Lu Jingci's Adam's apple bobbed, and he rubbed his fingers together heavily.

He remained expressionless: "It was a mosquito bite. I had someone install mosquito-killing lamps in the villa this afternoon, and it will be fine tonight."

Xu Wuning muttered under her breath, dissatisfied: "I know, you're so serious. What a great opportunity to flirt, and you still have the mind to think about how to solve the problem. How boring."

after eating.

Zhang Ma went upstairs to clean, and Xu Wuning returned to her room, turned on Green Bubble, and chatted with her father.

Lu Jingci was on his way to the company when he opened the door and saw an uninvited guest.

Lu Hehua stood outside the door. He was only forty-five or forty-six years old, but his temples were already gray. He was leaning on a dragon-head cane inlaid with jade. His face was handsome, with three-dimensional features, deep eyes and eyebrows, and a gentle smile when his thin lips were slightly pursed.

He has a refined appearance that is very similar to Lu Jingci.

Lu Jingci blocked the doorway, his face immediately darkening: "What are you doing here?"

Lu Hehua wasn't annoyed. Instead, he moved his cane forward half a step and said in a relaxed and natural tone, "I'm your father. It's perfectly normal for me to come see you."

Lu Jingci's voice was filled with frost, "You are not welcome here."

The butler following behind Lu Hehua quickly said, "Young Master, the Master just wanted to come and see you. As a father, he wanted to check on his son. He had no other intentions."

Lu Jingci sneered, "If he truly cared about me, he wouldn't have abandoned me when I was kidnapped at six years old, leaving me to fend for myself in the hands of those kidnappers. You must leave my home immediately!"

The two people stood there, looking similar despite being related by blood, yet they seemed like enemies who were not very familiar with each other.

Xu Wuning, who lives upstairs, was about to come down to get a glass of water.

Hearing the noise outside the door, she poked her head out, her voice languid with afternoon weariness: "Lu Jingci, who's here?"

Before Lu Jingci could close the door, Lu Hehua's gaze had already passed over his shoulder and landed on the half-hidden figure on the stairs.

A meaningful smile appeared in those eyes that were exactly like Lu Jingci's: "Keeping a mistress in a golden house, huh?"

"Judging from her appearance, she seems to be that girl from the Xu family."

"Everyone said you hated her, but now it seems they were all wrong."

Lu Jingci's expression suddenly changed, a heavy gloom settling between his brows: "What's it to you?"

But Lu Hehua stepped over him and called out to Xu Wuning upstairs, "Ningning's here too! I'm Uncle Lu, I came to see Aci!"

Lu Jingci's father?

Xu Wuning thought for a moment. Everyone in Beijing said that Lu Hehua was a gentle and refined person, just like Lu Jingci. What was even more admirable was that he was famously affectionate.

After Lu Jingci's mother passed away, his father, Lu Hehua, abandoned his company and everything else, and lived around his mother's tomb, guarding her day and night, rarely seeing anyone else.

At that time, his grandfather was over seventy years old and had no choice but to take over the management of the company again. After Lu Jingci returned to China, he handed over the Lu family business to his only grandson, Lu Jingci.

Compared to other families where mistresses and illegitimate children frequently appear, the Lu family is known for its deep-rooted love and the practice of marrying only one person in a lifetime.

Xu Wuning came downstairs with a smile, very politely: "Uncle Lu is here."

At the entrance.

Lu Hehua's voice was low: "What, aren't you going to let me in? Do you want that girl from the Xu family to know that there's a rift between us, father and son?"

"Aren't you going to the company? You go ahead, I'll have a chat with that girl from the Xu family."

Lu Jingci clenched his fist: "What exactly are you trying to say?"

Lu Hehua went inside: "If you're worried about me and afraid I'll say something wrong, then come in with me."

In the living room.

Xu Wuning stood there, behaving very obediently in front of her elders: "Uncle Lu, please sit down."

Lu Hehua sat down on the sofa, looked around at the villa's furnishings, and slowly put his cane aside.

He smiled, his tone full of the loving kindness of an elder: "Thank you, Ningning. You're such a sensible child, unlike our Aci..."

Xu Wuning sat down and quickly waved her hand, "No, no, Lu Mianhua, he... cough, Brother Aci knows a lot about the company. I've been asking him for advice recently. He knows much more than I do."

Lu Hehua looked at Lu Jingci thoughtfully, then smiled and looked at Xu Wuning: "What does Ningning usually like to do?"

"Reading and studying," Xu Wuning answered readily.

Lu Hehua nodded in satisfaction: "Good, what a good child, it's good that you love reading."

Lu Jingci sat there, watching them sing and respond, his knuckles tightening and loosening slightly, repeating this several times.

At this moment, Lu Hehua suddenly changed the subject and steered the conversation toward Lu Jingci.

"Ningning, do you know what kind of personality our Aci has...?"

Lu Jingci suddenly looked up, his cold gaze filled with a warning.

Xu Wuning was unaware of the undercurrent between the two. She smiled and joked, "Uncle Lu, don't worry, I know he has a good personality. I won't bully him."

Lu Hehua's eyes paused for a moment, then he smiled again, a smile with an indescribable meaning: "Good personality? Yes, good personality."

The two talked more and more, from reading to school, from school to everyday life, and then they started talking about their childhood.

Finally, Lu Jingci spoke.

"Ningning," his voice wasn't loud, but it interrupted their conversation, "Aren't you supposed to be chatting with Su Wanyue? Go ahead and do your thing, I have something to say to him."

Xu Wuning paused for a moment, then realized that the two of them might be about to discuss some secret family matters, so she decided it was best not to be a third wheel.

"Then I'll go up first, Uncle Lu."

"Okay," Lu Hehua replied, still wearing a warm smile.

Xu Wuning turned and went upstairs.

Only the father, son, and the butler remained in the living room.

The moment Xu Wuning's figure disappeared around the corner of the stairs, the atmosphere in the living room changed abruptly.

The smile on Lu Hehua's face gradually faded. He picked up his cane from the sofa again and stroked the jade inlaid on it, which was a birthday gift left to him by his wife before she passed away.

Lu Jingci sat opposite him, his gaze icy as he met Lu Jingci's eyes.

He scoffed coldly, his voice so low that only those in the living room could hear, "You resent me for burying your mother back then, so you don't want me to be happy either, right?"

Lu Hehua raised his eyes, his expression showing a hint of innocent surprise: "How could you think of me like that? I am, after all, your father."

"Father?"

Lu Jingci seemed to have heard the most absurd joke ever. "All these years, have you fulfilled your duties as a father?"

He stood up, looking down at the person on the sofa, his tone sarcastic: "You've imprisoned my mother since I was born."

"When I was five, she died of cancer, but you had a freezer made in the basement and stayed by her side day and night, still unwilling to let her go..."

"To prevent others from discovering the situation and burying your mother, you dismissed all the servants in the house and locked the villa doors."

"I'm only five years old. I couldn't find food, I had no clean clothes, and I cried as I knocked on the basement door. Did you ever care about me?"

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