Seeing Jiang Yu look so flustered, Lu Yige felt puzzled. Wasn't he always calm and flawlessly composed?
Father Lu might be stern, but surely not enough to scare him like this.
Second male lead, your character setting is collapsing—do you know that?
As Jiang Yu's face grew even paler, a possibility suddenly occurred to her.
Could this scheming boy be deliberately acting like a pure, innocent little white lotus in front of the well-versed Father Lu to win his trust?
Impressive. Truly impressive. His level was way too high. Lu Yige looked at Jiang Yu with a hint of admiration.
Realizing his lapse, Jiang Yu quickly steadied himself and said carefully, "Hello, Uncle Lu. I've always admired you. This is my first time meeting you in person, so I'm a bit nervous. I hope you don't mind."
Lu Zhang glanced at him coolly. "Am I that frightening?"
Just as Jiang Yu was thinking about how to respond, Lu Zhang added, "Yige, am I really that frightening?"
"Dad," Lu Yige said softly, "don't scare him."
"Did I scare him?" Lu Zhang burst into hearty laughter.
"A grown daughter really can't be kept at home anymore. If I don't give him a bit of a warning now, how will he know to take good care of my precious daughter in the future?"
"Dad," Lu Yige whined.
Jiang Yu let out a quiet sigh of relief, but seeing the Lu family so warm and harmonious only made his thoughts more chaotic.
This man was clearly Lu Yige's father—then who was the one he had seen two years ago? A relative? A subordinate?
Two years of unchecked obsession, irrational hatred, and carefully laid plans—all of it was in disarray.
Completely in disarray.
A surge of indescribable emotion filled his chest, leaving him short of breath, as if he had returned to that afternoon when he was seven.
Lu Yige glanced at Jiang Yu. He still seemed to be in shock. She couldn't help but smile—this drama king.
"Come on," she called to him. "Dad said he'll show us around the company."
"Okay." Jiang Yu followed absentmindedly, clearly lost in thought.
Lu Zhang walked in front, employees along the way greeting him with respectful nods of "Hello, President Lu."
Walking behind them, Lu Yige looked at her father's broad back, and in that moment, her sense of security surged.
Having a dad was really wonderful, she thought.
In her original world, her parents had divorced before she could even remember, each forming new families. Over more than ten years, her biological father had visited her only three times.
To her, "Dad" was just a name that periodically transferred money into her grandmother's bank account.
If not for this accidental transmigration into a novel, she might never have experienced parental love.
Lu Yige glanced back at Jiang Yu, who still seemed distracted. Did she really have to continue like this—indirectly helping Jiang Yu obtain the Lu family's assets?
The Lu family's business was enormous. Even a branch office employed nearly three thousand people.
As he toured the place, Jiang Yu carefully examined every employee's face.
Not this one. Not that one either.
Perhaps the person wasn't here at all, yet he felt possessed—only by doing this could his chaotic thoughts calm down a little.
In the afternoon, the driver took them to a villa.
Like the one back home, it was located in a prime area, with a similar layout and style.
Mother Lu smiled and said, "Let's rest today. Tomorrow I'll take you out to have some fun."
"Disney!" Lu Yige raised her hand excitedly.
Mother Lu tapped her nose with a smile. "You never grow up."
"Let's go, let's go," Lu Yige said, shaking her mother's hand. She always felt that coming to Shanghai meant going to Disney, no matter her age.
After dinner, Lu Yige lay on a wooden lounge chair on the rooftop, gazing at the brilliant sunset.
The evening breeze was gentle, the moon half-hidden in the sky—a rare moment of peace.
She began to wonder whether what she was doing was right.
After the Lu family's heiress died, her fiancé Jiang Yu became the heir to the Lu family—this was all written in the novel, the inevitable course of this world.
If she, replacing the Lu Yige who had died during surgery, completed the remaining plot, she would gain the chance to be reborn.
Logically, there didn't seem to be much wrong with it.
But as someone who knew everything, knowingly helping Jiang Yu deceive the Lu family and seize their fortune—just so she herself could be reborn—was that too selfish?
Especially when Father and Mother Lu were such good people...
"The sunset tonight is beautiful."
Lu Yige turned toward the voice. Jiang Yu had walked over and stood beside her, quietly watching the glowing horizon.
"Yeah," she replied.
They stood there in silence, each lost in their own thoughts.
"Tell me," Lu Yige suddenly said, "if you know something is wrong, but you can't change it—what should you do?"
"Try," he answered.
"Try what?" She didn't understand.
"Try to see if it can be changed." Jiang Yu looked at her, his eyes calm.
Lu Yige fell silent. Jiang Yu continued,
"Let me ask you—if a truth you believed in for a long time suddenly turned out to be false, and the obsession you clung to turned out to be empty, what would you do?"
Lu Yige rolled her eyes and muttered, "Why do you talk in circles like this? So literary—why don't you go write poetry?"
Jiang Yu looked at her helplessly. "You don't get it? Seems your Chinese is as bad as your physics."
Lu Yige: ...
"You—" She glared at him, then gave up. No point arguing with someone like him.
"Just like you said earlier—if you realize something is wrong, don't let yourself keep going down the wrong path, or you'll regret it."
Lu Yige looked at him, puzzled. Had this scumbag suddenly found his conscience?
"Alright." Jiang Yu looked at her for a long moment, then said, "Lu Yige, you're a good person."
Lu Yige: ...
What was wrong with him? Why was he suddenly handing her a "good person" card?
She looked at him speechlessly. "I know. Of course I'm a good person. Could I possibly be a bad one?"
Jiang Yu chuckled softly and shook his head.
Lu Yige felt that Jiang Yu was a bit strange tonight—strange in that he was behaving completely normally. He wasn't forcing cheesy flirtation on her, nor gazing at her with overly sentimental eyes.
A normal Jiang Yu was actually quite pleasant to be around. If he didn't have all those schemes, she thought they might even become good friends.
"Lu Yige, I..." Jiang Yu suddenly spoke.
"What is it?" She tilted her head, confused.
"Nothing." He paused. "When we get back, I'll tell you something."
"You can tell me now."
"Later." Jiang Yu looked toward the horizon, his gaze clear and steady.
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