Chapter 30

Jiang Chunyu stepped forward and glared coldly at Lu Xin's dirty work clothes: "I told you to go home and take a good shower, and change into clean clothes. But you, you just came here so casually. Don't think anyone will have a good impression of you like this. You've really disappointed me!"

Lu Xin was about to explain that he didn't have time to go back and shower because he had saved Li Lu, but Li Lu had already wriggled out of her mother Shen Yafang's arms, pointed at Lu Xin, and giggled: "Mom, you should thank Brother Sanjin. If it weren't for him stepping forward to save me, you really wouldn't have seen me again!"

"Sanjin, thank you so much!" Shen Yafang glanced at Lu Xin, and seeing his dirty work clothes, the woman with a severe cleanliness obsession frowned slightly. But since Lu Xin was her daughter's savior, she couldn't show obvious disgust. She forced herself to step forward and shake hands with Lu Xin.

Lu Xin extended his hand and lightly shook Shen Yafang's delicate, fair hand. The soft and smooth touch felt great, and Lu Xin couldn't help but feel a flutter in his heart. Then he cursed himself for being a beast, having feelings for Li Lu was one thing, but to have feelings for her mother was truly despicable. Was he so deprived of women that he hadn't seen one in eight lifetimes?

He suppressed his beastly thoughts, trying to maintain a righteous demeanor, and after a light handshake with Shen Yafang, he smiled sincerely: "Sister, my name is Lu Xin, and my courtesy name is Sanjin. Seeing a girl like Li Lu being bullied, any man would step in to help!"

Li Lu pouted, extremely dissatisfied: "Brother Sanjin, how can you call my mom 'sister'?"

"Your mom is very young, she doesn't look much older than me. If I don't call her 'sister,' should I call her 'aunt'? That would make her seem old!" Lu Xin said this without flattery. Shen Yafang had a baby face and her skin was well-maintained, white and tender, looking like she was under thirty, even younger than Jiang Chunyu. In fact, she was three years older than Jiang Chunyu.

"I don't care!" Li Lu pouted and whined, "If you call my mom 'sister,' then I would have to call you 'uncle'! That's not okay!"

Shen Yafang was about to scold her daughter but then thought that Li Lu had just gone through a traumatic experience and might still have psychological scars. She shouldn't add to her daughter's pain. However, the issue of the title was indeed a headache.

Jiang Chunyu, who was still angry at Lu Xin for not showering and changing clothes, immediately relaxed when she heard that he had saved Li Lu. Hearing Li Lu fuss over the title, she chuckled: "This is easy to solve. He is the teacher I invited to tutor you in composition. From now on, don't call him Brother Sanjin, call him Teacher Lu!"

"No way, I want to call him Brother Sanjin. 'Teacher' has an 'old' character in it, which makes him sound old!" Li Lu whined.

"Lulu, be good and show respect to your teacher," Shen Yafang's face turned serious.

Li Lu was quite afraid of her mother. When her mother's face turned serious, she pouted: "How about we each call each other what we want? I call him Brother Sanjin, and he calls my mom 'sister'!"

Shen Yafang sighed, feeling quite troubled by her precious daughter: "Fine, let's each call each other what we want!"

Jiang Chunyu smiled: "This isn't the place to talk. Yafang, let's go to your house and talk about what happened just now."

The leadership villas of Sanjiang Group were built by the previous chairman to boost the morale of the senior management, using over 100 million yuan from the group to build 49 detached villas. After the villas were completed, the previous chairman was reported for embezzlement and was transferred away. Although he was transferred, the villas he ordered to be built were not affected and were put into use as usual.

When the villa complex was being built, it faced widespread opposition from the employees, so the leadership did not dare to make the villas too luxurious. They opted for a simple and rustic style, making the employees think that the leaders' villas were nothing special. In reality, each leader's home was lavishly decorated, and Shen Yafang's home was no exception.

Originally, Shen Yafang and Li Zhonggang were a couple and should have been allocated only one villa. However, Shen Yafang insisted on getting an extra villa for herself. First, she was the head of the group's propaganda department, and second, her brother was the vice mayor of Jiangzhou City, where Sanjiang Group was located. The leadership of Sanjiang Group did not dare to offend her and made an exception to give her an extra villa.

After obtaining the extra villa, Shen Yafang confronted her husband Li Zhonggang, pointing out his affair. Li Zhonggang was forced to agree to live separately. Shen Yafang moved with her daughter from Villa No. 4 to Villa No. 9, avoiding any contact with Li Zhonggang and his son Li Qiming, even though they lived in the same villa complex.

As they passed by Villa No. 4, Shen Yafang and Li Lu turned their heads, pretending not to see Li Qiming on the second floor of the villa.

Li Qiming, nearly thirty and unmarried, had a room in the bachelor apartment but found it too small and often returned home to stay. He was smoking on the second-floor balcony when he saw the group passing by his villa. He saw Lu Xin behind Shen Yafang, immediately extinguished his cigarette, frowned, and wondered, "How did this Lu Xin get mixed up with Shen Yafang? Could they be relatives? I've never heard of that before."

Shen Yafang and Li Lu pretended not to see Li Qiming, and Lu Xin had to do the same.

However, Li Qiming was not about to let Lu Xin off. He shouted loudly: "Lu Xin, what are you doing at Li Lu's house?"

Lu Xin was about to say he was tutoring Li Lu, but Jiang Chunyu tugged at his sleeve and shouted: "Lu Xin is visiting his sworn sister. Do you need to report to you?"

"Li Lu has a sworn brother named Lu Xin?" Li Qiming sneered. "I've never heard of that before!"

Li Lu, who had never been fond of her half-brother Li Qiming, huffed: "We just recognized each other, so what?"

Li Qiming was about to say more, but Shen Yafang and the others had already walked away. He quickly went downstairs to find his father, Li Zhonggang, and told him what he had seen.

Li Zhonggang, clearly aware of his son Li Qiming's failed attempt to harm Lu Xin, showed a cautious expression on his cunning face and said sternly: "It seems Jiang Chunyu already knows about your methods against Lu Xin. She is deliberately protecting him. Although we are not afraid of Jiang Chunyu and Shen Yafang, we can't match their relatives, Jiang Zhenhua and Shen Yazhou, for now. So, no matter how Lu Xin has connected with Jiang Chunyu and Shen Yafang, you must temporarily abandon your methods against him. Don't let them catch you. Since Lu Xin is under your control, find his weaknesses and make his life difficult. Use overt tactics to deal with him. Sooner or later, you can drive him out of Sanjiang Group. Once he leaves their protection, you can use covert methods."

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