Chapter 78: Stop Getting Close to Me, Lu Yanshen

Xu Yanqiu is relieved that she originally rented the house instead of buying it; otherwise she would have had to list the house with an agency for handling. Now she only needs to agree with the landlord to terminate the lease early.

She also voluntarily gave up the deposit; the landlord gladly agreed, even letting her skip settling the water and electricity bills.

She didn't know that just after she left, her parents came back with her wayward younger brother, and were told that Xu Yanqiu had already been forced by them to cancel the lease, so they gave up.

They called Xu Yanqiu, who had changed to a new phone number.

The three of them were indignant.

In the end, they left while cursing.

Because many people were returning this time, Qin Siyuan suddenly decided to charter a plane, with the cost covered by Qin Mu Chuan.

Qin Mu Chuan had no objection.

The suburban airport.

Lu Yanshen kept his word and arrived early in the morning to see them off.

Xie Wantang sat in a wheelchair, a thin blanket draped over her knees.

Qin Muyang still needed to handle Xie Wantang's aftermath, so today he stayed behind instead of returning with them, standing there and watching the two from a distance.

Pei Xiao walked over and handed Qin Muyang a cigarette.

"Pei Shao." Qin Muyang said, taking the cigarette from Pei Xiao and suddenly speaking.

Pei Xiao's hand paused briefly while passing the cigarette, then resumed: "Sure enough, you're from the Haishi Qin Family. Their connections are extensive."

Even after his identity was exposed, Pei Xiao remained remarkably calm.

"As far as I know, Lu Yanshen and your Pei family have never intersected before, and besides, the Lu Family in Sijiucheng has respectable prestige but no right to let you, Young Master Pei, serve as a personal assistant to this Second Young Master."

"Lawyer Qin is flattering me; since Lawyer Qin has had someone investigate me, he should know how many improper words I, Young Master Pei, have uttered. I am the Pei Family's illegitimate son."

"…"

Qin Muyang hadn't expected Pei Xiao to view himself that way.

Indeed, Pei Xiao is truly the Pei Family's illegitimate son.

However, the few legitimate children of the Pei Family bring no hope to the family patriarch; as for Pei Xiao, the illegitimate son, he was raised outside the household, left to grow up on his own.

Yet Pei Xiao's knowledge and abilities are the most outstanding among this generation of the Pei Family.

If not for his somewhat unsavory background, Pei Xiao would have become the head of the Pei Family long ago.

Now, Pei Xiao is willingly serving as a minor assistant by Lu Yanshen's side?

If the patriarch learns that Lu Yanshen has humiliated the Pei Family like this, the Lu Family will surely cause trouble again.

In recent years, the Pei Family has focused more on overseas operations, yet their standing in Sijiucheng remains that of a centuries-old prestigious clan.

That ranks even higher than a typical wealthy family.

"May I ask boldly, Young Master Pei, who is likely to become the future head of the Pei Family, what made you decide to follow Lu Yanshen? He even only lets you be an assistant?"

"Lu's personal charisma is boundlessly great; Lawyer Qin will understand it in time."

"Personal charisma? It's quite substantial," Qin Muyang said with a double meaning.

Being able to make Tang Bao, who has been pampered since childhood, utterly infatuated truly shows his charm.

"What exactly is Lu doing?"

"It's still the same line, Lawyer Qin: Lu's goal is to protect his wife and the child in her womb. Perhaps one day Lu will return to his wife and his child, and then he will never hurt his wife again."

"Wife? Young Master Pei, let me remind you that the Lu you're talking about is divorced from my sister."

"Yes, it's Lu who got divorced."

Of course they have to divorce; he can't still let his child truly become Lu Yanshen's child, right?

These words, Pei Xiao naturally couldn't convey all at once to Qin Muyang.

…

Here, Lu Yanshen stared at Xie Wantang seated in the wheelchair, his eyes black as ink, like a bottomless abyss.

【1】 "Take good care of yourself," Lu Yanshen said first, his voice cold yet gentle.

"Take good care of yourself." Lu Yanshen was the first to speak, cool yet gentle.

"There's no need for you, Lu, to worry," Xie Wantang suppressed the urge to roll her eyes; she wouldn't let this scumbag abuse herself.

In the open area, you have to raise your voice a bit for the other person to hear.

Here, the wind howls, so even the best eavesdropping gear might not work well.

Lu Yanshen stepped toward Xie Wantang; when he was only a step away, Xie Wantang saw he hadn't stopped and couldn't hold back: "Stop getting close to me, Lu Yanshen."

"…"

Lu Yanshen stopped, then ignored her.

He took two more steps, knelt beside her wheelchair, and from a distance his posture resembled a single‑knee kneel.

"There's also a baby."

Lu Yanshen reached out, intending to touch Xie Wantang's abdomen, but in midair he turned his hand toward the back of her hand.

Hearing the word "baby," Xie Wantang was stunned.

Outside, the news about her—car accident, miscarriage.

Even Xu Yanqiu believed she had already lost the baby; why would Lu Yanshen bring up this baby?

And earlier he said—"Take good care of yourself."

Then he said there's also a baby?

Xie Wantang looked at Lu Yanshen in confusion, recalling what Shen Ye told her: Xia Meng used Morse code yesterday to send a message, and the decoded result was that the real Lu Yanshen had disappeared.

Xie Wantang stared in disbelief at the Lu Yanshen before her.

He was exactly the same as three years ago.

How could he not be the real Lu Yanshen?

Into what massive vortex has she been pulled?

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You say, in this world, could there be another person who shares an identical face with you, making it impossible to tell who is who?" Xie Wantang probed.

She was so shocked she forgot to be angry.

"Of course, isn't that what twins are like?"

"Do you have twins?" Xie Wantang asked right away; at that moment, her IQ was sharp and her reaction quick.

Lu Yanshen shook his head.

"None?"

"I don't know." Lu Yanshen said with a smile.

"There's also another situation: the probability that the heavens create people, so that two people with no blood relation whatsoever could share the same face, all over the world."

"After all, how many people could walk every inch of this world's land? And how could they meet every person living in this world?"

"Besides, there's the cross-time-and-space kind—you and your best friend love watching entertainment gossip, right? I still remember one night when I came home late, your phone was still lit; I pulled it out intending to turn it off, and discovered you were looking at that news."

"It was a female celebrity who looked just like a palace concubine."

Lu Yanshen's explanation was very detailed.

Xie Wantang suddenly changed the subject: "Lu Yanshen, since you're unwilling to tell me who you really are, then I won't want this rootless child."

"……"

Xie Wantang didn't notice that Lu Yanshen's hand, resting on his knee, suddenly clenched tightly when he heard her say it was a rootless child and that she wouldn't want it.

He had put in so much effort, setting up such a big scheme just for her and the child, yet she actually said she didn't want their child?