The inside of the house was covered in dust and had not been cleaned in a long time.
While her mother's body was weak, she was someone who loved cleanliness and thus would never have let the house become that dirty.
Hence, Lu Man instantly went to knock on the neighbour's door.
The neighbour, Auntie Wu, on seeing her instantly asked, "Lu Man, you… you came out already?"
As soon as Lu Man heard what she said, she felt something was very wrong. She gave a start and asked, "What do you mean by 'came out'?"
"There's no need to hide it anymore. Everyone here knows. Just last year, your little sister, I think she was called Lu Qi." At first, Auntie Wu also did not know who Lu Qi was, but she had heard her daughter say that she was a famous star. At that time, Lu Qi was wearing sunglasses and a hat and had even used a mask, completely covering herself up.
It was only when Lu Man's mother had that incident that Lu Qi rushed to call the ambulance and in her frenzy had forgotten to cover herself up revealing her face.
So from their conversation, Auntie Wu learned that Lu Qi was Lu Man's younger sister.
"She came here to find your mother and told her that you had harmed someone and hence you had been sentenced to eight years in prison," Auntie Wu sighed. "Your mother's health was already not so good and she could not stand being provoked, thus she passed away very fast. I even heard that she had passed away on the way to the hospital."
"If not for that, all she needed to do was wait for one year and you would have been released already. After that, what was left that could not be gotten over? Before your mother had lost consciousness, she had told Lu Qi that it was impossible, that you had definitely been wrongly accused. However, she had not even managed to finish what she was saying before she fainted."
Auntie Wu sighed. "You… You…"
She originally wanted to tell her to restrain her grief and accept it, but after seeing that Lu Man's eyes were red with a murderous glint in them, she stopped herself, not being able to bring herself to tell her that.
How could Lu Man restrain her grief? How could she move on?
She had been in prison for so long, not knowing anything. She did not even have the chance to see her mother for the last time.
It could be said that her mother had been angered to her death.
Whether she had been angered by her or Lu Qi, or both at the same time, it was hard to determine.
However, Lu Man did not even look back as she rushed toward the Lu Family house.
Although her mother was sickly, but with the many years of recuperation, as long as she did not get too agitated, she would have been fine.
Lu Qi knew that yet still came to provoke her mother. Was framing Lu Man not enough that she still wanted her mother's death?
What right did they have to bully people like that?
Xia Qingyang had ruined her mother's marriage and her daughter was even crueler. Lu Qi had stolen Lu Man's boyfriend, made her to go to jail and now had even caused her mother's death. Lu Qi wanted to destroy everything she had!
But she had never done anything to Lu Qi, so why would Lu Qi treat her like that?
When she had entered the Lu family mansion, even the auntie in the house seemed like she had not thought Lu Man would ever be released from prison. Even though she did not voice out her thoughts, her facial expression clearly revealed what she was thinking, "Shouldn't you be in prison? How did you come out?"
"Eldest—" before she had even managed to say 'miss', her voice was drowned out by the laughter coming from the living room.
Lu Man was so angry that she was trembling.
Lu Qiyuan had been married to her mother for several years before their divorce and not even a year had gone by since her mother's death. Hence, although Lu Man did not expect Lu Qiyuan to be very upset, she still felt that he should not be like this, entirely disregarding her mother's death!
At that moment, it was as if all the hopes she had for Lu Qiyuan were crushed. Now, with her mother's death, there was nothing left.
"Eldest Miss," Auntie Chen awkwardly called.
Lu Man laughed coldly. She had returned to her own house, and it was causing the servants to feel troubled.
"Don't say anything," Lu Man coldly said, and went to the doorway of the living room and hid by the wall.
She saw that in the living room, Lu Qiyuan and Xia Qingyang were sitting together, and seated opposite them were Lu Qi and He Zhengbai.
Someone had said something just now that caused cause Lu Qiyuan to laugh loudly.
After he had stopped laughing, Lu Qiyuan looked at He Zhengbai, with a face full of emotion. "Zhengbai, I'm handing my daughter over to you. You must take good care of her. She has suffered so much already."
"Dad, don't worry. I will definitely treat her well," He Zhengbai said seriously.
Lu Man saw that both He Zhengbai and Lu Qi were wearing wedding rings on their ring fingers.
While she had been in jail, the two of them could not even wait a bit to get married.
"However there's something that you don't know. Only your mother-in-law and I, as well as
"Dad," Lu Qi's eyes were watery. "I don't have any grievances at all, you've always treated me well. I don't care about those superficial names."
"How can you not care? Even if you don't care about it, I care! My heart aches for you two!" Lu Qiyuan said, agitated, "Zhengbai, the truth is, Qi Qi isn't my step-daughter, she is actually my biological daughter, a true heiress of the Lu Family!"
Actually, He Zhengbai already knew about it long ago. at that time, before he had broken up with Lu Man, when he had gotten together with Lu Qi, Lu Qi had already told him.
This had also spurred him to pick Lu Qi and even help her to harm Lu Man.
Also since Lu Qi was more favored than Lu Man in the Lu Family, and after finding out that she was also Lu Qiyuan's biological daughter, so what other advantages did Lu Man have over Lu Qi?
That was why He Zhengbai did not hesitate in picking Lu Qi.
"It is me who has wronged both you and your mother. Even though you are my biological daughter, and you're in no way worse than your older sister, but you have always been thought of as my step-daughter. All these years, I have wanted to treat you better to make up for it, yet people have said that you are like a dog in the manger. However, you are certainly the heiress of the Lu Family, you have not snatched anyone's place nor have you let down anyone. It is I, who as your father could not even give you something so basic and has caused you and your mother to suffer all these years."
"Dad, don't worry, I will definitely treat Qiqi well. From now on, she is Mrs He legally, she's no longer stealing anyone's place," He Zhengbai said.
Was she not?
As the title 'Mrs He', which originally should have been hers, was also stolen from Lu Man by Lu Qi!
"Dad, it's nothing, I don't feel aggrieved. You already treat me very well. Whatever my older sister has, I have. What my older sister doesn't have, I also have. I know that you've already tried your best to treat me well," Lu Qi said, with tears welling up in her eyes.
"Qiyuan, don't blame yourself. If you want to blame anyone, blame me, I should not have…" Xia Qingyang choked, sobbing.
She was already so old, yet she was still acting like a white
Yet even after so many years, Lu Qiyuan always falls for it.
He could not bear to see her upset, and angrily said, "How could I blame you? It's all that Xia Qingwei's fault if it was not for her, we would not have—"
Suddenly there was a loud thump.
Even before Lu Qiyuan could finish what he was saying, he was cut off by an unknown object suddenly being hurled at him.
It was Lu Man, who had used her luggage to smash at him.
Even though she did not have a lot of luggage and it was just a small bag full of things yet when used to hit people, it still hurt quite a bit.
However, Lu Qiyuan had fast reflexes and had seen through his peripheral vision, something flying over. Even when he had not seen clearly what it was, and he could instinctively avoid it.
Thus the luggage just rubbed against Lu Qiyuan's face and then it hit Xia Qingyang's head.
Unlike Lu Qiyuan, Xia Qingyang was not that lucky and her previously elegant hairline was completely messed up by this hit, and even the powder on her face had rubbed off a bit onto the bag, wiping off a little color from half of her face.
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