"When I was six, I ran away from the villa, only to be kidnapped," Lu Jingci continued, slowly reopening his wounds. "The kidnappers demanded ransom from me, and what were you doing then?"
"You stayed by your mother's body and didn't answer the kidnappers' calls at all. When you finally got through, you hung up before the kidnappers could finish speaking."
The gentleness on Lu Hehua's face completely crumbled, replaced by a sickly pallor, and his obsessive voice surged with coldness: "So, Lu Jingci, you hate me?"
"After you got out of the kidnappers' den, while I was at your mother's hometown collecting her belongings, you arranged for her to be buried? So I can never be with her again?"
Lu Jingci said, enunciating each word clearly: "I just want her to be laid to rest, not to be haunted by you, a madman, guarding her remains day and night."
"Am I crazy?"
Lu Hehua suddenly laughed, a laugh tinged with sorrow. He straightened up, leaning on his cane, and stared intently at his son.
"Lu Jingci, don't forget, we share the same blood."
"If it were your wife who died, even if you were heartbroken and wanted to go down to be with her, you might not have the heart to care for the children anymore."
He laughed maniacally, a stubborn light burning in his eyes: "Let me tell you, the day you were kidnapped, I couldn't hear what was being said on the phone at all, and I had no idea where you went. I heard your mother talking to me, and she said she loved me."
"Did you hear that? She said she loves me!"
"If a child of the Lu family dies so easily, then you are a piece of trash! You don't deserve to be my son!"
The two people stared at each other from less than two meters apart, filled with hatred.
I don't know how long the stalemate lasted.
The door upstairs was opened.
The two of them looked up at each other.
Xu Wuning came out of the house, holding an empty cup, and laughed awkwardly, "Lu Jingci, Uncle Lu, why did you stop talking? Did I interrupt you? I was just too thirsty and wanted to get some water."
She smiled innocently, her expression unchanged, and no one knew she had overheard the conversation.
The living room was once again filled with the loving father and filial son.
Lu Hehua looked at Xu Wuning with affection: "We've finished talking, so I'll head back now, Ningning."
Xu Wuning got up to see him off, but Lu Hehua stopped her: "Let Aci see me to the door. Ningning, go about your business. Aci, help me."
Lu Jingci looked disgusted, but when he saw Xu Wuning out of the corner of his eye, he dutifully helped him up.
Xu Wuning smiled sensibly and said, "Okay, then Uncle Lu, take care."
Outside the door, they were out of Xu Wuning's sight.
Lu Jingci immediately let go of him and turned to walk back.
Lu Hehua was supported by the butler behind him. He wasn't angry and still had that smiling look on his face: "Ningning, you're the girl who rescued you from the kidnappers' den back then, right? But why does she seem to not remember what happened back then?"
Lu Jingci stopped in his tracks.
"Lu Jingci, for the sake of you being my son, I'll give you a heads-up: you'd better keep up the act in front of that girl for the rest of your life, or your mother and I will end up like you two..."
"I came here today to see if you're still alive. I'm going back to tend your mother's grave. Don't bother me anymore, and I won't care about you anymore!"
Lu Hehua is gone.
Lu Jingci then went to the company as well.
Upstairs, Xu Wuning patted her chest; she had accidentally overheard Lu Hehua's last three sentences.
"On the day you were kidnapped, I heard your mother talking to me. She said she loved me."
"Did you hear that? She said she loves me!"
"If a child of the Lu family dies so easily, then you are nothing but a piece of trash!"
Oh My God.
Is Lu Jingci's father really that crazy?
His child was kidnapped and was dying, but he still thought his deceased wife was saying she loved him. If his deceased wife were alive, she would probably want to kick him to death.
Is his father one of those legendary yandere types? The kind who only cares about his wife and not his children?
Having read countless novels, this was the first time she'd encountered this type of story. The male lead was a gentle and refined man, but his father was a yandere (obsessive and possessive person). Something just didn't feel right. Why did her life feel increasingly bizarre?
This does resemble a family of crazy villains.
However, the system wouldn't make a mistake, and besides, Lu Jingci had been a good-natured saint since junior high school, which had been going on for almost 12 years.
Oh well, the world is a big place, and anything can happen.
Poor Lu Jingci, he was kidnapped when he was so young. His father wouldn't save him, and his mother died. He is indeed a male protagonist with a tragic fate.
Kidnapping? That sounds familiar, like I've heard it somewhere before?
……
Perhaps it was Lu Hehua's arrival today that stirred up memories of the past.
That night, Lu Jingci was haunted by the nightmare of being kidnapped as a child.
"Are you sure this is the child of the Lu family, one of the top wealthy families in Beijing? Why is he dressed so poorly, so thin, and seems to be mute?"
"Lu Hehua hung up the phone. Damn it, I thought I could make a fortune by kidnapping this brat here, but Lu Hehua doesn't care about him at all. Could he be an illegitimate child?"
"Then kill him, kill this little brat."
A lewd laugh rang out, "But don't you guys think this little brat, though skinny, has pretty features? Don't kill him yet, let me have some fun tonight. He's mute, can't make a sound, that'll be a lot of fun."
Someone nearby said, "Brother Huang likes this kind of thing, so let him have his fun. He can kill us when he gets tired of it."
"Boss, where should we lock him up first?"
The leader, whose face was scarred, frowned. "Let's lock him up with that brat from the Xu family first."
"That brat is really something. I brought her food just now, and she almost bit my arm off. She's bitten me three times already. If her dad hadn't offered to give her a billion dollars to save her, I would have strangled her to death already."
"I'm warning you, no one is allowed to touch that girl from the Xu family. That girl is worth a billion. If even a single hair on her head falls, I'll kill you all and treat you to the best of everything."
"As for this little mute, you can do whatever you want with him tonight. If he dies, that's his bad luck..."
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