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.”

the butler, hoping to get a different answer, but to

flurry of questions started vehemently, but he quickly let his low spirits get

bland to him. Master Lu

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

mumbled in soliloquy but could not bring

could do was heave a lamenting sigh before

he looked remorseful

years ago. If he had confronted ‘them’, he could

out a freshly braised pig trotter from the kitchen. She placed the bowl on the dining table and

He looked heart-wrenchingly disheartened.

his attention to the butler. She seemed to have put the two and two together but felt obligated to ask Master Lu

have some braised pig trotter.” She said in a slightly

“Nah, I’m tired.”

voice was

doing fine just moments ago? What did you say

was fixed on Master Lu, then directed the latter question at the butler with a disgruntled expression. “Speak, what did you

Didn’t say anything. All I did was tell the truth about Madam Mu

while giving Madam Liu a look, beckoning her to stop dwelling

gesture appeared to have flown over

resentfully, “You! Why would pour salt on his unhealed

Liu gazed at Master Lu tactfully as she spoke, “Master, don’t listen to the butler,

days ago, I just saw

burnt in the kitchen? Please check it

to press on, but the butler

into the kitchen doubtfully, sniffing the air like a bloodhound trying to

area thoroughly but could

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

“Are you any better?”

Madam Mu Xue’s daughter? Why did you tell him that you couldn’t find anything? Isn’t that

butler peevishly as she muttered

do you suppose I tell

that Madam Liu was relentlessly pushing him,

why must you lie to

Tell him that Mu Zhi is Madam Mu Xue’s

He bellowed at

stage, there was nothing he could do which would salvage the situation. Every option seemed

wasn’t an option, neither was telling

listening to his words, Madam Liu did not look too surprised. She insisted, “You

“What truth?”

butler was butting heads, a third voice

their mouths with a start, turning their gazes at the entrance of the kitchen.

noticed that there’s something you’re keeping

his old age, he

Nothing at all, it… It’s just some trivial matters. There’s nothing that concerns you,

“What trivial matters?”

to the root of what the butler

saying, “Master, the butler is keeping it a secret from you because he’s afraid that you’d be upset. But I don’t think we should hide it from you any longer

Lu was astonished at what Madam Liu