Chapter 103: Xie Wantang Pats Lu Chen

Su Nianchu was slightly stunned: "Lu Yanze took Xia Meng abroad."

"Going abroad at this time?" Lu Chen's eyes instantly narrowed, and the fingers on the steering wheel tapped on and off.

Lu Chen's brain raced, guessing every possibility.

"Did she take the thing for Xia Meng?" Lu Chen asked.

"No, because it's missing we can't track them; we don't know which country they went to."

"... I understand." Lu Chen closed his eyes.

Su Nianchu didn't hang up, and quickly spoke again: "Lu Chen, I told you, we shouldn't have trusted Xia Meng, that woman. You were deceived by her; she might never have loved Lu Yanshen."

"She didn't deceive me; don't speak of her like that in the future." Lu Chen opened his eyes, protecting Xia Meng, his gaze clouded with displeasure at Su Nianchu's quick judgment of Xia Meng.

"..."

Su Nianchu was stunned; what was happening with Lu Chen?

Xia Meng still has something outrageous to say?

Hasn't he already removed Lu Yanshen's mask?

Now he's Lu Chen, so why is he still protecting Xia Meng so much?

Xie Wantang is protecting, Xia Meng is also being protected, what about her?

She is just a woman; does that mean she doesn't need protection?

Feeling resentful and sour inside, Su Nianchu still didn't forget the business that prompted the call.

"So what should Pei Xiao and I do now? Lu Yanze and Xia Meng have both left; in the ward there's a fake Lu Yanshen—do we still need to guard him?"

"Of course we must guard him; Pei Xiao knows what to do. If you have anything, contact him directly."

"Su Nianchu, for the time being, you may focus solely on design work; other matters, wait for Pei Xiao's assignments—don't act on your own."

"... Okay, I understand. If nothing else, I'll hang up now."

"Xia Meng left with Lu Yanze; who is taking care of Dongdong now?"

"Madam Lu."

"Which Madam Lu?"

"Lu Wentao's wife."

"Got it, hang up."

"..."

After hanging up, Lu Chen still called Pei Xiao.

"Boss—"

Pei Xiao, noticing Lu Chen was using his phone, answered with a playful shout to Lu Chen.

"Why wasn't I the one you told about Lu Yanze taking Xia Meng abroad?" Lu Chen pressed for responsibility.

Pei Xiao smiled helplessly.

"Nianchu said she'd inform you; she wanted to take the chance to talk to you. I can't block that, right? Boss."

"Heh—"

Lu Chen sneered, "Pei Xiao, be serious with me."

Pei Xiao immediately suppressed his smile, replying solemnly and earnestly: "Yes, Boss, what orders do you have?"

"Find Shen Ye and have him use his network to investigate which country Lu Yanze and Xia Meng have settled in?"

"Understood."

"Have Su Nianchu investigate An sen." Lu Chen squinted, "Find someone to protect her safety."

"With her skills, it shouldn't be necessary, right?" Pei Xiao said.

"Even her abilities fear the enemy's low blows; don't let her get hurt."

After all, she's his subordinate; Su Nianchu has done a lot for him. Whether she will willingly work with him in the future is irrelevant, but since she hasn't left, as the boss he must do everything to prevent any member from being sacrificed.

When avoidance is impossible, speak otherwise.

"Understood, Boss."

"Mm."

After hanging up, Lu Chen drove back to LC.

"......"

At eleven p. m., Xie Wantang kept her sleepy eyes half‑closed, her eyelids battling each other, hugging a pillow while her phone lay on the bed.

After dinner she charged her phone and kept waiting for Lu Chen to discuss ideas with her.

Yet from 9:30 p. m. until now, she still didn't know what Lu Chen was busy with, as he hadn't contacted her.

She felt too shy to initiate, so she patiently endured, battling drowsiness, and kept waiting.

Over there, Lu Chen kept explaining to his grandfather and soothing his irritable mood.

He soothed him until 11:30 p. m.

Professor Wu finally barely accepted his explanation and immediately had him devise a new plan to win back his wife.

Lu Chen was also speechless.

He's not Lu Yanshen, so even if he truly pursued Xie Wantang, it wouldn't be "chasing a wife" but a normal romantic relationship.

Professor Wu didn't care; whether it's Lu Yanshen or Lu Chen, the name differs but the person is the same.

They're both his boys.

Then Xie Wantang is his boy's wife, his grandson‑in‑law.

The child in Xie Wantang's womb is his great‑grandchild, whether a grandson or granddaughter, in any case his most anticipated little baby.

His little baby absolutely cannot be a child from a single‑parent family.

One must have both parents, growing up in a complete family with a dad and mom.

Lu Chen sometimes really had no way with that weird old man; to get the old man to sleep earlier, he had no choice but to follow the old man.

Fortunately, they, grandparents and grandchild, live on the top floor of LC Building; tomorrow morning, reaching the classroom before class time would suffice.

Otherwise, I really fear that if the old man sleeps an extra half hour tomorrow, then runs into rush hour and gets stuck on the road, he'll surely be late.

After coaxing the weird old man, Lu Chen returned to his own room.

It was already eleven-thirty; half an hour ago, Xie Wantang patted herself.

Lu Chen suddenly had a flash of inspiration, took his phone, and sent Xie Wantang a text message: 'Asleep or not?'

Xie Wantang instantly replied: 'No, I'm waiting for Teacher Lu's idea.'

……

This Xie Wantang is really persistent.

Lu Chen thought for a moment, then sent a voice message: 'Can I send a voice? Typing is too slow.'

Xie Wantang sent back a voice message: 'No problem, Teacher Lu.'

'Good.'

'The idea is actually that behind the male model disappearance case, there might be a behind-the-scenes black hand making clones.'

'Clones?' Xie Wantang was very shocked.

Lu Chen's idea is really bold.

She had never even thought in that direction; at the time, Shen Ye asked her to help go to an entertainment club to find the recently missing male model named An Sen.

After looking at the photos of An Sen and other missing male models, she discovered a common point: they were all very tall and very handsome.

She had thought, letting these good-looking male models go missing, maybe the person behind it wanted to send these male models abroad to be black slaves.

She admitted, she has watched quite a few Hong Kong dramas.

Sometimes, when bored, she would do various things to kill time.

She also had thought that after these male models go missing, it's likely bad news, but with so many corpses, where could they be hidden?

Clones?

This really is a new idea.

In that case, are the male models just tools?

The behind-the-scenes black hand's target is not these male models, but rather using control of these male models to deal with the originals that have been cloned?

Whoever the cloned person resembles, that person is the target the behind-the-scenes black hand wants to deal with.

Xie Wantang's mind raced; Lu Chen also didn't expect that just the three words 'clone' could make Xie Wantang think so much, so far.

And Xie Wantang's own analysis coincided with Lu Chen's later successive reverse thinking.

Lu Chen also thought so.