Scolded like this, Lu Wei shrank his neck, too scared to say a word.
If it weren't for Lu Litian holding him back, he would have punched back!
Since his father had spoken, he still had some scruples. He could only suppress his anger and glare at Lu Yan.
Lu Yan, who had just fought, still looked calm. He casually moved his wrist. His eyes swept across everyone's faces, then he looked at Ning Anmiao and said softly.
"Miaomiao, accompany me out to get some fresh air."
Lu Yan simply ignored this large group of people. He was extremely calm and didn't want to say another word to them. His expression was cold.
Ning Anmiao said nothing. She just stood beside him and firmly grabbed his hand, wanting to pass the strength from her palm to Lu Yan.
"Let's go." She raised her face and gave him a comforting smile.
Watching their backs, Lu Ye, Lu Qingfeng's son, was grinning. He leaned over to Lu Wei and said gloatingly, "Got beaten by that brute, huh? I told you that kid still has some fight left in him."
"Shut up, too." Lu Qingfeng impatiently scolded his son, equally annoyed.
Lu Ye didn't take his father's scolding to heart. He just got closer to Lu Wei and deliberately lowered his voice. "But to be honest, that brute's chick does look good. Wanna find a chance to have some fun with her?"
...
Lu Yan was suppressing his emotions. He seemed calm on the surface, but in fact, he was on the verge of losing his temper. It could be seen from his walking pace.
Ning Anmiao could hardly keep up. She had to trot to stay behind him.
It wasn't until they reached the hospital entrance that Lu Yan stopped.
"Sorry, Miaomiao." Lu Yan turned around and tightened his grip on her hand. "Let you hear those bad words. Don't take them to heart."
Ning Anmiao shook her head. Her brows knitted even tighter. "I don't care about those words."
Lu Yan let out a sigh of relief. "That's good. Don't be unhappy."
Hearing this, Ning Anmiao felt even worse.
She had no connection with the Lu family and no feelings for them. Naturally, she wouldn't take their insults and sarcasm to heart.
People with no relation, what was there to mind?
But Lu Yan was different.
Just thinking about how Lu Yan had been living like this for so many years, her heart felt like it was stuffed with cotton, congested and uncomfortable.
"Have they always treated you like this?" Ning Anmiao's hands were tightly clasped. Her voice was full of distress.
Those harsh and sharp words made her, an outsider, feel heart - piercing pain, let alone Lu Yan.
She couldn't help feeling sorry for him.
Lu Yan's expression was extremely cold. His tone was a bit colder than before. "Their mouths are on them. I don't care what they say."
Ning Anmiao was silent for a few seconds.
She didn't believe it.
Ning Anmiao stared at him for a while with blinking eyes, then leaned over and hugged him tightly.
"Lu Yan, they're bad people." Ning Anmiao's voice was a bit muffled, but very solemn. "Their first reaction wasn't to care about Grandpa. They were all just after that stinky money."
"I think they're the real brutes. They're cold - blooded and heartless." Ning Anmiao wasn't very good at scolding. She even felt a bit unnatural when saying the word "brute".
Seeing Ning Anmiao clumsily trying to comfort him, Lu Yan's mood began to ease a little. He lowered his head and ruffled her hair.
"Maybe your father was right." He suddenly sighed.
Ning Anmiao was nestled in his arms. She looked up at him, not understanding the meaning of his words.
"Businessmen value profit. Once such an accident happens, the dying person becomes the least important one."
"In the eyes of these people, there's probably only that property." He gave a soft laugh. It was hard to tell if he was mocking them or himself.
He hated such a family and even more hated himself.
Himself with the Lu family's blood in his veins.
Lu Yan hugged Ning Anmiao and walked to the edge of the flowerbed nearby to sit down. He let her sit on his lap and gently patted her back.
"Sometimes I think, if I hadn't agreed to return to the Lu family back then, maybe everything would have been as I wished."
He lowered his eyes. There was a rare look of desolation in them. "Even if I had always been an orphan, it would have been much better than returning to the Lu family."
This was the first time Ning Anmiao had heard Lu Yan speak in such a desolate tone.
Ning Anmiao thought for a while. She stared at his face without blinking and raised her hand to gently stroke his eyebrow bone.
Bit by bit.
Lu Yan was powerful, powerful enough to be like an army of a million on his own; but no one had ever seen his vulnerability.
Ning Anmiao's fingers moved down inch by inch, stroking his eyebrow bone, then his eye socket, and finally, she slowly wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Lu Yan, what's more important than blood is your character."
She firmly stated her thoughts. "Whether you're the heir of the Lu family or just an ordinary orphan, these are all given to you by external conditions."
"You can't choose your birth, but you can choose to be yourself."
She boldly expressed her feelings. "Just like I love you. I won't be afraid just because you're the wealthy heir of the Lu family; nor will I think it's not worth it just because you're an ordinary person."
"Because you're you, that's why I love you."
Her voice was very gentle, like a gurgling spring, clear and slowly pouring into Lu Yan's heart.
Unconsciously, he tightened his grip on her a bit more.
His Miaomiao was so good that he couldn't bear to let her go.
"Miaomiao, before I met you, I never knew what loneliness was." His voice was hoarse, with an indescribable tone, giving a sense of solemnity.
"Once you've tasted warmth, the loneliness a person can feel will double." The man's voice was full of texture, with a charm unique to him.
"You're so good to me. I won't let you go in this lifetime."
Ning Anmiao immediately tightened her fingers. She held her breath, closed her eyes, and heard her own voice say -
"Don't worry. I won't run away."
She clearly knew that Lu Yan needed her.
She also clearly understood that she couldn't live without Lu Yan.
They had long become irreplaceable to each other.
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When they returned to the door of the intensive care unit, the large group of people had already dispersed. Grandpa Lu still hadn't woken up.
For an old man of such a great age, every deterioration of his condition was like going through a tribulation. It took a great toll on his vitality.
The doctor said they had to wait for him to wake up, but it was hard to say whether he would wake up or not.
Ning Anmiao stood by the window and looked inside. Watching Grandpa Lu lying on the bed with his eyes closed, her eyes welled up with tears.
"Stop looking. Do you want to go eat something?"
Lu Yan had just gone to the corridor to smoke a cigarette. Now he walked over and asked her.
From the time they rushed to the hospital until now, it was already evening. They hadn't eaten anything.