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Chapter 113: Chapter 113: Three Events Stirred the Entire School
Han Jing hadn’t felt anything before knowing the relationship between Lu Sheng and Lu Youming.
Now that he knew they were siblings with the same father but different mothers, the more he looked, the more he felt that these two people really resembled each other.
Both possessed exquisite appearances favored by the creator, both had superior intelligence and capabilities that crushed ordinary people, both appeared to be high school students but had multiple hidden identities, both had the unflappable demeanor of a big shot.
Even Lu Sheng was more formidable than Lu Youming.
Lu Sheng was a 6-star member of K.A, meaning she had top-end abilities in six fields.
Although he didn’t know what the other five fields were, just by seeing her combat skills, they had already witnessed how strong her abilities were.
Tonight, the girl on the ring had kicked Tu Shan, who weighed over two hundred kilograms, flying with one kick. This scene had indeed caused a strong shock to him.
And before this, Lu Youming was the most formidable person he had met. Unexpectedly, the one who once again shattered his perceptions was his sister.
"Fourth Brother, are you going home tonight?" Lu Sheng asked.
"You?" Lu Youming paused and glanced at her.
"It’s probably scary for that girl to stay alone in the apartment tonight, so I’ll sleep here," Lu Sheng said.
"I’ll go to Han Jing’s place," Lu Youming replied, "I haven’t told Big Brother I’m back in the country yet, I’ll be home tomorrow night."
"Okay." Lu Sheng nodded naturally.
Blood ties are a miraculous thing.
Integrated into one’s very bones and blood, they naturally evoke an inseparable bond.
Receiving news from his elder brother while abroad and learning that he suddenly had a half-sister he had never met, Lu Youming felt no ripples in his heart.
He always believed that relationships built on blood ties were the most meaningless. You didn’t even have a choice in the matter, yet you were forced to be bound to someone.
If you don’t want to be bound, you can only try to detach yourself — just like the Second Brother.
However, Lu Youming clearly understood that the distancing of Lu Siyan was not essentially due to coldness towards blood-tied affection. On the contrary, he actually longed for such ties.
It was just that the familial affection in a wealthy family wasn’t pure and sincere enough to provide the warmth he desired, which is why he kept his distance.
Beneath the cold and proud protective shell was a vacant and soft heart. His nature was cold outside but warm inside, and tender-hearted.
But he was different.
His heart was as cold as his exterior, or at least, that was how Lu Youming had always seen himself.
He had never hoped to seek redemption from his family or others, or rather, he didn’t need redemption at all.
At the age of twelve, he had read through world-renowned books trying to find answers. Later, he realized that there is no such thing as a standard answer to life.
No one’s experience is universal, and the maxims of great men can’t solve everyone’s puzzles. All emotions of loneliness, pain, hesitance, and anxiety fundamentally stem from not being strong enough internally.
If the heart is strong enough, one will no longer feel pain from loneliness. Staying away from the crowd is to maintain clarity, not to escape.
He never felt that there was any fundamental difference between people who are bonded by blood and strangers.
However, at this moment, recalling everything he experienced with the girl tonight and what had just happened, looking into those dark pupils similar to his own, Lu Youming perhaps felt the magical aspect of blood ties.
Otherwise, he couldn’t find a reason for their tacit understanding.
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After Han Jing and the others left, Lu Sheng walked back into the apartment alone.
Only then did she see that the girl she had brought back was not sitting on the sofa to rest, but was timidly curling up in the corner, hugging her knees.
"Why are you sitting on the ground?" Lu Sheng walked over and squatted down.
"I..." the girl looked embarrassed, "My dress is so dirty, and I haven’t had a bath in five days... I was afraid of dirtying the sofa."
"I’m sorry," Lu Sheng said with a hint of apology, "I should have arranged hot water for you to take a bath first before talking with my friend."
The girl immediately waved her hands: "No no no, I’m already very grateful that you brought me back! Thank you!"
Lu Sheng stretched out her hand to help her up: "Don’t mention it, I’ll fix the water heater in the bathroom for you, go take a bath first."
After adjusting the shower water temperature for the girl in the bathroom, Lu Sheng returned to the living room sofa, opened the food delivery app to buy some clothes.
This apartment was bought by her a few days ago.
Last time, to thank Lan Yu, she handmade twenty Icy Skin Pills.
She sent ten to Lan Yu and sold the remaining ten to a customer from a previous life. Providing a new bank account, she easily received five million.
Then she searched the real estate information around the Lu Family’s vicinity and bought this fully furnished small apartment in full payment, planning to use it as a temporary resting place.
I never expected the apartment to come in handy so quickly.
But inside, there’s nothing but furniture, not even any clothes to change into.
So for now, I can only buy a couple of T-shirts and shorts on the takeaway app for that girl to change into after her bath, while also ordering some food.
After buying the clothes and ordering the food, Lu Sheng suddenly remembered something.
So he sent a message to Lan Yu.
[Lan Yu, I have something to ask you.]
Lan Yu replied instantly: [I’m here, what’s up with Qiangqiang?]
[That night in THE DEEP’s parking lot, when you and Han Jing rushed over, you immediately ran towards my Fourth Brother.]
[At that time, Han Jing checked my Fourth Brother from head to toe, looking very anxious, and kept asking him if he was hurt or if he had any cuts. I want to ask what that was about.]
Lan Yu replied quickly as usual.
[Well... You and your Fourth Brother have just met, so you probably don’t know, but your Fourth Brother has hemophilia.]
Lu Sheng’s eyes widened: [...Hemophilia?]
[Yes, hemophilia is a congenital bleeding disorder where patients have a coagulation dysfunction. Even a small skin lesion can lead to unstoppable bleeding which could be life-threatening.]
[Han Jing said, not long after your Fourth Brother was born, he tended to bleed from his joints. Your Lu Family spent a lot of money on his treatment, which relatively controlled his condition well.]
[But with such a dangerous disease, any bump or bruise could lead to serious consequences, so as a child, no one dared to get close to your Fourth Brother. Even if children wanted to play with him, they were chased away by the bodyguards from your Lu Family.]
[So Han Jing said, your Fourth Brother was alone from childhood. Later, when they met in Shengjing, he shamelessly tried to get close, and they started to bond.]
Lu Sheng never imagined that Lu Youming, such a brilliant young man, would suffer from two incurable diseases.
Whether it’s congenital hemophilia or congenital asthma, either can be deadly in no time. If not treated in time once the condition arises, he could lose his life within few minutes.
Yet, such a fragile person joined an organization like Qingshan Association and undertook various dangerous missions, truly living on the edge between life and death.
For a moment, Lu Sheng suddenly thought of Lu Youming’s beautiful and somber eyes.
It turns out that the tranquility in his eyes was not indifference to the things around him. What made him numb was not the lives of others, but his own life.
It was what you might call a self-destructive complex.
If one lives in constant fear of unexpected attacks on a fragile life, it is better to take life into one’s own hands like this. At least every day like this, he was free.
Lu Sheng took a deep breath.
The sound of water in the bathroom stopped.
Lu Sheng looked up to see a girl with wet, dark golden curls, shyly wrapped in a towel, stepping out of the bathroom.
The girl was indeed as beautiful as Lu Sheng had imagined.
Fair-skinned, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and delicate features. Even though she had just escaped from the basement of a human trafficker, she looked like a little princess after her bath.
Just then, the food delivery arrived, and Lu Sheng went to get the clothes and a bunch of self-heating and convenient food items, handing the T-shirt and shorts to the girl first.
"I bought these clothes randomly on the takeaway app, wear them for now. Tomorrow when I get back from school, I’ll take you to the mall to buy a few things."
The girl accepted the clothes, gratefully saying, "Thank you, Lu Sheng, I don’t know how to thank you..."
"No need to feel pressured, it’s okay for you to stay here until you recover your memory."
Lu Sheng lifted the pile of food in his hand, "I’ll cook some instant noodles, and remember to eat when you’re on your own."
"Okay!" The girl nodded immediately.
A night passed.
The next morning, Lu Sheng, with a white plaster on his face, went directly to school from the apartment.
Following the piano competition incident the day before and with ongoing heated online discussions, Lu Sheng had caused quite a sensation in the school.
After all, it was exciting for anyone to find out that a fellow student was a globally renowned mysterious figure and also a close friend of world-class pianist Osborne.
However, while the fervor surrounding Lu Sheng had not yet subsided in the school, three things caused another sensation across the campus as soon as he arrived today.
The first was the news that Lu Youming and Han Jing, who had gone to the U.S. to participate in the World Mathematics Competition and won the first and second prize, had returned to the school. 𝑛𝘰𝑣𝘱𝑢𝑏.𝘤𝑜𝘮
The second was about a very beautiful transfer student from Beijing University Affiliated High School who had joined the senior class A.
The third was that this year’s school festival at Shengjing was going to be organized as an on-campus carnival, scheduled to take place in a week.
