Lu Ran nodded quietly.

Just then, the cable car passed the node and swayed slightly. Lu Ran managed to stand firm by grabbing the railing.

Lu Ming glanced at her expressionlessly.

In the past twenty years, he has never acknowledged this daughter, nor has he ever cared about her.

She was a stain on his life.

He never loved Lu Ran's mother; it was just a drunken outburst. Besides, her mother wasn't exactly innocent either. What daughter from a respectable family would go to a bar in the middle of the night to dance and sell her body?

Lu Ming had no intention of taking responsibility; he simply washed his hands of the matter and then ignored her. He never expected that a year later, that woman would find him with a baby in her arms…

He tried to get rid of her with some money, but to his surprise, the woman said that she had fallen in love with him at first sight and that she had given birth to the child because she truly loved him.

Lu Ming secretly took the child to get a DNA test, and it turned out to be his own! Coincidentally, Lu Xiaoyou was also born at that time, so he had the idea of ​​switching the child with his own.

However, the woman disagreed, insisting on keeping the child with her and saying that she couldn't let someone else's child be harmed.

In a fit of anger, Lu Ming sent the mother and daughter to the countryside, leaving them to fend for themselves.

The plan to kidnap Lu Xiaoyou was successfully carried out, but the distant relative added to the scheme midway, wanting to gain even greater benefits, which was somewhat beyond his control.

And just then, a shipwreck occurred.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Ming got rid of that relative and pretended to be looking for Lu Xiaoyou by following clues. In reality, he was waiting for Lu Ran to grow up so that he could send Lu Ran into the Lu family as Lu Xiaoyou.

But man proposes, God disposes. He didn't expect that the clue from his distant relative was true. Following this clue, he indeed found Jiang Youcai and Su Aiqian. It turned out that the real Lu Xiaoyou was also in Jiangzhou.

So he bribed Xia Zhi to have Lu Xiaoyou remove her birthmark, and then added all the features that Lu Xiaoyou had to Lu Ran's body...

Lu Ming took a deep breath, his gaze towards Lu Ran filled with impatience.

That brat, clumsy and timid, she's nothing like his daughter!

When she was asked to play Lu Xiaoyou, she almost caused trouble several times, and in the end, he was the one who cleaned up her messes.

Lu Ming's face grew increasingly gloomy, while Lu Ran stood there silently, nervously twisting the hem of her clothes with her small hands.

"come over!"

Lu Ming's voice was cold and stern, which startled Lu Ran, who hesitated and refused to go over.

"You brat!"

Lu Ming suddenly stood up, getting angrier the more he looked at her, and slapped her hard across the face!

Lu Ran covered half of her face, forcing back tears, and tasted a faint metallic taste of blood in her mouth.

"I'm your father, and you have nothing to say to me?" Lu Ming glared angrily. "I asked you to come out today to hear your progress, not to play dumb in front of me!"

"Are you fucking deaf? Speak up!"

Lu Ran's heart trembled, and large tears fell down her cheeks, but even in fear, she cried without making a sound.

Just like the first twenty years of her life, she silently endured whatever injustice she suffered.

Lu Ming was at his wits' end with her, so he could only use her mother as leverage: "Listen to me... This month, find a way to get Lu Lishan to transfer a portion of Qingshan Entertainment's shares to your name, otherwise I can't guarantee your mother's kidney supply! You can just wait to collect that woman's corpse!"

"don't want……"

Lu Ran trembled all over and almost knelt down before him.

She can lose anything, but she can't lose her mother.

For so many years, the mother and daughter have depended on each other, living a life of poverty but also one of simple joy. Her world is actually very small, so small that it only consists of her mother.

"If you don't want your mother to die, then listen to me!" Lu Ming grabbed her chin hard. "Heh, help me take over the Lu family, and your mother will be saved, understand?"

Lu Ran nodded repeatedly.

Although she felt bad about deceiving Lu Lishan and his wife, Lu Ming told her to keep acting, so she had to grit her teeth and continue.

"By the way, have you been spending a lot of time with Huo Junyang lately?"

“No…” Lu Ran’s voice choked with emotion, “I… I didn’t give him a chance to run into me… The last time at the hospital was just a coincidence…”

"I bet you wouldn't dare reveal anything!" Lu Ming stared at her coldly, deep in thought. "The Huo family is no pushover; they're definitely suspicious of you!"

"Then what should we do?"

“Huo Junyang may have already discovered something…” Lu Ming murmured, “Here’s what we’ll do: you don’t need to avoid him anymore. If he wants to contact you, just let him. Leave the rest to me!”

Lu Ran nodded timidly, pressed herself against the cable car window, and even her breathing was very careful.

*

Jiang Youcai's back is still uncomfortable after several days.

At first, Su Ai thought he wanted to shirk his responsibilities and wanted her to serve him all the time, so she brought up the "family rules".

As a result, when the family discipline was halfway through, seeing that Jiang Youcai was powerless to resist and was screaming miserably, the old man belatedly realized that his back was really bad!

Su Aiqian panicked, fearing that this would make things worse, and hurriedly tried to take him to the hospital. At this moment, Huo Junyu stepped forward.

He tried to give Jiang Youcai acupuncture and massage a few times, and also went to the pharmacy to get some Chinese medicine.

Three days later, Jiang Youcai not only miraculously recovered, but his back seemed more flexible than before, and he was even able to run to the square to do pull-ups!

Jiang Mianmian looked at Huo Yu with a surprised and admiring gaze, "How come I never knew you had this skill?"

Huo Junyu calmly put away the box of silver needles and smiled, "It's always good to have more skills. I taught myself."

Su Aiqian was very proud of herself. "I told you Xiao Huo was a technical talent! See, my judgment was absolutely right, wasn't it?"

Jiang Mianmian smiled and turned to go to the kitchen to cut fruit.

Huo Junyu followed her inside, took the fruit knife, and was afraid she would cut her hand.

In the days that followed, everyone in the alley knew that Su Aiqian's son-in-law was a self-taught miracle doctor and a highly skilled individual.

Su Aiqian's original intention was to show off, but she didn't expect that now uncles and aunts would come in droves every day to see Xiao Huo for treatment...

Huo Junyu did not refuse, but Jiang Mianmian felt sorry for him working too hard and was worried that if others noticed the problem, they would be accused of treating people without a medical license.

"Don't worry." Huo Junyu patted her head. "These uncles and aunties don't have any major health problems. I'll just tell them some daily maintenance methods. Nothing will go wrong."

“Hmm…” Jiang Mianmian nodded, then suddenly her face darkened and she stared at him with her beautiful big eyes.

"Aunt Niu has come several times before, and I heard she's bringing her daughter tomorrow?"

Huo Junyu was stunned for a moment.

"No...no!" he hurriedly explained. "Don't worry, if she comes tomorrow, I'll hide and say I'm not home!"

"No need for that." Jiang Mianmian said calmly, a slight smile playing on her lips. "Let her come tomorrow. I want to see what those two, mother and daughter, are up to!"

"Mianmian, you..." Huo Junyu smiled. She wouldn't be thinking of fighting for him, would she?