The Domineering Chief Dotes on His Wife

In the afternoon, the old man called, but he kept rambling on and on without getting to the point. I guessed that he had something important to say, but he couldn't explain it over the phone and was afraid that she would be too busy with work to come back.

After finishing her work in the evening, Yan Liluo went home.

When Yan Lilu arrived, the old man was sitting alone in the room, quietly reading a book.

"Luo Luo is back. Have you eaten?" Yan Liheng's wife greeted Yan Liluo with a smile as she entered the house.

"Auntie, I've already had dinner."

"Alright then, your grandfather just asked me to make him a cup of hot tea. What would you like to drink?"

I drink whatever my grandfather drinks.

"Your grandfather must have known you were coming back today, that's why he's still reading at this hour."

"I'm going to say hello to Grandpa."

"Okay, go ahead, I'll make you some tea."

As soon as Yan Liluo arrived, the old man immediately put down his book and took off his reading glasses.

"Grandpa."

"You've been busy with work lately, haven't you?"

"It's alright, not too busy."

"Xiang Tianlai, you weren't like this before. Have you two been having problems lately?"

"There shouldn't be any problems between friends."

The old man smiled slightly and looked at Yan Liluo. "I don't think Xiang Tian's concern for you is that of a friend. Xiang Tian is not bad either; you've known each other for many years."

"I only see him as a friend."

"I can tell today that you still have feelings for Lu Jingchuan?"

Yan Lilu paused for a moment, looking at the old man, "Grandpa, you misunderstand. How could I possibly have feelings for Lu Jingchuan? I'm just engaged to him, we don't have much interaction, and we can't build any relationship."

"You knew Lu Jingchuan before Huo Xiangtian," the old man said bluntly.

Yan Liluo's eyes were no longer calm; he didn't know how his grandfather knew about these things.

"Many years ago, your mother stubbornly left home, which caused some estrangement between us, and we haven't seen each other for many years." At this point, a faint sadness appeared in Grandpa Yan's eyes.

“I was angry that she abandoned the Yan family without a second thought, so I stopped caring about her. Until one day many years ago, Lu Zhenye came to Jincheng and suddenly asked me if my mother had any relationship with me.”

“Your mother left home many years ago. I was still angry at the time and denied it. Perhaps because of this, Lu Zhenye did not hide his purpose and explained why he came to find me.”

“If there is a connection, the Lu family and the Yan family can form a marriage alliance. He also mentioned your relationship with Lu Jingchuan. However, since the words had already been spoken, I did not explain for various reasons, and Lu Zhenye left just like that.”

"If I had admitted it back then, you and Lu Jingchuan might have been engaged long ago. But you two got engaged again, so what happened?"

"The past is the past, and the present is the present. The past is gone with the wind." Yan Liluo said calmly, but she couldn't help but recall the past and regret some of her decisions back then.

Yan Liluo chose to stay here that night.

The bedside lamp was on, and she tossed and turned, unable to sleep, recalling some things.

A few years ago, when I went to Ancheng on a business trip, she had even shorter, choppy hair than she does now.

Yan Mu mentioned that there was a lively and famous bar in Ancheng. Since Yan Mu happened to be in Ancheng, she suggested that Yan Mu go check it out.

One night, following the address given by Yan Mu, she went to the bar. Unexpectedly, she would reunite with Lu Jingchuan after a long separation. With her short hairstyle, Lu Jingchuan thought she was a man. She did not explain and let the misunderstanding continue.

When they first met, they were strangers. Lu Jingchuan asked her to become Lu Jingshen's assistant at Shengshi under the pretext of cooperation. When asked why her, Lu Jingchuan's answer was simple: he liked her.

She, of course, refused such an unreasonable request without hesitation.

When she was young and had a relationship with Lu Jingchuan, Old Master Lu talked to her. It was then that she learned Lu Jingchuan's true identity. Around the same time, her family suddenly experienced a change of fortune.

Grandpa Lu helped her privately by finding the hit-and-run driver. She always remembered this, so whenever she had free time in Ancheng, she would visit him.

It was during that visit that she ran into Lu Jingchuan again. Before leaving, Lu Jingchuan called her back and brought up the request they had made at the bar again, which was overheard by the old man.

Lu Jingchuan's proposal was rejected again.

The next day, the old man contacted her again, lowering his stance and offering generous funds, asking her to help him become Lu Jingshen's assistant at Shengshi, and promising to keep her identity a secret.

Lu Jingchuan didn't know who she was, and couldn't even tell if she was male or female. The old man also promised not to explain her relationship, because the old man had done her a favor in the past, so she agreed.

At first, Lu Jingchuan treated her as a business partner. Gradually, she sensed that Lu Jingchuan was looking for his own shadow in her. He would often call out her old name when he was drunk. Not wanting Lu Jingchuan to know who she was, she began to run away.

No matter how good she and Lu Jingchuan were in the past, that was many years ago, and they had gone through a lot. Now she dared not have any extra desires and just wanted to live out the rest of her life quietly alone.

She knew why she and Lu Jingchuan got engaged; it was Lu Jingshen who made her do it, and it was also because of the Yan family. It had nothing to do with love. Even though she gave birth to Lu Jingchuan's child, it was all for the sake of the Yan family, and she was forced to do so.

Now she regrets it, wondering if things would be different if she hadn't agreed to the old man's request.

She won't have much interaction with Lu Jingchuan, and Lu Jingshen probably won't have the opportunity to use the Yan family to blackmail her.

Over the years, she had long since gotten used to being alone. Even though she stayed at home very late, Yan Liluo still went back to her apartment.

Little Yao Yao woke up crying and fussing as soon as she woke up, and no matter how the nanny tried to coax her, it was no use.

It was still early, and the sky outside was just beginning to brighten. One person cried, and the other started crying too. The sounds of crying from downstairs carried up to upstairs.

"What happened?" Lu Jingshen came downstairs to ask the nanny.

"The little girl keeps crying for her mother, and nothing we do can soothe her," the nanny replied.

"You've been here so long, and you're only now looking for your mother?"

Lu Jingshen clearly didn't believe the nanny at all. To prevent the child from developing a detached attitude, he had Yan Liluo keep her distance from the child from the beginning.

“She’s been crying every night for the past few days, and this morning she was especially fussy. We’ve had her checked by the family doctor every day, and she’s not sick. Every time she cries, she wants to find her mother,” the nanny added.

The nanny's words made Lu Jingshen frown. There must be a reason why the child suddenly wanted to find his mother.

During their two-day trip to Jincheng, Mrs. Lu found the two children to be very easy to take care of, as they didn't cry or fuss. Moreover, since they were only going for two days, they didn't need a nanny to accompany them.

Why bring Zuo Xin and Zuo Yun instead of a nanny? Did Mrs. Lu take the children to see Yan Liluo while he was away?

When Lin Jiaran came downstairs, the child had already cried himself to sleep.

"Don't let your child interact with people casually in the future."

When Lu Jingshen said this to the nanny, Lin Jiaran, who had just reached the door, heard it. She didn't go in, but after a while, she went upstairs.