Chapter 41: Jinjiang's solo trip abroad may result in the termination of adoption...

Because of the traffic jam, it was already evening when the car drove back to the Lu family's old house. Dusk was falling, and the afterglow of the sunset was obscured by the lights. A few stars appeared in the sky, sparsely surrounding the moon.

As soon as Jiang Chen drove the car into the garage and parked it, Shen Zhiyi got out of the car without saying a word.

Uncle Lin was very happy to see her back. He went up to her and said hello, "Miss, you're back."

Shen Zhiyi looked straight ahead, as if he didn't hear Uncle Lin's voice. He pulled a long face, walked past him and left.

The stiletto heels of her sandals made a tapping sound on the bluestone pavement. The sound was particularly clear in the silent night, as if she wanted to let everyone know that she was back and was very unhappy.

The servants looked up in confusion, not knowing what was going on.

Lin Bo's mouth drooped slightly and he shook his head helplessly.

Jiang Chen and Lu Chiyuan got off the car at the back. This was his second time coming to the Lu family's old house. He was much more familiar with it than the first time. He subconsciously looked for the ivy wall and the peach tree in the yard.

Unfortunately, it was not in the same direction. All he could see was a corner of the eaves and the lush green belt.

Knowing that Lu Chiyuan was coming back, Uncle Lin ordered people to prepare dinner early, and Jiang Chen and the others arrived just in time.

When they arrived at the restaurant, Shen Zhiyi was already sitting at the table, and she started eating without waiting for them.

The servant stood aside with a helpless look on his face. When he saw Uncle Lin coming over, his face was full of grievance.

Uncle Lin said there were guests at home, and the servant just reminded Shen Zhiyi to wait, but he didn't expect to be scolded by Shen Zhiyi.

Uncle Lin probably guessed what had happened, and the smile on his face froze a little at this moment. The Lu family has a clean and upright family tradition. Although there are not so many old-fashioned rules, they are never vague in education.

When Shen Zhiyi was unhappy, he threw his manners to the wind and started eating before his brother and the guests sat down.

To put it mildly, this is unruly.

If someone who didn’t know saw this, they would think that the Lu family was short of her food.

Jiang Chen was also stunned. Even though he was an outsider, he felt a little upset when he saw this scene.

Lu Chiyuan was not affected, or maybe after seeing Shen Zhiyi clearly, he was already immune to Shen Zhiyi's outrageousness. He signaled the servant to go down first and asked Jiang Chen to take a seat.

The restaurant was silent, no one spoke, and the atmosphere seemed to be covered with a thick layer of mucus, sticky and making people feel extremely uncomfortable.

Jiang Chen had no appetite, and halfway through, Shen Zhiyi put down her chopsticks and left. When she stood up, the legs of the chair rubbed against the floor and were pulled away, making a harsh noise.

The solidified atmosphere exploded instantly like cold water meeting hot oil, making people's hearts skip a beat.

Jiang Chen subconsciously looked at Lu Chiyuan. Lu Chiyuan paused, his blue eyes were filled with coldness, and his face was tense. He put down his chopsticks, wiped his hands, stood up and said, "Stop!"

The voice was not loud, but it contained anger and a sense of oppression that a storm was about to come. The servants were terrified and could not help but lower their heads.

Shen Zhiyi just paused, clenched his fists, and tried to move forward again.

"Chen Zhiyi, don't make me say it a second time." Lu Chiyuan walked over, his tall body casting a shadow, "Come here!"

Lu Chiyuan walked towards the sofa in the living room. Shen Zhiyi stammered, her eyes red, and she looked like she was about to cry. She followed Lu Chiyuan reluctantly.

Jiang Chen lost his appetite, so he stood up and followed him.

Uncle Lin waved to the servants, signaling them to go out and not clean up for the moment.

Lu Chiyuan sat on the sofa, his expression stern, his thin lips pursed into a straight line. He motioned Shen Zhiyi to sit down, and when he saw Jiang Chen coming over, he patted the seat next to him and asked Jiang Chen to sit over.

Shen Zhiyi was standing next to the sofa, not sitting down. Seeing this, he said sarcastically, "Why did you call me over? Look at you two being so affectionate in front of me?"

Jiang Chen was stunned. He didn't understand Shen Zhiyi's train of thought. She ran away from home, got into trouble outside, and came back as if she was not wrong and the fault was all on others. Now she doesn't even have the most basic manners.

As a guardian, Lu Chiyuan was very generous in waiting until now to talk to her, but she was able to shirk her responsibility.

[She acted as if I was the one with the problem.]

Jiang Chen was a little angry, and he kept observing Lu Chiyuan's expression, with his fingers on his knees curled up slightly. As an outsider, it was difficult for him to interrupt, so he just quietly moved aside to prevent Shen Zhiyi from going crazy again.

Lu Chiyuan glanced at Shen Zhiyi coldly and asked, “Shen Zhiyi, how many years have you been in the Lu family?”

Shen Zhiyi was confused: “Almost seven years.”

Lu Chiyuan asked again: "Has the Lu family ever owed you anything?"

Shen Zhiyi was speechless, opened his mouth, but no words came out.

The Lu family brought her out of that poor and backward mountain village, provided her with food, clothing, and education, and provided her with everything materially possible.

Lu Chiyuan and she were quite different in age, so it was a lie to say that they had a deep relationship, but as a brother, Lu Chiyuan had always been dedicated and responsible. Lu's parents made up for her regret of not having parents and treated her as their own daughter.

Did the Lu family owe her anything? No.

But she wanted more and more, and the Lu family's constraints became an obstacle, and she began to become impatient.

"The Lu family didn't owe me anything, but didn't the Lu family gain some reputation by adopting me? Mom took me to various banquets, didn't she want others to see the kindness of the Lu family? To make people think that the Lu family is affectionate and righteous? Am I a lady of the Lu family, or a tool of the Lu family?"

Shen Zhiyi's face was pale, and after a brief silence, he couldn't stop sneering.

She was tired of being looked at with strange eyes. She was not a doll in a window, put on the cupboard by the Lu family for display and show-off.

This circle makes her feel uncomfortable and suffocated. She wants to jump out, expand her social circle, and make friends with people she likes. What's wrong with her?

Lu Chiyuan stopped her again and again, even blocked her card and cut off her source of income. Wasn't it because he thought that she was making friends with low-class people and was not presentable?

"You dislike me now and think I've brought shame to the Lu family? What do you want? Do you want me to admit my mistake or kick me out?"

Shen Zhiyi began to give up. Anyway, she had nothing now, her studies were a mess, and her life was a mess. Even if she left the Lu family, it wouldn't be worse than this.

She looked at Lu Chiyuan with red eyes, tears welling up in her eyes, and her fair face was full of grievance. She didn't know what went wrong, why Lu Chiyuan no longer indulged her, but became so cold-blooded and ruthless.

"I won't chase you away. Even if I want you to leave, I will go through normal legal channels." Lu Chiyuan's expression was cold, without a trace of warmth in his eyes.

At this moment, the look in his eyes when he looked at Shen Zhiyi was so strange, as if he was looking at an unrelated person.

Shen Zhiyi wiped her tears, feeling inexplicably uneasy, and choked up, “What do you mean?”

Lu Chiyuan said calmly: "I will give you two choices, go abroad and never come back or terminate the adoption relationship with the Lu family."

Meaningless quarrels would only waste each other's time. Lu Chiyuan had been disappointed too many times, and at this moment he no longer had the energy to deal with Shen Zhiyi's mess and understand the cause and effect.

It's not that he didn't give her a chance. Although he blocked her card, the phone was always open. Whenever Shen Zhiyi realized how ridiculous her behavior was and called Lu Chiyuan, Lu Chiyuan would pick her up.

She had many opportunities to turn back and choose, but she refused. She kept going down the same path and when she hit a wall, she didn't regret but complained.

She blamed Lu Chiyuan for being unkind and for not helping her unconditionally like before.

She wanted to be favored with her at the center, and it would be best if everyone served her, so she turned a face away, said nothing, and waited for Lu Chiyuan to coax her.

But this time she was wrong. Lu Chiyuan chose to let go of the relationship instead of cleaning up the mess day after day.

Shen Zhiyi really realized the seriousness of the matter this time, and she began to panic. She said that she wanted to leave the Lu family, but she wanted to leave as Miss Lu, not be kicked out.

"My parents are the ones who adopted me, not you. You can't unilaterally terminate the adoption relationship with me." Shen Zhiyi stopped crying, afraid that Lu Chiyuan would insist on his own way. She didn't want to talk to him anymore and turned to go upstairs.

Lu Chiyuan was unreliable, Shen Zhiyi was panicking, and she began to regard her parents as a lifeline. At most, she could go abroad for two days, make her parents happy, get money from them, and then she would come back.

Uncle Lin stepped forward to stop Shen Zhiyi and said with a smile: “Miss, it will do you no harm to listen to the young master.”

Shen Zhiyi didn't want to listen, but Uncle Lin was like a human wall that couldn't be climbed over. He had a smile on his face, but his eyes were cold, without any warmth, revealing an inhuman indifference.

Uncle Lin invited Shen Zhiyi back to the sofa without saying anything and asked her to sit down obediently.

"Master, Lawyer Li has received the relevant matters regarding the termination of the adoption agreement. If you need him, he can come over now."

Uncle Lin leaned forward slightly, seemingly informing Lu Chiyuan, but in fact he was hinting at Shen Zhiyuan's intention.

Since Shen Zhiyi's various absurd behaviors, Lu Chiyuan has been thinking about this problem and asked Lin Bo to deal with it.

Uncle Lin has been in the Lu family for many years and can be considered a member of the Lu family. He hopes that everything is fine with the Lu family and does not want anyone to sabotage it.

It is not difficult to terminate the adoption. Shen Zhiyi is already an adult, and the Lu family can fully entrust a lawyer to handle it.

Lu Chiyuan nodded, looked at Shen Zhiyi, and said sternly: “Choose!”

Shen Zhiyi's mind went blank. Things were far beyond her willfulness and became realistic and cruel. She began to avoid talking about it and started crying, trying to gain sympathy with her tears.

Lu Chiyuan was unmoved: "If you can't choose, I will choose."

Shen Zhiyi's crying stopped abruptly, and Lu Chiyuan's cold eyes pierced her heart. It shouldn't be like this. She should be held in the palm of her hand and cared for, not like now, with nothing.

She felt dizzy and anxiety gripped her heart. No matter how angry or aggrieved she was, it was useless in front of Lu Chiyuan.

"I don't want to go abroad. I don't know anyone there. If something happens to me, no one will be able to help me."

Shen Zhiyi denied going abroad without hesitation. Once she crossed the ocean, she would really have no chance of turning things around.

"Brother, I know I was wrong, please don't..."

Shen Zhiyi finally remembered to admit her mistake at this time, but she was interrupted by Lu Chiyuan before she could finish her words.

"If you don't leave the country, the adoption relationship will be terminated. The Lu family will give you another sum of money, and the house and car previously registered in your name will not be taken back, but the subsequent maintenance and management will be borne by you."

Lu Chiyuan's expression was indifferent, without any nostalgia or reluctance, it really seemed like he was dealing with a relationship with a stranger.

He didn't say the amount of the money, but considering the Lu family's wealth, it wouldn't be a small amount. The Lu family has done their best, and if Shen Zhiyi still has some brains and manages the money well, she can live a stable life.

Shen Zhiyi thought she was being kicked out in disgrace, but she didn't expect that she had a car, a house, and money. Her tears were still on her face, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise, looking a little funny.

She obviously realized it, and while wiping her tears, she hid the smile on her lips and pretended to be in pain and sadness. She did not argue with Lu Chiyuan, but agreed happily: "I understand, I won't pester you anymore, I will leave obediently."

She was eager to have money and freedom.

Jiang Chen did not miss the smile on her face, and had a new understanding of her stupidity. The Lu family provided her with a top starting point, but she kept rebelling, thinking that the Lu family hindered her and prevented her from earning money with her own hands and expressing herself.

Now, the Lu family used the last sum of money to dissolve this relationship, which is morally impeccable. She has no education and no connections, so it is questionable whether she can still get in touch with Gu Tingsen's class.

After all, in the original novel, she was able to arouse Gu Tingsen's interest, and her identity as a member of the Lu family gave her a lot of confidence.

[Snowball, if the adoption relationship is dissolved, will Brother Lu's fate change? ]

Jiang Chen thought of the ending of the original novel, where Shen Zhiyi inherited the Lu family's inheritance as an adopted daughter, but soon she was no longer an adopted daughter. She was not qualified to inherit, and Lu Chiyuan might not necessarily die.

[The plot has shifted a lot, and the death rate can indeed be changed. But the world line is still there, Chenchen can't relax. 】

Without Chen Jiu and Shen Zhiyi, Lu Chiyuan just jumped out of a vicious circle, and his biggest rival was Gu Tingsen. Gu Tingsen wanted to monopolize the market and become the only master of this world, and Lu Chiyuan, who was on par with him, was a stumbling block.

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and the same goes for the Son of Destiny.

Jiang Chen raised his eyes and looked at Lu Chiyuan. Shen Zhiyi's matter made him a little tired. He leaned against the sofa with his eyebrows drooped.

[I am not Chen Jiu. I will not betray him. I will never let anything happen to him.]

Although the author deliberately left the cause and effect of Lu Chiyuan's kidnapping vague, Jiang Chen could still guess that there was a traitor in the setting. When the people around him turned against him at the last minute, no one would be prepared.

But it doesn’t matter, he is the one who is by Lu Chiyuan’s side now.

He was willing to risk everything for Lu Chiyuan's safety.