Chapter 58: Chapter 58 After Running Away, the Disabled Tycoon Stopped Pretending 20
They went on until the sky began to lighten with the first hint of dawn.
Only then did they stop.
Su Zhiruan curled up under the blanket, covered by a corner of it, her breathing even, having long fallen asleep.
After showering, Lu Peijin sat down to watch her.
Even after a good bout, the sullen mood in his heart didn’t dissipate.
If anything, it grew heavier.
This was the first time in his life he had felt this way.
Lu Peijin tidied everything up as usual and left her some breakfast, then went to work.
As soon as he got to work, his secretary could tell that their CEO was in a terrible mood today.
Though he was always cold, today there was a low pressure all around him, the sort that made one feel chilled to the bone when near him.
The secretary kept stealing glances at him, and of course, Lu Peijin noticed. He looked up indifferently and his gaze lightly fell on him, “Want to ask something?”
“Boss, you…” After pondering his words, not sure if he should ask, the secretary eventually spoke up, “Boss—are you, by any chance, having a conflict with Miss Su? You seem to look rather unwell today.”
As soon as he said this, Lu Peijin’s face grew even darker.
“No,” Lu Peijin replied curtly.
The secretary saw his expression in the rearview mirror and noticed that there was still a hint of annoyance between his brows. After thinking for a moment, he spoke his mind about what he had observed lately, “Boss, may I ask you plainly, do you have some feelings for Miss Su?”
The secretary, having reached his current position at Lu Group, was obviously no fool. He had noted every change in his boss over the past period, and the only change was Su Zhiruan!
“You couldn’t possibly be considering ending the contract and wanting to be with her, could you?” The secretary saw that Lu Peijin was not angry, just frowning in the back seat. As for the documents in his hand, it was evident that he hadn’t read a single word.
“Impossible!” Lu Peijin rejected outright. The more he thought about what Su Zhiruan had said the day before, the more he couldn’t cool down, “Since she is so intent on fulfilling the contract and taking her grandma away from Jinghua! Then I’ll grant her wish! She can leave after giving birth to the child!”
The secretary added, “Boss, it seems that women need to recuperate during the postpartum confinement period after giving birth, or they could develop health problems.”
Lu Peijin lowered his eyelids and amended his words, “Then let her finish the confinement and get lost!”
Secretary: “…” His mouth twitched slightly, wanting to say something else, but in the end, he closed his mouth and said nothing.
But the secretary was full of complaints in his heart!
Oh dear! Their boss obviously cared so much! Now he was acting all cold and unfeeling, pretending he was convincing himself when in reality, anyone with eyes could see right through it!
“Boss, there’s a business trip coming up, please check your schedule,” the secretary remembered the upcoming trip on the schedule.
“Arrange it for the near future.” Lu Peijin was in a foul mood but didn’t know why exactly. There was a business trip, so he decided to bring forward the trip scheduled for a month later.
When Su Zhiruan woke up in the morning, she looked at the disorder in the room and the messy red marks all over her body, and immediately felt a wave of headache.
Then, she received a message from Lu Peijin.
“I’ll be on a business trip for a month, during which time I won’t be returning. You can go back and keep Grandma company.”
So it was Lu Peijin who had to go on a business trip. She pressed her phone and replied with a “Okay”.
In the following month, Su Zhiruan split her time, sometimes keeping her grandmother company, other times studying for her postgraduate exams at Lu Peijin’s Fujin Water Pavilion.
Lu Peijin would send her messages every few days, and the two of them kept in contact like that.
Originally, she thought that life would continue peacefully .
However, one morning as she stepped out to memorize knowledge points, Su Zhiruan was surrounded by a group of people.
“Yo, isn’t this the girl that Lu Peijin has been hiding in his golden house!” The young man in front of her wore a leather jacket studded with metal rivets and carried a burlap sack, while his minions behind him all wore ill-intended expressions.
“I don’t know any Lu Peijin you’re talking about,” Su Zhiruan knew right away they were after her. Judging by their demeanor, they were full of malice, but she was unarmed, so she chose to outsmart them, “You’ve mistaken me for someone else.”
“Don’t play dumb. Since Lu Peijin treasures you so much, we should take good care of you,” said the leader of the group as he came closer, leering at her from head to toe before snickering coldly and circling around her twice, “Miss Su, you’re a valuable pawn. It’s a critical time for the Lu Family’s struggle for power. If the old man, or outsiders, knew that he’s keeping you, do you think he would be kicked out of the Lu Family?”
“What are you going to do to me—,” Su Zhiruan clenched her fists. These people had investigated her identity and knew who she was, so there was no point in pretending. It was better to ask them directly what they intended to do.
“Nothing much, just bring you to the old man. He is quite an interesting person, always pressuring Lu Peijin to marry and have children. But Lu Peijin is indeed his son, resisting the pressure. Now it’s perfect, he’s turned himself into a cripple, and if the old man knew that a cripple like him is keeping you, well, noble ladies already look down on cripples, I really want to see how you’ll explain this!” The leader, who was Lu Ming, a son out of wedlock of the Lu Family, had always wanted to bring down Lu Peijin.
Maybe their auras were incompatible, or maybe he just couldn’t stand Lu Peijin. As soon as he entered the Lu Family, he detested the seemingly high-born Lu Peijin, who resembled a scion of an ancient noble family.
With him around, they, the illegitimate sons who were unfit for public view, felt like mere jesters, never worthy to be his peers.
When Su Zhiruan heard they intended to bring her before the old man, she breathed a sigh of relief, but if she could save herself, there was no need to risk being taken there.
At that moment, Lu Ming also seemed to realize he had spoken too much. When he saw Su Zhiruan quietly dialing the emergency number, he went straight over and snatched her phone away.
“You guys, stuff her into the burlap sack! Damn it, thinking of calling the police? What good would that do? I’m a member of the Lu Family!” Lu Ming said menacingly.
The henchmen tied Su Zhiruan up in the burlap sack and then secured her to Lu Ming’s motorcycle.
With the roar of engines, Lu Ming and his cohorts rode their motorcycles, zooming and weaving through the streets at breakneck speeds.
Su Zhiruan had not expected these young men’s motorcycles to be so fast; she couldn’t speak, tied up in the sack.
Dizzy, her head spun, and the world turned upside down, all at once.
“Old man, look what I’ve brought you—Lu Peijin’s kept woman!” As soon as Lu Ming entered, he began shouting loudly.
The old man seemed to say something, or perhaps not.
Su Zhiruan couldn’t hear clearly.
By the time she was let out, she was so dizzy that she involuntarily retched.
That single retch left the entire Lu Family stunned!