The President is Being Shameless Again

She did not immediately leave and instead pondered about what she was to do next. There was nowhere else for her to go now as Lu Zhenghang would not change his mind. She felt that if she had no one else to rely on, then she had to at least keep her job.

She knew that she was willing to lose her dignity in order to keep her job. She took out her mobile phone and found Lin Chu’s phone number, but when she dialed it, there was no response. She did not even hear the ringing sound.

She knew that it was because Lin Chu had blocked her number. After this, Zhu Hexuan clenched her teeth as she contemplated. As things have gone this far, she could only count on Lin Chu now as only she was able to help her out.

She was not thinking about the fact that she was the one that had tried to ruin Lin Chu before. Since she was facing difficulty, she needed to look for Lin Chu for help.

She took the elevator to Lin Chu’s floor and pressed the doorbell for quite a while, yet no one answered the door.

“Lin Chu, come out! I know you’re in there, come out!” Zhu Hexuan shouted as she knocked on the door.

After pounding at the door for some time, she did not get any response whatsoever.

She then thought of going to the ground floor and looking up from below. Upon reaching the ground floor and looking up, she saw that Yan Beicheng’s house was dark as the lights were not switched on.

Were they really not home?

Zhu Hexuan gave it a thought and went outside to call for a cab. After she got in, the driver asked her where she wanted to go.

Zhu Hexuan hesitated for a while before giving him the address of the orphanage.

It was not very late when she reached the orphanage. It was around eight o’clock, and the old principal was not yet asleep. The children were washing up, and they were planning to go to bed when the clock struck half-past eight.

Teacher Yuan got up to open the door as the doorbell rang. However, she was startled upon seeing Zhu Hexuan.

They had not seen her ever since the last time Zhu Hexuan had come over and caused a ruckus. She was going around claiming that the old principal was biased, which in turn had almost caused the old principal to fall ill due to anger.

Now that Zhu Hexuan had come by again, Teacher Yuan’s first thought was that she was here to cause more trouble.

“Miss Zhu.” Teacher Yuan greeted her in a distant manner and smiled. She assumed that one would not start a fight if the other party was smiling amicably.

Zhu Hexuan felt a twang of discomfort. Teacher Yuan used to call her “Hexuan” so intimately when she was younger, yet now she referred to her as “Miss Zhu”. Nevertheless, this was not the time to worry about such a thing.

Zhu Hexuan waited until Teacher Yuan had opened the door before she gave her a forceful smile. “Is the old principal asleep?”

Teacher Yuan’s mouth twitched upon hearing her question. “Not yet, but she’s going to bed soon.”

‘Therefore, even if you have something you want to say, you don’t need to stick around and tell us. Please leave.’

Zhu Hexuan acted dumb, as if she did not understand what this implied, and casually entered the premises. “It’s good that she’s not asleep.”

The old principal was sitting in front of the sewing machine in the living room as she toiled away at a small shirt for Lin Chu’s baby. When a child was just born, wearing a hundred families’ clothes* (TN: A hundred families’ clothes is a Chinese custom, whereby a baby’s garment is made of old colorful cloth strips obtained from many people’s household.) would be the most comfortable thing that they could wear. Even if they were old clothes, they had been worn countless times, and thus had been washed many times. This made them the softest material in the world for a baby’s shirt.

Moreover, there was an older generations’ theory that went – a hundred families’ clothes accumulated from a hundred families’ good fortune, lesser illness and lesser misfortune*. (TN: This is a Chinese idiom that basically means that a baby wearing a hundred families’ clothes will carry all their good luck, which will hopefully offset any misfortune.)

The word about Lin Chu’s pregnancy had not yet spread, so these clothes belonged to Teacher Yuan and Teacher Wang’s grandson and granddaughter’s clothes. Baby clothes did not require much material anyway, so cutting up a few pieces from it was more than enough.

She was in the middle of doing this when Zhu Hexuan came in and called out arrogantly. “Old principal!”