Chapter 183 Who exactly wants to harm me?

As soon as the man finished speaking, two burly men came over and rescued Lin Xi from his grasp.

Lin Xi, still in shock, sat on the ground panting as she watched the two burly men who had just arrested her subdue the man and the driver.

She turned to look at the person who had spoken up to save her, her feelings a jumble of emotions. The person who saved her was her biological father, Lu Zhentao, whom she was meeting for the second time.

Lu Zhentao walked over, bent down, and helped Lin Xi up from the ground. "Are you hurt?"

Lin Xi shook her head. "Thank you, Uncle Lu. I'm not hurt, I was just scared."

Lu Zhentao stared at Lin Xi's face for a long time. "Have you offended anyone recently?"

Lin Xi kept her eyes downcast and her hands clasped together. She didn't dare to look Lu Zhentao in the eye, afraid that the hatred in her eyes would be discovered.

She whispered, "Something like this happened a while ago. I was almost kidnapped, and the person who did it still hasn't been caught. It's possible it was the same group of people."

"I don't know whose path to wealth I've blocked, that they're trying to kill me," Lin Xi sighed, clutching her pounding heart. "Living is so hard."

Lu Zhentao's expression changed. Last time, he was the one who sent people to arrest Lin Xi, but this time it wasn't him. He glanced at the two men who had been arrested and felt that they looked somewhat familiar.

“Since there’s danger around, don’t go out alone in the future, especially at night,” Lu Zhentao said, touching the big gold watch on his wrist.

Lin Xi nodded obediently, took out her phone, and said, "Thank you for your concern, Uncle Lu. I'll call the police and send them both to the police station."

"No," Lu Zhentao pressed down on Lin Xi's wrist, "There's no need for such trouble. Leave these two to me, I'll interrogate them, and I'll get the results quickly."

Lin Xi didn't insist any further, as it was pointless. "Then I'll leave it to Uncle Lu. I'll head home now."

Lu Zhentao stopped Lin Xi, "Where do you live? I'll take you there, so you won't encounter any more danger."

Lin Xi hesitated for a moment. She wasn't sure about Lu Zhentao's attitude towards her, but she figured there wouldn't be any problems if she got into his car.

"Thank you for your help, Uncle Lu. I live in the Brilliant Sky City Apartments."

Lu Zhentao nodded and got into the car with Lin Xi.

Lin Xi, being more cautious, dialed Lu Yunzhou's number on her phone.

The phone rang only once before Lu Yunzhou answered it. He was about to ask Lin Xi what was wrong when he heard his father's voice coming from the phone.

"Lin Xi, I heard you were adopted?"

Lin Xi wasn't surprised; her adoption wasn't a secret, and anyone who wanted to find out could find out.

"Yes, I was taken in by my grandmother when I was six years old."

"Six years old..." Lu Zhentao hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Do you remember anything before you were six years old?"

“I remember some things,” Lin Xi glanced at him, “I ran away from a remote mountain village on my own.”

"Why did you run away?" Lu Zhentao's brows furrowed when he heard about the mountain village, and his heart tightened when he heard that Lin Xi had run away on her own.

"Because I don't want to be beaten or scolded, and I don't want to be sold to an old bachelor." When Lin Xi said this, she closed her eyes and forced down her emotions.

Lu Zhentao took a deep breath, "Your biological parents actually treated you like this?"

Lin Xi shook her head slightly. "They are not my biological parents. I was bought by them. I am still looking for my biological parents. I just want to know if I was abandoned and why they treated me like this."

Lu Zhentao fell silent and remained silent for a long time.

Lin Xi glanced at Lu Zhentao's face. "Uncle Lu, I'm sorry, I've been talking a lot today. Because of my childhood experiences, I have some psychological issues, and I get agitated whenever this topic is mentioned."

“It’s nothing,” Lu Zhentao said, his eyes hidden behind sunglasses. “I asked first.”

The car stopped in front of the apartment building. Lin Xi thanked them again, got out of the car, and went inside.

Lu Zhentao stared at Lin Xi's departing figure for a long time, lost in thought, until she was out of sight, before saying to the driver in front, "To the villa in the western suburbs."

After entering the apartment, Lin Xi took out her phone and saw that it was still connected to another call. She put the phone to her ear and asked, "Brother, are you there?"

Lu Yunzhou listened intently, "Xixi, how did you end up with him?"

Lin Xi recounted what happened at the hospital entrance that day, "Brother, tell me, who exactly wants to harm me?"

“Who else could it be?” Lu Yunzhou realized he had overlooked something. “It must be the person who sold you out back then.”

"Xixi, be careful lately. I will also send people to protect you secretly."

Lin Xi hummed in agreement. "Brother, why do I feel that Lu Zhentao's attitude towards me is a bit unusual? Logically speaking, he should hate me, since I stole Lu Yunqi's sweetheart."

Lu Yunzhou was silent for two seconds, "Perhaps it's because you look a lot like your mother when she was young that he has some doubts."

"Do I look a lot like my mother?" Lin Xi asked, touching her face.

“They look very alike,” Lu Yunzhou said belatedly. He only recently discovered, while looking through old photos, that Lin Xi and his mother looked remarkably alike when they were young. “Even the beauty mark at the corner of their eyes is the same.”

Lin Xi touched the beauty mark under her left eye, and her desire to see her mother grew even stronger. "Brother, my cousin told me to go to the Zhou family tomorrow night."

“Okay, it’s not convenient for me to go,” Lu Yunzhou said. “You can spend more time with your cousin-in-law and have her take you back to the Zhou family a few more times.”

Lin Xi hung up the phone, her emotions still running high. She would see her mother tomorrow.

After letting Song Xu and Song Chen know she was safe, she went into her room, opened the email Lu Yunzhou had sent her on her computer, downloaded the files, and began to look at them.

Lu Yunzhou sent over the overall situation of the Lu Group, including the shareholding of each shareholder, personal profiles of the company's senior leaders, and the jurisdictional functions of each department.

Also included are the financial statements for the most recent three years and the company's plans for the next five years.

Lin Xi read most of it but didn't understand it very well, especially the financial stuff. All she saw were long strings of numbers; she couldn't understand what they meant at all.

But it doesn't matter, she has the time, energy, and brains now, she just needs to study.

She remembered that Song Xu's room had many books on management, and it seemed that there were also some on finance.

Lin Xi ran to Song Xu's room, searched for the books she wanted to read on the bookshelf, picked out a few, and carried them back to her room.

She randomly picked up a book and opened it, seeing scribbles and notes on it, which were traces left by Song Xu while reading.

She couldn't help but sigh at this moment, realizing that Song Xu was really hardworking; it turned out that the books on his bookshelf were not just for show.

It seems being a rich second-generation isn't so easy. Lin Xi checked her phone; Song Xu had only sent a single "Okay" and then went silent. She wondered how things were going on his end.

Song Xu sat on the sofa, listening to Old Master Song's lecture.

"Xiao Xu, you should break up with that girl with no background as soon as possible. It's not so easy to get into the Song family."