100,000/Hour Professional Stand-in Chapter 93.3: I Can’t Act Her (3)

Ji Xixin’s voice was tainted with heavy fatigue. “Father, what is it?”

But Father Ji did not notice the unusualness in his daughter’s voice and focused on airing his own financial troubles. “I know Mr. Li is currently in a bad state of health. However, we just need him to agree to it. The rest of the paperwork can be handled by his assistants. You only have to raise the matter with him, I believe money is not an issue to him.”

“Father, Xiaoxing is currently in a critical situation. This is not a good time to seek favors from him.” Ji Xinxin counseled her father in a suppressed voice, “Wait a while longer. When his condition improves, I will find an opportunity to raise the matter with him.”

“If I could wait, I would not have come to you. When I called you previously, didn’t you ask me to wait too?” Father Ji fumed, “I even told your sister that you are the useful daughter in this household. At the end of the day, both of you are the same!”

“...” Ji Xinxin was speechless but after a moment, she still decided to reason with him in a gentle voice, “Father, it’s really not a convenient time now. Xiaoxing has been put on tranquilizers and is unconscious most of the time. He can’t hear what I say.”

But her pleas fell on deaf ears. Father Ji continued to berate her, “If I knew that cripple was going to a vegetable, I would not have let you marry him! Song Shiyu is a much better choice! He had been helping out our family all these while without a second word, regardless of the amount!”

“...”

Father Ji had put the call on hands free. Mother Ji piped up quietly, “Xinxin, don’t you have a wide social network? Do you know of anyone who can help us? I remember there is a young lad called Bai Zhou? What about him?”

“Bai Zhou has gone back to Yandu.” Ji Xinxin said monotonously, “If worse comes to worst, sell the house to tide you over. After you recover financially, it’s still not too late to buy a bigger house.”

“What did you say?! You want me to sell the house?” Father Ji fumed, “Do you know how people will look at me if they found out

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