Chapter 627 Xuexue's Parents Want to Go All In Meanwhile, Lin Ting, with red eyes, was gently helped out of the stadium by Lu Lei.
The night wind was exceptionally cool. Having just emerged from the bustling venue, the cold wind whistled into his collar, causing Lu Lei to shiver involuntarily and instinctively shrink his upright back.
He raised his hand to rub his ears, which were red from the cold, and took out a cigarette case and a lighter from the inside pocket of his suit. The metal lighter clicked and ignited a pale blue flame, illuminating his solemn profile.
The cigarette was lit, and Lu Lei took a deep drag. The smoke went straight into his lungs, and the pungent taste made his chest tighten. His Adam's apple bobbed violently as he wanted to cough, but he forced it back, only managing to cough out a very soft muffled sound.
He leaned against the stone wall outside the stadium, the cigarette between his fingers glowing with a scarlet light that flickered in the night.
Lin Ting stood beside him, repeatedly rubbing her reddened eyes with her hand, wiping away the remaining tear stains with her fingertips, and sighed heavily, her voice still choked with sobs from the song:
"This song is really well written and sung... Gu Luo, and that little girl from the Luo family, are both truly outstanding children."
At this point, her voice paused, and her gaze drifted towards the lights in the stadium—the close-up of Gu Luo from earlier was still vivid in her mind. The boy was wearing a simple white coat, revealing skin as white as if bathed in moonlight, with a clear but not sharp jawline, and eyes as bright as if filled with starlight, exuding a handsome charm that was impossible to look away from.
But when she thought of her own daughter, she sighed heavily again.
"It's...it's our Xuexue..."
"Luo Shuning and Luo Shuhe were openly fighting over a man." Lu Lei took another deep drag of his cigarette, which instantly shortened. He slowly exhaled smoke rings, the smoke blurring his expression, his voice low and deep, like sandpaper scraping against wood:
"Both girls are openly or secretly after Gu Luo. It's going to be too difficult for Xuexue to snatch him away from these two girls."
As insiders, they knew better than anyone that the "sisterly flattery" on stage just now was actually an unspoken competition between the two Luo sisters.
Lin Ting's eyes reddened further, her lips turned pale from being pressed together, and her fingers gripped the bag strap tightly, her knuckles turning blue.
"What can we do? Xuexue is stubborn, you know that. Once she sets her mind on someone, she won't let go. Now she's even given herself to him, and she's threatening us with pregnancy..."
Her voice suddenly softened, filled with exhaustion:
"Besides, Gu Luo is good-looking, talented, and has a gentle personality. He is indeed a good match for our daughter. Since Xuexue is determined, we as parents can't just ignore it. We need to find an opportunity to put some pressure on Xiao Luo. Our Lu family is not without influence in Caizhou. We don't lack anything from them."
Hearing his wife change her address for Gu Luo from "Gu Luo" to "Xiao Luo," Lu Lei couldn't help but sigh heavily and stub out his cigarette on the stone wall.
He understood all too well the weight of that address—it was an invitation to treat Gu Luo as family.
"That's all we can do."
Lin Lei raised his hand and patted Lin Ting's shoulder, his tone filled with undisguised worry:
"But you need to be mentally prepared..."
Lin Ting fell silent instantly.
She and Lu Lei are both top lawyers in Caizhou and even in China, and have seen too many secrets of wealthy families and the romantic affairs of talented men.
A guy like Gu Luo has the looks to make people fall in love at first sight—fair skin, delicate features, and he looks like a magazine model even in the simplest clothes—and the talent to write lyrics, compose music, and arrange everything. It's perfectly normal for him to be surrounded by beauties like Luo Shuning and Luo Shuhe.
Some capable men can secretly have a whole table full of female confidantes, and they can all get along peacefully.
This is perfectly normal in the highest circles.
The evening breeze carried the distant sounds of car horns. Lin Ting gazed in the direction the fans had left, and the image of Gu Luo and Lu Xuexue in their wedding dresses involuntarily surfaced in her mind—at the wedding, Gu Luo lowered his head to kiss Lu Xuexue, sunlight falling on his long eyelashes, so tender it seemed like you could squeeze water from them.
If only that were true.
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