Five years after their breakup, a prominent lawyer is desperately seeking reconciliation.

Yu Qing felt her vision go black and her ears ring.

"This is outrageous! I've never seen such an ill-mannered person!"

She pressed one hand to her temple and held onto the back of the sofa with the other, panting heavily.

The maid quickly helped her sit down: "Madam, is your blood pressure high? I'll go get your private doctor."

Yu Qing waved her hand in refusal and pointed to the phone next to her: "Go, call the young master and tell him to come back. Just say... his mother is dying."

The maid dared not disobey and quickly dialed Lu Jingshi's number.

Half an hour later, Lu Jingshi drove his car into the villa's garage. He didn't even have time to close the car door before he pushed it open and asked the servants about the situation.

"What happened? What did the doctor say?"

"Madam... won't allow us to call a doctor."

Why?

The maid hesitated and didn't answer, then led him into Yu Qing's room.

"Madam, the young master is back."

Yu Qing slumped against the headboard, her face unusually bare, her complexion dull, looking exhausted, her eyes revealing deep weariness and helplessness.

When she saw Lu Jingshi come in, she turned her neck to look at him, then lowered her eyes again.

His gaze was unfocused, as if he had lost interest in everything.

Lu Jingshi felt uneasy. She had indeed done some things that he could not forgive now, but seeing her helpless and haggard appearance, he couldn't bring himself to harden his heart and ignore her.

He walked to the bedside and sat down. He glanced at the blood pressure monitor on the bedside table. Everything was normal. He then touched her forehead. It wasn't hot.

Lu Jingshi said gently, "If you don't want to call anyone else, I'll have Shen Juan come and do a basic check-up."

Yu Qing pressed down on his hand as he reached for his phone: "No need, I'm not sick, I'm just angry with someone."

"You got upset by someone? By whom?" Lu Jingshi glanced at the door and said, "Why bother? If it wasn't done well, just make them redo it. Why get yourself so angry?"

Lu Jingshi understands his mother well; she is domineering and has severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. She is always nitpicky and demanding about the work done by the servants.

Yu Qing shook her head again: "They're not family, you can see for yourself."

When she handed Lu Jingshi her phone from the bedside table, the screen was still showing text messages.

Lu Jingshi took it and looked at it carefully, but... he had no recollection of this number.

"Ah Shi, your assistant spoke to me like that, do you think that's okay? I demand that you fire her immediately!"

"My assistant?"

Jiang Wan? That's not the number.

Xiao Wu? Absolutely not. Xiao Wu, with his timid and submissive nature, would never say such a thing.

but……

"How did you get my assistant's phone number? And why are you looking for my assistant?"

Yu Qing turned her head, avoiding his gaze: "Of course I have my ways, but how can you keep such an ill-mannered person around? Fire her right now!"

Lu Jingshi ignored her and used his own phone to dial the number on the screen.

The phone beeped a few times before being answered.

Before he could even speak, a barrage of messages started coming from the other end of the phone.

"What is Director Lu up to now? No matter what you say, I will not agree to add Fang Tian's name. Director Lu, you might as well give up on that idea."

Lu Jingshi's eyes flickered slightly, and he remained silent for a few seconds before asking, "Why do you have two phone numbers?"

The abrupt question left Jiang Wan, on the other end of the phone, speechless.

"When you first joined Kairong, the HR department gave you a work phone number, didn't you know that?"

Lu Jingshi had no idea that the only thing he remembered was Jiang Wan's number, which was only one digit different from his own.

"Okay, I'll hang up now if there's nothing else."

After hanging up the phone, he flipped through Yu Qing's call history.

An hour ago, she had made over a dozen unanswered calls to Jiang Wan, with intervals of almost no more than two seconds between each call.

Lu Jingshi couldn't help but sneer. His mother wasn't sick at all; she was still as domineering as ever.

"Why did you contact my assistant alone? I told you five years ago not to interfere in my work and life anymore. It seems you've forgotten."

Lu Jingshi deleted the number and text message history from her phone and stood up.

"Then I'll reiterate: don't interfere with me in any way. If you have nothing better to do, go check out my dad's life; it's much more exciting than mine. Stop wasting your energy on me."

"Since you're not sick, I'll be going now."

Mentioning Lu Guokun, Yu Qing couldn't help but tear up. She threw off the covers and jumped out of bed.

"I'm your mother, I have the right to discipline you, including that vixen next to you. Wake up, stop playing this prince and Cinderella love story. Have you forgotten what happened five years ago?"

"Son, a family like ours doesn't need love at all. Do you think the Lu family would even give them a second glance if the Fang family hadn't opened up some decent mines in South Africa and their wealth hadn't skyrocketed?"

"The Lu family is currently undergoing a transformation and needs the Fang family's cash flow. This is the culmination of my and your father's life's work. Your relationship with Fang Tian must be finalized. As for the future... your so-called 'white moonlight' and 'black moonlight' are naturally none of my concern."

Lu Jingshi turned around, and the intense mockery in his eyes made Yu Qing dare not meet his gaze.

"I think you've forgotten that I've never relied on the Lu family to get where I am today, so the Lu family's affairs have nothing to do with me."

He paused for a moment, then said, "If you have time, you should pay more attention to my father. Otherwise, he might end up with several heirs, which would be a waste of your life's work."

After saying that, he left without looking back.

Yu Qing collapsed onto the bed, distraught, and covered her face as she cried.

After leaving the Lu family home, Lu Jingshi did not return to his office, but went straight to Shen Juan's seaside villa outside the city.

The Shen family is a century-old family of doctors, and has passed down many Chinese medicine secret recipes. The Shen Family Chinese Medicine Clinic has expanded to a nationwide chain.

Unfortunately, by the fourth generation, a traitor named Shen Juan emerged and became a Western-trained doctor.

Shen Juan was on vacation, and in the infinity pool in the backyard of his villa, he was surrounded by women, sipping juice and drinking grapes.

Some people even gave him massages to relax him, which was quite pleasant.

Seeing Lu Jingshi approach, he sat up straight.

"Young Master Lu, what brings you here today? Did that heartless woman upset you again?"

Lu Jingshi said coldly, "Didn't you say you had made progress on the matter? Speak up now."

"Don't be in such a hurry," Shen Juan said, taking off his sunglasses. "Sunshine, beautiful women, swimming pool—can't you see any of that? Young Master Lu, your life is really boring."

Two voluptuous bikini-clad beauties exchanged a glance, stood up from the water, walked over, and each leaned on one of Lu Jingshi's shoulders, speaking in sweet voices.

"Young Master Lu, it's so hot, let's come down and cool off."

"Oh dear, it's all our fault for being careless, Young Master Lu, you're all wet."

Lu Jingshi lowered his eyes, glanced at his shirt that was wet with water, and curled the corners of his lips.

"Sure, it'll be 26,000 in total, you can pay by card."

The two hot girls were stunned. They got off Lu Jingshi's shoulder and looked at each other in disbelief.

Shen Juan swam over: "President Lu's shirt is made of mulberry silk mixed with gold thread. It's a custom-made piece from C company and can't get wet. Sigh, it's ruined now."

"Mr. Shen, we...Mr. Lu, we didn't mean to."

Seeing that the two hot girls were about to cry, Shen Juan couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Lu Jingshi didn't want to waste time with him, so he walked into the villa.

"Three minutes, get dressed and come over."