Chapter 95

Ye Yunjian, watching from the television, was already tense, a look of astonishment involuntarily appearing on his face. Lu Shangyi isn't an omega? How could that be?!

She initially refused to believe it, but like the host, the slight smile on her face vanished instantly upon seeing Lu Shangyi's incredibly serious expression. She stared coldly and motionless at the television, and An Yilin was almost scared away on the spot by her chilling alpha aura.

The woman was clearly in a bad mood. An Yilin knew that speaking at this moment would be annoying, but he was so shocked that his mouth involuntarily started to run: "This can't be true, right, President Ye? Lu Shangyi has been an omega for so many years, how could he suddenly become an alpha?!"

"I've never seen anyone like her who has undergone secondary differentiation."

Ye Yunjian was brought back to his senses by An Yilin's voice. He glanced at her expressionlessly and said bluntly, "Stupid as a pig."

There is no such thing as secondary differentiation in this world. Only those who painstakingly and meticulously conceal their identities can achieve this.

However, Lu Shangyi seemed to have no other choice. Back then, Lu Shenghui disregarded their sibling relationship and tried to kill Lu Shangyi. She was about to differentiate into an alpha, and if Lu Shangyi, who was in a weak state at the time, were to differentiate into an alpha, she would probably die young due to excessive blood loss from her injuries before she was even discharged from the hospital.

During such a sensitive and vulnerable period, only by differentiating into an omega can one survive.

Ye Yunjian suddenly chuckled softly, making An Yilin's hair stand on end, and she couldn't help but carefully move away from her.

Ye Yunjian really admired Lu Shangyi. She had been pretending to be an omega for so many years, making everyone look like fools. If she hadn't suddenly revealed herself today, some people probably wouldn't have known until their deaths that she was actually an alpha.

As he was laughing, Ye Yunjian suddenly stopped laughing.

If the children knew this, they would probably pounce on the other person and never get off, right?

The audience was deathly silent; you could hear a pin drop.

Lu Shangyi turned her head, a smile appearing at the corners of her eyes and brows. Her deep eyes calmly gazed at the host, who was so stunned that he forgot his lines. The smile at the corners of her lips seemed to widen a little. "Any more questions?"

The host snapped back to reality: Yes, of course! Plenty!

Lu Shangyi is an alpha—this is the most explosive news in years! If she conducts the interview well, she can use her position as the first interviewer after Lu Shangyi's self-disclosure to boost her career to new heights! Trying to calm her excited emotions, the host, maintaining excellent professionalism, asked the question everyone was most concerned about—

"Excuse me, were you just joking?" the host swallowed hard.

Her fine eyelashes drooped down in unison. After a moment of silence, Lu Shangyi looked up and asked, "What do you think?"

The host's heart almost jumped out of her chest in an instant. Not directly denying it was tantamount to admitting it in a roundabout way. Lu Shangyi was not joking with them!

Lu Shenghui came out today, and Lu Shangyi revealed her identity. The host took a deep breath, as if he could already see the bloody days to come for the Lu family. The hand holding the microphone trembled slightly, but Lu Shangyi seemed unwilling to be interviewed anymore. After nodding slightly, she walked past the host and went straight backstage.

A group of people watched her leave, their emotions lingering for a long time.

The feeling is indescribable; it's both tense and exciting, incredibly thrilling.

Lu Shangyi's assistant followed nervously behind her, looking hesitant. Lu Shangyi ignored her for two minutes, and finally, seeing that she was really holding back, she raised her face and said, "What are you still standing there for? Tell the whole company to get ready immediately."

Once their identities are exposed, Lu's stock price will definitely rise.

Because of Lu Shenghui's influence, Lu Shangyi had already bought a large number of Lu's Group shares when the stock price was low. Now, her shareholding is enough to firmly control the entire Lu's Group.

Lu Shenghui was released today, so what impact will that have?

At this point, there was nothing left for him to control. The company now belonged entirely to Lu Shangyi, not Lu Shenghui.

Lu Shenghui, beaming with smiles, had just come out of the police station. He casually took the iPad from his secretary, his tone laced with sarcasm, and asked, "Has my dear sister gotten into any trouble lately?"

Ever since he learned that Lu Shangyi was just a genius in name only and had no real combat ability, Lu Shenghui stopped taking him seriously.

Although the incident happened suddenly, he didn't forget to quickly make preparations to guard against the other party. Whether it was those who had frequently cooperated with the Lu family in previous years or his confidants in the company, they would consciously obstruct Lu Shangyi's development in every possible way without his prompting.

He wasn't worried at all that Lu Shangyi would cause any trouble.

Especially after confirming the other party's abilities, he has been living the most relaxed and comfortable life he has had in over thirty years.

He would have been rather reluctant if the old man hadn't insisted that he come out early.

The male secretary was immediately put in a difficult position.

What is he supposed to say? Should he say that Mr. Lu, your dear sister has actually been biding her time all these years, playing dumb to outmaneuver you? Or should he say that Mr. Lu, your own sister is actually as capable as ever, not only eliminating the pawns you carefully laid out, but also kicking them out of the game in just a few hours last night, cleaning up all your right and left arms?

He swore that if he dared to say that, the man would definitely kick him out of the car.

The male secretary remained silent for a long time, unsure how to bring it up.

Lu Shenghui slowly stroked the cat in his arms, then lifted his eyelids and asked, "Hmm?" His deep voice already carried a hint of displeasure. "Why aren't you saying anything?"

A deep smile played on his lips, but didn't reach his eyes. Lu Shenghui lifted his secretary's face, which had been lowered, and said with a smile, "Or perhaps..." He paused, his smile deepening, "you have another surprise for me. Hmm?"

The male secretary held his breath, not daring to utter a sound; he felt no surprise, but rather a great deal of shock.

Lu Shenghui's aura grew stronger and more aggressive. The male secretary closed his eyes, steeled his resolve, and clenched his fists. "Miss Lu is not an omega."

"Just now, she admitted it in public."

After she finished speaking, the male secretary unconsciously leaned back, trying to get further away from the man.

Lu Shenghui pulled his chin away from her fingertips, slowly lowered his eyes, and half of the smile on his face disappeared. "She's not an omega?"

The tone was drawn out, and even those unfamiliar with Lu Shenghui could detect the danger in his voice, let alone his male secretary who had worked for him for many years. The secretary instinctively shrank back further, forcing a nod, "Yes, it's spread everywhere now..."

Before he could finish speaking, the expected punches and kicks began to fall.

The male secretary, clutching the painful spot, struggled to lift his eyes. The man in the suit and tie was now like a raging beast, his eyes bloodshot, exuding an aura that sent shivers down one's spine. "Say that again?"

The male secretary didn't dare to speak.

The deathly silence made the male secretary feel as if he were being repeatedly roasted on a hot coal fire. This feeling of being worse than death was more intense than ever before, and he even had the involuntary thought that "it would be better to jump out of the car and die than to suffer like this."

Enduring the pain, the male secretary shifted his body, composed himself, and said, "You can open your iPad and check the news." He added, somewhat hesitantly, "But perhaps Miss Lu was just joking with us..."

Lu Shenghui stared at him coldly. Who would joke about something like this?

Lu Shenghui nearly snapped the iPad in two before throwing it at his male secretary, saying, "Useless thing."

"Go back to the company immediately."

The car immediately turned around and sped towards Lu's Group. Lu Shenghui stared grimly at his bruised and swollen male secretary. "Where are the people I placed in the company?"

“Some of them jumped ship as arranged,” the male secretary said softly. After saying this, he became hesitant, but under Lu Shenghui’s unfriendly gaze, he had to continue, “The other group all left within twelve hours before you came out, Mr. Lu.”

“Some went back to their hometowns, and some went abroad.” The male secretary closed his eyes and said with some despair, “They’ve all left. Now there are only Lu Shangyi’s people left in the company.”

How could someone who has been able to endure for so many years fight a battle they have no chance of winning?

Lu Shangyi's arrival this time was aggressive, and she had already meticulously planned everything. Not to mention that Lu Shenghui's confidants had not yet left, even if they were all still there, given Lu Shangyi's skills and cunning, it would be extremely difficult for Lu Shenghui to take back the company.

Over the years, Lu Shangyi's acting has been so realistic that almost everyone believes that she was just a harmless vase. Even after the Lu family business came into her hands, she continued to act without ever revealing any flaws or arousing any suspicion.

When she first took over the company, the mistakes she made were just common mistakes that ordinary people would make. Who would really be suspicious and dig deep to find out whether she did it on purpose?

Lu Shangyi usually keeps a low profile, but in reality, he has an extremely keen understanding of human psychology.

Even if mind-reading truly existed in this world, it would probably be impossible to decipher her complex and unpredictable thoughts.

Lu Shenghui's face grew increasingly dark until his expression became terrifyingly gloomy. The male secretary dared not look up, silently shrinking into the corner, trying his best to minimize his presence. Fortunately, Lu Shenghui was too preoccupied to deal with him.

He made call after call, but those who used to fawn over him now seemed deaf to his pleas.

Enraged, he slammed his phone to the ground, then picked it up again. "You knew about this too?"

Jiang Mei answered the phone in a daze. After hearing her biological father's long-lost yet familiar voice, her unfocused pupils finally focused. "I don't know."

If she had known all along... if she had known all along, what could she have done?

As an orphan with no parents, what confidence did she have to compete with Lu Shangyi? In his presence, she would only feel deeply inferior and ashamed.

Jiang Mei steadied her trembling voice, "You're back?"

The call was abruptly ended. Jiang Mei gripped her phone and couldn't help but give a bitter laugh, unable to describe her feelings. She felt powerless, pained, and desperate. Lu Shangyi was like a towering mountain, one she might never be able to surpass in her entire life.

The other person has always been outstanding, and now they are even more unattainable and out of reach.

All her will and spirit collapsed at that moment, shattering into dust. Sitting dejectedly in the classroom, an unprecedented sense of powerlessness quickly swept over her.

Lu Shenghui went straight back to the company, making a huge fuss, and the news spread throughout the company in a short time. His assistant rushed in after receiving a call, "Mr. Lu."

Lu Shangyi looked up. "Have we arrived?"

The assistant nodded, clutching her phone tightly in her hand. "The car is ready."

"Let's go." Lu Shangyi slowly straightened her clothes. "Tell them I have something urgent to attend to."

No one could stop Lu Shangyi from leaving if she wanted to, and besides, no one dared to stop her now. She was a highly dangerous alpha who could endure for many years. Because of Lu Shenghui, everyone's impression of the Lu family's alpha was only one—

Danger.

Such a dangerous alpha... they couldn't be happier for her to leave them, though they now desperately want to know more.

But compared to gossip, my life is obviously more important.

Looking at the company's decor, so different from when he left, Lu Shenghui almost thought he'd gone to the wrong place. After a moment's realization, he nodded repeatedly, his words tinged with resentment, "I underestimated her after all. Excellent."

The male secretary didn't dare to respond.

Lu Shenghui found a seat and sat down, completely ignoring the subtle probing questions from his company employees. However, he had extremely poor patience and soon grew impatient. "Why hasn't she arrived yet?"

The male secretary could only give a perfunctory reply: "Soon, Miss Lu was just attending an event and should be on her way back to the company now."

Lu Shenghui snorted coldly, his eyes fixed on the male secretary with a hostile intent. The secretary immediately broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly said, "Then I'll go and urge her again..."

As they were talking, the employees who had been watching the commotion behind them scattered. Lu Shenghui looked up, and the woman's cold and imposing figure slowly came into view.

With fair skin, high spirits, and full of energy, there was no trace of his previous sickly, pale, and weak appearance.

Her cold and aloof appearance, even without her speaking, was enough to make people feel her powerful aura.

Lu Shangyi slowly walked up to Lu Shenghui, stopped, put one hand in her pocket, and a smile slowly appeared on her red lips. "Long time no see."

Her calm and collected demeanor was utterly provocative, prompting Lu Shenghui to abruptly stand up, seemingly about to make a move in public. His male secretary and Lu Shangyi's assistant acted simultaneously to stop him, but Lu Shangyi was faster, easily blocking Lu Shenghui's ungentlemanly hand.

"You just came out of there, so take care of yourself," she said softly with a smile.

The close proximity allowed Lu Shenghui to clearly sense the pheromones emanating from the other person, which had been suppressed for many years and were even more dominant than his own. It seemed to have the scent of cold, turbulent seawater, as well as the light, peaceful aroma of sandalwood, and perhaps other scents mixed in as well—but Lu Shenghui didn't care.

Lu Shangyi tilted her head slightly, "You're much weaker, you should go home and rest first."

The woman's words were casual, yet they were full of underhanded threats.

Lu Shenghui practically wanted to devour her whole, but Lu Shangyi ignored him, a single glance from her conveying her meaning to her assistant. In less than half a minute, several burly bodyguards quickly approached and, without Lu Shangyi needing to say a word, swiftly escorted Lu Shenghui into the elevator.

The male secretary watched in terror as Lu Shenghui struggled to break free, his back almost soaked with cold sweat.

He silently prayed that Lu Shangyi would forget him, but just as he finished praying, the woman turned around and asked slowly, "I heard that my brother has trusted you a lot all these years?"

The male secretary immediately felt a chill run down his spine. "No, no, you've misunderstood."

Lu Shangyi smiled slightly, "Oh, really?" She slowly sat down, then looked up at him quietly, "But why isn't what I found out telling me this?"

"The people I sent to investigate lied." She paused, her voice turning cold. "Or are you lying?"

"..."

After a moment of stalemate, the male secretary finally couldn't stand Lu Shangyi's intense gaze and said, "I'm sorry."

"What have you done to wrong me?" Lu Shangyi leaned forward slightly. "Why don't we go upstairs and talk about it in detail?"

The male secretary had no choice but to agree. He was no stranger to Lu Shangyi's methods; in just a few months, she had purged the entire company, and now everyone in the company was her man. Dejected, he hung his head and could only nod, "Okay."

He gestured to his assistant to take the person upstairs first. After the person had gone some distance, Lu Shangyi picked up the phone and said, "Protect her well. If anything goes wrong, you will be held responsible."

After putting her phone away, Lu Shangyi turned around and followed, her slender heels making a loud thud on the ground.

Qiao Yu learned the news from Meng E. She was initially surprised, but under Meng E's unusually excited and uncontrollable gaze, Qiao Yu could only pretend to have just found out, exaggeratingly covering her mouth, "Wow! My goodness!"

"Sister Lu isn't an omega after all!"

Her voice was so loud and booming that it immediately drew the attention of the entire class. Her exaggerated manner, ironically, calmed Meng'e down.

Meng E stared at Qiao Yu for a while, then suddenly frowned, leaned closer, and said with a serious expression, "Yu Yu, did you already know?"

"How could that be?" Qiao Yu's eyes widened in surprise. "How could you think that?"

Meng E scrutinized her carefully for a while, but still couldn't figure her out, so she simply gave up and tilted her head with a hint of admiration in her eyes. "If everything that happens in this world were a novel, then Sister Lu would definitely be the legendary heroine."

A woman who is beautiful, from a wealthy family, and intelligent is always an object of admiration and envy. Women only look down on other women who think they are clever and show off their tricks, but for someone like Lu Shangyi who has gone through hardships and finally made a comeback and shines brightly on her own, they feel nothing but admiration and liking, and no jealousy.

Because everyone knows she deserves it.

She deserves all of this, and I'd even be glad she has it all.

The empathy and feelings between girls are pure and innocent.

Qiao Yu pursed her lips, thinking to herself that the female lead was someone else entirely, and Lu Shangyi was not the female lead. While she was distracted, Meng E's voice brought her back to reality, "Now that Sister Lu has revealed her identity, she should make her move soon, right?"

Qiao Yu nodded in agreement, "That's right, I heard Lu Shenghui was released this morning." Qiao Yu raised her chin with a gossipy look, "What do you think Sister Lu will do with Lu Shenghui?"

"An eye for an eye? Or something like that?"

Meng E: "..." That's not what I meant at all. Oh well, it's none of my business to worry about Qiao Yu's affairs anyway.

"I don't know." Meng'e thought for a moment and said, "Sister Lu is so outstanding, she will definitely be able to turn bad luck into good no matter what danger she encounters."

Qiao Yu agreed, after all, there was no one here whose life was more dramatic than Lu Shangyi's.

As was her habit, Qiao Yu reached into her desk drawer and pulled out a chocolate. She had just shared half with Meng E when Tang Shu pushed aside the onlookers and squeezed out from behind the crowd. She pointed at Qiao Yu with a fierce and indignant look, as if she had caught her husband cheating, and said, "I knew it!"

Qiao Yu: "?" What do you know?

"I knew it! You've been getting close to my girlfriend every day just because you're after her body, haven't you?!" Tang Shu pulled Meng E to her side, protecting her like a little chick. "You've been scheming to get close to my girlfriend just to steal her away from me!"

Qiao Yu was speechless, "..."

That wasn't all. Tang Shu got more and more excited as she spoke. She pulled her hand away from Qiao Yu, then pointed it out again, saying with absolute certainty, "Actually, you're an alpha just like Lu Shangyi, right!"

"You just want to wait until we all trust you and let our guard down, then you can easily steal all our girlfriends!"

"You treacherous and cunning alpha!"

Feeling the unfriendly stares from her classmates, Qiao Yu was immediately speechless: "...???" I'm innocent! Let me explain!