After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved

Chapter 257: Chapter 257: Mating Like Dogs in Heat

Chen Shu’s sentence made Lu Sheng’s expression turn stern instantly.

What is he talking about? He asked her if she was afraid that he would poison the wine?

Since Chen Shu asked such a question, he must know she’s now wary of him.

And based on their previous interactions, it was unlike him to ask such a question.

So, Lu Sheng looked up, this time not hiding the hostility in her eyes, and asked, "Do you know I went to see Gu Siyu?"

"Not only that." Chen Shu gently shook his head, leaning his tall body against the back of the chair. His gaze still looked relaxed as it met hers.

"I also know that Christine braved the rain last night to look for you, and her doing so in such weather at dawn must have been to tell you something important."

"I presume it has something to do with me."

Hearing this, Lu Sheng couldn’t help but inhale sharply.

Indeed, for a man as scheming and dark as Chen Shu, such surveillance was to be expected.

Thankfully, he hadn’t committed the deranged act of kidnapping Juanjuan during the storm.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t be sitting here, calm and composed.

"Since you know everything, I won’t beat around the bush."

Lu Sheng raised her eyes, saying bluntly, "Juanjuan told me, she saw you kill your father, or perhaps you killed your mother too, then you imprisoned her."

"I don’t know why you fabricated that lie to deceive me before, nor do I know why you want to take Juanjuan back."

"But with what has happened, and how Juanjuan barely escaped from home, and after experiencing so much in Jiang City,"

"Even if you’re Juanjuan’s biological brother by blood, I can’t possibly hand her over to you, allowing you to take her away."

Chen Shu seemed to have anticipated Lu Sheng would say these things, showing no surprise at her words.

He merely raised his eyebrows slightly, asking, "What if I say, I must take Christine away?"

Lu Sheng’s face was expressionless, her eyes devoid of any emotion, "Then you can try and see if you can take her from me."

Her tone was calm, yet there was an overwhelming oppressiveness.

Perhaps to outsiders, whether in terms of height, physique, status, or wealth and power, the girl couldn’t possibly compete with the man before her.

However, Chen Shu knew too well, she was serious; her threat was real.

If he really tried to forcefully take Christine, she would definitely make him pay a price.

—This threat did not anger or frighten Chen Shu.

Instead, it made the blood in his veins surge with excitement.

This kind of thrill, he could never feel from those ordinary, mundane humans who only feared and submitted to him.

Only this girl before him... once a fallen God who looked down upon humanity, viewing them as insignificant insects, still dominant and imposing even without her memory, now a mere Demon.

How could it not stir his heart?

Lu Sheng was threatening and warning Chen Shu, yet the man in front of him just chuckled softly, his eyes, however, void of any mirth, resembled shallow green gemstones.

"Is everything that the eyes see, real?"

Chen Shu looked towards Lu Sheng, his voice carrying a trace of tranquility, "What if I told you that all of this was truly to protect my sister?"

Upon hearing his words, Lu Sheng’s tone grew colder: "Your so-called protection is to personally kill your own father and lock your own sister in chains, imprisoning her in a sunless basement?"

"Yes," contrary to Lu Sheng’s expectations, Chen Shu calmly admitted, his gaze steady, "Because if I didn’t kill my father, the people who would be dead would be me and Christine."

This made Lu Sheng startle: "...What did you say?"

"In Suli, my and Christine’s status is even more prestigious than the collateral branches of the Royal family; commoners need to bow when they see us, because our father is the only First-class Duke in Suli, we are real aristocrats."

"However, in reality, Duke Brown is not the biological father of me and Christine," Chen Shu’s lips carried a hint of sarcasm, "Christine and I are merely the products of the illicit affair my mother, a lowly commoner, had with someone of humble origins."

"..."

Lu Sheng didn’t expect such hidden secrets, he opened his mouth but could not utter a word.

Chen Shu continued emotionlessly, "My mother was a commoner who grew up in Chinatown, Suli. My father brought her home against the Royal family’s objections simply because of her beauty."

"Yet, from a young age, I realized that my mother felt more fear than love for my father. And often, when my father was out, she would dress up meticulously and go to the Church to pray, never allowing any servants to follow."

"About three years ago, to confirm suspicions I had long harboured, I quietly followed my mother’s carriage to the Church."

"I saw with my own eyes, my mother and that lowly Priest from the Church, copulating like dogs in heat in the church’s storeroom."

"The man’s shallow green eyes, identical to mine and Christine’s, made me feel so nauseous that I leaned against the church walls and vomited uncontrollably as soon as I stepped outside."

"So, later, I captured that man, and before I killed him, I gouged out his eyes."

Lu Sheng did not speak.

Chen Shu’s chest heaved slightly, his tone was cold.

"My father, always lofty, never really cared for the lives of commoners. Or rather, he was a cold-hearted, intermittently manic lunatic."

"If one day he discovered that my mother had an affair and fornicated with another man, a lowlife from Suli, or he realized Christine and I were not his children, then me, my mother, and Christine—three of us would all be killed by him."

"I thought by killing that man and throwing those disgusting eyes into a pit, I could forever bury these secrets."

"However, my foolish mother, she pitiably mourned her lover in her diary, recording the details of their secret meetings over the years."

"Even more foolishly, she allowed my father to find this diary."

"That night when I went to the master bedroom, my father was already madly stabbing my mother in the chest with a knife, her body was stormed into a sieve."

"Later, seeing me, perhaps thinking that his son, whom he had always prided himself on, was just a lowly bastard, my father, always proud of his noble birth, wanted to flay and carve me, and so he charged at me with a knife."

"But what to do, even being a lowly bastard, I was still young, tall, and strong. I easily subdued him and then slit his throat with a dagger."

"When the blood sprayed on my face, it should have felt warm, yet when I wiped it, it felt incredibly cold."

Chen Shu lifted his eyes, the light green eyes seeming somewhat sad, he scoffed in self-mockery, "Shengsheng, I didn’t want this either, but I had no other choice, did I?"