Chapter 280 - Chapter 280: Baby’s Heart Is aching for Me, Right?
Chapter 280: Baby’s Heart Is aching for Me, Right?
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
When Li Jiang watched the surveillance footage, he was perplexed. “Third Master, isn’t this one of Young Master’s personal guards?”
He suddenly realized something, and a curse word slipped through his mind.
Lu Zhiyuan asked with a stoic expression, “He appeared in Block C?”
“Yes!” Li Jiang replied nervously.
Young Master, you’re truly remarkable!
No wonder that shot missed; you must have incredible courage to attempt patricide!
Li Jiang looked at Lu Zhiyuan’s expression, and cold sweat started to form. “Third Master, maybe it’s just a misunderstanding. Perhaps he was just passing by.”
“Shut up!”
Li Jiang fell silent, not daring to utter another word.
Young Master, you’re on your own now!
Lu Zhiyuan couldn’t exactly say he was angry or happy about it; his feelings were rather complex. After all, Gu Ziyu had ordered Chen Fei to assassinate him, even if it was all a staged act. National Security wanted Pei Qiu Ying, and he had taken a risky move.
His own son!
His flesh and blood!
Li Jiang thought about how Third Master had been investigating Qin Wan and Gu Ci lately. If it turned out that Gu Ci was involved as well, Third Master would be in a pitiful situation, with his wife and children coming after his life.
“Third Master, since Young Master sent someone to assassinate you, it’s highly unlikely that Miss Gu Ci was the killer in Block A. Chen Fei fired a shot there, and it was very dangerous. If it were Miss Gu Ci, Chen Fei wouldn’t dare.”
Lu Zhiyuan’s expression became extremely serious.
On a Saturday morning, Lu Zhiyuan appeared outside the Blue Fields Villa. Gu Ci was both surprised and delighted. She had finished a week of exams and finally felt relaxed. She had woken up at 5:30 in the morning for a jog, feeling refreshed. When she returned from her run and saw Lu Zhiyuan standing at the door, she happily rushed over and hugged him. “Why are you here?”
During the day, he maintained the persona of the Third Young Master exceptionally well, smiling brightly in the morning light, appearing exceptionally dazzling. “1 missed you!”
Gu Ci smiled tenderly. “I missed you too. I was planning to have breakfast and then find you. How about we go on a date?”
Li Jiang cleared his throat. “Miss Gu Ci, Third Master has recently become the target of a major underworld dark web organization. He has been the target of multiple assassination attempts. Going out on a date could be dangerous. How about… having the date here?”
Gu Ci nodded thoughtfully. “You’re right; it’s too risky. Let’s have our date here.”
Gu Ziyu had also woken up feeling refreshed. Although he had exams in three days, they were just undergraduate exams, and he felt no pressure. He could handle them with ease.
“Brother, why are you here?” Gu Ziyu glanced at his phone. “Are you here for breakfast?”
“I miss the breakfast you make for me!”
“You flatter me!”
Gu Ci went to take a shower, leaving Gu Ziyu and Lu Zhiyuan playfully bantering while making breakfast. They kept it simple, just boiled eggs and cooked three bowls of shrimp noodles, which had a fiery aroma.
Lu Zhiyuan looked at his seemingly harmless son, who greeted everyone with a smiling face, showing no signs of guilt or pressure. There was no way to tell he had sent someone to assassinate his own father.
If Lu Zhiyuan hadn’t watched the surveillance footage and confirmed multiple times that it was Chen Fei, he wouldn’t have believed that Gu Ziyu had ordered the assassination.
“I went to the hospital a few days ago for a check-up, and the sternum is at the root of the problem,” Lu Zhiyuan said on the sofa, leaning back gently, but his gaze was fixed on Gu Ziyu.
“Why?” Gu Ziyu was genuinely concerned. “The orthopedics department at Central Hospital is so famous. Can’t they fix it with some rest?”
Lu Zhiyuan said with a hint of sadness, “That day at the Global Racetrack, when I was attacked, I fell to the ground, causing a secondary injury. My bone cracked. The doctor warned me not to engage in strenuous activities. I didn’t expect… it would have such serious consequences.”
Gu Ziyu thought about it for a moment.
After that assassination attempt by Chen Fei, will my father’s sternum, which suffered lasting damage, never fully heal throughout his lifetime?
“Can it be reset, the broken bone?” Gu Ziyu proposed a reasonable solution.
Lu Zhiyuan narrowed his eyes. “What did you say?”
Gu Ziyu mentally reviewed what he had said and chuckled sheepishly, “I heard someone say that if bones don’t heal well, you can break them again and reconnect them.”
“Which quack told you that?” Lu Zhiyuan’s expression remained unchanged, but there was an invisible pressure.
“My mother, Gu Ci.”
Lu Zhiyuan sighed inwardly.
Quack, Gu Ci, was standing upstairs, tying her hair. “I’m a quack?”
“You’re a miracle worker!” Lu Zhiyuan said desperately.
Gu Ziyu brought the bowl of shrimp noodles, looking somewhat serious, and added three extra shrimp and an additional sunny-side-up egg to the bowl meant for Lu Zhiyuan.
Gu Ci hadn’t heard the earlier part of the conversation but noticed her son’s unfair treatment. “Baby, why does he have an extra sunny-side-up egg compared to me?”
“Maybe it’s because of the aftermath of my sternum, and my baby is worried about me,” Lu Zhiyuan smiled kindly at Gu Ziyu. “Right, my love?”
Gu Ziyu nodded numbly, feeling a bit guilty.
Gu Ci frowned, “Why would your sternum have an aftermath? I’ve seen the reports, and you were healing well, even faster than others.”
Gu Ziyu became even more numb, not answering. Lu Zhiyuan coughed awkwardly and said, “I was attacked at Global Racetrack that day, and it injured my bone. The doctor said it might leave some aftereffects.”
Gu Ci’s heart skipped a beat. “What kind of aftereffects?”
“It might ache frequently, and there might be hypertrophy.”
Hypertrophy of the sternum could be troublesome.
“Which incompetent doctor diagnosed that? Show me the report!” Gu Ci reached for the report, but Lu Zhiyuan, who had been lying all along, hesitated. He didn’t actually have a report.
He did it to test his son!
“The report is at home,” Lu Zhiyuan calmly changed the topic. “Gu Ziyu just suggested breaking the sternum and resetting it.”
“You’re tattling on me, you’re so childish!”
Lu Zhiyuan seemed to smirk, looking a bit wicked. He asked Gu Ziyu, “Do you know that the person who attacked me at Global Center was a national security agent? Did you know about this?”
Gu Ci raised an eyebrow.
She suddenly looked at Gu Ziyu. In that moment, Gu Ziyu’s acting skills soared, “What? It was a national security agent? That’s impossible. Why would national security people assassinate you? Mom, I really had no idea about this. Are you sure there’s no mistake?”
Lu Zhiyuan, without hesitation, produced surveillance footage and placed it in front of Gu Ziyu. “Recognize this person? It’s Chen Fei!”
Gu Ziyu’s face darkened. “How could it be Chen Fei? I… 1 swear to God, I really didn’t know about this. We’ve had midterm exams at our school recently, and I’ve been swamped with studying for the past two weeks. I haven’t been to the office for a while. The old man even gave me time off and told me to come back after the exams.”
On this point, Gu Ci could actually vouch for him.
She thought about Gu Ziyu’s recent exam frequency and stress. He really didn’t have time to deal with national security matters.. Moreover, if Chen Liangdong knew she was dating Lu Zhiyuan, would he inform Gu Ziyu about an assassination attempt on Lu Zhiyuan?