CHAPTER 147: CHAPTER 147: FEAST AT HONGMEN

Ye Yixing pulled on Lu Yun: "Cousin, is she Jiang Mengqi, the one Uncle Lu wants you to have an arranged marriage with?"

Lu Yun kept a cold face and didn’t respond.

Seeing this, Ye Yixing quickly said, "Cousin, don’t be angry. I know in your heart it’s Su Xingwan that you like. Don’t worry, I’ll always side with you."

Ye Yixing couldn’t help but think secretly, with a trace of inexplicable excitement and thrill in his heart.

Could it be that tonight is going to be a grand scene of rejecting a marriage just like his elder cousin back then?

Now it’s not just Ye Yixing having this thought; everyone present at the banquet had the same idea.

After all, they all knew well about the affairs between the Lu and Jiang Families back in the day.

Moreover, they also heard that Lu Anguo intended to arrange another marriage with the Jiang Family.

Jiang Mengqi knew what her father brought her here for today.

At this moment, her eyes fell on Lu Yun.

To be honest, if it was the old Lu Yun, she wouldn’t feel anything at all.

After all, in the past, she, her sister, Lu Zhichen, and Lu Yun all attended the same school.

Lu Zhichen was a prodigy, as dazzling as the stars back then, with every girl’s attention in school focused on him.

She was no exception; her sister liked Lu Zhichen, and she secretly liked Lu Zhichen too at that time.

Back then, when Lu Zhichen rejected her sister’s marriage proposal for another woman, she was secretly delighted, but unfortunately, the one Lu Zhichen rejected for love wasn’t her.

Strangely enough, after his brother died, this otherwise unnoticed younger brother suddenly rose and has now become the top bachelor in all of Beijing girls want to marry.

She gradually started to notice him as well. Recently, when Uncle Lu came to her house to propose another arranged marriage, and the object was her, she surprisingly felt a hint of happiness.

Although she couldn’t marry his brother, marrying his younger brother wouldn’t be bad.

After all, the present Lu Yun is as dazzling as Lu Zhichen was back then.

And she secretly investigated that currently there’s no woman around Lu Yun, so it shouldn’t happen like it did with his brother’s situation back then.

Back then, Lu Zhichen was too welcome among girls, a competition she couldn’t win, whereas now no girls dared to approach Lu Yun, so her hope was still quite big.

Lu Anguo was chatting with Jiang Zhen, and seeing Lu Yun still hadn’t moved, he assumed the demeanor of a father.

"Lu Yun, what are you standing there for? Your Uncle Jiang and Mengqi, who grew up with you since childhood, are here, and you’re not coming over to say hello?"

However, Lu Yun coldly looked at Lu Anguo.

"Is this the trap you set for me tonight?"

From the moment the father and daughter appeared, he knew what Lu Anguo was plotting for him.

Lu Anguo looked at his younger son’s eyes cold as if they had fallen into an icy cellar, and paused.

But he quickly reacted, feeling a sense of disobedience to his authority as a father, and angrily said.

"How can you speak to me like that? I’m doing all this for your good, haven’t you secretly married outside just like your brother?"

He had investigated it long before, and since he took over the company, there hadn’t been any woman around Lu Yun.

Precisely because of this, he dared to do this tonight.

If there’s no other woman, isn’t marrying anyone the same as getting married?

Lu Yun’s gaze grew colder.

"Even if there isn’t, do you think just like the old Lu Zhichen, I would be easily manipulated by you?"

Lu Anguo paused, ready to get angry.

Then he heard Lu Yun sneer, "Lu Anguo, so many years have passed, and you still don’t understand me?"

Having said that, he turned to leave.

Lu Anguo immediately stopped him.

"What kind of attitude is that? I’m your father!"

Lu Yun turned around, his eyes freezing cold: "I’m putting it here today, if any of you dare to shamelessly use me as a pawn to seek benefits by joining forces with others, I don’t mind completely destroying the family business you built from scratch! Even if it means sacrificing everything of the Lu Family, I wouldn’t hesitate!"

As soon as he finished, everyone was shocked.

Even Jiang Mengqi looked at him in shock.

She seemed to have never understood this Lu Yun.

He was different from his brother.

The wildest thing his brother did was publicly reject a marriage.

But he dared to threaten everyone present, including his father, and didn’t even mind involving the entire Lu Family.

His eyes were cold, without a trace of humanity, and without a hint of warmth.

She suddenly recalled chatting with a group of sisters before, those sisters’ descriptions of Lu Yun.

They said Lu Yun never put the Lu Family in his eyes, he was innately cold, ruthless, and never cared about kinship, and no one could manipulate him.

Jiang Zhen was intimidated by his terrifying gaze.

For a moment, she didn’t dare to say anything.

This banquet, everyone clearly knew in their hearts.

Only he didn’t know.

Lu Anguo wanted to act first and report later, to cook the rice into a meal, and they were happy to cooperate with the act.

Especially all the Lu Family members, they certainly were happy that the Lu Family could marry into the Jiang Family, a strong alliance.

But just as Lu Yun’s words fell earlier, they woke up.

Lu Yun wasn’t someone they could easily manipulate.

Lu Anguo raised his finger, tremblingly pointed at the unfilial son Lu Yun, his chest hurting with anger: "You damn brat! What do you think the Lu Family’s enterprise is? Is it a toy for you to play with?"

Lu Yun: "What else? Don’t you like playing around?"

"To the extent you’d even use your own son for the Lu Family."

"Since you care so much about the Lu Family and its benefits, I won’t let you have your way. So what if the Lu Family collapses? You valued the Lu Family more than the world, so you married my mother at all costs but didn’t treat her well, leading her to an early depressive death, and Lu Zhichen valued the Lu Family more than himself, so he died."

Lu Yun’s cup slammed heavily to the ground, and instantly, the glass clashed on the white floor with a loud, crisp sound.

The entire place fell into silence.

Lu Yun stared at Lu Anguo: "I hate being threatened by others the most. Lu Anguo, you really deserve to die!"

Having said that, he turned and left the banquet.

Ye Yixing was dumbfounded and when he regained his senses, his cousin had already left.

He looked at everyone on the scene who was still in shock, and quickly chased after him.

Behind them, Lu Anguo was impotently furious.

"It’s a revolt! It’s a revolt!"

Lu Yun really dared to confront him in front of everyone.

The Old Lady at the old house heard about this matter later and was so angry that she rushed over to give him a severe scolding.

Ye Yixing chased after him and saw his cousin getting into a car, so he quickly got in too.

"Cousin, I didn’t know about this matter today, maybe it’s because they know we have a good relationship, so my dad didn’t tell me."

Lu Yun didn’t speak.

Seeing this, Ye Yixing said: "Cousin, where are you going now? Going back to where you live?"

Lu Yun suddenly said: "I was rejected."

Ye Yixing didn’t react.

"Rejected by whom?"

"My confession."

Ye Yixing’s mind was boggled.

"Who did you confess to and got rejected? Su Xingwan? Speak clearly."

"...Mm."

Ye Yixing’s eyes were complex.

"No wonder you were so angry tonight, like you swallowed dynamite, they really hit right into your gun muzzle."