After exchanging pleasantries with his grandparents, uncle, and aunt, Lu Yuchen, still confused, glanced at Lu Wenjing and his brothers and found that they were still looking at him with eyes that seemed to want to kill him.
He swallowed hard and called out cautiously, "Big brother, second brother, third brother?"
Lu Wenjing looked at Lu Yuchen with an unchanged expression, "Yuchen, is your company doing well lately?"
Lu Yuchen nodded blankly: "That's good, big brother."
Lu Yanli picked up the conversation, staring at Lu Yuchen's face: "Yuchen, it's been a long time. You seem to have changed quite a bit?"
Lu Yuchen blinked: "It's alright... right?"
Lu Xunran followed closely behind: "Your mole is in a bad location, my cousin. Come to the hospital later and I'll have it removed."
Lu Yuchen looked even more confused: "Huh?"
Lu Yubai was even more direct: "Yuchen, you didn't get plastic surgery, did you?"
Lu Yuchen: "..."
Lu An'an frowned and tilted her head, her eyes full of confusion.
[Do my brother and his family have a bad relationship with my eldest cousin? Why are they so hostile towards him?]
Brothers: Ha! Whose fault is it!
Song Shiyun closed her eyes helplessly, finally reaching her limit. She secretly reached out and pinched Lu Xunran's arm beside her: "Alright, there are outsiders here. Don't embarrass me!"
"Aww!"
Lu Xunran jerked back, clutching the spot where he had been pinched, wincing in pain, but dared not protest loudly. He could only mutter in a low voice, "It's not like I'm the only one like this, my older brother and the others are all..."
Before he could finish speaking, he caught sight of Song Shiyun's wide, warning eyes, and quickly shut his mouth, making a zipper-like motion to seal it.
Upon seeing this, Lu Wenjing and the other two quickly suppressed their expressions of intense jealousy and regained their usual composure and calmness.
Lu Yuchen was completely bewildered as he was bombarded with a series of nonsensical questions, momentarily forgetting what he was supposed to be doing.
Hou Xiaoling slowly stood up from her kneeling position, looked at Lu Yuchen with a mocking gaze that seemed to see through his tricks, and said sarcastically, "Lu Yuchen, you're just jealous that your brother is so much loved by your father, aren't you? Over the years, only your brother has been able to stay in the Lu family's old house, while you've been stuck abroad. You must feel very unbalanced, right?"
Lu Yuchen snapped out of his daze and found the words amusing: "Me, feeling resentful? Where did you get that idea?"
Hou Xiaoling's gaze swept over Yi, who was half a step behind Lu Yuchen. Her eyes were full of superiority and provocation, and the smug smile on her lips became more and more obvious: "If you ask me, you can only blame your mother for not being able to keep Minghuai. He is not good enough for your mother. You should face reality."
Lu An'an, an old man on the subway looking at his phone.
[It's confirmed. This woman really has delusions. It's one thing to fantasize about having a family with my second uncle, but she also fantasizes that her son is the apple of the Lu family's eye? Where did she get that idea?]
[And she was the one saying those words, so why am I the one who should feel ashamed? I'm practically crawling with ants, how can she be so self-righteous?]
She shuddered, then pointed with a troubled expression to Lu Yanhua behind Hou Xiaoling, who seemed to have seen through the illusions of the world. "Auntie, is it possible that the mother you've recognized is the one behind you?"
Upon hearing this, Hou Xiaoling's eyes widened in displeasure: "What are you talking about? How could I not even recognize Old Madam Lu?"
Lu An'an's expression was complicated: "Why don't you turn around and confirm first, Auntie?"
I can't stand it anymore; I wish I could make Fugui piss so this woman could see her reflection.
Hou Xiaoling turned her head impatiently and saw the person on the sofa behind her. Her eyes widened immediately.
"This...this..."
Her gaze darted back and forth between the two elderly women, her voice filled with shock: "Why are there two Madam Lus?!"
Lu An'an kindly explained, "The old lady sitting here is my grandmother, the real deal, my second uncle's biological mother. The one sitting over there is your adopted mother, Lu Yanhua."
Lu Yanhua slowly opened her eyes, glanced at Hou Xiaoling, then at Lu Yixuan who was standing there in a daze, chuckled, and closed her eyes again, as if she no longer cared about what was happening in front of her.
Hou Xiaoling turned to look at Lu An'an and asked incredulously, "What does this mean?"
Lu An'an squinted and smiled insincerely: "It means you have no relation to our Lu family."
Hou Xiaoling retorted incredulously, "No relation? I gave birth to a son for Lu Minghuai, I have a very close relationship with the Lu family!"
Lu Minghuai was startled and quickly interrupted, "Don't talk nonsense! I only have two sons, Yuchen and Yushen. Lu Yixuan has nothing to do with me!"
These words struck Lu Yixuan like a bolt from the blue, instantly shattering his heart.
Why do you never acknowledge my existence?
He was so desperate that he didn't even realize when his speech acupoints had been released.
Lu Minghuai looked at Hou Xiaoling and her son with disgust, his tone full of undisguised loathing: "Why should I acknowledge a son who has no blood relation to me?"
Lu Yixuan froze on the spot, his whole body turning ice cold.
Hou Xiaoling's scream suddenly pierced the air: "Lu Minghuai! You doubt me? That night, it was clearly..."
Lu Minghuai laughed mockingly, coldly cutting her off: "Miss Hou, I'm not so stupid that I can't even see through such a clumsy drugging."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yixuan slowly shifted his gaze to his mother, "Drugged?"
Hou Xiaoling's face turned pale. She glanced at Lu Yixuan in a panic, then turned back and hurriedly explained, "I just liked you so much, but you never even looked at me before, so I did something wrong. Minghuai and Yixuan have already been born and grown up in the Lu family for so many years. You can't say he's not their biological son now."
Lu Minghuai remained indifferent and unmoved. He pointed to the bodyguard who had not yet left and said in a calm but clear voice, "Miss Hou, if you want to find Lu Yixuan's father, look over there. That's the person you had relations with that night."
Everyone's gaze shifted to the older bodyguard, whose face slowly flushed red. He then said embarrassedly, "It...it can't be my child. I...I had my tubal ligation done back then."
Hou Xiaoling screamed in despair, "This is impossible!"
Lu An'an gasped: "!"
Oh my god, Pingping is looking for her dad!
The others were also stunned by the bodyguard's sudden words. What?! The truth was actually like this? Then Lu Yanhua had been deceived for so many years!
The thought had barely formed in their minds when they heard a "thump" from the sofa.
Everyone turned around and saw Lu Yanhua's eyes roll back as she collapsed to the ground with a dull thud.
Lu An'an and Lu Xunran quickly stepped forward. After examining her, Lu An'an breathed a sigh of relief and said, "She's alright, she just fainted from anger."
[I was terrified! Thank goodness she only fainted. If she had been furious, the entire Lu family wouldn't have been able to explain themselves.]
Madam Lu also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Lu Yanhua did deserve to die, but she must not die in the Lu family.
Her gaze was piercing, exuding an undeniable authority, as she coldly stared at Hou Xiaoling: "Hou Xiaoling, you actually want my son to be your fall guy?"
"Your Hou family is used to a peaceful life. Do you ever think about living under a bridge?"
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