Chapter 378 – Your family’s plum blossom is lost again (54)
“The matter has been made clear now, but I’m still angry. I don’t want to talk to you right now. Just go out first. Out!”
The little girl jumped off the bed and pushed Mu Ci, who had just stood up, toward the door.
Mu Ci saw that she really seemed a little flustered and annoyed. Since he had already achieved the result he was most satisfied with, he simply went along with her, allowing himself to be pushed out. Then, the door was slammed shut in front of him.
Mu Ci took a step back to avoid getting hit in the nose. He rubbed his nose but couldn’t help the smile tugging at the corners of his lips. Glancing at his watch, he eventually decided to head downstairs.
Lunch had just been prepared. When Yan Luzheng saw Mu Ci come down, looking positively radiant, with slightly reddened lips, his mouth twitched.
Suppressing his urge to punch someone, he gestured to the servants to delay serving the meals for a moment, then pointed at the seat across from him with a clear intention:
“You, come sit down. We need to have a proper talk.”
Mu Ci naturally knew what kind of reaction his current appearance would provoke from Yan Luzheng. He restrained the smile at his lips and walked over respectfully to take a seat.
“Grandpa Yan.”
“You sure took your sweet time upstairs, huh?”
—Did this brat even have any respect for his elders?
The girl upstairs, surnamed Yan, was only seventeen, and was his family’s precious little princess.
What exactly did this boy think he was doing? Was he planning a rebellion?
Jealousy tinged Yan Luzheng’s voice as his tone immediately turned hostile.
Mu Ci paused for a moment. But for the first time, he did not evade the topic. He met Yan Luzheng’s gaze head-on, his expression sincere.
“Grandpa Yan, I know everything you do is for Luoluo’s sake. But what I want to say is—maybe in the past, I wasn’t qualified to stand by her side. But now, that’s no longer the case. I hope you can give me a chance instead of rejecting me so quickly.”
Yan Luzheng was just about to snort coldly and question what capabilities this kid thought he had—when Mu Ci continued, his tone steady and resolute, carrying an undeniable certainty.
“No one is more suited for Luoluo than I am. No one can treat Luoluo better than I can.”
Yan Luzheng’s brows furrowed slightly. His fingers clenched as he stared at Mu Ci and finally asked, “And what exactly do you have to back up these words?”
Mu Ci’s eyes remained calm and unwavering.
There were some things that didn’t need to be laid bare for everyone to know. But at the very least, Yan Luzheng needed to have some awareness of his strength, so that Yan Luzheng wouldn’t become an obstacle in the future.
Besides, things were progressing very smoothly. Just a little more time, and everything that needed to end would come to an end.
Even the tiny glimpse he revealed was enough to leave Yan Luzheng, who had known nothing of it before, both shocked and doubtful.
—When had this kid, without making a sound, managed to stir up such a storm?
Of course, Mu Ci wasn’t just thinking about himself. There was also Lin Yixuan and the others. Although they planned to expose and destroy that laboratory, their origins had to remain a secret if they wanted to continue living peacefully.
Everyone involved—whether from that lab or the Mu family—would be dealt with. They couldn’t afford to leave anyone who might retaliate.
In the end, Mu Ci only told Old Master Yan one thing:
He was indeed the biological son of the Mu couple.
But his birth was never for himself.
He existed because of Mu Li—because Mu Li suffered from organ failure, and he was brought into this world as a living spare organ bank.