When Lu Wensheng heard this, he did not choose to leave. Instead, he took a step forward and walked straight to the man.

"I heard Qingtang mention you," she said softly, "He said you were a very good and gentle man."

She leaned so close, so close that if they said one more word, their faces would seem to touch.

Wen Qingyan frowned and was about to raise his hand to push the girl away, but then he suddenly found that he couldn't move.

The look in Wen Qingyan's eyes deepened slightly, and his gaze fell on the rose in his arms.

"It's not about the flowers," Lu Wensheng bent down slightly, his dark almond-shaped eyes fixed on the man's cold face, and he said with a smile, "You have done Qingtang a favor. I won't use your love for her to plot against you."

Besides, it would be easy to be discovered by the people in front of you.

Without waiting for Wen Qingyan to ask, she continued, "It's a plant I discovered in an orphanage when I was a child."

"Crush it, soak it in water, and apply it to clothes and hair. The smell it emits will temporarily incapacitate anyone who inhales it for the first time."

Therefore, the moisture on her clothes was not because she went out in the snow, but because she got them there on purpose.

Wen Qingyan stared into the girl's dark, clear almond-shaped eyes. There seemed to be a coldness in his eyes, but he didn't show it on his face. "I'm curious, how are you going to make me give up and bring her back?"

Lu Wensheng raised the corners of his lips slightly as he looked at the man's face, which was clearly outlined by the warm yellow light. "Why do you have to bring Qingtang back? You obviously don't like her..."

At least it's not the love between a man and a woman.

The wind and snow were howling outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Wen Qingyan leaned his elbows on the back of the chair, looked at the girl in front of him, and said in a low voice, "Maybe it's because... habit?"

He was used to her existence and her protection. He was unwilling to let the person he raised abandon him and leave him completely?

There are many reasons, but none of them seems to be because of love.

The smile on Lu Wensheng's face grew even wider.

She raised her hands and, under Wen Qingyan's gaze, slowly took off her wet clothes one by one.

"I'm also curious. As a devout believer, after doing something unethical... can Mr. Godfather still face her with a clear mind?"

A hint of coldness finally appeared in Wen Qingyan's eyes.

He tapped his bent fingers lightly on the backrest, as if he was considering and hesitating about something.

A slender white finger pressed against his, and Lu Wensheng sat naked on his lap. Her smile and voice were both incredibly gentle, but her eyes were terrifyingly calm. "I know you have a backup plan."

"This is your territory. You only need to make the slightest noise and someone will rush in immediately and drag away anyone who offends you—"

She raised her hand and gently touched his lips, "But I bet you...won't do that!"

Because this face... is similar to Lu Qingtang's.

The man in front of him is the person who knows Lu Qingtang best in the world.

He watched with his own eyes as Lu Qingtang grew up little by little, and watched her face develop from that of a young and adorable child into a budding young girl.

And at this moment, Lu Wensheng... is exactly the most unrestrained and beautiful girl in Wen Qingyan's memory, the girl he raised.

"Or maybe..." Lu Wensheng's fingers slowly slid across the man's lips, nose, and eyes, and whispered to Wen Qingyan's ear, "Compared to Qingtang, you know clearly that I am the one... who is most suitable for you."

Wen Qingyan's light-colored pupils were covered with a shadow. "She doesn't want to stay here, so why would you be willing?"

Compared with the relationship between Lu Qingtang and him that lasted for more than 20 years, there was no other relationship between Lu Wensheng and him except for the life-saving favor he had done.

"Maybe it's because..." Lu Wensheng smiled and gently stroked the outline of his cheek with his fingers. "You are very handsome?"

A thin layer of sweat appeared on Wen Qingyan's forehead. He said lightly, "Your teacher is more beautiful."

"So, what kind of answer do you want to hear, Godfather?" Lu Wensheng seemed to be unable to hold back his laughter and said, "You want to hear me say that besides Qingtang, it's also because I fell in love with you...at first sight, and I have a deep admiration for you?"

There was a hint of danger in Wen Qingyan's cold eyes.

He had been sending people to keep an eye on everything related to Lu Qingtang, so he naturally knew clearly that the person in front of him suffered from a serious emotional disorder.

Seeing that he couldn't deceive anyone anymore, Lu Wensheng sighed regretfully and said softly, "Because I can't go to the capital, there's no way... to return to Qingtang."

Wen Qingyan stared at her without blinking.

Lu Wensheng raised her arms and put her arms around the man's neck. She put her red lips to his ear and whispered, "The longer I stay with Qingtang, the less I can hide myself..."

"I don't want her to know that Lu Wensheng is... a natural born killer."

Wen Qingyan lowered his eyelashes slightly and looked at the girl in his arms.

Lu Wensheng held his face with her slender hands, smiled, and said in an alluring voice, "The first person I killed was a strong middle-aged man."

"At that time, I was taken away from the orphanage by that family. They locked me up in a room filled with various torture instruments."

"No one knows that the moment I was locked in that room, I had already thought about how to kill the other person."

A five-year-old child might not understand the malice in the man's eyes, she just felt scared subconsciously.

So her body functions instinctively helped her make the most advantageous choice.

"I memorized the locations of all the torture instruments in that room and predicted all the possible actions that man might take..."

"Then, at the moment he committed the violence, he calculated the angle perfectly. Unsurprisingly, he stepped on the bottle he had thrown on the ground, and the back of his head hit the sharp corner of the table. With a bang, he died."

"I looked at his wide-open eyes and almost subconsciously walked to the door, crying and banging on it..."

"But no one actually knew that at that time... I wasn't really that scared."

Wen Qingyan's eyelashes moved, and as he looked at the girl in his arms who was kissing him tenderly, a hint of pity appeared in his eyes.

"The second person I killed..." Lu Wensheng paused, "To be exact, they were a family member."

"Qingtang once asked me who the sister I met in the orphanage was..."

"After Jiang Shubai showed up, everyone naturally assumed he was the 'sister.'"

"But they don't know..." Lu Wensheng tried to unbutton the man's shirt with his fingers, bit his lip, and said softly, "I really knew a sister in the orphanage..."

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