Chapter 483 - 465 Of course, it’s a real marriage
"I have it,"
The instant that phrase escaped, Lu Jinsheng immediately knew the girl before him was deadly serious, and without hesitation nor understanding why, he felt a sourness in his nose and nodded promptly.
"Okay, you’ll give the money right away. But could you give me a few days, let me wait until my grandfather’s surgery is over and he’s slightly recovered, then I’ll go with you—is that okay?" Zhao Xuan pleaded.
"Uh... I’m not a human trafficker, so as long as you’re willing, you can stay by your grandfather’s side and take care of him," Lu Jinsheng replied, choking back with an air of helplessness.
"Really? You... you’re really a good person."
Zhao Xuan was briefly overjoyed, then bit her lip and forcefully swallowed the question she wanted to ask the man before her—what he intended to have her do—ultimately managing to choke out this sentence.
Having plummeted from heaven into hell in a matter of days, she’d experienced the extremes of human warmth and coldness she’d never encountered in her previous twenty-one years, and her innocence had long since vanished.
Though the person before her didn’t seem like a bad guy, appearances can be deceiving, and having sunk deep into doubt about her own judgment of character, she had lost all confidence in her own discernment, so she dared not ask. She was afraid that once she asked, she wouldn’t be able to fight the urge to back away.