Drunk on Marriage, Billionaire's Overindulgent Love-Chapter 654 - 272. [The Summer of Dew] Lu Huai’an had a younger sister, but... she passed away. _4
The other person’s tone was extremely unfriendly, Wanxia was a bit stunned, "What’s up with you, did you eat a bullet?"
Lin Chu closed her eyes, clearly already at an extremely annoyed level, "Stop with the nonsense, change your clothes right now, immediately! For every minute you’re late, I’ll strangle you!"
"Hey, what’s this... " beep beep beep..." Wanxia didn’t even have time to retort before the other party hung up the phone.
Wanxia was still sitting on the sofa, looking at the phone screen that exited the call, feeling puzzled.
She mumbled to herself in disbelief, "What’s this madness about?"
Lin Chu isn’t someone who makes a fuss for no reason; her life experiences have long since smoothed out the youthful edges, unless something is truly urgent, she wouldn’t normally speak to Wanxia this way.
Wanxia didn’t procrastinate, she changed her clothes and headed out.
Gu Shaozhi left a driver at the house, so Wanxia didn’t have to spend time walking out of the villa area to get a taxi, and since it wasn’t rush hour, the roads weren’t congested, an hour was enough to get from Qingshui Bay Villa to the café where Lin Chu was.
By the time Wanxia arrived, Lin Chu had already finished two cups of coffee, and the server was preparing her third.
Lin Chu looked at Wanxia across the table, expressionless, "So slow, did you crawl here?"
After ordering coffee and waiting for the server to walk away, Wanxia leaned back against the chair.
Compared to Lin Chu’s coldness, she seemed more gentle and relaxed.
With a half-smile, she asked, "Could it be... that Shen Weiyi’s rumored lover is Lu Huai’an, and that’s why you’re so agitated?"
Lin Chu ignored Wanxia’s words, her face unusually serious and earnest, "I ask you, have you ever kept something from me?"
The Lin Family and Ji Family are old friends, the adults often visit each other, and the children naturally became familiar with each other; to exaggerate a bit, Lin Chu and Ji Wanxia have known each other since birth.
Xu Qiubai’s mother was their kindergarten teacher, and the two of them became friends with Xu Qiubai at that age; all three are around the same age and grew up together.
There were no secrets among them, they even knew when they lost their first tooth.
Looking at Lin Chu’s appearance, Wanxia seemed to catch on to something, "What exactly are you referring to? If you don’t make it clear, I can’t figure it out."
Wanxia awkwardly turned her head, using the motion of arranging her hair to avoid Lin Chu’s gaze, which the latter immediately noticed.
"Do I have to spell it out for you?" Lin Chu held back her eagerness to know the truth, asking calmly, "When I was ten, I fell into an ice hole and got seriously ill, messed up my brain, I even forgot where I hid my pocket money, something so important, you must remember that right?"
As expected...
Wanxia’s instincts were right.
She nodded, calmly replying, "You’re the one who lost memory, not me, of course I remember."
"So, Ji Wanxia, what is it that all of you know but I don’t?"
Wanxia hesitated for a moment, then raised her eyes to look at Lin Chu, "What did Lu Huai’an tell you?"
Other than Lu Huai’an, no one would dare mention that incident from over ten years ago in front of Lin Chu.
Or, to put it accurately, no one would dare talk about the Lu Family.
After all, with Lu Huai’an’s current power and status, killing someone is just a small matter.
When Lin Chu went out today, she didn’t have bodyguards with her, nor did she bring Qi Ming, Xu Qiubai was still unconscious, the only person she could ask was Wanxia.
"I am asking you, not mentioning Lu Huai’an."
"I wasn’t there the day you fell into the lake, only Lu Huai’an knows what exactly happened," the server brought the coffee, and Wanxia stopped speaking.
Lu Huai’an’s aversion towards Lin Chu began that day.
"Unless you remember it yourself, whatever others say is useless."
Even without any useful information, perhaps Wanxia’s gaze contained too much, Lin Chu’s agitated heart unexpectedly calmed down.
"Even if you don’t know, you’d know at least a bit."
"Lu Huai’an has a sister, I’m not talking about Shen Weiyi who was raised as a daughter by the Lu Family, she was your age, and you were very good friends at that time."
Lin Chu thought, perhaps her brain was truly broken.
She had loved Lu Huai’an for so many years, believing she understood his family thoroughly, yet she didn’t even know about his sister.
No, she didn’t not know, she forgot.
Lin Chu’s hands on her lap unconsciously clenched, "Go on."
Wanxia took a sip of coffee, raised her eyes to look at Lin Chu, whose face was losing color, and said calmly, "She died, at the age of ten."
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By the time Wanxia left the café, the sky had already darkened.
The closer it got to winter, the earlier the night came.
The driver opened the car’s back door, and before Wanxia got in, he respectfully asked, "Miss Ji, Mr. Gu is still at the company, since you’re already at the door, do you want to...?"
Gu Shaozhi’s people all had sharp eyes.
Wanxia glanced at him with a half-smile, not actually getting into the car, "Isn’t he working overtime today?"
"Uh... I don’t know about that, I’ve heard from the colleagues that Mr. Gu has been so busy lately that he hasn’t even had time to eat, today he only had a cup of coffee at noon, but if you go, Miss Ji, Mr. Gu will definitely have dinner with you first."
The driver stood politely to the side, his demeanor showing no sign of intentional flattery.
Wanxia didn’t doubt the truth of the driver’s first statement, because even when Gu Shaozhi came home, he was often in his study, returning to the bedroom very late.
As long as the man’s arm pulled her into his embrace, she would wake up, while he fell asleep quickly.
After the man’s breathing settled, Wanxia would take out her phone from the bedside to check the time, and for several days now it was always one or two in the morning.
"Okay then, find a place to park, it’s only a few steps, I’ll walk over myself."
Hearing Wanxia say this, the driver looked delighted, "Okay."
...
Since the CEO hadn’t finished work yet, the subordinates naturally had to stay at their posts.
Wanxia took the employee elevator upstairs, where everyone in the elevator greeted her politely, though they couldn’t help but glance at her, no one dared to talk about anything in her presence.
After all, they eat at Mr. Gu’s table.
Wanxia responded to each one, polite yet with just the right amount of aloofness, like a proud and beautiful peacock.
Secretary Liu had just come out of the office and hadn’t even warmed her seat when she saw Wanxia, it shocked her, causing her eyes to widen, "Miss Ji, what brings you here?"
Wanxia smiled faintly, "Do I need an appointment to see your Mr. Gu?"
Still in shock, Secretary Liu stood up from her chair, her mouth reacting faster than her brain, "Others might need one, you certainly don’t."
As she finished the last word, the door to the CEO’s office swung open.
The person who walked out was Shen Weiyi, who had been on the hot search all day.
