Chapter 197 - She Takes You As A Stand-In

Lu Shaoming let go of her and rubbed her hair. He had a hint of adoration in his eyes. “Let’s go back.”

“Alright, Shaoming, see you tomorrow.” Ning Qing planted a loud kiss on his handsome face and opened the door like a happy little bird.

Lu Shaoming looked at the girl through the open window. The girl did not leave. She smiled sweetly while waving her fair hand. “Shaoming, bye-bye.”

Lu Shaoming stepped on the accelerator.

When the Bentley vanished completely from sight, Ning Qing stretched out her hand and pinched her thigh hard. It hurts. It was really not a dream.

Lu Shaoming was willing to try to like her. Were they going to start?

Great.

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At the Lu family Villa

Zhou Zhilei accompanied Song Yajing while the housekeeper showed them the video of Ning Qing’s fairy floral shower scene in today’s play. He reported in a low voice, “Madam, I ordered Ning Qing’s clothes to be cut up according to your instructions, but she had quick wits and used rose petals to cover up the white gauze skirt and created a fairy floral shower dance, causing a sensation throughout the city.”

Zhou Zhilei watched the girl’s beautiful dancing in the video and jealousy flashed in her eyes. Quick wits. This was the appraisal of Ning Qing by the Lu family’s housekeeper?

She glanced sideways at Song Yajing, who looked at the video with a slightly stunned look. Yes, Song Yajing was also a beauty when she was young. She was proficient in musical instruments, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and she was very good at dancing.

Song Yajing was also a person who loves beauty and cherishes talent. Ning Qing’s fairy floral shower had amazed the entire world. It was no wonder that Song Yajing had such a shocked expression.

Zhou Zhilei smiled and took Song Yajing’s arm. “Auntie, Ning Qing’s dance is really beautiful. Now her fandom will grow again. Look at the saliva coming out of those people’s mouths, especially the men right in front of the stage.”

Song Yajing immediately reached out and waved the video away. “Hmph, it’s just a little trick for her to please a man. A seductive woman’s tricks; it has defiled my eyes. By the way, what happened to that Lin Xuemei?”

The housekeeper took the device away. “Madam, I just got the news: Ning Qing set up a grand banquet to catch Lin Xuemei. The young master ordered Lin Xuemei to be sent to the police station.”

Zhou Zhilei was stunned.

“What?” Song Yajing was shocked. “Damn, it seems that I have indeed underestimated this Ning Qing and allowed her to get out of trouble again and again.”

Song Yajing also wanted to say something, but then the villa doorbell rang, and the servant went to open the door. “Master.”

Lu Shaoming walked in.

When the housekeeper backed away, Song Yajing looked at Lu Shaoming with her usual smile and said, “Shaoming, you’re back. Have you had dinner yet? I’ll ask the servant to warm up some dishes for you.”

“No, I’m leaving later.” Lu Shaoming sat directly on one side of the sofa.

Song Yajing was stunned when she saw that his expression was not right. Zhou Zhilei laughed and said, “Brother Ming, both Auntie and I were thinking that the carpet in Europe is good. The next couple of days...”

“Mom,” Lu Shaoming said, ignoring Zhou Zhilei. Instead, he looked directly at Song Yajing. “Why did you use Cabbage Plume’s formula to frame Ning Qing?”

Song Yajing’s eyes flashed, knowing that the incident had come to light. That Lin Xuemei was too useless. Ning Qing had tricked her into exposing their plot. Otherwise, she would not lose so easily.

“Shaoming, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve also heard about the leak of Cabbage Plume’s formula. Do you suspect that I ordered someone to do it? I wouldn’t leak the formula to GK.”

Lu Shaoming’s face was indifferent while his deep black eyes burst with mockery. “What’s GK to you? They’re just a chess piece. You’ve just used them to frame Ning Qing. Lin Xuemei has confessed, and that high-leveled worker has also given you away. Mom, you don’t need to make excuses now.”

Now that he put things like this, Song Yajing also sat calmly on the sofa. “Shaoming, you’ve been so close to Ning Qing lately. Mom doesn’t like this woman.”

“Why? Because she is not of noble birth?”

“It’s one thing to not be of noble birth, but her character is the most important thing.” Song Yajing placed a stack of information on the tea table and pushed it in front of him. “Shaoming, you should look at this. Mom sent someone to investigate her. I don’t think you know about the woman’s past. You should also know her real purpose for getting close to you.”

Her past?

Her real purpose for getting close to him?

Lu Shaoming looked down at the information on the tea table and slowly extended his hand.

Song Yajing showed a hint of a smile. Ning Qing thought she had won. She probably didn’t know her fatal weakness in the three-month agreement.

Although she was in the villa every day, she knew about every one of Ning Qing’s actions. She was surprised by the design of Cabbage Plume’s play advertisement. This play was well-conceived and could bring Cabbage Plume huge profits. That was why she had waited until the end of Ning Qing’s play to start taking action.

She had to make use of Ning Qing before she could kick her away.

Song Yajing waited for Lu Shaoming to open the information, but Lu Shaoming’s hand stopped and he put it back.

“Shaoming, why aren’t you reading it?”

Lu Shaoming looked up and asked, “Mom, can’t you tell me if I don’t look? Tell me, I’m listening.”

Song Yajing saw doubt flashing through her son’s calm and indifferent face. His reaction was too calm and abnormal.

“Ning Qing grew up with two men, one named Xu Junxi, and another named Mu Yunfan. Xu Junxi confessed his love to Ning Qing when she was 18 years old. Ning Qing agreed to be with him. Xu Junxi was her first love and the Ning and Xu family had a marriage contract. Xu Junxi was Ning Qing’s fiance.

“That Mu Yunfan also liked Ning Qing. Coincidentally, when Ning Qing was 18 years old, she ended up in bed with Mu Yunfan, which was well known in T city. Later, Mu Yunfan kidnapped others to get Ning Qing, which involved the legal and illegal parties.”

“Shaoming, how do you expect your mother to like a woman with such chaotic prehistory?”

Lu Shaoming’s handsome face was as calm as water. He slowly opened his mouth and spoke. “It’s not her fault that others liked her. Everyone has a past; it’s alright as long as it’s over.”

It’s alright as long as it’s over?

Song Yajing was shocked. She couldn’t believe what her son had just said.

Who was her son? He had received an education as noble as a royal and was elegant as a gentleman. His pride and nobility were deeply ingrained in him. Otherwise, he would have met a woman who could make his heart-pound by the age of 30.

“Shaoming, you don’t care that Ning Qing had a first love, a fiance, and had lost her virginity at the age of 18? Then you should care that she was married!”

Married?

Lu Shaoming did not move his eyebrows, but his face turned cold.

This subtle difference in emotion was captured by Song Yajing. Song Yajing smiled calmly. “Shaoming, Ning Qing’s mother was short of money for surgery last year. She once married a rich man for money. The man was very kind to her. She was moved and fell in love with him.”

Song Yajing’s words were all true except that she did not tell Lu Shaoming that the rich man was him, because she knew that with her son’s wisdom, she would be exposed if she lied to him. This Ning Qing’s past was really messy. She was always involved with men. God help her.

She wanted Ning Qing to suffer like a fool in silence.

Ning Qing thought that she could so easily get her way in these three months?

Was it so easy for Lu Shaoming to fall in love with her again?

What a joke!

“Where is the man now?” Lu Shaoming suddenly asked.

Where?

Although Song Yajing was surprised that her son would ask this question, she was prepared. “The man died in a car accident.”

Only the dead could not be investigated.

“Alright.” Lu Shaoming nodded, and he stood up slowly. “That’s good.”

Song Yajing also stood up with him. She did not understand Lu Shaoming’s meaning. “What’s good?”

Lu Shaoming slowly lifted the corners of his lips, and his eyes were so deep and black they could not reflect a trace of emotion and light, except for a cold smile on the corners of his mouth. “That’s good means that it’s good that he died so that she can be at ease with me in the future.”

“Shaoming, you!” Song Yajing seemed to have been struck by lightning, unable to utter a word. She trembled and stretched out her finger, pointing at Lu Shaoming.

Was this still her son?

“Mom, you made three mistakes in my company, including ordering Ye Ting to lock Ning Qing in the freezer, sending someone to cut her clothes, and this Cabbage Plume formula incident. Because you are my mother, I will not pursue these three incidents, but I don’t want to see another incident. That’s it. I’m out.” Lu Shaoming turned and left.

“Shaoming, stop right there!” Song Yajing reprimanded Lu Shaoming. “You don’t even care if Ning Qing had married another man? Okay, you don’t care that Ning Qing is a second-hand product, but you should care about her purpose for getting close to you, right? That rich man looked very much like you. Ning Qing doesn’t really like you at all. She’s looking for a shadow on you. She takes you as a stand-in!”

Lu Shaoming was silent for a few seconds. “Oh, a stand-in?” He was laughing. “So be it, as long as she likes me.”

When Song Yajing heard this, she fell on the sofa. It was just over a month ago. Has he already fallen for Ning Qing again?

“Are you all right, Auntie? What’s wrong with you? Brother Ming, you...”

Lu Shaoming turned around. He looked straight at Zhou Zhilei and asked indifferently, “Zhilei, don’t you have a job now? Why are hanging around here all day?”

“I...”

“You can come here all you want. I don’t often come to this villa. My mother is really too bored; let’s just take It that you’re her goddaughter. You take good care of my mother.” Lu Shaoming walked out the front door.

Zhou Zhilei looked at the man’s ruthless back and was so angry that her teeth gritted together. She came here all the time because she wanted to please his mom and get the Lu family’s approval so that she could marry him in the future.

However, he had told her that she was doing something useless when he said, “don’t often come”, and that “goddaughter” indicated that he completely ignored her.

Why was he so cruel to her but so kind to Ning Qing?

He had refreshed her understanding of him once again.

Then Song Yajing patted Zhou Zhilei’s little hand and comforted her by saying, “Zhilei, don’t be sad. Shaoming is mesmerized by that woman. Auntie will find a way. You are the daughter-in-law of the Lu family. I will always support you.”