After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved-Chapter 366: The Final Knife to Kill Lu Qianrou

After that class party, life seemed to return to calm seas and favorable winds.

Teng Yue created a group chat, adding everyone who attended the party that night, and each time Lu Sheng checked the messages, there were always 99+ of them.

Since everyone was idle during the winter holiday, they chatted about all sorts of things in the group every day, talking up a storm.

Jiang Yusheng had already been formally arrested and the case had moved onto the detailed investigation stage.

After this incident, this once seemingly virtuous and righteous university professor’s reputation in society was completely ruined, to say he was notorious would be no exaggeration.

Even if he wasn’t sentenced to death or life imprisonment, living outside might be more unbearable than staying in prison, where those who remembered him could spit on him to death, one by one.

The official announcement proved Peng Hongyuan’s innocence, and this incident involving Peng Hongyuan and Jiang Mengmeng also triggered public reflection on siding with opinions and cyber violence.

Jiang Yusheng was locked up in Jiang City Detention Center. Coincidentally, his once beloved niece Lu Qianrou was also held there.

Criminal case trials aren’t quick, and Lu Qianrou’s case had not yet formally gone to court over these few months, so she was still detained.

In a certain sense, this uncle-niece pair "met at their peaks" and both ended up in jail.

It’s worth mentioning that just a few days ago, Lu Qianrou had sent a letter from the detention center to the Lu Family.

However, this letter was not sent to Jiang Ting or Lu Jingyan, but to Lu Sheng.

When the letter was received, Jiang Ting, thinking of all the things Qianrou had done that nearly killed her two sons and Lu Sheng, almost had it burnt without a second thought, deeming it as bad luck.

It was Lu Sheng who stopped her, saying she wanted to have a look first.

Lu Sheng thought that Lu Qianrou, already fallen to the fate of being imprisoned, would have come to a realization in the detention center, regret her past, and be determined to be a better person.

However, the truth proved that some people would not change their ways even with a knife to their throat.

In the lengthy two pages of the letter, Lu Qianrou’s handwriting was clearly filled with hatred, to the point that she punctured the paper several times with the force of her pen.

Essentially, there were only three sentences — why, on what grounds, and cursing Lu Sheng to die.

Lu Qianrou probably couldn’t understand till her death why Lu Sheng, whom she had sent someone to strangle on the day she arrived in Jiang City, with the assassin even sending a photo of the body, could be alive again afterwards.

The second time she ambushed Lu Sheng and knocked her unconscious, then later went to the basement at night to suffocate her, sending the body to Chaotic Burial Mound. Yet the next day, why could Lu Sheng stand perfectly fine before her eyes.

She attributed all her current misfortunes to Lu Sheng.

She said Lu Sheng stole everything that was originally hers, stole the love and affection her mother and brothers had for her, took away all the admiration and worship she had at school and online.

She said everything she did was forced by Lu Sheng. If not for Lu Sheng, she would still be the Lu Family’s darling, a little princess cherished and protected by everyone.

She also said Jiang Ting and her brothers were blinded, deceived by Lu Sheng.

Lu Youye was so enraged by these words that he stomped his feet and cursed Lu Qianrou for being shameless. freewebnσvel.cѳm

This Lu Qianrou, even when faced with imprisonment, didn’t look for reasons within herself, only knew how to blame others.

Was it others who made her drug the watermelon juice? Was it others who made her provoke her brother with psychological issues? Was it others who made her use her third brother’s hand to murder?

She did all these evil deeds herself; what is she playing the victim here for!

To be honest, when Lu Sheng saw the letter, she only felt sorrow for Lu Qianrou.

She didn’t want to be utterly ruthless originally, wanting to leave Lu Qianrou a thread of hope. But with Lu Qianrou so stubbornly misguided, it might be better to tell her the truth.

So Lu Sheng replied to Lu Qianrou’s letter.

The reply contained only a few simple sentences.

[Your mother was a cleaner, and your father a gambling, alcoholic, drug addict who abused his family. Your mother abandoned you at the orphanage intentionally, hoping you would grow up in a normal family.]

[For the past eighteen years, the Lu Family has cherished you like a treasure; what you should feel is gratitude, not resentment. Because if it wasn’t for the Lu Family adopting you, just think about the life you were supposed to have.]

[The biggest difference between you and me is that even though I knew the truth when you were everywhere plotting against me, I never told mom or big brother. I certainly didn’t tell your biological father, who’s crazy for money because of his drug addiction, your whereabouts; otherwise, he would surely have come knocking on the door trying to extort you in every possible way.]

[If it had been you, you probably would have found a way to bring that person to the Lu Family, just to make me fall from heaven into hell.]

[Lu Qianrou, I have given you several chances.]

Lu Sheng didn’t know what Lu Qianrou would feel upon reading the reply.

She’d probably only focus on the truth about her biological parents and might even think she was being lied to.

But she wouldn’t seriously reflect on what opportunities she had been given.

This was the first and last time Lu Sheng would speak of these matters to Lu Qianrou; she had done all she could.

Once this letter was sent, it would become the final knife to "kill" Lu Qianrou. She would have no reason to hold any more resentment towards her and the Lu Family.

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Time flew by, and soon it was almost the New Year.

On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, Lu Jingyan and Lu Siyan both returned home early; Lu Ziye had planned to stay home for the holidays until after the New Year.

Jiang Ting made dumplings at home, and when everyone gathered for dinner in the evening, she couldn’t help but become sentimental.

"The New Year is almost here. This year is so different; we must celebrate it well."

Lu Youye asked what was different, and Jiang Ting said, "In previous years, every New Year, your eldest brother and second brother would be either working overtime at the company or on duty at the hospital, and your third brother would either be out of town or attending the Spring Festival Gala."

"Let’s not even talk about you and You Ming, one would go back to the room to read after dinner, and the other would go to the internet café to play games all night. It left me, your poor mother, all alone at the dinner table watching the Spring Festival Gala, so pitiful..."

"Stop, stop, stop—" Lu Jingyan couldn’t help but interrupt Jiang Ting.

"I remember every Chinese New Year’s Eve, mom, you would be out playing cards all night with friends, right? When have you ever been alone at the dinner table watching the Spring Festival Gala, and pitiful at that?"

Jiang Ting wasn’t pleased with her eldest son’s response, feeling that he missed the point.

"Well, yes, I went to play cards, but wasn’t that because you all weren’t at home? My heart as a mother is still very lonely."

"Besides, that’s not the point. The point is, we now have Shengsheng with us this year, and you’re all here at home, so we must celebrate this New Year properly."

"Speaking of which, most people in Jiang City are from elsewhere, and they all start to head back to their hometowns as Chinese New Year’s Eve approaches. Over the Spring Festival period, the streets of Jiang City are unexpectedly quiet and lack the New Year atmosphere."

"The countryside should value the New Year further, and traditional customs would be given more importance," Jiang Ting looked towards Lu Sheng, "Shengsheng, how did you and your mother used to celebrate the New Year in the past?"