Chapter 114: Lucky Star? Disaster Star?

Xie Wantang frowned slightly—how could this happen?

Liu Shiyue added softly: "The theater tickets were still bought by Xia Meng; when we went out, the weather was fine, the forecast didn't mention rain, but after the show we suddenly ran into a downpour."

"They waited for the rain to stop before leaving the theater, but halfway…"

Hearing this, Xie Wantang also felt quite upset.

Liu Shiyue went on, saying, "The Lu family has recently been hit with one bad thing after another, and my parents couldn't help inviting a feng‑shui master to the house."

"The feng‑shui master said our Lu family drove away the Lucky Star and left the Disaster Star."

"……"

Xie Wantang froze.

Lucky Star? Disaster Star?

The Lucky Star surely isn't her, and the Disaster Star surely isn't Xia Meng, right?

They wouldn't really believe this unscientific nonsense, would they?

"All right, Yueyue, stop." Lu Yanze finally spoke up to stop her, after Liu Shiyue had said everything she should and shouldn't.

Liu Shiyue closed her mouth.

"Sorry, Wantang, I made you laugh."

"Don't say that, Mr. Lu." Xie Wantang gathered her composure.

Whatever the Lu family's situation, in the end it has nothing to do with me now.

As for the Lucky Star and Disaster Star talk, she thought the feng‑shui master was just spouting nonsense.

What Lucky Star, what Disaster Star?

Even if they existed, she couldn't possibly rush back just because she was the Lu family's Lucky Star and the Lu family kept having mishaps.

That's impossible.

"Take good care of them, the old master and old lady will have blessings; they'll get better, you two shouldn't worry too much." Xie Ningmeng advised from the side.

Whether it was Xie Ningmeng or Xie Wantang, neither volunteered to say they wanted to go back to Sijiucheng to see the Lu elders or Lu Yanshen, who had been declared vegetative.

"The hospital has issued a critical condition notice, Doctor Xie—can we just pick up our medicine at the pharmacy tomorrow and leave? There's too much going on at home; we can't be away long."

"Sure, first thing tomorrow I'll have the pharmacy decoct your Chinese medicine."

"Thank you." Liu Shiyue thanked her, then turned to Xie Wantang: "Wantang, do you have time to go back to Sijiucheng with us to see Grandma and Yanshen?"

Xie Wantang shook her head, refusing the poor suggestion: "No, Mrs. Lu—I'm no longer a Lu family member; visiting them would be improper."

"Besides, I really don't have time; although I can walk now, the nerves in my leg still need slow rest and recovery, so I'm not really suited for a long trip."

"Apart from class, I basically never go out."

"……"

After Xie Wantang said that, Lu Yanze and Liu Shiyue could only say nothing.

Not long after, they bade farewell.

The Qin family arranged a driver to send them to the hotel.

On the way to the hotel, the three of them encountered a traffic accident.

This accident was strange: a chain‑rear‑end collision, no rain, no road faults, yet they were inexplicably rear‑ended.

Though none of them were in mortal danger, they all suffered various injuries and were promptly sent to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Qin Muyang went out to handle things, and Xie Wantang insisted on following.

No matter what, they were guests who had come to our house for a meal, and then our family's driver was taking them back to the hotel when the accident occurred.

Xie Wantang was puzzled—how could the Lu family's traffic‑accident frequency be so high lately?

When they arrived at the hospital, Lu Yanze was being questioned by the traffic police about the incident; Liu Shiyue's wounds had been treated, and she sat listlessly in the hallway.

Seeing Xie Wantang, Liu Shiyue became agitated, stood up, and approached her, but Qin Muyang extended an arm to block her, preventing her from getting closer; Liu Shiyue did not insist.

"Wantang, I and your older brother are definitely being targeted."

"This isn't the first time—back in Sijiucheng we were also mysteriously rear‑ended, but we never imagined we'd just arrived in Haishi today."

"You must stay safe—not everyone knows you and Yanshen are divorced; if those people don't know you've split, they'll surely treat you as a Lu family member."

"No, I want to divorce Lu Yanze—I can't keep going along with him; I don't want to be a Lu family member, I want to be like you…"

As she spoke, Liu Shiyue's emotions grew unusually agitated.

After finishing his questioning, Lu Yanze rushed over, grabbed the agitated Liu Shiyue, and had the doctor give her a sedative to calm her down.

The doctor did as instructed.

At last, everything calmed down.

Liu Shiyue fell asleep like a child, except tears clung to the corners of her eyes, making her look pitiful and endearing.

"Sorry, Wantang—I scared you."

Xie Wantang shook her head: "No, but why did Mrs. Lu say that?"

"Actually, that time in Sijiucheng really was an accident—she was accompanying me home from a banquet when the driver dozed off; he had a cold that day but endured it without telling us or taking leave."

"Speaking of it, we rear‑ended the car ahead first, then the vehicle behind—its female driver, a novice, likely panicked upon seeing the front collision and hit us."

"Perhaps that was when Yueyue got frightened."

"……"

So that's how it was.

Xie Wantang suddenly wondered whether she should tell Lu Yanze that recently someone had appeared here, cloning him?

If their guess is correct—that a mysterious person is cloning a real‑life individual—then if he makes the original disappear, the clone could take that person's place.

And then enjoy everything that person possesses.

Could it really be that a mysterious person is targeting the Lu family, seeking to use Lu Yanze's or Lu Yanshen's identity to swallow everything the Lu family owns?

However, when they were dealing with Lu Yanshen, they used too much force and knocked him out cold—he couldn't even get up.

Only then did they shift their target to Lu Yanze.

"Wantang, did you think of something?" Lu Yanze saw her lost in thought and asked.

Xie Wantang snapped back to attention, "If MrsLu is really that worried, why don't you try calling the police?"

"It's just a traffic accident; calling the police would only bring traffic cops, and besides, the traffic cops just left—what's the point of calling them again?"

"That's true." Xie Wantang ultimately didn't voice her worries to Lu Yanze.

How they act is their own business.

After the Qin Family's driver had his wounds bandaged, Qin Muyang paid the medical fees and then came over to tell Xie Wantang to leave.

"Mr. Lu, do you need us to hire a caregiver for your wife?"

"It's fine; if it becomes necessary, I'll hire one myself."

"All right, then we'll be going first."

"Mm."

"Goodbye, Mr. Lu," Xie Wantang said.

"All right, drive carefully on the road."

"Will do."

On the way back, Xie Wantang pulled out her phone and sent Lu Chen a message: "Are you asleep?"