Chapter 253 Don’t You Dare Tarnish Young Master Jinye
Lu Jinye was a little boy at the time, and he only caught a glimpse of the woman.
In the later stages, he searched for information about the woman on the internet, but to no avail. It felt like the woman was wiped away from the surface of the earth.
The butler straightened himself, clasping the phone in his hand nervously as though he was facing the biggest enemy of his life.
It had been a while since he had taken a solemn behavior. He could not remember the last time he shuddered uncontrollably due to nervousness.
Every beep sound coming from the phone receiver felt like a thump on his heart.
Each thump on his heart felt harder than the last.
Lu Jinye did not pick up the call in the first instance. The monotonous beeping sound felt like a call from the devil into the vehement hellfire.
The phone was suddenly answered when the old butler had lost count of how many beeping sound he had braved through.
“Hello?” Lu Jinye’s voice sounded from the receiver.
“Young master!” The poor butler’s voice was trembling frailly.
“Bad news!”
His voice cracked towards the end while Lu Jinye could not help but scowl.
“What happened?”
“Master told me to look into a woman called Mu Xue today, and in the end, i-it.. It led to Miss Mu Zhi.”
Lu Jinye gaped his eyes at the sound of the butler’s words.
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On the other hand, Xie Xiu tried to stop Mu Zhi when she bade farewell to him. He said to her solemnly, “Stay here tonight, I’ll let you go tomorrow morning.”
“Why must it be tonight?”
Mu Zhi frowned at Xie Xiu in confusion. Xie Xiu took on a somber expression, saying, “Because I don’t think I can last until tomorrow.”
Xie Xiu went out of the way to get an injection of a unique drug. The drug would give him a feeble appearance for a period.
Looking at Xie Xiu’s state, Mu Zhi was torn. Part of her wanted to leave, and the other part felt sorry for him.
Xie Xiu looked as frail as a lily.
Mu Zhi stared at him intently for a while.
Meanwhile, Xie Xiu eyed Mu Zhi. Seeing that she was silent, he strode towards her and seized her hand, dragging her back into the house.
However, Mu Zhi’s phone rang in the heat of the moment. She glanced at the screen before hurriedly accepting the call, which came from Madam Liu.
“What is it?” Asked Mu Zhi gently.
“Madam Liu?”
Madam Liu’s voice was anxious. “Miss Mu, this isn’t good, Mr. Lu got into a car accident!”
“Where?”
“At the Chefeng Road.”
Hearing Madam Liu’s convincingly anxious voice, Mu Zhi did not slight her for a moment. She hung up the call and dashed out of Xie Xiu’s house.
“Hey.”
Xie Xiu’s secretary leaped forward in an attempt to stop Mu Zhi, but it was too late.
Mu Zhi was no longer within her reach.
The secretary then turned back and gave Xie Xiu a helpless look, “Mr. Xie, do we chase after her?” She was waiting for an order.
“We can easily catch up to her if we start now.”
But Xie Xiu had looked away at this point. He scoffed, “Why should I chase after something that doesn’t belong to me? If she’s destined to be mine, fate will bring her back to me eventually.”
Finishing what he had to say, Xie Xiu headed up the stairs without looking back. He asked the doctor to come over to prescribe him a dose of toxin. Then, he limped into the piano room to play the piano, accompanied by the amber glow of the sunset.
Meanwhile, after getting in the cab, Mu Zhi told the driver to head to the location Madam Liu mentioned earlier. But when she arrived, Lu Jinye was nowhere to be found. Moreover, the traffic was seamless. It didn’t look like the scene of a car accident.
Mu Zhi searched the area thoroughly but could not find any clue. She became increasingly worried and ultimately decided to call Madam Liu.
When the phone was answered, Mu Zhi was greeted by a menacing voice, “Are you there yet?”
“Yes, why don’t I see Lu Jinye here?”
Mu Zhi asked anxiously while scanning the area ceaselessly, hoping to find a trace of Lu Jinye.
“You may stop looking for him. Young master hasn’t been here at all. I’m only luring you over to tell you a story.”
“What story?”
Mu Zhi was clueless. She could feel shivers going down her spine at the sound of Madam Liu’s voice.
She could not help but quiver.
Then, drawling every syllabus of her words, “Miss Mu, have you ever heard of the name Shi Chu?”
“Yes, I have.”
Mu Zhi vividly remembered that it was Lu Jinye’s mother’s name.
“Then, Miss Mu, do you know how Shi Chu died?”
Mu Zhi was aware of it too. “She took her own life due to depression.”
“You’re right!” Madam Liu sounded a little agitated. She was seemingly surprised by the fact that Mu Zhi knew how Shi Chu died.
With a hostile tone, she said, “Then, do you know who the mistress was? Do you have any idea how the remains of a body look like when it falls from the thirtieth floor? Can you feel the desolation of committing suicide due to love?”
Her flurry of questions put Mu Zhi in a trance.
“Madam Liu?”
Sensing that Madam Liu’s behavior was a little odd, Mu Zhi asked softly, hoping to get an answer to the millions of questions she had in her head.
Not only did she not get an answer, but she also received a wild roar from the phone, “Stop calling me Madam Liu, I am not your Madam Liu! Everyone can call me that but not you. You don’t deserve that because your mother is Mu Xue!”
Mu Zhi was astounded to hear the name of her mother, “What does my mom have anything to do with this?”
“Why don’t you ask who the bitch was that pressured Shi Chu to her death? That was your mother. Your bitch of a mother conceived a bastard child and destroyed someone else’s beautiful family. She was responsible for Shi Chu’s depression and her death!”
“And while Shi Chu was dead, you shameless creatures continue to dwell gleefully on earth!”
Madam Liu screamed at the top of her lungs.
Her voice was shrill and confronting. It stunned Mu Zhi to silence.
Mu Zhi struggled to gather a response. Why is she accusing mom of being a home-wrecker?
Also, how is mom related to Lu Jinye’s mother?
“Madam Liu, what are you talking about?”
“Haven’t I been clear enough? I’ve explicitly said what I needed to say! Think for yourself, stop pretending to be a fool. Oh right, hahahaha.”
Madam Liu chortled madly, “Oh right, if I’d done the same, I would put up a fake front too. After all, who would be willing to hold themselves accountable for a human life? Let me reiterate!”
“Mu Zhi, you are the bastard child of Master Lu and the bitch, Mu Xue! And your brother is Lu Jinye!”
“I don’t care how disgusting you are, but don’t you dare tarnish Young Master Jinye.”
Upon finishing her words, Madam Liu hung up the call right away.
