The Master’s Mask Unveiled Again
Chapter 553 - Chapter 553 Chapter 552 Twenty-One Years Ago

Chapter 553: Chapter 552: Twenty-One Years Ago Chapter 553: Chapter 552: Twenty-One Years Ago Shao Yunxuan resentfully kicked her luggage to one side.

When she arrived, she was welcomed with a BMW, all pomp and splendor, but now she was leaving in the utmost disarray, utterly humiliated.

She had been only one step away from success; if it hadn’t been for Lu Mian’s interference, she should have been holding her victory celebration by now.

Once one has tasted life at the top, nobody wants to return to the ground.

Jia Fangqin was also muttering curses as she packed up, occasionally trying to comfort Shao Yunxuan, “My daughter, don’t lose heart.

I refuse to believe that in such a big country as Z Country, they can do whatever they want!

You didn’t make any fundamental mistakes!

If anything, it was Master Chu Kong who didn’t make things clear.

Who can you blame for that?”

Shao Yunxuan bit her lip in frustration.

Ding.

Her phone vibrated once, receiving a text message.

[Yunxuan, has your concert ended?

Congratulations, you have officially become the sole heir of Master Chu Kong!]

The message came from Fu Shuangshuang.

Shao Yunxuan stared deeply at the words “sole heir”, her expression as ferocious as if she wanted to devour someone.

She didn’t respond to Fu Shuangshuang’s message; instead, after calming down for a moment, she dialed the number of someone else.

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Meanwhile, Fu Shuangshuang kept waiting for Shao Yunxuan’s reply; she waited and waited but received nothing, and, feeling quite downhearted, she tossed her phone aside.

“What’s wrong, Shuangshuang, aren’t you going to sleep?” Weng Xia walked out of the bathroom and saw Fu Shuangshuang sitting on the sofa looking unhappy, so she asked another question.

“Yunxuan has now soared high on the branch and isn’t replying to my messages.”

Weng Xia shook her head, “Maybe, they’re just busy…”

Fu Shuangshuang, unable to hide her frustration, pounded the sofa cushion as she complained, “Mom, how can their luck be so good!

Look at Yunxuan, then look at Lu Mian!

Now they’re all outshining me!

Especially that Lu Mian, who’s even become that Mr.

Xiao’s girlfriend.

I’m not inferior to her, so why don’t I encounter such good fortune?”

Envy has always been strong in Fu Shuangshuang’s heart.

In the past, when they lived in the hutongs with the Yunxuan family, everyone was poor, and conditions were bad, so there was no obvious disparity.

Coupled with a Lu Mian who was not favored by her parents, they naturally felt superior to Lu Mian.

In the blink of an eye, many years have passed, and they had thought that Lu Mian was still the same unlucky, aloof, and academically poor person they had always looked down upon.

Yet, they discovered that she was no longer the person they imagined.

The last time they had dinner at home, even the provincial heavyweight, Mr.

Han Jin, claimed to be under Lu Mian’s protection.

It was easy to imagine what great benefits Lu Mian might have gained by securing her foothold with the Xiao Family.

Fu Shuangshuang felt aggrieved, and Weng Xia was also simmering with frustration.

Fu Shuangshuang sat next to Weng Xia and wrapped her arms around her mother’s shoulders, “Mom, is that Uncle Han still in contact with Dad?

You have to make Dad seize the opportunity!”

Although Han Jin was connected with Lu Mian, in their view, no matter how impressive Lu Mian was, she was just a girlfriend after all.

If he got tired of her or fell out of love, that would be the end of her.

What would she have left?

In short, if the Fu Family wanted to get rich and turn their fortunes around, they needed to start by leveraging the connection with Han Jin.

Weng Xia nodded, “Go to bed early, I’ll talk to your Dad about it.”

Weng Xia entered the room and lay on the bed, nudging Fu Yao beside her.

Fu Yao responded drowsily.

“What?”

Weng Xia hadn’t turned on the light, but her eyes gleamed with cunning in the darkness.

“Old Fu, what exactly does Mr.

Han want with us?

Fill me in!”

Fu Yao was disrupted from his sleep and in a groggy state, he mumbled, “It might be about Lu Mian’s mother.”

“Fu Man?” Weng Xia paused, “What’s up with Fu Man?

Why did Han Jin come looking for us, and how is their whole family involved again?”

Weng Xia urged him insistently, and Fu Yao also opened his eyes unhappily, sighed, and finally started to come to his senses.

“That’s my guess.

Otherwise, why would Mr.

Han come in such a hurry last time, only to leave without saying a word as soon as he saw Lu Mian?

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Clearly, with Lu Mian here, it wasn’t convenient for him to talk!”

“What does that have to do with Fu Man?”

Fu Yao sighed and glanced at his wife in the darkness.

“Have you forgotten, twenty-one years ago, you, me, and Fu Man, the three of us came to Jinjing with Fu Yu?” Fu Yao paused, “At that time, Yu’s eye condition was serious, and we couldn’t treat it in the small town, so we brought him to Jinjing.

I remember Fu Man was feeling unwell and also had a check-up, that’s when she found out she was pregnant…”

Weng Xia seemed to remember then, and though she had been eagerly questioning about Fu Yu just now, she became silent.

Fu Yao let out another long sigh, “I’ve been feeling uneasy lately, always feeling that there was something off about what happened back then…”

Weng Xia twisted Fu Yao’s arm savagely, “What could possibly be wrong?

You’ve got a strangely good memory, dragging us back twenty-one years!”

“It’s not that I have a good memory, it’s that once, when my brother-in-law was drunk, he let slip a thing or two.” As Fu Yao spoke, he fell silent, and the room grew quiet.

Finally, he said with some self-reproach, “I should have accompanied Fu Man for the check-up back then…”

Listening to his words, Weng Xia quickly burrowed into the bedding, “Alright, enough with the useless thoughts.

It’s not necessarily why Mr.

Han has come.

You’d be better off thinking about how to establish a connection with Mr.

Han!”

—

Lu Mian had a relatively leisurely couple of days and only when she came to her senses did she realize that someone was missing from the Shadow Hunting Team.

It was Ning Qun’s daughter, Ning Xiang.

According to Cheng Feng, she had been sent away overnight one evening.

When Lu Mian asked why, Cheng Feng only mentioned that it was the golden sponsor’s order.

With one person gone, day-to-day life for everyone continued as usual, apparently unaffected.

Even Ning Qun continued his training of the team with his usual strictness and patience.

For some reason, Lu Mian felt much more at ease, so she went about her courses at Yulan Pavilion with dedication.

The physics coaching was coming to an end, and Bi Jun announced the official competition exam dates.

As a result, the students in the class began to study even harder.

Xiu Qian was busy to the point of not touching the ground, and Zhang Yanyan was so occupied that he even ate his meals while looking through the physics notebook Lu Mian had given him.

Only Lu Mian went back and forth between the Yulan Pavilion and Zitan Pavilion, immersing herself in the world of novels and games.

The whole class had only one thing to say: Big shot, at least pretend to study a bit, don’t crush our spirits, can you?!

—

Lately, the international police had been quite busy.

During a rare moment of leisure, they would sit together and discuss the recent bounty.

“What do you think, now that the bounty has been issued, how soon can we find this mysterious number thirteen?”

“I bet a pack of spicy strips, we will definitely find them within seven days!”

Someone, driven by curiosity, naturally directed the conversation off-topic: “What are spicy strips?”

The team members cast a sympathetic “you’re so out of the loop” glance at the person.