He quickly said, "Look at you, the atmosphere is so nice, let's not talk about these unhappy things. Come on, let's eat first!"
Luo Yujia was quite happy when Mrs. Lu brought up the topic. She thought that once the Lu couple signed the divorce agreement, she could rightfully become the new Mrs. Lu. She was even a little excited.
But Mr. Lu's words extinguished the fire in her heart.
Mrs. Lu obediently picked up the soup spoon and ladled a spoonful of soup for everyone. She then took a sip of the soup and said, "Oh, this soup is so bland. It seems like they forgot to add salt."
After hearing this, Mr. Lu also took a bite and said with a helpless smile, "It really tastes like it hasn't been seasoned."
Mrs. Lu then smiled warmly and said, "You all eat the other dishes first, I'll go get the salt."
Lu Xinwan said, "Just ask the housekeeper to get it. You don't need to run back and forth." She had never noticed before that Mrs. Lu was so diligent when eating.
Mrs. Lu said somewhat stiffly, "Your grandmother gave the housekeeper and several servants two days off."
Upon hearing this, Luo Yujia's face immediately darkened: It turned out that not only did the two elders of the Lu family avoid seeing her after hearing that she was coming to their house for dinner, but they even deliberately gave the servants a day off so that she wouldn't have enough food and waiters to entertain her.
Lu Xinwan was somewhat helpless about this, and could only give a stiff "Oh" with a forced smile.
The atmosphere was a little awkward.
Luo Yujia was on the verge of tears. But to avoid losing face in front of her rival, Mrs. Lu, she held back.
Mrs. Lu quickly came out with the condiment bottle and added some salt to the soup in everyone's bowls.
Mr. Lu took another sip, nodded, and said, "This time the saltiness is just right, and the broth is quite thick. It's very delicious. What kind of soup is this? What's it made of? I can't taste the ingredients."
Luo Yujia actually knows Mr. Lu very well. This man has high standards for food, but he is not interested in how to cook it. The fact that he asked is probably because he was afraid that the two women would bring up the matter of him getting a divorce again, so he deliberately found some unrelated topics.
However, Luo Yujia is not Mrs. Lu yet, so she has no right to make demands on Mr. Lu. Therefore, she can only swallow her anger for now and pretend to be very interested in asking about the ingredients of the soup.
Mrs. Lu explained it to him very patiently.
The dinner was a pleasant affair, but Lu Xinwan noticed that the villa was unusually quiet. There were several servants helping to serve the dishes when the meal was served, but now the kitchen seemed deserted and empty.
But she thought that maybe her grandmother just wanted these few servants to finish their work and then give them a holiday like the other servants, which is why they all left, and she didn't think about it any further.
She felt a little sleepy, her eyelids were drooping, and she wanted to say goodbye and go back to her room to rest. But her head felt heavy and she slumped onto the table. Before she closed her eyes completely, she noticed that Mr. Lu and Luo Yujia had also fallen onto the table, and she felt a chill run down her spine.
But at that moment she had absolutely no energy and fell asleep completely within seconds.
She felt a cold sensation on her face, and when she woke up, she found her head and face covered in water.
Mr. Lu and Luo Yujia were both tied to the dining chairs opposite them, their heads drooping, clearly still asleep. She wanted to call out, but before she could even open her mouth, she saw Mrs. Lu take two bowls of water and splash them on Luo Yujia and Mr. Lu's faces respectively.
Lu Xinwan was dumbfounded: What is this Mrs. Lu trying to do?
As the saying goes, experience is the best teacher. As soon as Luo Yujia woke up, she understood Mrs. Lu's purpose. She struggled to break free of the ropes binding her, shouting, "Xinwan, this woman is crazy. She wants to kill our whole family. Get up and save me and your father!"
Lu Xinwan snapped out of her shock and got up to rush over to untie Luo Yujia's ropes.
Suddenly, Mrs. Lu said, "Xinwan, the truth you know isn't the truth. I knew about Luo Yujia's scheme from the beginning, so I switched you with that dead girl..."
Lu Xinwan was shocked and turned to look at Mrs. Lu in horror.
Mrs. Lu continued, "Actually, our paternity test is real, but I bribed those doctors to lie to Luo Yujia."
"This is impossible." This time, it was Luo Yujia's turn to be dumbfounded.
Mrs. Lu laughed: "Luo Yujia, otherwise, why do you think I would only tie up you and Lao Lu, and not Xinwan? Do you think I wouldn't think she would save you?"
Luo Yujia felt a chill in her heart, staring at Lu Xinwan with a face full of shock and disbelief.
Mrs. Lu continued, "Xinwan, you probably don't know this, but your father actually has more than one illegitimate child. He also has an illegitimate son!"
Lu Xinwan gasped upon hearing this: an illegitimate child?
The Lu family elders are extremely patriarchal. They dote on her because the Lu family has no grandsons, only her as their granddaughter. But what if they found out they had a grandson…
Lu Xinwan dared not imagine her future status in the Lu family: at least it was impossible for all the property she had originally envisioned to belong to her. It was very likely that more than half of Mr. Lu and the two elders of the Lu family would be left to that son.
Doesn't that mean her net worth will shrink by more than half in one night?
Luo Yujia turned her head and glared angrily at Mr. Lu, clearly believing Mrs. Lu's words.
You can't blame her for believing him; this Mr. Lu is just like a ram sowing its seeds everywhere...
Mrs. Lu said, "Xinwan, you won't go wrong listening to me. I'm your biological mother, and I do everything for your sake. I would never harm you. Only your father knows about the illegitimate child..."
Mr. Lu suddenly snapped out of his shock at the news that he had an illegitimate child and demanded, "What nonsense are you spouting, you woman?"
Mrs. Lu gave a sad laugh and said, "Now that things have come to this, do you still want to keep it a secret? To protect that illegitimate child, you didn't even dare to tell Dad and Mom, let alone me and Luo Yujia. If I hadn't been hiring a private investigator all along, I wouldn't have found out that you had actually left me with this trick up your sleeve."
Lu Xinwan turned her head and said, "Mom, what you mean is..."
Mrs. Lu said, "Once they're dead, who will know that your father had a son? Everything in the Lu family will still be yours."
Mr. Lu said urgently, "Xinwan, don't listen to her nonsense. You are my only flesh and blood, and everything in the Lu family will be yours in the future. I have no illegitimate children. No, to be precise, I have no other children besides you."
Mrs. Lu laughed and said, "Old Lu, now that things have come to this, is there any point in you keeping it a secret? Let me tell you, this matter will be nailed to your coffin with you, and no one else will ever know about it again."
Lu Xinwan was a little sad: she originally thought she was the only bloodline of the Lu family, but she didn't expect there was actually a boy in the family, ha!
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