Chapter 106: Going home
At Mu Xuan's question, Zhou Rong's expression shifted uncertainly, and she said nothing.
Mu Xuan continued, "Lü Xianming is certainly a very good boy. But you, as his mother... I really don't know what to say. These children are still at an age when they should be studying. When it comes to certain things, aren't you being even more aggressive than the young people?"
"I was only... oh." Zhou Rong's face flushed, then paled. Mu Xuan had already spared her considerable embarrassment and had not spelled things out too plainly.
But from what she knew of Mu Xuan, she was deeply unhappy right now. Especially at this stage, when Tang Wu most needed to be shielded from outside distractions, what Zhou Rong had done had greatly displeased her.
Zhou Rong had guessed most of what Mu Xuan was probably thinking, and now she felt rather aggrieved herself. After all, wasn't I doing all this for your daughter? Why else would I bother? With my boy, and a mother-in-law like me, who could say your daughter wouldn't be fortunate? Conflicting feelings churned inside Zhou Rong, along with a little defiance.
Since Su Can and Tang Wu were there, Mu Xuan said no more. She turned to Su Can instead. "Before I started coming, were you the one taking Tang Wu home every night?"
Evening study had just let out. Shops of every kind lined the tree-shaded streets, and light spilled from the school gates, falling in faint, slanting rays across the paintwork of the Ford Focus and the red BMW, giving them a waxy sheen.
Students carrying schoolbags or holding thick stacks of books and study materials streamed out along the school's main roads, dispersing into the distant streets with their patches of colored light. Some waved