"Don't get worked up. Of course I'm trying to figure something out." But the situation was far from ideal.
Chairman Lu had originally thought that, given the Lu Family's influence in X City, he could bail Lu Chengxuan out simply by sending over any lawyer. But he hadn't expected Cheng Lang to record their negotiation. Now the evidence was conclusive, and Cheng Lang had already formally filed a lawsuit. On top of that, the matter had blown up online, drawing enormous public attention.
It truly was difficult to pull strings.
"Is it difficult to pull strings, or do you simply not want to?" Mrs. Lu clearly understood the situation as well. But the appearance of that illegitimate son made her unable to fully trust Chairman Lu's words. She couldn't help suspecting that he was deliberately stalling, intending to sacrifice Lu Chengxuan to clear the way for that bastard.
"How could you think that?" Chairman Lu's head was pounding. "Don't forget, Chengxuan is my son too."
"Don't forget that Lu Chengxuan is his son too." Cheng Lang lifted his coffee cup and took an unhurried sip. Looking at the man seated across from him in the booth, he smiled without quite smiling. "You and Lu Chengxuan are about the same age. You're both Chairman Lu's sons. But what kind of life have you lived all these years? And what kind of life has he lived? Are you willing to spend your entire life accomplishing nothing?"
"Work as a lowly employee at Lu Group after graduating college? Slave away for ten or twenty years, become some minor executive with your father's help, perhaps get assigned elsewhere to run a branch company, and live your whole life beneath Lu Chengxuan's shadow?"
Of course the illegitimate son was unwilling. Otherwise, he would not have