The air in the study room was a little stagnant, obviously the windows were open, but there was not a trace of wind penetrating in.

Yan Yu didn't look at Steward Cheng again, she stood up and walked out of the study, her hand was on the doorknob, slowly unscrewed, the door was a quarter open, she paused again, her eyes slowly rose up, and then froze, she held the doorknob's hand, tightening it little by little.

The image froze for a few seconds.

Her throat swallowed silently, and the line of her jaw seemed a little tight.

After a while, her red lips moved lightly, looking out of the door, but she said to Steward Cheng: "Steward Cheng, please tell your young master what happened back then." ”

On the sofa, Steward Cheng, who was drinking tea, heard this, and the movements of his hands paused slightly, he raised his head and looked in the direction of the door.

Yan Yu stood with her back to him, her back was straight, her butterfly bones were distinct, and her whole person was like an awe-inspiring sword, and he could only see her standing on her delicate back.

In the next second, the words slowly pulled the entire door open.

As if advancing in slow motion, as the door panel opened, the field of vision outside the door slowly widened, and Lu Yan's tall and straight figure stood outside the door.

The bright light in the study made the light of the place where he was particularly dim.

The lantern hung vaguely behind him, so that people could not see his expression clearly, and they could not understand his thoughts, and they retracted their gaze to look at him, and wanted to bypass him and go out.

But he walked in slowly, step by step, approached Yanyu, and grabbed Yanyu's wrist suddenly, her wrist was slender, and it was pinched by his bony big palm, as if it was about to break.

Yan Yu pursed his lips, trying his best to break free of Lu Yan's hand, but he couldn't break free.

Lu Yan dragged her in his direction, her feet were unstable, and the whole person crashed into his hard chest, and Yan Yu couldn't move at all.

Since she couldn't break free, Yan Yu didn't struggle, she didn't want to quarrel with Lu Yan, and she didn't want to make herself like a shrew, she closed her eyes, opened them again, and said calmly: "Lu Yan, do you want me to repeat what your mother did to me again?"

Lu Yan didn't answer, his whole person was full of coldness.

He took the words and took a few steps into the study, where the heavy carved wooden door closed slowly and automatically, and in such a silent space, even the sound of the door lock was so sharp.

Steward Cheng was still sitting on the sofa, he was calm, he still continued to make tea, make tea, let the fragrance of tea overflow, his voice was calm: "Young Master Yan, do you want to sit down and drink tea?"

After Lu Yan and Yan Yu sat down, Steward Cheng poured tea.

Yan Yu lowered his eyes, staring faintly at the floating mist, the teacup with the fragrance of tea, and in the tea, there was a faint little tea powder, ups and downs, like the ups and downs of life.

The words lightly hooked the curvature of the corners of his lips.

Lu Yan's voice was still restrained, he lowered his voice and controlled his anger: "Steward Cheng, what happened back then?"

Steward Cheng raised his eyes with a smile on his face: "That's what you just heard outside the door." ”

When he came in, he closed the door, but Lu Yan didn't know when it started, so he quietly unscrewed the door of the study and stood outside the door, probably hearing most of the key contents.

Lu Yan's face was expressionless, his eyes were dark and bottomless indifference, and there was a vague and thicker and thicker violence: "A year ago, when you handed over Lu Shumu to me, what did you say?"

Steward Cheng was silent and did not speak.

He used to pass Shi Jiaran's mouth, and only told Shi Jiaran that Lu Yan didn't want this child, and on Lu Yan's side, he only told Lu Yan that after he bought the doctor and kept the child, he thought that Lu Yan didn't want the child, so he took it away and raised it.

In the past few years, Steward Cheng has never answered the matter of Yan Yu and Zhou Yun head-on.

Steward Cheng's fingers rubbed the teacup, and his eyebrows were a little solemn.

He said lightly: "Young Master Yan, you don't have to be angry with me, you should also know that I didn't get involved much in the things back then, after all, I was by your side back then to help you gain a foothold in the Cheng family, you are busy like that, where do I still have the heart to care about other things." ”

"However, by chance, I have been keeping an eye on your mother. ”

Steward Cheng's tone was very light, and he smiled lightly, "I have known Mrs. Lu for a long time than you." Mrs. Lu has been pampered since she was a child, she has not suffered much, and she has always enjoyed the state of the stars holding the moon, she cares more about herself than paying attention to the people around her, and once there is something that hurts her and the people around her, she will always make the most beneficial choice for herself. ”

There was no expression on Yan Yu's face, and Steward Cheng's meaning was obvious, and he expressed his dissatisfaction with the divorce between Zhou Yun and the then head of the Cheng family.

Lu Yan doesn't like to comment on the affairs of his elders, even if he knows that it was Lu Chengguo who intervened in the marriage of Zhou Yun and the head of the Cheng family, but the end of a marriage will not be the fault of only one party.

Steward Cheng took a sip of tea: "So, at that time, when I saw the scandal of Miss Yan and Lawyer Qin all over the sky, I knew that Mrs. Lu had to make a choice." ”

Lu Yan's mood did not fluctuate, his eyebrows were indifferent, but slowly, he was vaguely a little cold.

He sent bodyguards and special assistants to stay by Yan Yu's side at that time, he would receive photos and messages about Yan Yu every day, and naturally knew Yan Yu and Qin Rang, he was not angry, but first, he didn't have time to be distracted, and second, he believed that Yan Yu would not do anything to cheat in marriage, so after he cared about Yan Yu's physical condition, he simply told his mother that this news was fake news and asked her not to bother Yan Yu with this news.

Lu Yan's fingers tightened little by little, and he remembered that at that time, his mother had promised him that she would wait for him to come back and deal with this matter.

Steward Cheng smiled: "Actually, it's no wonder Mrs. Lu, she has been a high-profile daughter since she was a child, and when she became an adult, she married into the Cheng family according to the arrangement of her parents, and later, she married Lu Chengguo, and she was held in Lu Chengguo's hand and felt distressed, she is also the central figure in the circle." Steward Cheng's cold eyes fell on Yan Yu, "However, since marrying Miss Yan, she has been ridiculed and ridiculed by the sisters around her. Mrs. Lu may have endured this, but this time was different......"

"That time, in the eyes of all uninformed people, Miss Yan cuckolded Young Master Yan, over the years, Mrs. Lu has not loved Young Master Yan a lot, not to mention, Miss Yan's behavior in the news not only embarrassed Young Master Yan, but also made the entire Lu family lose face, including Lu Chengguo and Mrs. Lu, as far as I know, Mrs. Lu was ridiculed and ridiculed by her sisters during that time, and her cheating with Lu Chengguo back then was also used as a joke. ”

Lu Yan stared at Steward Cheng, his eyes were calm, but they were creepy.

Rumors spread again, saying that the child in Miss Yan's womb belonged to Lawyer Qin. ”

The gloom in Lu Yan's eyes suddenly became thicker.

There is no expectation, there is no disappointment, Yan Yu feels that in addition to being a little empty, her heart is extraordinarily calm, this world is like this, spreading rumors with a mouth, refuting rumors and breaking legs, even those people will not believe it, people will only choose to listen to the gossip they want to hear, to satisfy their own empty heart.

Conspiracy theories are the most disgusting arguments that will never go out of style.

"You say, in this case, what kind of decision does Mrs. Lu have to make for the sake of the reputation of the Lu family?" Steward Cheng chuckled, his deep voice was a little cold, "Mrs. Lu doesn't know where to do the test, and in the results of the test, the child in Miss Yan's belly is indeed not Young Master Yan's. ”

This short passage vividly drags the heart of words into the deep-sea glacier.

Therefore, Zhou Yun did not hesitate to choose to induce the child, because the child could not be there, in her opinion, this child was a shame for the Lu family and her, as long as she kept it, it would be a slap in the face of the Lu family.

As for why Zhou Yun didn't let go of the child, but hurried away......

Yan Yu thought, maybe it was because of Lu Yan's confession, Lu Yan said that he would not let her go, if she left, how should Zhou Yun explain to Lu Yan, or maybe because the existence of the child with a tainted reputation is a shame, even if Zhou Yun let go of Yan Yu and let her secretly give birth to a child, one big and one small suddenly disappeared from public eye, it will only make the Lu family more in the whirlpool of public opinion.

In that case, the best preservation method Zhou Yun can think of is to sacrifice the child who speaks of the belly, but all secret scandals need a fig leaf.

Therefore, on the day she went to induce labor with Yanyu, she bought off the doctor and dispersed all the servants who stayed in the living room, leaving only Xu Yingxia, so that she could blatantly shirk most of the responsibility of the outside world, saying that Yan Yu accidentally rolled down the stairs, so the child was gone.

And Lu Yan, whether he is guilty or disappointed in Yanyu, as long as he agrees to divorce Yanyu, Zhou Yun's reason is more sufficient, she can completely explain that the reason for the divorce is because Yanyu is not optimistic about the child in her belly.

The eyes of the words are black and white, cold, and cold, as if there is no trace of popularity.

She knows that people are sinister, she grew up in an orphanage, became a lawyer as an adult, and almost saw the worst people, but those evils will never be felt when they are not inflicted on herself.

The wealthy are like this, behind the prosperity is more decay, the deeper the decay, the more prosperous the surface.

Therefore, Zhou Yun will not care about her life or death, regardless of the life or death of the child in her belly, just to protect the reputation of the Lu family.

Steward Cheng drank the tea in the cup before he spoke, and his voice was unhurried: "For a wealthy family, reputation is indeed very important. ”

Lu Yan's handsome silhouette was condensed with thick ice, and his dark eyes were covered with a thick black mist, which made people faintly feel hairy.

In just ten minutes, he connected those clues together, only to feel that a heart that had already been cold and hard was dragged into the cold pool.

On his temples, there were green tendons that rose and fell, and they disappeared.

In the past few years, he has not doubted the truth of Lu Shumu's incident, but during pregnancy, her verbal state was unstable and uncomfortable, and she didn't like him, she didn't want to give birth to this child, all this was possible, so she rolled down the stairs, whether it was accidental or deliberate, it was all he could imagine.

But he never thought that it would be his mother who forced words to induce labor.

Lu Yan's tight fingers slowly clenched hard, tensing the distinct green tendons on the back of his hand. The thoughts in his mind were a mess, his thin lips were stretched into a cold straight line, his eyelashes drooped slightly, and his black hair was shadowed in the shadow of the lamp, blurring his expression.

*

This night, Lu Yan did not enter the bedroom.

In the huge bedroom, only Yan Yu was lying on the bed, she was covered with a quilt and her eyes closed, but she had no sleep all night, and her thoughts were so disturbed that she couldn't sleep peacefully.

For a while, it was Steward Cheng's face, he was so hateful, but it was he who saved Lu Shumu, but she knew that Steward Cheng was not a good person, otherwise she would have told her about Lu Shumu's existence a long time ago.

For a while, it was Zhou Yun and Xu Yingxia's faces, their expressions were hideous, which made Yan Yu's whole heart hurt.

After a while, it was Lu Yan's face again, Lu Yan was not wrong, Lu Yan was innocent, so who was wrong, what was wrong was the relationship between them, they should not have been mixed together, the love marriage that was prevented by everyone would not be happy, he had no trust in her, and she didn't have any respect for him.

Trust between people takes a long time and a common special experience to build.

And between her and Lu Yan, it is difficult to have such trust.

Maybe...... It will never be in the same life.

However, because of the two children, they were tied together, and the whole person seemed to fall into the misty forest, and the mist blinded her eyes, making her unable to see the road ahead.

The corners of her eyes were a little moist, and she took a deep breath, rolled over, and buried her head in the pillow.

*

In Lu Yan's study, next to the tall bookshelf is a dim and dim floor lamp, and next to the retro wide floor-to-ceiling window, a figure stands tall.

He was wearing a thin black trench coat, inexplicably, revealing a murderous aura.

It's 12 a.m. London time, and at 8 a.m. Beijing time the next day, Lu Yan has commissioned a private investigator overnight, and he is waiting for the results.

The initial simple result was sent to Lu Yan's mobile phone half an hour later.

Lu Yan stared at the phone screen coldly, and the cold light of the screen was projected on his deep outline, which made him very gloomy.

Three years ago, he removed the doctors and nurses from the private hospital and replaced the domestic servants at home, just to prevent them from gossiping.

Now, the private detective's news says that the servants are still there, but the servants were outside the villa on the day of the crime and do not know the situation, while the doctors and nurses who know about it do not know where they have gone, and they cannot be found in a short time.

Lu Yan's heart is like a mirror, what the truth is, he probably knows it.

His big palm kept rubbing the thin mobile phone, and when it was 1 o'clock in the morning, he finally dialed the phone, and over there, it was Lu Chengguo who answered the phone.

Lu Chengguo seemed to be eating, and when he answered the phone, he put down his chopsticks, and the porcelain bowl collided gently, and he shouted, "Ah Yan, good morning." ”

Lu Yan's jaw bone was tense, and his Adam's apple moved up and down.

"Dad, back then, how much did you know about Mom and words?"

The end of this sentence fell heavily, and Lu Chengguo fell into silence in an instant, Lu Yan didn't say anything, and neither did Lu Chengguo.

The two of them were in the earpieces, so quiet that they could hear the faint sound of electricity.

The dust settled.

After a while, Lu Chengguo's voice sounded calmly: "Ah Yan, that's all in the past, and your mother already regrets what she did." ”

Really.

Lu Yan's expression did not have a trace of ups and downs, and when he couldn't find out where the doctor went, he guessed that the follow-up treatment back then could never have been done by his mother, because his mother did not have such skills.

Lu Chengguo seemed to sigh: "Your mother didn't tell me what happened back then, I found out that she was secretly transferring money to the doctor, so I went to investigate." ”

"Dad. Lu Yan's voice overflowed from his throat, with harshness and hoarseness, "What did you find?"

"The doctor took the money, so he didn't tell me anything, just vaguely confessed that your mother lied, and she actually forced it...... The doctor listened to her advice and induced labor for the word. ”

The latter sentence, Lu Chengguo couldn't speak, his voice was very tight.

He has no biological children of his own in his life, and he has always liked children, when he was young, he would have a serious face and not get close to children, but when he got old, he became more and more soft-hearted about children. He had just learned that Zhou Yun had done such a thing, and his anger burned to his head at once, but he had never really been angry with Zhou Yun in his life, he calmed down and thought slowly.

He is a businessman, balancing interests, the situation has been disrupted at that time, the child is gone, Yan Yu is also injured, everything is useless, Zhou Yun is so afraid that Ah Yan will know, as a husband, the only thing he can do is to help her hide it.

Although in his heart, he has always felt guilty about words.

But...... Anyway, Zhou Yun is his wife, for the good of the Lu family, and for the good of his Lu Chengguo's family.

Lu Chengguo said: "You have reconciled with Yan Yu now? We owe her, you should treat her well, don't bear Yan again." Don't mention those things in the past to your mother, she is not in good health now and can't stand the stimulation. Ah Yan, the most unforgettable, parents. ”

The stone on Lu Yan's chest hit his heart hard, causing some bloody pain.

"Your mother doesn't like words, I will do her ideological work well, this time, protect good words, don't let her get hurt again. ”

Lu Yan clenched the phone, and his finger bones ached.

Lu Chengguo continued: "Ah Yan, you have a wife you want to protect, and I have it too, your mother has done something wrong, I will educate her, and I will let her correct it, but this matter should not be done by you, nor should it be done by words." ”

He rarely puts on such a patriarchal posture, and the last time was when he forced Lu Yan and Yanyu to marry.

Lu Yan's thin lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't spit out any words.

After a long time, he only asked: "Dad, where did you send that doctor back then?" Didn't the doctor tell you, is the child in the womb still alive?"

When Lu Chengguo thought of Lu Shumu, his heart seemed to be tightly wound by silk threads, and he couldn't breathe.

He replied: "No, I don't know where the doctor is, I gave him a sum of money back then, and he didn't tell me that the child is still alive." ”

"Got it. Lu Yan hung up the phone.

His dark eyebrows twisted, and slowly stretched out, his face was expressionless, his eyes were cold, where did the doctor go, who sent him away, why did the child survive, these small questions didn't seem to matter, but he always felt that something was hidden by Steward Cheng.

But the only thing that can be confirmed is.

The words of the year were indeed forcibly induced by his mother.

As soon as Lu Yan thought of this, his heart was cold, as if he was being pinched by an unknown person, and his throat was like being stung by sharp glass slag, and he couldn't say anything.

He suddenly realized how stupid he had been in the past few years.

In the past three years, he is not the only one who is suffering, not to mention, his so-called pain is also based on the pain of words.

The words were forced, but he always thought that she refused to give birth to Lu Shumu, and because he mistakenly thought that she was unwilling to give birth, after the reunion, he hurt her several times, and prevented her from recognizing Lu Shumu, thinking that he could vent and retaliate.

Lu Yan closed his eyes, and his back, which was almost about to blend into the darkness, looked cold and lonely.

He and his mother are the ones who hurt the most.

His heart was entangled with regret little by little, three years ago, if he had spent more time on words and paid more attention to words...... No, three years ago, he shouldn't have left the words in the Lu family to give birth, he shouldn't have stayed with his mother, and this time, he had to bring the words back to his mother with his own hands......

He didn't dare to imagine what kind of pain he suffered during that time, and how profound the pain was.

A pregnant woman was forced to stay in the villa by her husband, which was almost equivalent to semi-imprisonment, and was forced to induce labor by her mother-in-law, thinking that the child in her womb was dead, and in exchange for her husband's divorce.

Lu Yan suddenly felt a little vaguely afraid, he didn't know, how should he face the words, how to redeem the words, how to make up for it?

Because, there are some injuries that are too deep to heal for a lifetime.

He really did it himself.

Lu Yan's Adam's apple rolled slightly, and a sneer appeared on her thin lips, three years ago, Yan Yu had no feelings for him, and after what happened three years ago, she must have had no feelings for him for a long time.

His heart was crumbling little by little, numb with pain.

It's really self-inflicted.

*

The Xu family.

Xu Zhigang held a stack of materials in his hand, after many years of thorough investigation, it was extremely difficult, he was holding all the children adopted by this privately sponsored orphanage that year, and he looked at the information entered when the children were adopted one by one, and some of the children's ages matched, and some did not.

His gaze suddenly froze slightly, and fell on a name.

Metaphors.