Chapter 90
If the portrait of Lu Wei in the base exhibition hall was a smoke-grey rose washed by time, then the photo in Si Man’s hand was more like a black daturaāyounger, mysterious, and sharp.
She wore the most basic uniform style with ultimate dash and heroism.
Her beauty was aggressive, making it impossible to look away.
Shu Ci thought of the group photo of Lu Wanqing and Lu Wei in the storage room under the stairs.
The brim of the hat was pulled very low, obscuring the face, but her signature big wavy curly hair was exactly the same in all three photos.
“She and I don’t look alike.” Shu Ci still couldn’t believe it. He looked at Si Man. “I look a bit like you.”
Like the red hair.
Like the slightly cyanotic pupils.
Si Manās eyes dimmed. “Sister originally looked very much like me. The Si family bloodline characteristics are obvious. But ever since Uncle wanted to recognize her, she went to get plastic surgery without a second word, looking almost exactly like Aunt when she was young, leaving no trace of the Si family. Even her eye color has always been concealed.”
Si Manās voice was very soft, as if matters concerning Lu Wei were a past that couldn’t be easily touched.
As an Omega daughter of the family, she couldn’t give her uncle any help in his career. But Lu Wei was different; she could be said to be the most capable person in this generation to inherit the position of the Si family head.
When Uncle found Lu Wei back then and discovered she had inherited the excellent Alpha bloodline of the Si family, he didn’t hesitate to reveal the baby-swap incident half-truthfully to bring Lu Wei back to the main family.
However, he didn’t get the filial piety he imagined.
Like her mother, she fled on the fifth day after returning to the Si family.
It was said she had several arguments, big and small, with Uncle in private. Later, Uncle couldn’t twist her arm, so he let her be.
Since then, Si Man had never seen this sister again, only able to learn what she was doing from Uncle’s few words. She left school because everyone there knew she was the Si family heiress, changed her face and identity, and joined the army.
At first, Lu Wei was just a small screw in the military technology development group, and Uncle even asked acquaintances to look after her.
Later, her abilities gradually grew stronger, her wings fuller, and sometimes even Uncle couldn’t track her whereabouts.
Lu Wei’s transfer to the Seventh District happened silently. The entire Si family saw the Alpha flash across the screen in the Seventh District news on TV.
She climbed to the position of General of the Seventh District. When mentioning her background in interviews, she simply glossed over it with “no father, no mother, no children.”
No father, no motherāSi Man could understand.
Aunt didn’t get the comfort of her Alpha husband during childbirth and had many sequelae. She died of illness when Lu Wei was old enough to go to school herself. And due to her deep resentment towards the Si family, she wasn’t willing to acknowledge her father’s existence.
But no children?
Si Man looked at Shu Ci, falling into confusion. Did her sister know that a male Omega councilor had secretly given birth to her child? Or did she just not want the Si family to disturb her child in the future?
“Since she resisted the Si family so much, how could she satisfy Mr. Si’s wish to see him?” Shu Ci leaned back in his chair and handed Lu Wei’s photo back to Si Man. “Do you not know about her sacrifice?”
Si Man shook her head firmly.
“Without seeing a body, with only news reports, Uncle doesn’t accept it. Moreover, I heard the Seventh District has a tradition of delivering wills. Wills of people determined by the system to be missing or dead are sent out directly, but we have never found my sister’s will.”
Shu Ci was speechless for a moment.
He had received that ridiculous will, so he naturally understood the operation. Lu Wanqing had merely lost contact at sea for a few days, and Shu Ci received his handwritten will at Juqing Road.
The Si family never found Lu Wei’s will. What did that mean?
Could it be that Lu Wei really hadn’t died, but had been maintaining secret contact with the military, so no will was ever sent?
“She has indeed sacrificed herself.” A cold and heavy voice sounded.
Shu Ci looked up and saw Lu Wanqing, holding his uniform jacket with one arm, walking silently in from the foyer. He nodded slightly to Si Man, then let his gaze fall on Shu Ci. “Don’t come over yet; I’m cold.”
Shu Ci, whose toes had just touched the carpet, shrank back sheepishly upon hearing this.
Si Man supported herself on the chair to stand up, frowning tightly. “What does General Lu mean by this?”
Lu Wanqing hung up his clothes and walked to the fireplace, letting the heat warm him while answering Si Man’s question with a calm voice.
“TeacherāI mean General Lu Weiāsacrificed herself in that mining area battle back then. Today, I recovered control of the mining area from the Gu family. Her remains have been found. You will see it on the evening news. After everything is arranged, we will hold a farewell ceremony and officially move her to the Martyrs’ Cemetery.”
Many evidences of the Gu family’s collusion with outsiders were buried in the mine. The personnel replaced in the Seventh District after Lu Wei’s death were all arranged early by Gu Yan. Taking advantage of the farewell ceremony, the Seventh District would make these evidences public. Public opinion would become even more turbulent, accelerating the verdict on Gu Yan in prison.
Si Man stumbled, staggering toward Lu Wanqing. “But, but the will… her will was never sent out…”
Shu Ci watched her lose her balance and stood up to support her. “Is it possible she didn’t leave the Si family’s address?”
Si Man opened her mouth, looking at Shu Ci somewhat awkwardly. “All delivery businesses in the Seventh District have been penetrated by companies in which Uncle holds shares. There has never been a letter sent in my sister’s name.”
Shu Ci: “…”
There is nothing you noble financial magnates can’t do, only people the law can’t control.
“There won’t be one.” Lu Wanqing signaled Shu Ci to help her sit back down. He rubbed his palms together to warm them, and after Shu Ci sat down, he placed a hand on his shoulder, his thumb pressing faintly on the vein in his neck. “Before, a will was mistakenly sent to my husband. Later, I asked someone to check the system backend for glitches and accidentally saw Teacher’s information.”
This extremely official “my husband” inexplicably charmed Shu Ci. Before he could think about Lu Wanqing’s words, his heart raced.
Si Man stared at Lu Wanqing with her cyanotic eyes. “So?”
Lu Wanqing lowered his eyes. “She never filled in any emergency contact address, so no letter was ever sent. The backend administrator of the Seventh District said Teacher left instructions. If anyone came looking for her will, just tell them one sentence.”
“What is it?”
“She said: ‘I, Lu Wei, never do anything I regret. Even in death, I will take no regrets with me. No need to miss me; live your life well.'”
Lu Wanqingās voice was clear, but his tone carried endless weight.
Lu Wei indeed had no regrets, dying a worthy death and leaving openly as a hero of the Seventh District. But she didn’t know that her departure alone was a regret in many people’s hearts.
Shu Ci came back to his senses and looked at Lu Wanqing.
He hadn’t told him about any of these things he did.
The crow’s feet at the corners of Si Man’s eyes became obviously bunched up. She sat distractedly in the chair, took a handkerchief from her bag, covering her mouth as she whimpered softly.
She remembered a long, long time ago, that Alpha sister who looked seventy to eighty percent like her appeared in her home, dressed simply, but looking at her with an unusually brilliant gaze.
Si Man was vaguely afraid of her at the time; the naturally suppressing Alpha bloodline made her heart skip a beat.
She thought, What if she arrogantly tells me to leave her home? Will she rely on being Uncle’s biological daughter to snatch away my current life?
However, Lu Wei only asked, “Has life been good these years? Did he treat you poorly?”
Si Man shook her head, saying Uncle treated her very well.
Lu Wei nodded faintly and said, “Then live your life well like this. Rest assured, what you possess will always be yours.”
After that, she never had the chance to speak another word to Lu Wei.
She also never had the chance to tell Lu Wei that in her life trapped in the Duke’s mansion, only the fragmented news about her from the Far-flung regions could ignite her life again and again.
Si Man wept silently.
Shu Ci raised his hand and covered the back of Lu Wanqing’s hand. Lu Wanqing leaned down and whispered in his ear, “What’s wrong?”
Shu Ci rubbed his nose against the root of his ear. “You can cry if you want to. I won’t laugh at you.”
Lu Wanqing pinched his nose, momentarily unsure of what to say. He went out for a trip and didn’t return in time, only to find his mentor of many years had turned into Shu Ciās biological mother.
If Teacher knew that he… possessed such strong possessiveness towards her son?
His impression of Lu Wei was still stuck on how she trained his young heart into trauma. If she were alive, she would probably set up obstacles in every possible way to prevent him and Shu Ci from being together.
Lu Wanqing dared not think further, forcing himself to think of something else. He unconsciously rubbed Shu Ciās skin with his fingertips, lowering his voice. “Junior Sister and the others sent you an email and CC’d me. I didn’t look closely on the road just now. Have you seen it?”
“Not yet, I’ll take a look.” Shu Ci glanced at Si Man, who was still immersed in grief, and took out his phone to open his email.
The email contained a document with a lot of text and two attachments.
He enlarged the font slightly, scanning line by line slowly. The more he read, the graver his expression became. By the end, his eyes were full of shock.
“What’s wrong?” Lu Wanqing held Shu Ciās hand. For some reason, his hand was a bit cold.
Shu Ci focused, read the email again, and finally sorted out what Yi Xingshui and Li Yi were trying to express.
He looked at Si Man, hesitated for a moment, but still spoke. “Shu Changze’s research was secretly supported by General Lu Wei. The main direction wasn’t the disorder; it was pheromone compatibility.”
Hearing Lu Wei’s name, Si Man slowly raised her head.
“They reproduced his experiments based on the materials left by Shu Changze, proving that pheromone compatibility is a pseudo-concept with no scientific basis. The compatibility data of the same pair of AO can differ vastly in different environments.”
“It also says that behind the compatibility testing centers are the support and monopoly of several major families, and stated that if he died during the research, he was silenced by those families.”
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