Chapter 121: Lu Chen's Background

On the way, Lu Chen suppressed the urge to call Xie Wantang back, and first called Xia Meng.

"Lu Zong." Xia Meng answered the phone, "What's up?"

"What did you say to Xie Wantang?"

"I've said what needed to be said, and then next month, I want to invite her to attend Yan Shen's and my wedding; of course, if President Lu has time, you're also welcome to come."

……

Hearing Xia Meng say that, Lu Chen guessed that Xia Meng was with Lu Yanze at the moment, and some things were inconvenient for her to say.

"I understand."

Lu Chen then hung up the phone.

When Xia Meng answered Lu Chen's call, Lu Yanze was smoking beside her, exhaling clouds and mist, and he kept observing the calm woman in the passenger seat.

After Xia Meng hung up, Lu Yanze chuckled lightly, "Lu Chen of LC?"

Lu Yanze knew Lu Chen.

He deliberately made Lu Yanshen disappear, rather than die, because of this Lu Chen.

After he finishes dealing with the Lu family's affairs, he will immediately carry out a new annexation plan, whose target is Lu Chen's LC.

By then, Lu Yanshen might still be useful.

"Yes, Young Master Lu, now that I've done everything you asked me to do, can I finally meet Yan Shen?" Xia Meng asked.

She willingly lets Lu Yanze control her, follows his orders, just to see Lu Yanshen.

Just because Lu Yanze said he knows everything about Lu Yanshen.

Moreover, from time to time he can produce something of Lu Yanshen's, making her continue to believe him.

"What's the rush? The wedding hasn't even been held yet—haven't Xie Wantang and Lu Chen not gone to Sijiucheng yet?"

"As far as I know, Lu Chen is currently in Sijiucheng; if you want to catch him, you should do it now."

"Hmph, stop arranging things for me—I know what I should and shouldn't do, and I know when to make a move."

……

The implication was to let Xia Meng mind her own business less.

Xia Meng then stayed silent.

She really didn't know what Lu Yanze wanted; he already got what he wanted, didn't he?

……

The first thing Lu Chen did upon returning to Haishi was to go see Xie Wantang.

Before boarding, he sent Xie Wantang a message telling her roughly what time he would come to see her.

Xie Wantang found an excuse, slipped out of her home, and went next door.

Su Yang was at home; before Lu Chen returned, Xie Wantang had Su Yang show her the surveillance of the apartment next to the one Xu Yanqiu rented.

Su Yang said there was nothing.

No one had appeared.

An sen's case has been solved, so this stronghold should have been abandoned by those people.

This is Su Yang's analysis.

Xie Wantang doesn't think so.

The person Xu Yanqiu saw that day was clearly like Lu Yanze—actually, it was like Lu Yanze—so the target definitely wasn't An sen.

After hearing Xie Wantang's idea, Su Yang told her another piece of information she didn't know: "Miss Xie, you don't even know that the face An sen had after plastic surgery is actually Lu Yanze's, do you?"

"What are you saying?"

Xie Wantang truly didn't know about this.

Xie Wantang was extremely shocked.

Before this, Xie Wantang had seen a photo of An sen; actually, it was of a young man with quite distinctive features.

What a pity……

The evil in the world is truly too treacherous.

Afterward, Lu Chen also returned.

He was dusty and weary; Su Yang found an excuse to go upstairs, giving them the downstairs living room.

Xie Wantang originally thought that after learning some truths, seeing Lu Chen again would make her unusually excited; but when they met just now, she wasn't nearly as excited as she had imagined.

Their eyes met, and time passed second by second.

I don't know how long it had been, but Xie Wantang broke into a smile: "President Lu, long time no see."

……

Lu Chen took a deep breath, knowing that when Xie Wantang said "President Lu," she was referring to Lu Yanshen.

"Xie Wantang, I can explain to you," Lu Chen said.

"Hmm, haven't I been waiting all along for President Lu's explanation?" Xie Wantang said calmly.

"Yes, I admit I deceived you, but I have unavoidable hardships." Lu Chen said in a low voice, staring at Xie Wantang with bright eyes.

"I understand; can you tell me about this hardship?"

Lu Chen nodded, "Hmm, have a seat."

Here, Lu Chen isn't afraid of being wiretapped, after all it's his turf, unlike in Sijiucheng, which belongs to others.

Xie Wantang sat down, her gaze never leaving Lu Chen's face; she was looking at him intently, not wanting to miss any expression.

The man who had been with her for three years was none other than Lu Chen.

The father of the baby in her womb was also Lu Chen.

Some things, she suddenly understood.

I understood why he wanted to divorce her.

I also understood why, after he reverted to being Lu Chen, he stayed by her and the baby's side.

I understood even more why a man would not care at all that a woman was carrying someone else's child, and still pursued her as before.

Tell her, he doesn't mind that she's carrying someone else's child.

Because, there was never anyone else; from beginning to end, there was only one person.

It's all him, Lu Chen.

He deceived her so terribly, so painfully; she also thought she should hate him, at least give him a taste of his own medicine.

But he is Lu Chen.

He is the man who maintained a three-year marriage with her.

He is also her baby's father.

So, she couldn't bring herself to hate him.

As long as he is willing to tell her the truth, she is willing to choose to forgive him.

"I am Lu Yanshen's twin, but my mother kept this a secret."

"She was only after money back then, so she bore Lu Wentao's child, but she never expected to be carrying triplets; however, because her health was poor and nutrition insufficient, the Lu family only needed a male infant, so they reduced the pregnancy by two fetuses."

"This was actively requested by the Lu family."

"My mother begged desperately, and the doctor finally agreed to reduce only one fetus, letting her keep another child; however, when she gave birth, she suffered massive hemorrhaging and died."

"The Lu family thought there was only one child, so they took Lu Yanshen."

"I was taken back by the doctor's adoptive mother to be raised."

"Before I reached adulthood, my adoptive parents never talked to me about my origins, and I always thought they were my real parents; only when I discovered they could not have children did they tell me my background."

My adoptive parents were obsessed with experiments; as I grew up just like them, we founded LC together, using the abbreviation of my name; my adoptive mother's surname is Lu and my adoptive father's surname is Chen. Perhaps because I lacked water in my eight characters, I changed Chen to the character written with the water radical, meaning "to sink".

"..."

Xie Wantang never expected that Lu Chen's name was so casually chosen, just a combination of his adoptive parents' surnames.

His adoptive parents also dabbled in the eight trigrams and feng shui; in the end they settled on the name Lu Chen.

Good thing he lacked water; otherwise, it would have been Lu Chen?

What a strange name.

Xie Wantang drifted off for a moment, then quickly snapped back.

"Well, then, what's the deal with you posing as Lu Yanshen and lying low in the Lu family?"

"Lu Yanshen went missing; he is my brother, after all we are full siblings, so I wanted to know exactly what happened to his disappearance."

"The Lu family waters run deep; at first I suspected Madam Lu, but later I discovered that Lu Yanze's issue was the biggest problem."

"Now we can pin down Lu Yanze, but we still have no evidence."

"..."