Jiang Yuyan couldn't sleep the entire night. The next morning during breakfast, she informed her parents, "I'm going home today."
"Anything important?" Mo Ruolan asked.
"Do I need a reason to go back to my home?" Jiang Yuyan asked; her voice was a bit cold.
Others didn't dare stop her. In the end, she was President Lu, someone powerful and head of the Lu Family who decided everything in the family, more precisely her family.
"I'll take you there," Jiang Yang offered.
"No need. Xiao Min would be here," she countered.
Jiang Yang had to agree as it was not a good idea to stop his sister when she had already decided what to do.
"When would you return?" Mo Ruolan asked.
"I'll come to visit here once in a while," Jiang Yuyan replied, her intentions clear that she wouldn't be back to stay here with her parents.
Mo Ruolan was not happy about it, but who could stop Jiang Yuyan. Mo Ruolan looked at her son to say something, but he signaled his mother to let her go.
Jiang Yuyan was already there for two weeks, and it was a big thing that she was away from her home for that long for the first time in so many years.
"Then leave at night," Mo Ruolan suggested.
"Hmm!" Though Jiang Yuyan was desperate to go home, she had to listen to her mother as her parents were here to be with her.
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Before lunchtime, the doorbell rang. Jiang Yang looked at his sister, who was sitting quietly on the sofa and looked dazed.
"My legs are hurting. Would you mind opening the door, little sister?" Jiang Yang commented.
Jiang Yuyan stood up and went to open the door. Not thinking who that must be, she opened the door while immersed in her thoughts only to see elder Lu standing at the door.
"Grandpa?" she said in surprise.
"What's with these expressions? Am I not welcome?" Elder Lu asked.
Elder Lu remembered her same expressions from ten years back when elder Lu came to Jiang Resident to convince her to stay in Lu Mansion.
At that time, elder Lu had the scheme to favor his grandson, but this time he only came to visit her. Unknowingly once again, his action favored his other grandson.
Lu Lijun came forward and stood beside his grandpa as he looked at Jiang Yuyan.
Jiang Yuyan looked at him but said nothing. Her mind couldn't stop thinking about what he was there as she didn't wish to see him.
"I have my driver with me," elder Lu informed while the other two were just silent.
"Are you going to keep our guests at the door only?" Jiang Yang asked loudly from the living room.
It pulled Jiang Yuyan out of the daze, and she stepped back to let the two enter the home.
Jiang Yang welcomed grandpa and was neutral to Lu Lijun, and the three sat in the living room.
"Where are your parents?" Elder Lu asked.
"They had to go out for some reason. They will be back shortly," Jiang Yang informed.
Elder Lu sighed. "I thought I'd have the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e to have lunch with my other family today."
"We still can," said Jiang Yang as he looked at his sister as if it was the best time to annoy her. "We have president Lu who will serve us today."
Jiang Yuyan glared at her brother and then looked at elder Lu, "I'll arrange it."
"Do you even know how to cook?" Jiang Yang teased, knowing her weakness. The almighty president Lu could do everything but cooking except for few shortcut things which she had cooked a decade back.
Jiang Yuyan gritted her teeth lightly and pulled out a light smile as she looked at her annoying brother. "I was going to order from the hotel."
"Outside food is not good for grandpa. Mother had already prepared everything when you were slacking on the sofa," said Jiang Yang. "We know you can't cook."
"She doesn't need to cook," Lu Lijun interrupted as he didn't like how Jiang Yang was teasing her about it.
Jiang Yang looked at the cold young guy, "It's the basic need that everyone should learn."
"No need when others can do it for her," Lu Lijun countered.
Jiang Yang smirked to see how he dared to act caring towards his sister when all this young man did was troubling her. "Unfortunately, if one day she happens to be lost and…."
"I'll find her wherever she would be," Lu Lijun replied, and everyone felt the atmosphere turning colder.
Jiang Yuyan was the most affected person as she didn't know how to react to what Lu Lijun said.
'What's the need to act like this in front of others? Can't he just act ignorant instead of getting into useless arguments?' She frowned.
"I'm starving. You people can argue later," Elder Lu interrupted and looked at Jiang Yuyan.
She nodded and went to the kitchen. Elder Lu looked at Lu Lijun, "Go help her."
Elder Lu intended to let these two have a talk as it looked like both were on not talking terms.
Lu Lijun stood up and followed Jiang Yuyan. She stopped and looked at him questioningly.
"Grandpa asked me to…."
Jiang Yuyan left without letting him finish his line. Who could defy grandpa?
'I was never wrong when I said my life is full of annoying men. The numbers are unending,' she mumbled, frowning to her bones and not knowing how to get out of it but just then heard Lu Lijun, which only she could hear.
"Get rid of everyone. Only I have a right to annoy my wife."
In annoyance, Jiang Yuyan tightened her fists, intending to hit something but had to bear it because of the two sitting in the living room.
They entered the kitchen as Jiang Yuyan went towards the covered pots of the meal, and Lu Lijun stood behind her on one side. She was about to open the lid of the pot; Lu Lijun held her hand. "It must be hot. I'll do it."
"Stop treating me like a kid," she said through her gritted teeth as she remembered how he stopped her from crossing the road the previous night. 'Does he think I am an idiot?
"You never grew up, so it's not my fault," Lu Lijun countered and leaned closer to her to open the lid of the pot.
Sighing out deeply, she looked at him and was about to say something, but before that, he shifted even closer to her and stared into her eyes, "I want to treat you like an a.d.u.l.t, but you might not like it."
He observed her flabbergasted face closely as his sight stuck on her lips which she opened to say something but couldn't.
Jiang Yuyan stepped back and warned. "Get back to your senses or….."
"Or what?" He interrupted and covered the distance she created by stepping back, trapping her between him and the kitchen platform.
She warned, "Behave," and said, "I don't want people outside to know that you have lost your mind." Her voice was low so that the two outside wouldn't hear her.
It didn't affect Lu Lijun, and he didn't bother to keep his voice low. "Nothing bad in losing my mind for my wife."