When Xu Qingqing rushed to the restaurant booked by Lu Chuanbai with the two children, the atmosphere between Lu Chuanbai and Amy was quite pleasant. Throughout the time, it was Amy who was talking while Lu Chuanbai listened.
"Sorry. There was a traffic jam on the way, so I'm late."
Xu Qingqing pulled out an empty chair and put the two children's schoolbags on it.
The moment Xu Yiyi saw Amy, he immediately rushed over and sat beside Amy, excitedly swinging his little legs.
"Uncle Amy, why are you here?"
Amy gently stroked Xu Yiyi's head. "You've come back to China for development. How could I, your agent, not come back?"
Ever since someone poured essential balm into Xu Yiyi's contact lenses last time, Amy had felt extremely guilty.
So he decided to come to the country where Xu Yiyi was and follow him around from then on to ensure that he wouldn't be hurt again.
The five of them had a happy meal together and then sent Amy back to his hotel.
After getting home, Xu Qingqing immediately called Wang Lide and told him all the information she had obtained, including the chat records with Tang Li, and sent them all to Wang Lide.
"Teacher Wang, what should we do now? The tomb with the most bets must be the first one to be stolen. Should we go there in advance to protect it?"
On the other end of the phone, Wang Lide looked solemn. His hand holding the phone trembled slightly with anger.
"We need to plan this carefully. I'll discuss it with others first. I'll tell you after we've finalized the plan."
"Okay." Xu Qingqing nodded and hung up the phone. She stood by the window, looking at the dim yellow street lamps.
No matter what, she couldn't let the White Lotus Sect casually sell cultural relics.
Lu Chuanbai coaxed the two children to sleep. Seeing Xu Qingqing standing in a daze by the window, he put a coat on her.
"It's autumn. It's getting colder. You'll catch a cold if you're not careful."
"Okay, I know."
Xu Qingqing gave a faint smile and tightened the coat on her body.
In the brightly lit Lu family mansion, the stepmother took out half of her savings and decided to invest in the tomb betting her elder sister had mentioned.
Even if it could double the money!
After transferring the money to her elder sister's account, the stepmother received an "OK" message from her elder sister.
Her elder sister also advised the stepmother to soften her attitude towards Father Lu and never give up this "cash cow".
The stepmother also decided that for the sake of getting a share of the Lu family, it didn't matter to suffer a bit of grievance now.
The stepmother looked at herself in the mirror and deliberately made the marks left from her last quarrel with Father Lu look more serious with blush. Then she went to Father Lu's study to show her weakness.
Since Father Lu had proposed to divorce her, he had been living in the study.
The stepmother knocked on the door, but there was no response. She turned the doorknob and found that it was locked from the inside.
The stepmother asked the butler for the spare key, dropped a lot of eye drops into her eyes, and then directly opened the door.
When Father Lu saw the stepmother come in, his face immediately darkened. He coldly told her to get out. "What are you doing here? Get out."
"I'm here to see if you still have a conscience!"
After saying that, the stepmother blinked her eyes, and the eye drops in her eyes flowed down.
"Look, the marks you left on me last time still haven't faded away!"
After saying that, the stepmother showed Father Lu the red marks she had drawn on her wrists and other places.
"Do you remember the hardships I endured alone while raising Lu Fenglin? I've only had a few good days with you, and now you want to divorce me!"
Hearing the stepmother start to bring up the old days, Father Lu's eyes fluttered, but his tone was still tough.
"Our encounter back then was just an accident. And didn't I give you a large sum of money? But you insisted on giving birth to the child!"
"It's because I love you..." The stepmother wiped away her tears as she said.
This time, she was really crying. She felt sad that Father Lu was so heartless to her.
Even if he had been forced to marry her back then, there should have been some feelings after all these years!
Hearing the woman in front of him say that she loved him, Father Lu's face showed a sarcastic smile, mixed with bitterness and anger.
Father Lu walked out from behind the desk and walked towards the stepmother step by step. The imposing aura on him made the stepmother couldn't help but take two steps back.
"Don't think I know nothing. I've investigated all your deeds. You've gone to a lot of trouble to get into the Lu family, haven't you?"
Hearing that Father Lu had found out about her previous schemes, the stepmother's face turned pale. Her back was against the door panel, and her heart was pounding with guilt.
"What... what have you found out..."
Could it be that he had found out about her harming Lu Chuanbai's mother...
No, she had covered her tracks very well in that matter. It would never be discovered.
Father Lu had been in the business world for many years. His perception was extremely sharp, and he immediately sensed the stepmother's unusual mood.
"What do you think I've found out?" Father Lu squinted his eyes and asked rhetorically.
Although the stepmother's teeth were chattering, she still pretended to be calm.
"I've always been aboveboard and never done anything bad!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Father Lu slapped the door panel behind the stepmother hard, his face full of anger.
"If you hadn't drugged me back then, how could we have had anything to do with each other?"
Hearing that Father Lu was only talking about this matter, the stepmother's heart that had been hanging in her throat immediately fell back to her stomach.
She thought it was something serious.
She never expected it was just this. She had been so nervous for nothing.
The stepmother quickly collected her thoughts and put on a pitiful expression on her face.
"I did that because I loved you so much! I wanted to be with you, so I made a mistake..."
As she said, the stepmother wiped away her tears again. She even reached out to grab the corner of Father Lu's clothes and looked up at him with a painful expression.
"I really know I was wrong. I shouldn't have done something to break up someone else's family back then."
"Just let me stay by your side to atone for my sins, okay? Even if you don't think about me, you should think about Lu Fenglin."
"He's never had you around since he was a child. Others bullied him for not having a father. Do you know how heart - broken I was when he asked me who his father was..."
As she cried, the stepmother threw herself into Father Lu's arms and hugged him tightly.
"It's all my fault as a bad mother, but my child has to bear the punishment."
The stepmother continued to play the emotional card, constantly tying Lu Fenglin and Father Lu together.
Although Father Lu no longer had feelings for the stepmother, he felt deeply guilty towards Lu Fenglin, the son who he had only brought back to his side when he was grown - up.
Father Lu wanted to push the stepmother away, but the stepmother clung to him tightly. "I'll definitely apologize to Xu Qingqing and the two children tomorrow and get their forgiveness."
"Since you know you're wrong, that's fine." Father Lu let out a long sigh.
For the sake of Lu Fenglin and to make up for his incomplete family in the past, he couldn't insist on divorcing the stepmother anymore.
"Let go of me. I'll ask the lawyer to take back the divorce agreement."
Hearing that Father Lu finally relented, on the side that Father Lu couldn't see, a triumphant smile appeared on the stepmother's face.
As long as she had her son by her side, Father Lu would owe her for the rest of his life.