"What do you mean? Not lending money? You have now opened your own studio, and I know that your comics will be produced into TV series. You must have received a lot of copyright fees. We are just lending you a few dollars.

So that I can buy a house for your cousin as soon as possible and let him get married. Do you think it will ruin your cousin's happiness?" Sun Cui asked with a raised eyebrow.

Zhong Keke replied coldly, "Don't always do things like moral kidnapping. I have no obligation to borrow this money. Don't you think it's ridiculous that you don't have a house, but you still come to borrow money to buy a house?"

"You...you..." Sun Cuimei glared at Zhong Keke angrily. She obviously didn't expect that she was so submissive in the past. Whenever they asked her for money, she almost always had nieces who responded to their requests. Why did she suddenly seem to be a different person?

"If you don't borrow it, your cousin's marriage will be ruined, and you'll see how your father can rest in peace!"

"If my father were here, I'm afraid he would have raised the table with you a long time ago. In the past few years, you have asked me to borrow money. I have a transfer record for every transaction. Auntie, you don't want to take this money.

Why don’t you pay it back?” Zhong Keke said.

Sun Cuimei did not expect that when she came, not only did she not get the money, but the other party would also ask her to pay back the money. She immediately said angrily, "That money was given to us by you as a filial piety!"

"Filial piety is given to worthy elders, and you are not worthy!" Zhong Keke said.

Snap!

Sun Cuimei slapped Zhong Keke hard on the face, causing her face to become red and swollen immediately.

There was burning pain on his face, but Zhong Keke just looked at the other party coldly, "I won't lend you a cent of the money. If you don't leave, then I will call the police directly. There are surveillance cameras in my studio. You just called

All my slaps were recorded by the surveillance camera, and they will all become evidence when the time comes!"

Sun Cuimei suddenly panicked. She looked up and saw that there was indeed a surveillance camera in the corner of the ceiling.

Suddenly, she glared at Zhong Keke bitterly, "Okay, you have the ability, let's see!" After that, she turned and left.

It was only then that Zhong Keke sat on the sofa as if she was exhausted.

Once, she thought her uncle and aunt were kind enough to adopt her, but she didn't know that what they wanted was the 1.8 million yuan in compensation and half of her grandfather's house.

Over the years, she had wanted to please them and become a real family member, but her greedy requests finally made her tired.

They will only take her giving for granted, and if she doesn't give it once, they will say nasty things like just now!

And the so-called borrowing money... was just to get her money in vain. Every time they borrowed money, the uncle and aunt never paid it back, and they never even wrote an IOU.

Zhong Keke lowered her head and her eyes became wet. Finally, tears slowly welled up and dripped on the back of her hand and on the bracelet.

Zhong Keke looked at the bracelet with blurred eyes. Could she have a real family?

Will she have a family again when Gu Lichen really falls in love with her?!

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When Gu Lichen saw the redness and swelling on Zhong Keke's face, he frowned slightly, "What's going on? Were you beaten?"

Zhong Keke subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but Gu Lichen took the initiative and said, "I can tell what the redness and swelling is about."

Zhong Keke then bit her lip and said, "I had a dispute with my eldest aunt yesterday."

"What dispute?" he asked.

She hesitated for a moment, but actually she didn't want to put those embarrassments in front of him, as that would make her feel even more inferior.

He seemed to see her concern, "If it's not convenient to say it, then you don't need to say it. But if you really encounter any difficulties, I hope you can tell me. Don't forget that you still have a boyfriend."

friend."

"Thank you." Zhong Keke breathed a sigh of relief and then changed the topic, "By the way, would you like to accompany me to the mall for a while? Xinmian's birthday is coming soon, and I want to give her a gift. You can help me later too.

I’m picky.”

"Okay." Gu Lichen said without any objection.

The two of them arrived at the mall. Zhong Keke looked at the clothes, cosmetics, and shoes in the mall... and for a moment she couldn't think of what gift to buy Xinmian.

"What do your friends usually like?" Gu Lichen asked.

"You like to chase stars?" Zhong Kehan ​​sweated. "She has been chasing Wu Ran in the past two years. She is Wu Ran's wife and a fan. She bought a lot of Wu Ran's peripherals. Some time ago, she also bought a jewelry brand endorsed by Wu Ran.

necklace."

"Wu Ran?" Gu Lichen seemed to be thinking about something.

"By the way." Zhong Keke's eyes suddenly lit up, "Wu Ran seems to be an artist under your banner too. Otherwise, can you help me get Wu Ran's autograph? When it's Keke's birthday, if you can give her Wu Ran's,

Sign it, I guess she will be very happy."

"This is quite simple." Gu Lichen said.

"In that case, I will not buy her anything endorsed by Wu Ran. However, unless it is some limited edition that is difficult to buy, she will also buy everything else that is easy to buy."

Thinking of this, Zhong Keke was in trouble again.

"Then just buy the limited edition." Gu Lichen said.

"It can't be that easy. Those limited editions are either pre-ordered or sold out long ago. If you really have to buy them on the second-hand market, the prices are sky-high!" Zhong Keke said, giving an example by the way, "Just like Wu

The jewelry brand Ran endorses, and the cross-lock necklace Wu Ran wears in the poster, is a limited edition. Even if it is available in the store, only customers are eligible to buy it. Ordinary customers can only buy another similar model.

"

Thinking back to the beginning, Xinmian just settled for the next best thing and bought a similar model.

Zhong Keke mentioned the name of the brand, but Gu Lichen knew it and took her hand directly and said, "Let's go to the counter."

"What are you going for?" she asked blankly.

"Buy that limited edition necklace." He said.

"?" she said in surprise, but that brand is actually a relatively affordable and luxurious brand among popular brands, and it is also targeted at younger urban women. It is not a brand that Gu Lichen would patronize.

"I haven't, but you also said that Wu Ran is an artist under our company, so it is naturally not difficult for the products he endorses to be limited editions." Gu Lichen said.

"Would it bother you too much?" she asked. Although Xinmian would be very happy if she really bought this limited edition necklace, she didn't want to cause him too much trouble.

"No, it's just a matter of effort." Gu Lichen said, "Let's go."
Chapter completed!