He Broke Me to My Lover's Music, Now the CEO Chases Me novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Father
Mingzhou's father came to Willow Lane on the bus.
He arrived at four o'clock on a wet Tuesday with a cardboard suitcase and a carrier bag of oranges.
He stood in the shop door looking at the gutted pianos.
Xia Dehai was fifty-five and looked seventy.
He had been a loud man once, with a loud laugh and a loud tie.
The man in the doorway was grey and stooped, and his good jacket was frayed at both cuffs.
"Ba," Mingzhou said.
"I got a letter."
"I know."
"From a lawyer. It says the whole thing is paid." Dehai's mouth worked.
"Eighty million. Gone. The Qin boy did it from his own pocket, and I don't understand why."
"Come up," Mingzhou said.
"I don't want to be in the way."
"Ba. Come up."
The room had one chair.
Mingzhou gave it to his father and sat on the bed, and for a long time neither of them knew what to say.
The old landlord thumped up the stairs with a pot of tea, looked at the visitor, said nothing and thumped down again.
Dehai held the cup in both hands.
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