Addicted to My Cutie and Sweetie

Chapter 807: Model Couple

Zhang Lingying pressed her lips together, turned the light back on, and poured a glass of water for Lu Jing, placing it in front of him.

"My condolences."

"..."

Lu Jing glanced at the glass in her hand but didn’t take it, his eyes calm to the point of coldness, "Are you pitying me?"

Zhang Lingying: "..."

"I don’t need your pity." Lu Jing looked away, turning his gaze back to the dark night sky outside the window.

The sofa in Zhang Lingying’s house was a standard L-shaped one, and he sat on the floor near the sofa’s corner. With a coffee table in front, his long legs couldn’t even stretch out, only curl up, making it a visibly uncomfortable position, one he maintained for a long time, motionless.

Zhang Lingying glanced over, her eyes flickering slightly.

When she first moved in here, every time she thought of her father, she also liked to curl up there in a daze, because that spot made her feel less lonely.

Zhang Lingying put the glass down and unusually refrained from teasing Lu Jing, just picked up a cushion and sat on the sofa.

Just when she thought Lu Jing wouldn’t speak again, he suddenly spoke softly, "Aren’t you curious why, after my mother’s death, I didn’t stay by her side to keep vigil?"

"..." Zhang Lingying didn’t respond, just looked at him quietly.

She did find his actions strange, but everyone has things they don’t want others to mention; if he didn’t say, it meant he didn’t want others to know.

Lu Jing understood her thoughts, his eyes dimmed, "She was a madwoman, insane for over a decade, not recognizing anyone for a long time. No one mourns the death of a madwoman..."

Zhang Lingying looked at him in shock.

Lu Jing seemed lost in his own memories, closing his eyes and continuing to speak: "When she went mad, I was still very young. I only remember that at one point, she always liked to hold me and say that she’d have only me in the future. The whole world could betray her, but I should never, and she forced me to swear... Later, she went completely mad and was sent to a mental hospital."

"..."

"Everyone knew I had a mad mother, saying madness is hereditary. She was a big lunatic, and I was a little lunatic. Adults would always remind their children to stay away from me."

So as a child, he had no friends. When he grew up, he didn’t need friends either.

Lu Jing thought of something, a mocking smile curved his lips. He opened his eyes and looked at Zhang Lingying, "Do you know how my mother went mad?"

Zhang Lingying’s heart trembled, feeling that his smile would reveal some horrifying news to her.

"She was driven mad by the man she loved most, time and again by his infidelity, driven mad." Lu Jing’s smile turned cold, his entire being shrouded in a strange aura.

The Lu family was a reputable family, of course, such scandals couldn’t emerge.

So the story everyone heard was that Madam Lu had a family history of mental illness, and she, unfortunately, inherited it.

The Lu family didn’t abandon her; they arranged for her to have the best mental hospital care, caring for her diligently for over a decade. Who wouldn’t say they were compassionate and righteous upon hearing this?

Even Mr. Lu didn’t divorce her, despite the constant rumors of affairs with other women outside. Faced with an original wife who was a madwoman, everyone seemed to understand his predicament, even highly praising him for not divorcing Madam Lu and allowing her to maintain her last dignity.

They almost called them a model couple.