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Chapter 262 - 262 262 The Fifth Dream
Chapter 262 - 262 262 The Fifth Dream
?Chapter 262: 262 The Fifth Dream Chapter 262: 262 The Fifth Dream Chen Xu took Cao Ningning to a nearby restaurant in her residential complex and ordered two bowls of noodle soup, one for each of them.
“Your parents, have they been gone for a long time?” Chen Xu didn’t like to pry into others’ affairs, but he was a bit worried about this girl who had made a deep impression on him.
Cao Ningning picked up a chopstick full of noodles, blowing on it before answering, “Almost a month now.”
“Didn’t they leave you any money for food?”
Cao Ningning glanced at him quickly, lowered her head, and said, “It’s all spent.”
“Oh.”
“Ever since I was little, they would often fight. Whenever they argued, my dad would leave home, and the next day, my mom would go out to find him.”
“My grandmother was still alive back then, so my mom would send me to stay with her. The year I turned ten, Grandma passed away. Since then, whenever they left, they would leave me at home by myself and leave me living expenses.”
“Back then, there was no mobile payment, so when I ran out of money, I would call them, and they would come back and bring me more money.”
“So, I would always spend the money quickly.”
“Later, once mobile payment became available, that trick didn’t work anymore. By the time I was in middle school, they pretty much stopped caring about me. Sometimes, they wouldn’t even answer their phone, always saying, ‘You’ve grown up; you need to take care of yourself.’
“They always leave like this for a month or two. Their jobs never last, they keep changing them and probably can’t find anything good, and the living allowance they give me keeps getting smaller.”