Font Size:
The smile on Gu Xiruo’s face stiffened for a moment as she looked at Lu Lingfeng, who seemed troubled with a furrowed brow. “Lingfeng, it’s been so many years. Why do you care so much about a piece of jade pendant? Isn’t there anything else important to me?”
In the past, if she had said something like this, Lu Lingfeng would have surely felt distressed and dropped the subject. This time would surely be no different.
However, to her surprise, Lu Lingfeng did not let the matter go as she had expected. Instead, he looked at her with a sharp gaze.
“Xiruo, this jade pendant is really important to me. Otherwise, why would I ask you for it? Have I given you any less over the years? For you, I even gave up the identity of the young master of the Lu family,” Lu Lingfeng said, his eyes downcast with a hint of disappointment.
His words left Gu Xiruo in a difficult position, but over the years, Lu Lingfeng had been really good to her, leaving her unable to refute.
“Lingfeng, that’s not what I meant. You’ve misunderstood me,” Gu Xiruo said, lowering her head in distress.
Over the years, she had always known how to soften a man’s heart and attract his attention.
Seeing Gu Xiruo like this, Lu Lingfeng suddenly smiled. “Xiruo, if you tell me the truth, where is the jade pendant?”
Gu Xiruo knew that Lu Lingfeng wouldn’t let it go if he didn’t see the jade pendant today, so she could only say in a resigned tone, “Lingfeng, I’m sorry.”
Looking at Gu Xiruo’s pitiful and distressed appearance, Lu Lingfeng would have comforted her in the past, but today it all seemed so contrived. What was he thinking before?
“And what after the apology?” Lu Lingfeng asked calmly, looking at Gu Xiruo.
Gu Xiruo found it difficult to maintain her distressed expression. Wasn’t Lu Lingfeng supposed to comfort her? Why would he say such things?
“What’s wrong with you, Lingfeng?”
“Xiruo, this jade pendant is really important to me now. I can only protect you better if I have everything from the Lu family,” Lu Lingfeng said, looking helpless, with a weariness that Gu Xiruo couldn’t understand.
Gu Xiruo had never seen Lu Lingfeng like this before, and she knew that he was genuinely happy for her.
“Or do you really want to marry Qing Yukong?” Lu Lingfeng’s unexpected question about marriage caught Gu Xiruo off guard, but he didn’t continue talking about the jade pendant, which relieved her.
She had never considered marrying Qing Yukong, let alone marrying Lu Lingfeng. Especially after getting to know Lou Manqing, these two men were nothing more than pawns to her. Now, everything she had was under Lu Lingfeng’s control, and if she were to fall out with him, she would suffer greatly. Moreover, she couldn’t let Lu Lingfeng know about the jade pendant, or everything would be over.
“How could you say that, Lingfeng? You know I don’t want that,” Gu Xiruo said, tears streaming down her face, looking at Lu Lingfeng with a sense of being misunderstood.
Gu Xiruo knew that Lu Lingfeng couldn’t stand to see her like this. Every time she acted this way, Lu Lingfeng would immediately come to comfort her. She believed this time would be no exception. However, to her disappointment, Lu Lingfeng didn’t immediately comfort her and instead said, “Xiruo, that’s not what I meant. I want the jade pendant for our own good.”
Gu Xiruo felt resentful and suspected that Lu Lingfeng might have found something out, otherwise why would he keep bringing up the jade pendant?
“Lingfeng, I’m sorry. I accidentally lost the jade pendant,” she said, bursting into tears again.
As he watched Gu Xiruo’s tears, Lu Lingfeng’s eyes revealed a rare hint of disgust. How could he have felt sorry for her before?
“Did you lose it, or did you never have the jade pendant to begin with?” Lu Lingfeng didn’t want to beat around the bush with Gu Xiruo and asked directly.
Gu Xiruo’s heart skipped a beat as she looked at Lu Lingfeng, feeling a sense of foreboding. It seemed like he knew.
“Lingfeng, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Don’t know what I’m talking about? The person who saved me back then wasn’t you at all. You simply took credit for someone else’s actions, am I right?” He hadn’t yet found out who had truly saved him, but it definitely wasn’t Gu Xiruo.
She had deceived him for so many years, and he had been foolish to be deceived for so long, willingly serving as her subordinate for so many years.
Gu Xiruo shook her head repeatedly. “Lingfeng, you’ve misunderstood me. I didn’t—”
Lu Lingfeng didn’t want to hear her excuses. He laid out all the evidence in front of Gu Xiruo and said, “Explain this.”
When Gu Xiruo saw the evidence that Lu Lingfeng had found, her face turned pale.
Why would he investigate this matter? Who was working against her?
If someone hadn’t said something to Lu Lingfeng, why would he suddenly investigate these things?
No wonder he had been insisting on the jade pendant recently.
She didn’t have the jade pendant at all, so how could she produce it?
“Lingfeng, just because I wasn’t the one who saved you, does that mean you don’t like me and don’t want to help me anymore?” Gu Xiruo asked.
Hearing Gu Xiruo’s words, Lu Lingfeng said coldly, “Gu Xiruo, you’ve deceived me so much.”
“Lingfeng, I didn’t mean to. Can you forgive me?” Gu Xiruo knew that it was useless to say anything now, so she could only hope that Lu Lingfeng would forgive her based on their years of relationship.
“Forgive?” Suddenly, Lu Lingfeng reached out and gripped Gu Xiruo’s chin, his eyes filled with anger.
He had lowered himself to accompany her because of the debt of saving his life, helped her in business to make her a praised genius, and now she was telling him that it was all a joke.
“Do you feel proud watching me give my all to you? Do you secretly think I’m a fool? Do you think you’ve fooled me completely?” The kindness he had shown Gu Xiruo over the years was now replaced with hatred.
“You’ve misunderstood me, Lingfeng. I didn’t think that way,” she said, feeling a sense of superiority in using Lu Lingfeng as a pawn, but she had never thought of him as a fool.
“You didn’t think that way? Then who was the one who truly saved me?” Lu Lingfeng asked.
Gu Xiruo shook her head repeatedly. “I… I don’t know.”
Even if she knew, she wouldn’t say. That person had long left the Gu family, and she had orchestrated their departure. If Lu Lingfeng found out, she would have a hard time.
“Gu Xiruo, you better not lie to me. I don’t want anything from you over the years, but if I find out anything, you’ll be in big trouble,” Lu Lingfeng said, pushing Gu Xiruo away and leaving with a cold expression.
Gu Xiruo sat on the ground, staring blankly as Lu Lingfeng walked away.
After so many years without any issues, how did Lu Lingfeng suddenly find out?
She had no doubt that Lu Lingfeng was not joking. He was capable of such things.
Her hands clenched unconsciously, her eyes filled with unwillingness. That despicable person, just like Wang Jinhe, had no shame. Even after leaving, she could still stir Lu Lingfeng’s heart.
Although she had never considered marrying Lu Lingfeng, she had always regarded him as her possession.