He glanced at Lin Peirou's manipulative appearance and a cold smile curled at the corner of his lips.
Lu's mother is dead; this is just the beginning. The Lu family owes her.
She would get it back little by little, with interest. Lu's mother, who had been kicked into the sea by Pei Wuwang, did not drown immediately.
The icy seawater jolted her awake instantly, and her survival instinct made her struggle desperately. She paddled wildly and luckily grabbed onto a plank that had fallen from the speedboat.
Using this plank, she drifted with the ocean current for a whole day and night, and was eventually washed ashore on a deserted island.
Just as she was on the verge of death, a middle-aged couple living on the island found her and took her home.
The couple looked very simple and honest.
The man's name was Ali. He was tall with dark skin, but his eyes revealed a gentleness and honesty that did not match his appearance.
The woman, called Grandma, was kind-hearted and took meticulous care of Lu's mother.
Lu's mother soon learned about it from the old woman.
A few years ago, Ali found a wrecked boat on the beach. He was the only person on board. When he woke up, he couldn't remember anything, not even his name, which was given to him by his grandmother.
Lu's mother lay on the simple bed, pretending to be extremely weak, while observing Ali discreetly.
As she looked, her eyes suddenly lit up.
Although Ali was dressed in coarse linen clothes and had some gray hair, his upright posture and the calm demeanor he inadvertently revealed were remarkable.
And that faint air of nobility between his brows... he doesn't look like an ordinary fisherman at all!
A long-forgotten fragment of memory flashed through her mind.
Many years ago, before she became a widow, she accompanied her husband to a banquet in the capital. At the banquet, she saw from afar the "Northern Barbarian" prince, who was visiting as an envoy from a neighboring country.
The prince's appearance and demeanor bore a striking resemblance to Ali before him!
Could it be... that this amnesiac Ali is the former Northern Di prince?
Lu's mother's heart pounded, and a bold plan quickly took shape in her mind.
She began to use her advantages to launch a fierce offensive against Ali.
During the day, she pretended to be weak and helpless, and asked Ali to help her fetch water and chop firewood.
She would look at him with affectionate eyes from time to time and say some grateful yet ambiguous things.
"Brother Ali, thank you so much. I really don't know what I would have done without you."
"Brother Ali, you are such a good person, better than any of the men I've ever known before."
At night, she would sit by the campfire and tell Ali some fabricated "tragic stories," portraying herself as a pitiful woman abandoned by her husband and left with no one to rely on.
Ali was already feeling empty inside because of amnesia and longed for warmth.
Lu's mother's gentleness and "pitifulness" quickly moved him. He developed a strong protective instinct towards this woman who had suddenly entered his life, and he listened to her every word and took great care of her.
Seeing that Ali had developed feelings for her, Lu's mother became even more insistent. She began teaching Ali some manners, trying to awaken his memories.
At the same time, she was also secretly investigating the situation on the island and the current state of the Northern Di Kingdom.
She learned from the old woman that the island belonged to the territory of the Northern Di Kingdom.
It wasn't far from the capital of the Northern Di. Ali had lived here for nearly twenty years, and no one had ever come looking for him during that time.
Mother Lu was overjoyed.
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