Su Tingyan looked at his luxurious appearance and could guess as much.
He must be the type to spend money lavishly. In Capital City, a house could cost hundreds of millions, perhaps unaffordable to him.
Lin Xu wanted to continue, saying that if she wanted, he could pack up and move out now, but the next moment, a set of keys deftly landed in his hand.
"These are my house keys, stay there for now. It's my mom's bequest to me. Although it's small, it's within the second ring road and very convenient."
"..."
He looked at the set of keys—stay at her place?
Lin Xu looked at Su Tingyan's bright face. He found that her face seemed even more translucent in daylight, the sunlight making her complexion white to just the right degree—any more would be excessive, any less inadequate.
He really didn't know if Lin Jingzhen was blind to have Su Tingyan as his fiancée and still go after a woman like Su Qingqing.
He nodded slightly, "Whatever."
"You can pawn the ring if you like, now that it's yours, but..." she warned him with a look, "if you squander the money all at once, I can't afford to support you. Just to set things straight, I won't play the fool or be taken advantage of by you."
"..."
Did she really want to support him?
Lin Xu smiled faintly, "Don't worry, I don't need your support."
Su Tingyan was skeptical about that.
After shuffling through life for so long, he didn't even own a house.
But since he had already said so...
She had to be encouraging.
"Then you're the best," she said with a bright smile. Her eyes were like crescents in the clear daylight, softening the overall sharpness of her cat-like gaze.
Lin Xu said, "About the wedding..."
"There's no need to bother with a wedding. We're bound to divorce sooner or later. Having a wedding won't do you any good; if people knew you were married to someone like me, it could damage your value."
"..."
Su Tingyan raised an eyebrow at him, "How does that sound, am I considerate or what?"
"You could say the consideration is meticulous."
Clearly, after setting a clear price, there was no emotional entanglement to speak of.
Su Tingyan took him to an apartment.
An area of 80 square meters made Lin Xu feel a bit of a headache.
The whole room wasn't even as large as one of his study rooms, truthfully.
And the way it was cleaned up was... half-hearted.
The sight of clothes strewn all over the floor and the chaos in the house made him, with his predilection for cleanliness, feel his scalp tingle.
But Su Tingyan didn't seem to care at all, casually saying to him, "I'm going to take a shower. Make yourself at home."
Watching Su Tingyan nimbly step over the mess...
Su Tingyan went inside, and while showering, saw a message from Lin Xibai.
"Tingyan, have you returned to B City? Aren't you leaving?"
Su Tingyan said, "If I leave, won't I be handing Su Qibai over on a silver platter?"
"It's good that you're not leaving, but what do you plan to do next?"
"I've looked at my mom's illness, she needs surgery, and she's definitely not beyond help. Even though the chances are slim, it's absolutely not as hopeless as they say, but, they refuse to operate on my mom."
Lin Xibai said, "Su Qingqing claimed at the Su Family that she had combed through medical books and hadn't found a cure, and they believed her."
"I don't have clinical experience and can't operate on my mom, but I've looked over all her test results. Anyone with a bit of medical skill can tell that my mom shouldn't be given up on for treatment. Yet, they all wish for my mom to die."
"If my mom died, they could divide Su Qi's assets without restraint. Sadly, now that my mom has fallen, her old team has actually turned coat to my dad and Su Qingqing, believing Su Qingqing can save Su Qi." She caressed her stomach, "I wish I could have gotten pregnant earlier."