Chapter 290: Dad Really Doesn’t Seem to Like Cats

After dinner.

Lu Qidong sat in his wheelchair watching financial news on TV.

Previously, while being plagued by illness at the base, he was awake very little, and when he did wake, he would listen to the old man talk about matters related to Lu Junhan and others.

He knew nothing about the rapid social changes that had occurred.

Yesterday, he left the base, sat in the car, and peered out the window, taking in the new world twenty-plus years later, feeling dazed for a long time.

He’d been detached from this society for over twenty years.

These days he urgently needs to absorb a lot of knowledge to avoid becoming "outdated."

Lu Family is currently developing well under that kid Lu Junhan’s hand, and Lu Qidong doesn’t plan to return to Lu Family.

He’s recently been thinking, since he’s idle anyway, why not start another company himself, just call it "Dong Family."

If it develops well in the future, it would make a good dowry for Li Li.

So, with nothing better to do, he’s started to watch financial news again.

But after watching for a while, he felt something was off.

Everything was too quiet around.

It’s as if...

Something is missing.

The vast, empty living room was silent, with no other sounds except for those coming from the TV.

It was as if he were the only living soul there.

Lu Qidong turned his head and glanced at the sofa, where Lu Junhan sat with a calm expression, watching the news just like him.

Then he looked at the old man not far away, who kept flipping through the newspaper and couldn’t help but ask:

"Haven’t Li Li and Xiao Wan come back yet? How long have they been gone? It’s just returning a cat, why is it taking so long? Could something have happened?"

"This area is extremely safe; even mosquitoes can’t fly in. What could possibly have happened!"

The old man sat on the rattan chair, confidently flipped another page of newspaper, and snorted:

"I bet that girl has been led away by that Pei kid again. That it started with a cat! Well, great! Not only is the cat missing, but the people are gone too—two of them. Sending one away has brought back two; Pei Xiubai has really scored big this time!"

Lu Qidong was silent for a moment, then said quietly, "Dad, you’ve changed! I remember you didn’t talk so cynically before. Now your tone... well, how should I put it, it’s like an aggrieved woman."

"..."

"Is this my fault?" Suddenly, the old man’s temper flared up as he slammed the desk:

"It’s because of that little rascal Song Qingwan! Every day, she argues with me these past few months, twisting my personality! I always said she was here to torment me, but you wouldn’t believe it! I’ve been so stressed by her these months that I don’t even know how high my blood pressure’s gotten! Women are just women, only good for arguing with their elders, completely useless otherwise!"

Lu Qidong curled his lip, "You’re just stubborn! If you really couldn’t tolerate her, she wouldn’t still be here."

"I was——"

"Alright, alright," Lu Qidong waved his hand dismissively and pulled out his phone, "That doesn’t matter now. I need to quickly ask Xiao Wan if they’ve come back, otherwise the food we left for them in the kitchen will get cold."

Old man: "..."

However, before Lu Qidong’s call went through.

Outside the door, suddenly there were familiar sounds—

Song Qingwan and the little girl had finally returned.

And it wasn’t just them.

The little girl’s cat... had come back too.

Lu Qidong, Old man, Lu Junhan: "..."

Did they go out just to return with solitude???

"Daddy!"

The little girl held the kitten, ran up to Lu Junhan, her tiny figure looking serious.

Although her voice was still milky:

"Daddy, Li Li has something very bad to tell you, but you mustn’t get angry when you hear it."

Lu Junhan glanced at the trembling cat in her arms, and his deep, dark eyes landed on her small plump face again.

He lazily leaned on the sofa, raised an eyebrow, and said:

"Alright, tell me, what’s the matter?"

The little girl puffed her cheeks, looking aggrieved: "The cat couldn’t be returned! Xiu Bai said he doesn’t want it."

Lu Junhan slightly squinted: "He said he doesn’t want it?"

Lu Qidong and the old man also looked at Song Qingwan in shock.

Song Qingwan looked helpless, sighed, and typed on her phone:

False.

On the way, Li Li regretted it.

We didn’t even go to return it.

We squatted outside on the lawn and fed mosquitoes for half an hour.

Lu Qidong, Old man: "..."

"Yeah! Xiu Bai doesn’t want the cat!"

Meanwhile, the little girl, still unaware she had been exposed, said angrily:

"Earlier, Li Li went to return the cat with Auntie, but Xiu Bai said he didn’t want it! Because he already has one and doesn’t want a second! Then Li Li said that Daddy doesn’t like cats, so Li Li can only return the cat to Xiu Bai, but Xiu Bai said if Li Li doesn’t want the cat, he will throw it away!"

Lu Junhan remained expressionless: "So you brought the cat back?"

"No, Li Li didn’t!"

The little girl’s clear, black eyes gleamed as she pouted:

"Li Li said, Xiu Bai, then you throw it away! Because my daddy really doesn’t like the cat. Even though this cat is really pitiful and cute, and Li Li likes it a lot, Li Li still likes Daddy the most. If Daddy doesn’t like cats, Li Li won’t like them either!"

Lu Qidong, Old man: "..."

The mouth of a woman; deceitful little devil.

Lu Junhan remained unfazed, chuckled coldly: "Yet you still brought the cat back."

The little girl held the kitten, her expression extremely aggrieved:

"Actually, actually, Li Li had said no, but Xiu Bai kept pleading, asking me to bring the cat back. He also said, said, if I didn’t bring the cat back, he would die to show me! I was afraid Xiu Bai would really die, so I had no choice but to bring the cat back..."

Lu Junhan immediately laughed out of frustration.

Such preposterous lies could only be concocted by this little thing.

The little girl timidly glanced at her dad, feeling a bit guilty.

She knows lying makes one a bad child.

But the cat is really pitiful.

On the way, the cat told her it had been locked in a cold, hard cage all this time.

Many people would give it shots, draw blood, and feed it all sorts of unfamiliar medicine, and overall the experience was extremely unpleasant.

If she didn’t keep the cat, it would definitely be returned to Xiu Bai.

The little girl cautiously glanced at her dad, "Daddy! I beg you, can we keep the cat?"

Lu Junhan squinted slightly, his face cold, saying nothing.

He isn’t particularly averse to cats, he just feels itchy at the thought of slicing them up.

Moreover... Song Qingwan and the old man had some valid points before.

Without careful handling, one might end up inadvertently sending two people away. Then the one he’d want to slice would likely be a certain little brat with the surname Pei.

The little girl saw he was silent, assuming he was still unwilling, hung her head dejectedly:

"Alright, Daddy, then I will return the cat to Xiu Bai."

The little girl was truly intending to return it this time.

Because she seemed to realize, Daddy indeed didn’t like the cat.