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Her mom said, "Lu Jingyan, be sensible at school. Your dad and I are very busy, so don't keep causing us trouble."
Her mother left after dropping that sentence.
Not to mention giving her a chance to explain, she didn't even ask what exactly happened at school that afternoon with her classmates.
Normally, she could attribute their indifference to their busyness, but in that moment, as she watched her mother get into the car and drive away without hesitation, she realized that it wasn't because they were too busy to care for her, but because she wasn't that important to them.
For a long time afterward, she wondered, if she wasn't important to them, why did they bother to have her?
Unfortunately, she never found the answer before they left.
Lu Jingyan leaned her head against the wall, standing quietly until Auntie Sun hung up the phone before she came out.
