Chapter 96: Lu Chi Recognizes the Kidnapper

The other party obviously did not want to see Lu Chi.

This further confirmed Su Yun Jiao's guess.

This woman definitely knew Lu Chi's mother, and even knew Lu Chi.

After considering this, Su Yun Jiao immediately stood up and said to Lu Chi, "Lu Chi, the people have already been caught, come over and take a look."

After seeing Su Yun Jiao return safe and sound, Lu Chi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he quickly noticed the woman tied up behind Su Yun Jiao.

Upon seeing that woman, Lu Chi's brows furrowed.

He thought he might have been mistaken, so he took two steps forward, hoping to see more clearly.

As that person's face became increasingly clear before his eyes, Lu Chi's complexion turned grim.

The woman kept her head lowered, seemingly not wanting Lu Chi to discover who she was.

Lu Chi glanced again at the man beside the woman, further confirming his thought.

"Lu Chi, what's wrong with you? Could it be that you know the person in front of you?"

Faced with Su Yun Jiao's question, Lu Chi merely turned pale, and after a while said, "I don't know them."

That single "I don't know" made the woman instantly breathe a sigh of relief.

But Su Yun Jiao could tell that Lu Chi was lying.

This is the expression Lu Chi makes when he lies.

The police quickly arrived at the mid-mountain.

This was a vicious kidnapping case, and the two individuals were quickly taken away by the police.

Lu Jingqing said, "Let's go back and rest first; I'll handle this matter."

"Su Yun Jiao has been living in our house all these years; even if it needs to be handled, it should be our family handling it. I've already told my mother, and she will take care of it, so you don't need to worry."

Lu Chi felt full of hostility toward Lu Jingqing.

Today Lu Jingqing didn't even greet them before directly going to rescue Su Yun Jiao.

What if the kidnappers choose to kill the hostage?

Lu Chi lost all interest in soaking in hot springs, including setting off fireworks at night; he said, "I'll go home first to deal with this matter, you guys enjoy yourselves."

After saying that, Lu Chi left directly.

Here.

Qin Xue and Zhou Tingting were still waiting at the villa.

They didn't know how the situation was.

Qin Xue's thoughts were entirely on Lu Chi; she realized she should have persuaded him not to come look for Su Yun Jiao.

At that moment, Lu Jingqing drove back with Su Yun Jiao and Zhou Xian.

Seeing Su Yun Jiao appear unharmed before her eyes, Zhou Tingting breathed a sigh of relief: "You really scared me to death! How could someone so grown still be kidnapped?"

Zhou Tingting had been well protected by the Zhou family and had never experienced a kidnapping.

Su Yun Jiao forced a smile and said, "It's fine, nothing happened, I wasn't hurt, thanks to Brother Jingqing."

Qin Xue noticed that only the three of them had returned, while Lu Chi was missing.

She asked anxiously, "Su Yun Jiao, where is Lu Chi? Why didn't he come back with you?"

Seeing Qin Xue only asking about Lu Chi and not caring whether Su Yun Jiao was injured, Zhou Tingting frowned and said, "Do you have no conscience? They've just been kidnapped, and you're worrying about where Lu Chi is."

"I, I'm just worried about Lu Chi."

Zhou Tingting indeed worries about Lu Chi.

Afraid something might happen to Lu Chi.

Su Yun Jiao said, "Lu Chi is fine, but… he has something to attend to, so he should probably drive home now."

Seeing Lu Chi actually abandon her alone here, Qin Xue's expression grew even worse.

How could Lu Chi abandon himself?

Could Lu Chi have forgotten that he's still here?

Zhou Xian said, "Jiao Jiao, go upstairs and rest properly, calm your emotions."

"Okay."

Su Yun Jiao indeed should rest well and carefully think about what happened today.

Here, Lu Chi drove toward the city center.

While driving, he dialed his mother's phone.

Lu Mu was still anxious over Su Yun Jiao's kidnapping; seeing it was Lu Chi calling, she immediately answered: "Hello? Son, what's going on? Is Su Yun Jiao alright?"

"Su Yun Jiao is fine."

Upon hearing her son say Su Yun Jiao was fine, Lu Mu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But then Lu Chi coldly said, "The couple who kidnapped Su Yun Jiao have also been caught; I feel like I've seen them before at our home, and they look very familiar."

Upon hearing that the kidnappers of Su Yun Jiao were a couple, Lu Mu's face instantly turned grim.

Because in her heart she already knew who was behind it.

Lu Chi remembered that when he was young, Su Yun Jiao had been kidnapped once, but the perpetrators didn't kill the hostage, and his own mother didn't want to call the police; instead she brought the Lu family people and rescued her.

At that time he thought his mother was genuinely worried about Su Yun Jiao, afraid that reporting would provoke the kidnappers to kill the hostage.

But now he realizes that the kidnapping that year was nothing but a self-directed, self-acted play by his own mother.

He never intended for them to kill the hostage!

Rather, he planned to gain Su Yun Jiao's dependence, giving him more reason to keep her by his side in the future.

Because the person who kidnapped Su Yun Jiao was none other than Lu Chi's aunt.

The woman who kidnapped Su Yun Jiao is his own mother's sister!

Although they rarely interacted when they were young, the other side had only come to his house twice.

Lu Chi remembered that aunt's face.

At that time his mother told him that the aunt's family was poor and that the aunt had no proper occupation, urging him never to get too close to her.

During those two visits, Lu Mu would just give the aunt ten or twenty thousand to send her away.

The aunt then really left.

But that one kidnapping, Lu Mu actually gave the other side five hundred thousand.

At that time that was a huge sum.

Who would have thought, after ten years, the other side came again.

But this time their target was actually Su Yun Jiao.

Thinking of this, Lu Chi felt his worldview collapse.

He had always felt that his mother liked Su Yun Jiao.

Now it seems that what his mother liked was not Su Yun Jiao, but the inheritance behind the Su family.

If Su Yun Jiao died, they couldn't get a penny.

But if Su Yun Jiao married him and then died, it would be different.

"You child... what nonsense are you spouting! How could you possibly be familiar with the kidnappers? Where are those two kidnappers now? Couldn't they have been arrested by the police?"

Lu Mu was extremely anxious; she couldn't let the other side be taken away by the police.

If they were arrested, his sister would spill the beans about the past incident, and the Lu family would surely be implicated as well.

Seeing that the day of Su Yun Jiao's coming-of-age ceremony had arrived, she absolutely would not allow such a mistake!

"Lu Jingqing wanted to investigate, but I stopped him."

Lu Chi said: "The police have taken them away now, Mom; when you go back you must give me an explanation! All these years, have you been trying to control Su Yun Jiao?"