Deliberately Approaching
Chapter 90 A Lie

Chapter 90: Chapter 90 A Lie

Throughout the evening, although Song Crystal had only made one sale, it still gave everyone hope.

Jiaqi returned home and, diverging from her usual capricious behavior, took up the role of the obedient child. She helped her mother with her slippers and poured water for her father, a perfect picture of sensibility and sweetness.

However, a full half-day of busyness did not elicit a smile from her parents.

Her father furrowed his brows and headed straight to the study, while her mother plopped onto the sofa with a vacant stare.

The vast living room was so quiet, it was as if no one was there.

Jiaqi had just poured a glass of juice and hadn’t even made it to the living room when she heard a furious roar.

"Old Song, get out here! Besides hiding, what else can you do?"

Boss Song threw down his handbag and charged toward the study.

"Mom, Dad..."

Her words were cut short by her mother’s loud voice.

"Tell me, where were you when the trouble started? I called you so many times; why didn’t you answer? Were you off fooling around again?"

"Didn’t I go afterward?"

"Go? Would you have gone if it weren’t for the police station requiring it?"

"And now you’re playing the victim? What about me? Because of your fake crystals, I almost got fired by my boss, and I’m still holding in all my anger with nowhere to vent!"

"That’s because you have problems with your interpersonal relationships; you only know how to work stubbornly. I ask you to visit during holidays, acting high and mighty, refusing to go."

In this way, they exposed each other’s dirty laundry as they argued, completely forgetting about their daughter.

From noon until now, Jiaqi hadn’t eaten a bite of food nor had she taken a drink of water, consumed with worry for her mother.

She thought that after making that one sale tonight, everything would start to look up, that every hardship would eventually pass. She never expected her parents to come home in such a state.

Seeing the handbag tossed onto the coffee table, Jiaqi felt extremely sad; it was a Mother’s Day gift she had carefully selected after saving money for a long time.

Yet now, it was soaked by tea.

The quarrel continued, though the voices grew softer. Jiaqi did not intervene, but instead, she took three napkins and began to blot the water stains on the handbag.

Ever since she could remember, her parents loved to argue.

"’Arguments are signs of love, scolding is caring, noise and fuss make a family.’"

Jiaqi would often repeat this to herself, partly to comfort her young soul and partly to fulfill her longing for a happy family.

Suddenly, a hard object inside the handbag made her heart skip a beat.

"What is this? It feels like..."

She was afraid to continue the thought, scared that her guess might be right, yet she was curious and really wanted to know if it was what she suspected.

Thus, with a bit of trepidation, Jiaqi opened the handbag and a string of crystal necklace instantly caught her eye.

The price tag read 2599.

All hope shattered in that moment!

She vaguely recalled her mother boasting on their way dropping the store manager home, about how she convinced the customer to buy the oldest necklace design and how she kept the discount to no more than thirty percent off.

Normally, a sixty percent discount would have been possible for such an outdated style; seventy percent was considered a high price.

Admiration was written all over the store manager’s face.

And she, too, felt incredibly proud, thinking her mother was too impressive, not only eloquent but also possessing outstanding mental composure, completely unruffled by the negative publicity earlier in the day. Business as usual!

It turned out that there had been no sale at all—it was all a deceitful lie, and her mother had fooled everyone.

No, perhaps her father had known all along!

Jiaqi bit her lip, pretended to have seen nothing, and put the crystal necklace back into the compartment of the handbag.

When she passed the study on her way back to her bedroom, she pressed her ear against the door. The arguing had stopped; in the faintness, she could only hear her mother’s weak sobs and her father’s earnest pleas.

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