Lu Xinyi bit her lower lip and a stray tear escaped her eyes. That night she escaped she swore to never return and that they weren't worth it.
But four and a half month of being a plucked leaf from the tree made her desperate for relations, familiarity and... care.
She wanted to see them and if there were any margins to return. She missed her father strict convicts, her step-mother criticism and even her brothers sneer and mocking gazes.
She just didn't want to be a stray leaf away from its origin somewhere she didn't belong. She wanted to belong and be a part of something.
She whispered, "Let's go!"
Yu Youhan gaze hardened and he pulled her toward the living room her family was in. They could meet them later in their own house but it was better if this chapter closed once and for all.
She wasn't blind or an idiot. She was just simple and not scheming. She could see Yu Youhan wasn't too happy by her decision but it wasn't his call to make in the first place.
If he liked free-loaders it wasn't her fault because she, sure as h.e.l.l, didn't like owing anybody. She didn't even ask him to come she just wanted to inform him because he had done a lot for her but he had forcefully offered to tag along. She couldn't deny him, she owed him a lot to.
She keeps reminding herself, he could have left her to die in the forest where he found her or dumped her in some hospital. For her life, she should be grateful to him or her bones would have decayed by now.
The Butler who was out of the living room looked at them and mostly her like he had seen a man he had attended a funeral of. On Yu Youhan indication he opened the door of the living room.
There was a heated conversation taking place but looking at them standing in the doorway it was like a switch was flickered and everyone was paused.
Gasps were followed by sighs of relief. Madam Lu and Master Lu were the first to react, they stood up and ran to them in pure joviality.
"Lu Xinyi, where were you? Ar...are you Okay? You scared us, girl!"
But it didn't melt Lu Xinyi's heart, instead, it sowed a seed of discord in the heart, it pierced her heart. They never treated her like that so why were they so good to her now. Was her imposter that good?
Looking at the hurt expression that was marrying the girl's jade-crafted face, Madam Lu looked at her sceptically then looked at the man beside her. It wasn't Li Yuan as it should have been.
Everyone was heatedly gazing at him already.
It was a situation that spoke volumes. Her fiance stormed out right now shouting that she was 'gone' and then she comes in holding another man arm.
The situation could mean only one thing!
That she had eloped with another man who was supposedly the man she was clutching the arm of. At once everyone expressions turned from relieved to that of accusation.
A scary question was hanging like a knife above their necks. Where did this young man come in the picture from?
Madam Lu looked at her with a horrified expression, brought her hand to cover her mouth and gasped, her eyes screamed disbelief, "Ho...How could you?"
Lu Xinyi who was still oblivious to the situation, mirrored her disbelief, "How could I? What did I do? You are the people who replaced me when I was struggling for my life!"
Master Lu who had enough mortification couldn't take it anymore. Her fiance loved her and she's about to start a family with him and at that crucial moment, she decides to sabotage her love life!
He cried out in disappointment and anger "Enough! Lu Xinyi, come here! We are going home!"
Lu Xinyi flinched at once and hid behind Yu Youhan, clutching his arm harder. Yu Youahn eyes sharpened and he glared at the man who was the source of her fear.
His presence seemed to reduce everyone else's, his aristocrat jaw was set and his eyes hardened. His mellow and low voice sent chills down everyone spine, "She will go home." His predatory eyes surveyed the surrounding, and p.r.o.nounced for everyone to hear, "...and that is with me."
By the pressure of his cold exterior, Master Lu who had flinched backwards reeled back with terrific rage on his face, he took a step close to him with purpose.
Master Lu narrowed his eyes at the Young man. He was too sure of himself but he was still a new fish in the sea, Master Lu had seen and surveyed every wave of.
He was an inch taller than Master Lu but he was no way intimidated. Behind him, his sons too had twin expressions, "My 'pregnant' daughter will go home with the father of her child that she is going to be married to, in a week to."
A shadow pa.s.sed before Yu Youhan eyes and a mocking smirk took over his expressionless face and he shook his head, amused. As if he knew something they didn't.
So, her cruel parents thought they could force his delicate rosebud into a marriage in front of him. Over his dead body!
He held her hand that was on his arm and pulled her toward him, she stumbled and fell in his am, he turned her around with swift movement so her back was facing his front and his hand was wrapped around her stomach.
Everyone was shocked and gasped out loud, it was pushing it too hard to hold a 'pregnant' fiance of your first cousin like that.
Master Lu felt like he was going to burst any moment now, he was about to jump Yu Youhan who was smirking in a provocative way, when a horrified Madam Lu held his arm and told him to listen what he had to say. The surety and confidence on his face had convinced her and many others.
Lu Xinyi was trying to set herself free, her frenzied eyes were looking at everybody expression. It was out of her understanding of why Yu Youhan was behaving this way, he had always been a gentleman with her.
Now he wasn't even listening to her please to let her go. She had been humiliated enough. Looking at them like that, they were going to get the wrong idea.
"If she can be pregnant with anybody that has to be me." He smirked at her parents then at his maternal grandparents. n.o.body was going to force his innocent rosebud into a bound contract against her wish, "You see, we have been spending every day since last eight-month together."
It was like shocks were in store as everyone eyes widened again and gasps left them. Lu Xinyi who was shaking, stiffened and her eyes were about to fall off their socket.
What did he mean? Why was he saying it like it was explicit things that happened between them? And pre...pregnant?
Lu Xinyi broke free and pushed him backward, "Youhan! What are you saying? We are friends!" Lu Xinyi cried, horrified and exasperated.
She didn't but everybody else noticed the first name basis, which had to be cultivated for a man like Yu Youhan. It was like the last nail in her case file.
Friends? Friends with benefit!
As everyone concluded it, Yu Youhan smirk widened. She just made it easy for him. No one was harming her here in his presence! And her a.s.sociation with him would only make it easy.
Before anyone could cut it, Lu Sheng shouted, "What the f*ck are you and Li Yuan doing with my sister?! Are you two f*cking playing her?! She had clearly disappeared yesterday night and has appeared the other morning! What eight months?!"
Yu Youhan was surprised, with rage there was a mixture of care and concern but he ignored it. People can be deceptive.
"She had been living in my Mansion since the day she ran away eight months ago, Li Yuan pregnant woman name is Lei Xinyi."
Lei Xinyi? There was no Lei Xinyi!
It wasn't something possible but...when a man like Yu Youhan said it. It was hard not to believe. A man like him didn't joke or lie, it was below him to.
His statement followed a hollow silence that if a person wasn't aware they would a.s.sume it was a noman land. Even Lu Xinyi was looking at him with a horrified expression. She lived with him but he was saying it like...
After the dead-silence for what felt like a fragment of stretched eternity, they were about to pool their questions in.
Old Master Li, who was standing by the side started laughing, shook his head and stepped closer to him, "Is that what you grandsons of mine are playing now? Sharing?"
Lu Xinyi face turned red like all the other Lu family. They had their hands fisted and eyes glaring. Lu Xinyi was about to retort but Yu Youhan held hand and pulled her back in his embrace.
It wasn't wise to put her on The Old Li's radar when already there were people hunting her. He couldn't do a thing to his grandsons because he loved them in his own twisted way but others were a different story.
Yu Youhan jaw was set and what he did next dropped jaws at once.
