The assistant was very smart. As soon as the previous message was sent, they immediately rushed to find out the person behind the post and quickly sent the information to Lu Yan.
When Lu Yan saw the message from the assistant, he lowered his eyes, and a faint gloom flashed across his eyebrows.
Just then, "Lu Yan" had just returned from the restroom. Seeing "Ning Anmiao" with a solemn face, he curiously asked, "What's wrong? Is the work very tricky?"
Lu Yan didn't answer her. Instead, he asked, "Miaomiao, do you want your family background to be made public?"
"I don't want to." Ning Anmiao answered almost without thinking.
She wasn't stupid. She had nothing to do with the Ning family now, so the fewer people who knew about it, the better.
Besides, what was there to talk about for a young lady who had been kicked out of her family by her parents? Apart from becoming the topic of others' after - dinner conversations, what value did it have?
She didn't want to be embarrassed like that.
"It's my fault." Lu Yan said in a deep voice, "Because I didn't explain your family to many people back then, they all thought you were a girl from the countryside."
"So what if I'm from the countryside?" She slowly sat back in her seat, stretched, and said, "I don't feel inferior."
"The inferiority never comes from one's identity, but from others' gazes." Ning Anmiao saw it quite clearly.
"Didn't I live with this identity for the past three years?" She was calmer than Lu Yan himself. "Apart from being looked down upon by some people, it doesn't really affect my life."
She propped her chin and even seriously thought about this possibility. "But if I were really a little girl from the countryside, it would be great."
In that case, her parents wouldn't have stopped her from choosing a career in business, and they definitely wouldn't have kicked her out of the family and disowned her.
Parents from ordinary families wouldn't have so many rules.
Lu Yan lowered his eyes and understood Ning Anmiao's attitude. He said in a low voice, "Okay, I got it."
"Why are you suddenly talking about this?" Ning Anmiao asked curiously.
"Nothing."
I don't want you to be wronged anymore.
He didn't say this sentence out loud.
Just in the afternoon, Lu Yan left the company on the pretext of going out for an inspection.
Ning Anmiao didn't care where he was going and didn't ask any more questions.
In fact, Lu Yan had made an appointment to meet the person who posted the message.
He was very familiar with this person, so familiar that there was no way he could be more familiar.
However, since inheriting the Lu family, for the sake of his work, he had never really had a heart - to - heart talk with this person.
As a result, they had become more and more estranged.
But he knew clearly in his heart that he had to have a good talk with her.
Whether it was for his marriage or for Miaomiao.
The meeting place was a tea restaurant not far from Xinghe Capital. He had specially reserved a table in advance.
When he arrived, the other person was still late.
Lu Yan wasn't in a hurry. He occasionally glanced at the time, knowing that the other person would definitely come.
Sure enough, half an hour later, the other person finally showed up late.
Although she was late, there was no sign of apology on her face. Instead, there was a bit of arrogance.
Lu's mother was wearing a silk long gown, with a string of Buddhist beads around her neck and an expensive jade finger ring on her finger. She looked like a wealthy lady without a doubt.
"Isn't it just about talking about the conditions for divorce? Do we have to talk here?" As soon as Lu's mother sat down, she rolled her eyes. "You just know how to spend Lu Yan's money all day long."
Lu Yan's eyes darkened.
"Mom, have some tea first."
Lu Yan stood up. He still remembered his manners and poured a cup of tea for Lu's mother.
Rarely did "Ning Anmiao" take the initiative to be courteous, but Lu's mother clearly didn't buy it. She directly pushed the cup in front of her forward and didn't even take a disgusted look at it.
"Come on, what conditions do you want before the divorce?"
In the message Lu Yan sent to Lu's mother, he said that he wanted to talk to Lu's mother face - to - face about the matter of divorcing Lu Yan.
It was also because of this sentence that Lu's mother came to the appointment.
"Ning Anmiao" wasn't in a hurry to talk about this topic. Instead, she directly asked another question, "Mom, did you write that inspirational story on the company forum?"
"Humph." Lu's mother snorted. She neither admitted nor denied it. "What, are you not satisfied? There isn't a single word of slander in the article. It's all praise."
She wasn't stupid. She knew that this was the forum of Xinghe Capital. If her son wanted to find out who did it, he would definitely find out that it was her who posted it.
If she deliberately slandered Ning Anmiao, wouldn't her lofty image in her son's heart be completely ruined?
She really wanted to get rid of Ning Anmiao quickly, but she didn't plan to let her son be disappointed in her.
"Indeed, you wrote it very well." "Ning Anmiao" nodded obediently and smiled. "I'm simply not worthy of the girl you described."
"Good that you know." Lu's mother muttered. She took a look at "Ning Anmiao" and always felt that something was wrong.
Today's "Ning Anmiao" was a bit creepy.
"Mom, I'd like to ask where you heard that I'm from the countryside?"
There was a smile on "Ning Anmiao"'s face, but the smile clearly didn't reach her eyes.
Lu Yan raised his eyes and looked at the familiar woman sitting across from him, but he felt an indescribable sense of strangeness.
He and his mother had depended on each other for so many years. He had always respected and been grateful for the hard days they had experienced.
At that time, they had also met some kind people who had helped them. Those people were just ordinary people.
He sincerely thanked those who had helped him, regardless of their status.
But why did his mother look down on girls from the countryside?
"Where did I hear it?"
Lu's mother snorted, "Do I need to investigate such a thing? Don't you know what kind of family you're from?"
Since the day of their wedding, she had never seen Ning Anmiao's parents, and she had never heard of any of her collateral relatives coming to visit. Didn't this say it all?
"Did Lu Yan tell you this in person?" "Ning Anmiao" still asked with a smile on her face.
"A family that can't be presented in public. Lu Yan was too embarrassed to introduce it to me."
Lu's mother lied without batting an eyelid. "With your uselessness, if you're not from the countryside, could you be a young lady who never touches the spring water with her fingers?"
She didn't know that this casual remark of hers was actually the correct answer.
Ning Anmiao was indeed a young lady who never touched the spring water with her fingers. Her ten fingers had held books, the brushes for design drafts, and had won too many awards that no one else could match.
The only thing they had never held was people's hearts.
"I don't know what went wrong, but I want to tell you that you may have misunderstood something about my background."
"Ning Anmiao" said calmly, with a solemn tone. "The reason why Lu Yan and I haven't divorced is not that I don't want to, but that Lu Yan doesn't want to."
"It's Lu Yan who is unworthy of Ning Anmiao. It has always been like this."