Chapter 19: Not Calling Him Brother Yu Anymore?

Lou Yi was helped up as he climbed up with difficulty, but Zhu Yuan had already run away.

He turned his head resentfully to look at Pei Ling, who had already walked a few steps away, and after confirming that the other party would not notice him, he turned back, lowered his voice, and roared, "Hurry and chase her! Catch her and bring her back to me!"

The Bodyguards immediately chased forward.

Zhu Yuan's legs were not as fast as theirs, and they were catching up quickly.

"Get in the car!"

Suddenly, a white sedan stopped beside her, and a voice came from the lowered window, urging her.

When she recognized the person driving, Zhu Yuan frowned, but she didn't think much of it, pulled open the car door, and sat inside.

At the same time she closed the door, the car shot out like an arrow released from a bow, instantly leaving Lou Yi's Bodyguards far behind.

Zhu Yuan looked back, confirmed that she was safe, and looked at Ling Bing, who was driving, "Why help me?"

That day she was drugged, yet Ling Bing had pushed her to the forefront without reservation, wanting to ruin her completely in front of the Lu Family.

All for the sake of a man not worth it.

"Do you think you're worthy of my help?" Ling Bing glanced at her arrogantly, "I am helping myself. If Lou Yi gets his hands on you tonight, there will be no possibility between him and me. I must marry into the Lou Family."

Zhu Yuan didn't care whether she married into the Lou Family or not.

One is brain-damaged and the other is epileptic; they are a perfect match.

She didn't want to express her own opinion.

The car continued to drive forward.

"The people have been shaken off, let me out of the car up ahead." Zhu Yuan glanced at the rearview mirror.

Ling Bing gripped the steering wheel tightly, embarrassed and angry, "Do you take me for your driver?"

Zhu Yuan sighed helplessly, "Miss Ling, I have no grudges against you, you don't have to be so hostile toward me."

"I just don't like you, so what?"

Zhu Yuan leaned against the seat back and lowered the car window; the evening breeze blew on her face, "There are plenty of people who don't like me, who do you think you a..."

"Shut up!" Ling Bing immediately stepped on the brake and pulled the car over to the side of the road.

She turned her head and glared at Zhu Yuan, "You are nothing but an unfavored second daughter of the Zhu Family, what right do you have to speak to me in such an arrogant tone?"

In this world, there is no such thing as dislike or hatred without a reason.

Although the reason for Ling Bing's hatred toward her seemed stupid to Zhu Yuan, Zhu Yuan still reminded her: "Lou Yi pestering me is his own business, it has nothing to do with me; you are targeting the wrong person."

"How does it have nothing to do with you? If it weren't for you, how could Lou Yi have broken up with me? Flies don't bite seamless eggs! If you were well-behaved and kept to yourself, why would he be so distracted by you? Why doesn't he go find someone else!"

"Yes, I can only blame myself for being too beautiful," Zhu Yuan pushed open the car door and stood by the door, the evening breeze blowing up her waterfall of long hair, "Flies will always be flies, but I am a good egg. I never intended to provoke any of you; I just want to live a peaceful and stable life."

To cure Grandpa's illness, and wait for her brother to be released from prison, so the three of them could live a good life.

If Lu Huaizhan hadn't died, her life might have been different.

But now...

Zhu Yuan sighed, stopped letting her mind wander, hailed a taxi, and went to the hospital.

Grandpa's surgery was scheduled for next week; time seemed to pass very slowly and yet very quickly, so fast that when she calculated carefully, Lu Huaizhan had already been dead for ten days.

When Zhu Yuan arrived at the Lu Family, the Lu Family members had already begun to make preparations.

Today was Lu Huaizhan's memorial birthday, his first birthday after his death, and also his last.

Lu Huaizhan's friends and relatives from his lifetime would all be in attendance.

Although she had left the Lu Family, Lu Laotaitai had called her two days ago and told her she must come back today.

It wasn't that she was particularly obedient to Lu Laotaitai.

She came back of her own volition.

For the sake of Lu Huaizhan.

When she entered the door, the Lu Family was busy from top to bottom, and no one greeted her.

After first seeing Lu Laotaitai, Zhu Yuan went to the room she used to live in to look for something.

When she finished finding her things and came out, she happened to hear the housekeeper assigning the evening's work to the servants.

As she approached, the housekeeper nodded and greeted her: "Miss Zhu."

Zhu Yuan nodded, looked casually at the servants standing in several rows outside, and asked: "Is everyone here?"

"Everyone is here. Today is the eldest young master's memorial birthday; not a single person asked for leave."

After the housekeeper finished answering, he began to assign tasks.

Zhu Yuan walked to the side, her gaze sweeping across the crowd without leaving a trace, looking through face after face to find the servant who had given her a glass of water that night.

However, she looked through them all and did not find that person.

Since the housekeeper said not a single person had asked for leave, and that person was not here, it meant that the person who gave her water to drink that night was not a servant of the Lu Family.

That night, there were many people and eyes, and someone had fished in troubled waters.

Who exactly went to such great lengths to drug her, wanting to push her into a situation of eternal damnation?

The first person she ruled out in her mind was Ling Bing; although Ling Bing had tried to smear her without reservation that night, her brain wasn't capable of such a thing.

Ling Bing's temperament was best suited to being used as a tool, not as the person behind the scenes.

She had seen all of Ling Bing and Zhu An'an's reactions that night; Ling Bing seemed to have something left unsaid before being interrupted by Zhu An'an.

Could the person who drugged her be Zhu An'an?

Zhu Yuan was lost in thought and didn't notice the steps in front of her; as soon as she stepped out, she missed her footing and fell downward.

Suddenly, a powerful hand gripped her slender waist, holding her steadily.

"Are those eyes of yours just for decoration?"

This voice... Before Zhu Yuan could stand steady, she looked up into the glaring white sunlight and blinked, finally seeing the man before her clearly.

The buttons of his white shirt inside his long black trench coat were fastened to the very top, tied with a dark tie; when he looked at people with cold eyes, an air of asceticism emerged for no reason.

Recalling the scene in the car that day, Zhu Yuan embarrassedly averted her gaze and said in a low voice, "Young Master Yu."

Sheng Yu loosened his hand that was gripping her waist and let it hang casually at his side; his tall figure blocked most of the light as he looked at the person in front of him with her head lowered, "Not calling me Yu Ge anymore?"

Zhu Yuan pursed her lips and said nothing.

The man pulled at his tie with a cold face, "What are you holding in your hand?"

Zhu Yuan took the item out; it was a box, and there was something inside, "It is something Lu Huaizhan was carving for me, it is not finished yet."

One of the reasons she came back was to look for this.

Two days ago, the Lu Family had packed her things, and she had searched through her suitcase but could not find this unfinished figurine; she had just gone to her old room to look for it and found it under the bed.

"It is just a piece of ordinary wood." Although it was expensive wood to others, in Sheng Yu's eyes, it was just a piece of wood.

Zhu Yuan gripped it tightly, feeling inexplicably anxious, "I like it."

Her voice was not loud, but it was enough for the man to hear.

"You like it?" Sheng Yu's voice suddenly turned cold, "You like wood?"

Zhu Yuan withstood the pressure released by the man and said word by word, "I like Lu Huaizhan."