Ming Nan was crying sorrowfully when she saw Gu Cha and Lu Chenyu standing outside the door. She immediately shouted, “There! Husband, our own son is there!”
Ming Nan struggled to get up and, holding Lu Xuan’s hand, ran toward Gu Cha and Lu Chenyu. But before they could get close, the bodyguards blocked their way.
The butler pointed at them and shouted angrily, “This is the Gu Family! You cannot cause a scene here!”
If not for the fact that these two were indeed the biological parents of Young Master Gu, the butler would never have been so polite. He would have long since had them beaten out with sticks.
Seeing that the butler and the bodyguards were not easy to confront, Ming Nan shifted her gaze to Gu Cha, who appeared the weakest. She cried, tears streaming, in an earth-shattering wail: “Cha Cha… we are your dad and mom… you are our son! Wuwu, the Gu Family is inhumane, keeping you from us! Today, your dad and mom are here to take you home!”
Lu Xuan added, “Cha Cha, we are your real parents… your mother carried you for ten months and gave birth to you! You can’t heartlessly abandon us!”
“Wuwu—”
Their crying was so shocking that if Lu Chenyu hadn’t been curious to see Gu Cha’s reaction, he would have left long ago.
Gu Cha was somewhat at a loss. He knew that the “Gu Cha” in the Gu Family was not the real Young Master. Now, his real parents had come to find him, and they looked so pitiful…
In his previous life, Gu Cha had been cruelly abandoned by his parents at a very young age. He became “Gu Cha” only after his identity as the fake Young Master was discovered. That Gu Songqing hadn’t thrown him out already showed some sentimentality. There was no question of receiving any fatherly or motherly love from them once it was known he wasn’t their biological son.
Now, something he had longed for seemed within reach.
【Cha Cha! These two are not good people! They treat Lu Chenyu badly, even wanting to sell him when in debt! You must not soften your heart and go with them—they mean harm!】
Seeing Gu Cha hesitate, Cha Cha quickly began to search for information about Lu Xuan and Ming Nan, discovering that these two were utterly unscrupulous.
“R-really?” Gu Cha asked.
【Mm-hmm!】
Gu Cha was astonished. Those two had seemed so pitiful, yet they actually bullied such a good person! Truly wicked!
Lu Chenyu was surprised to see Gu Cha’s expression shift from hesitation to pity to anger, his delicate eyebrows furrowing and relaxing repeatedly, as if even a fly could be trapped by them.
“Lu Chenyu, are they really bad? They treat you terribly, don’t they?” Gu Cha’s voice was filled with obvious concern.
Lu Chenyu noticed but didn’t know what Gu Cha intended. He just narrowed his eyes silently.
Now extremely angry, Gu Cha’s courage surged: “Cha Cha will get revenge on them! Okay?”
【Cha Cha is in danger! Don’t go!】
Tong Tong panicked. How could Cha Cha, so small, fight those two people?
Gu Cha paid no attention to Tong Tong’s warning. He strode forward. At first, he hid behind the bodyguards and gathered his courage. Taking advantage of Ming Nan and Lu Xuan being distracted in their act, he “whisked” out of the protective circle.
“Smack!”
“Smack!”
Two crisp sounds immediately silenced the crying and wailing.
Even the butler and bodyguards were stunned.
Gu Cha finished and quickly ran away, giving Ming Nan and Lu Xuan no time to react.
“You… you are inhuman! You mean harm! You… you…” Gu Cha ran out of words, eventually resorting to the classic: “You are bad people!”
After saying this, the anger in Gu Cha’s heart mostly dissipated. The initial surge of impulse was gone. Having struck someone for the first time, he felt nervous and hurriedly ran back behind the bodyguards for protection.
Lu Xuan touched his face, irritated and in pain, but his pride was completely wounded. Always a manly chauvinist, he could not endure such humiliation.
“You brat! How dare you hit your father!” Lu Xuan pointed at Gu Cha, ready to attack, but Gu Cha was safely behind the bodyguards, not letting him touch even a finger.
Ming Nan had never been struck like this before, and now that her own child had moved against her, she was furious.
“This is outrageous! I’ll make sure to teach you a proper lesson!”
The butler shielded Gu Cha. He didn’t understand what was wrong with this young master, who had been obedient for a few days, and now started hitting people again. But he had no choice; if he didn’t protect Gu Cha, Gu Songqing and Zong Lan would likely blame him upon their return.
Several bodyguards formed a wall behind Gu Cha and the butler. Lu Xuan and Ming Nan, like lunatics, tried to seize any opening to grab Gu Cha, but Gu Cha was not naive. If Lu Xuan and Ming Nan went left, he ran right; when they went right, he went left.
The scene resembled a zookeeper teasing a monkey with a small peach.
Lu Chenyu’s brows twitched, but his irritation from the past chaos gradually dissipated.
Just as Lu Chenyu prepared to end the confusion, a voice made him swallow his words.
The tardy Zong Lan appeared, exuding the authority of the family head, pointing at Lu Xuan and Ming Nan: “That’s enough! Throw these two people out!”
Once Zong Lan spoke, the bodyguards, previously hesitant to act, immediately released their restraint. In no time, they had controlled the two middle-aged elders.
Naturally, Lu Xuan and Ming Nan did not cooperate. They struggled with all their strength, using hands and feet. Even after losing their shoes, they could not prevent being thrown out of the Gu Family gates.
As the Gu Family gates closed, they pounded on the door in a futile attempt to break in, but there was no way back in. The bodyguards ignored the commotion.
Zong Lan’s first concern was for Lu Chenyu: “Are you alright? Were you scared?”
Though Zong Lan saw herself only as a cold observer, she still prioritized his safety over the fragile young master who had been raised for eighteen years. Lu Chenyu felt inexplicably annoyed. He glanced at Zong Lan but did not respond.
Gu Cha looked extremely excited. He ran up to Lu Chenyu in small, quick steps, looked up at him proudly, and said, “Cha Cha is amazing, right? Cha Cha got revenge for you. From now on… you can’t…” He stopped himself, thinking Zong Lan was present and Lu Chenyu might get scolded.
But Lu Chenyu seemed to understand: “…That’s not enough… young master.”
Zong Lan could not comprehend their private code but scolded Gu Cha firmly: “Tsk, because of your parents, Chenyu was nearly frightened! If it weren’t for Songqing and me valuing sentiment, you would have been thrown out of the Gu Family and living with people like them. Gu Cha, apologize to Chenyu!”
A flash of sharpness appeared in Lu Chenyu’s eyes.
Zong Lan’s body seemed strong, and her reprimand was commanding. Gu Cha was stunned.
Intimidated by her resolute tone, he cautiously glanced at Zong Lan’s angry face. All his excitement vanished; his expression fell, and hesitantly, he said to Lu Chenyu, “S-sorry…”
Gu Cha’s clear change in emotion and this seemingly baseless apology sent Lu Chenyu’s irritation, already simmering since Zong Lan’s first words, to its peak.