There was a European-style long table, a white embroidered tablecloth, a white candlestick, and a cake in the center. Lu Heng sat at the head table, Lu Zijing's mother Yao Yu sat next to him, and Lu Banxia sat on the other side of him, which happened to be with Yao Yu.
Jade face to face.
Lu Zijing sat next to Yao Yu, facing Li Yueqi, who was officially sitting next to Lu Banxia, with watery eyes and a full smile.
Lu Chuan had something important to do at the company and would be back later, so he asked them to eat first and not wait for him.
Not long after Yao Yu married into the Lu family, Lu Banxia and Li Yueqi got married and moved out. The two of them didn't have much contact. Yao Yu never deliberately tried to please Lu Banxia, she was completely focused on Lu Heng, even giving away her daughter.
I went to England to study for three years.
Today is Lu Heng's birthday. Even if he is unhappy in his heart, he will put a faint smile on his face and say some nice words to make Lu Heng happy. Especially Lu Zijin, who is beautiful and sweet-tongued, and can act like a baby, which makes Lu Heng happy.
His laughter was hearty, and his eyes looking at his little daughter became more and more doting.
Lu Banxia remained silent, saying nothing except wishing his father a happy birthday and drinking a few sips of wine.
In this gorgeous place, looking at the warm and harmonious family of Lu Heng, Yao Yu, and Lu Zijing, she seemed to be a superfluous existence.
Yao Yu's eyes shifted from her husband to Lu Banxia, she picked up the wine glass and said: "Banxia, you seem to be much thinner than before. Girls, don't work so hard; if you don't think about yourself, you should also think about Yue Qi."
Lu Banxia put down the tableware in his hand, picked up the wine glass, and looked at her with indifferent eyes. He was indifferent to her concern and just drank silently.
Lu Heng frowned, Lu Banxia's attitude towards Yao Yu obviously made him unhappy.
Li Yueqi picked up the wine glass and chuckled: "Thank you, auntie, for your concern! It's just that I'm not good enough. I've been too busy in the past few years and haven't taken good care of Xia Xia."
The word "Auntie" immediately opened the distance between them. Lu Banxia didn't agree with Yao Yu, and naturally he, the husband, wouldn't agree either.
Yao Yu had a look of uneasiness on his face, took a sip of red wine and said, "Yue Qi is such a good man. I really hope that Zi Jin can meet such a good person in the future. Then Heng and I will feel relieved."
Lu Zijin looked at Li Yueqi with a smile: "Yes! My brother-in-law is such a good man! I must choose a husband like him in the future! He is smart, capable, and knows how to love his wife. Don't you think so, sister!"
"
After calling "Sister" sweetly, Lu Banxiajuan raised her eyebrows, looked at her, and said in a solemn voice: "You can call me by my name, or Secretary-General Lu!"
She couldn't tolerate the innocent person in front of her calling her sister, even if it was for show! If she answered the call of sister, then who was her mother? How could she tolerate and wait for her for so many years?
Lu Zijin's smile froze and before he could say anything, Lu Heng snorted coldly and put the tableware down heavily, and the atmosphere suddenly became stiff.
Yao Yu looked at the scene in front of him silently, with no intention of opening his mouth to rescue him. Lu Zijin wanted to speak, but when he received Yao Yu's look, he pursed his lips dryly and looked at the opposite side...
Just when Lu Heng's eyes were fixed on Lu Banxia and he was about to have an attack, there were footsteps coming in from the door, and a tall figure was stained with snowflakes. As soon as he entered the door, he found that the atmosphere was not right, and immediately said: "I'm sorry, father! Things in the company just happened.
After processing, I came back late."
When Lu Heng saw Lu Chuan rushing back in spite of the wind and snow, his unhappiness quickly disappeared and he smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just a family meal."
The servant was busy adding seats and tableware; Lu Chuan took off his windbreaker and handed it to the domestic helper. His eyes swept over Lu Banxia's indifferent expression, and when he saw the man next to her, his heart tightened, and the sourness spread to his limbs in an instant.
Lu Zijing said: "Brother, you are finally back! You have been so busy that you haven't been home for several days."
"There are too many things in the company." When Lu Chuan's eyes touched Lu Zijing's sweet smile, his reaction was lukewarm.
He sat next to Lu Zijin, and the atmosphere soon returned to the previous harmony; Yao Yu cared for him a few words, and he thanked him lukewarmly; when Lu Chuan asked about the company, he would also give a general introduction
Down.
Since he sat down, Lu Banxia glanced at him, her silently lowered eyes never raised again. She was in the silent ice cellar, and it seemed that no one could enter her heart.
Li Yueqi and Lu Heng had only met twice, once at the wedding of Lu Heng and Yao Yu, and the second time was today. He noticed that while Lu Chuan and Lu Heng were talking, his eyes were secretly looking at Lu Banxia, and he felt in his heart
There is a speculation...
Especially Lu Banxia's reaction seemed to be that he didn't dare to look at Lu Chuan.
Feeling a little uncomfortable, the hand under the table couldn't help but hold Lu Banxia's left hand on his knee. Lu Banxia probably didn't expect him to behave like this, and looked sideways at him...
Li Yueqi tightened his grip on her hand, and a faint smile escaped from his thin lips. He seemed to be comforting her, and seemed to be using his own strength to pull her out of the silent and cold world. Her hand was very cold, as if
It chilled his heart.
Lu Banxia looked at his dark eyes reflected in the light, and felt waves of warmth in her palms. The feeling of rejection between the cold and the invisible disappeared; in this cold winter, she seemed not to be alone.
His red lips suddenly pursed, revealing a bright smile, like a light that condensed all things, dazzling and illuminating his whole world.
This subtle scene fell into the eyes of the two people opposite. Lu Zijing's hand holding the tableware couldn't help but clenched tightly, a trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes, and the gloom gradually grew...
Lu Chuan calmly took this scene into his eyes, his dark eyes dimmed, he picked up the goblet and drank the cold liquid in one gulp; his dark eyes were crazily devoured by despair and pain.
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After the meal, the family sat in front of the fireplace and chatted. Lu Zijing, who was studying law in the UK, took the initiative to talk to Li Yueqi about legal issues, and revealed intentionally or unintentionally that he wanted to join Li Yueqi's legal team.
Yao Yu smiled and scolded Lu Zijin for his nonsense, saying that if she went, she would cause trouble to Li Yueqi.
Lu Heng heard that it was okay and asked Zijin to go to Li Yueqi's legal team. With Li Yueqi looking after her, he, as a father, would feel more at ease. When he asked Li Yueqi what he meant, he didn't take it directly.
He refused and did not agree, he just kicked the ball to his partner.
This matter remains to be discussed.
Lu Banxia made an excuse to go to the bathroom, but actually wanted to avoid such a scene. After staying in the bathroom for a few minutes, he came back, walked through the corridor, and passed a glass window. There were white snowflakes dancing outside, which looked like elves under the street lights.
Suddenly she missed her mother and Bai Ziyan very much. These people disappeared from her life, and she could do nothing but miss them.
"Is this the life you want?"
A low voice came from the corner, mixed with distress and unwillingness, and a pair of gloomy eyes stared at her slender figure, with a strong feeling that he wanted to hold her in his arms.
After looking for the sound, I saw Lu Chuan's strong outline, which became more and more cold under the incandescent light. His thin lips were pursed tightly, without any emotion at all.
Lu Chuan looked at her loneliness, hated her absoluteness, and felt sorry for her stubbornness. They hadn't seen each other for three years. They were obviously in the same city and grew up in the same parents, but she always found a way to avoid him.
Would like to meet him.
Did he disgust her so much? She was so disgusted that she didn't even want to look at him.
Just because they haven't seen each other for three years doesn't mean that he doesn't know what kind of life she leads; her tenacity and resolute actions in the Presidential Palace, her and Li Yueqi's life of separation and separation, there is never a moment of sincere smile on her face.
Her cruelty to herself was hurting him!
"I don't want to interfere with your married life, I just don't want to see you continue to torture yourself in this way! Lu Banxia, you would rather marry a man you don't understand at all and torture yourself than look back and see what you have done all these years.
I have always stood behind you, and you can be in my arms if you take a step back."
He had suppressed these words in his heart for three years, or more; if she was really happy, he would still have reasons to convince himself, but she was not happy...
He has been silent for three years, will he continue to be silent for the next three years?
Lu Banxia listened to his words quietly, with no reaction in her eyes, and a calm voice sounded: "Lu Chuan, it's time for you to find a woman to get married."
"Lu Banxia!" Lu Chuan gritted his teeth and strode up to her, his figure covering her whole body, "Bai Ziyan is dead, when will you see the truth clearly! A dead person will not come back, let alone his beloved
It's not you! You know it better than anyone else! Did you marry Li Yueqi because you wanted to punish yourself, or were you just punishing me?"
"I know, I'm not waiting for him either!" Lu Banxia looked at him with cold eyes, pursed her lips slightly, and said in a clear voice: "I didn't punish anyone by marrying Li Yueqi, I just
I want to fulfill my mother’s last wish. And then... I won’t marry anyone else!”
When he said the last sentence, there was a faint smile on his soft lips, which was cool and shallow.
Lu Chuan's heart twitched: "Then why can't it be me? You are still complaining that I didn't tell you about Yao Yu and Lu Zijin!"
The first person to know that there was someone outside Lu Heng was Lu Chuan. He was an adult at that time, and Lu Heng gradually handed over the matters at hand to him; once Lu Chuan accidentally saw Lu Heng, Yao Yu and Lu Zijin together
, he didn’t tell Lu Banxia, let alone Lu Banxia’s mother.
Until Banxia herself discovered that he was hiding something for Lu Heng, Lu Banxia, who had always relied on him, changed overnight, becoming distrustful of anyone and no longer close to anyone, except her mother!
"Before my mother died, I always blamed you. If my mother hadn't seen you pitiful and adopted you, where would the glorious eldest young master of the Lu family be today? What did you repay her with? It was to hide it for them and let me and
Mother is like two fools who know nothing. Lu Chuan, you asked me not to blame you, how can I not blame you! People are selfish, you listen to Lu Heng, but I only think about my mother. You know how I was in those years
Did you come here? Now that I know about the existence of Yao Yu and Lu Zijin, I can't tell my mother. Even if my mother is so soft-tempered, what can she do if she knows. But I can't do nothing. I don't dare to play anymore and study hard.
, strive to become a better person and make myself the best being in the Lu family. I want to transfer my father's attention to my home for my mother. In order to please my father, I often go home. I give up my favorite design and sign up for school.
Economics, minoring in politics; in the past few years, I have never dared to go against his will, for fear that he would be unhappy, and that he would divorce my mother because the mother and daughter would come home one day..."
Lu Banxia casually revealed the pain and loneliness of those years of studying, trembling, and fearing day and night. Those memories were the untouchable wounds in her heart.
After Lu Heng decided to let Lu Chuan inherit the company, Lu Banxia decided to enter politics. She became the first woman in the Lu family to enter politics, especially when she entered the extremely strict presidential office. She studied under Bai Ziyan, who was rigorous and serious in her work.
Almost harsh; having a good temper in life is outrageous. Maybe Bai Ziyan himself doesn't remember anyone he has ever been nice to, but Lu Banxia remembers his concern and care for her, so sincere and warm.
She began to rise to prominence in the Presidential Palace, especially when she later became the secretary-general, and she was always by your side. Lu Heng could not just file for divorce casually. She had been blocking her father's wish for divorce, but she didn't.
Thinking of her mother's death, she still did not stop her success in the end.
The only good thing is that my mother didn't know until she died that my father had a woman outside and a daughter.
"Ban Xia, I'm sorry! I..." Lu Chuan hesitated. He couldn't deny that he concealed this matter out of selfish motives and helped Lu Heng deceive them!
Lu Heng said that as long as he kept secret, he could always stay in the Lu family and even take over the Lu family's company in the future!
Only by staying in the Lu family could he stay by Banxia's side. Who could have expected that Banxia would find out...
"I only made this mistake once, and I still can't get your forgiveness after all these years?!" There was sullenness in his deep voice, and he wished he could be forgiven by her just once.
Lu Banxia smiled sadly: "Lu Chuan, I didn't have any resentment towards you the moment my mother died! But I couldn't accept your feelings. I wanted you to give up, so I had to disappear into your world."
"Why?" Lu Chuan stared at her with his deep eyes, and couldn't help but hold her wrist with his hand, asking for more details: "Why can't you give me a chance and try it with me once?"
Lu Banxia's wrist was bruised when he held it, and he frowned in pain. Just as he was about to speak, his eyes looked through Lu Chuan's shoulder and saw Li Yueqi standing not far away.
A pair of sharp and deep eyes looked at them coldly. I don't know how much he saw and how much he heard.
Buried behind the Lu family’s scenery are the deceptions and betrayals!
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The finished work of "Yaoyao Escape":
Brave series: "The President's Rich Ex-Wife", "Sleeping with Cops and Robbers: My Wife Does All Evil", "Contract Lover: Women Can Only Love Me"
Healing Series: "Debt Collection Treasure: Pay My Mommy Ten Dollars", "Master Devil, Please Spare Me", "The CEO's Little Sweet Wife"