"You guys..."
Chen Shaoman cast the two of them a suspicious glance, then asked, "Why did you get here so late?"
"Traffic was bad. We just got here," Gu Mingxuan said without batting an eye. "That's right," Luo Ye echoed.
He just couldn't lie in front of his senior. In front of anyone else, though, his lies were practically flawless.
The reason he couldn't lie in front of his senior was that whenever he did, a powerful sense of guilt welled up inside him.
"Traffic?"
Chen Shaoman looked thoughtful, then stared at Gu Mingxuan's face and asked, "Really?"
"Of course it's true."
Gu Mingxuan's heart suddenly skipped a beat. No matter how formidable he was outside, once he came home, he was just someone's son.
Having spotted the flaw, Chen Shaoman sneered and casually said, "As long as you didn't just find some random place and fall asleep."
A mother really was a mother.
Ever since Luo Ye got engaged, Chen Shaoman and Gu Ransheng had been traveling everywhere. After not seeing her for so long, Luo Ye noticed that there were more silver strands in Chen Shaoman's hair, though her complexion was still good and there were no obvious signs of aging.
After all, all those years of beauty treatments hadn't been for nothing.
She had only gained a few wrinkles when the company went bankrupt, probably because of her worries.
Now that she was in a better mood, the wrinkles had stopped increasing as well.
"Alright, let's go home."
At the thought of seeing her precious Fanfan soon, Chen Shaoman was in an excellent mood. She wished she could teleport straight to Jiangcheng.
For a moment, she didn't even scold Gu Mingxuan.
On the way back, Chen Shaoman suddenly thought of something and asked with a half-smile, "The