Reborn as a Superpower Girl in the 80s
Chapter 584 Turns Out It’s a Plan

Chapter 584: Chapter 584 Turns Out It’s a Plan

Lu Yichen saw that their objective had been achieved and didn’t care whether the Cui family mother and sons stayed or left. Lu Yixuan went upstairs to call his wife and child down, and also brought Lu Yiting with them.

Before leaving, he made sure to remind his sister to take the jewelry box as well. After such an incident, he wasn’t confident in leaving their belongings in this house anymore.

Stepmother Geng Mingli entered the Lu family when Lu Yiting was ten, introduced by Luo Ziming, who at that time was especially close to Lu Xinyi.

Luo Ziming persuaded Lu Xinyi to remarry, arguing it was to find someone to take care of Yiting. Later, Luo Ziming introduced Geng Mingli, who was downtrodden at the time with a son and a daughter in tow.

Back then, Lu Xinyi was busy with work all day, with no time to take care of the kids, leaving most of the responsibilities on his sister-in-law, Gu Qianru. But in those years, after losing his daughter, his father-in-law’s health worsened, and Qianru alone couldn’t keep up with everything.

After Geng Mingli joined the Lu family, she was indeed good to the three stepchildren, never harsh, but she didn’t invest much effort in managing them either; she simply let the three children be.

However, with the Gu family overseeing things, the children turned out alright and all had good academic achievements. The two older ones joined the military when they came of age, and Lu Yiting continued schooling, just as the country had reinstated the Gaokao.

After Lu Yixuan and his siblings left, Lu Xinyi also changed clothes in preparation to leave, which panicked Geng Mingli. She grabbed Lu Xinyi and said, "Old Lu, can’t we sit down and talk this through? If you leave like this, what am I supposed to do?"

Lu Xinyi said, "Ask your daughter how she got those things."

Geng Mingli said, "Old Lu, don’t go just yet. I’ll ask her right now. Even if she truly did wrong, Jianhua and I haven’t done anything to let the Lu family down. With Jianhua’s wedding just a few days away, what do you expect us to do now?"

Lu Xinyi said, "Fine, then bring them to the study. Today we’re going to settle things once and for all, to your satisfaction."

Actually, as soon as Lu Xinyi found the missing items, he had an idea of what had happened, because there had only been one day when things went wrong, and it was also the only day he had had suspicions. But it was his fault for not checking carefully, which instead caused displeasure among his children.

Geng Mingli and Cui Jianhua brought an unwilling Cui Yueyue to the study. Geng Mingli said, "Yueyue, tell us what happened, the whole truth; otherwise, don’t blame me for being heartless. How exactly did you get those items?"

Cui Yueyue, intimidated by the condemning stares of her mother and brother, finally spoke up, "It was Luo Fangyuan who told me to go into the study to look for the Jade Pendant. He told me to come back early that day and hide."

"They were going to get my dad to come back to take some things, and they even said they would find a way to keep my dad busy. When I heard my dad leave the study to answer a phone call, I entered the study to look for the Jade Pendant with a special floral pattern. "

"When I went in, the safe was open, and the jewelry box was right there. I didn’t find the Jade Pendant as I went through it, but when I saw so many items, I thought taking one or two wouldn’t be noticed, so I picked out a pair of bracelets and a Jade Hairpin and replaced everything else in the original order."

What Cui Yueyue said confirmed Lu Xinyi’s guess. That day, the document Luo Ziming had asked him to retrieve had been locked in the safe, something Luo Ziming knew about.

However, on that day because Geng Mingli’s cousin’s son was getting married, all three of them had left early in the morning. When he returned home to get the document, the front door was locked. Assuming there was no one at home, he went upstairs to open the safe, but just then, the phone downstairs rang.

Originally, he planned to take the documents and lock the safe before going downstairs, but the phone kept ringing persistently. Believing no one was at home and fearing it might be an emergency, he rushed downstairs to answer the call.

But that call lasted over twenty minutes and was from Luo Ziming. By the time he returned to the study, there was a faint scent in the air. He looked around and, seeing the flowers in the corridor, assumed it was their fragrance.