Chapter 790: Chapter 789: It Matches, Everything Matches Up

Lu Mian couldn’t be bothered with these matters, but that didn’t mean she was unaware of Lu Xinnuan’s intentions.

Deliberately displaying sisterly love and familial harmony in the VCR, wasn’t she just trying to suppress her dark past before becoming famous?

Or perhaps she even hoped that Lu Mian would play along with Lu Xinnuan in front of the cameras?

“Mianmian!” Fu Man was struck by Lu Mian’s hostility and felt very sad.

She couldn’t bear to meet Lu Mian’s eyes and said softly with her head lowered, “I know, I’ve done many things that showed I didn’t trust you, that misunderstood you. Since you were young, I didn’t give you much attention, leading you to become what you are now. It’s my fault, all my fault…”

She murmured on, “Mom really regrets it… back then, if only I had been more patient with you…”

Lu Mian’s lips formed a straight line, her demeanor proud and distant.

Her heart stood unswayed.

Fu Man looked up, her gaze crashing into Lu Mian’s clear, unfathomably cold eyes, where countless emotions struggled and entangled, until that hint of remorse was suppressed by another emotion.

She took a deep breath, “Mianmian, you know that the Calligraphy and Painting Master is looking for his lifesaver, right?”

“Not much,” Lu Mian lowered her eyes and suppressed her voice with a hint of warning, “I advise you not to target Grandpa Xiao. I won’t allow it.”

Fu Man stepped back with a look of hurt.

Seeing her eldest daughter standing up for an outsider, even willing to warn her own mother like this, would affect anyone.

In the next room.

Three men huddled by the door, wishing they could install a loudspeaker on the security door.

Xiao Jianli nudged Xiao Qimo slightly.

“Mianmian is defending me!” His tone was quite proud.

Xiao Qimo pushed his glasses up coldly, “Huh, would she know who you are without me?”

“Brat!”

“Old fart!”

Mo Si crouched on the floor, holding his head and weakly interjected, “Master Mo, Old Master, don’t you want to hear the gossip anymore?”

Silence fell instantly above his head.

Xiao Jianli pressed his ear against the security door and soon heard the voice of a middle-aged woman in the corridor outside.

She spoke earnestly, “It must be fate. When you were five, didn’t you clamor about saving someone? Now, you don’t recognize the Calligraphy and Painting Master yourself?”

Xiao Jianli’s expression tightened.

Xiao Qimo’s hand gripping the glasses stiffened.

Soon, they heard Lu Mian’s voice, uncertain, “What do you mean?”

“Silly child, you are the one who saved the Calligraphy and Painting Master all those years ago! The Master told me about a feature of the lifesaver; a small red mole on the ear! Isn’t that on yours?”

Fu Man’s voice clearly reached the ears of Xiao Jianli and Xiao Qimo.

Xiao Qimo was almost about to break the temples of his glasses, his gaze rigidly falling on Xiao Jianli.

And Xiao Jianli, suddenly startled by this piece of information, had yet to react.

Outside in the corridor.

Lu Mian hadn’t quite reacted either.

By the time she came to her senses, her right leg had already touched down on the ground.

“What are you trying to say by telling me this?” She didn’t believe Fu Man had such good intentions and was heavily guarded.

Of course, Fu Man was not only here to tell Lu Mian this piece of news; after an internal struggle, faced between her eldest and youngest daughters, she still made the same choice.

“Mianmian, you’re already the Calligraphy and Painting Master’s granddaughter-in-law and have even reached the point of discussing marriage. You have it much easier than Nuannuan. Nuannuan still has to rely on her own efforts to make some money and pay off the family debt…”

“What exactly are you trying to say?” Lu Mian’s voice was colder.

Fu Man tilted her head back, her expression shifting from initial struggle to firm decisiveness. She said solemnly, “You… let Nuannuan take the role of the lifesaver.”

Lu Mian’s fingertips clutching the phone trembled unexpectedly.

She turned her head to look and saw the resolute “I won’t stop until I reach my goal” in Fu Man’s eyes.

Her heart suddenly filled with desolation.

“Can you even give this away?”

“You now live in a big house, you were recommended for admission, and you’re dating the grandson of a Calligraphy and Painting Master. Meanwhile, your sister dropped out in her senior year and her whole life has been delayed! Mianmian, you have everything, can’t you share a little with Nuannuan?”

“I have everything…” Lu Mian repeated the words to herself.

She had long understood that the deepest cuts never came from enemies, but from those closest to her.

That’s okay.

She was battle-hardened.

Impervious to weapons.

Lu Mian put away her phone, leaned against the doorframe, and stared at Fu Man with a bewitching and wicked smile.

Her words were deliberately provocative as she spoke each one distinctly.

“I, will, not, give, it.”

“Mianmian!”

Fu Man wanted to say more, but suddenly, the anti-theft door next door burst open, interrupting the negotiation between mother and daughter.

Lu Mian looked up, her eyes instantly filled with starlight. The sneer at the corner of her mouth quickly switched to a gentle smile.

And Fu Man had no idea that the Calligraphy Master lived next door, she’d never even considered such a possibility!

She was caught off guard and swallowed hard.

“Calligraphy Master… How come… I mean, actually…” Her speech was all muddled.

Why are they here!

Doesn’t that mean they heard everything she just said?!

But, no one cared about her.

Xiao Jianli quickly approached Lu Mian and studied the girl in front of him all over again with great care.

And Lu Mian, obligingly, tucked her stray hair behind her ear.

Revealing the beautiful, delicate little red mole.

Xiao Jianli’s gaze lingered on that little red mole for a long while, until finally, his lips trembled, and he uttered in a hoarse voice, “Yull Street.”

Lu Mian replied with a smile, “The sewer.”

The two, as if they were confirming a password, matched instantly.

The old man’s shoulders shook slightly as he covered his eyes and brow, overcome with sobs all of a sudden.

He had been searching for fifteen years!

He had searched for a full fifteen years!

“Old Master!”

Mo Si, worried that the old man might have another heart attack, stayed vigilant by his side, ready to offer medication at any moment.

As for Xiao Qimo, he stood three meters away, frozen as still as a telegraph pole.

Lu Mian quickly supported Xiao Jianli, “Grandpa Xiao, I’m here, I’m here, please don’t get too excited.”

“Yes, yes, yes…” The old man was crying tears of joy. After searching for so many years, his life-saving benefactor turned out to be his grandson’s girlfriend. Could there be anything more joyful than this?

“Mianmian, I never thought it was you. No wonder I felt you looked familiar the very first time I saw you…”

Lu Mian was somewhat caught between laughter and tears, “So, when I said you looked familiar before, I wasn’t just being polite…”

It all matched, perfectly matched.

Xiao Jianli, thrilled, grasped Lu Mian’s hand. “Mianmian, that’s wonderful, so wonderful! What kind of good karma did our bratty boy accrue to be able to chase after such an amazing girl like you? Qimo, won’t you come over quickly!”

The old master urgently called for Xiao Qimo’s name.

No one responded.

Only a “pillar”, petrified into a telegraph pole.

Mo Si, somewhat alarmed, walked over to the man and tentatively gave him a pat.

“Sir? Are you okay?”