The Legend of Cinderella's Counterattack

I held my breath, my heart almost jumping out of my throat. The fear of being watched made my scalp tingle. I held Lu Yuxuan's hand tightly. His hand was warm and dry, giving me a great sense of security.

"Don't be afraid, I'll go take a look." Lawrence Lu said, gently protecting me behind him, and then walked towards the door step by step. As he approached, the footsteps stopped abruptly, and everything returned to silence.

Lawrence Lu flung open the door. The corridor was empty, not a single person in sight. He looked around, his brow furrowed, as if wondering where the footsteps had come from.

"Maybe it was the wind." Lawrence Lu comforted me, but there was a hint of uncertainty in his tone.

I nodded, trying to calm myself down. Perhaps I was overthinking it. After all, today was our wedding day, so nothing should happen.

After the wedding, Lu Yuxuan and I embarked on our long-awaited honeymoon. We chose the picturesque Maldives, with its azure sea, blue sky, and coconut trees. Everything was as beautiful as a fairy tale.

However, just as we were immersed in this sweet and happy world of two, an anonymous letter shattered all peace. Inside the envelope was only a thin piece of paper with a few lines of printed words, but it was like a heavy bomb that caught us off guard.

"Lu Yuxuan, your family is not as glamorous as you imagined. They are burdened with huge debts and unspeakable secrets, and you are just a poor wretch who has been kept in the dark..."

The letter ended there. Unsigned, unsigned, just lines of cold text, it cut like a sharp blade, piercing my heart. My blood froze instantly. The contents of this letter were too bizarre, yet brimming with reality. I looked up and saw that Lawrence Lu's face had also turned incredibly pale. His lips trembled slightly, as if he was trying desperately to suppress something.

"Yuxuan, this..." My knuckles turned white as I held the letter paper, and my mind was in a mess.

Lawrence Lu took a deep breath, snatched the letter from my hand, and tore it into pieces in no time. Then he hugged me tightly, his voice low and hoarse, "Lolo, I'm sorry, I..."

His intermittent words made me even more uneasy. I pushed him away and looked him straight in the eyes. "Is what the letter says true?"

Lawrence Lu avoided my gaze and closed his eyes in pain. The heavy silence was like a huge rock, pressing down on me and making it hard for me to breathe. I saw his clenched fists trembling slightly, his nails digging deep into his flesh, but he was completely unaware.

"Speak up!" I couldn't control my emotions anymore and shouted, "What happened to your family?"

Lawrence Lu raised his head abruptly, his eyes full of pain and self-blame, “I’m sorry, Lolo, I…I should have told you earlier, I…”

He told me, in fragments, about his family's past. It turned out that while the Lu family appeared prosperous on the surface, they were already deeply in debt and even involved in some illegal activities. To preserve the family business, Lu Yuxuan's father took a desperate risk, ultimately leading to irreversible consequences.

“I originally thought that I could change all this with my own efforts, and I could give you a happy future…” Lawrence Lu’s voice was full of despair, “But, I was wrong, I have no ability at all…”

He held his head in pain, helpless like a lost child. My heart felt like it was torn apart. I had never seen Lawrence Lu so vulnerable. The pain and self-blame in his eyes made me feel like a knife cutting through my heart. "No, you're not wrong. This isn't your fault..." I hugged him tightly, trying to give him some comfort. "We are a family. We have to face this together, right?"

Lawrence Lu’s body stiffened for a moment, then he hugged me even tighter, his voice choked with sobs, “Lolo, you’re so nice, but… I’m not worthy of you, you deserve better…”

"What's the point of being worthy? I only love you as a person, not your family!" I retorted loudly, tears welling up in my eyes. "Let's face this together, okay?"

Lawrence Lu let me go and looked at me deeply. After a long time, he took a deep breath and said firmly, “No, Luo Luo, I can’t drag you down. Let’s… break up.”

My heart felt like it was being tightly gripped by an invisible hand. The pain was so severe that I could hardly breathe. "You...what did you say?"

“I’m sorry, Lolo, forget me, you deserve someone better…” Lawrence Lu closed his eyes, not daring to look into my eyes, and turned around and left the room resolutely.

I collapsed on the ground powerlessly, tears blurring my vision. I wanted to chase him, but found that I couldn't move at all. I could only watch his back disappear outside the door.

"Lolo, don't be like this..." Chenxi and the housekeeper rushed over after hearing the news. Seeing how distraught I was, they felt very distressed.

“Why…why did he do this to me…” I burst into tears, replaying Lu Yuxuan’s resolute back as he left over and over again in my mind.

"Mr. Lu is doing this for your own good. He just..." The housekeeper hesitated and finally sighed, "Hey, he needs to be alone now. Let him think it over."

Chenxi helped me back to the room and kept comforting me, but I couldn't hear anything. My world seemed to collapse in an instant, leaving only endless sadness and despair. Lu Yuxuan, how could you say goodbye so easily? Is our love really so fragile?

The housekeeper's words echoed in my ears, but my heart felt hollow, empty, and filled with only a boundless coldness. I spent several days in a daze, not eating, not drinking, and not sleeping, until a package arrived, finally breaking the dead silence.

It was a tightly wrapped package, unsigned. I opened it with trembling hands, revealing a simple wooden box. Inside lay a jade pendant and a letter. The letter was yellowed, clearly showing its age. The handwriting was vigorous and powerful, yet it felt strangely unfamiliar to me.

The content of the letter shocked me even more. It was a letter written by Lawrence Lu’s grandfather to his grandson. The letter detailed what the Lu family had experienced over the years and the crisis faced by the Lu Group. The root of all this actually came from a family hidden in the dark - the Ye family.

The letter said that the Ye family and the Lu family were originally old friends, but they eventually became enemies because of a business cooperation. The Ye family held a grudge against the Lu family and had been secretly suppressing the Lu Group over the years. The accidental death of Lu Yuxuan's father seemed to be related to the Ye family.

At the end of the letter, Lawrence Lu’s grandfather left a meaningful message: “Yuxuan, if you encounter difficulties, you can find someone who will tell you everything and help you through the difficulties. But you must remember that this person may be the person you are most reluctant to face…”

The content of the letter was so shocking that I read it carefully over and over again, trying to find a flaw in it. However, every word on the letter seemed to be engraved in my mind and could not be erased.

Who sent this letter? What was this person's relationship to the Lu family? And who was "that person" mentioned in the letter? It all seemed like a huge mystery, weighing me down. I clutched the jade pendant tightly, and a bold thought suddenly occurred to me: Perhaps this jade pendant could hold the key to solving the mystery!