Chapter 114: Marching to Question the Guilty

Realizing he had spoken too casually, Lu Mu immediately shut her mouth.

Lu Chi had suspected this before, but Lu Mu flatly denied it.

Now, hearing his mother admit it herself, Lu Chi's face gradually turned grim: "Is it all true? Is it really all true?"

Lu Chi had long suspected his mother was after the Su family's fortune; he stepped closer to Lu Mu and said, "From childhood on, you've always had me marry Su Yun Jiao, made me watch Su Yun Jiao—actually you feared the Su family's wealth falling into outsiders' hands?"

"I..."

"You even know Su Yun Jiao's constitution is weak, yet you deliberately gave her those cold-natured foods just to make her die faster, right?"

"Lu Chi..."

"You even staged a kidnapping just to keep Su Yun Jiao tightly bound to yourself, didn't you?"

"Lu Chi! Who gave you the right to question your mother like this?"

Lu Mu finally exploded under the questioning.

"I've done all this for whom? Isn't it all for you! Our Lu family has only you as the sole heir; that Lu Jingqing isn't my biological son. To keep the Lu family's wealth in your hands, I, your mother, have gone to great lengths! Do you understand?"

"So you kidnapped Su Yun Jiao? You wanted to kill her?"

Lu Chi said angrily: "If Su Yun Jiao weren't engaged to Lu Jingqing, wouldn't you just wait until I married her, then have her killed and take the money?"

This was indeed Lu Mu's plan, but in front of her own son.

Lu Mu, however, could not admit it.

"Of course not!"

As soon as Lu Mu finished speaking, her phone rang.

Lu Mu lowered her head to glance at the phone and saw it was the secretary calling.

On the other end, the secretary said anxiously, "Madam, something's wrong!"

"What's the big deal?"

Lu Mu furrowed her brows, still unaware that outside was already in an uproar.

The secretary said anxiously, "Online, something's happened! A person named Zheng Bi Yun has publicly exposed that you bribed her to kidnap the Su family's eldest daughter; the news has spread, and many people now know it, with all the company's shareholders gathered at the office demanding an explanation!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Mu's face instantly darkened.

"How could this be?"

After hanging up, Lu Mu immediately opened a media app and saw that the top hot search was already the three words "Zheng Bi Yun".

Lu Mu opened the hot search, and immediately a video appeared in which Zheng Bi Yun accused Lu Mu of years of dirty deeds, including kidnapping the Su family's eldest daughter with the intent to exterminate the line.

The comment section was flooded with curses against Lu Mu, demanding police arrest her immediately.

Seeing these news items, Lu Mu only felt her vision swim.

"What on earth is going on!"

Meanwhile, Lu Chi had also opened his phone; upon seeing the news, he immediately realized it was very likely Su Yun Jiao who had done this.

Because Zheng Bi Yun and Sun Jia Cheng had been released by them several days earlier.

Unless someone deliberately sought out those two, this information would absolutely not have leaked.

Moreover, it was Zheng Bi Yun herself making the accusation.

Thinking that this might have been Su Yun Jiao's doing, Lu Chi immediately turned and ran out.

"Lu Chi! Where are you going?!"

Lu Mu was anxious.

Meanwhile, Lu Chi had already driven toward Jingyuan.

Jingyuan is not far from their home.

When Lu Chi had driven his car there, he then saw the scene inside Jingyuan.

This place is many times larger than the Lu family's residence.

No wonder Su Yun Jiao doesn't want to return to the Lu family home and prefers to stay at Jingyuan.

"Sorry, this is a private residence; without an invitation you may not enter."

"I'm looking for Su Yun Jiao."

The guard at the gate obviously didn't know who Lu Chi was.

He therefore directly stopped Lu Chi.

Lu Chi, face dark, said, "I'm the young master of the Lu family—don't you understand? I want to see Su Yun Jiao!"

As soon as Lu Chi finished speaking, he bumped into Secretary Li, who was about to go out on an errand.

Secretary Li saw Lu Chi, smiled slightly, and said, "Young Master Lu, what's the matter?"

"I want to see Su Yun Jiao; let me in!"

"Sorry, Miss Su is currently taking her noon break; perhaps we can't see you now—better another day."

As soon as Secretary Li finished speaking, Lu Chi shouted toward the inside of Jingyuan, "Su Yun Jiao! Come out! Su Yun Jiao!"

Lu Chi's voice was very loud.

The guard immediately said, "No loud noise here! Please mind your manners!"

Lu Chi never had any manners; seeing the guard still blocking him, he simply ran straight in.

Seeing this, the guard hurriedly chased after Lu Chi's heels, shouting, "You can't enter! Young Master Lu!"

Su Yun Jiao was awakened by Lu Chi's noise.

She blinked open her eyes dazedly, only to see Lu Chi appearing outside the window at some point.

He had run into Jingyuan, shouting, "Su Yun Jiao, come out."

Su Yun Jiao rubbed her ears, wondering what the fuss was about at midday in someone else's home.

Su Yun Jiao went downstairs.

The security guards had already chased Lu Chi to the lobby.

After Lu Chi saw Su Yun Jiao, he ran up to her without a word and shoved the phone's hot search in front of her, demanding: "Was it really you who did this?"

Su Yun Jiao never expected Zheng Bi Yun's video to shoot up to the hot search so quickly.

Su Yun Jiao instinctively glanced at Secretary Li, who had hurried over from nearby.

It must be that Lu Jingqing had someone buy the hot search, which is why the situation blew up so fast.

"What are you talking about? What does this have to do with me? I haven't even seen that video."

"Don't play dumb here! If it's not you, then who is it? Hurry up and get Lu Jingqing to take down this hot search!"

"Can't be done."

Su Yun Jiao bluntly rejected Lu Chi, saying lightly: "Lu Chi, did you come all the way to Brother Jingqing's place just to cause trouble? How childish."

"You!"

Besides, if what Zheng Bi Yun says is true, then this is her conscience-driven self-exposure; instead of looking for me here, you'd better find Zheng Bi Yun and stop bringing me bad luck.

Having said that, Su Yun Jiao looked at the security guard nearby and said: "Take him out, don't disturb Brother Jingqing's rest."

"Yes, Miss Su."

Seeing Su Yun Jiao acting like the mistress of the house, Lu Chi felt even more resentful: "Su Yun Jiao, you now consider yourself a person of Jingyuan, right?"

"So what if I am? I'm not your fiancée, so please stop meddling in my affairs."

As Su Yun Jiao was about to go upstairs, she suddenly thought of something, turned to Lu Chi and said: "By the way, if everything in that video is true, I will hold Lu Aunt legally responsible; go tell her this isn't over."