Gem to beggar.

With Rong and Jiaying nowhere to be found since Lijuan returned from saying hello to Yang Lei and Secretary Chu, Mother Mei took the seat next to Lijuan who was now busy with her phone and gave her a suspicious look.

When Lijuan noticed this, she dropped her phone thinking her mother was about to snatch it from her as she had done the previous night. But when her mother kept looking at her that way even after she dropped her phone, she looked at her mother carefully, wondering what she had done this time. 

"What... is it?" She asked, becoming uneasy with her mother's intense stare. 

"Be truthful Juan, you have been up to something lately, haven't you?" Mother Mei asked curiously.

Lijuan's eyes widened before she could stop herself. How had her mother guessed it? Did she know about it? What about her father? Was he suspicious of her too? "NO." She said, shaking her head forcefully.