Chapter 127

As for Lu Chen wanting to use himself as bait, Xie Wantang didn't know what to say.

She knew this was something Lu Chen had to do, and even if she tried to stop him, it would be useless.

But none of them expected that after Xia Meng became Lu Yanshen's wife as she wished, the Lu family not only failed to achieve the effect of the auspicious marriage, but within a week, the three people lying in the hospital suddenly all lost their heartbeat.

The heart monitor almost simultaneously turned into a flat line.

Immediately after, the Lu family old residence and Lu Wentao's couple, while asleep, also suddenly encountered a fire.

The old residence turned to ashes, and Lu Wentao's couple and Lu Rourou suffered disfigurement.

The rumor that Xia Meng is a disaster star spread again in Sijiucheng; carrying that label, she walked the streets of Sijiucheng, and no one dared to approach her, fearing being implicated.

When she entered a supermarket, nobody wanted to do business with her, and they had security escort her out.

With the family in such chaos, Lu Yanze, accompanied by Liu Shiyue, devoted himself to handling the family's troubles, and each day had to accept interviews from reporters.

The matter blew up, went viral on hot searches; with just a phone, one could see such hot searches.

Seeing the Lu family suffer one misfortune after another, Xie Wantang worried for Xia Meng and Dongdong; fortunately, Dongdong seemed to have been forgotten by the Lu family and the public, with no one mentioning her child Dongdong.

On the contrary, under a video with few views and not very popular, someone asked where Xia Meng's child of unknown father had gone.

These people didn't know the child's nickname was Dongdong, and they used a very malicious term to refer to Dongdong—'oil bottle'.

【With a mother like that disaster star, that oil bottle probably can't hold up; maybe it went to see King Yama.】

【The child is innocent; can those upstairs leave some decency in their speech?】

Just one reply, and then no further mention of Dongdong at all.

Xie Wantang found Lu Chen and said, "Shall we go help Xia Meng?"

"'No, that's a trap; Lu Yanze is deliberately putting Xia Meng in this situation. He discovered Xia Meng was disobedient, she was targeted, and she can't escape.'"

"'But Lu Yanze actually went so far as to use such vicious means against his own parents and younger sister; it's utterly heinous.'"

Lu Chen began to have new doubts about Lu Yanze.

Only someone who could pull this off so perfectly is Lu Yanze; but what he can't figure out is why he's dealing with Lu Yanshen—because they don't share the same mother.

But Lu Rourou is his own younger sister.

Lu Wentao's couple are his biological parents; moreover, among the three Lu children, Lu Yanze is the most favored, to say they obey him in everything is not an exaggeration.

Xie Wantang gave a word to explain Lu Yanze's actions: perverted.

Neat and decisive.

Besides being perverted, a lunatic; no normal person could be so cruel to his own biological parents.

Lu Chen agreed wholeheartedly with Xie Wantang's summary.

This is an unsolvable riddle.

To Lu Chen and Shen Ye, everything that happened to the Lu family seems fantastical, because in the eyes of ordinary people in Sijiucheng, it is both natural disaster and man-made calamity.

It is the disaster that Xia Meng brought to the Lu family.

The auspicious marriage was not successful.

Xia Meng's reputation became utterly infamous in less than ten days.

The Lu family members who died died, those who were injured were injured, all lying in the hospital; only Lu Yanze and Liu Shiyue as a couple remained unharmed.

But they had a perfect alibi.

The fire at the old residence was due to aging wiring; the fire at the new residence was caused by an elderly servant's negligence while decocting medicine in the kitchen, and that servant also died in the kitchen dining area after suffering a sudden cerebral infarction.

Everything was too perfect.

Such a perfect reason, in the eyes of ordinary people, is just a natural disaster.

Shen Ye, Lu Chen, and Xie Wantang all knew this must be man-made disaster.

But they had no evidence, so they could only remain silent.

Besides waiting for developments, Shen Ye wasn't even invited to Sijiucheng to investigate this series of Lu family incidents; the matter was closed, with no loopholes, and nobody raised any questions, so it just fizzled out.

It's not a cold case; Shen Ye's big knife is unnecessary.

After Lu Yanze spent nearly ten days settling the Lu family's affairs, as Sijiucheng was about to calm down, Lu Wentao and Lu Rourou still couldn't hold on and were declared dead.

Lu Yanze and Liu Shiyue divorced; after the divorce, Liu Shiyue was sent abroad overnight by her natal family.

Xia Meng went mad, raving every day.

Before, people despised and drove her away; now those people, upon seeing the mad Xia Meng, all avoid her.

Xia Meng doesn't run out every day to scare those around her.

After thoroughly settling all Lu family matters, Lu Yanze put the Lu Clan Group up for public auction, and all proceeds were turned over to the government.

After leaving a will, he self-immolated on a certain dark, windy night.

No remains left.

The prestigious Lu family of Sijiucheng thus completed its legendary life.

Someone specifically sorted it out online, focusing from the time Xie Wantang and Lu Yanshen divorced, because of the Lu family's affairs, Xie Wantang's background was also dug up.

Her biological parents lost her when she was very young; nowadays, her relationship with her Haishi foster parents is better.

Moreover, her foster parents are the city's richest; the whole family treasures Xie Wantang as their adopted daughter, pampering and protecting her; anyone with a bit of sense wouldn't side with her despised biological parents.

If they were Xie Wantang, they would make the same choice as she did.

The Lu family destroyed, Xie Wantang was inexplicably chased after online; some even gave her a baseless persona, claiming she is a clear-headed leading lady.

Thus, Xie Wantang, as Lu Yanshen's ex-wife, enjoyed a brief burst of online fame.

Moreover, some people went to Haishi to stake out just to gain traffic, posting Xie Wantang's slightly protruding belly online, which sparked new gossip among the onlookers.

The tragic end of the entire Lu family dying out was thus replaced by the hot search of Xie Wantang carrying her ex-husband's posthumous child.

The onlookers' comments were almost unanimously beginning to denounce Xie Wantang.

【Is this Xie Wantang really unworthy of being a clear-headed leading lady?】

【Just, what was said upstairs is absolutely correct, a sober female lead shouldn't be like this, divorce is divorce, after divorce she should cut off all ties with her ex-husband, even the heavens have let the Lu Family be exterminated, yet she actually still wants to leave an heir for the Lu Family?】

【Is she mentally ill?】

【At the end of the day, it's just cheapness—she can't live without a man, I don't know what she's up to; this kind of woman, does she even deserve to be a sober female lead?】

……

With all these disgusting comments, there are a whole bunch below.

Xie Wantang publicly stated: "Is it possible that I'm not the kind of female lead you imagine? Is it possible that I already cheated in marriage, and the child I'm carrying isn't Lu Yanshen's?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole internet exploded.