Chapter 96 096 Lu Xuan: I love you
The usually gentle Teacher Cao seemed particularly unfamiliar to him at this moment.
His red eyes were like scarlet devils crawling out of hell. The emotions suppressed in his chest kept clamoring in his body, "How could you, how could you do this? How could you strangle Pei Qi's life..."
“Pah.”
A crisp slap hit Lu Xuan's face.
Cao Wan pursed her lips tightly, her gentle eyes becoming sharp. "Lu Xuan, stop it! Now is not the time for you to act so willfully!"
Cao Wan pushed him away, her dark eyes like a bottomless pool. "Willfulness requires capital. This world never works as it should, as you imagine. Saving one person is saving a life, saving hundreds or thousands is also saving a life!"
"The welfare home can't afford such a high cost for him. Open your eyes and look outside. How many people have been killed by the monsters? How many people are suffering from lack of food and clothing? I can't sacrifice everyone for Pei Qi alone."
At that moment, the always gentle and kind Teacher Cao became someone he had never seen before.
"If you have the ability, then come and change all this. Do you have the ability?" Cao Wan looked at him straight, her black eyes piercing deep into his heart like a sharp blade. Lu Xuan trembled all over.
Before Cao Wan fired, Lu Xuan was already covered in blood.
"Lu Xuan, you need to recognize yourself and realize how weak you are. You can't change anything, just like I can't change anything."
Lu Xuan didn't even know how he ended that heated argument. He just felt cold all over and stood numbly at the door of the ICU.
They were very close, only a few steps away.
They were so far apart that he couldn't even touch Pei Qi who was lying inside.
I haven't finished reading that storybook yet. Can you let me read it again?
In the bustling hospital, Lu Xuan felt empty. He buried his head in his arms and curled up. The tears flowed out from his heart like an uncontrollable spring.
"What should I do to save you?"
"What should I do?"
Self-blame surged towards him like a tide, swallowing him up. The feeling of lack of oxygen tightly gripped his throat, making him clearly feel the air disappearing from his chest bit by bit.
This time he was more confused and helpless than ever before, "How can I save you?"
Time is like a blunt knife, allowing him to clearly feel the blade cutting back and forth in his heart.
He sat quietly at the door for who knows how long, until the sun gradually set, leaving behind a brief afterglow.
He met Cao Wan again.
Those ice-blue eyes revealed an indescribable indifference. He was on guard and vigilant, like a wounded trapped beast guarding his only treasure.
They are familiar, yet unfamiliar.
Cao Wan looked at the obvious slap mark on his face, feeling heartbroken and blaming herself. She shouldn't have hit him. Lu Xuan was just a child.
"Lu Xuan, your family is here, go meet them."
"family?"
This was the first time Lu Xuan heard such a ridiculous word.
What family?
The woman who sold him to human traffickers?
Since she sold him, why should she come back to acknowledge him?
"Well, come with me and let's meet." Cao Wan nodded.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Bruno looked at the file in his hand repeatedly, and Bart held the freshly-made paternity test in his hand, which showed that the child was indeed theirs.
Bart's face was filled with smiles as he flattered Bruno, "You've spent so much effort, you've finally found him. As long as you bring the young master back and give him a good education, the restoration of his glory will be just around the corner."
"I never thought that such an outstanding child could be raised in such a remote and poor place."
Bart was just saying it in a nice way, he almost said it openly, but he didn't expect that good things would come out of bad luck. The child born by the unreliable third young master and a prostitute turned out to be so talented. Not only that, the child was among the best in the school and firmly sat in the first place. There was no way the family would let such an outstanding seedling be left out.
Bruno flipped through Lu Xuan's information expressionlessly and said nonchalantly, "It's not as simple as you think."
Before them, the child had been rejected five times.
The child refused to be adopted by anyone else and remained indifferent no matter how much the adoptive parents tried to show him kindness.
Bruno's gaze rested on the suspect on the last page for a long time.
A criminal suspect is not the same as a criminal. It just means that he is suspected but the suspicion is without basis.
Bruno threw the document to the ground. "Tell them to erase all the information on the last page! The Custer family won't tolerate even the slightest stain!"
"yes."
In the hospital lounge.
This was when Lu Xuan met his so-called relative. The man was standing with the light behind him, with neat short silver hair and bright blue eyes. His face was tense, with the pressure unique to a superior. His tall figure once cast Lu Xuan in shadow.
Bart consciously started to clear the area, "Teacher, give them some space to talk properly."
As he said that, Bart asked Cao Wan to leave, and he stood guard at the door diligently.
Bruno slowly spoke, "Hello, Lu Xuan. My name is Bruno, and I'm your uncle in name only. Here are the results of the paternity test. You can take a look. I'm here to take you home. Your mother never let us know you existed, so we've only just found you. We'll do our best to compensate you for what happened in the past. As long as you agree, we can leave for home today."
"I won't leave!"
As soon as the word "leave" was mentioned, Lu Xuan was like an angry beast, which made the emotions suppressed in his heart erupt again, and the out-of-control beast showed its sharp fangs.
Bruno was not surprised by his rejection.
He looked indifferently at the child who looked 70% like him and said softly, "I know you don't want to be adopted. Five adopters have extended olive branches to you before, but you rejected them one by one. Let me guess why you were adopted. You have a good friend named Pei Qi..."
"Enough!" Lu Xuan interrupted him rudely, staring at him with his icy eyes. "What do you want to say?"
Bruno completely ignored Lu Xuan's fury and continued, "Your good friend is currently in the ICU. Do you know why he's clinging to life in the ICU? Because Lingnan Star is an underdeveloped planet. The outdated technology here is simply not enough to properly treat Pei Qi's injuries. If he were to be sent to another place, the results would be completely different."
Lu Xuan's heart skipped a beat and he looked up into Bruno's bottomless eyes.
"That child was both lucky and unlucky. He was lucky because he awakened a second time when he suffered a fatal injury, which was when his energy was at its peak. His body mobilized all its energy to repair his wounds, which allowed him to survive. Unfortunately, his body misappropriated the power of his awakening, rendering it incomplete. This has caused his body to be stuck in a state of limbo. Could he have been saved if the best medical resources available were used? Of course they could. It's a pity that he was born on this remote and backward planet, and he has no family willing to spend the huge amount of money on his medical expenses."
Lu Xuan's throat rolled. He stared at Bruno and asked, "You mean—you have a way to save him, right?"
Bruno laughed dumbly and asked, "Why should I save him? What does he have to do with me? Why should I bother to care about his life or death?"
"You said you would make it up to me."
Bruno smiled and asked, "Don't you want to be adopted?"
Lu Xuan: “…”
Lu Xuan's straight spine bent down little by little, his thin lips trembling as he pleaded, "If you can save him, I'm willing to go with you."
The next second, Bruno's smiling face tensed up again. "Lu Xuan, I think you've got the wrong idea. Do you think you're special? Your father is a playboy. There are dozens of illegitimate children like you who could make a volleyball team. Do you think you have the qualifications to bargain with me? I heard that you have good grades in school and often get first place in exams, but do you know how many first places there are in this world? He's just a first place in a poor village. Do you think I care? Would I mobilize so many resources and spend so much money to save a useless person lying in the ICU? Maybe he is very important to you, but to me, he is worthless!"
"Do you think you're worth this?"
Bruno's words were as sharp as a knife, piercing Lu Xuan's heart with every word.
Lu Xuan clenched his hands into fists and his body trembled uncontrollably, as if the person standing in front of him was not a human, but an evil dragon spewing raging flames.
He looked directly into Bruno's deep eyes, a nonchalant sneer on his lips, "At least you came to me, which means I'm more useful than those volleyball teams before."
Bruno's eyes darkened. This kid was too smart. Before he could say anything, the boy had already tasted the flavor.
"Indeed, you are more talented than those idiots, but what good is your talent? Your talent can't bring you any benefit. Living requires money. Money smells bad, but no one can live without it!"
"Your good friend is lying in the ICU right now. Your teacher has only paid for today's ICU fees. Once the payment ends tomorrow, all the equipment maintaining his vital signs will be removed. By then, not even a great immortal will be able to save him!"
"What are your conditions?" Lu Xuan looked at Bruno indifferently.
He heard it very clearly.
It’s not that Bruno can’t be saved, but that Bruno doesn’t want to save him.
"That's great! I like talking to smart people." Bruno made no secret of his admiration for Lu Xuan.
"I can save him, but my condition is that Lu Xuan completely disappears. All of your past will have nothing to do with you anymore. All your files will be erased one by one. There is no Lu Xuan in this world. There is only Caesar Custer of the Custer family. And from now on, you can no longer contact these people who represent your past, because you have no past."
"You have to completely cut ties with them. This is the condition for me saving him."
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