Lu Weiran was already furious. He clenched his fists, looking as if he was about to lose control at any moment.
"You can be sued for slander if you keep framing others like this," he said.
This whole thing wasn't his fault in the first place. He'd just been used as a pawn by others. But now, somehow, he'd become the one in the wrong.
"I'm telling you, it was her who told me to do it!" he roared.
"I didn't..." Lu Yuan still looked extremely aggrieved. Choking back sobs, she walked up to Lu Ziqian and grabbed tightly onto his clothes. "Father, please investigate clearly. I really didn't do it."
Lu Weiran just couldn't stand it anymore. He'd never seen someone so good at acting. She was truly two - faced.
"You still say you didn't!" he bellowed.
Under his roar, Lu Yuan almost burst into tears several times. The girl was like a little kitten that had done something wrong, with her big eyes as round as glass balls, filled with tears.
Maybe because Lu Yuan stopped talking, it just made the man even angrier. He slapped the coffee table again and again.
All the teacups full of water were shaken off and fell to the ground. Lu Yuan looked even more pitiful.
"Enough!"
Lu Ziqian had been holding back for a long time. He'd originally wanted to see what else Lu Weiran was going to do, but he was getting more and more excessive, insisting that Lu Yuan was the culprit.
"Get out of my house now!" He pointed at the door. "From now on, you have nothing to do with our family!"
Originally, Lu Weiran was a poor kid who'd lost his father. If he hadn't done this wrong thing, maybe Lu Ziqian wouldn't have abandoned him so heartlessly.
After all, it wasn't so bad for some people to live their whole lives in a lie. But Lu Weiran had cut off his own path, and he couldn't blame anyone else.
Lu Weiran got up from the sofa and stared intently at Lu Yuan. His scarlet eyes were like those of a man - eating beast in the rainforest.
Seeing this, Lu Suowei tried to smooth things over, trying to build an image of a "good guy" for himself.
"Come on, both of you calm down. There must be some misunderstanding about this whole thing."
In his own eyes, Lu Suowei's every move seemed perfectly fine. But everyone present knew exactly what he was up to.
This time, he was trying to betray Lu Weiran. If he could get a hold of Lu Yuan, he was sure he could greatly weaken Lu Ziqian's morale.
All he wanted was to take back what was rightfully his. Why should the Lu Group be handed over to Lu Jinsheng? He just couldn't accept it.
But now it was obvious that he'd failed. So Lu Suowei wanted to protect himself and mercilessly push someone out as a scapegoat.
"Weiran, you're not even sure about this thing yourself, and you have no evidence... This makes it really hard for your uncle to say anything on your behalf."
The man in front of him was completely stunned. He was like a paused video, standing there motionless for a long time.
In the quiet room, they could clearly hear the ticking of the clock's minute hand. Each tick was like the beating of Lu Weiran's heart at this moment.
He stood there, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.
In the end, he'd been played by these people. First it was Lu Ziqian, and then it was Lu Suowei. Why did these two brothers have to bully him?
Thinking of this, the anger in Lu Weiran's heart finally got out of control. Before anyone could react, he picked up the crystal ashtray on the table and threw it at Lu Yuan.
His aim was clear. He just wanted that girl to pay the price.
As the crystal ashtray was about to hit Lu Yuan, even she subconsciously covered her face.
But the expected pain never came.
Lu Yuan opened her eyes and found that the ashtray had been intercepted halfway.
A woman was seen catching the ashtray with one hand. She casually let go, and the ashtray fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
Shen Jianyi disdainfully brushed the ash off her hand. She lifted her chin, her eyes full of cold mockery. "You want to start a fight?"
At that moment, Lu Weiran's expression froze.
He didn't know what he'd just done. His mind was completely blank, and his whole body was shaking.
"Shen Jianyi, are you crazy? You actually..."
Before he could finish his sentence, a figure stood in front of him, blocking his view.
Lu Jinsheng placed a hand on his shoulder and squeezed hard.
He felt a sharp pain as if his bones were about to break. Lu Weiran gritted his teeth, his facial features contorted.
"Do you know you almost hurt someone close to me just now?"
He gave a hard push, and the man took several steps back and stumbled to the ground.
"I didn't want to fight with my own family before, and I was going to let you go because we share the same surname. But you've been pushing me too far."
If he hadn't thrown the ashtray in the end, maybe Lu Jinsheng wouldn't have laid a hand on him.
Lu Weiran swallowed nervously, propping his hands on the floor and backing away continuously. Of course he was scared. The man in front of him was like a demon climbing out of hell.
"What... What are you going to do?"
Lu Jinsheng walked towards him expressionlessly, step by step, forcing him into a corner.
He now wanted someone to save him, but... everyone sitting on the sofa had cold expressions on their faces and clearly had no intention of helping.
At this moment, Lu Weiran finally understood that he'd always been just a pawn. No matter who he was with, he was only there to be used.
And at this moment, he thought of his father. Why had he left him alone in this...
Lu Weiran was so scared that he started crying. Tears streamed down his cheeks. Seeing this, Lu Jinsheng stopped his actions and just snorted. "Are you crying already?"
"Why are you doing this to me?"
He felt extremely wronged. He'd just wanted to avenge his father, but everyone was using this to control him.
Maybe Lu Ziqian felt guilty for having lied to him. He supported himself with his snake - headed walking stick and walked up to the man step by step.
He reached out and pushed Lu Jinsheng behind him, looking down at the man sitting on the ground.
"I have something to say to you. Stay here tonight."
Lu Ziqian wasn't asking. It was an order. In the main building of the Lu family, apart from Lu Jinsheng and his wife, no one dared to disobey his orders.
Lu Weiran didn't say a word.
He turned around, supported by his walking stick, and looked at Lu Suowei with a serious expression.
"Brother, you should go back too. You need to deal with the matters in your own family properly. You still haven't given me an explanation about your son's incident."
Sure enough, Lu Suowei had already guessed that he'd bring that up. So he clenched his fists and could only leave in a huff.
In the hall, only a few of them were left.
Shen Jianyi also planned to leave, but was called over by Lu Ziqian.