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.”

get

he quickly let his low spirits get the best of him at the sound of the

the delectable snow fungus and lotus soup tasted bland to him. Master Lu stood to his feet and started making his way towards

the time. Although Shi Chu was no longer at home, she is a member of the Shi Family after all.

mumbled in soliloquy but could not bring himself

could do was heave a lamenting sigh before

the back, he looked remorseful and

those 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.

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

said in

“Nah, I’m tired.”

voice was not sonorous

he doing fine just moments ago? What did you say to

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

was tell the truth

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

gesture appeared to

hearing his reply, she smacked her thigh resentfully,

the butler, let me

days ago, I just

something burnt in the kitchen? Please check

wanted to press on, but the butler drew her

into the kitchen doubtfully, sniffing the air like a

searched the area thoroughly but

the search, the butler stormed into the kitchen and snapped at Madam Liu, “You troubler-maker! How dare you call me out for poking

“Are you any better?”

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

peevishly as she

you suppose I

relentlessly pushing him, the butler snapped

him the truth, why must you lie

I supposed to break the news to him? Tell him that Mu Zhi is Madam Mu Xue’s daughter? That master’s son and

a loss! He bellowed at Madam Liu in response to Madam Liu’s irritating

stage, there was nothing he could do which would

wasn’t an option,

look too surprised. She insisted,

“What truth?”

Madam Liu and the butler was butting heads, a third voice

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

say. I’ve noticed that there’s something

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

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

“What trivial matters?”

adamant to get to the root of what the

and bowed at him from the waist, saying, “Master, the butler is keeping it a secret from

at