom back and forth.

Zhou Shuling pressed her lips together in a smile.

She used to keep all her money neatly arranged in her wallet, every bill crisp and orderly. The result was that her entire wallet got stolen. Zhou Shuling remembered secretly crying over it several times. After that, she stopped using a wallet. Mobile payments were much more convenient now anyway, and she rarely needed to carry cash.

Shangguan Dandan was saving money. Whenever they played cards, she had to calculate the scores several times to make sure nobody had miscalculated and made her lose extra money. When it was time to pay, she checked again and again before slowly taking money out of her sleeve pocket. Her money would never be crumpled either.

That crumpled one-yuan bill belonged either to Liu Chang'an or Zhou Dongdong herself.

There was no need to investigate further. After all, proving that the money had actually been dropped by the silly child herself would accomplish nothing beyond leaving her with a dazed, foolish expression as though her entire childhood had suffered a crushing blow.

Liu Chang'an was feeling kind today, so after cheering Zhou Dongdong on a few times, he saw a message arrive on his phone and went back to his room.

He first explained to Gao Dewei that he