“Miss, shall we go have breakfast?”
The butler quickly adjusted his mindset and smiled at Lu Yinghan.
Breakfast?
Lu Yinghan’s memories slowly came back like a flood—these were all things from the past she didn’t want to recall.
She sneered inwardly, but a look of reluctance appeared on her face.
“Butler, I had a nightmare last night and was scared awake. I don’t have the strength to go to the dining room right now. Could you bring breakfast to my room instead?”
Lu Yinghan looked up with moist eyes at the old butler, her hands secretly rubbing together beneath her.
Seeing the faint dark circles under Lu Yinghan’s eyes, the old gentleman’s heart softened.
“Very well, Miss. I’ll go get it for you right away.”
With a slight bow, the butler quickly shuffled out to fetch Lu Yinghan’s breakfast.
The moment the butler left, Lu Yinghan immediately walked over to the tacky bedside table and looked at the calendar on top.
“1…6. I was kicked out when I was thirteen. I’m seven now, so there are six more years.”
Lu Yinghan muttered to herself.
A moment later, she frowned in dissatisfaction.
Six more years?
She had to stay in this house for six more years?
Recalling how her family treated her—like she was dispensable—Lu Yinghan didn’t want to stay even a single second longer.
She frowned in irritation, her mind in complete chaos.
She tried to remember if there was anything important that happened in these years.
But all the images rushed into her head at once.
She couldn’t recall a single clear thing.
Forget it.
Just go with the flow.
She’d write everything down properly after breakfast.
That’s what Lu Yinghan thought, and that’s what she did.
She returned to her little bed.
Her hands folded neatly on her small stomach, she slowly went through the major events she knew from these past years, one by one.
While thinking, she waited for the butler to bring her breakfast.
But the butler, returning from the kitchen with the breakfast, was not in a good mood.
Recalling how, when he went to the kitchen to get Lu Yinghan’s breakfast, the master and mistress didn’t ask a single question about the young miss—all their attention was on the little miss.
Their eyes full of affection.
The eldest young master also sat there properly, picking food for his little sister.
The butler watched for a moment, then immediately turned away.
He let out a long sigh.
“Hmm? What’s wrong, Butler Liu?”
“Nothing. You all keep up the good work.”
The kitchen staff were all taken aback when they heard Butler Liu’s sigh.
They couldn’t help but look up and ask.
After getting the breakfast, Butler Liu headed straight for Lu Yinghan’s room.
This morning’s dining room—Butler Liu couldn’t bear to stay in it any longer.
“Miss, breakfast is here.”
Returning to Lu Yinghan’s room, Butler Liu composed himself and walked in.
What met his eyes was Lu Yinghan’s obedient sleeping posture.
The little girl looked no different from the five-year-old little miss.
She was even thinner and frailer than the little miss.
Her hands folded neatly on her stomach, lying perfectly straight, the dark bags under her eyes revealing that Lu Yinghan hadn’t slept well last night.
Butler Liu’s breathing became careful, and he didn’t know whether to set down the tray in his hands or not.
In the end, he stepped forward and gently covered Lu Yinghan with a blanket, letting her continue to rest.
Perhaps she was a bit tired from being reborn, because when Lu Yinghan woke up again, it was already five or six in the evening.
The room was dim, and there was no sound from outside.
Her empty stomach cried out insistently, forcing Lu Yinghan to get up and go to the kitchen to eat something.
Drowsily getting up, Lu Yinghan fumbled her way to the kitchen.
The master and mistress must have taken the little sister out to eat today, so there wasn’t a single person in the kitchen.
Lu Yinghan’s mood instantly soared.
Great—when she was coming over, she’d been thinking about what mindset she should have when facing these family members, but now this dark, empty dining room and kitchen…
In Lu Yinghan’s eyes, they couldn’t look more pleasing!
Opening the refrigerator, the tiny Lu Yinghan dragged a stool over and carefully scanned what ingredients were inside.
Premium wagyu beef, caviar, and other ingredients that looked expensive at a glance.
Lu Yinghan didn’t even spare them a glance.
She went straight for the coarse grains on the bottom shelf, grabbed a corn on the cob, and closed the refrigerator door.
This one corn—she couldn’t even wrap both hands around it.
It would be more than enough to fill her up.
Lu Yinghan dragged the stool over to the light switch, climbed up with effort, and just turned on the light.
Lu Jiansen’s stern face suddenly appeared in Lu Yinghan’s line of sight.
“Ah!”
Startled, the corn in her hands dropped straight to the floor, rolling farther and farther away.
“What are you doing?”
Lu Jiansen crossed his arms, looking at Lu Yinghan’s pale, frightened face staring back at him.
His sharp brows furrowed.
He looked at Lu Yinghan as if examining her.
The two of them simply stared at each other in silence.
Neither spoke.
Lu Yinghan cast a pained look at the corn that had fallen on the floor.
Then she looked up at this so-called eldest brother with slight displeasure.
Lu Jiansen.
The eldest son of the Lu family, twenty-six years old, a true diamond bachelor.
Ever since taking over the Lu Group from his father Lu Xiong two years ago, the Lu family and the group’s standing in the capital had risen to an immeasurable height.
Such was the capability of the eldest son, Lu Jiansen.
It was said that on his very first day in office, he had swiftly and decisively rooted out all the old parasites within the group.
He hadn’t even left them a way out.
That was all the information Lu Yinghan knew, and after that, she had been cast out of the Lu family, receiving no further news about them.
Perhaps it was because she hadn’t seen her own family in so long.
Lu Yinghan felt a bit awkward and uncomfortable at the moment.
She just wanted to pick up the corn and flee this place.
Lu Jiansen’s brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
“What? Cat got your tongue? Why aren’t you answering my question?”
His commanding tone instantly dispelled Lu Yinghan’s awkwardness.
She glanced at Lu Jiansen, her tone indifferent.
“I was just hungry and thought I’d come to the kitchen to see what there was to eat.”
Lu Yinghan answered, but Lu Jiansen’s expression grew even darker.
In his memory, Lu Yinghan had always been timid and submissive before him, never daring to speak loudly, let alone meet his gaze.
Her voice had always been soft and gentle as she called him “Sen-ge.”
Just last night, she had carefully brought tea and a midnight snack to his study.
Now, she was treating him with indifference, even distance…
Lu Jiansen lowered his crossed arms, narrowing his eyes slightly as he stared at Lu Yinghan, who was picking up the corn.
He felt a twinge of displeasure.
“Speak properly. Can’t you even address me properly now?”
Her hand wiping the corn paused.
Lu Yinghan, with her back to the light, looked at Lu Jiansen, who had his hands in his pockets.
Having been reborn, she thought she would handle her family well.
But when it happened to her again, Lu Yinghan still felt her heart pierced by a thousand needles, stinging with pain and grievance.
At just seven years old, Lu Yinghan pressed her lips tightly together, desperately holding back her breath so as not to lose composure in front of Lu Jiansen.
Address him?
Lu Yinghan truly couldn’t bring herself to say it.