He Betrayed the Heir, Then Returned to Save Him novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Dinner Plan
Su Ye had never planned anything more serious than a fishing trip, and he found he was good at it.
It was mostly talking.
He talked to the old man on the front gate, who had stood in the guard hut for thirty years.
The old man loved to describe his grandson's boat.
He talked about trawl nets for twenty minutes.
At the end of it the guard said, "Is there anything you wanted, young master?"
"Only to see the terrace tape from the night I fell," Su Ye said.
The guard looked at him for a long second.
Then he went to the back of the hut and came out with a small black drive.
"Your sister never asked for it," he said. "I thought that was odd."
Su Ye put it in his shirt pocket and shook his hand with both of his.
Ma Rui came to the house that afternoon in a rented suit, sweating.
He sat on the library rug with a cardboard box of test strips from a friend at a clinic.
He also had a lawyer's card from the chairman's office.
"If aconite goes in the soup, this turns blue," he said. "If it goes in wine, it turns pink. I tested both. I tested them ten times. I haven't slept."
"You're doing wonderfully," Su Ye said.
"I'm going to be sick."
"Then be sick afterward."
Lu Chen sat at the long table with the dinner floor plan open in front of him.
He had drawn the table, the twelve chairs, the kitchen door, the sideboard.
He drew with a very neat hand, and Su Ye watched it.
He's good at this, Su Ye thought.
Nobody ever asked him to be good for anything.
"She sits here," Lu Chen said, tapping the far end. "She always does. In the first life she put me on her right."
"And this time?"
"You're on her right. Ma Rui is on her left, as the auditor, the chairman's guest. I'm beside your mother."
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