I'm In Love With the Guy I Grew Up With

Chapter 423: Important Person to Me 3

"Qinghe!" Ning Jingshen, for once, was not muddled and frowned, "Xixi is here to see me!"

Lu Qinghe sensed trouble, this wretched girl, has she already won Ning Jingshen’s heart so quickly?

Her eyes darting, she said, "Old Ning, the doctor said you shouldn’t get too emotional. Look at what this girl has done, she’s made you cry! Isn’t she deliberately hoping for your ill health?"

Ning Jingshen frowned slightly, "Alright, I know you mean well."

Ning Xixi had no affection for Lu Qinghe and gently said, "I should leave now."

"Stop right there!" Lu Qinghe was persistent, "Can’t you even call out ’Dad’ now?"

Ning Xixi was utterly speechless, and turning back, she saw Ning Jingshen’s no-longer-young face, filled with wrinkles, looking at her with full expectation.

Her heart softened after all.

Blood, was indeed thicker than water.

"Dad, take good care of yourself; I’m leaving."

"Ah, good girl," Ning Jingshen said warmly, casting a gloomy shadow on Lu Qinghe’s face.

She acted as if she was exhausted in both body and spirit, holding her forehead with a sigh, "When will I ever hear you call me ’Mom’?"

Pfft—Lu Qinghe wants her to call her Mom?

Ning Xixi thought this was the funniest joke she’d heard the whole year.

As if she hadn’t heard, she continued to walk out.

What Lu Qinghe hated most, was being ignored, so with a cold face, she clutched Ning Xixi’s arm, "I am your elder! At least say goodbye before you leave! You’re a daughter of the Ning Family, a lady of high society, how can you not understand any etiquette?"

Ning Xixi struggled with all her might, and the harder Lu Qinghe gripped, soon enough a large red patch appeared on Ning Xixi’s wrist.

"Let me go—"

"I am teaching you manners, for your own good!"

Lu Qinghe’s self-righteousness enraged Ning Xixi, "Qiaoqiao!"

A pair of strong hands freed Ning Xixi from Lu Qinghe’s grasp!

Lu Qinghe, not standing steadily, stumbled and nearly fell.

Unable to bear it any longer, and not wanting to scold Ning Xixi in front of Ning Jingshen, she redirected all her anger towards Qiao Nancheng—

"Can’t you recognize your place, you are our hired bodyguard! Have you ever seen a dog bite its own master?"

Lu Qinghe’s words were incredibly venomous, first demeaning Qiao Nancheng’s low status, and second, insinuating that Qiao Nancheng was even worse than a dog!

He, the fool, didn’t catch on, but Ning Xixi understood!

"Let’s get things straight, Qiaoqiao is my bodyguard, who are you to boss him around?"

Lu Qinghe seized the opportunity, "For a bodyguard, you want to turn against me? Ha... Old Ning, you see your daughter, I have seen her true face now, she has issues with me!"

Ning Xixi looked at Ning Jingshen and saw him wavering again, her expression immediately turned to disappointment.

"Xixi, be obedient!"

Ning Jingshen, once again siding with Lu Qinghe, provoked Ning Xixi to explode!

"Lu Qinghe, listen up, that’s right, I have issues with you! I hate you, just as much as you hate me! You are my stepmother, you insult and damage me and I’ve accepted that. But what gives you the right to scold Qiaoqiao?"

"He’s just a bodyguard, is it necessary?" Ning Jingshen exclaimed, clutching his chest, "Xixi, can’t you stop causing trouble!"

"It is necessary! Very much so!"

Ji Yebai returned to the door of the ward, just in time to hear this exchange:

"Qiaoqiao means more to me than family! Lu Qinghe, who are you? What right do you have to scold him?"