After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved-Chapter 53 - People Should Apologize When They Make a
Chapter 53: Chapter 53: People Should Apologize When They Make a Mistake
Chapter 53 -53: People Should Apologize When They Make a Mistake
The air fell silent for two seconds.
The half-sister he had never met, the one his father had with another woman, a girl from the countryside, topped the trending search and exploded in popularity?
Lu Ziye raised his eyebrows subconsciously, yawned while sitting up, and walked bare-chested to the bathroom: “Give me five minutes, I’ll talk after a shower.”
Five minutes later, Lu Ziye came out of the bathroom casually wrapped in a white towel around his lower body.
At the age of just twenty-one, he possessed both the charm of a youth and the allure of a man, his physique was tall and slender, with smooth and toned muscles.
His wet, tousled hair was still dripping. His delicate features seemed touched by the divine, and those beautiful, alluring peach-blossom eyes looked passionate and amorous.
No wonder he had been a top idol since his debut; some people are simply born for the entertainment industry.
Tan Jun glanced at him and thought that if those avid fans online saw this scene, they’d probably faint from excitement and delight.
“Hand me the phone to take a look,” Lu Ziye reached for the mobile phone from Tan Jun, “Also, I want to have zhajiangmian for lunch, so please, Junjun, take care of it.”
For the next half hour or so, Lu Ziye sat on the sofa, using Tan Jun’s account to watch the live stream recording that made the trending search, and read many comments.
The more he watched, the more amused his expression became.
When Tan Jun came out of the kitchen wearing an apron with two bowls, seeing Lu Ziye still fixated on the phone, he asked, “Finished watching?”
“I’ve finished,” Lu Ziye set the phone down on the table and lifted his head, “I thought this new little sister of mine was just a pitiful girl, but she has actually surprised me quite a bit.”
Lu Ziye leaned back in his chair as if he had discovered something amusing. His carefree peach-blossom eyes sparkled slightly, showing a hint of anticipation.
But his tone was still as casual as ever, telling Tan Jun: “I’ve wrapped up filming recently with the crew, help me arrange a few days off; I need to make a trip back to the Lu family.”
However, at that moment, the phone on the table suddenly rang. He looked at the caller ID and answered: “…Hello, mom?”
“Ziye, did you read the news today, do you know about Qianrou’s issue?”
The anxious voice of Jiang Ting came through the phone, where one could faintly hear sobbing, seemingly from Lu Qianrou.
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“I know,” Lu Ziye paused, the smile on his face vanishing.
“You know, yet you’re so calm, Qianrou is about to be scolded to death online now!”
Jiang Ting was earnest, “Don’t you have a powerful PR team? Help her think of something, see how you can spin this around.”
“Mom,” Lu Ziye sat up straight, his usually frivolous tone now a bit cold, even somewhat serious.
“It’s beyond salvaging now. Qianrou should have thought of the consequences when she dared to impersonate someone else.”
“She was exposed publicly, and the person she fooled was the Mayor’s Wife. No matter how capable a PR firm is, they can’t reverse the truth for her.”
Lu Ziye’s words were logical, but Jiang Ting wasn’t considering any of that.
“Even if there’s no way, you have to find one! If this goes on, our Lu family’s reputation will be ruined too!”
“Ziye, don’t forget, Qianrou is the sister you watched grow up, but that Lu Sheng, she’s the daughter of that whore, she’s the illegitimate daughter of your dad and that woman!”
“Do you really want to see an illegitimate daughter trample over your sister’s head?”
Jiang Ting grew more agitated, “Moreover, Qianrou has a heart condition, easily provoked to a crisis. She’s being cursed by those netizens so much that she’s even harboring suicidal thoughts, do you really not care about her life and death?!”
Lu Ziye rubbed his nose, irritated by Jiang Ting’s voice from the phone, took a deep breath, and spoke without emotional inflection.
“Mom, the only way now is for Qianrou to apologize to the netizens.”
“Everyone makes mistakes, and when one does something wrong, they should apologize.”
“If Qianrou truly understands her fault and apologizes sincerely, I’ll have Tan Jun arrange someone to handle it.”
“If she’s unwilling to apologize, then I can’t help her.”
After saying this, Lu Ziye hung up the phone.
In Lu Ziye’s view, spoiling a child is akin to killing them. Whether as a brother or a parent, unprincipled and bottomless favoritism is harmful to the other party.
One must take responsibility for their actions. Even if Qianrou was the sister he watched grow up, he couldn’t just let the PR buy fans to release announcements and manipulate public sentiment to whitewash her.
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On the other side, a few hours earlier at Shengjing.
In Lu Sheng’s mind, she didn’t recognize Lu Siyan and Lin Yi.
When she fainted yesterday afternoon, her consciousness was already blurry and her vision unclear, so she didn’t get a good look at the man she ran into.
She only vaguely remembered that the man was very handsome and seemed to carry a faint scent of disinfectant.
That scent wasn’t pungent; it was just cold and distant. However, it was the heavy incense scent emanating from Li Muchen that made her feel at ease.
Therefore, in her perspective, both Lu Siyan and Lin Yi were strangers. Lu Sheng didn’t even bother to glance at them; after turning off the live broadcast, she merely spoke with Xiao Yan.
“Big sister, big sister, this band-aid… doesn’t hurt.”
Xiao Yan could finally hand over the band-aid he had been holding in his palm for so long to his dearly thought of big sister.
Lu Sheng didn’t wear a school uniform blouse; she simply wore an ordinary white T-shirt.
Xiao Yan carefully reached for her hand, but when he saw the scrape on her elbow, his eyes immediately reddened.
“Big sister, protecting Xiao Yan, got hurt… Xiao Yan, in pain.”
Lu Sheng realized that this child named Xiao Yan seemed to have mild intellectual developmental issues, speaking in a halting manner, as if unable to express himself fully.
However, communication between people isn’t solely dependent on language. Seeing the concern and pity in the child’s clear eyes, Lu Sheng’s heart softened.
“It just looks a bit serious, but it really doesn’t hurt at all.” Lu Sheng took the band-aid and asked, “Will Xiao Yan help big sister apply it? It’ll heal quickly once it’s on.”
After a night, the scrape on Lu Sheng’s arm was already nearly crusted over, and applying a band-aid at this point was actually useless.
But she still leaned against the wall to let Xiao Yan help her with it because she knew this would ease the child’s worry.
“Mhm!”
Indeed, Lin Yan immediately nodded his head with the band-aid.
His little hands carefully peeled off the bandage backing, gently blew on Lu Sheng’s arm, and carefully placed the band-aid over her wound with solemnity and care.
Even though there were many people around, Lu Sheng didn’t care about the others at all, raising her hand to touch Lin Yan’s head.
The sunlight spilled onto the corridor, the girl’s lowered profile was stunningly beautiful, with a gentle smile on her lips. The child was innocently pure, attaching the band-aid with focused seriousness.
This scene inexplicably felt warmhearted to those around.
Someone quick-eyed snapped this moment and posted it on Weibo. Afterward, it became a viral photo on the internet.
Many years later, when the international internet voted for the top ten most beautiful girls in the world, this picture was still nominated every year.
But that’s a story for another time.
Right now, just as the band-aid was applied, the school bell for class suddenly rang.
The students who were watching the commotion in the corridor could no longer stay, and Fang Hong had no choice but to tell Lu Sheng, “Miss, you need to go to class, you should head back to the classroom as well.”
“Okay,” Lu Sheng thought Fang Hong and the others were leaving, so she said, “What happened yesterday was just a simple gesture, don’t worry about it.”
To risk her life to save Xiao Yan, yet casually dismiss it as a simple gesture. The more Lu Sheng spoke like that, the more Fang Hong appreciated the girl before her.
Beautiful, kind, and brave—she found her very likable in every way.
And Xiao Yan liked her too.
Xiao Yan usually was very shy, always afraid to approach strangers, only hiding fearfully in her arms, but seeing the girl, he trusted and was close to her.
If only she could be her daughter-in-law.
Fang Hong couldn’t help but wonder if such a good child could take a fancy to her own unruly eldest son.
After watching Lu Sheng enter the classroom, Fang Hong immediately looked disdainfully at Lin Yi, leaving him utterly confused.
He didn’t seem to have said a word while standing there, did he?
Why was his mother glaring at him out of the blue?
