Chapter 756 - Treat This as Your Home
Chapter 756: Treat This as Your Home
They had lived in a tiny apartment, survived on tap water, slept on floor mats, and shared a toilet with many others. It was only until recently that he regained his memories, or he would still be unaware of who he was, and whether he had parents or not.
Her son had lost his memories—that had been one of Ye Shuyun’s first fancies. Could it be that he was not dead, but only stuck somewhere without his memories to navigate his way home?
But everyone insisted that he was gone. Dead.
She accepted the idea after two years, but the hope had always occupied a corner of her heart. All that mattered was that he was alive, even if he wasn’t ever going to come home and lived in a world he did not remember.
And now, her dream had come true. Her son had returned.
“Meal is ready, young master,” said the nanny, feeling happy for the Lu Family. How wonderful it was for him to be alive! Without any of them, the family wouldn’t be the same. Now they could finally reunite.
Lu Yi stood up and walked to the guest room.
That was when Ye Shuyun remembered the other person in the room. A woman. A stranger. She exchanged looks with Lu Jin.
Lu Jin shook his head. “How about we ask him directly?”
“Okay,” said Ye Shuyun apprehensively. Could it be that his son had found another woman in the past two years? If that’s the case, what about Yan Huan?
With nothing certain at the moment, she thought it best to keep her questions and guesses to herself.
Soon, Lu Yi wheeled Sun Yuhan out.
“This is my mother. You have met her already,” introduced Lu Yi. “This is my father.”
Sun Yuhan had a good first impression of Ye Shuyun; she had an air of nobility and wealth, which showed in her mannerism. Lu Yi’s father, however, made her a little scared. He was in a military attire that bore his high rank, with a sullen look on his face.
It seemed like Jiu Yue, no, Lu Yi’s family was more complicated than she thought. Then again, it was simpler at the same time; the only people in his house were his parents and his nanny, when you take away the relatives.
Also, she hadn’t spotted any young woman so far. Lu Yi hadn’t lied to her. He wasn’t married or attached.
“Hello Uncle, Aunty,” she said, mustering her courage as she squared her shoulders. Still, she couldn’t help but feel out of place. The difference in family background and culture was too large for her to adapt to in such a short time.
“Hello dear,” said Ye Shuyun courteously. She gave Lu Jin’s sleeves a surreptitious tug. Lu Jin was studying her with cool, piercing eyes.
Never lay a hand on a smiling man, as the old saying went. With nothing clear to them yet, they ought to keep their calm and watch how things develop.
Lu Jin understood. He greeted the young woman with a slight nod.
“Now, let’s eat, shall we?” said Ye Shuyun, sitting up eagerly and pulling Lu Jin to the dinner table. She moved a chair aside so Sun Yuhan could steer her wheelchair into place.
They might only be friends. It wouldn’t be strange for her son to bring an injured person home. He wasn’t the kind to leave an injured person all by themselves. Neither was he the kind to fall out of love easily, she knew.
Back then, he never backed down even after Old Master Lu nearly beat him to death. He didn’t mind risking everything for her, and that sentiment was not something he was like to forget.
The nanny served up a sumptuous table of dishes. There was chicken, duck, fish, and meat.
Lu Yi picked up some food and dropped them in Sun Yuhan’s bowl.
“Don’t be shy. Treat this as your home.”
“Cough…” harrumphed Lu Jin. “Don’t talk when you are eating.”
Ye Shuyun drove her foot into Lu Jin’s. “Don’t speak nonsense when you are eating.”
“Am I speaking nonsense?” Lu Jin did not want to quarrel with his son, who had finally returned to them. He had not held him in his arms and bawled his eyes out, but he did shed some tears in secret. Sometimes, men have to cry to let out their emotions, just like women.
But why did you bring someone com back with you?
The awkward atmosphere made Sun Yuhan feel even more out of place.
“She’s my life savior, Mom,” said Lu Yi, picking up some food and putting them into Ye Shuyun’s bowl. “I would have died, if not for her.”
Sun Yuhan dipped her head and picked at her rice. She knew Lu Yi was lying but chose not to expose it. She and Lu Yi didn’t owe each other their lives, that’s true, but his parents will doubtlessly treat her better if they thought her to be his savior. That would make the days ahead a lot more bearable.
“So that’s how it is,” said Ye Shuyun, genuinely grateful. She picked up some food and put it in Sun Yuhan’s bowl, ashamed of her own narrowmindedness.
“Please accept my apologies for neglecting you, but this is all still too overwhelming for me. This will be your home from now on. We don’t have a daughter, so… Would you like to be our daughter?”
Sons could never match up to daughters when it comes to taking care of others. Huanhuan was great, but she was too busy. With another woman in the house, Ye Shuyun would at least have someone to chat with. She didn’t mind taking her in as daughter, if she had saved Lu Yi. In this house, she could enjoy the same status as Lu Yi.
She gave Lu Jin’s shirt a tug, signaling him to take a stand. Lu Jin wasn’t a grateful person, and he nodded his assent.
“Treat this as your home.”
Sun Yuhan was overwhelmed by their sudden hospitality. She had expected them to be difficult, being people of wealthy families. To her surprise, they were open-minded folks.
Offering to take her as their daughter meant that they had assented to their marriage, right?
She swallowed another mouthful of rice. She ate cattishly, her behavior marked by abstinence. The food was good, and she would have loved to pig out, but she knew this was a family that valued table manners. She could tell by looking at them, the way they ate with their backs straight, the way they chewed noiselessly.
She had to do as they did, fearful that she might disgrace herself somehow.
Ye Shuyun suddenly put her chopsticks down. “Lu Yi, you are going to renew your identification tomorrow, right? Many of your documents were voided when you were pronounced dead. Why not we all go together and get the adoption procedure done for Yuhan too?”