The incident happened in the blink of an eye.
Lu Yuan was pulled into Lu Jinsheng's embrace. Her body stiffened slightly. Her palm rested on the man's chest, and his warm body temperature seeped into her heart bit by bit.
Her heart suddenly started pounding out of control.
Lu Jinsheng's face darkened. He quickly let go of Lu Yuan and walked away without a word. As soon as he turned around, he saw Shen Jianyi with a frosty face not far away, and Zhong Jin with a gloomy expression.
"Yiyi."
Zhong Jin called out worriedly.
Only then did the two employees in front notice that the person standing with Lu Jinsheng was Lu Yuan, while the real president's wife was standing behind them.
They were so scared that their faces turned pale, and they didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
As if she didn't hear Zhong Jin's voice, Shen Jianyi walked straight forward until she stopped in front of Lu Jinsheng.
"Yiyi, it's not what you think."
Lu Jinsheng explained with a bit of a headache.
Zhong Jin also strode over. "Jinsheng, what's going on?"
His tone rose slightly, filled with doubt and suspicion.
The fact that Lu Yuan was an adopted child was no secret. Although they were nominally siblings now, they were not blood - related after all...
"Sister - in - law, don't misunderstand. Brother and I just happened to meet, and I didn't sit steady just now, so brother helped me."
Lu Yuan smiled coyly. A blush crept onto her cheeks as she shyly glanced at Lu Jinsheng.
Shen Jianyi remained expressionless.
"Oh, you're quite lucky then."
After saying that, she turned around and left.
She knew that there was nothing going on between Lu Jinsheng and Lu Yuan, but seeing them so close made an inexplicable anger rise in her heart.
This anger made her a bit out of control.
She wasn't the kind of person who let her emotions control her easily, but at this moment, she felt like a slave to her emotions.
"Yiyi."
Lu Jinsheng quickly followed her.
Suddenly, only Lu Yuan and Zhong Jin were left on the deck.
"Brother Zhong Jin."
Lu Yuan tilted her head, a mysterious smile on her face. Looking at Zhong Jin, who was still staring at Shen Jianyi's back, she said, "You seem to care a lot about sister - in - law."
Zhong Jin's body stiffened. The smile on his face could hardly be maintained. "I don't understand what you mean."
"We're all smart people. The way you look at sister - in - law isn't innocent."
The smile on Lu Yuan's face deepened. "Actually, a personality like sister - in - law's would be better off with you. At least in the Zhong family, she wouldn't have to go through so many things like in the Lu family. What do you think?"
Zhong Jin didn't answer. The hand hanging by his side gradually tightened.
After a long while, he let out a soft laugh. "Your sister - in - law and brother have a very good relationship. I don't know why you're saying such things to me. Are you trying to sow discord?"
Lu Yuan tucked a strand of hair that had been blown by the wind behind her ear. "If you have the heart, what I say won't matter. But Brother Zhong Jin, if you don't even try, how do you know sister - in - law won't look your way?"
Not satisfied yet, Lu Yuan continued, "Are you really willing to be a foil all the time? You've been a foil to Lu Jinsheng since childhood, and even now, you don't even dare to fight for the woman you like?"
Zhong Jin's eyes gradually turned fierce.
He pursed his lips tightly, and his face was almost covered in gloom.
A foil.
Yes, from childhood on, his family had told him not to fight with Lu Jinsheng for anything. He couldn't afford to offend the Lu family.
In college, he had also liked a girl, but that girl had only had eyes for Lu Jinsheng.
Even now, the girl he liked only had Lu Jinsheng in her heart and eyes.
Why?
"Why are you telling me this?"
Zhong Jin blinked his eyes and regained his usual elegance.
"Me?" Lu Yuan let out a string of melodious laughter. "You have what you want to get, and I have what I want to get."
When Lu Yuan returned to her room and saw Lu Jinsheng's face on the computer, she couldn't help but think of the contact with him on the deck.
Her cheeks felt a bit hot.
At first, when someone asked her to drive Shen Jianyi out of the Lu family, she was a bit uninterested. But now, she was starting to get interested.
If Shen Jianyi could be the young mistress of the Lu family, why couldn't it be her?
She wasn't a coward like Zhong Jin.
If she set her eyes on something, she would fight for it.
...
In the room, Shen Jianyi sat wooden - faced on the bay window.
Lu Jinsheng stood beside her with a tense jaw.
He was a mastermind in the business world, but in front of her, all his eloquence turned into silence.
He didn't even know how to explain that he had just seen Lu Yuan almost fall into the sea, and his hand had reacted faster than his brain and pulled her.
"Yiyi..."
After an unknown amount of time in a stalemate, Lu Jinsheng called her name helplessly. "Pay attention to me?"
The tension on Shen Jianyi's face loosened a bit.
She raised her eyes and stared directly into Lu Jinsheng's blood - shot eyes.
"Lu Jinsheng, I have a question for you."
"Okay."
"If Lu Yuan fell into the sea, would you jump in after her without hesitation like you did for me last time?"
Shen Jianyi asked hoarsely.
Lu Jinsheng's eyes dimmed. "You don't trust me?"
He had just helped Lu Yuan. Why was she asking him such a question?
She clearly knew that if it was her who fell into the sea, he would be willing to follow her into the sea or even through fire and water.
But now, she was questioning him because of his unintentional act?
"No." Shen Jianyi replied dryly. "Then tell me, why were you alone with her on the deck?"
And last time, at the Zhang family's. All these things seemed a bit too coincidental.
If Lu Yuan knew that Lu Jinsheng disliked her, how could a girl be so thick - skinned and keep pestering him?
"She said she had something to tell me about your time at school."
"If it's about me, why didn't she ask me directly?" Shen Jianyi's tone turned colder. "Lu Jinsheng, you're the smartest man I've ever met. If you can't even detect Lu Yuan's little tricks, isn't that a bit ridiculous?"
Just as Lu Jinsheng was about to speak, there was a knock on the door.
Lu Yuan walked in.
"What are you doing here?" Lu Jinsheng frowned impatiently, exuding a cold aura.
"The dinner has started. I haven't seen you two for a while, so I came to check..." Lu Yuan said in a low voice. "Judging from your looks, are you two arguing?"
"No. He's the president of the Lu Corporation. How dare I argue with him?"
Shen Jianyi sneered.
Lu Yuan looked at Shen Jianyi and then at Lu Jinsheng. A strange smile appeared on her lips.
"It's good that you're not arguing. I'll leave first. The employees are waiting for you two."