There was no charity as such and nor was Yu Youhan a saint to help every injured he rescue on the street.
When said out loud, it looked too good to be true and obviously suspicious, "No, she resembled the girl in the photo and we needed her."
n.o.body except the Yu Family knew about the incident of the stolen heirloom. It would be a piece of breaking news and there was no way he was telling them. Apart it was only a whimsical decision to bring her to his Mansion. Nothing to do with the heirloom or Lei Xinyi.
"A murderer?"
Yu Youhan raised his eyebrow and lifted his lips in a half-smirk mockingly, "I don't see how it is anyone business here."
This earned him an elbow in his rib. He looked down to see his spitfire glaring at him. She didn't like him disrespecting or ridiculing her father, their personal issue was family business!
A pleasant smirk appeared on his stoic, hard face. He looked back at her father with the smirk bestowed to him by his daughter, "What I meant to say was that it is confidential, Mr Lu."
Their little interaction and change of demeanour weren't unseen by the people present. The Young Master Yu was fond of the girl and in no way subtle about it!
Old Master Li kept the photos on the table and looked up at the young couple. Before anybody could have a.s.sumed the position to be a protective stance but now if he looked closely he could see the closeness and... familiarity.
He banged his cane on the red oak floor and let out a chuckle, "Your Paternal Grandfather and Father...Do they know you are messing around with your sister-in-law?"
The smile on Yu Youhan face disappeared without a trace and his eyes hardened, at the mention of her being his sister-in-law, "Last I checked, my sister-in-law, was pregnant."
A fight between these two dear grandsons over a girl would have been amusing and thrilling. Alas! His other grandson had knocked up the other girl and she was far more valuable.
Master Lu saw how things were accelerating and getting heated and it was certainly about his daughter. When the fire burns on both sides he didn't want his flower to wither or take a burn.
Old Master Li was surely trying to use his daughter as a bait for catching a big fish like Yu Youahn but he couldn't allow his daughter who had already been away for months to be caught in a wildfire!
He took a step forward and held Lu Xinyi arm, and pa.s.sed a formal business-like smile to the Young man, "I can't thank you enough to have kept my daughter safe and help her recover. Now we would like to take our leave."
Yu Youhan sharp eyes turned to him, then he looked at the hand on Lu Xinyi's arm. He kept his hand above it to remove it, "We are leaving too."
Master Lu pretentious smile disappeared and his jaw hardened, the hand on Lu Xinyi's arm tightened and he spat through gritted teeth, "I meant with my daughter!"
Both men engaged in a hard staring compet.i.tion, none ready to relent after all it was about Lu Xinyi. They glared hard with laser-sharp eyes and their auras turning murderous.
It was like a fight of gladiator without swords, shields and daggers and reward was being able to take Lei Xinyi home.
There was no way Master Lu was allowing his only daughter to go back to a man she has no relationship with. The Young man was a power-figure and one of the most demanded bachelor. He had it all, wealth, looks and influence but he could play somewhere else, his daughter wasn't a toy!
Thinking of his innocent and naive daughter crying over the young man hardened his stare even more.
Yu Youhan was giving the man his most killer glare. The man in front who called himself the father of his dear pearl was the man under whose watch she almost died.
Even if she wasn't unsafe with her family, they still treated her like a spare part of the family. They hurt her and anybody who hurt his rosebud didn't have a right to breathe but he was making an exception as they were her family.
And everything aside she still loved them and thinking about how pure and nice his rosebud was to these people who drove her to have suicidal thoughts infuriated him to other ends.
Lu Xinyi looked at the two men and felt like fleeing, one was her strict father another was her sensei. she couldn't choose a side.
She looked at the arm the two men were clutching and took a sharp intake of breath and bit her lip to not cry out loud. There hold was so tight the blood circulation had stopped. She couldn't even feel her arm but she could feel the unbearable pain.
A whimper left Lu Xinyi mouth that she was trying hard to suppress. She was partly sandwiched between two men with murderous auras. One was clutching her arm and the other was clutching that hand and it was hurting hard.
At once both men head turned to her and her pain-strained face. Master Lu at once retreated his hand and Yu Youhan pulled her around to leave.
Lu Xinyi didn't try to stop him or tried to turn around. When she left, she didn't do it to run back in their arms and play a happy family.
She was going to get herself a life, one that would not be served on a silver platter or bestowed to her by someone who pitied her.
She let Yu Youhan pull her by the arm but once out of this hall, she wasn't allowing another Yu Youhan or Master Lu to push or pull her around. She would live for herself, to the fullest.
Lu Xinyi turned to look at her Family once more, they taught her a big lesson and the girl, Lei Xinyi, who impersonated her much better than she ever behaved, taught her an even bigger lesson.
Master Lu was about to stop them but Madam Lu stopped him by holding his arm. A look pa.s.sed between them.
It wasn't worth it making a scene here. It would only be the source of amus.e.m.e.nt for its residents. They didn't need it to air their laundry anymore. The matter was better resolved in private.
