After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved-Chapter 361: Frank and Open, Spilled All the Beans!

Chapter 361: Chapter 361: Frank and Open, Spilled All the Beans!

[Room]

When Lu Sheng entered the room, Li Muchen was reading a book in the chair. The cold moonlight spilled through the window into the room, and Black Bean was curled up on the bed, sleeping drowsily.

Lu Sheng immediately noticed the yellow cover of the book—To Kill a Mockingbird. It was a book she had been deeply moved by after reading and had mentioned to Li Muchen a couple of times.

The party in the living room outside was still going on, noisy and lively.

But once the door of the room was closed, it became exceptionally quiet inside.

Li Muchen heard the noise and looked up, directly closing the book in his hands and placing it on the desk.

He stood up and walked towards her, his voice deep: "Baby, is everything resolved?"

"...Yes," Lu Sheng paused for a second and then asked Li Muchen, "Is there anything you want to ask me?"

Lu Sheng knew that the words she had just said, including her conversation with Ning Yu, must have greatly shocked Li Muchen.

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However, Li Muchen did not ask her what all this was about as she had imagined.

Instead, he raised his hand to gently embrace her, pausing for a few seconds.

"Baby... it’s not that I want to ask you something, it’s about what you want to tell me."

"If I am curious about what just happened, it’s not because I want to delve into your past, but because I want to understand you better."

"But, if there are past experiences you don’t want to recall, you don’t need to explain anything to me. You are who you are, no matter what you’ve gone through or what identity you hold, I will love you just the same."

Lu Sheng took a deep breath, then spoke seriously, "Sit down, let’s talk."

Indeed, there were many things Lu Sheng had not told Li Muchen before.

But since she had already revealed her true identity today, there was no point in hiding anything anymore.

"Actually, I’m not Lu Sheng," they sat facing each other, and these were the first words Lu Sheng said.

"The original owner of this body was strangled to death in an alley by an assassin sent by Lu Qianrou on the first day she came to Jiang City, and I resurrected through her body at that time."

Li Muchen’s expression tightened: "...So she was really strangled to death?"

Lu Sheng was taken aback, not expecting Li Muchen to respond with these words: "...You knew about this?"

"The first time I met you, I had Chen An investigate you and we looked into the surveillance near the street where we met."

"The surveillance revealed that before you came out of the alley that night we first met, a man dragged you into the alley, and five minutes later, rushed out holding a rope."

"I suspected right then that he might have harmed you in some way. So afterwards, I had someone capture him."

"...You caught that assassin?"

Lu Sheng really didn’t know about this and was quite shocked.

"Yes," Li Muchen nodded, "That man said someone on the Dark Web contacted him to pick up a girl from the countryside at the station. Then find a chance to kill her, with a payment of five hundred thousand."

"But he said he didn’t know who the other party was, as users on the Dark Web are anonymous and their identities can’t be traced. After he sent the buyer a photo of the body, the account was immediately deactivated."

"When I heard the word ’body’ at that moment, I was indeed puzzled, but thought that he was mistaken and you had just fainted, not dead."

"Because the identity of the hiring killer couldn’t be traced, I eventually sent that man to the police station, and he is already in prison."

Lu Sheng thought she was the only one doing things in secret.

She hadn’t expected that Li Muchen had also taken these actions when they first met, and he hadn’t told her either.

At this point, Li Muchen frowned slightly and asked, "So you are saying, the person who sent the assassin to kill Lu Sheng the night she arrived in Jiang City, was Lu Qianrou, the adopted daughter of the Lu Family?"

Lu Sheng was stunned again: "Lu Qianrou was adopted by the Lu Family, you knew that as well?"

She didn’t remember ever telling Li Muchen about this.

The fact that Lu Qianrou was an adopted child of the Lu Family was something unknown to the outside world, other than the Lu Family themselves.

Even Lu Qianrou herself thought she didn’t know, hence repeatedly using her status as an illegitimate daughter to insult and provoke.

In reality, although Lu Sheng was an illegitimate child, at least she is a biological daughter of the Lu Family, sharing half the blood relation with her brothers.

Whereas Lu Qianrou genuinely had no relation at all with the entire Lu Family, yet she really considered herself as a princess of noble birth.

Lu Sheng had never previously exposed online that Lu Qianrou was a fake precious daughter as a counterattack, because she felt that one’s birthplace wasn’t a choice.

She didn’t want to attack others with this, even if it was someone malicious like Lu Qianrou.

However, during the Shengjing High School Festival, Lu Qianrou had purposely made veiled and direct remarks at the school gate, insinuating that she, a country girl and illegitimate daughter, wasn’t worthy to compare with her, the legitimate precious daughter of the Lu Family.

Yet that evening, Lan Yu said that news had somehow spread online, claiming that Lu Qianrou was actually the fake precious daughter and that she had been adopted by the Lu Family, having no real connection to them.

This infuriated Lu Qianrou to death but she had no grounds to refute and could only pretend not to see or hear, and no longer dared to use Lu Sheng’s birth as a point of attack.

Thinking back on this, Lu Sheng couldn’t help but look at the man in front of her, who appeared "righteous," and asked in surprise: "... Was it you who released that information at that time?"

Very well.

It seems she indeed needs to have an open and honest talk with her loved one about what they both had done previously.