Chapter 59 Chapter 59 The Truth

Ye Anyu learned from Lu Mingzhou that she was not wrong in the afternoon and her guess was also correct. Mu Tianhe was indeed cooperating with Li Huijun.

However, Lu Mingzhou was aware of this cooperation. It was part of their plan, for Mu Tianhe to cooperate with Li Huijun and invite the wolf into the house.

Ye Anyu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the truth. As far as she knew, Mu Tianhe had a very good relationship with him. Being betrayed by such a close person would be the most hurtful.

Ye Anyu picked up a piece of pineapple from the fruit plate and put it into his mouth. As he ate, he asked, "Brother, isn't this too risky? If Li Huijun finds out, wouldn't it be disadvantageous to you?"

Although Ye Anyu believed in his ability, as the saying goes, too much care leads to confusion, so she was still a little worried.

Lu Mingzhou's brows were sharp, his eyes were extremely cold, and he said, "I won't give her this chance."

Ye Anyu suddenly felt a chill around her. She knew that Lu Mingzhou and Li Huijun had always been at odds. She also knew that the relationship between stepmother and stepson had always been bad from ancient times to the present.

But Lu Mingzhou's hostility towards Li Huijun was different from what he usually saw. He was obviously filled with hatred. In any large family, the relationships were always complicated and there were countless dirty things. There were things that appeared on the surface, but there were even more hidden in the darkness.

Ye Anyu's sixth sense told her that there must be deeper reasons for Lu Mingzhou's hatred. For such things, the person involved was unwilling to talk about it, and Ye Anyu was not the type of person to get to the bottom of it. Later, her relationship with Lu Mingzhou became closer, and she thought that maybe when the time was right, Lu Mingzhou would tell her in person.

Ye Anyu nodded and said "hmm". There was silence in the air for a moment. Ye Anyu picked up the fork and continued eating the fruit, wanting to change the subject, but he didn't expect the person next to him to speak.

"Ever since I can remember, people around me, as well as strangers on the Internet, have said that I am Lu's illegitimate child, and that my mother gave birth to me by seducing Lu Junyi." Lu Mingzhou paused and looked at Ye Anyu.

Ye Anyu's hand holding the fruit stopped in mid-air. She was a little surprised that Lu Mingzhou would say this to her. But after hearing what Lu Mingzhou said, she couldn't help but feel extremely distressed. As far as she could remember, she was just a child of four or five years old, but she had to endure the dirty words and malice of this world.

"I have believed this since I was a child, but..." Lu Mingzhou's voice was a little choked. It was the first time Ye Anyu saw Lu Mingzhou like this, and she held his hand.

"But later I discovered that the truth was not so. I was not an illegitimate child, and my mother's death was also a coincidence, which was closely related to Li Huijun."

Although Ye Anyu knew that the relationship in the Lu family was not as simple as it seemed, he still trembled in his heart when he suddenly heard the news. If Lu Mingzhou was not an illegitimate child, then wouldn't it be a case of confusing right and wrong for so many years? And his mother's death, if it was not a normal accidental death, how much conspiracy and intrigue must have been involved? Ye Anyu couldn't imagine it.

"Do you remember the night you just returned to the Ye family?" Lu Mingzhou asked.

Of course she remembered that day, the first time she spent the night at the Lu family. The ten-year-old girl was trembling with fear and helplessness on her face.

"The reason I went to the rooftop that day was because I had just learned the truth of what happened that year from my mother's friend." Lu Mingzhou's hair on his forehead was a little messy, his eyebrows were sharp in sadness, and his lips were a little dry.

What is the truth that makes the usually calm and composed Lu Mingzhou like this?

With tears in her eyes, she stared at Lu Mingzhou and held his hand tightly.

“My mother, Shen Wan, is actually Lu Junyi’s first wife, but few people know this.”

Shen Wan is the only daughter of Lu Mingzhou's grandfather Shen Xingwen. Shen Wan's parents eventually separated because of differences in their ideas. Shen Wan's mother, Lu Qiyu, later went abroad to settle down and never returned, so Shen Wan grew up with her father Shen Xingwen.

When the real estate industry was just developing, Shen Xingwen seized the opportunity and Shen Group took advantage of the trend to become a well-known real estate company in the country at that time.

After graduating from university, Shen Wan went to her father's company. Not long after she started working, she met Lu Junyi, who also joined the Shen Group. At the beginning, the two didn't talk much, and apart from being acquaintances, they had no other connection.

Later, Shen Wan's father, Shen Xingwen, suddenly fell ill. While Shen Wan was worried about her father, she also took on the responsibility of the company. The psychological and physical pressure increased dramatically. The people who had made a fortune with Shen Xingwen in the past joined forces to attack the company, and she was suddenly left isolated and helpless.

At this time, Lu Junyi began to care about her, comforted and encouraged her when she cried, held an umbrella for her when it rained, and brought her food when she didn't have time to eat.

At that time, Shen Wan felt that everyone in the world was against her, and there was only one person who always stood by her, understood her, encouraged her, and cared about her. She fell in love.

Shen Wan's parents separated since childhood, and she didn't believe in love at first, but Lu Junyi was really good at acting. He packaged himself as a warm, gentle, but unrequited person.

Shen Wan had tried it before. She had given Lu Junyi hundreds of thousands of yuan as compensation for this period, but Lu Junyi righteously refused. At that time, when the house price was only around a thousand yuan, hundreds of thousands of yuan could directly buy a house, but Lu Junyi actually refused.

This made Shen Wan like him even more, and they ended up together.

Shen Xingwen naturally did not agree with the two of them being together, but he could not bear his daughter's insistence and simply let them get along for a while. But who would have thought that Lu Junyi was so good at pretending. After Shen Xingwen's investigation, he finally agreed to their marriage.

Considering his daughter, Shen Xingwen kept a plan and let the two get married in secret. If they couldn't get along in the future, they could divorce, which would cause less harm to Shen Wan. But who would have thought that the secret marriage would become Lu Junyi's weapon to conceal and seize the Shen Group.

Shen Xingwen died of overwork shortly after Shen Wan got married. Shen Wan was pregnant at the time, and after this incident, she was in extremely poor physical and mental condition.

After she gave birth to Lu Mingzhou, she did not recover well and developed some chronic illnesses. One day, when she was driving alone to the hospital for treatment, she had a car accident and died on the spot.

Lu Junyi used some unknown means to turn the Shen Group into the Lu Group, concealed the fact that he was married to Shen Wan, and turned around to marry his first love girlfriend Li Huijun.

In the end, Lu Mingzhou became an illegitimate child.

Hearing this, Ye Anyu's eyelashes sparkled, tears rolled down her cheeks, and her hands unconsciously clenched Lu Mingzhou tightly.

After saying this, Lu Mingzhou had regained his composure. Except for a little emotional fluctuation at the beginning, he was as calm as if he was telling the story of a stranger.

Ye Anyu knew that he was so calm not because he was an indifferent person, but because these things had accompanied him for several years, emerging in his mind without warning in countless late nights and engraved into his bones.

Lu Mingzhou didn't move, letting Ye Anyu hold his hand tightly. He raised his other hand to wipe away her tears and said calmly, "Anyu, I'm fine."

Seeing Ye Anyu's tears, he continued, "Really, these things happened many years ago, and I have accepted them a long time ago."

This kind of unspeakable pain, weighing on her heart, would only become deeper with time. Ye Anyu knew that Lu Mingzhou was trying to comfort her, that was why he pretended to be relaxed and nonchalant.

Ye Anyu threw herself into his arms. She didn't know it before and thought that Lu Mingzhou was just a cold and hurtful person. Now that she knew the truth, she wanted to stay with him.

Accompany him to take back what belongs to him, accompany him to make the truth of that year public, and accompany him to punish the culprit.

After saying all this, it was already late at night. The two of them lay on the bed. Ye Anyu curled up in Lu Mingzhou's arms, her arms around his waist.

For the first time in so many years, Lu Mingzhou slept so comfortably. He didn't have nightmares, nor did he wake up from a dream. When he opened his eyes in the morning, he saw his sweetheart. He leaned over and kissed her forehead, feeling extremely at ease.

Coincidentally, Ye Anyu also woke up from her sleep. She yawned and stretched with sleepy eyes. When she saw Lu Mingzhou, she squinted her eyes and smiled.

Lu Mingzhou pulled her outstretched arm into the spotless white quilt and said, "Be careful, don't catch a cold."

Ye Anyu closed his eyes and asked, "Brother, what time is it now?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the alarm clock beside the bed started ticking. Ye Anyu usually set the alarm for eight o'clock in the morning. In the past, Lu Mingzhou would almost arrive at the company at this time.

Ye Anyu asked: "Brother, aren't you going to work today?"

Lu Mingzhou: "Go up."

Ye Anyu was puzzled: "Then why haven't you gotten up yet?"

Lu Mingzhou: "I plan to work with you in the future."

Ye Anyu thought about it and didn't refuse. Lu Mingzhou used to go out early and come back late every day, and he worked overtime. She doubted that Lu Mingzhou would not be tired. It was not until she slept in the same room with Lu Mingzhou that she saw the fatigue on Lu Mingzhou's face.

After all, people are not machines. No matter how outstanding they are, their energy is limited and they still need to have a good rest. She has long wanted him to spend more time resting.

Ye Anyu agreed without thinking, which surprised Lu Mingzhou.

After the two got up, washed up, and drove to the company, when Ye Anyu asked the driver to stop near the company, Lu Mingzhou finally understood why she agreed so immediately.

As usual, Ye Anyu got off the car near the company to avoid misunderstandings by seeing her riding in the same car with her boss.

Lu Mingzhou was helpless, but since Ye Anyu didn't want to make their relationship public, he would respect her.

But today, Ye Anyu got off the car early, which was different from the past. Before getting off the car, she quickly pecked Lu Mingzhou on the face, so that when Mu Tianhe saw Lu Mingzhou in the company, he had a smile on his face.

Mu Tianhe felt that the sun had risen from the west. Lu Mingzhou, who always arrived early, not only came to work on time today, but also had a smile on his face. This was unbelievable.

When the elevator arrived, the company's employees tactfully stepped back, so that the elevator, which was always crowded during the morning shift, only had Lu Mingzhou and Mu Tianhe in it.

In the elevator, Mu Tianhe finally couldn't help but speak: "Mingzhou, have you been possessed by someone else?"

Mu Tianhe received a cold stare.

Mu Tianhe: "That means you have encountered a happy event. As the saying goes, people are in high spirits when they encounter happy events. For you, it must be a huge happy event."

Lu Mingzhou: “No.”

Mu Tianhe: "No? That's impossible. With our relationship, you don't have to lie to me." The elevator door opened, and the only thing that answered him was a black figure.

Lu Mingzhou pushed open the door and entered the office. He sat down, looked at his phone, and the corners of his mouth rose again.