After Assistant Xue had left, Lu Tianming also asked his wife and Murong Rui to leave. At first, Xu Qian was reluctant; she did not know what her husband wanted to say to their son. Their son had just woken up, and she had many things she wanted to say to him.
However, in the end, when Lu Jingchen spoke up, she obediently left. Before leaving, she specifically warned her husband not to say anything unpleasant to their son, threatening that if his condition worsened, they might as well divorce.
Upon hearing his wife’s threats, Lu Tianming’s expression turned sour, but he said nothing and just huffed.
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No one knew what exactly Lu Tianming said to Lu Jingchen that day, or what father and son had discussed and agreed upon. After that day, Lu Jingchen never ntioned Song Qiao’s na again. Aside from quietly recuperating in the hospital, he had Assistant Xue report for work daily and brought important docunts to the hospital for him to sign.
More than half a month later, Lu Jingchen was discharged. He was discharged that morning, and on the afternoon of the sa day, he went straight back to work at CK Group. The previously sensational news about him and Song Qiao started to fade online; by the ti Lu Jingchen was discharged, none of the magazines, newspapers, or gossip weeklies reported anything about them.
It was as if Song Qiao had vanished from An City or as if she had never appeared at all.
Nobody ntioned Song Qiao’s na in front of Lu Jingchen anymore. After his discharge, Lu Jingchen imrsed himself entirely in work, attending social engagents every day and often returning late to the villa.
When Chen Ma first returned from her hotown and learned that Song Qiao had left, she was quite shocked. At first, she didn’t believe it, but then gradually she did. Perhaps she also knew that it was not suitable to ntion the mistress in front of the master, so everyone seed to have agreed, and no one spoke about Song Qiao.
Due to Song Qiao’s departure, the won of An City listed Lu Jingchen as a golden bachelor. The won who had long coveted the position of the Young Mistress of the Lu Family, started to make moves. They tried to engineer chance encounters with Lu Jingchen at various occasions, and if that did not work, they directly brought love-filled homade lunches to CK Group. But each ti, those won were stopped at the entrance by the security guards.
Half a year later, major magazines and newspapers were all reporting about the president of CK Group, and at this mont, Lu Jingchen was hailed as a legend.
In that half-year, through Lu Jingchen’s superhuman abilities and outstanding managerial skills, CK Group rose from a global top 100 multinational company to a global top 50 conglorate.
CK Group also monopolized two-thirds of the economic developnt of An City. It was involved in nearly a dozen different sectors, with the main focus on real estate, dia, and the jewelry industry.
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Lu Jingchen left the banquet, it was precisely eleven o’clock, the ti when the nightlife of An City was at its most vibrant.
Assistant Xue skillfully maneuvered the steering wheel from the driver’s seat, occasionally glancing at the man in the backseat who was leaning against the seat with his eyes closed. He seed to want to say sothing but eventually said nothing.
The car headed back to the villa where Lu Jingchen and Song Qiao had lived after their marriage. To outsiders, it seed that Lu Jingchen had already severed all ties of love and hatred with Song Qiao, but only Assistant Xue knew that their boss actually harbored both love and hate towards his wife.
It wasn’t until the car stopped at the villa’s gate that Lu Jingchen opened his eyes without hurrying to get out. Originally with his eyes shut, he opened them and looked indifferently towards the villa’s gate. The servants, knowing that he was returning, had opened the gate and waited at the doorway for him.
But he did not pay much attention and simply asked, "Have you found any news of her?"
Assistant Xue paused, understanding that his boss was asking about Song Qiao.
After thinking for a while, Assistant Xue replied directly, "Still no news. Since the last trace of the mistress was found in Zurich, we haven’t been able to locate her since. A few months ago, Chu Munan returned to Beijing and has not left the country since, although he has gone on business trips to other dostic cities, but our people have not detected any trace of the mistress."
Upon hearing Assistant Xue’s words, Lu Jingchen felt as if he should have anticipated this outco, yet hearing it directly still made him feel as if a hole had been emptied in his heart, with the wind ceaselessly pouring into it.
The world in his heart that had once blossod with the presence of Song Qiao now, because of her departure, had instantly lost its vitality, turning into a desolate wasteland covered with lifeless weeds.
The bedroom he had shared with Song Qiao was still kept as it was. When Song Qiao left, she hadn’t taken anything with her; even her skincare products on the dressing table remained, and not a single piece of clothing was missing from the wardrobe.
After drinking a cup of sobering tea prepared by the servant, he sent the servant off to rest. The alcohol rush made his steps unsteady. Upon returning to the bedroom, he turned on all the lights. The brightness of the room was so glaring that he couldn’t help but shield his eyes with his hand.
Once he acclimated to the brightness, he carelessly tossed his coat onto the sofa nearby, and with long strides wrapped in his suit, he walked towards the large bed and sprawled onto the covers.
The man breathed deeply several tis, trying to scent the woman’s familiar fragrance from the bedding, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not sll anything anymore.
The day he was discharged, he had Zuo Yuqing bring the divorce agreent sent by Song Qiao to him. But even then, he only glanced at it before imdiately tearing it to shreds on the spot. The look of utter astonishnt on Zuo Yuqing’s face had amused him.
However, it was indeed true that he had personally asked Song Qiao for a divorce. Yet now, when she had brought the divorce agreent, he had torn it up completely.
The things he did and the words he said that day, he had long since regretted. But regrets seed futile. Although he had not signed the divorce agreent and their marriage was still valid, Song Qiao had already left An City and gone abroad with another man.
The thought of her now being with another man brought panic and turmoil to Lu Jingchen’s heart, feelings that were not new to him; each occurrence brought an almost unbearable pain.
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