Lu Chi looked back.
When did Eldest Sister get back?
Did she hear what I just said?
With a stern face, Lu Sangning glanced at Lu Chi and Lu Qingru standing there.
And at Lu Jiyang, who had run up the stairs to pack his things.
"Making such a racket at midday-don't you find it grating? What kind of behavior is this! The students aren't acting like students, and the older sister isn't acting like an older sister."
Lu Sangning truly lived up to being the eldest sister of the family, managing eighty companies for Lu Yuanqing.
The way she spoke with that stern face had all the bearing of a boss.
Lu Chi said nothing. He glanced at Lu Sangning, nodded, then turned and went upstairs to his room to sleep.
Lu Jiyang, who was on the stairs, had never really intended to leave the Lu Family. Now that Lu Sangning was back, he hurried down.
Looking utterly wronged, he said to Lu Sangning, "Eldest Sister, this wasn't my fault or Second Sister's. It was all Brother Lu Chi..."
Before he had even finished, tears began welling in Lu Jiyang's eyes.
This was his usual way of putting on a show.
Commonly known as playing the victim.
Every time he used this method, he could win his sisters' sympathy.
He had used it countless times in his previous life, and it had worked every time.
However, Lu Jiyang received no sympathy from his eldest sister.
Instead, she roared impatiently, "Enough! Not a moment's peace, even at midday. Hurry up and eat, then take a nap. Don't you have class this afternoon?"
Lu Jiyang: "..." What's wrong with Eldest Sister?
Doesn't she find Lu Chi annoying too?
Why isn't she speaking up for me?
She's even yelling at me?
Fuck!
Once I get my hands on the Lu Family's assets, you'll pay!
Lu Jiyang seethed inside, but seeing Lu Sangning's stern face, he dared not say a word and obediently walked to the dining table.
He shoveled down a few mouthfuls of cold rice and dishes.
Then he hurried upstairs to sleep.
He no longer dared to say anything about packing up and leaving. If Lu Sangning really did sternly tell him to get lost, things would be hard to wrap up.
Seeing Lu Jiyang head upstairs, Lu Qingru hurried a couple of steps forward.
She explained, "Eldest Sister, this really wasn't little brother Jiyang's fault. It was all that country bumpkin Lu Chi's fault. He has no manners, no courtesy, and no class!"
Lu Sangning pulled Lu Qingru over to sit by the sofa and said meaningfully:
"Qingru, when little brother Lu Chi first came to our home, I looked down on him too. I always thought this or that was wrong with him. But later, if I hadn't heard his... I wouldn't have discovered what a scumbag Zhang Yong was."
"If I'd never discovered what Zhang Yong was doing and had married him, first, he would have deceived me emotionally. Second, his sinister hands might have reached into all our family's companies, leading to an irreversible outcome.
"So I don't hate Lu Chi now. I'm very grateful to him. Actually, many things aren't entirely what they seem to us. Everything Lu Chi... has done might just be a way of protecting himself.
"I heard everything he said when he was scolding you just now. Actually, I think he made a lot of sense. We can't be prejudiced against him because of an upbringing he had no choice in.
"If the nanny hadn't stolen him away back then, he could have grown up carefree by our side too."
Lu Qingru stared at Lu Sangning as though she had seen a ghost.
She couldn't understand why her eldest sister had suddenly changed so much.
Hadn't she always been strongly against Lu Chi coming home, and hated him too?
Now she was actually speaking up for Lu Chi?
"Eldest Sister, haven't you always hated him? Why are you acting so strange today, even speaking up for him?"
Rather than answering Lu Qingru's question, Lu Sangning pointed at her own heart, prompting her. "Just now, Lu Chi... here. Did you hear anything?"
Lu Qingru narrowed her eyes.
She didn't understand what her eldest sister was trying to say.
Lu Sangning actually wanted to ask Lu Qingru whether she had heard Lu Chi's inner voice saying she would die far from home.
But despite all her hints, Lu Qingru simply couldn't figure it out.
Because all Lu Qingru's attention had been on the things Lu Chi had said while scolding her, she hadn't noticed anything else he had said.
And Lu Sangning couldn't express the part about Lu Chi's inner voice.
Because anything involving his inner voice would be blocked out by a crackling static.
Lu Sangning could only point at her heart again and prompt her, "Qingru, you know we can all hear Lu Chi's inner voice. Do you remember what he said in his mind just now?"
Lu Qingru looked furious.
Of course she remembered.
Lu Chi had been cursing her in his mind just now.
Lu Qingru cursed resentfully, "Hmph, that damned country bumpkin. The more I think about it, the angrier I get!"
"Boss, that bastard's calling again~"
"Boss, that bastard's calling again~"
As the sisters were talking, Lu Qingru's phone suddenly rang.
Lu Qingru pressed the answer button.
It was her assistant and good friend, Li Tian.
"Hey, Sister Ru, come sing karaoke and soak in the hot springs~ There's a mystery guest here~"
Lu Qingru laughed. "Oh? Who's there? Why all the mystery?"
"You'll find out when you get here, Sister Ru~ I'll be waiting. Kisses~"
"Okay, I'll be right there~"
After hanging up, Lu Qingru said to her eldest sister, Lu Sangning:
"Eldest Sister, I'm going out to have fun. Li Tian said there's a mystery guest there. I wonder who it is. But it's probably someone important, or she wouldn't usually talk to me like that."
Lu Qingru said goodbye, grabbed her bag, and hurried out.
Worried, Lu Sangning called after her, "Qingru, be careful out there."
Lu Qingru had already run off into the distance.
Lu Sangning shook her head.
She sighed helplessly.
This silly younger sister of hers might be a big star, but she had little guile.
Since Lu Chi's inner voice had already warned that she would face trouble, it couldn't be wrong.
"Die... far from home?"
Lu Sangning thought for a moment.
Far from home?
Lu Qingru runs all over the world every day. Who knows where 'far from home' would be?
No, I need to spend more time with little brother Lu Chi so I can hear his inner voice and see how to resolve what's going to happen to Lu Qingru.
"Mom, I have something very important to tell you. You absolutely mustn't tell anyone about this."
The school belle, Su Yunian, returned home at noon and told her mother, Xie Qing, what she had heard Lu Chi and Guagua say that morning.
But knowing that directly mentioning Lu Chi's inner voice would get blocked, Su Yunian phrased it differently.
"Mom, this is incredible news! Zhao Jinxuan isn't Dad's biological son! He's the bastard Zhao Min had from a one-night stand!"
Xie Qing was both shocked and delighted.
"Yunian, is that true or not?"
Su Yunian nodded firmly.
"It's absolutely true!"
Xie Qing said excitedly, "Wonderful! Wonderful! Evil really does get its just deserts!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Once their excitement subsided, mother and daughter discussed what to do next.
Xie Qing shed a few tears, turning her grief into strength.
She said to Su Yunian, "Yunian, when you go to school, find a chance to get Zhao Feifei's hair. I want a paternity test done."
"And it would be good if you could get Zhao Jinxuan's too."
Su Yunian nodded. "Mom, I'll find a way to get hair from both of them. It's just that Dad doesn't know yet that we know about his affair. You absolutely mustn't let it show in front of him."
Xie Qing wiped her tears with a tissue and returned to her gentle, virtuous demeanor.
"Don't worry, Yunian. I know what to do. I won't let that scumbag and that bitch get their way and keep bullying us."
While they were talking, they heard the roar of a car outside.
Su Jingang was back!