Li Jue lowered his eyelids to hide the emotions in his eyes. He didn't look at Jiujiu and said, "You've been busy all day. You don't have to cook dinner tonight. You should go and rest too."
"Mr. Li, can I ask Uncle Butler to help me buy a few books?"
"Go and tell him." After Li Jue answered, he walked directly to the study.
After Li Jue left, Jiujiu immediately went to the butler and told him the names of the books she wanted to buy.
The butler recorded all the books Jiujiu wanted to buy and then went to Li Jue to ask if he could help Jiujiu buy these books.
If Jiujiu wanted to buy the books that ordinary girls liked to read for fun, he would buy them for Jiujiu without hesitation. However, Jiujiu wanted to buy those medical books. The butler was instantly in a dilemma.
When he heard Jiujiu say that she wanted to read books, Li Jue also thought that Jiujiu wanted to read books for fun. After hearing the butler say that Jiujiu wanted to read medical books, Li Jue's expression didn't change. He directly asked the butler to call Jiujiu to the study.
After talking to the butler, Jiujiu returned to her room. After changing into her pajamas, she was ready to rest. At this moment, when she arrived at Li Jue's study, Jiujiu was still wearing her pajamas.
Li Jue had asked the butler to prepare Jiujiu's clothes. The butler had always thought that little girls liked pink, so the clothes he bought for Jiujiu, whether it was pajamas or the clothes she usually wore, were all pink. The pajamas that Jiujiu was wearing were even more pink. Not only were there two rabbit paws on the clothes, but there were also two rabbit ears on the hat. Coupled with Jiujiu's small and tender face, she was like a large pink rabbit. It was simply adorable.
At least, Li Jue was attracted by Jiujiu's obedient and cute appearance. After being stunned for a few seconds, he seemed to react and coughed lightly. Without looking at Jiujiu, he asked, "You want to study medicine?"
Jiujiu asked the butler to buy so many medical books. If she didn't want to study medicine, what did she want to do?
Hearing Li Jue ask her if she wanted to study medicine, Jiujiu nodded firmly and replied, "I want to study medicine."
"Why?"
"My parents said that I used to have an older sister. Because she was sick, they had no choice but to give her away. So, I want to be a doctor."
Li Jue had thought of many reasons, including that Jiujiu wanted to study medicine because her fiancée was weak and sickly. Jiujiu wanted her fiancée to get better. However, after thinking so much, he didn't expect Jiujiu to say that she used to have an older sister. Li Jue was instantly stunned.
He thought that after the Cheng family's parents abandoned Mu Linlang, they wouldn't mention Mu Linlang in front of Jiujiu. However, after hearing Jiujiu's words, not only did they mention Mu Linlang, they had even mentioned her more than once.
Because Jiujiu had always acted like a simple-minded child in front of Li Jue, Li Jue pretended to be confused and asked, "What do your parents mean when they say that you have an older sister? Don't you only have one younger brother?"
Jiujiu quickly gave an answer to Li Jue's question. "My parents said that they let my older sister down. They said that our family was poor in the past and didn't have the money to treat my older sister, so they could only send her away. They hope that I can become a doctor and cure my older sister's illness in the future."
At this point, Jiujiu's head drooped dejectedly. Her toes unconsciously drew circles on the ground as she said in a very soft voice, "It's just that my parents have passed away now. I don't know where my older sister is now. My parents said that she was so sick that she might have passed away like my parents."
Jiujiu's sadness didn't seem to be fake. Even Li Jue believed Jiujiu's words.
He almost murmured, "Did your parents really say that?"
Jiujiu nodded. "Yes, Mr. Li. Can you help me buy books now?"
If what Jiujiu said was true, then Mu Linlang's abandonment was not as simple as what he had found out. She was abandoned because she did not want Mu Linlang anymore.
Thinking about it carefully, who would abandon their child at the Mu family's doorstep? Thinking about it, Jiujiu's parents should have known that Mu Linlang had congenital heart disease and knew that they couldn't cure Mu Linlang because they didn't have the money, so they abandoned Mu Linlang at the Mu family's doorstep.
After all, the Mu family also wanted to adopt a daughter at that time.
Moreover, the Mu family was rich. Whether Mu Linlang had congenital heart disease or not was just a matter of how much money they spent.
Thinking about it this way, it wasn't that the Cheng family's parents didn't have the slightest bit of affection for Mu Linlang. On the contrary, they liked Mu Linlang. From the birthday gifts they sent to Mu Linlang every year on Mu Linlang's birthday, it could be seen that they also liked Mu Linlang.
Not only were the Cheng family's parents not as heartless as he had imagined, but they were actually a pair of very good parents.
Moreover, not only were the Cheng family's parents Mu Linlang's biological parents, but they were also Jiujiu's biological parents. When he thought about how he had killed Jiujiu's biological parents and even sent her younger brother to the laboratory, Li Jue was a little absent-minded.
Li Jue looked up at Jiujiu. Jiujiu's face was clearly delicate and soft like a delicate and cute little girl, but in his eyes, he seemed to have seen the hatred on Jiujiu's face after she knew everything.
At the thought of Jiujiu looking at him with hatred, Li Jue's face turned pale.
Sensing that something was wrong with Li Jue's expression, Jiujiu asked with concern, "Mr. Li, what's wrong?"
"I'm fine. I'm just a little tired. You can go back first." Li Jue raised his hand to support his forehead and took a long breath. Looking at Jiujiu's back, he didn't know if he was saying to Jiujiu or himself, "Your sister will get better."
Li Jue's words seemed to be comforting Jiujiu, but in fact, there was a double meaning.
The only way to make Mu Linlang better was to give Jiujiu's heart to Mu Linlang. Therefore, Li Jue still had the idea of cutting out his own heart.
Jiujiu paused in her steps, as if she didn't understand what Li Jue said. She pursed her lips and said with a faint smile, "I hope so."
Jiujiu's smile was very faint and fleeting, making Li Jue's heart, which had already recovered a little, feel uncomfortable again.
After Jiujiu left, Li Jue left the study in a sorry state.
At this moment, Li Jue kept thinking that perhaps the Cheng family's parents abandoned Mu Linlang because they really loved Mu Linlang.
However, he couldn't think like that. If he thought like that, he wouldn't be able to do anything to Jiujiu.
However, he knew that he was right to think so.
But if this was right, then everything he had done before was wrong.
Li Jue's head hurt more and more.
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