Chapter 178 The past she didn’t want to recall

Secretary Meng Yu remembered that when he first met Lu Yi, Lu Yi brought a Border Collie as a gift to Meng Anran.

Meng Anran's eyes showed disgust, and she said that she hated dogs the most. He thought that was just a veiled criticism, and that it was not the Border Collie that Meng Anran hated, but Lu Yi.

But judging from her mood swings today, it seems that this is not the case.

Meng Anran curled the corners of her lips, twisted the grape juice and took a sip, then admitted, "I really don't like dogs very much."

No, it's annoying.

She hates dogs and has hated them since she was nine.

She saw with her own eyes that Lu Yi ordered the Czech Wolfhound to bite Lu Heng. Worried that Lu Heng would be injured, she followed him to warn Lu Heng, but saw Lu Heng stabbing the dog to death with an expressionless face, right in front of her.

Blood was all over the ground. The dog, who was still full of life half a minute ago, fell to the ground and soon stopped breathing.

The nine-year-old Anran was greatly traumatized by this incident. The smell of blood rushed into her nostrils, making her feel nauseous and want to vomit. When she closed her eyes at night, she saw Lu Heng holding a dagger with blood on his hands and a morbid excitement in his eyes.

Not to mention, after the incident, Lu Yi and Lu Heng blamed each other, causing her, the most innocent girl, to be put in solitary confinement for a month.

She hates dogs and whenever she sees a dog she will be reminded of that scene from her childhood.

I remember that bright red scene, the stench of blood, being stabbed in the back by someone I cared about, and the feeling of being imprisoned in a room.

Friends often visit each other's homes, and they know how much psychological trauma this incident has caused her. Even Liu Zhi and Ming Jing don't keep dogs at home.

This was especially true for Qin Mu. Originally, the Qin family had a Shiba Inu. After this incident, Qin Mu airlifted the Shiba Inu to Country A overnight and handed it over to Qin Yan.

Meng Anran did not tell Meng Yushu these reasons. She knew that her brother would definitely feel sorry for her, but this was her brother's wish since childhood.

Saying it out loud would only put my brother in a difficult position.

But even though she didn't say it, the sensitive Meng Yushu could still see that it was not just that she didn't like dogs, there must be some past that she didn't want to recall.

He couldn't help feeling a little guilty. If he had noticed it earlier, he might have been able to stop his father from buying a dog for Xiaohong.

Now that I see my brother so happy, I really can’t bear to send the dog away.

He lowered his eyes and was silent for a long time. Finally, he proposed a plan that would satisfy both parties. "I'll make three rules with Xiaohong. I'll build a doghouse in the backyard. The Samoyed is not allowed to enter your room. When you are at home, the Samoyed can only stay in the backyard. Every day before you come home, I'll have a housekeeper clean up all the dog hair in the house to avoid making you feel uncomfortable."

Feeling her brother's affection, Meng Anran smiled and said, "Okay, thank you, brother. But I'll go talk to him. You shouldn't be the one dealing with this kind of thing."

Since they are family, they should try to minimize the gap between them. More middlemen means more distance. Who knows what her brother will think of her in the future.

"Okay, wait here for a moment. I'll ask Xiaohong to take the dog to his room and come back to see you after he takes a bath." Meng Yushu stood up and rubbed his sister's long hair before leaving. His gentle movements revealed infinite heartache.

He didn't dare to imagine what kind of life his sister had lived in the Lu family and what kind of things she had encountered that made her feel such a strong disgust and even physical resistance to dogs.

Meng Anran has always been confident and generous, as if she has the composure to control everything, and her emotions are extremely stable.

As a result, Meng Yushu never thought that maybe he should pay attention to his sister's mental health.

After Meng Yushu left, Meng Anran drank some grape juice and finally ate an egg tart. The intake of sugar and carbohydrates made her stomach feel satisfied.

After tidying up the table a bit, she returned to the room to get her cell phone and continued to sit on the balcony to enjoy the breeze.

From the backyard downstairs came the sound of my brother and dog having fun.

"Xiaoxue, pick up the ball!"

"Do it again, run faster!"

"One, two, three! Go!"

Then, he heard Meng Yushu calling his brother into the house.

Meng Anran stopped distracting herself by listening in. She took off her hair drying cap and read the financial news on her phone for a while.

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The atmosphere at the Lu family is still depressing.

Lu Zhong thought that if he took the disheveled photo to Qin Mu to ask for an explanation, Qin Mu would soon compromise, but he never expected that what he would get was a court summons.

He was sued for using improper means to coerce Qin Mu, chairman of Yunduan Group, to try to reach a deal, and Lu Qingcheng was sued for secretly taking photos to infringe on his portrait rights and deliberately fabricating photos with the intention of slander.

The surveillance video in the corridor of Yandu Hotel has been submitted to the court as evidence. It clearly shows that less than five minutes after Lu Qingcheng entered the room where Qin Mu was, Meng Anran broke into the room.

Two minutes later, Xiao Han arrived and helped Qin Mu away.

"Damn it! You useless piece of shit! Can't you even do such a small thing? And someone has the upper hand over you!" Lu Zhong was so angry that he slapped Lu Qingcheng on the spot.

Since the matter hadn't been settled yet, why give him a few crappy photos? He didn't even tell him that Meng Anran had caught him red-handed!

A heavy slap landed on her face. Lu Qingcheng covered her burning face and looked at Lu Zhong in panic, "Dad, I did this just to get in touch with Yunduan Group. Who could have thought that bitch Meng Anran would suddenly barge in? Maybe... maybe this is a trap she and Qin Mu set for us!"

Lu Zhong seemed to have been enlightened. How could Meng Anran, who was supposed to be entertaining guests in the banquet hall, receive the news so quickly and rush over to catch the adulterer?

It's obvious that this was premeditated!

"Damn it, I fell into the trap again!" Lu Zhong clenched his fists angrily and hit his thigh.

"Is it me who fell into the trap?!" a high-pitched voice came, and the father and daughter looked towards the door.

Bai Yujin, who had been recuperating in the hospital for a few days, walked in with steady steps and a serious face, as if he was burning with anger.

Her eyes swept across Lu Qingcheng fiercely, and then landed on Lu Zhong, "Lu Zhong! How dare you! The prenuptial agreement is still locked in the safe, and you actually dared to bring an illegitimate daughter of illegitimate blood into your home? Substituting a cat for a prince?!"

Lu Zhong was inexplicably pointed at and scolded, but he was still confused. He glared at Bai Yujin in dissatisfaction, "What's this about a cat replacing a prince? What's this about an illegitimate daughter? Did someone beat you up and make you lose your mind?"

Bai Yujin snorted coldly, strode over, pulled out the paternity test report between herself and Lu Qingcheng from her bag, and threw it directly in Lu Zhong's face.

"That bastard isn't even my daughter! She's the bastard you fathered from your time out there! You orchestrated the kidnapping, didn't you? First, you killed my own child and let this bastard into our family. Now, you're trying to kill me and let your lover into our home?!"