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.”

Lu interrogated the butler, hoping to get a different answer, but to no

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

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

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 years of being bedridden, it’s not hard to imagine that

but could

was heave a lamenting sigh before heading up the

back, he looked remorseful and

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

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

He looked heart-wrenchingly disheartened.

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

She said in a slightly raised voice in

“Nah, I’m tired.”

Lu’s voice was not sonorous

he doing fine just moments ago? What

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

All I did was tell the

a look,

to

thigh resentfully, “You! Why would pour salt

the butler, let me tell you what, there’s nothing to

days ago, I just saw

is something burnt in the

on, but the butler

sniffing the air like a bloodhound trying to hunt down a

but could

the kitchen and snapped at Madam Liu, “You troubler-maker!

“Are you any better?”

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

butler peevishly

you suppose I

relentlessly pushing him, the

truth, why must you lie

is Madam Mu Xue’s daughter? That

at a loss! He bellowed at Madam Liu in response

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

option, neither was telling the

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

“What truth?”

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

the entrance of the kitchen. Lo and behold, Master Lu was staring at them

noticed that there’s something you’re keeping from

his old age, he appeared to have lacked conviction as

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

“What trivial matters?”

get to the root of what the butler was

from the waist, saying, “Master, the butler is keeping it a secret from you because he’s afraid that you’d

was astonished at what Madam Liu