The so-called old place in Catherine's mouth was actually a European-style cafe near their university. Tianai quickly changed her clothes and quietly left the room avoiding the servants in the villa.
Anyway, she seemed to be superfluous in Nalan's house. Even if the servants saw her, they would treat her as a transparent person, so no one would notice her absence.
"Tian Ai, here!"
As soon as she entered the cafe, Catherine, who was sitting in the corner, waved to Tian Ai by the door from a distance.
Seeing her friend, Tian Ai couldn't help but smile, and then walked towards Catherine, but when she got closer, she realized that Catherine was not the only one waiting for her.
"Senior? Why are you here too?"
"What? Aren't you happy to see me?" Huangfu Ao smiled elegantly at her.
"No, I just didn't expect you to be waiting for me here with Catherine." Facing the senior's charming smile, Tian Ai's slightly raised corners of her mouth couldn't help but look a little stiff.
What should she do? If the senior is here, she will not be able to tell the truth to Catherine! In addition, she has no idea how powerful the Nalan family is, so she cannot let them be implicated.
"Tian Ai, you said on the phone that you have something to do these days. What happened? Is it true that the senior said he saw your father? Why did your father come to Paris?"
As soon as Tian Ai sat down, Catherine immediately took her hand and asked nervously.
Catherine is actually three-quarters Chinese, and she was named Catherine because she is one-quarter French.
She and Tian Ai have become sisters who talk about everything since the first year of studying abroad. Catherine also has a rough idea of Tian Ai's family situation. She knows that Tian Ai has no status in the family, and even more so as a father.
Li Wenping didn't care about Tian Ai at all. Even the cost of studying abroad was paid for by Tian Ai's own scholarship and money saved from his regular part-time job.
In Catherine's understanding, Li Wenping is simply an irresponsible and selfish father, so this time he comes to Paris to find Tian Ai in person and will definitely not do anything good.
"Catherine, actually..." If possible, she really wanted to tell Catherine about her embarrassment at the moment, but she didn't know where to start. Plus, there was also senior Huangfu present. "Actually, it's nothing.
My dad just came to Paris to do some business and paid a visit to me."
"Is that really all there is?!"
Catherine raised her beautiful eyebrows, with an expression of complete disbelief on her face. Is Li Wenping really so kind as to go to Paris to visit a daughter he had probably forgotten?
No matter how you look at it, this reason seems very far-fetched!
"By the way, Catherine, I would like to ask you to help me apply for suspension of study!"
"Eh? Take a break from school?"
Catherine's jaw almost dropped. It was the first time she heard that Tian Ai, who loved learning so much, said she was going to drop out of school. Could she not be stunned? Could she not have her jaw drop?
"Didn't you say nothing happened? Then why did you suspend school suddenly? This matter is indeed related to your abominable father, right?"
"Katherine, calm down. Nothing happened. I just took a break from school because I wanted to go back to Taiwan. I didn't want to study here anymore, so I had to take a break from school!"
The Li family was facing bankruptcy, and she could not leave her grandfather's company alone. In her current situation, there was no way to complete her studies, so she had to choose to give up her studies.
And after today, she doesn’t know if she can leave Nalan’s house again.
"Tian Ai" After hearing her explanation, Catherine immediately pursed her lips and said, "You are lying, right?"
"Uh...I, I don't have it!"
Tian Ai couldn't help but laugh a few times. Is her appearance really that obvious? Her eyes inadvertently collided with Huangfu Ao opposite. He was staring at her with a thoughtful look, causing her tongue to become knotted immediately.
.
Catherine may be able to deceive her, but what about the seniors?
"If you weren't lying, why do you keep making circles with your fingers?"
"ah?"
Catherine's words shocked Tian Ai to realize that she had been revealing her secrets since just now. Making circles with her fingers whenever she lied was a bad habit she could never change.
"Hurry up and tell me honestly, what happened?"
"I"
Just when Catherine was about to "force" Tian Ai, Huangfu Ao, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke.
"Catherine, help me go to the front desk and buy a cup of hand-ground Blue Mountain coffee!"
"Huh? Why do you suddenly ask me to buy you coffee? And you also want hand-ground Blue Mountain coffee. Isn't this a deliberate attempt to blackmail me?"
Damn it! Don’t even think about it, she is just a poor international student, okay? She actually had the nerve to grind Blue Mountain coffee by hand as soon as she opened her mouth. Why didn’t he tell her to rob a bank?
Huangfu raised his lips proudly, and then threw his wallet to her.
"Is this okay? Little money slave!"
"Hehe, of course that's okay." Catherine opened her wallet and took a look, her eyes immediately sparkled, "Wow, I can't tell you are quite rich, senior!"
"Okay, don't keep looking at the money, go buy it for me!"
"Yes, yes, I'll go right away."
Catherine had just left a second ago, and Huangfu Ao immediately pulled Tian Ai up from the sofa.
"Let's go now!"
"Eh? Senior?"
"Hurry up, it'll be too late by the time Catherine finds out!"