"Rude."
"How's Yuyan doing?" Lu Yuze asked concerned, this was the first time his daughter was in a stranger's company, not totally stranger but someone else who wasn't him.
" She is doing well and happy, you raised her well..."
"I tried," Lu Yuze replied, and there was something vulnerable beneath the calm. "Though I suspect her current happiness has more to do with you than my parenting."
"It has to do with both," Shuyin corrected gently. "She knows you love her. Everything else builds on that foundation."
Silence for a moment, comfortable and warm.
"Go shopping," Lu Yuze said finally. "Take Ting Fei and the security detail. Don't do anything that will end up on the evening news. And Shuyin?"
"Yes my dear husband?"
"Try not to spend everything in one store. I'd like to maintain at least the appearance of solvency."
"I make no promises," Shuyin replied cheerfully. "But I'll try to restrain myself. For you."
