Who was this person?
Lu Shao was not a character that was mentioned in the original novel nor did he exist in the original owner’s memory.
Then how did he know what happened that day?
What happened that night was a nightmare to the original owner through and through.
As a foreigner, Su Ran looked at that part of the memory from a bystander’s perspective. What truly scared her was the plotline of the original novel.
She did not wish to die at a banquet as described in the original novel which subsequently caused Su Han to blacken into a big villain and finally had everything take away from him at the whim of the male lead.
Ever since she had arrived, Su Ran had done everything within her power to stay away from the original plotline and avoided contact with the characters in the original novel as much as possible.
As such, could someone please tell her why after she had avoided the male lead, the female lead, and the second male lead, another one had popped up?
More importantly, she had no idea what role he played.
“Don’t worry, it wasn’t what happened 13 years ago that I want to talk about.” Noticing the change on Su Ran’s look, Lu Shao’s heart tightened. He explained himself quickly when he realized that his words might bring back bad memories for Su Ran.
Having said that, the housemaster of the Lu’s realized he had misspoken again.
“Ahem, I mean, I do want to talk about what happened 13 years ago except that this has nothing to do with Song… with the others. This is about what happened between you and I.”
And, of course, Su Han as well.
But Lu Shao hasn’t thrown him into the mix just yet.
“Wha…”
“I was the one who… who ahem with you that night,” interjected Lu Shao before Su Ran could say anything.
When he talked, his hands that were resting on the arms of the chair tightened and he watched Su Ran’s reaction intensely.
There was no hatred.
Good.
No sudden disgust.
That’s good too.
There was only shock on Su Ran right now.
That was understandable.
“You mean you were…” Su Ran’s mouth dropped open and stared at Lu Shao in shock.
Even though original owner’s memory regarding this part was a blur but the novel definitely described this scene in details.
“Su Ran” was ahem’d by the group of gangster underlings.
Was this man in front of her one of those gangster underlings back in the days?
Apparently, that was not possible.
“It was me.” Focused, Lu Shao nodded and added, “The entire incident was an accident. I can explain.”
“What accident?” Su Ran frowned. She tried very hard to convince herself to remain calm and to wait till he finished his story before she decided whether or not to call the cops.
“This is what I have found out.” Having said that, Lu Shao handed over a document to Su Ran.
Su Ran started flipping through it. Lu Shao’s heart tightened inexplicably and started explaining while Su Ran looked through the document.
“Back then, the Lu’s side branch wanted to encroach upon the entire Lu’s and, after my grandfather was in an accident, as did my big brother and second brother. I had just taken over the Lu’s back then and only returned to take care of some issues with the side branch and also to take back some of the Lu’s resources…”
Hearing Lu Shao’s explanation, Su Ran’s hand that was flipping through the document paused.
Su Ran felt that Lu Shao was oversharing a little bit. What he had just told her should fall under the category of secrets within his family. It didn’t make sense that he’d share so much with her.
Nevertheless, Su Ran did not interrupt him.
She did have the chance to.
Comparing to what Lu Shao was talking about, Su Ran felt that the content in the document that she was looking at was even more bizarre.
The original owner’s memory stopped at the second that she was pushed by the underling and bumped her head. Su Ran really had no idea what happened afterward.
The original owner woke up the next day inside a hotel room. There was nobody else in the room, just messiness.
Both the signs on her body or the startling one on the bed supported the fact that she had been violated.
Many people broke into the room afterward and “Su Ran” hid in the bathroom the entire time until the men were gone and she ran back anxiously to the Su’s.
The original owner had always assumed those were men sent by Lin XingEr to embarrass her further.
So, there were reasons beyond that?