Lu Zhiwei walked very fast, but Jiang Zhan, who was over 1.8 meters tall, had long legs and walked quickly, so she was overtaken by him after only a few steps.
He reached out and stopped Lu Zhiwei, beads of sweat still rolling down his forehead, his breath slightly ragged, his deep eyes long and bright, and when he frowned, the resemblance between him and Lu Zhiwei became even more obvious.
Although Lu Yunsheng was amorous, it must be said that he had a handsome appearance, and Lu Zhiwei and Jiang Zhan undoubtedly inherited his good looks.
"Sister!" Jiang Zhan said hoarsely, looking down at her, "Thank you for still caring about me."
Lu Zhiwei turned her head away. "I'm not concerned about you. I just don't want to ruin a genius because of me."
"I won't let this go to waste. I draw every day, and I will never let my hands become rusty." Jiang Zhan raised his oil-stained hands, and she noticed that his once slender and handsome hands were now rough and calloused. It seemed that he hadn't had a good life in the past twenty years.
He hardly resembles Lu Yunsheng's beloved son, whom he has been secretly raising outside the home.
If he had fulfilled his responsibilities as a father, he wouldn't have been destitute in the countryside for so many years. Getting into the best design college in Yunzhou was his own achievement, as were winning various design awards.
They would never have been bullied like this by Sun Tingwei and his fellow rich kids.
Lu Zhiwei took a deep breath, "Does the wound still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt anymore. I'm young and in great shape, and I recover quickly, unlike my ex-brother-in-law, who's probably still limping." Jiang Zhan shook his head with a smile.
When she smiles, the dimples on her cheeks are quite beautiful.
How can one not feel sorry for a child who cries without complaining of pain and suffers without asking for candy?
"Stop putting others down. Mind your own business. You've been getting close to him lately." Lu Zhiwei didn't want Jiang Zhan and Shen Jinmo to get close.
“He often asks me, ‘Have you begged for forgiveness?’” Jiang Zhan looked at Lu Zhiwei cautiously, his eyes full of expectation, waiting for Lu Zhiwei’s answer.
“You’ve crossed my line. I hate being lied to the most.”
“I know, but when I first met you, I didn’t want to acknowledge Lu Yunsheng, and I didn’t know how to get along with a half-sister. I don’t have many friends, and I was afraid that you would hate me and abandon me after you found out my identity…” Jiang Zhan lowered his head more and more as he spoke, and tears welled up in his eyes.
When did Lu Yunsheng find out about your existence?
"Six months ago, my mother came to visit me at school from the countryside and was hit by a car. My mother asked me to go to Lu's Group to find him. I will always remember the look of joy on his face when he learned that he had a son at the door of the ward. My mother passed away, but he was not sad or upset at all. After leaving the ward, he hugged me and happily wanted to take me back to the Lu family. Do you think I would go back to the Lu family?"
Jiang Zhan, with a cold expression, described Lu Yunsheng's ugly face word by word.
"At first, he was very attentive when he came to see me. Perhaps my firm refusal hurt his pride, because he gradually stopped coming and sent his driver and assistant to give me money, which I refused. Later, after you returned to the Lu family, he seemed afraid that my presence would anger you, so he became even more careful to hide my existence, waiting for me to graduate before making any plans. He embodies shrewdness and calculation to the fullest extent..."
"Then why did your mother fall for him?"
“When he was young, he went to the countryside to expand projects. He saw that my mother was beautiful, got her drunk at a party, got her pregnant, and ran back to Yunzhou City. My mother even went to Yunzhou to find him, only to find that he had a wife and daughter. After returning, she fell seriously ill and never mentioned this man, but the whole village knew about it. They pointed fingers at my mother and said that she was greedy for wealth and had brought it upon herself… Therefore, she never married.”
At this point, Lu Zhiwei could no longer suppress the resentment in her chest, and her clenched fingers formed a tight fist.
Then, Lu Zhiwei opened her arms and embraced Jiang Zhan.
The siblings hugged each other, as if huddling together for warmth.
"Sister, you asked me why I saved you that day. It's because I really respect you and I was afraid of losing another loved one in a car accident."
"Okay. Don't do such foolish things again."
"This is not a foolish thing, it is the most worthwhile thing."
Ruan Jizhou and Luo Wuyan saw that Lu Zhiwei hadn't returned from the private room for a long time, and the food had gotten cold, so they chased after her to look for her.
As I walked to the kitchen door, I saw the siblings hugging each other tightly, having reconciled.
They exchanged a smile, genuinely happy for Lu Zhiwei.
At least, she can still have family in this world and is no longer alone.
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Before going to sleep that night, Shen Jinmo scrolled through her WeChat Moments.
It would have been better if he hadn't brushed his teeth, because this brushing completely dispelled his sleepiness, and he sat up in bed wearing black silk pajamas.
I stared at a picture Jiang Zhan posted on his WeChat Moments.
It was a photo of Lu Zhiwei and him embracing tightly, with a caption that read: "Sister, thank you for forgiving me. I will protect you for the rest of my life."
This post on WeChat Moments broke Shen Jinmo's defenses.
He tried to win Lu Zhiwei back for so long, but she remained unmoved, her heart as firm as a rock.
Jiang Zhan had only been coaxing her for a few days when she suddenly made a historic reconciliation with him.
Unconvinced, Shen Jinmo made a phone call to Jiang Zhan.
The call was answered quickly.
Jiang Zhan had just finished showering and entered his room.
This was the first time he had entered the Lu family villa and lived with Lu Zhiwei.
The Lu family's extravagant luxury was like a palace. Looking at the bedroom, which was larger than the entire house in his hometown, and the two-meter-long soft bed, he felt lost and couldn't sleep at all.
He answered the phone immediately when Shen Jinmo called.
"What method did you use, you brat?" Shen Jingmo's words were tinged with urgency.
Jiang Zhan dried his damp, tousled hair with a towel. "I didn't do anything special. I just voted for my sister at the shareholders' meeting today and cooked her a meal in the restaurant's kitchen."
"That's it?" Shen Jinmo laughed when he heard that.
Is Lu Zhiwei so easy to coax? How come he didn't know that?
"Yes, that's it."
"Who are you trying to fool?"
"Believe it or not, it's up to you." Jiang Zhan was too lazy to pay attention to this unreasonable man and hung up the phone.
Shen Jinmo was furious and turned around to make a phone call to Lu Zhiwei.
Lu Zhiwei was busy working in front of her computer at the moment. Taking over the Lu Group was far from as simple as she had imagined, and the workload had increased several times over.
Even now, lying in the hospital, Lu Yunsheng is still putting pressure on the people in the group, trying to give Lu Zhiwei a hard time and make her back down.
It's easier to conquer a country than to govern it; that's the point.
When the call came in, she didn't even look at who was calling before answering it.
“Lu Zhiwei, I can give you shares of Shen’s Group, or I can cook you a meal in the kitchen of a restaurant, as long as you don’t accuse me of poisoning you. In that case, can you forgive me the way you forgave Jiang Zhan?” Shen Jinmo’s voice was hoarse.
"You're insane!" Lu Zhiwei cursed as soon as she heard it was him on the phone and that his words were outrageous.
"Can you stop being so hypocritical? Why can Jiang Zhan do it, but I can't?"
Snap—
The call ended.
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