After returning home with the child, her ex-husband knelt down and gently coaxed her.

In the study, An Ning sat in her office chair at her desk, her eyes following Lu Xiyan's clicks on the computer screen.

Lu Xiyan stood behind her, encircling her in his arms, one hand around her and supporting himself on the table, the other hand sliding the mouse.

"This is what I'm going to do." His pleasant voice rang out above Anning, "Establish a pharmaceutical company and use the patents left by your parents to develop the world's most effective drug for treating cancer."

An Ning looked at the files on the computer, saw her own name, and asked in surprise, "Using my name?"

Lu Xiyan turned his head to look at her, a smile on his lips, "The patent your parents left you, of course it should be named after you."

"But..." Anning said hesitantly, "I only know how to do work related to nutrition, I don't know how to manage a company..."

"You don't need to do anything. Just do the work that interests you." Lu Xiyan ruffled her hair. "Leave the rest to me."

"Then..." An Ning quickly scrolled through more than a dozen pages of documents, not seeing Lu Xiyan's name. "The funds are all yours, but I'm the one who benefits, and even the future fame and fortune will be mine..."

She looked up. "And what about you?"

Lu Xiyan was the investor, he bore the losses, and the operation of the new company depended on him. However, An Ning gained both fame and fortune, which made her feel that everything he did was to support her.

"What are you thinking about?" Lu Xiyan pinched her cheek, frowning slightly. "We're going to remarry, we'll be husband and wife. If I suffer a loss, you'll suffer along with me. If you gain fame and fortune, that's my honor too."

"By then, you won't be able to kick me to the curb." Lu Xiyan pinched her lips until they pouted slightly, then shook her face. "Did you hear me?"

The words "absolutely not" came out of An Ning's mouth, which was being squeezed, and were muffled.

Lu Xiyan heard her answer in her eyes, and in that position, he leaned down and kissed her.

Even if he leaves Ou Teng, even without the Lu family's background, he still wants to take over the domestic medical sector, even to surpass Zheng Hong in the shortest time, and to maximize the value of the patents left by An Ning's adoptive parents in medicine.

What he had to do was to lift Anning up high.

Let everyone see her brilliance.

In the quiet study, there was an ambiguous atmosphere of intertwined lips and teeth.

An Ning's outer garment was gently removed from her shoulders, revealing her snow-white skin.

A passionate kiss traveled down her lips, gently spreading across her earlobe, jaw, neck, and collarbone.

He pulled her up by the waist and lifted her onto the desk, his hot breath landing on her collarbone.

With a gentle suck, Anning trembled all over, unable to stop herself from shaking.

She tried to escape, but someone held her tightly around the waist, pressing her body close to hers.

She tilted her head slightly, revealing her slender, snow-white, and beautiful neck.

An Ning's breath caught in her throat as her knees were gently pried open.

Just then, the phone on the table rang unexpectedly. An Ning was startled and instinctively clung tightly to Lu Xiyan's shoulder.

The sudden ringing of the bell disrupted the already heated atmosphere. An Ning heard the other person take a deep breath, looked up, and saw his cold face.

I was angry, but also somewhat helpless.

She glanced at her phone; the caller was "Brother".

An Ning thought for a moment, "Is it Lu Wei'an?"

She understood Lu Xiyan's helplessness. If the other party called at this time, it must be something important that he had to answer.

She quickly grabbed her phone and handed it to Lu Xiyan, then pulled up her clothes and jumped off the desk.

"You answer the phone, I'm going to take a shower."

Watching her disappear in a flash, the heat in Lu Xiyan's body quickly subsided.

He looked down at his phone, frowned, and answered the call.

"Feed?"

A voice that was neither warm nor cold.

Upon hearing this, Lu Wei'an laughed, "Did I interrupt your good time?"

Lu Xiyan pulled out a chair and sat down. "You're jealous of me because your uncle won't let you get married?"

The other person chuckled again, "You're joking now, which means you've really been doing well lately."

"Let's get back to the main topic." Lu Wei'an cleared his throat. "Cheng Wanwan contacted me."

Listening to the conversation going on and on on the phone, Lu Xiyan smiled, took out a cigarette case and lighter from the drawer, put a cigarette in his mouth, and was just about to light it.

He glanced instinctively towards the door.

Suddenly I remembered that Anning doesn't like the smell of smoke.

He held the unlit cigarette in his hand, twirling it between his fingers, and asked with a smile, "She really said that?"

"It seems she really harbors deep resentment towards you," Lu Wei'an said with a smile. "A pampered young lady like you, who has always had everything she could want, has always been unable to win your heart. After all these years, you finally got engaged, and then you broke off the engagement. No wonder she wants to ruin you."

Lu Xiyan chuckled softly, his raised eyes deep and unfathomable. "And what about you? How did you answer her?"

"What do you think, Second Young Master?" the other person asked jokingly.

"Whatever decision you make is my brother's decision. I know you have no intention of competing with me for the position in the Lu family, and I feel the same way. I have no intention of taking that position either," Lu Xiyan said seriously. "But one of us has to take over Grandpa's position. Since it's not me, it's you."

He knew perfectly well that he could disobey his grandfather, but Lu Wei'an could not disobey Lu Jin.

Lu Wei'an must fight for it; it's his responsibility.

However, Lu Xiyan also believed that even if Lu Wei'an took over the Lu Group, he would not completely destroy him.

There was a two or three-second silence on the other end of the phone, and then the voice that came through had a hint of laughter.

"I'll say it again: if you want it, I'll help you; if you don't want it, I won't take it from you." Lu Wei'an smiled. "You're right, I'll always be your brother, and you'll always be my only younger brother. No matter what happens, a brother will never hurt his younger brother."

"She remembers our conflict back then so clearly, but she doesn't know that the brotherhood we shared in our youth has surpassed all external conflicts."

The sound of sake being swallowed came through the phone, followed by, "When I was being punished, my good younger brother kept pleading for me and even took the beating for me."

"Just because I told your uncle when I was in solitary confinement that I didn't want to stay in the Lu family and wanted to go back to my hometown, my silly younger brother gave me all his money and tried to find a way to secretly send me away."

"west Yan," Lu Wei'an said with a smile, "I'm like you, I don't like this kind of life, but I didn't have a choice, you can."

"So feel free to choose the life you want to live and the career you want to pursue. As for the Lu family, your brother will back you up."

The sound of clinking glasses came through the receiver. Lu Wei'an said, "Once this invisible struggle is officially over, I'll have repaid your uncle's debt of gratitude."

Too many words would be too sentimental for men to say between each other. Lu Xiyan smiled gently, and all his unspoken words were condensed into one sentence: "Thank you, brother."