A whole family's fate as cannon fodder

Oh, no.

To be precise, Su Yunian's bodyguards were fighting someone else.

Su Yunian kept trying to mediate between them. "Stop fighting, stop fighting!"

"Everyone, stop fighting! This is all a misunderstanding!"

The people they were fighting were Zhao Feifei, Zhao Jinxuan, and their bodyguards.

[Su Yunian is fighting here? Oh, oh, I get it. She wants to use the chaos to get Zhao Jinxuan's hair for a paternity test.]

[Yes, host. You're so clever. Today, Su Yunian came to the studio of The Voice of Huaxia as an audience member and happened to see Zhao Feifei and Zhao Jinxuan here too.

Su Yunian decided there was no time like the present. With a look from her, her bodyguards stirred up trouble, and she grabbed a handful of Zhao Jinxuan's hair in the chaos, achieving her goal.]

Lu Chi: [Campus Belle Su looks icy, but she's actually black-bellied and clever.]

Guagua: [Isn't she just?]

The scene was noisy.

A complete hubbub.

Lu Yuanqing and his wife were too busy watching the commotion to notice Lu Chi's inner voice.

Lu Chi stepped forward and shouted, "Su Yunian, what are you doing here?"

Su Yunian looked up and saw Lu Chi.

Delight instantly appeared on her face, but she hid that pleasant surprise a second later.

The bodyguards had already stopped fighting.

Fortunately, neither side was injured.

No one called the police, either. They treated it as an accidental incident caused by shoving in a crowd.

The matter was left at that.

Su Yunian returned to her usual icy demeanor and told Lu Chi, "I just came to watch the show."

With that, she was about to leave with her bodyguards.

Suddenly noticing Lu Yuanqing and his wife looking her way, Su Yunian hurried forward a few steps and managed a small smile.

She said:

"Hello, Uncle Lu! Hello, Auntie Pan!"

Lu Yuanqing nodded. "Yunian, did you come to watch the show too?"

"Yes," Su Yunian said. "Uncle Lu, Auntie Pan, I'll be heading back now."

With that, she left.

Seeing Su Yunian like this, Lu Chi no longer saw an icy iceberg of a girl.

Instead, she was a sweet, approachable little sister from next door.

It was as though she wasn't the person who had framed Zhao Feifei a few days ago.

Lu Chi shook his head.

[Sigh, women really are changeable, switching between different faces at the drop of a hat.]

Lu Yuanqing walked over to Lu Chi and asked, "Chi'er, you know Yunian too?"

Lu Chi nodded. "Dad, she's in my class. She's even my deskmate."

Lu Yuanqing looked a little surprised, then laughed.

"Oh, look at me. I'm getting old and forgot all about that. Right, Yunian was originally betrothed to you, but then the nanny lost you,

and we brought Jiyang home, so the marriage agreement between our families became an engagement between the two of them. Chi'er, don't let it bother you."

Lu Chi said casually, "Dad, why would it bother me? Dating is perfectly normal. If fate brings the two of them together in the future, that's fine too."

As father and son talked, Pan Feng walked over while on the phone.

She said a little coquettishly, "Honey, you and our son go home first. I don't want to go home yet. I want to look around."

Lu Yuanqing deliberately teased her. "Where are you going, honey?"

Pan Feng stamped her foot. "Oh, come on... My girlfriends invited me out to play mahjong. I'll play a few rounds and come home."

Lu Yuanqing said aggrievedly, "But honey, you clearly promised to play golf with me later."

Pan Feng said into the phone, "Just wait, girl. I'll be right there. My husband talks tough, but he's softhearted."

Hanging up, Pan Feng draped her arm over Lu Yuanqing's shoulders and tilted her head to look at him.

"Honey, listen. When I was in the studio just now, I dreamed I won several hands. I'll just go play for a while and come home, okay?"

Lu Yuanqing pretended to be angry and said nothing. Pan Feng continued pleading.

"Honey, if you don't let me go play mahjong, I won't be able to show my face among my girlfriends. Everyone in the mahjong circle will say I'm scared of my husband. Think how embarrassing that would be."

Lu Yuanqing laughed at her antics. "All right, all right, go on. But you promised you'd come home after a few rounds."

Like a mischievous young girl, Pan Feng said happily, "Got it, honey~"

With that, she didn't even take their luxury car, taking a taxi instead.

Standing nearby, Lu Chi thought this older couple had such a good relationship.

They truly loved each other.

[What a shame that such a wonderful couple raised a bunch of idiots.]

[Five daughters and one son.]

[None of them ended well. They either died horribly or suffered terrible injuries.]

[A whole family's fate as cannon fodder.]

Standing beside him, Lu Yuanqing heard every word of Lu Chi's thoughts.

Lu Yuanqing silently swore that, whatever price he had to pay, he would protect his children and his family!

"What? Lu Chi actually advanced?"

"How could that country bumpkin possibly advance?"

The Lu family mansion.

Lu Jiyang and the others were playing games in the living room when they received a call from their parents saying Lu Chi had advanced and had even been praised by the judges.

At first, they were utterly shocked.

Then they were so angry their lungs nearly burst.

Lu Jiyang's contestant number was eight. After he finished singing, his four older sisters had gone home with him.

With their parents out, they could go wild playing a few rounds of games.

In everyone's minds, Lu Chi had no chance of advancing at all.

Even if he stepped onto that stage, the judges would only scold him before asking him to leave.

So none of them watched his livestream or paid any attention to what he was doing.

They hadn't even played many rounds since getting home when the call came.

It said that country bumpkin had advanced.

His third sister, Lu Yanxin, fourth sister, Lu Xiaoyue, and fifth sister, Lu Yunke, remained relatively calm.

They didn't join in insulting Lu Chi.

They thought it was only the preliminary round, where no one was particularly skilled, and Lu Chi had simply gotten lucky.

Lu Qingru found it hardest to believe. To her, one look at Lu Chi was enough to tell he didn't have the ability.

But Lu Jiyang was the angriest of all.

"Second Sister, did Lu Chi bribe the judges to cheat? Otherwise, how could someone at his level possibly advance?"

Lu Qingru thought about it. Bribing the judges to cheat was rather unlikely.

After all, the television station had broadcast the whole thing live. No one could manipulate things behind the scenes under the livestream cameras.

Much less a useless, ill-mannered country bumpkin like Lu Chi!

Lu Chi rode back to the Lu family mansion in his father's luxury car.

His father had arranged to play golf with friends and got out early.

Just as Lu Chi reached the living room doorway, he heard Lu Jiyang loudly calling him a country bumpkin and saying he had only advanced through luck.

Lu Chi walked straight in and shot back, "Yes, I'm a country bumpkin, and I have no class. But what good are you? A fake whose birth parents are unknown!"

Lu Jiyang hated being called a fake more than anything. He was so furious that the veins on his forehead bulged.

He wished he could rush over and give Lu Chi a beating.

But with his sisters all there, Lu Jiyang could only say aggrievedly:

"Brother Lu Chi, I know you're their biological son, but why do you have to humiliate me like this? Do you think I don't want to be Mom and Dad's biological child?"

Lu Chi was just about to humiliate him some more.

Suddenly, he heard Guagua shout:

[Host, this is bad! Something terrible has happened!]

Lu Chi was shocked.

Something terrible had happened? What was it?