After Assistant Xue left, Lu Tianming also asked his wife and Murong Rui to leave. Initially, Xu Qian was unwilling; she didn’t understand what her husband wanted to say to their son. Now that their son had finally regained consciousness, she had many things she wanted to say to him.
However, in the end, Lu Jingchen spoke up, leaving her no choice but to go out reluctantly. Before leaving, she specifically warned her husband not to say anything unpleasant to their son; if his condition worsened, they might as well get a divorce.
When Lu Tianming heard his wife’s threats, his expression turned slightly grim, but he said nothing and simply snorted.
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No one knew what Lu Tianming said to Lu Jingchen that day, or what conversations and agreents transpired between the father and son. After that day, Lu Jingchen never ntioned Song Qiao again. Apart from calmly recuperating in the hospital, he had Assistant Xue co every day to report work and bring important docunts for him to sign.
More than half a month later, Lu Jingchen was discharged. He left the hospital in the morning and returned directly to work at CK Group that afternoon. The buzz about his affair with Song Qiao simred down online, and by the ti of his discharge, no magazines, newspapers, or gossip columns were reporting on them.
It was as if Song Qiao had vanished from An City, or perhaps she had never existed at all.
No one ever ntioned Song Qiao’s na in front of Lu Jingchen again. After leaving the hospital, Lu Jingchen imrsed himself entirely in work, often working late into the night before returning to the villa.
When Aunt Chen ca back from her hotown and learned of Song Qiao’s departure, she was quite shocked. Initially, she didn’t believe it, but gradually accepted the reality. Nonetheless, she knew it was inappropriate to bring up the mistress with the master, so it seed as if everyone tacitly agreed not to ntion Song Qiao.
With Song Qiao’s departure, Lu Jingchen was listed as a golden bachelor by An City’s won. The won who had long coveted the position of Lu Family’s Young Mistress sprang into action, attempting to create chance encounters with Lu Jingchen at various events. When that failed, they showed up at CK Group with homade love lunches, but every ti, they were stopped by security at the gate.
Half a year later, major magazines and newspapers were widely reporting on the CK Group’s CEO, who by then was hailed as a legend.
In these six months, thanks to Lu Jingchen’s extraordinary abilities and outstanding managent, CK Group leapfrogged from one of the top 100 global enterprises to the top 50.
CK Group monopolized two-thirds of An City’s economic developnt, participating in nearly dozens of industries, mainly real estate, dia, and jewelry.
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When Lu Jingchen left the banquet, it was already eleven o’clock, just the ti when An City’s nightlife was liveliest.
Assistant Xue sat in the driver’s seat, skillfully steering the wheel, occasionally glancing at the man in the back seat, reclining against the seat with eyes closed, wanting to say sothing but ultimately saying nothing.
The car returned to the villa where Lu Jingchen and Song Qiao had lived after their marriage. Outsiders might think Lu Jingchen had severed all emotional ties with Song Qiao. However, only Assistant Xue knew their Boss by now felt both love and hatred towards his Wife.
When the car stopped at the villa, Lu Jingchen didn’t get out imdiately. He opened his eyes that had been closed, gazing quietly at the villa gate where the servants, knowing he was returning, had opened the gates and were waiting for him.
But he paid it no mind, instead asking, "Any news on her?"
Assistant Xue hesitated, knowing their Boss was asking about Song Qiao.
After contemplating, Assistant Xue finally said, "There’s been no news. Ever since finding the Wife’s trail in Zurich, there’s been nothing. Chu Munan returned to Beijing months ago and hasn’t been abroad, though he’s been on dostic business trips. But our people haven’t spotted the Wife."
Upon hearing Assistant Xue’s words, Lu Jingchen had expected as much, but hearing it directly left him feeling hollow inside, like a void constantly being filled with wind.
The world that once brimd with life because of Song Qiao was now desolate, with lifeless grass growing everywhere.
Their bedroom remained unchanged. When Song Qiao left, she hadn’t taken anything, and even the skincare products on the vanity were still there. The clothes in the wardrobe hadn’t been touched.
After drinking the sober-up tea brewed by the servant, he dismissed the servant to rest. The alcohol made his steps slightly unstable. Returning to the bedroom, he switched on all the lights, the brightness piercing his eyes, forcing him to shield them with his hand.
Once accustod to the light, he casually tossed his coat onto a nearby sofa. His long legs wrapped in the suit strode toward the bed, where he collapsed onto the bedding.
The man deeply inhaled, hoping to catch the familiar scent of the woman from the bedspread. Yet no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t sll anything at all.
The day he was discharged, he had Zuo Yuqing bring him the divorce papers Song Qiao sent over. However, after a single glance, he shredded them on the spot, amused by Zuo Yuqing’s shocked expression.
Indeed, he had personally asked Song Qiao for a divorce back then. But now that the papers were here, he tore them to pieces.
Though he’d long regretted what he did and said that day, regret was futile. Even though he hadn’t signed the divorce papers and their marriage still stood, Song Qiao had left An City and gone abroad with another man.
Whenever he thought about her being with another man, a sense of panic and disorder overwheld Lu Jingchen, not for the first ti, leaving him with an intense feeling of agony.
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