"Are you really my mother?" Lu Chen's question made his mother feel guilty, and she dared not meet his gaze.

"Of course, otherwise how would you have survived? Your achievements today are inseparable from me, your mother," Lu's mother added.

"Then is Lu He your son?" Lu Chen asked in a cold tone, with an aggressive air.

"Stop trying to fool me. If he's not my biological son, whose is he? Lu Chen, are you trying to scare me with some fabricated charges just to get rid of me?" Lu's mother angrily questioned Lu Chen directly.

Lu He and Shen Qiaoyue were also very surprised after hearing Lu Chen's words, wondering what he meant.

"I'm just trying to scare you. Mom, don't you know what you've done? Or do you think you can cover it up perfectly?" Lu Chen's eyes were scrutinizing. "I didn't understand before. Other families dote on their youngest children. Lu He is your only daughter, and you treat her like this!"

When Lu Chen looked at his mother, there was not a trace of affection in his eyes, but rather anger.

"Your real son died when he was born. In order to prevent others from knowing that you gave birth to a stillborn baby, you told the hospital nurses that you wanted to adopt me, who was only a few days old, because my mother was injured and died after giving birth to me! But the money my mother had on her was enough for you to raise me, but you made me eat what my brothers left over from a young age. From the time I was old enough to understand, you made me do chores, and I never had a full meal."

I left home at eleven, just to survive, to have enough to eat. I sent you money every month to support you; I've done more than enough. If you keep bothering me, don't blame me for abandoning any talk of mother-son affection.

You can bully him, but you absolutely cannot bully Lu Chen's wife and sister.

Lu Chen glanced at Lu He, then looked at Lu's mother and said, "Let's talk about Lu He's background again. Are we going to keep making a fuss about this?"

Lu's mother fell silent instantly!

She wanted to say that this was nonsense, but Lu Chen's gaze made Lu's mother's words of rebuttal stuck in her throat.

"Since I'm not your son, and you arranged this marriage yourself, you can decide for yourself. If you really piss me off, you'll both be going to jail." Lu Chen's voice was soft, but you could tell he was very angry.

Looking at her guilty and nervous mother, Lu He wondered if she wasn't her mother's biological child.

"Brother!" Lu He wanted to find out what was going on, but Shen Qiaoyue pulled Lu He along.

Lu Chen took his mother and Chen Shishi to the guesthouse and rushed to the city to buy tickets to send them back.

They took fifty yuan from Shen Qiaoyue and told them to go back on their own the next day.

The farce ended with Lu Chen's words.

Shen Qiaoyue also breathed a sigh of relief. By the time Lu Chen returned, it was already past ten o'clock.

While eating, Lu He kept thinking about what Lu Chen had said and couldn't concentrate on eating at all.

Shen Qiaoyue probably guessed it too.

"Brother!" As soon as Lu Chen returned, Lu He wanted to ask him the truth.

Shen Qiaoyue also waited with Lu He for a long time.

Lu Chen knew that some things could no longer be kept secret.

He then told Lu He everything that had happened.

Lu Chen was adopted by his mother in the hospital. At that time, his mother died during childbirth due to complications.

In addition, the hospital stay cost a lot of money, and Lu's mother couldn't afford to pay, so she decided to adopt the newborn baby. Lu Chen's mother also died in childbirth.

Among the belongings left by Lu Chen's mother when she passed away were a gold bar and a large bag of silver dollars, enough for the family to live on for many years.

However, because Lu's mother's husband frequently indulged in drinking, gambling, and prostitution, he accumulated a lot of debt. After paying back a portion of it, he used the money to gamble, losing everything.

To make a living, Lu's mother adopted Lu Chen for half a year. When she ran out of money to live on, she had to go out and find a job. Lu's grandmother took care of the children at home.

Grandma Lu treated all the children very well, but Father Lu often beat and scolded Lu Chen, feeling that Lu Chen was not like him and that Lu Chen must have been born because his mother had an affair with another man.

If it weren't for Grandma Lu protecting Lu Chen, he would never have grown up.

When Lu Chen was eight years old, his father received a letter from his mother and left in a hurry.

Two years later, the couple returned from out of town with a daughter, and they told everyone that Lu He was their biological daughter.

The reason was that Lu Chen received a letter from his grandmother before she passed away, saying that neither he nor Lu He were his parents' biological children.

Lu Chen then began investigating the backgrounds of the two individuals.

Lu Chen never found out about his own background, but he did find out about Lu He's background.

Lu He was originally the daughter of a teacher's family. Her mother worked for them. After an argument, Lu's mother stole money from her employers. In order to get revenge on her employers, she took away her daughter, who was only a few months old.

Lu's mother initially wanted to get revenge by abandoning the child in the woods outside the city.

However, Lu's mother's selfish desire for revenge also saved Lu He's life.

That night, the employer's house was broken into and robbed by bandits who killed the entire family.

Perhaps out of guilt, Lu's mother couldn't bear to take Lu He away from the woods.

In order to prevent her affair from being exposed, she wrote to her husband, asking him to come out for a while and bring the child back to their hometown to live when the child was older.

Therefore, Lu He, who is about to turn seventeen, is actually eighteen years old.

When Lu Chen finished telling her all this, Lu He burst into tears.

"Brother, if we're not family, does that mean I won't have any family left?"

Lu He looked at Shen Qiaoyue and Lu Chen through tears.

Shen Qiaoyue comforted Lu He, saying, "You will always be my and your brother's sister."

Lu Chen remained serious and asked Lu He, "Lu He, if you want to hold your mother accountable, you can call the police. Now that you know about these things, the police will investigate thoroughly. But I can't, after all, I was adopted by her."

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