Gu Yaoniang chuckled: "Why are you so nervous?"
But she was also very curious: "Why is she so afraid of you? I think Young Master Lu is also afraid of you."
When Lu Jing'an was mentioned, Lu Zhao'an's cold and stern expression softened slightly.
"You know the situation of the Lu family. With Mother in that state and Father not caring about the affairs of the inner quarters, if I weren't ruthless, I'm afraid they would have devoured me completely, leaving not even bones."
Guo Yunwei always tried to bully me when she came to the Lu family's house. I couldn't take it anymore and taught her a lesson. Since then, she's always avoided me.
At this point, he chuckled softly, a childlike smugness on his face.
Gu Yaoniang stared blankly for a moment.
"As for Jing'an... he's a good boy, a bit mischievous, but very kind and compassionate. My mother and I are so grateful to him at the Lu family's house."
When I was little, sometimes my mother and I were mistreated so badly that he would see it and go to my father to complain. My father didn't like to get involved in these things. It was no use for him to complain about the servants cheating their masters. The ones secretly causing trouble were his own relatives.
Seeing that complaining was useless, he would feign illness or nightmares whenever my mother and I were bullied, shifting the blame onto us. My father doted on him, as did the stewards of the household, and to keep him safe and happy, they treated us better. At least the overt mistreatment stopped.
Lu Zhaoan spoke of these things very calmly, as if he were talking about someone else's affairs, with a touch of sentimentality that came with the passage of time.
Indeed, he is now a wealthy tycoon, and the hardships of the past are long gone. But that warmth, that child's clumsy care, remains etched in his heart.
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