Chapter 2: Does the creditor's child resemble Lin Wu?
Delicious treats don't just fall from the sky for no reason. After hanging up the phone, Lu Wang on the other end was so frustrated he almost crushed his phone, but he still forced himself to stay rational and sent a message to his assistant, asking him to pass on the message that he could relax all the conditions as long as Lin Wu's son came to the show.
After finishing all that, he gritted his teeth and let out a cold snort. The contract had already been signed, but Lin Wu, upon learning that he was the mastermind behind it all, was willing to pay the penalty for breach of contract and run away.
Well done!
Lin Wu is really something.
That's really brave.
They even have children...
He gripped his phone tightly, then irritably tossed it aside.
How dare you!
She used to sweet-talk him and say she only loved him, but now, after only five years apart, she's already having a child.
The private room had been so quiet since Lu Wang started making the phone call that it was as if no one was there. Until now, one of the young men sitting next to Lu Wang, who was one of the bolder ones, poured a glass of wine and handed it to him. "Brother Lu, there are plenty of fish in the sea, right? We'll drink with you."
They all overheard Lu Wang making the phone call.
Not far away, Chi Xun took a sip of wine. He had been watching the show ever since Lu Wang made the phone call.
The young men exchanged bewildered glances. Lu Wang's mood had been fluctuating wildly lately, almost to the point of being unpredictable. Today's gathering was organized by Brother Chi. They usually invited Lu Wang, knowing he was unlikely to come. But for some reason, he suddenly agreed to come. Once there, he didn't play any games or talk to anyone, just buried his head in his drink. Now, after making a phone call, his face was as dark as if someone owed him hundreds of millions.
Everyone instinctively turned their pleading gazes to Chi Xun.
Everyone in the industry knows that Chi Xun and Lu Wang are childhood friends and have a very close relationship.
After listening to the phone call, Chi Xun's amused expression disappeared. Lu Wang had never liked drinking since he was a child, and the other person tended to be impulsive once he had a few drinks. This phone number was obtained by Lu Wang's people. He didn't ask or look at it at the time, but he remembered that Lu Wang was extremely disdainful when he got the information. He thought it was some enemy of the Lu family, but he didn't expect it to be an old lover.
Judging from Lu Wang's appearance, this was probably the first time he had dialed this number today. I wonder if he had drunk some alcohol and couldn't help but make the call, or if he couldn't resist calling and that's why he came out drinking.
He heard Lu Wang ask if that was Lin Wu's son, and instantly understood everything.
No wonder the weather has been so unpredictable lately.
No wonder the company has moved its core operations to Lincheng in the past two years.
He didn't know much about what happened back then. He only knew that Lu Wang liked a boy and later even followed the trend and started an online relationship. That year, as graduation approached, Lu Wang was so busy that he still had to date. He didn't know how they broke up. He only knew that after a week of silence, Lu Wang became a workaholic and frantically tried to seize power from his father, even kicking his father out of Lu Corporation to retire.
It wasn't until last year that Lu's business stabilized. After that, Lu Wang began to move the company to Lincheng, and it wasn't until three months ago that everything was finally settled.
He thought Lu Wang chose to shift his focus here because Lincheng was the city where his mother grew up, but he didn't expect that he hadn't forgotten Lin Wu.
Lin Wu, what a distant name. He still remembered how stunning that person had been. That autumn, he bumped into the young master Lu Wang, who was in a bad mood, while wearing a white hoodie. That was the first time that bastard Lu Wang had been so patient with someone. He wasn't surprised that the two of them got together later.
Lin Wu... In his memory, the other person was always smiling, and when he came out to play with Lu Wang, he was like a cool crescent moon. He spoke gently, and people unconsciously wanted to listen to him. Did the other person actually have a child?
This was something he had never imagined.
He hadn't even thought of it, and Lu Wang certainly hadn't either.
Seeing the young master take the wine and down it in one gulp, he knew that this man not only hadn't thought about it, but was probably so jealous he was about to vomit blood.
He thought that after five years of separation, this person had focused on their career and had come to terms with it.
Looking back now, it's not that he's come to terms with things. The reason Lu Wang didn't fly into a rage and search the whole city for her back then was simply because he wasn't capable enough. Now that he's resolved everything that stood in his way back then, he's discovered that Lin Wu has a child.
Someone like Lin Wu actually has a child.
What kind of person is his wife? Doesn't Lin Wu prefer men? Does the child resemble Lin Wu?
His mind was in turmoil, and as he pondered these questions, he cursed under his breath, "Damn it."
Whether the other person has children or what kind of children they are, what does it matter to him? He composed himself, looked at Lu Wang, and said with a smile, "Are you planning to sleep here tonight after drinking like this? Or are you deliberately here to ruin my wine? I only had these few bottles of heart and liver opened because you said you were coming, and you're just going to waste them like this?"
Lu Wang irritably waved the person away, raised his glass and took another sip.
Seeing that his ancestor's temper had gotten worse over the years, Chi Xun dismissed everyone in the private room.
He poured himself a drink and sat down opposite Lu Wang. "Lu Gou, are you getting old and having hormonal imbalances?"
Lu Wang crushed the ice in his glass of wine. "Get out."
Chi Xun joked, "You haven't given up yet?"
Lu Wang didn't say anything, but poured himself another glass of wine.
Chi Xun was dumbfounded, "Bro, you're going to be the third one?"
Lu Wang became even more agitated. "No, he's not married."
Chi Xun: "You have a child without being married? Who is the mother?"
Lu Wang sneered, "How would I know? Anyway, he's been raising the child alone all these years."
Chi Xun pondered those words for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Lu Gou, you're not feeling sorry for him raising the child alone all these years, are you?"
"Bang--"
Lu Wang threw the cup on the table. "I'm not drinking anymore. What lousy wine."
Chi Xunqi laughed, "Waste wine? Does it taste particularly sour, astringent, and bitter?"
Now look what happened, not only the wine glass, but even the wine itself was thrown away by Lu Wang.
Chi Xun was completely baffled, "How did I grow up with you?"
Why was he so shameless back then, insisting on climbing over the wall to go to Lu Wang's maternal grandmother's house for that meal?
Lu Wang picked up his coat. "Go to my winery and choose one yourself."
Chi Xun's expression instantly softened.
Lu Wang opened the door and went out, leaving behind the words, "Those locked in warehouse 7 are not to be taken."
Chi Xun raised an eyebrow. With Lu Wang's net worth, only others would send him wine. Lu Wang himself doesn't even like to drink, so why would he collect wine?
Wait, when did Lu Wang get a winery?
7 warehouses...
He called Lu Wang's assistant and learned that the winery was built six years ago, the 7th warehouse was named with the single character "Mist," and the wines inside were all on the sweeter side, built four years ago.
Four years ago, Lu Wang and Lin Wu broke up a year ago.
Six years ago, Lu Wanggang and Lin Wu got together.
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On the other side, Lu Wang got into the car and told the driver to go back.
The alcohol made him impulsive. He shouldn't have made that call tonight. He should have had someone check Lin Wu's current address and brought people to block her door tomorrow.
I stared out the window for a long time, lost in thought, and couldn't help but recall that year.
"If I lied to you, would you treat me the same way?"
"Won't."
That year, someone spread rumors about Lin Wu, and the rumors were very hurtful. Lin Wu collected evidence and reported it to the police, but he felt that the punishment was too lenient and far from enough to cover the psychological damage Lin Wu had suffered during that period. So he had someone investigate all the information about that person and gave them a report.
When Lin Wu found out about this, she hugged him and asked if he would do the same to him. He promised he wouldn't.
He thought Lin Wu was lying to him about that matter, but he didn't expect Lin Wu to just throw him a letter and run away. Unfortunately, he was too busy to look for her at that time, and his father had also arranged a fictitious fiancé for him. All sorts of things were mixed together, causing him to miss the best time to find her.
He didn't finish reading the document before throwing it into the shredder. He saw that Lin Wu hadn't gotten married or worked all these years because she was busy taking care of her children.
The child on the phone just now was quite old, definitely not under two years old, and his speech logic was at least that of a three or four-year-old.
Three or four years old... They had only been separated for four years, ten months and nine days, and Lin Wu already had a three or four-year-old child?
"Ring ring—" The ringtone of the cell phone interrupted Lu Wang's thoughts.
He glanced at the screen and saw it was Chi Xun. He answered the call and asked, "What is it?"
Chi Xun was still sitting in the private room, sipping the remaining wine. He said, "Lu Gou, didn't you say Lin Wu has always been alone? Is there any possibility that this child isn't his?"
Lu Wang: "What are you trying to say?"
Chi Xun: "I mean, what if he picked up this child?"
Lu Wang calmly said, "There aren't that many children for him to pick up in this society. He's not married, so he can't register the child's household registration. Even if Lin Wu claims that the child is his biological child, he's not married and doesn't have a birth certificate, so a paternity test is needed to register the child's household registration."
Chi Xun: "What if the child Lin Wu finds has a birth certificate?"
Lu Wang: "Why is Lin Wu keeping the child herself instead of handing her over to the police station with the birth certificate?"
Chi Xun: "What if this child was adopted by Lin Wu?"
Lu Wang: "He is too old to be adopted."
There is no one else in Lin Wu's family, and it is impossible for any child to be registered under Lin Wu's name.
Chi Xun then hypothesized, "What if he found a child with a birth certificate and claimed to be the child's father?"
Lu Wang rubbed the bridge of his nose: "...Where's your common sense? Would a birth certificate not have parents' information? Besides, Lin Wu won't break the law, he's not me."
Chi Xun: "...How do you know so much?"
How old is that child?
Lu Wang: "Three to four years old."
Chi Xun: "Holy crap, that's so big, does that mean he found someone else less than a year after you two broke up?"
The driver who was driving Lu Wang suddenly felt a chill in the car, so he turned the air conditioning up two degrees.
Lu Wang's voice suddenly dropped, "Impossible."
Chi Xun: "How is it impossible? Otherwise, how would you explain where the child came from?"
Lu Wang immediately retorted, "He's not that kind of person."
Perhaps it was by chance that this child came into being.
He didn't want to talk about this anymore.
"Why did you suddenly decide to call?"
Chi Xun sighed, "No."
He looked at the proposal his subordinates had brought over after Lu Wang left, and one of the guests had become Lu Wang.
“Lu Gou, if Lin Wu has no one in her heart and isn’t entangled with the child’s mother, then go after her.”
Lu Wang closed his eyes. "We didn't break up."
Every beginning and end requires a formal announcement. He made a grand confession back then, and if Lin Wu wanted to break up, she had to stand in front of him and say it face to face.
He did not accept the letter.
He rubbed his temples, the number he had just dialed flashing through his mind.
Even the phone number is so cold and hard; the last two digits are 3949, which corresponds to the two coldest nine-day periods of winter.
"I'm hanging up." He didn't want to say anything more.
His phone's screen saver is a picture of a sleeping man in profile.
Lin Wu didn't like taking pictures when she was with him. He knew that Lin Wu was using someone else's identity to have an online relationship with him, but he didn't expose her for fear that she would run away. He stroked the face of someone on the screen. This photo was taken when Lin Wu was asleep, so you can't see Lin Wu's eyes.
Does the child resemble Lin Wu? Will he also have a pair of clean and beautiful eyes?
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