Surprise! Love-brained Mr. Li has made his ex-girlfriend his girlfriend

Chapter 417 Tuogu

Lu Xingchen looked at Lin Huanxi helplessly and said, "The reason why I broke up with Li Zhen is not only because of his relationship with the Feng family, but also because we are not a good match."

"We all think you are a good match..."

"Happy." Lu Xingchen apologized, "I have known him for ten years, and we have broken up and got back together twice. I... don't consider continuing like this."

Lin Huanxi wanted to speak again, but Lu Xingchen continued, "I feel sad for Li Zhen about Mr. Feng's matter, but it has nothing to do with whether I continue to be with him or not. I'm sorry."

Lin Huanxi couldn't say anything after hearing that. She just felt it was a pity for the two of them. Besides, Li Zhen was her brother after all. If Lu Xingchen insisted, she could only apologize, "I'm sorry if what I said made you feel burdened."

"No, I understand."

"Then I'll really go out to do something." Lin Huanxi stood up.

Lu Xingchen nodded to her and continued with his previous work.

Seeing this, Lin Huanxi turned around and left her office.

When Lu Xingchen heard the door close, his hands that were tapping on the keyboard stopped again. He looked at the computer and inexplicably thought of the scene when the young Li Zhen watched his father leave, and then the scene of him, now thirty years old, seeing off Old Feng.

She couldn't help but let out a long breath, but then shook her head vigorously, concentrating on looking at the computer and continuing the work in her hands.

The phone on the table rang, she turned around and saw that it was Ethan Lu calling, she picked up the phone and answered it, “Hello?”

Ethan Lu, who usually behaves like an adult, sobbed into the phone at this moment: “Grandma, grandma fell down…”

Lu Xingchen was startled, "Where are the other adults in the family?"

“No.” Ethan Lu burst into tears, “Grandma has been sent to the hospital, but they won’t let me go with them. I really want to go find grandma… Woo, sister, take me to find grandma.”

"Wait for me at home now, don't cry, I'll come to you right away." When Lu Xingchen said this, he had already turned off the computer, comforted Lu Yisen on the phone, then hung up the phone and walked out of the office with his things, and then told Cheng Xiao that he would contact her by phone if he had anything to do, and then he quickly left.

The problem with Mrs. Lu's fall was not a big one, but she had been coughing for several days before she fell. After treatment, the cough improved but then triggered her asthma again. Even after returning home to recuperate, she had to use oxygen regularly.

Of course, because of this hospitalization, the fact that she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease could no longer be concealed, and the entire Lu family was caught up in a solemn atmosphere as an elderly person in the family was seriously ill.

Because the old lady fell ill, Ethan Lu’s dependence on Lu Xingchen reached an unprecedented level, so the number of times Lu Xingchen returned to the Lu family’s old house increased significantly.

During this period, many old relatives came to visit the patient one after another, which made Lu Xingchen think of the fact that the old lady had been given several critical illness notices in the past. She sincerely hoped that she could turn the danger into safety again.

Lu Xingchen would occasionally stay by the old lady's bedside. Now, looking at the old lady on the bed, she no longer thought about how she was terminally ill and was still thinking about asking Lu Dingsheng to have a son to leave behind. Instead, she inexplicably thought of Old Feng and Li Zhen who also fell ill and passed away.

Thinking about how he saw off his biological father when he was a teenager, and how he saw off Old Feng when he was thirty years old.

He... must be feeling very uncomfortable, right?

"Cough... cough..." Old Mrs. Lu, who was taking a nap on the bed, suddenly woke up coughing.

Lu Xingchen immediately stood up and asked, "Do you need some water or something?"

Old Mrs. Lu raised her hand and waved it, saying with some difficulty, "No need."

Lu Xingchen looked at her for a moment, then said, "I'll go get Aunt Chen for you."

As she said that, she was about to get up.

"Xingchen." Old Madam Lu called her and then said to her who turned around, "Sit down."

Lu Xingchen sat down.

The old lady looked at her for a long time and asked, "If I let you go back to the Lu family, would you be willing?"

Lu Xingchen was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and looked at the old lady's sickly and tired expression for a while, "Do you want to hear the truth?"

The old lady nodded slowly.

Lu Xingchen shook his head. "I'm fine the way I am now. I don't want to come back."

Old lady: "Can you tell me the reason?"

Lu Xingchen thought about how to answer appropriately, and finally chose to be honest and said: "I used to think that the Lu family was my home. Being forced to leave was like being kicked out by my family, and I had no home from then on. But standing outside and looking at the Lu family from afar over the years, I feel that it doesn't seem to belong to my home. Maybe it has not been since I left."

"Because you were ostracized by the Lu family?" asked Mrs. Lu.

Lu Xingchen didn't deny it, nor did he say yes. He just said, "I just jumped out of this family, this circle, and found that love is the real family. The people of the Lu family excluded not only me, but also everyone who had a conflict of interest with them, even my brothers, sisters and relatives."

The old lady frowned when she heard this, and then said faintly: "You must hate me very much, right?"

"No." Lu Xingchen looked at her and smiled tolerantly, "I know, even before, because I was not a son, you didn't like me very much, but you are my father's mother and my only grandmother, so I still like you very much. Now, even though I am not in the Lu family, you have been my grandmother for 19 years. I still remember how good you were to me, so I don't hate you."

The old lady looked at her calm and open-minded appearance, and finally smiled helplessly, sighing, "How I wish you were the blood of our Lu family."

There was regret, helplessness, and love in these words. Lu Xingchen chose to only hear the love and replied to her: "Is this your recognition of me?"

Old Madam Lu also smiled. "I'm not so confused that I can't tell who is capable and who is not. Lu Xingchen, I acknowledge your original oath. You are indeed better than the boy."

When Lu Xingchen heard this, her heart trembled slightly. Although she didn't want the old lady's approval, but Lu Dingsheng, the old lady's words meant that her efforts over the years were not in vain. She didn't say anything.

The old lady added: "That's why I feel it's a pity, such a pity..."

Lu Xingchen smiled at this moment. In fact, she felt regretful when she left the Lu family before, but now that feeling is gone. However, she did not tell the old lady that she no longer felt sorry for the Lu family.

The old lady continued, "I know this request is excessive, but if you really regard me as your grandmother for 19 years, can you promise me one thing?"

Lu Xingchen thought about it and asked back, “Let me take care of Ethan Lu?”

The old lady laughed in surprise, but not too surprise, then coughed again, "It still has to be you, Lu Xingchen."

"Have you asked Ethan about this?"

"He is a child who is very observant. If I am gone, he will definitely be willing to follow you, because..." The old lady paused here, looked at Lu Xingchen and admitted, "As you said, the Lu family excludes all those who have conflicts of interest with them, and Yisen is too young to protect himself. What I am most worried about is letting that child live under the same roof with Yang Wenqi."