The Reigning Star: Tycoon's Exclusive Obsession

She instinctively took a step back, staring wide-eyed unable to speak.

Zhou Mingyu exclaimed, "Did you drug Sisi? Mengru, how could you do this? Why would you drug Sisi?"

"She wants to drug Sisi, to frame Sisi and Ju An. What would happen if Lu Beiyao found out she did it?" Mr. Li snorted coldly.

"No!" Li Mengru shook her head, feeling that everyone around her was looking at her with mocking smiles, making her seem so pathetic, so ridiculous.

It turned out Zhou Ju’an had been closing in on her from the start, they were plotting against her!

Everyone was plotting against her!

Li Mengru clutched her head and turned to run. Zhou Mingyu hurriedly followed behind, calling her name.

Zhou Ju’an stood in place and took a breath, "Grandpa, how is Sisi? Will Lu Beiyao marry her?"

"That’s not what you should be concerned about. Keep an eye on Mengru lately. She always knows the books and is sensible, but this incident should also have hit her hard. Only by marrying her can you become part of our Li Family. The future of the Li Family depends on you!"

"Hmm, I understand!"

Zhou Ju’an responded briefly, and Mr. Li walked away with his hands behind his back.

Upon returning to her room, Li Mengru began to frantically smash anything she could reach onto the floor. Zhou Mingyu had never seen her usually gentle daughter like this and stood at the door too scared to enter. She rushed over to hug her only when she calmed down a bit, "Mengru, you’re the eldest daughter of the Li Family, you’re our pride. It’s just Lu Beiyao, if you don’t marry, you don’t marry. You drugged Sisi, not him. He was the one who insulted Sisi."

"Eldest daughter of the Li Family? Hahaha..." Li Mengru laughed with a trembling voice, "I would rather I wasn’t. Everyone thinks I’m cherished, cared for, and nurtured by you as I grew up. In reality, I’m just a pawn in your hands, a carefully cultivated piece to use at a critical moment."

Her emotions were tumultuous; she swallowed hard and pushed Zhou Mingyu out the door, then slammed it shut and squatted by the door, unable to stop crying.

The words of Lu Beiyao were still wandering in Li Siru’s mind; what did he misunderstand?

She tightly grasped the pendant around her neck, her most treasured item, now ironically evidence of her lies.

Yet she hadn’t lied, so why wouldn’t Lu Beiyao trust her this time?

She changed her clothes to find Zhou Ju’an and Li Mengru. As soon as she opened the door, Zhou Ju’an just happened to be standing at the entrance, and she hit him with a slap, "Why did you do this?"

Her body trembled with anger, "I always thought that in this family, only cousin stood by my side, understood me. Sister was the one most concerned, most caring about me; but why you guys... why is it you?"

Zhou Ju’an stiffly smiled, "Sisi, I can see you like Lu Beiyao, but you suppress your feelings for Mengru’s sake. Now that she’s drugged you for selfish reasons, isn’t it only natural that I help you be with Lu Beiyao?"

"Who asked you to do this? Who asked you to do this?" Li Siru punched him in the chest over and over.

Zhou Ju’an grabbed her arm and said, "She gave you the drug to try to match us. Are you seriously wanting me as your antidote?"

Li Siru paused, without making a sound.

"You don’t want it either, do you? You wish it were Lu Beiyao, don’t you?"

Every word struck deep into her heart, "Sisi, from childhood you always yielded to her; you must yield to her. But feelings can’t just be yielded; you should seize what you love. If Lu Beiyao has no feelings for you, then seizing wouldn’t change anything. So why yield?"

Li Siru lifted her head to look at him; Zhou Ju’an reached out to touch her pendant, "This was thrown away by your sister; I helped you find it! So why still bother about her?"