novelden Chapter 137 He Doesn't Love Us
Chapter 137 He Doesn't Love Us
"Pathetic?" Lu Chuan nodded: "Yes, indeed, but she is not pitiful only now. What were you doing before? Why are you pretending to be a good person now?"
Lu Chuan sneered as he spoke, "Didn't you love Zhou Xinran before? You wanted to break off the engagement with Shen Lan over and over again for her. How come now that you realize you like Shen Lan, you want to make it up to her and treat her well?"
He bluntly exposed Lu Yunfan's thoughts, looked at his painful and ashamed expression, squatted down and slapped Lu Yunfan's face with the wooden handle of the whip.
The action was humiliating, and the tone was sarcastic: "Did Shen Lan believe you?"
Lu Yunfan felt as if his heart was stabbed hard, and he was in a mess.
When Lu Chuan saw his expression, he felt relieved.
He stood up and whipped Lu Yunfan several times, leaving him covered in blood, before putting the whip away.
"Since you're my son, I'll teach you a lesson today. If I find out you're doing something behind my back again, I'll kick you out of the house!"
"You stay home and reflect on your actions for the next few days. Do not leave the Lu family without my permission!"
After Lu Chuan finished speaking, he gave Zhou Fang a look and asked him to go to the study with him.
Lu Yunfan knelt on the spot, blood sliding down his back and dripping onto the floor.
The wound on the back was so bloody that it made one's scalp tingle at the sight of it.
He seemed not to feel the pain, his eyes were dull, his fists were clenched tightly, and veins bulged on the back of his hands.
"Yunfan, Yunfan!" Tao Lan's crying voice came.
Lu Yunfan's eyes moved, and he became more lively.
Tao Lan staggered over and looked at the wound on his back. She felt so distressed that tears streamed down her face. Her fingers trembled. She wanted to help him but didn't dare to touch him.
"Your dad is crazy!" She choked with sobs, her face filled with hatred. "Did Shen An say something in front of him? I knew that this brother and sister were the plague gods. Nothing good will happen if you meet them!"
"Yunfan, be good and get up from the ground."
Lu Yunfan helped her stand up with the help of her hand. As soon as he moved, blood started flowing from his back. Within a few seconds, a pool of blood gathered on the floor.
Tao Lan's tears flowed even more fiercely: "Mom will take you back to your room and apply medicine for you."
With the help of the servants, Lu Yunfan was sent back to his room, where he took off his shirt and lay on the bed.
Without clothes to cover them, the scars looked shocking.
Who would have thought that the young master of the Lu family, who seemed to be so handsome outside, had so many scars on his back, new wounds plus old ones. He didn't look like a pampered rich kid at all.
Tao Lan shed tears while applying the medicine and scolded Lu Chuan: "This old fellow beat his son like a dog and was so cruel."
Lu Yunfan's eyes moved and he felt a bloody taste in his throat.
He spoke with difficulty, his voice hoarse, and suddenly asked: "Mom, am I really his son?"
Tao Lan paused and said, "What nonsense! Of course you are his son."
"But from childhood to adulthood, I never felt that he loved me. He only had the Lu family and the Lu Corporation in his heart. He never cared about us. He didn't know my sister and I's birthdays. Our family hasn't traveled together for so many years..."
As Lu Yunfan spoke, his wound split open due to excitement.
He ignored the pain and grabbed Tao Lan's hand: "Mom, why did you marry him back then? Was it because of love?"
Tao Lan was stared at by her son, her expression was dazed and the color drained from her face.
She liked Lu Chuan back then.
Lu Chuan has a good family background, is good-looking, looks mature, steady and capable, and is very popular with girls.
Tao Lan had the opportunity to meet Lu Chuan because she got along well with Shen Lan's mother Li Yun.
As a bystander, she clearly noticed that Lu Chuan liked Li Yun, and he liked his good brother's girlfriend.
But Shen Qiao and Li Yun had a very good relationship and got married as soon as they graduated.
On their wedding day, Lu Chuan drank to drown his sorrows and passed out. Tao Lan took advantage of the situation and slept with him.
People were conservative in that era, so Lu Chuan had no choice but to marry her.
After living together for all these years, Tao Lan obeyed him in everything and even gave birth to two children. However, after seeing his love for Li Yun, Tao Lan knew clearly that Lu Chuan did not love her.
"Why are you saying all this? Your dad and I are already an old married couple. What's there to talk about love? Even if we got married because we loved each other, after all these years, we'd already be a family. Love is the most unreliable thing. Your dad only has me as his woman now, so in their circle, he's already considered a good man."
"A good man, huh." Lu Yunfan sneered, took out his phone, and pulled out the photo album to show her: "Mom, is this the good man you're talking about?"
Tao Lan saw the contents of the photo clearly, and the medicine in her hand fell to the ground with a "pop".