Chapter 84: Lu Chi Discovers His Mother's Secret

Before Lu Chi could speak, Lu Mu had already stepped forward and cleared all the seafood from the table.

Lu Chi saw the seafood left over from those dishes, but Lu Mu hadn't eaten a bite, making Lu Chi even more suspicious.

His own mother — had she really tampered with Su Yun Jiao's food?

Thinking this, Lu Chi went to the kitchen while his mother wasn't paying attention.

He saw the maid dumping the crab that Lu Mu had just sent over, along with a variety of other seafood, into the trash can.

Seeing this, Lu Chi stepped forward and said, "Aunt Zhang, what are you doing?"

Aunt Zhang suddenly heard Lu Chi's words, jumped in fright, and when she turned around she saw Lu Chi had appeared behind her at some point.

"Oh dear, my young master, you scared me half to death!"

Aunt Zhang stumbled back a step and said, "Young master, the kitchen is dirty — how did you get in? Hurry, get out!"

"I'm just looking around."

Lu Chi looked at the crab that had been dumped in the kitchen and asked, "Aunt Zhang, why did you throw this crab away?"

"The mistress said it wouldn't be fresh if eaten the next day, so she told me to throw it away."

"I think today's crab is still quite tasty — how was it prepared?"

"I didn't make it; the mistress cooked it herself."

Hearing Aunt Zhang's words, Lu Chi's gaze instantly sank.

"As expected!"

"Young master, why are you suddenly asking about all this?"

Aunt Zhang looked at Lu Chi before her with some confusion.

Lu Chi had never gone into the kitchen before, nor would he ever ask about such things.

Lu Chi feigned indifference and said, "Oh, I just thought this crab was pretty tasty — tell my mom tomorrow to make it again."

Aunt Zhang said somewhat awkwardly, "Young master, crab is cooling in nature; it's better to eat less, and the mistress wouldn't let you have these either."

"Crab is cooling in nature?"

"Yes, this crab is cooling in nature; eating it is bad for the body."

Aunt Zhang said this while tidying up the kitchen.

Lu Chi fell silent for a moment.

"Could it be that Mom did something else to the dishes?"

"Over here."

Su Yun Jiao had already gotten into the car with Lu Jingqing.

"Brother Jingqing, what did Aunt Lu just say to you?"

"Your engagement to Lu Chi."

"Did you agree?"

"I only agreed to the engagement between her Su family and the Lu family; I didn't agree to your engagement to Lu Chi."

"Then the engagement between the Su and Lu families isn't just me and …"

Before Su Yun Jiao could finish speaking, she realized something.

Su Yun Jiao glanced at Lu Jingqing sitting beside her, and her eyes instantly lit up with delight: "Brother Jingqing, you agreed to help me?"

"Don't shake around."

Lu Jingqing said lightly, "Say more, and I won't agree."

"I won't say it, I won't say it."

Su Yun Jiao happily sat down to one side.

"This way."

After the coming-of-age ceremony ended, she and Lu Chi and his mother would have no further relationship.

Looking at Su Yun Jiao's happy expression, someone said, "Are you that happy just because you called off the engagement with Lu Chi?"

"Of course."

Su Yun Jiao smiled narrowly and said, "Calling off the engagement with Lu Chi is what I most want to do right now."

The next morning.

The schoolmates were actively discussing the New Year's Eve party.

The homeroom teacher had already sent the notice for the New Year's Eve party to the school.

Since that day was a Thursday, and the New Year's Eve party would be followed by vacation, everyone was especially looking forward to this party.

This time everyone in our class will attend the New Year's Eve party; I guess tonight will be lively.

Isn't that so? In past years, nobody was this strange.

"Lu Ge, do you want to prepare a performance for the New Year's Eve party? I saw you played the guitar pretty well last time."

The little brother beside him wanted Lu Chi to make a splash at this party.

But Lu Chi had absolutely no interest in that.

Another little brother could only say, "What are you talking about? Even if Lu Ge plays guitar, anyone can listen; besides, this year's New Year's Eve party only has Su Yun Jiao singing."

"Oh, is that so?"

Another little brother also nodded and said, "That's right too — we can't have Lu Ge accompany Su Yun Jiao."

At the last cultural performance, Lu Chi accompanied Qin Xin on guitar, and the school leaders were very pleased.

Actually, they still really wanted to hear Lu Chi accompany Su Yun Jiao.

After all, if you look at overall ability, Su Yun Jiao's singing is far more pleasant to listen to than Qin Xue's.

Lu Chi couldn't help but let his gaze fall on Su Yun Jiao ahead.

Su Yun Jiao was indeed seriously selecting songs, and even her occasional humming sounded pleasant.

Lu Chi had never known Su Yun Jiao could sing before; if it weren't for Zhou Tingting falling down the stairs this time, he probably would never have known how lovely her singing was.

Su Yun Jiao said, "Class monitor, what do you think of this song?"

"Hmm, not bad."

Zhou Xian nodded, his eyes full of appreciation.

One of the lackeys sitting in the back said, "Don't you notice? I feel Su Yun Jiao seems different from before."

"Yeah, she's a bit different now—she seems to like talking more, and she's sunny and outgoing; I didn't realize before that Su Yun Jiao is actually quite pretty."

"Indeed, at the arts gala stage that day, the boys from the neighboring class were all asking for Su Yun Jiao's contact info."

……

A few lackeys just casually said a couple of sentences, yet it made Lu Chi frown.

Were boys from other classes asking for Su Yun Jiao's contact info?

Are those guys' eyes bad?

What's good about that gloomy Su Yun Jiao?

Lu Chi thought while his peripheral vision fell on the classroom doorway.

Indeed, he saw a few boys standing at the doorway, craning their necks to look at Su Yun Jiao inside the classroom.

"What are you guys doing?"

Lu Chi walked straight out of the classroom.

Those boys' gazes still refused to move away from Su Yun Jiao.

"Hello, senior. We're second-year students; we want this senior sister's contact info."

After speaking, the boys looked at Lu Chi before them with the earnest eyes of a fawn, as if he were some great good person.

Lu Chi even laughed at those words.

"Don't you know she's engaged?"

"Huh?"

The boys froze.

"Engaged?"

"Listen clearly: the one sitting inside is my fiancée; please tell the boys in your class and the boys in your grade to stay away from my fiancée."

Having said that, Lu Chi slammed the classroom door shut.

These people really did come looking for Su Yun Jiao.

What's so good about Su Yun Jiao, after all?

Lu Chi turned his gaze onto Su Yun Jiao.

He saw Su Yun Jiao take her formerly disheveled hair and pull it up high into a ponytail, making her look much neater and more capable.

Her oval face was delicate and pretty; when she smiled, her eyes were as clear and bright as a crescent moon, and the corners of her mouth showed a faint dimple.

She seemed… a bit pretty.

Lu Chi and Su Yun Jiao had lived together for so long, yet only recently did he realize Su Yun Jiao wasn't worried—indeed, he could even say she was good-looking.

"Brother Lu, what's wrong?"

A few lackeys, unaware of what had happened outside, were grabbed by Lu Chi by the arm: "Su Yun Jiao, is she pretty?"

The lackey didn't understand why Lu Chi suddenly asked that.

But under Lu Chi's pressure, the lackey could only nod and say, "Good……"

When he realized Lu Chi's gaze was sweeping over him, the lackey immediately corrected himself: "Not pretty, not at all!"

After hearing the satisfactory answer, Lu Chi finally released the lackey.

"Right."

Su Yun Jiao is actually not good.

This is all just my illusion.

Lu Chi returned to his own seat.

"Here."

After class, Qin Xue waited outside the classroom for Lu Chi as usual.

But she discovered Lu Chi still hadn't come out.

Normally at this time Lu Chi should have already come out.

What's going on today?

Qin Xue frowned, not understanding what had happened.

So Qin Xue stood outside the classroom door, waited for a lackey to come out, then stepped forward and said, "Hello, I'm looking for Lu Chi; could you trouble yourself to call him for me?"

Seeing the person was Qin Xue, the other indeed gave face and said, "Ah, it's the sister-in-law; I'll go call Brother Lu right away!"

Basically half of the male classmates in Liu Ban all listen to Lu Chi's words.

When Qin Xue was called sister-in-law, she felt a bit embarrassed, but the other had already entered the class and said to Lu Chi, "Brother Lu, Qin Xue is looking for you."

Just the words "Qin Xue is looking for you" made an inexplicable stir rise in Qin Xue's heart.

Normally when these lackeys go looking for Lu Chi, they shout "sister-in-law."

Now how did it become them saying her name?

Soon, Lu Chi walked out of the classroom.

Lu Chi saw Qin Xue coming over, so he asked somewhat puzzled, "What's up?"

Seeing Lu Chi had forgotten, Qin Xue promptly said, "Don't you remember? You said earlier that at the New Year's Eve party you'd come to our class to accompany me; you also said I'd sing and you'd play guitar, surely a perfect match."

These words were what Lu Chi said to her a month ago.

At that time, the two were in an ambiguous phase, and Lu Chi said those things.

Now the New Year's Eve party is really approaching, but Lu Chi has completely forgotten the words he said when he was carried away.

"Sorry, I forgot."

Hearing Lu Chi say he forgot, Qin Xue felt disappointed but didn't show it: "It's okay, I didn't come to see you, did I? The New Year's Eve party is coming up soon, we need to rehearse in advance."

Qin Xue looked at Lu Chi before her, waiting for his agreement; then she could be alone with him.

But Lu Chi glanced at Su Yun Jiao in the classroom, then said: "Forget about the accompaniment; last time at the cultural performance, I accompanied you and caused quite a commotion—I'm afraid it would have a bad effect."

Upon hearing that, Qin Xue's smile froze instantly.

Probably because she didn't expect Lu Chi to actually refuse her, Qin Xue momentarily didn't know what to say.

Lu Chi said: "Go back to class first; now you're in senior year, your studies are important, don't come over often—your homeroom teacher will see and complain about you."