At this moment, Rita inexplicably recalled what Ren Yu had told her earlier. Smiling, he had asked what kind of reward she could offer him after he cured her mother.
Since both the cause and the reward pointed to her...
Then it was not hard to infer that everything Ren Yu had done had been a spur-of-the-moment decision because of Rita.
"Did he really do it all for me?"
Once she realized this, the girl felt both shy and sweetly nervous.
Then when he asked her that morning what reward she could offer...
Rita felt that she already had an answer in her heart.
Since his target was her, then...
Wouldn't it be enough for her to offer herself as the reward?
After all, she liked him too!
Mm... it was simply the best of both worlds!
While the girl's thoughts drifted away, wandering who knew where and floating toward some distant future...
Lis sighed, rubbed her daughter's hair, and bowed again. "All right, since you say this is an experiment, then I... will take your kindness as a blessing bestowed by heaven out of pity for our family. But Mr. Ren, I truly don't want you to waste resources on me. You should..."
"..."
Ren Yu did not hear a single word of what the young matron said afterward.
It seemed his sweet talk had not worked?
Not only had he failed to fool her, he had been exposed on the spot?
That was not how the script was supposed to go. This routine had seemed pretty effective on Sirin and Bronya, hadn't it?
No, Ren Yu pondered. It seemed his nonsense had only had some effect on Sirin. Back then, Bronya had quickly seen through his lies, but she had taken them as kindness and instead grown closer