Chapter 78 Your Dad is Both Pitiful and Hilarious
I was discharged from the hospital in the afternoon.
After packing his luggage, Lu Jinyuan had been waiting outside the door for a long time. He was tall and straight, standing in front of the door with a serious expression on his face.
The first thing Jiang Qingying saw when she opened the door was him. Her gaze swept over the dark circles under his eyes, and she frowned slightly.
As if knowing what she was thinking, Lu Jinyuan answered directly, "I'm well-rested and can drive."
Jiang Qingying pursed her lips, said nothing, and walked forward on her own.
All the way, in the same elevator, in the same car.
Jiang Qingying treated him like he was invisible, standing in the corner of the elevator and sitting in the back of the car, treating him entirely as her driver.
Lu Jinyuan didn't mind; he was already very satisfied to be able to take her home.
Upon arriving at the Jiang family home, Lu Jinyuan carried the luggage from the trunk upstairs to Jiang Qingying's boudoir. He put down the luggage and turned to look at Jiang Qingying, who was following behind him.
Their eyes met, both of them motionless, their gazes flowing silently between them.
The atmosphere was a little awkward.
Qin Qing and Jiang Chen looked at each other, and finally tacitly chose to leave, closing the door behind them.
After a while.
Jiang Qingying moved her feet, sat on the bed, propped herself up with her hands behind her, and looked at him with a deliberately indifferent face: "Why aren't you leaving yet?"
"I want to see you a little longer," Lu Jinyuan replied. "I haven't seen you for several days."
Jiang Qingying hummed in agreement, allowing him to look at her without hesitation, and waited for about ten seconds.
"You've finished reading, now you should leave."
Lu Jinyuan took a quiet breath and said regretfully, "Alright."
Jiang Qingying gave him a disgruntled look, as if to say: Stop pretending.
Lu Jinyuan still didn't leave; his feet seemed to be glued to the spot with superglue and he couldn't move.
"I need to rest," Jiang Qingying urged him on.
Lu Jinyuan deliberately took a long time to react before reluctantly moving his feet. Just as he was about to open the door, he finally thought of an excuse to strike up a conversation: "Next Saturday is the date for my prenatal checkup. Can I go with you?"
Jiang Qingying remained silent.
Next Saturday is indeed my prenatal checkup day; the fetus is just 16 weeks along. But it's already Friday, and I want to see her in just one week—it's pushing my luck!
"I am the baby's father."
Jiang Qingying chuckled lightly: "I didn't say you couldn't go, why are you so nervous?"
Lu Jinyuan gave a low hum, not denying that he was really nervous. His palms were sweating as he pressed them against the doorknob. He turned the lock, took a step, turned around several times, and said, "I already know I made a mistake. I will reflect on it during this time. Take care of yourself. When you want to see me, just tell me, and I will come to pick you up and take you home."
Jiang Qingying pursed her lips and nodded: "Mm."
"I'm leaving." He was still reluctant to leave.
"Hmm." She remained indifferent.
The door was gently closed, and the bedroom returned to silence.
Jiang Qingying relaxed and lay back, sinking into the soft bedding. Her eyes were fixed on the ceiling, and her hand slowly moved to her lower abdomen.
"Your dad is both pitiful and hilarious."
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Lu Jinyuan left the Jiang residence and drove back to the Lu residence.
From the day the accident happened, Lu Qicheng kept calling him to come back, but he didn't answer a single call. Later, Lu Qicheng sent people to the hospital to arrest him, but he insisted on driving them away.
He only returned today, and Lu Qicheng was already furious.
The car slowly drove into the Lu family's gate. The Lu family's residence covered a large area and housed many people, but the scene here was still desolate, much like a cold and terrifying prison.
Uncle Qi came over and told him that Lu Qicheng was waiting for him in the study.
Lu Jinyuan nodded, his steps steady and unhurried as he pushed open the wooden door to the study.
"grandfather."
Lu Qicheng sat at his desk. Although he had stepped down, the demeanor of a superior was ingrained in him. His gaze was authoritative and domineering.
"You are truly the good grandson I raised with my own hands." Lu Qicheng stood up, leaning on his cane, and approached Lu Jinyuan step by step. When he was two steps away, he stopped, raised his cane, and swung it at Lu Jinyuan.
"Did I tell you to deal with Yi Chuan? You still insist on sending him to jail. Where does that leave the Lu family's reputation? Do you even care about this family anymore?"
Once, twice, three times.
Lu Jinyuan accepted the blow indifferently without uttering a sound. Just as the fourth blow was about to land, he raised his hand and gripped his cane. His deep, unfathomable eyes met Lu Qicheng's fiery gaze.
“Grandpa, I respect you and remember your kindness in raising me, so I have done whatever you asked me to do since I was a child. But these methods of mine were all taught to me by you personally. You taught me that I must be ruthless towards people and things. I don’t think there is anything wrong with doing so.”
Lu Qicheng threw down his cane, his angry voice shrill, "You've really gone too far."
Ignoring the raging flames he was unleashing, Lu Jinyuan said in a deep voice, "The task you gave me has been completed. From now on, I will no longer be under your control."
Lu Qicheng sneered. He hadn't been wrong. Lu Yichuan was targeting him to intimidate him and prove that Lu Yichuan was someone he couldn't control anymore.
"I never imagined that the wolf I raised would turn on me. Now you've become a powerful figure in the Southern Continent, and I can no longer control you. But don't forget, without me, you wouldn't be where you are today."
“I have given you the past thirty years, and I will still respect you as an elder in the future. If you want to take back the Lu family, I don’t care.”
Lu Qicheng, of course, understood the subtext.
Lu Jinyuan has the ability to create another Lu family. Whether or not he is mentored, he will become an outstanding person and will be even more free and unrestrained.
But if he were to take back the Lu family now, it would undoubtedly be pushing the family into a fire pit.
Lu Qicheng's face was dull and lifeless. He laughed self-deprecatingly and kept saying, "I'm getting old."
Lu Jinyuan remained silent.
Lu Qicheng took the cane from his hand, turned and left, dejectedly changing the subject: "Go see your grandma, she hasn't been feeling well lately, she just came back from a checkup."
As she reached the door, she turned back to look at him and said, "She misses you a lot."
After all, in this family, only Su Xi truly cared for him and treated him well without expecting anything in return.
Lu Jinyuan's expression softened slightly. "I understand."
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