Falling for the Contract Bride

Chapter 251 Where’s the Daughter

The sky was gradually getting darker. Master Lu was sitting by the dining table enjoying his dinner.

He raised his eyes nonchalantly and glanced at the butler, “Any news on Mu Xue?”

“I got something.”

The butler scanned the area reluctantly, then leaned in, lowering his voice, “Mu Xue got into a car accident over ten years ago and was hospitalized. We thought she had left City A, but that’s not true. She had always been around. We focussed our search on different institutional units but never thought about the hospital.”

After a brief pause, the butler continued, “Mu Xue lived in comatose all these years, which is why we never found any expenses or travel records on her. We had been going in the wrong direction all this while, so it wasn’t a surprise that our efforts were in vain.”

Master Lu took a sip of the snow fungus and lotus soup before raising his head to peer at the butler fiercely.

“Stop explaining why we fail to find anything about Mu Xue. I don’t care about these, it’s all in the past. Does she have any family members? Where is my daughter?”

The butler let out a troubled expression.

“Speak!”

Master Lu bellowed at the butler angrily along with his furious glare.

After some moment, the butler said, “Perhaps Madam Mu Xue’s daughter had disappeared, or she’s passed away. We can’t find any trace of Madam Mu Xue’s daughter.”

Following that, the butler mopped the sweat on his forehead with the corner of his sleeves.

It was apparent to him that Master Lu was enraged from the grimness of his face!

“Not a thing about her? Dead? Disappeared?”

“Yes.”

“Sure?”

“Yes.”

to get a different answer, but

low spirits get the

to him. Master Lu stood to

hindsight, the Shi Family was furious at the time. Although Shi Chu was no longer at home, she is a member of the Shi Family after all. How could Mu Xue and her daughter get away? After

in soliloquy but could not bring

heave a lamenting sigh

he looked remorseful and

enough all those years ago. If he had confronted ‘them’, he could have changed Mu Xue’s

brought out a freshly braised pig trotter from the kitchen. She placed

He looked heart-wrenchingly disheartened.

the butler. She seemed to have put the two and two together but

some braised pig trotter.” She said in a slightly raised voice in

“Nah, I’m tired.”

Lu’s voice was not sonorous like

he tired? Wasn’t he doing fine just moments ago? What

Liu first asked as her gaze was fixed on Master Lu, then directed the latter

was tell the

butler responded while giving Madam Liu a look,

the butler’s gesture appeared to have flown over

his reply, she smacked her thigh resentfully,

tactfully as she spoke, “Master, don’t listen to the butler, let

days ago, I just saw

something burnt in the kitchen? Please check it

press on,

air like a bloodhound trying to hunt

but could not find anything

kitchen and snapped at Madam Liu, “You troubler-maker! How dare you

“Are you any better?”

daughter? Why did you tell him that you couldn’t find

butler peevishly

do you suppose I tell

pushing him, the butler snapped in

why must you lie to

news to him? Tell him that Mu Zhi is Madam Mu Xue’s daughter? That

a loss! He bellowed at Madam Liu in

stage, there was nothing he could do which would salvage the

about it wasn’t an option, neither was

not look too surprised. She insisted,

“What truth?”

the butler was butting heads, a third

mouths with a start, turning their gazes at the entrance of the kitchen. Lo and behold, Master Lu was staring at

I’ve noticed that there’s something you’re keeping

was not impressed. But due to his old age, he appeared to have lacked conviction

chuckled awkwardly, then said, Nothing at all, it… It’s just some trivial matters.

“What trivial matters?”

seemed adamant to get to the root of what the butler was trying to

off the butler. She dashed towards Master Lu and bowed at him from the waist, saying, “Master, the butler is keeping it a secret from you because he’s afraid that you’d be

astonished at what