Memory was pulled back to that accidental night three years ago.
That day was Lu Beichuan’s birthday, and also the first day he officially took over as president of the Lu Group.
The entire Lu family was immersed in joy.
Lu Beichuan didn’t like formal banquets, so he invited a few good friends and relatives to his house for dinner.
He wasn’t a heavy drinker, and since it was a casual family dinner, there wasn’t a deliberate toasting session.
His friends didn’t dare to easily ply him with alcohol. Throughout the evening, only An Xia, who had loved to follow him around since she was a child, dared to boldly toast him to congratulate him.
It was that glass of wine from An Xia that made him lose all reason, his body filled with desire being deliberately set on fire.
After venting and regaining consciousness, he saw An Xia lying beside him, covered in marks and crying like a pear blossom in the rain.
Before he could think about anything, the bedroom door was pushed open, and everyone in the Lu family, including a few friends, all witnessed this scene.
An Xia said she didn’t know what had happened, and had completely lost consciousness after going to the bathroom.
Lu Jingyang, however, said he saw her secretly enter Lu Beichuan’s room.
Lu Jingyang had a high fever as a child and didn’t receive medical treatment in time, damaging his brain. His intelligence was about that of a three-year-old child.
Even though he was already twelve years old at the time, he still occasionally couldn’t control his bowel movements.
No one believed that someone who couldn’t even control his own physiological functions would slander the sister he had relied on since childhood.
Lu Beichuan’s wine had been drugged. After returning to his room to rest, An Xia had excused herself from the banquet and secretly sneaked into Lu Beichuan’s room.
And An Xia was adopted by the Lu family, and it happened to be the year she turned eighteen, just the stage where she was becoming an adult and independent.
With all these things piled up together, everyone believed that An Xia was trying to hold on to the Lu family, this cash cow, so she didn’t hesitate to use such dirty tricks to scheme against Lu Beichuan, just to be able to stay by his side.
Recalling all the memories, Lu Beichuan looked at the pure and stubborn face in front of him, the corners of his lips twitching into a mocking arc.
“You’re not so stubborn now.”
For the past three years, whenever that night was mentioned, An Xia would cry out for her innocence.
Even if no one believed her, as long as it was mentioned, she would say she was wronged.
But now she had learned to be good. Knowing that no one believed her, she simply didn’t argue.
“You wouldn’t believe me anyway,” An Xia said coolly.
In his heart, she was already a woman full of lies and deep scheming. No matter how much she explained, it was useless.
Just like last night, he didn’t give her any chance to explain and forcibly pinned the blame of using Lu Jingyang on her.
It was futile to say more.
“Did you come to the hospital to find me to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau?” An Xia didn’t want to waste any more words with him.
Lu Beichuan’s face darkened.
“Want to get rid of me quickly and fly away with that pretty boy outside?”
“You’re dreaming!”
The hand he was pinching An Xia’s chin with kept tightening.
All the anger was now focused on this hand.
An Xia felt like her chin was about to be crushed.
The phone rang, interrupting the stalemate between the two.
Lu Beichuan slowly released his hand, glared at An Xia, took out his phone, and at the moment he saw the caller ID, his cold face suddenly softened. He walked to the side and answered the call.
“Xiyu…”
An Xia smiled sarcastically.
Just a second ago, he was mocking her and Shen Huaian’s abnormal relationship, betraying this marriage.
But the next second, he answered his white moonlight ex-girlfriend’s call with tenderness.
What a double standard!
An Xia wasn’t interested in the ambiguous entanglement between him and Ming Xiyu, and she didn’t have the mentality to calmly watch her husband be gentle and doting on other women without any reaction.
Seeing that he had come empty-handed, not like he had brought his documents, knowing that it was unlikely that they would be able to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce today, An Xia turned around and quietly left.
After leaving the hospital gate, An Xia received a call from the real estate agent, saying that they had found several suitable properties.
She was now unemployed and had to pay 200,000 yuan in medical expenses every month. It would be too extravagant and wasteful to keep staying in a hotel, so when An Xia went out this morning, she went to the real estate agency to rent a house.
Without the identity of Mrs. Lu and the supplementary card, she naturally couldn’t have a chauffeur picking her up like before.
After checking the bus route to the meeting place with the real estate agent, An Xia stood at the bus stop waiting for the bus.
Just as she closed the navigation software, the push content of Weibo popped up.
[Lu Group President Lu Beichuan and Design Talent Ming Xiyu Suspected of Being in Love!]
[Ming Xiyu Secretly Shows Affection]
[Ming Xiyu Best Boyfriend Award]
Just seeing these words made An Xia’s heart feel suffocated.
Knowing that the content she would see if she clicked on it would only make her more embarrassed and uncomfortable, An Xia’s fingers still couldn’t help but click on the message.
The screen immediately switched to Weibo, and the pictures and texts related to the title also popped up.
It was Ming Xiyu’s newly posted Weibo.
[This is Your Best Achievement]
In the accompanying picture, Ming Xiyu was sitting in front of a triangular display case, looking up at the top of the display case with her back to the camera.
At the top of the display case was a certificate – [Best Boyfriend Award]
Directly below this certificate, on the second layer of the display case, was the gold medal Lu Beichuan won at the Yalong Bay Economic Competition.
Two layers below, were Lu Beichuan’s other awards, large and small.
Although the certificate didn’t name names, the owner of all the honors in this cabinet was only one person.
That was Lu Beichuan.
Ming Xiyu was talking about Lu Beichuan.
And the edge of the picture accidentally revealed a large hand with distinct joints.
An Xia recognized it almost instantly.
It was Lu Beichuan’s hand.
He was wearing the Patek Philippe that she had bought last year with the money she had painstakingly saved from her part-time jobs.
Although the picture wasn’t clear, An Xia could still vaguely make out the time on it.
It was 3:00 AM last night.
It was the time after she moved out of Tianzhu Garden.
An Xia found it funny.
So he spent the entire second half of the night at his ex-girlfriend’s house, and he could still act like nothing had happened and come to the hospital to question her and accuse her of cheating in the marriage?
As her understanding of these things became clearer and clearer, An Xia angrily closed the phone screen.
Just as she put it in her bag, a white BMW slowly drove up and stopped in front of her.
The window of the passenger seat rolled down, revealing Shen Huaian’s calm and elegant face.
“Where are you going?”
“I have an appointment with a real estate agent near the library to see some houses.”
Before she married Lu Beichuan, An Xia and Shen Huaian had a pretty good relationship. The two were senior and junior classmates from the same school, and they had roughly the same interests and hobbies, and they had a lot in common.
But later, when she married Lu Beichuan, her mother-in-law, Song Lanzhi, was already very dissatisfied with An Xia, and An Xia didn’t want to cause too much trouble, so her contact with Shen Huaian gradually faded.