Chapter 648: Chapter 648

Upon hearing something so unrealistic, Pu Sangzhi couldn’t help but feel a mix of laughter and tears.

Huo Feng, facing the sky, heaved a deep sigh and said weakly, "I’m no longer the millionaire brother I once was, back to being a poor sod..."

At this, Pu Sangzhi began to catch on.

She laughed instead of panicking, "Your parents used up the money?"

Huo Feng immediately stared at her with a shocked face, "How do you know? Are you mind-linked with my dad?!"

"Who’s mind-linked with your dad? I don’t even know him."

Pu Sangzhi retorted, "I guessed."

"Your guess is spot on..."

Huo Feng sighed deeply towards the heavens, "That damn father of mine, damn! Does he even deserve to be called a father! That damn old dog... quietly d all my money... My heart... oh my..."

Huo Feng clutched his chest, moaning without sickness, "My heart... it’s beating so slowly... it’s paralyzed... oh my..."

Seeing Huo Feng looking utterly despairing, Pu Sangzhi found him quite pathetic but couldn’t help laughing out loud.

"Do you realize you look just like an old man right now?"

Pu Sangzhi said with a smile, "Just like those moaning old men."

"Oh... you don’t understand..."

Huo Feng patted his sore chest and sighed, "What it feels like to go bankrupt in a second... that I haven’t ended up in a hospital already shows how strong my resistance is..."

Looking at him, he truly seemed devastated, so Pu Sangzhi decided not to tease him any further.

Bowing her head and leaning closer, she asked, "Your dad used your money without telling you?"

Huo Feng became instantly agitated, his voice several pitches higher, "I even found out about it from someone else! Damn it! I confronted him, and he even brought in a bunch of helpers! Each with status and respect, they ganged up to slaughter me!"

Pu Sangzhi raised an eyebrow at this.

"At that time, I was really in a tight spot! I was crowned with ’justice’ on my head, ’morality’ under my feet, and ’filial piety’ right in front of me. I really was..."

Huo Feng sighed deeply for the umpteenth time, "I wanted to die..."

His mournful face was truly amusing.

Pu Sangzhi internally wanted to laugh but restrained herself, not wanting to kick him while he was down.

Pu Sangzhi touched his arm, gently shaking it to soothe him, "Actually, if you think about it from another angle, maybe your parents just didn’t want you to develop an improper money mindset, and that’s why they d the money?"

"You’re still defending them?" Huo Feng incredulously widened his eyes.

"I’m not defending them, just analyzing their purpose."

Pu Sangzhi thought for a while, then said, "Think about it—your family isn’t wealthy. Such a large sum of money is also a huge temptation for adults. If your father was greedy for the money, he would definitely use it to spend or invest. But he didn’t; he d it. It shows that he wasn’t greedy for the money; he just didn’t want you to have it. Essentially, he didn’t want to leave you with the wrong idea of money’s value. Because for a child, indeed, that amount was too much."

This is what Pu Sangzhi thought.

She also felt that Huo Feng, still being a child, really shouldn’t have that much money.

Pu Sangzhi had thought to herself before when she saw him bragging repeatedly, wondering if his parents would actually give him such a big sum.

Now, hearing that his parents chose to it made her actually feel good about it.

However, being able to so much money without expecting anything in return.

Pu Sangzhi thought his parents were quite enlightened...

After all, such an amount of money is a huge temptation even for adults.

"You only know how to defend him, you don’t care about me."

Huo Feng rolled over, giving her a cold shoulder in frustration, grumbling, "Already siding with him before you’ve even crossed the threshold. If you knew who he really was, you’d probably gang up with him to bully me to death!"

"What are you talking about?"

Pu Sangzhi couldn’t hear him clearly, "You’re not speaking ill of me, are you?"

"Yes, I am!" Huo Feng replied irritably.

Pu Sangzhi, annoyed, slapped his arm, "Now you even dare to speak ill of me!"

Huo Feng stubbornly refused to respond to her.

"Today, you were supposed to come see me, but you stood me up. I waited for you for 15 minutes in front of the classroom, went to your classroom looking for you. You didn’t answer your phone, couldn’t be found, didn’t explain, just left me worried!"

Pu Sangzhi was also angry, "I even went to North Gate Grove looking for you. I waited at the KTV. Right now I should be at home with my mom, but instead, I’m here in the field with you, catching the breeze! And yet you’re talking bad about me!"

As her words fell, Huo Feng, turned away from her, didn’t say a word.

The scene, too, became tense for half a minute...

Pu Sangzhi then said, "Forget it, I’m going home."

As soon as she finished speaking, Huo Feng instantly turned around and lunged toward her, burrowing his head into her abdomen and wrapping his arms tightly around her waist.

In a position lying in her arms, he hugged her...

Bowing his head, Pu Sangzhi could see his dark head, she quietly lifted her lips, her small hand gently encircled his head, and her fingertips grabbed a handful of his hair.

Huo Feng’s voice came from her belly, "Don’t pull my hair, I’m already at risk of going bald."

Pu Sangzhi lessened the strength in her hand, "If you say bad things about me again, I’ll take all your hair with me!"

Huo Feng raised his hand to surrender, "No more bad mouthing you, I won’t say anything bad about you in the future, please spare my poor hair!"

Pu Sangzhi laughed, her small hand gently stroked the back of his head, she softly complained, "I’ve spoiled you rotten. You disappear whenever you’re unhappy, turning off your phone, not replying to messages, not even telling me, just waiting for me to find you."

Hearing her complaint, the thin lips of Huo Feng curled up in her arms, and his mood instantly improved!

"You can’t disappear like that next time. If you do it again, I won’t look for you!"

Pu Sangzhi gave his shoulder a pat, "When you’re upset, you can talk to me, you can ask for my company, or tell me not to look for you so you can be alone if you need."

Huo Feng lazily responded in her embrace, "I want you to comfort me..."

Pu Sangzhi felt goosebumps rising, "Hey..."

At that moment, Huo Feng’s phone rang.

He fumbled around in his pocket, saw it was Shen Yu calling, sighed deeply with great annoyance, and answered, "What... No acting as a mediator!"

On the other end of the phone, Shen Yu laughed helplessly, "Where are you? I’ll come pick you up."

"What... Taking me to dinner won’t work, I won’t give you a chance to atone!" Huo Feng replied irritably.

Shen Yu chuckled helplessly, "Aren’t you going to President Han’s house for dinner tonight?"

Huo Feng furrowed his brows, his tone even worse, "Beat it!"

After that, he hung up the phone. Google seaʀᴄh 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹•𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖•𝗇𝗲𝘁

Then he buried his head again into Pu Sangzhi’s abdomen, clasping tightly around her waist, "My mom is making me dine at the home of the very culprit! Do you think her head has holes? She doesn’t care about me at all!"

"Then just go and eat,"

Pu Sangzhi suggested, "Since you can’t get the money back, enjoying a good meal at their house could be considered compensation."

Huo Feng shook his head, "I don’t want to eat, I don’t want to drink, I just want the money."

As soon as he finished speaking, his phone rang again, and without a look, he pressed it down.

Then it rang again, and he pressed. It rang again, and he pressed...

Just as Huo Feng was about to turn off his phone, Pu Sangzhi quickly grabbed it and answered, "Hello, auntie, this is Sangzhi."

"Sangzhi, so he’s with you!"

Shen Yu said in a resigned voice: "What can I do? This kid is so angry. Can you help calm him down?"

Pu Sangzhi looked down at Huo Feng, who also looked up at her and shook his head, signaling with his eyes.

Pu Sangzhi then turned on the speakerphone and told Shen Yu, "Auntie, I’ll try to persuade him, so please don’t call for now."

"Oh, he probably will only listen to you now."

Shen Yu said, "Then I’ll leave it to you. Tell him clearly that the money was never really his. We initially approved his method just to let him blow off steam. Moreover, it wasn’t right for him to demand such a large sum from the principal. Now that it’s done, it was right to back off early. Keeping money that isn’t yours doesn’t sit well, right?"

"Yes, auntie," Pu Sangzhi responded.

"Yes, my foot! That’s my money, it was compensation for me!"

Huo Feng couldn’t hold back, shouting into the phone, "Return the money! If not, I’m not going home!"

Pu Sangzhi quickly covered Huo Feng’s mouth and hurriedly said into the phone, "Auntie, that’s it for now, goodbye."

Then she hung up the phone, staring blankly at Huo Feng.

Meeting her reproachful gaze, Huo Feng felt depressed and weakly said, "I’m not wrong..."

Pu Sangzhi stated, "The money can’t be gotten back, right?"

Huo Feng replied, "Um..."

Pu Sangzhi asked, "So do you want your parents to compensate?"

Huo Feng said, "Maybe a bit..."

Pu Sangzhi said, "Then you should go to dinner tonight. Behave well and negotiate with your parents. I’m telling you, getting angry and causing a scene is useless, you’re an adult now."

The words ’you’re an adult now’ completely calmed Huo Feng down.