I vaguely guessed that the Lu family’s relationship might not be simple, but it was not easy to ask anything to Lu Shijing, a person I just met.
After a moment's hesitation, I shook my head. "I'm sorry, I probably can't agree to your request. He has his own priorities, and as a friend, I can only support him."
He could like someone for twenty years, and he was always calm and steady, and he must have weighed the pros and cons.
It's not up to others to comment.
Lu Shijing didn't show any displeasure on her face. She just said in a steady voice, "Aren't you curious about who he likes?"
"When he wants to speak, he will speak."
Since he hasn't told me yet, just say he doesn't want me to know.
I also think that friends don’t have to be absolutely intimate with each other, and they can allow each other to have their own secrets.
There's nothing wrong with that.
She suddenly changed the subject. "After he graduated from university, my grandmother came to me hoping that he would inherit the family business sooner, like Fu Qichuan. He refused and chose to study abroad and get an MS degree."
"You don't know why, do you?" she asked.
After the middle-aged noblewoman threw away the whip in anger, I withdrew my gaze from the ancestral hall. "He probably doesn't want to have anything to do with the Lu family."
Her delicate eyebrows raised slightly, as if surprised by my bluntness, but she didn't deny it. "It's true that there is a part of this man. He hates the Lu family the most. However, he also has Lu family blood in his body, so no amount of hatred will help him."
“…”
Before I could reply, I heard footsteps behind me. A large hand pulled me back. Lu Shiyan stood in front of me, his tone filled with vigilance and hostility. "Lu Shijing, who allowed you to bring her here?"
Lu Shijing frowned, "Can I eat her?"
"You won't eat people."
Lu Shiyan smiled sarcastically, "But your mother can't say for sure."
Then, his voice deepened, "If you involve her again in the future, don't blame me for being ruthless to you as well."
"When have you ever shown me any mercy?"
Lu Shijing said indifferently, looking at me, "Miss Ruan, Xiaoyan's injury may require your help. He is very cautious and unwilling to use the Lu family's servants."
After he finished speaking, he put a bottle of special wound ointment in my hand.
Under Lu Shiyan's suspicious eyes, she said calmly: "We are siblings, and you don't even have this little trust? Don't worry, my mother won't know Miss Ruan was here."
"It would be best."
Lu Shiyan didn't appreciate this at all. He took my arm and left the Lu family directly.
Before getting in the car, I looked at the bloodstains on his back that were clearly visible through his shirt, and simply got into the driver's seat first, "Let me drive."
"good."
He got in the passenger seat.
As I drove away, I spoke hesitantly, "Who just... hit you...?"
Lu Shiyan fell silent suddenly, and there was a flash of blood in his eyes, but it quickly disappeared.
"Did you see everything?"
"Um."
I nodded.
He hesitated for a moment, then resigned himself to his fate by lowering his eyelids. He chuckled softly, hiding the self-mockery and sarcasm in his eyes, and said obscurely, "Nanzhi, if I say I'm your illegitimate child, can we still be friends?"
The tone seemed the same as usual, but I could hear a hint of caution.
He seemed to be afraid.
I was surprised and inexplicably felt uncomfortable. I braked and pulled over, looking at him seriously, "Why can't we be friends? Lu Shiyan, we are friends. It has nothing to do with who you are. It's just because you are you."
"real?"
A smile finally appeared in his amber eyes.
I nodded. “Of course it’s true.”
"The year I was taken back to the Lu family, everyone called me a bastard."
He was silent for a moment, his beautiful eyes filled with complex emotions, "But I know that he lied to my mother..."
Only then did I realize that Lu Shiyan, who seemed as gentle as jade, also had a difficult and long past.
His father was his mother's first love, but for the sake of the family, he hid it from his mother and married someone else.
By the time his mother found out, he was almost dead...
"My mother took me to a faraway place, but I still couldn't escape Xu Zhi's revenge."
"she……"
When he mentioned this, pain and long-suppressed hatred flashed in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed it, his voice still tense, "She's dead."
His hands, hanging by his sides, were clenched into fists, their knuckles bruised.
I felt a sinking feeling in my heart when I heard this...
When he was eight years old, his mother was probably only around thirty years old.
But he paid such a painful price for his failure to judge people.
Lu Shiyan curled his lips and said obscurely, "According to Xu Zhi's plan, I would have died with her, but because she is unable to reproduce, the old lady of the Lu family did not allow her to do it."
“…”
It was only at this time that I truly realized that in the eyes of the wealthy, human life is worthless.
Some are all about interests and calculations.
I pursed my lips, "Then Lu Shijing..."
"Before taking me back to the Lu family, Xu Zhi adopted me."
Lu Shiyan scoffed, "She went to the orphanage and picked the one whose facial features most resembled Lu Jiangchao."
Lu Jiangchao is his father, and Xu Zhi is the middle-aged woman who beat him in the ancestral hall just now.
“No wonder… you don’t want to have anything to do with the Lu family.”
I was silent for a moment, then asked doubtfully, "Lu Shijing said you dealt with Zhou Hai and the others yesterday?"
"I came here to save you."
There was a hint of loneliness in his eyes, and he smiled helplessly, "I didn't make it. But when I arrived, I ran into your uncle coming out, and he said Zhou Hai... bullied you."
He probably meant that Zhou Hai stepped on my face with his shoe.
But he didn't say it directly because he was afraid that I would be embarrassed.
I pursed my lips, "You just beat him up?"
"Um."
Lu Shiyan nodded and touched his nose. "After I find out the whole story, I'll beat your uncle too."
My eyes lit up immediately, "Really?"
Seeing that I didn't disagree at all, he curled his lips and said, "Are you happy to hear that he got beaten?"
"Happy." I nodded without hesitation.
Lin Guoan should have been dealt with long ago.
Immediately, I looked at him again and said with some concern: "But next time, don't be so impulsive."
People like him and I are mostly just trying to protect ourselves.
There isn't much... room for impulse.
He smiled, "Impulsive?"
"impulse."
"don’t worry,"
He was very confident, as if he had everything under control. "Next time, she won't dare to do it again."
This "she" naturally refers to Xu Zhi.
"Look at all the injuries on your body, isn't this considered an accident?"
I pointed at his back helplessly, "We've caused another marriage alliance. Can we stop this?"
Lu Shiyan's eyes suddenly lit up, and his voice was clear and sweet: "You don't want me to marry?"
"Yeah, that's right."
I smiled and nodded. "Don't you have someone you like? I hope you can get what you want and live the life you want."
Marriage.
It is like covering a living person with a lifeless shell.
There are pros and cons, money, favors, and bindings, but no emotions.
He looked at me intently and said, "Tell me, can I really get what I want?"
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