Chương 72: Schemed

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"What do you mean?" Zhang Ying frowned when she heard that Edward would be staying late at his office tonight. "What do you mean, an emergency? Is there something more important than what is happening to my mother and me?"

"Yingying… listen. I have no time for this. I know you are angry but a big investor suddenly changed his mind and now I have to deal with it."

"Edward… you…."

"I know… I'll get home as soon as I can, right?"

"But—"

"Alright, I have to go now. I have a meeting in two minutes."

Zhang Ying frowned when she heard that he already cut off the call.

"He can't be here?" Zhang Xin asked. She was sitting across her daughter, drinking some tea that her daughter brewed. "Did he say why he can't come?"

"Mother…" Zhang Ying sent a warning gaze towards her mother. "I will go and accompany him."

"Yingying…"