Chapter 091: Madam Su, a Pleasure!

Chapter 091: Madam Su, a Pleasure!

Madam Su always traveled with great ceremony, and this time was no exception.

The instant Su Qingying saw the motorcade coming, all the momentum of her anger drained out of her. Unease surfaced in her eyes, and she looked toward Wu Chen without meaning to.

He seemed to feel her gaze. He turned his head, glanced at her, blinked, gave her a look that said, Relax, and smiled faintly.

She did feel somewhat steadier for it.

But as the motorcade drew rapidly closer, the nerves inside her wouldn’t quiet. Her fear of her mother had been cultivated since childhood.

She was like the little elephant in the story, tethered by a rope from the time it was small. Day by day the little elephant grew until it was a full-grown elephant, and the rope stayed the same rope. All it had to do was pull hard and it would be free, and it didn’t dare. It believed it couldn’t. It believed the thing was beyond it.

There truly was something wrong inside Su Qingying.

And that something had been created by her mother, single-handedly.

Everyone had seen the Su family’s motorcade approaching, and everyone could guess who was inside—the Su-family people knew, and Li Ruobing could work it out. She drew a deep breath and brought her feelings into line.

She knew that confusing a few bodyguards was very easy. Madam Su was another matter altogether, and extremely hard to handle.

And Li Ruobing had no choice but to help Wu Chen and Su Qingying bury the truth completely. She even felt she was being a little cheap about it. Not only did she have to cover this incident, in the future she would have to keep covering for the two of them.

If they met in private and weren’t caught, fine. If they were caught, then she, Li Ruobing, would have to leap out and paper it over all over again.

Exhausting.

But Li Ruobing genuinely had no damned choice.

If she exposed what was between Wu Chen and Su Qingying, her own fake-couple arrangement with Wu Chen couldn’t stay buried either.

Wu Chen suddenly touched her arm and tilted his head to murmur beside her ear. “The bag in Su Qingying’s hand…”

Li Ruobing turned to look. Only then did she notice that Su Qingying had been carrying a small white paper bag the whole time, with words printed on it—Kangmei Pharmacy, among others.

The medicine Su Qingying had bought.

Whether from nerves or something else, she had not only brought it out of the pharmacy, she hadn’t put it in her bag either. She had simply been holding it, as though she couldn’t feel it there at all.

When a person was too deeply absorbed in worrying over something, it was entirely possible for them to forget what was in their own hand.

Granted, because what she’d bought was a “special medication,” the pharmacy had thoughtfully provided a privacy bag.

But if Madam Su came over, noticed it, and took it, that would be very bad.

Under no circumstances could Madam Su be the first to see what medicine was inside.

“Qingying, give me the medicine.” Li Ruobing gestured to her and smiled gently. “I’m so sorry to have troubled you. Making you run errands to buy my medicine.”

Su Qingying started, then caught up at once.

“It’s no trouble at all.” She took two steps to Li Ruobing’s side, handed over the paper bag, and added, “Thank you for helping me. So… it really isn’t any trouble.”

Li Ruobing turned that over.

Su Qingying had said helping her. Earlier she had also said something about what lay between her and her mother, about whether her mother was necessarily right. And Li Ruobing had heard how formidable Madam Su was at home, how even Su Ruiwen gave way to her, how exceptionally strict she was in disciplining her daughter.

As an outsider, Li Ruobing had no way of knowing how strict that discipline truly was.

But now, through Su Qingying’s words, she seemed to grasp a little of it. And she understood why Su Qingying was thanking her for the help.

Wu Chen had never told Li Ruobing how he’d taken Su Qingying and made her…