After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved novel Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Let's Start the Strategy with the Eldest Brother

The phone rang several times before Lu Sheng finally pressed the answer button and brought it to her ear: "Hello, who is this?"

"Don't have my number saved?" The man on the other end spoke with a cold tone, "This is Lu Jingyan."

"Oh, it's big brother," Lu Sheng's tone was timid, "Sorry big brother, I forgot to save your contact."

"Fine," the man clearly had little patience, "The driver I sent to pick you up at the station said he couldn't find you, and your phone was unreachable. Where did you run off to?"

"I'm sorry big brother," the girl said softly, "My phone was out of battery earlier, and I thought no one came to pick me up, so I left the station on my own."

"What?" Lu Jingyan frowned over the phone, "You grew up in the countryside and are unfamiliar with Jiang City. Why are you wandering around alone? Where are you now?"

Lu Sheng looked up and saw a street sign across the road. She just reported the street name when the person on the other end told her to wait and hung up directly.

Tsk.

Truly indifferent.

But it's normal for Lu Jingyan to be indifferent since, in the eyes of the Lu Family, coming to Jiang City meant usurping Lu Qianrou's man, bringing shame to the Lu Family.

The Lu Family truly began to thrive after Lu Chengye abandoned his mother Du Ran and married the Jiang Family's eldest daughter, Jiang Ting.

Over the past decades, Old Mr. Jiang had devoted all the Jiang Family's resources to support his only son-in-law, leading to the current wealth and reputation of the Lu Family.

Jiang Ting bore Lu Chengye five sons, and later desired a daughter. They searched all over Jiang City's orphanages and adopted the most beautiful and talented five-year-old girl, naming her Lu Qianrou.

Eighteen years ago, Lu Chengye visited Du Ran, who had become disheartened and returned to her rural hometown. That night, he forced himself on her.

Lu Chengye thought this was a secret, a secret that would be buried with Du Ran's death last month, but things did not go as he wished.

Before her death, Du Ran called Lu Chengye, telling him that she had gotten pregnant from that night and had given birth to a daughter named Lu Sheng.

She also mentioned that her mother was indebted to Old Mr. Fu of the Fu Family, so Old Mr. Fu had arranged an engagement between Lu Sheng and his grandson, Fu Chen.

Learning this, Lu Chengye was stunned.

He hadn't taken precautions that night; perhaps he really had left a seed. But how could Du Ran, a countryside girl, have connections with a powerful figure like Old Mr. Fu?

Furthermore, Old Mr. Fu had arranged the engagement with Fu Chen—everyone in Jiang City knew Fu Chen was dating Qianrou. Wouldn't this be an insult to the Jiang Family?

Yet, Old Mr. Fu did exactly that.

Expensive engagement gifts poured into the Lu Family home. Jiang Ting, thinking these were for Lu Qianrou, was overjoyed, forcing Lu Chengye to reveal the truth.

Revealing this old scar, discovering her husband's infidelity, the pampered and proud Jiang Ting furiously returned to her parent's home.

Eventually, unable to withstand Lu Chengye's daily pleas, and also for the sake of their children and the Lu Family's reputation, she reluctantly returned.

But the story of the Lu Family's illegitimate daughter raised in the countryside spread throughout the upper circles of Jiang City.

Du Ran had died; with Lu Sheng being a minor, someone had to take care of her. Given her existence was already well-known and Old Mr. Fu's persistent urging, Lu Chengye had no choice but to bring Lu Sheng to Jiang City.

Though she had arrived, within less than an hour of stepping onto this land worth its weight in gold, she was strangled and her body dumped in an alley.

Besides Jiang Ting and Lu Qianrou, Lu Sheng couldn't think of who else would harbor such intense resentment and motive against someone they had never met.

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