Chapter 82: Could This Person Be Lu Yanshen?

Because the person who arranged this plot convinced my parents and my brother, as well as Shen Ye, my Senior Martial Brother.

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That person who set up this plot, Ba, do you think he could be Lu Yanshen? I'm talking about the man who wears Lu Yanshen's face, married you and divorced you, and is the biological father of the baby.

It's complicated, but Xu Yanqiu described this redundant account more clearly.

Before, it was just a sentence: that dog man Lu Yanshen.

Now that dog man is even more of a dog, but still using the name Lu Yanshen—Xu Yanqiu doesn't know if that's correct.

Perhaps they aren't called Lu Yanshen at all.

But why does this dog man pretend to be Lu Yanshen?

He also hurt her family's baby.

Xie Wantang thought for a moment, shook her head, "I don't know."

She truly doesn't know now.

These past three years, Lu Yanshen may have been the second young master of the Lu Family, but the two elders of the Lu Family and the Lu Wentao couple clearly favored Lu Yanze more.

Lady Lao and Madam Lu explained to her that Lu Yanze has been frail since childhood, so they inevitably feel more pity for him.

Moreover, Lu Yanze is smarter, with higher IQ; aside from his weak body, he surpasses Lu Yanshen in every other aspect.

Therefore, the Lu Family hopes each generation will be stronger, and they place that hope on Lu Yanze rather than Lu Yanshen.

Thus, Lu Yanshen's purpose of existence is to serve his older brother Lu Yanze.

Lu Yanze is the commander, and Lu Yanshen is the baton.

Lu Yanshen is a sharp knife in Lu Yanze's hand; wherever Lu Yanze points, he stabs.

Lu Yanshen follows Lu Yanze's orders without question.

Such obedience once made Xie Wantang very upset.

She told Lu Yanshen to live for himself, but clearly he didn't listen.

If the Lu Yanshen before us these three years isn't the original Lu Yanshen of the Lu Family, then what is his purpose in impersonating Lu Yanshen?

To find the real Lu Yanshen?

The real Lu Yanshen has disappeared, and has been missing for a very long time.

"With so many things, what do you still know?" Xu Yanqiu said, a bit unable to stay calm.

Xie Wantang shook her head: "I don't know."

Xie Wantang has told Xu Yanqiu everything she knows; now the two of them, as close friends, know the same secrets, yet Xu Yanqiu remains impatient and restless.

Xie Wantang, however, remains calm and at ease.

Xu Yanqiu, still not understanding, said, "No, Ba, you said you still have so many things unclear—why are you so calm?"

"What does being unsettled get you? If they won't speak, then naturally they can't be spoken of."

"You seem… to have gotten used to this long ago."

"Gradually, you'll get used to it too."

……

Xu Yanqiu feels so annoyed.

She's just an ordinary person, so either tell her every truth word for word, or tell her nothing at all.

This half‑known, half‑unknown situation is truly exhausting.

She lacks patience and her concentration isn't strong either.

"What do we do now?"

"Once we go home, we'll be safe. I won't return to Sijiucheng. As for their blood‑soaked turmoil, it has nothing to do with us."

"What you need to do now is devote yourself entirely to your writing. As for me, I'll nurture the pregnancy and give birth to the baby in my womb before worrying about anything else."

When she met Lu Yanshen at the airport, she said she didn't want the child in her womb, merely to use this to provoke Lu Yanshen, thinking he might not be able to endure the provocation and would then be frank with her about certain things.

But clearly, that man's concentration is extremely strong.

She said all she could, yet he remained completely unmoved, calmly wishing her a safe journey.

If that car accident was truly a plot set by this man, then he's truly formidable.

Even more formidable than Lu Yanze.

The key is, what method did he use to persuade her parents and Shen Ye?

Her parents and older brothers' reactions and expressions weren't fake; they simply didn't know that man, only the eldest brother knew someone named Lu Chen.

He was in a rock‑climbing club with him.

That man works in research.

A researcher, cooped up in a lab all day, his mind likely can't outwit Lu Yanze's thousand‑year fox.

Lu Yanze's scheming is so deep.

Ordinary people certainly can't outdo him.

She's also seen photos of Lu Chen: simple‑hearted, smiling, with curved eyebrows and bright eyes, looking not like someone who schemes.

"First, get some rest. My room is right next door. I'll go back, take a shower and change. Once home, you can fully relax; there's no surveillance here, and no one will be listening, so you can completely let go."

"Hmm."

"I'll head back now; we'll have lunch at twelve."

"Alright."

Xie Wantang returned to her room, took a set of casual home clothes from the wardrobe, and went to the bathroom to shower.

Standing under the showerhead, she wiped the steam from the mirror, revealing her clear features.

Her face was very healthy, white with a rosy hue, skin delicate, pores invisible.

From childhood onward, everyone said she was smart, that her IQ was very high.

The facts prove she learns anything quickly; the elementary and middle school curriculum, she self-studied ahead of time, so she skipped a grade every two years.

Before turning twenty, she graduated from graduate school, and even earned double doctorates.

These all prove she is a high-IQ academic ace.

However, there are always people better than you, and skies beyond the sky.

In this world, there is never a shortage of academic aces, nor a shortage of geniuses.

Their family stays low-key precisely because they know that in this world, there are truly too many city-level billionaires, so they basically don't amount to anything.

However, although many mysteries remain unsolved, those are all things of the past.

Over these three years, everything in Sijiucheng, she just treats it as a dream.

The dream has ended, but life must still go on.

Moreover, this dream she had was not completely without gain.

She also gained a baby.

She will love her baby; this baby is hers alone.

Without a father, she will give him lots of love, which can certainly make up for the lack of a father's love.

Going downstairs to eat, Xie Wantang discovered that Qin Muyang had arrived home.

"Older brother."

"Qin Big Brother." Xu Yanqiu followed Xie Wantang in calling.

"Miss Xu." Qin Muyang greeted the guest.

"How did you come back?" Xie Wantang asked.

"Lu Yanshen got into a car accident, is being rescued in the hospital; today I couldn't finish any paperwork, so I came back first." Qin Muyang said.

Xie Wantang nodded, feeling at the time that even if those ten billion were Lu Yanshen's money, the Lu family would never let her just take it away so easily.

Perhaps because the previous procedures went too smoothly, it gave her the illusion that she had wrongly blamed the Lu family.

She truly never expected that the reason the payment couldn't be processed was actually because Lu Yanshen himself had an accident.