Chapter 9: Did You Steal Someone’s Wife?

Assistant Lin, secretly observed Lu Chengze’s expression, his voice as thin as a mosquito, “The call was from the old butler.”

He didn’t say it directly, but the old butler was the confidant and mouthpiece of Mr. Lu. Since he was the one who called, it meant that Mr. Lu had agreed.

Lu Chengze was not the child of Mrs. Lu, but the illegitimate son of the Lu family.

Back then, his mother died of excessive bleeding after giving birth to Lu Chengze. Mrs. Lu refused to let Lu Chengze enter the Lu family’s door. Mr. Lu couldn’t control his wife and had to send him to an orphanage, paying them to take care of him.

Later, the Lu family gradually declined and had the idea of using their children for marriage alliances. After Jian Yao was recognized by the Jian family, in order to climb the ladder of the Jian family, they also brought Lu Chengze back.

The “Mrs.” Assistant Lin, was referring to was the Mrs. Lu who had forced Lu Chengze into the orphanage.

Over the years, Lu Chengze had been supported by the Jian family and had steadily surpassed the other children of the Lu family, successfully becoming the heir of the Lu family. Mrs. Lu’s silver teeth were about to be ground to dust.

She couldn’t change the fact that they needed a marriage alliance, and she didn’t want Lu Chengze to be too happy. She often secretly tripped him up.

What overseas travel was just an excuse to embarrass the Jian family, wanting to provoke the relationship between Lu Chengze and Jian Yao.

Assistant Lin, let out a sigh.

This time, he truly felt a bit sorry for Miss Jian Yao.

On the day of the engagement, the fiancé’s family couldn’t make it to the scene. Probably no one else in the entire capital city could experience this.

“Click” A sound, Lu Chengze lit another cigarette and took a deep drag.

Nicotine rolled around in his lungs, stimulating his chest slightly, making his voice hoarse and terrifying, “I know.”

After an unknown amount of time, a sentence came from the hazy smoke, “Change the flight, I’ll try my best to get back on the day of the engagement.”

“Yes.”

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In the car.

Gu Zhiyan sat alone in the back seat, taking one last look at the entrance of the residential area.

“Go back to the old house.”

Assistant Xu, in the driver’s seat, twisted his features instinctively when he heard the words “go back to the old house.”

Suddenly remembering something, he relaxed his whole body, stepped on the gas pedal, and the black Bentley shot out like an arrow off the string, as flamboyant as a victorious general returning home.

Unlike the Western-style hillside villa of the Jian family, the Gu family’s old house was located in the most prosperous part of the capital city, an old courtyard complex passed down from the Gu family’s ancestors.

After several renovations, it became the current Gu family’s old house.

The car stopped at the entrance of the Gu family’s old house, and Assistant Xu, got out and opened the car door.

The servants guarding the door had already opened the gate to greet them. Gu Zhiyan got out of the car and walked straight into the courtyard.

Assistant Xu, nervously went to the lounge to wait.

Passing the screen wall and through the long corridor, Old Madam Gu was leisurely lying on the chaise longue in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, holding a book and reading.

Hearing the footsteps, she put down the antique magnifying glass in her hand and looked up.

Seeing it was Gu Zhiyan, she looked behind him, her white hair sparkling in the sunlight, “Assistant Xu, didn’t come?”

Gu Zhiyan glanced at her, sat down on the bench beside her, “Grandma is too enthusiastic, he doesn’t dare.”

The rumors that Gu Zhiyan liked men had been circulating for years, even the Gu family had already accepted it.

Among them, Old Madam Gu, who was obsessed with Danmei (BL), was the most enthusiastic, and she once regarded Assistant Xu, as her future granddaughter-in-law, her enthusiasm was frightening.

“Heh!” Old Madam Gu relaxed her body and continued reading her book, “I’m doing this for your own good. With your temper, if one day Assistant Xu, leaves you, you’ll have to cry.”

Gu Zhiyan glanced at her, the title of Old Madam Gu’s book was particularly eye-catching.

【The Counterattack of the Little Secretary】

Gu Zhiyan: “…”

Because he had a trendy grandma, Gu Zhiyan was quite familiar with these messy terms, and he couldn’t help but feel a headache.

“Grandma, he’s just my assistant, and besides, he has a girlfriend. You should read less frivolous books.”

Old Madam Gu heard that even Assistant Xu, had a girlfriend, and she looked like the sky had fallen, “Assistant Xu, stays with you all day long, he has a girlfriend, when will you bring me a partner?”

Even if it were a man, the Gu family would have accepted it.

“I don’t need to find a partner.”

Old Mrs. Gu: “?”

Gu Zhiyan sipped the tea that the maid had just poured, “I’m skipping the dating stage and going straight to engagement.”

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Although the engagement was rushed, the necessary procedures couldn’t be omitted. The betrothal gifts had to be sent in advance.

Old Mrs. Gu scrambled up from the chaise lounge, dropping the book in her hand without noticing. “Engagement?”

“With whom?”

“Can you get married in China?”

“It’s not Assistant Xu, is it Pei Yi?”

Pei Yi was the only son of the Pei family in the capital. The Pei family protected him like their own eyes. Would they let someone marry into the Gu family?

Old Mrs. Gu was worried.

Gu Zhiyan suppressed the urge to rub his forehead, “It’s a girl, the youngest daughter of the Jian family, Jian Yao. We’re getting engaged in three days.”

As soon as Old Mrs. Gu heard it was a girl, her first reaction was to pinch Gu Zhiyan, “Does it hurt?”

Gu Zhiyan: “It hurts…”

Old Mrs. Gu suddenly stood up, “It’s not a dream?”

Her grandson hadn’t even had a female mosquito near him, and suddenly a big wife appeared out of nowhere?

“I really have a granddaughter-in-law?”

“You said when the engagement is? Three days? Isn’t that too rushed?”

“Why don’t we wait a bit longer? The betrothal gifts haven’t been prepared yet.”

Thinking of the betrothal gifts, Old Mrs. Gu’s sense of urgency immediately surged.

No, she had to go to the warehouse herself. Now that she finally had a granddaughter-in-law, she couldn’t neglect her.

Gu Zhiyan watched his grandmother rush out of the gazebo, shaking his head with a smile. He then lowered his head to look at his phone.

The lit screen still displayed Jian Yao’s profile.

A cute cat avatar, with only one message that popped up automatically when it was added.

Gu Zhiyan’s fingertips brushed over the two words “Jian Yao” in the notes, his lips curving slightly.

Within half a day, everyone in the Gu family knew that Gu Zhiyan was getting engaged.

The Gu family members, who were usually busier than each other, were all gathered in the main house living room. The number of people present was greater than during the New Year.

“Are you really getting engaged?”

“It’s a girl?”

“Her last name is Jian?”

Why does that sound familiar?

The upper circles in the capital weren’t that big, and even fewer people had the last name Jian.

Gu’s fourth uncle pondered, “Last name Jian, three days later, wouldn’t it be the daughter of Jian’s Real Estate?”

Although the Jian family was inferior to the Gu family, the Gu family also had some involvement in real estate, and they had heard some news about the Jian family.

Gu’s fourth uncle was specifically responsible for real estate, so it wasn’t strange that he guessed Jian Yao’s identity.

Gu Zhiyan nodded, “Yes, the second daughter of the Jian family, Jian Yao.”

“Hiss…” Gu’s fourth uncle gasped, “I remember the Jian family’s marriage partner wasn’t that kid from the Lu family? Did you steal someone’s wife?”

Although the marriage arrangement hadn’t been officially announced, the fact that Jian’s daughter had been with the Lu family’s son for all these years wasn’t a secret. It was basically a done deal.

They, the Gu family, weren’t afraid of the Lu family, but stealing someone’s wife was a bit immoral, wasn’t it…