April spring is always rainy. The Azure Garden Villa, nestled halfway up the mountain, is shrouded in the gloom of the rainy weather.
Inside the villa, however, the atmosphere is lively, quite unlike the incessant rain outside the window.
An Xia looked at the decorations in the living room with satisfaction, her radiant gaze finally settling on the top center position of the display cabinet.
[17th Asian Bay Economic Competition Champion]
[—Lu Beichuan]
Married to Lu Beichuan for three years, An Xia has had very few opportunities to meet and spend time with him.
She had finally waited for him to return from a business trip, which coincided with this special and memorable day. An Xia had carefully decorated the house, waiting for Lu Beichuan to come back and celebrate.
Thinking of this, An Xia subconsciously stroked her lower abdomen, a faint smile appearing on the corner of her mouth.
She would also take this opportunity to quickly give her grandmother a great-grandchild, which would not be in vain of the old woman’s persistent urging for children over the years.
Of course, An Xia was also thinking that if there were a child in the family, Lu Beichuan would have more to care about and wouldn’t always be tied up with work and not come home.
Two hours passed, and the exquisite and delicious dishes on the table were cooled and reheated, reheated and cooled again.
After repeatedly doing this several times, An Xia couldn’t sit still any longer and took out her phone to call Lu Beichuan.
The call was picked up just as it was about to automatically hang up.
“What’s wrong?” The man’s low, hoarse voice was mixed with a hint of fatigue.
The candlelight on the table flickered, and An Xia’s eyes under the shadows paused: “Today is the 16th… You were supposed to come back.”
There was a moment of silence on the other end, and his tone became somewhat mocking: “An Xia, besides that ** matter, do you have anything else to ask me for?”
An Xia lowered her eyes.
Lu Beichuan was unwillingly forced into this marriage by his elders.
They had hastily obtained their marriage certificate without even holding a wedding.
Knowing that he was unwilling, the elders in the family had decreed that as long as he was in the country, he had to return to the marital home on the 16th of every month to do what a husband and wife should do until An Xia became pregnant, otherwise, other conditions would be out of the question.
“No, I…”
Before An Xia could finish speaking, there were a few noises on the other end, and the call was cut off.
An Xia put down her phone dejectedly and looked at the trophy placed in the center.
That was the championship Lu Beichuan had won ten years ago. At that time, he was the youngest contestant in the competition and was hardly favored by anyone. Everyone thought he was just an incompetent playboy from a wealthy family.
But no one expected that he would complete the competition task alone while running a high fever, even exceeding the final required results several times over. He not only won the championship at that time but also created a record that no one has been able to break to this day.
After that, everyone changed their view of Lu Beichuan, and this was also the first victory Lu Beichuan had won in taking over the Lu family’s business.
An Xia would never forget the spirited and imposing figure of Lu Beichuan, who was only sixteen years old at the time, standing on the podium.
It was from that time on that her heart had completely fallen on Lu Beichuan, and she could no longer see any other man.
So even though she knew that this marriage had started reluctantly and that the process might be very tiring, as long as the object was Lu Beichuan, she would be willing to endure any hardship.
Even giving up a job offer with an annual income of millions and resigning herself to being a full-time housewife was without complaint.
An Xia was about to put down her phone when a new push notification suddenly popped up in the notification bar.
An Xia’s eyes paused.
[Lu Beichuan, President of the Lu Group, Has a Late-Night Rendezvous with a Beautiful Woman at a Dessert Shop]
She clicked to view it.
In the photo, Lu Beichuan, who had just been cold and harsh to her on the phone, was looking sideways at the woman who was leaning intimately against him.
The woman was wearing a pink ballet-style dress that was very delicate and lovely. An Xia recognized the tiara on her head at a glance as the Queen’s Crown that Lu Beichuan had spent 300 million on at an auction three months ago.
He had never been interested in these jewels and had never taken the initiative to buy them for her, so An Xia was a little surprised when she saw it and asked him about it. He said at the time that he had given it to an elder in a friend’s family.
But now it was appearing on this woman’s head…
An Xia’s face darkened.
Because it was dark, the photos taken by the reporters from a distance were a bit blurry, and the woman only had a back view. An Xia only felt that she looked familiar, but she couldn’t say who it was.
Before she could think too much, a frantic call came from the Fu family’s old house.
“An Xia! Come back quickly! Jingyang is having an attack!”
“Okay!”
Lu Jingyang is Lu Beichuan’s only younger brother. He became a cerebral palsy patient after a high fever a few months after birth.
In addition to not being able to take care of himself in life like a normal person, he was also always unable to control his emotions and would often become angry and irritable for various reasons.
In the entire Lu family, there were only two people who could control him at this time.
One was his older brother, Lu Beichuan.
The other was An Xia.
An Xia hurriedly grabbed her coat and rushed out the door, calling Lu Beichuan as she went.
“What’s the matter?”
“Xiaoyang is having an attack! Come back to the old house quickly!”
“Okay.”
Before the car had come to a complete stop, An Xia opened the door and jumped out, rushing into the house anxiously.
The hall was a mess, with smashed vases, broken fruits, and other things that had been destroyed beyond recognition.
But it was quiet, without a sound.
An Xia looked around and went straight to the second floor. As expected, the people in the family were all outside Lu Jingyang’s room.
But strangely, there was no sound from Lu Jingyang.
“Aunt Liu, how is Jingyang?”
The old house’s nanny, Aunt Liu, turned around and saw An Xia panting, her hair sticking to her cheeks with sweat from running. She felt a little guilty.
An Xia sensed that something was wrong. Just as she approached, Lu Jingyang suddenly darted out of the room.
The boy, who was half a head taller than her, hung on her like a koala, hugging An Xia as if she were a tree trunk.
“Xia, Xiaxia is here!”
An Xia looked at him in a daze, seeing him as normal as usual, and then looked at Aunt Liu in confusion.
“The young master doesn’t know where he learned it from, but he thinks that as long as he smashes things, you will come back. We didn’t understand at first and didn’t know he was pretending, so we hurriedly called you back.”
“Miss you, Xiaxia.” Lu Jingyang rubbed against An Xia: “I miss you so much.”
An Xia looked at him helplessly, not knowing what to say for a moment.
“If you miss me, you can ask Aunt Liu to call me. Don’t do such dangerous things.” An Xia pulled him away, carefully checking him over.
Lu Jingyang was unable to control his behavior well, and he would accidentally hurt himself every time he smashed things.
Fortunately, this time he was not out of control, but just doing it on purpose, so there were no scars left on his body.
After confirming that he was really okay, An Xia remembered Lu Beichuan, who was also rushing back.
“Aunt Liu, Beichuan hasn’t come back yet, has he?” She asked as she confirmed, taking out her phone to contact Lu Beichuan and tell him not to rush too much on the way back.
But she didn’t expect that he had already arrived.
Lu Beichuan looked at the group of people standing on the second floor, panting, his eyes cold.
“An Xia, are you using the same old trick again?”