Lu Anning sat in the car, frantically searching through all his memories, looking for information related to Lu Yunxi.
Tang Jingyuan knew that she wouldn't say anything nonsense, but for something like a fake pregnancy, there had to be evidence. Would Lu Yunxi be so bold as to deceive the old man?
"Don't be anxious, think it through first."
Lu Anning calmed down and recalled the scene. She still remembered that Du Man came to have lunch with her. The mother and daughter hadn't seen each other for a while, so she didn't know what to say, so she just chatted about family matters and asked about her recent health. At that time, Du Man clearly said that Lu Yunxi had just had her period and was in severe pain. She made her brown sugar water for a few days in a row, and she felt much better.
Du Man wanted to use this incident to show his concern for Lu An Ning and to bring them closer together.
"At that time, I refuted Duman. I rarely had stomachaches since I was a child. I took good care of my body. I wouldn't be like Lu Yunxi. At that time, she laughed awkwardly."
It was less than half a month since she had last dinner with Duman. At that time, Lu Yunxi had just had her period. How could she be six weeks pregnant now?
She's lying!
"Are you sure?"
Lu Anning nodded seriously: "I wouldn't joke about this kind of thing."
Lu Yunxi was really brave. In order to marry Pei Chengyi, she lied about being pregnant and even prepared a fake pregnancy test report. It can be imagined that she had made full preparations before coming, and that report was her trump card.
"Words are not enough. Lu Yunxi will not admit it. It's not right to tell the old man rashly without any concrete evidence." Tang Jingyuan stared at them, and the two of them fell silent at the same time.
Even a fool could see that the old man was in a good mood today because of this child. If he told him that all this was a lie, no matter what the result, it would definitely make him laugh.
"Why don't we check her test results first? We can deal with the rest later."
Lu Anning didn't understand why Lu Yunxi took the risk and told such a huge lie. What would she do in the future?
Pregnant women need to go to the hospital for regular checkups. Even if she could bribe the hospital doctors, how could she hide her growing belly during the ten months of pregnancy? Would she be able to turn into a living person after ten months?
How terrible!
Before Lu An Ning could figure out Lu Yunxi's situation, the Lu family couldn't wait to contact Lu An Ning and asked her to return to the Lu family to discuss a very important matter.
On the phone, Lu Zhenghao said righteously, "I announced earlier that I was severing my father-daughter relationship with you, but decades of nurturing kindness can't be easily severed with just one sentence. Since you're getting married soon, before that, you should come back and we can end this relationship once and for all."
Lu An Ning curled her lips, family affection ended the situation, Lu Zhenghao was full of tricks, and no one knew what bad things he was planning.
"No."
"Lu An Ning! How dare you not come back? Believe it or not, I'll tell everyone that you've married into a wealthy family and ignored your adoptive parents' kindness in raising you. You're ungrateful. If you don't care about your own reputation, you should at least consider the Third Master. Come back and we'll talk it out. After the wedding, I won't bother you anymore."
Lu Anning hesitated for a moment: "Okay!"
It was just right that she went back to test Du Man's opinion. Lu Anning did not tell Tang Jingyuan about this.
Returning to the Lu family home, Lu Anning felt a sense of utter disarray as she looked at everything familiar. The person who opened the door for her was Aunt Wang, who had always taken good care of Lu Anning. Seeing Lu Anning again, Aunt Wang's face was filled with joy, and she respectfully addressed her as "Miss."
In the living room, Lu Yunxi's sarcastic voice came: "What young lady! I am the only young lady in the Lu family. Aunt Wang, you are getting old and confused."
Aunt Wang glanced at Lu An Ning, speechless, and had to retreat to do her own thing.
In the living room, the three of them had been waiting for Lu Anning for a long time, but when they saw her, they didn't give her a good look. Du Man glanced at Lu Anning, then lowered his eyelids and drank his tea. There was no longer the familiarity they had when they met in the past.
Lu An Ning saw these changes, a chill enveloping her heart. A faint smile crossed her lips. She stepped into the living room, sat opposite Lu Zhenghao, and poured herself a cup of tea.
"I'm here now. What does Mr. Lu want to talk to me about?"
Lu Zhenghao glanced at Duman and coughed twice out of habit: "That day in the old house, you confidently said that you were an orphan and had nothing to do with the Lu family in the future. Are you going to cut off all ties with the Lu family, right?"
Lu Anning laughed: "Weren't you the one who couldn't wait to hold a press conference to distance yourself from the matter? Why, now, Mr. Lu, you want to go back on your word and slap yourself in the face?"
"Of course I won't do that. It's just that decades of upbringing can't be repaid just like that. You grew up eating the Lu family's food. If you want to break away completely, you must first repay the upbringing. Lu Anning, this is what you owe the Lu family."
Return a favor?
Lu An Ning curled his lips and asked calmly, "Mr. Lu, tell me, how do you plan to repay me for your kindness in raising you?"
This was exactly what Lu Zhenghao was waiting for. Seeing this, he took out the things he had prepared long ago and pushed them in front of Lu An Ning.
"We took you home when you were four, and it's been twenty-two years now. Over these twenty-two years, not to mention the effort and energy we've put into you, the money we've spent on you alone is not a small sum. Lu Anning, ever since you came to the Lu family, my husband and I have never treated you unfairly. This list shows how much my husband and I have spent on you over the past twenty-two years."
Lu Anning raised an eyebrow, took the list and flipped through a few pages casually. She remembered every detail of her annual expenses for food, clothing, housing, transportation, schooling, training classes and tutoring. Even the servants' wages had to be included in her share, not to mention the clothes, shoes, socks and accessories she bought for her every year, as well as the expenses for her hospitalization.
Lu An Ning looked at the contents on the list, her smile deepened, and she lost her patience. She turned to the last page, glanced at the total amount, 50 million, and sneered. It turned out that this was what the Lu family was staring at.
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