Chapter 143 His Birthday
On Lu Jin's birthday, the Lu family only invited a few people who were usually close to him to hold a small birthday banquet.
It's not that Lu Qi doesn't value Lu Jin's birthday, but rather that the Lu family has always been low-key, and Lu Qi doesn't believe that Lu Jin needs to act as the young master of the Lu family. To think that way is simply to look down on Lu Jin.
Today, Lu Qi also brought Lu Jin to meet Lin Ruo.
This was Lu Jin's second time meeting Lin Ruo.
The woman lying on the bed had a beautiful sleeping face; she looked like she was just sleeping normally, except that she slept for a rather long time.
Lu Qi said, "Eighteen years ago, she gave birth to you. Today is your birthday, and celebrating your arrival into this world is certainly necessary, but..."
“I know,” Lu Jin interrupted Lu Qi, and said slowly, “Today is also her day of suffering.”
Even if Lin Ruo was unconscious and had no awareness when she gave birth to Lu Jin, childbirth is still a great injury to a woman's body.
Without even guessing, Lu Jin knew that this day every year was also a special day for Lu Qi.
Because on this day eighteen years ago, Lin Ruo never opened her eyes again.
Although Lu Qi rarely mentioned Lin Ruo to Lu Jin, Lu Jin had heard from Lu Yuan that Lin Ruo had been depressed for a while after becoming pregnant, but her love for the child in her womb was genuine.
It is said that on the day of the car accident, even when she was unconscious, her hands were still tightly protecting her stomach.
Motherly love was a distant concept for Lu Jin, but perhaps there was an indescribable magic in their bloodline. When he heard about that past, Lu Jin had a strange and unfamiliar feeling.
It felt like warmth.
Of course, this warmth was different from the warmth Xia Zhen brought him.
Lu Jin took two steps forward, approached the bed, and carefully looked at the woman on the bed.
Not long ago, he asked Xia Zhen a question, "Zhenzhen, I know how to face the Lu family, but I don't know how to face her."
That "she" naturally refers to Lin Ruo.
Xia Zhen smiled in the video, "If you don't know what to do, just hold her hand and say thank you. Don't underestimate the simple word 'thank you,' because sometimes the emotions it contains can surpass many fancy words."
Lu Jin hesitated for a moment, then reached out and grasped the woman's limp hand.
Lu Qi's temples bulged with veins, but he managed to restrain himself and did not step forward.
Lu Jin said, "Thank you."
Thank you for bringing him into this world.
Thank you to her for allowing him to experience that unfamiliar emotion.
"Alright." Lu Qi walked over and snatched the woman's hand from Lu Jin's. He held the woman's hand himself, and unlike his domineering demeanor, he had a smile on his face. "You've seen Ruoruo now. There are still people waiting outside to celebrate your birthday. You should go out now."
Lu Jin stared at Lu Qi without saying a word.
Lu Qi showed no remorse, "Why are you looking at me like that? If you're so capable, why don't you have a child with Zhenzhen in the future and see how much better you are than me then?"
He really is incompetent.
So Lu Jin turned around, opened the door, left the room, and closed the door behind him.
The room fell silent instantly.
Lu Qi sat on the edge of the bed, staring intently at the woman's sleeping face, and gently stroked her pale cheek with one hand.
Her body temperature has always been low; her feet never seem to warm up when she sleeps in winter. But despite her gentle and soft-spoken manner, she is quite stubborn.
Lu Qi only dared to turn around when she was asleep, carefully pulling her into his arms and warming her feet with his own body heat.
The next morning, he looked innocent and said to the woman who had woken up, "I promise I didn't do anything. You were asleep and said you were cold, so you rolled into my arms. I swear I'm not lying to you, or I'll make sure my dad suffers a terrible death. You know I respect my dad the most."
Actually, she was very easy to fool, and she readily believed his nonsense.
Thinking back to the past, his life back then was truly eventful.
But is this woman's heart as cold as her body temperature?
Lu Qi leaned down, looking closely at the woman's face, and said in a low voice, "Ruoruo, if I had stayed by your side eighteen years ago, you wouldn't have been in this situation, would you?"
No one answered him.
He then asked, "Why did you leave the Lu family that day? Did you want to run away?"
The only response he received was the sound of the wind outside the window.
"It's alright." Lu Qi placed a light kiss on the corner of the woman's lips. "No matter what, you are destined to stay by my side."
Inside the door, it's hard to tell whether it's the infatuation of lovers or the stubbornness of the heartless.
Outside the door, however, lies a perfect union, a match made in heaven.
As Lu Jingang reached the stairwell, he immediately spotted the girl sneaking up the stairs.
Xia Zhen walked very cautiously, glancing back every now and then, as if checking to see if anyone was secretly following her. Her behavior was no different from that of a thief.
Xia Zhen finally made it to the top of the stairs when suddenly someone grabbed her hand and pulled her into an embrace.
She screamed in fright, but a hand quickly covered her mouth.
The person behind her held her tightly, as if she were being held captive in an inescapable prison.
He deliberately spoke in a hoarse voice, "Looks like I'm having pretty good luck today; I actually caught a petty thief."
Xia Zhen was still struggling subconsciously, but after sensing the familiar aura of the boy, she stopped struggling and quickly immersed herself in the situation. She said in a muffled voice, both angry and scared, "Let me go, or my boyfriend won't let you off the hook!"
Is your boyfriend very capable?
"Of course, he is the most powerful person in the world!"
There was a hint of amusement in his voice, "Even if he were here, I wouldn't be afraid, and I doubt he could get here in time to save you."
"What...what do you want to do?"
"Robbery."
After he finished speaking, taking advantage of his height, he wrapped his arms around the girl's waist from behind and picked her up.
Xia Zhen's feet left the ground as she struggled desperately, "Let me go! I have a boyfriend, you can't do this to me!"
He had already carried her into a room, closed the door, and thrown her onto the soft bed.
Xia Zhen hadn't even had a chance to get up yet, and of course she didn't want to get up either. She just deliberately struggled a few times before someone pressed down on her.
In the dimly lit room where the curtains were not drawn, someone grabbed her chin.
Immediately afterwards, her half-hearted screams of fear were all swallowed back.
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