Cold eyes lifted, glanced at her, lowered, and said in a very faint voice, "Hmm."
After a single "Hmm," there was nothing more. Manman was startled. She had thought that announcing the good news of her brother attending an international conference abroad would bring joy to everyone and help her probe for more details. But the reaction of the Lu Family members at the dinner table was peculiar. They were so unfazed; she couldn't tell if they had clearly heard what she'd just said.
She couldn't help but prompt her usually clever brother who seemed to have become confused: "Huanhuan, don't you want Brother to buy you a souvenir?"
"Oh," her brother also responded faintly, seemingly less interested in whether his elder brother would buy him a souvenir from abroad than in the fish he was trying to snatch with his chopsticks.
Manman was quick-witted. She figured out the reason and asked, "Did you all already know about his trip abroad?"
