Chapter 105
Lu Wanning was standing not far away and just happened to hear what Zhou Qingyu said.
She suddenly realized, who said that Zhou Yanci and Zhou Qingyu didn't get along? These two people are very similar, they both want to kidnap her sister!
Lu Wanning turned back angrily, "Zhou Qingyu! My sister doesn't want you to raise her! Our Lu family can raise her ourselves!"
Unfortunately, Zhou Qingyu got on the car and didn't hear what Lu Wanning said.
Lu Beiyu comforted Lu Wanning, "Sister, don't be angry! The eldest lady might be worried because she thought about what happened to the second sister in the Lin family before! You see, the Lin family treated the second sister badly, and after recognizing Lin Ranran, they didn't treat Lin Ranran well, so the eldest lady would be worried... It's normal, right?"
Lu Wanning paused.
She also knew about the Lin family.
If the Lin family had cared for Lin Ranran a little more, she wouldn't have been mocked as a country bumpkin in the wealthy circle during the first few years after she returned to the Lin family.
In fact, it is normal for Yan Xi to be nervous. Not to mention the Lu family, even for ordinary families, having one more child means taking away more love, so most children who return to the family are not welcomed.
If the Lu family only had Yan Xi as their child, it wouldn't be a big deal, but they have many children, so there might be more disputes.
"Xixi is back home, please take care of her." Lu Wanning said to Lu Beiyu, "We are not very familiar with Xixi, but you have recorded variety shows with her, so you are now her most familiar relative."
Lu Beiyu stood up straight, "Understood!"
——
In the nanny car, Xiao Meng was driving, and Yan Xi and Zhou Qingyu were sitting in the back seat.
Xiao Meng was even more excited than Yan Xi. She just sent Zhou Qingyu to Hongrui Shopping Mall, but she didn't expect to get such a big melon!
"Xixi, you are actually the little daughter of the Lu family!"
"Oh my god! That's the Lu family! In the first half of her life, she was looked down upon because of her identity as a fake rich girl. Later, she had a white, rich and beautiful best friend and a domineering boyfriend. Now even her biological parents are from a wealthy family! You are a perfect heroine!"
Yan Xi: “…”
Sorry, that’s not the case. She was holding a script from a random person.
"What's the big deal? We Xixi are a wealthy family!" Zhou Qingyu raised her eyebrows and called out to the back row, "Yao Chi, are you done? Why are you so slow?"
Yao Chi poked his head out from the back row.
Yan Xi was surprised, "Director Yao? Why are you here too?"
Yao Chi was half asleep, and Yan Xi then noticed that Yao Chi was not wearing his sequined sling suit, but was wearing very cartoony green dinosaur pajamas, with a laptop in his arms.
"I'm taking a day off today! Miss, you're so inhumane! Pulling me out of bed, don't office workers have human rights?"
"Why are you talking so much nonsense? It's not like you won't pay me for overtime! Is the job done?"
As Zhou Qingyu scolded him, Yao Chi opened his computer and showed it to Yan Xi.
"nailed it!"
Yan Xi took a closer look and saw her appointment letter on the computer interface.
——Appointment letter from Star Glory CEO.
Yan Xi looked at Zhou Qingyu in surprise, "You promoted me again?"
"Isn't this as it should be?" Zhou Qingyu said indifferently, "Xingyao doesn't have a CEO right now, and you're doing the CEO's job. You should have been promoted a long time ago. I saw you were busy with "SP" and wanted to wait until it was finished, but it's okay now."
The popularity of "Bottom Line" made Jiang Tao return to the ranks of big directors, and Shen Xinghe also jumped from an unknown extra to a popular traffic star. Han Shu's OST was also very popular, driving her popularity.
Next is the success of "SP". Although it has not yet ended, "SP" is now the No. 1 variety show in the entertainment industry.
Xingyao is thriving under Yan Xi's leadership, and Zhou's senior management has no objection to letting her be the CEO.
After reading the appointment letter, Yao Chi stopped everything and a share transfer agreement popped up on the screen.
Zhou donated 10% of Xingyao shares to Yan Xi, including 5% controlled by Zhou and 5% controlled by Zhou Qingyu.
Zhou Qingyu said earnestly, "You deserve the CEO position, and you also deserve this 10% stake. Because of you, Xingyao turned losses into profits. Currently, the profit of "Bottom Line" exceeds 200 million, and "SP" is almost the same, so this is the reward from the group to you."
It is a common incentive measure for a company to give shares to the CEO. Zhou Qingyu sincerely thinks that this is what Yan Xi deserves.
Even after Yu Xiao became the CEO of M Company and brought Meng's stock price back to normal levels, Zhou Qingyu also gave him corresponding equity rewards.
It’s just that the 10% equity bonus of Xingyao was originally planned to be given to Yan Xi after the new year, but Yan Xi is now going back to the Lu family, so Zhou Qingyu thinks it’s better to give it to her now.
Yan Xi was so surprised that she was speechless, and Zhou Qingyu held her hand.
"Xixi, I'm very happy that you found your biological parents. If the Lu family treats you well, then everyone will be happy. But I'm also afraid. After all, you haven't seen each other for 20 years. Family members who have never lived together will have some distance. So if the Lu family is a disaster, I also hope that you can protect yourself."
Yan Xi looked at Zhou Qingyu with red eyes.
She had a lot to say to Zhou Qingyue, but at this moment, she didn't know what to say and just held her hand tightly.
——
The nanny car followed the Lu family's Bentley and drove towards the Lu residence.
Lu's residence was some distance from the city, more suburban than Zhou's residence. The nanny car drove for more than an hour before arriving at the gate of Lu's residence.
The Lu family has enclosed a large piece of land in the suburbs. It is very large, has few buildings, and has an overall more natural feel.
Entering through the iron gate, you will see a wide lawn. The grass is a little yellow in early winter, but Haicheng is in the south, so the lawn is generally green. There is a lake not far away, with swans floating in the lake, and a little further away is a fruit forest.
Yaozu and the servant were playing with a Frisbee on the grass. The Frisbee flew high up in the air. Yaozu didn't have a leash on him, so he ran around. Just as he caught the falling Frisbee, he saw Benley coming back.
At that moment, the Frisbee was no longer interesting. The furry dog dropped the Frisbee and ran after Bentley and the nanny car.
Mother Lu walked out of the villa with the help of Father Lu.
The sun was warm at noon and it wasn't that cold, but Father Lu was still worried about Mother Lu's health and put an extra cashmere coat on her.
"Why don't we wait inside? It's windy outside."
Mother Lu shook her head, stretched her neck and looked towards the direction of the gate of the Lu residence.
Lu Beiyu just called her and said they were almost at Lu's residence.
Originally, today, Lu's mother also wanted to go to the cafe with Lu Wanning to see Yan Xi, but Lu's father was worried about her health and did not let them go.
Fortunately, Yan Xi was willing to come to Lu's house to see her.
A black Bentley drove slowly and stopped at the gate of the villa, followed closely by Zhou Qingyu's nanny car.
——After Yao Chi completed the CEO appointment letter and equity transfer agreement, Zhou Qingyu kicked him out of the nanny car and told him to go home and rest, so he was not in the nanny car at the moment.
Yan Xi and Zhou Qingyu got out of the nanny car.
Lu Wanning and Lu Beiyu had already gotten off the car and were standing next to Lu's father and mother. It looked like the four of them were getting along harmoniously and looked like a family.
Yan Xi had already met Lu's father and mother when the Lu family came to Zhou's house to look for Yan Xi. At that time, she did not realize that they were relatives and only thought of them as strangers.
Now taking a closer look, Father Lu is a bit fat, not as tall and thin as Father Zhou. But he is fat in a plump way, wearing round glasses, and even has a bit of scholarly air.
Mother Lu had kind eyes and a graceful and dignified demeanor. She wore a Chinese cheongsam and a cashmere shawl. Her round almond-shaped eyes were exactly the same as those of Lu Wanning and Yan Xi.
Yan Xi had met Lu Beiyu and Lu Wanning before, and although they were not very familiar with each other after meeting, they were not too unfamiliar. However, she was not familiar with Lu's father and mother at all, which made Yan Xi a little restrained.
"Xixi?" Mother Lu called her softly.
Yan Xi opened her mouth, the word "Mom" rolled around in her mouth, but she couldn't say it.
She never called anyone "Mom".
Even Mrs. Lin, she used to call her "Auntie".
"Mother." Yan Xi nodded to Mother Lu.
Mother Lu was so excited that tears welled up in her eyes. Father Lu wanted to correct Yan Xi, but Mother Lu held her back and said, "It's okay. Mother is also very good. Xi Xi is not familiar with it yet. Don't force her."
"Mother" is a written title.
"Mom" represents a closer mother-daughter relationship.
But Mother Lu knew very well that she and Yan Xi only had a blood bond and not a close mother-daughter relationship, so it was normal that Yan Xi couldn't call her that.
The Lu family led Yan Xi into the villa. Compared with the antique style of the Zhou residence, the Lu family's villa was simple and elegant, with a strong neo-Chinese flavor.
Lu Wanning led Yan Xi to the third floor. "Mom and Dad live on the second floor. The three of us siblings are all on the third floor. Xixi, this is your room."
"My room?"
Lu Beiyu interrupted, "We didn't live here before, in the city center, but no matter where we lived, my parents reserved a room for you, my second sister! And it's facing south with a big balcony!"
Regarding this, Lu Beiyu once complained that what was the point of keeping a room for someone who wasn't there? His room didn't even have a balcony!
As a result, I ate a dish called stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat.
Mother Lu said earnestly, "What if it was you who was taken away? When you came back home and saw that our family was living in harmony, but you didn't even have a room, would you be sad? Would you feel like you couldn't fit in?"
Lu Beiyu was only eight years old at that time. He imagined it and burst into tears.
So even though the Lu family has not found Yan Xi in all these years, the existence of "Second Sister" has lasted throughout the seventeen years of Lu Beiyu.
There will always be a room for "Second Sister" at home, and she will also have a share of tableware. The first time Lu Beiyu made money, he made custom mugs for the whole family. Yaozu got one, and "Second Sister" also had one.
Even every year on my second sister’s birthday, the family would prepare a cake.
Mother Lu hopes that when her little daughter returns in the future, Lu Wanning and Lu Beiyu will not feel that their things have been taken away because there is one more person in the family. At the same time, she also hopes that the child who was taken away can integrate well into their family.
Ordinary people may not be able to do this, but since the Lu family can do it, why not do it?
——
When I walked into the room, I saw that it was obviously cleaned every day and was spotless.
The beautiful bed is a very girly pink color, the curtains hanging over the bed are also fluffy pink, and there are various dolls placed beside the bed.
The Lu family suddenly became nervous.
Mother Lu glared at Father Lu: I said no pink at the beginning! Look at Xixi's expression! Pink is so tacky!
Lu Wanning and Lu Beiyu nodded in agreement.
Lu Wanning: Black, white and grey are still the best! The minimalist style is the best!
Lubei Island: I think the colorful blue is beautiful! It's all bulingbuling blue!
Father Lu felt wronged: But pink is very girly, Wan Ning doesn’t like pink, I thought Xixi would like it, a little girl dressed in pink is so cute…
They always feel that their little daughter is still a child.
But Yanxi is already twenty years old and is even the CEO of an entertainment company.
Mother Lu asked Yan Xi carefully, "Xi Xi, do you like this arrangement?"
"fine."
Yan Xi looked around the room. She no longer had her own room after leaving the Lin family five years ago. Even though she occasionally lived in Zhou Qingyu's large flat, it was not her home after all.
Yan Xi often felt that the dormitory was her home. The four-square-meter space with a bed and a desk belonged entirely to her when she was studying.
And today, she has her own room again.
She really thinks it's good.
But Lu's mother didn't understand and continued to make eyes at the others.
Mother Lu: What does “pretty good” mean?
Lu Wanning: It just means I don’t like it! I think black, white and grey are better!
Land North Island: Colorful blue must have a name!
Father Lu burst into tears: My girly fan...
Lu Mu & Lu Wan Ning & Lu Bei Yu: Shut up!
Zhou Qingyu glanced at the Lu family and found their reaction quite interesting. The whole room was so tense.
She cleared her throat and said, "I think this room is so tacky. The pink is too bright and the bed is so dreamy. It looks like the room I slept in when I was five years old. It's so childish!"
Xiao Meng opened her mouth wide, "Ah? But I think it's very beautiful!"
Mother Lu asked quickly, "What does Xixi like? Xiaoning, remember this and have someone come to modify it this afternoon! Do it according to Xixi's requirements!"
Yan Xi blinked her eyes and said, "Actually, I didn't..."
Zhou Qingyu poked her and interrupted Yan Xi, "The bed should be from G, the solid wood one. As for the dressing table, the three-in-one one from H is good. The wardrobe is not enough, at least a separate dressing room is needed. As for the bathtub, it is better to have one from T..."
The Lu family listened attentively. After all, they had only found Yan Xi last night, and they had no idea what Yan Xi liked and liked. Now that they had a direction, it would be easier to deal with.
Mother Lu also took Yan Xi to see the jewelry they bought for her. These things are valuable and many of them were bought for Yan Xi a long time ago.
Zhou Qingyu added, "Jade isn't good, it makes me look old! Pearls aren't shiny enough! Diamonds are better, they look the best when they're sparkling. Xixi has a set of red diamond bracelets, which my brother gave her. I think she can also pair them with a diamond necklace and diamond earrings..."
Xiao Meng's eyes widened: "How much does this cost? Diamonds are so expensive..."
Mother Lu waved her hand and said, "Buy! Xiaoyu, contact the auction house and tell them to pay attention to the new diamonds! Be sure to buy them all!"
Mother Lu looked at Zhou Qingyu expectantly again, "Miss Zhou, is there anything else Xixi needs?"
Zhou Qingyu looked around the room and said, "I think Xixi has grown up now. It's not appropriate for you two to live together. Adults need some private space, and the Lu family is far from the city..."
"Yes, yes!" Mother Lu said excitedly, "We bought Xixi an apartment in the city. It's already been renovated. She can move in anytime! If she doesn't like our decoration style, we can buy another rough one and redecorate it!"
Mother Lu looked at Yan Xi cautiously, "Xi Xi, do you like it?"
Yan Xi actually doesn't need these.
She doesn't have high material desires. High-end luxury goods worth twenty or thirty thousand yuan look good, and clothes worth two or three hundred yuan are also very comfortable.
But she knew what Zhou Qingyu and the Lu family meant. The Lu family wanted to compensate her and make up for the twenty years of missing family affection. Zhou Qingyu discovered this earlier than her and simply gave the Lu family a chance.
Yan Xi then looked at Lu's mother and said, "I like it very much. Thank you."
——
After looking at the room, it was time for lunch.
Mother Lu felt that she had something to do again, and asked Yan Xi with concern, "What does Xixi like to eat? We have an experienced chef at home who can cook anything!"
Yan Xi has no appetite and no idea about food.
Zhou Qingyu blurted out, "Xixi has a strong taste, she likes spicy food, Sichuan cuisine and the like are all fine; as for drinks, she wants fruit tea, not milk tea, it will cause insomnia."
Mr. Lu looked a little embarrassed. Mrs. Lu was not in good health and could not eat spicy food.
Mother Lu waved her hands and said, "It's okay! There are so many people, we can make a few more dishes!"
The Lu family’s chef is a good cook. He usually doesn’t cook spicy dishes, but today was his first time cooking, and he controlled the heat and taste very well.
The family gathered around the table and were surprisingly harmonious.
The table was full of spicy dishes, with only two or three dishes of light flavors placed farthest away from Yan Xi. Mother Lu was worried that Yan Xi was too shy to pick up the food, so she kept using serving chopsticks to pick up food for her.
The remaining three members of the Lu family were not willing to be outdone.
When Yan Xi came to her senses, the dishes in front of her were piled up like a small mountain.
Zhou Qingyu was stunned, "Can you... finish it?"
Yan Xi doesn’t have a big appetite, so these dishes are enough for her to eat for two meals.
But Yan Xi just ate her rice silently, eating the dishes picked by the Lu family bite by bite.
Zhou Qingyu just remembered that Yan Xi had lived in the Lin family since she was a child, and the Lin family didn't care about her. This might be the first time that a family member picked food for her.
Yan Xi felt that she shouldn't cry in such a situation. Tears rolled around in her eyes and she tried hard to hold them back.
But Lu's mother understood.
After knowing the results of Yan Xi's DNA test, she asked Lu Wan Ning to find out about Yan Xi's past and find out how she lived in the Lin family.
She suddenly felt her heart sore and painful.
Originally, Yan Xi could have grown up happily in the Lu family like Wan Ning and Bei Yu, but because of trouble caused by their business rivals, Yan Xi was left away for twenty years.
Even though she grew up in a wealthy family, how good could her life be with an indifferent father, a mean stepmother, and a younger brother who bullied her?
Mother Lu couldn't hold back her tears, but she didn't want to cry at the dinner table, so she could only temporarily bury her head in Father Lu's shoulder and sob quietly.
…
After dinner, Yan Xi and Zhou Qingyu prepared to leave.
Lu Beiyu asked hurriedly, "Aren't you going to stay overnight, Second Sister?"
Lu Wanning suddenly pulled Lu Beiyu.
If Yan Xi were a child, she might have stayed overnight, but now she is an adult with her own life and job.
To her, they were all still strangers, and if Yan Xi was forced to stay, she would feel uncomfortable.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Mother Lu held Yan Xi's hand tightly, "This is your home, you can come back anytime you want."
Mother Lu put the key into Yan Xi's arms and said, "This is the large flat we bought for you in the city. I'll ask Wan Ning to send you the address."
"Mother, this..."
Yan Xi was about to refuse, but Lu's mother pressed her hand hard, "Just think of it as a token of our appreciation for meeting each other. Please don't reject me, okay?"
Over the years, Yan Xi lived in Zhou Qingyu's large flat during the holidays and lived in the dormitory when she was in school. For her, she never had a place of her own.
Lu's mother hopes that Yan Xi has a place of her own, so that even if Yan Xi is unwilling to return to the Lu family, there will be a space for her to rest.
Yan Xi grabbed the key tightly, "Thank you... Mother."
Mother Lu gently ruffled Yan Xi's hair and said, "You don't need to say thank you to your family."
——
The nanny car slowly drove out of the Lu family estate.
Yan Xi sat in the nanny car, quietly looking at the scenery outside the window.
She never thought that her first meeting with the Lu family would be like this.
She has seen the treacherous Lin family, the cold and distant Zhou family, and the quarrelsome Pei family...It turns out there is another kind of wealthy family, just like the Lu family.
It was great, better than what she had imagined every time she had waited.
Zhou Qingyu held up her chin and asked Yan Xi, "Do you... still like the Lu family?"
Yan Xi paused and nodded.
Zhou Qingyu agreed with this and even compared it to her own family. "Yeah, I would like it too. If my old man cared about his family as much as Mr. Lu does, Zhou Yanci and I wouldn't be in this situation. Comparing yourself to others is really frustrating!"
Yan Xi smiled, "Isn't uncle nice too?"
Zhou Qingyu complained, "Before you saw him, he was completely devoted to work. Zhou Yanci took over his shift these years, so he finally had some free time to show his fatherly love. In the past, he left us to the nanny, who only gave us money and didn't care about anything else."
"But he didn't love his wives in the first place. They were business marriages, so it's normal for them to be like this."
Father Lu was different. He liked Mother Lu from the first sight. Zhou Qingyu even felt that Father Lu cared about Mother Lu more than he did about his children.
Perhaps it is because there is so much love between parents that there is a family full of love.
"Let's not talk about him,"
Zhou Qingyu didn't give Yan Xi a chance to comfort her. Even though she complained, she didn't think there was anything wrong with her current situation. "Didn't the Lu family give you a house? Let's go take a look!"
The nanny car was parked in a high-end residential area in Haicheng city.
This neighborhood has a good geographical location, located between Xingyao and Ocean University, and closer to Xingyao. Yan Xi goes to work every day and has Master Zhao pick her up. The estimated commuting time is no more than 20 minutes.
The large flat is on the twelfth floor, with one apartment per floor, and covers an area of more than 500 square meters, which is about the same size as Zhou Qingyu's large flat.
The interior decoration is more in line with the style that Lu's mother likes, simple and elegant. It does not have the girlishness of Lu's father, the frigidity of Lu Wanning, or the dazzling colors of Lu Beiyu. It looks quite comfortable overall.
That night, Yan Xi and Zhou Qingyu lived in the large flat.
Two people were taking a bath in a bathtub, and the bubbles were flying all over the bathroom.
Zhou Qingyu joked, "Oh no, the Lu family is so nice, you will definitely go there often in the future. Zhou Yanci divided your time, and now the Lu family divides your time again, you have less time to spend with me!"
Yan Xi rubbed Zhou Qingyu's back with a bath ball.
"How could that be! I... probably won't go back to the Lu family."
"Why?" Zhou Qingyu was puzzled.
Yan Xi analyzed seriously, "If the Lu family needs me, I will definitely help, and there will be no problem taking care of them in their old age. But the relationship between parents and children usually starts from childhood. The older the children get, the less close they are to their parents. For someone like me who joined in the middle of the process, it is difficult to truly integrate into their family."
The Lu family is very nice, but twenty years of separation is not so easy to overcome. Yan Xi did not think there was anything wrong with it. She was already very satisfied to find her family again.
But the next day, Yan Xi found that she had underestimated the Lu family.
Master Zhao drove to the gate of the community to pick up Yan Xi. Before Yan Xi got into the car, a huge furry beast rushed towards her face. The huge impact force almost knocked Yan Xi to the ground!
The snow-white dog hugged Yan Xi's thighs tightly and wagged its tail wildly!
"Yaozu?"
Lu Beiyu grabbed the dog leash that Yaozu had pulled away and ran over.
"Lu Yaozu! You're running too fast! Slow down!"
When he ran to Daben, Lu Beiyu saw Yan Xi, "Second sister! You are here too! No wonder Yaozu ran so fast!"
Yan Xi took a deep breath, "Why are you here?"
Lu Beiyu straightened his back and said as a matter of course, "I live here too!"
He pointed at the apartment building where Yan Xi lived and said, "You live on the twelfth floor, your elder sister lives on the thirteenth floor, and since I'm a minor, my parents and I both live on the eleventh floor!"
"My elder sister said that this is called... the countryside surrounding the city! Let us occupy your life a little bit and appear in front of you every day. In this way, you won't feel that we are strangers!"