Be Careful, Scum Dad! Mommy Is Back!
Chapter 330: None Are the Ultimate Truth

Chapter 330: Chapter 330: None Are the Ultimate Truth

Lu Xining had not expected to see Cheng Cang here, looking quite familiar with Zhuang Tian.

Having determined the source of the gaze, she did not linger there.

After nodding slightly to Cheng Cang in greeting, Lu Xining returned to the refreshment area.

She had not eaten much tonight, but had drunk quite a bit of tea. Her stomach felt empty, so she took some pastries to an empty table nearby.

Ji Muye had just finished dancing when he received a phone call and hurried outside.

Shang Lvxing was also nowhere to be seen.

The highlight of tonight’s banquet was the auction of the last piece personally designed by Huang Shaosheng.

The proceeds would be used for charitable causes.

"Hello, may I get to know you? I am Xu Jiayao from Rongcheng Xu Family."

"Sorry, it’s inconvenient."

Some recognized Lu Xining, the head of the zn experiment base; during her meal, many men like Xu Jiayao came up to chat her up.

She smiled and gracefully declined each of their invitations to dance.

Sitting on the sofa and watching the dance floor as the second song began, the scene of handsome men and beautiful women was indeed a pleasure to behold.

The last song began to play.

She saw a man taking Zhuang Tian’s hand and entering the dance floor.

Compared to the earlier elegant and gentle waltzes, this song was much more intense and called for a more dynamic dance style.

Zhuang Tian looked beautiful dancing, and the crowd gradually cleared space around them.

Almost the entire dance floor seemed to be exclusively theirs.

Lu Xining also thought she danced quite well, her smile perfectly placed and her expression lively—an incredibly enthusiastic and sweet girl to behold.

But remembering Zhuang Tian’s previous arrangement of an assassin’s attack, she pursed her lips and focused on the small cakes on her plate.

"Aren’t you surprised?"

A man’s voice suddenly came from behind. Lu Xining’s hand holding the fork paused slightly; without turning around she said, "There’s nothing to be surprised about."

Cheng Cang walked over and took a seat opposite her; seeing her calm face, he tugged at the corner of his mouth, "I’m surprised to see you here with that member of the Shang Family."

"So you decided to cooperate with him, right?"

Lu Xining finished the last bite of her small cake, took a napkin from the side and wiped her mouth, then said slowly, "Yes, we’ve cooperated."

Hearing her say this, Cheng Cang’s eyes seemed to grow a bit colder.

"Knowing full well that the Shang Family is the main culprit behind your mother’s death, you’ve still decided to cooperate with Shang Lvxing. Don’t you feel you’re betraying your mother’s spirit in heaven?"

His voice carried a hint of questioning as the corners of his eyes sank.

Cheng Cang: "Or... do you also want to get your hands on those ill-gotten gains of the Shang Family?"

These men are really strange.

Lu Xining lifted her head to look at Cheng Cang across from her and asked in return, "Who are you to me?"

"I’m an adult. Who I cooperate with, how I cooperate, and why I cooperate—all these are considerations of my own, and I don’t need to explain myself to anyone."

Ji Muye, Shang Lvxing, and now Cheng Cang.

In just one month’s time, these men had cropped up like mushrooms after rain, one after another appearing before her.

"Cheng Cang, regardless of whether the contents of the dossier are true, and irrespective of how many of my grandfather’s assets you still hold, I must remind you—do not impose your thinking on me, nor attempt to use my mother’s name to push me towards revenge."

Rather than becoming a knife in these men’s hands, she would much prefer to be the sword in her own hand.

They all seemed to care about her, but Lu Xining was no fool. If it were not for the profits they saw in her, she doubted they would bother with her so much.

This is precisely why she has never acted the way they wanted.

Even if she were to seek revenge for her maternal grandfather and mother, it should be her own decision to make, instead of being driven forward by these men in a male-dominated society.

"If you have the ability to devour those powers, I welcome you to take them away."

With that, she got up and left with a cold face.

This scene in the rest area appeared to the onlookers as two people ending their discussion on a sour note.

Lu Xining had just left for a short while, and the music in the dance floor also stopped. Everyone around was applauding Zhuang Tian’s dance, with her male partner seemingly there just to highlight her presence.

As the music ceased, Huang Shaosheng, who had been resting upstairs, finally came downstairs.

He said some official words onstage and handed the remaining time over to the auctioneer.

Huang Shaosheng’s last design was the grand finale of this auction.

Before that, many artists from the circle contributed to this charity auction event.

Eager to acquire nice works, participate in charity, and leave a good impression, the attendees’ enthusiasm for the auction was running high.

This auction was held at Huang Shaosheng’s home, not a place where CEOs would just send an assistant or secretary to participate.

Everyone needed to be there in person to raise their paddles.

Before the official auction started, the missing Shang Lvxing returned.

Smelling the perfume that lingered on him, Lu Xining merely smiled without saying anything, not bothering to ask what he had been up to.

The man sat down next to her.

Noticing that her eyes were fixed on the stage, Shang Lvxing thought for a moment and then said, "Shang Yueling came over. I just met with her and had the bodyguards send her back to Beicheng."

Hearing this, Lu Xining turned and said, "You don’t need to explain to me."

"We’re just partners."

Her words immediately silenced the man beside her.

Lu Xining had not raised her paddle for any of the previous items, but Zhuang Tian had won quite a few.

Until the last item was brought onstage.

No matter who bid or how high their bids were, Lu Xining would always add one million on top of their price.

Watching the price rise from an initial half million to now fifty-one million, Lu Xining’s eyes remained almost unfluctuating.

This grand finale was her opening gambit for Huang Shaosheng.

Intuition told her that Huang Shaosheng knew more about the Chu Family than others.

Even certain facts passed down by word-of-mouth might not be the ultimate truth.

Zhuang Tian, sharing the same thought, also wanted to win this key piece to curry favor with Huang Shaosheng, hoping to extract the information she wanted from him.

The Chu Family of that year...

Even in today’s Beicheng elite circles, they remained a remarkable presence.

Her gaze drifted over the crowd, landing on Lu Xining in her white gown, not forgetting the scene she had just witnessed.

From Ji Muye’s eyes, Zhuang Tian saw the possessiveness towards Lu Xining, deeply concealed though it was, but she still caught a glimpse of it.

Meeting the woman’s gaze, Lu Xining smiled with a curve of her lips.

Under everyone’s astonished looks, she raised her paddle, directly pushing the bid to eighty million.

"Does anyone have a higher bid?"

"Eighty million for the first time."

"Eighty million for the second time."

Just as the hammer was about to fall, Zhuang Tian raised her paddle, "Eighty-one million."

She was using Lu Xining’s prior tactic against her.

If there was anything Lu Xining was not short of now, it was money.

The patent fees from her laboratory alone were enough for her to live a carefree life.

Not to mention the five years she spent with Ji Muye, from whom she learned the essence of all his investment strategies.

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

"Three hundred million." The cold voice stood out starkly in the silent space.

Ji Muye changed into a new suit.

His expression was stern; he didn’t glance in Lu Xining’s direction and sat down next to Zhuang Tian instead.