Chapter 31: Where Did This Whole Situation Actually Start to Lose Control?

On the same night, there are people like Xie Wantang, sleeping soundly.

There are also the irritable ones who cannot sleep at all.

For example, Madam Lu and her son.

Lu Yanze finished overtime at the group and came back; Madam Lu felt very distressed, and she personally brought a restorative soup, saying, "Aze, lately Yanshen has been so ineffective, making you work overtime so late every day."

"Mom, it's better that he's ineffective," Lu Yanze chuckled lightly, but the sorrow in his brows could not be dispelled.

It let Xie Wantang discover that Xia Meng is Lu Yanshen's First Love, and she even saw with her own eyes that late at night Lu Yanshen was still with his First Love, not returning to spend her birthday with her, just to create friction between the couple.

Everything was proceeding according to his plan, but it seemed he had underestimated Xie Wantang.

He originally thought that if she made a fuss, it would badly affect Lu Yanshen, letting the group's partners learn that Lu Yanshen's back garden was on fire and his household unsettled, so he could seize the opportunity to take over all the projects Lu Yanshen held.

But he didn't expect Xie Wantang to cause such a commotion, not divorcing, just demanding to tear the family apart?

Moreover, Lu Yanshen even cooperated fully, moving with her into a hotel.

He also drove away all the people he had painstakingly placed beside the couple to monitor them.

Lu Yanze spent the whole day at the company, not worrying much about work; instead he was pondering where this matter had started to go out of control.

Obviously, everything should have proceeded step by step.

Now that it turned out like this, his people cannot get close to Lu Yanshen and Xie Wantang, and he has to bribe again those who can approach the couple.

There is risk, and the people of Yu Jing Zun Di are not so easy to bribe.

Spending money is one thing, but finding those people's weaknesses truly costs time and effort.

Lu Yanze really feels annoyed.

His mother and younger sister went to intervene today, but both failed; I heard Xie Wantang directly moved the grandmother out.

She also knows how to make the old lady happy.

He truly underestimated this woman from the countryside.

Back then, Lu Yanshen sat in a wheelchair, and his grandmother insisted on arranging a marriage for him; throughout Sijiucheng, the well‑born daughters refused to marry him.

He thought the grandmother would give up, but unexpectedly she could still find the Xie Family.

However, the Xie Family's official daughter, Xie Bailu, looked down on Lu Yanshen and refused to marry.

The Xie Family is also quite resourceful; to make their family a patron, they even went to the countryside to find and bring back the daughter who had been lost.

After Lu Yanze learned that Xie Wantang's adoptive mother is a Haishi countrywoman, he realized she had grown up in the countryside, never seen the world, and had no background or ability, so he relaxed his mind.

In these three years, he never gave Xie Wantang any attention.

Until Xie Wantang actually helped Lu Yanshen stand up from his wheelchair, he finally realized.

More frighteningly, after such a long time, he still couldn't find any evidence proving any flaw in this recovered Lu Yanshen.

He knows he is not his brother Lu Yanshen, yet this person's habits, preferences, and First Love of Lu Yanshen were all fully accepted.

It's as if he is a completely unfamiliar body, yet possesses Lu Yanshen's soul.

From his reappearance until now, over three years, he has gradually accepted this new opponent's existence.

In the past, he defeated Lu Yanshen once; he doesn't mind defeating him a second time.

Whether or not body‑borrowing and soul‑returning truly exist, even if Lu Yanshen's soul returns for revenge, he would not be afraid.

Moreover, that fool Lu Yanshen will never know until death that he was the one who sent him onto the road of the Yellow Springs.

Madam Lu came to her senses, "Mom obviously knows, but Xie Wantang really went too far; she actually hired a designer to tear down their own house. Would you say she's crazy?"

"Mom, I asked Grandma, and she said Xie Wantang agreed to have a child with the second son; she told Grandma that the master said, to become pregnant smoothly, one must break ground."

"Your grandmother believes this the most; I even thought your grandmother was truly bewitched by that woman," Madam Lu suddenly realized.

Xie Wantang really has some skill.

She truly underestimated this woman before.

"Mom, whether Grandma was bewitched is not the point; the point is the child. Xie Wantang previously wanted a divorce, and today she moved into the same Zongtang Taofang with the second son. Are you really going to watch them give birth to the child with your eyes open?"

Lu Yanze's expression suddenly turned cold; the Lu family's heir could only be his.

Originally, keeping Lu Yanshen was meant to continue his life; otherwise Lu Yanshen would never have the chance to descend into this world.

"Do you mean Xie Wantang is pregnant?" Madam Lu realized.

"Whether she's pregnant or not, I don't know. Find time to ask Madam Xie; a woman changes so drastically overnight, don't you think that's too strange?"

Madam Lu nodded, "It is indeed strange. Good, Mom knows what to do. Quickly drink Old Zhong's medicinal soup, then go upstairs with Yueyue to conceive."

Yueyue, Madam Lu's eldest daughter‑in‑law Liu Shiyue, Xie Wantang's sister‑in‑law.

"What kind of person to make? How long have we been drinking Old Zhong's medicinal soup? It has no effect. Mom, I already told you to switch TCM doctors. By the way, I heard Haishi has a famous…"

"Xie Family Traditional Chinese Medicine excels at acupuncture, but if we use acupuncture and it goes wrong, you'll have no hope. Let's be conservative. The master said Yueyue has a fertile constitution; let's try again, okay?"

"Alright, I'll follow your lead, give that woman another chance. But Mom, if Xie Wantang is pregnant, Grandfather's side, Lu Yanshen's chance to turn things around will arrive, then you won't fear that he'll know the truth and step on us?"

Madam Lu was stunned for a moment, shook her head, "It won't happen, Aze, Mom won't let him succeed."

"Hmm."

Lu Yanze finished the medicinal soup and went upstairs.

Upstairs, Liu Shiyue hadn't fallen asleep at all.

After Lu Yanze finished his shower and went up, Liu Shiyue bit her lip tightly, silently enduring Lu Yanze's torment the whole time.

Fortunately, Lu Yanze wouldn't kiss her; when doing such things, he also kept the lights off.

In the night, he couldn't see the desperation and painful endurance in Liu Shiyue's eyes.

In the end, Lu Yanze still failed; frustrated, he shouted, punching the pillow beside Liu Shiyue. Liu Shiyue's heart stopped for several seconds, and only after a while did it recover.

Sensing her change, in the darkness Lu Yanze's reckless, cold laugh fell into Liu Shiyue's ear, "Scared now? Did you think I'd hit you?"

Liu Shiyue said nothing; at the corner of her eye, a string of crystal tears silently slipped out.

"Do you regret not marrying the disabled Lu Yanshen back then, only to end up marrying me, a madman?" Lu Yanze asked again.

Liu Shiyue shook her head, trembling with fear as she tried to please him, "No, you're not crazy, I'll help you, Yanze."

"Really? Good, then you come help me."

Lu Yanze turned over and lay flat.

Liu Shiyue gritted her teeth, hesitated for two seconds, then turned and sat on Lu Yanze.

This was destined to be a futile and humiliating night.

Liu Shiyue also didn't know when this tormenting life would end.

No one knew that the modest gentleman Lu Yanze in public became a complete devil once night fell.