[ABO] After Accidental Marking, I Became Everyone’s Darling chapter 60
Chapter 60
Lu Heng knew he had met Gu Chen.
An Le bit his lip. He didn’t know how Li Jie had explained the matter to Lu Heng, and he hesitated, but still whispered, “Mmm.”
Lu Heng carried him upstairs and put him on the bed, taking off his clothes as he said, “Li Jie said you stayed in the hospital for a few days with Xiao Xiao, and you met Gu Chen twice during that time.”
Before, he had never suspected that Gu Chen had a problem. There were many powerful people in City A. Although there weren’t many families with power comparable to the Lu family, there were one or two.
He had suspected those two families and had investigated them for a long time, uncovering many things, but he found no clues about An Le.
Now, the prime suspect had become Gu Chen.
Gu Chen wasn’t someone who would casually appear by other people’s sides, and Gu Chen was like Gu Qian, so…
Hearing Lu Heng’s words, An Le finally understood how Li Jie had explained things to Lu Heng. He was relieved and whispered, “Mmm.”
He also wanted to tell Lu Heng what Li Jie said—that Gu Chen had a problem—but Gu Chen was Lu Heng’s uncle, his relative.
Moreover, Lu Heng had also said that he and Gu Chen had a good relationship, so he hesitated and didn’t say it out loud.
Lu Heng: “Did he say anything?”
An Le shook his head. “No.”
Gu Chen didn’t say anything excessive, nor anything useful; he just appeared for a while and then left.
Lu Heng nodded, indicating that he understood. He turned around, hung his coat in the closet, and lay down on the bed with An Le. “You must not have slept well in the hospital these past few days. Come, let me hold you and you can sleep a while.”
An Le loved it when Lu Heng held him to sleep. He immediately snuggled into Lu Heng’s arms and whispered, “Mr., you’re so good.”
Lu Heng just chuckled without speaking. Li Jie had told him that after eye surgery, the eyes shouldn’t be overworked.
So he tried to get An Le to lie down and close his eyes.
After a while, Lu Heng suddenly remembered something and asked, “Did you see the messages I sent you before?”
“Yes.”
An Le said curiously, “So, he, he’s also so disgusting.”
Lu Heng had sent him more than one message during those days; he sent messages whenever something happened at the An family.
But because he was at home, Lu Heng didn’t send the messages in an informative tone, but in a questioning way.
On the first day, he sent a message asking An Le if it was true that two omega women had come to An Qiang’s house with their sons to make a scene.
The second day was the same; two or three more came, some with children, some without; some wanted their children to be recognized, and others wanted a place in the family.
Although he was asking, he explained every detail of the matter clearly.
Lu Heng: “Why didn’t you reply?”
An Le thought for a moment and said somewhat nervously, “Mr., did you forget? I was in the hospital these days; I didn’t know if it was true or not.”
Lu Heng laughed. “I know, but you didn’t reply to me.”
“I did.”
An Le said helplessly, “I replied with a voice message.”
Those two days he couldn’t read messages; Xiao Xiao read them to him, and he replied with voice messages.
But fearing that he would disturb Lu Heng’s work, and fearing that he would be exposed, he only sent one voice message saying that he had gone out and didn’t know.
But Lu Heng seemed dissatisfied that he didn’t say more, and kept insisting he hadn’t replied.
Lu Heng pretended to be helpless. “Then I’ll forgive you this time. Next time, don’t give me the runaround.”
An Le quickly nodded. “Yes, Mr.”
Next time Lu Heng sent him a message, he would reply with three, absolutely not letting Lu Heng think he was being perfunctory.
In the following days, Lu Heng didn’t go to work and stayed home with An Le.
Because he was worried that if he went to work, An Le would not take care of his eyes at home, he simply stayed to cook for An Le every day.
This worried An Qiang. If Lu Heng didn’t leave, how could he do ideological work on An Le?
How could he arrange for An Le to meet someone?
Watching the two of them being lovey-dovey every day, An Qiang smiled on the surface, but he was anxious inside.
An Yi didn’t want to confront the two of them and ran directly to find Jiang Mo.
An Qiang kept hinting to Lu Heng to go back to work and focus on his career.
But Lu Heng casually threw a land deed contract to An Qiang, and An Qiang left with the contract.
During these days, Lu Heng only went to the company occasionally when An Le needed a checkup; otherwise, he was at home until the full month when An Le’s eyes were completely stable, and only then did he go back to work.
An Le’s eyes were much better than before. Although he could only see two or three meters, and his vision wasn’t as clear as his right eye, he could still see.
He was very happy.
Every afternoon, he made beef soup for Lu Heng in the kitchen.
An Qiang stood at the door. “Now that your eyes are better, you should go see that person. He said he’ll definitely make you like him.”
An Le didn’t answer.
An Qiang said it many times, but An Le refused to agree. Finally, he lost his patience and angrily said, “Don’t you want Lu Heng to know about your eyes?”
An Le’s stirring movements froze instantly.
An Qiang had also investigated these days and knew that An Le’s injury had nothing to do with Lu Heng, and he had even been keeping it from Lu Heng, which was now his leverage.
“If you don’t go see that person, I’ll tell Lu Heng that you’re blind.”
An Qiang smiled. “He’s such an excellent alpha; do you think he’ll accept a half-blind person as his partner?”
An Le turned his head, his eyes filled with tears and hatred, but An Qiang wasn’t worried at all.
Sure enough, An Le finally bit his lip and nodded slightly.
“Okay.”
An Le whispered, “I agree to meet that person, but… but you also have to agree to one condition.”
An Qiang thought An Le’s condition was to not tell Lu Heng about his blindness, and he said triumphantly, “Okay, say it.”
An Le’s tears welled up. He choked back his sobs. “Luo Ping has a lot of jewelry, all from Mom. You have to give it back to me, all of it.”
An Qiang froze. Those jewels were of great value; the designers and copyrights were very valuable, all at collector’s level. The face they gave was needless to say, they were definitely the most dazzling in the whole room.
He was a little reluctant to give them all back to An Le at once.
But after An Le finished speaking, he added, “If you don’t give them to me, I won’t go.”
“If you want to tell Mr. that I’m blind, then go ahead. I believe in Mr.; he’s not that kind of person.”
An Le gritted his teeth, using Lu Heng’s method to gamble with An Qiang.
Besides, his eyes could already see clearly now; he wasn’t half-blind anymore.
An Qiang naturally knew Lu Heng’s character. Whether Lu Heng wanted someone or not wasn’t decided by him, An Qiang, so he wasn’t sure whether Lu Heng would dislike An Le.
Finally, he gritted his teeth. “Okay.”
It was just some jewelry. Once he got connected with that person and got the benefits, he’d buy countless more jewels.
So he nodded. “Go to your room and look. They’re your mother’s things, so take them; take them all.”
An Le’s face immediately lit up. He put down the spoon, covered the pot, excitedly ran out of the kitchen, and rushed into An Qiang and Luo Ping’s bedroom.
A few seconds later, he ran out again, carrying a clean laundry basket, and ran back in.
Without hesitation, he opened Luo Ping’s storage cabinets, opened each box one by one, and put any jewelry he had seen his mother wear, along with the boxes, into the laundry basket.
When Lu Heng returned, he saw An Le coming out of Luo Ping’s room, carrying a laundry basket full of jewelry boxes, his eyes shining as he smiled at him.
“Mr., look.”
Looking at the basket full of things An Le was carrying, Lu Heng smiled indulgently. “Le Le is amazing.”
An Le nodded, whispering, “There’s still more; it’s not all finished yet.”
So Lu Heng took the laundry basket from An Le and smiled. “Then you go get more, I’ll wait for you.”
An Le: “Okay.”
Lu Heng didn’t avoid it; he sat on the sofa in the living room with the laundry basket and chatted with An Qiang.
An Qiang gritted his teeth. He thought, “I said, why did An Le, who used to be like a fool without any wit, suddenly know how to bargain with him? It turns out it was Lu Heng who taught him.”
But now he couldn’t say anything, and had to smile and chat with Lu Heng.
An Le was very happy and went back to Luo Ping’s bedroom with another laundry basket.
After a while, he filled that basket, but there was still one thing missing.
A pair of sapphire earrings.
Those were Mom’s favorite earrings.
He didn’t want Mom’s favorite things to stay with Luo Ping; he had to get them back, clean them, and take them to Mom’s grave.
No, An Le shook his head while looking for them.
These things had been worn by Luo Ping; if he took them to Mom’s grave, Mom would certainly find it unlucky. Forget it.
Later, he would sell this pair of sapphires and buy an identical pair for Mom.
When Luo Ping came back, she didn’t notice the people in the living room, nor the laundry basket at Lu Heng’s feet.
She just greeted An Qiang and went back to her bedroom to rest.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw An Le rummaging through her room, and immediately screamed, “An Le, what are you doing?”
“Why are you in my room?”
“What’s in that laundry basket?”
“These are my things, why are you taking them away?”
“Put them down, put them down!”
Luo Ping screamed frantically, An Le quickly stepped back, still holding an empty earring box in his hand.
He was scared, but one thing suppressed his fear.
Because he saw Mom’s favorite sapphire earrings on Luo Ping’s ears.
Then he looked down at the box in his hand, confirming it was the box for those earrings, and bravely looked up. “Take off your earrings.”
“Why?”
Luo Ping saw that half of her jewelry was gone, and she almost collapsed. If it weren’t for maintaining her image in An Qiang’s eyes, and her fear of Lu Heng, she would have rushed over to beat An Le.
At this time, Lu Heng and An Qiang also ran over when they heard the noise.
Lu Heng immediately hugged An Le into his arms. “Are you okay?”
He had almost gotten back all of his mother’s jewelry today, and the ones in Luo Ping’s ears had to be taken today.
An Le was very happy, opened his arms to hug Lu Heng, and whispered coquettishly, “I’m fine, she didn’t hit me.”
After hearing this, Luo Ping also turned to hide in An Qiang’s arms, crying and gasping for breath. “Husband, how could you let him go into our room and take my things? Those are all mine, woo woo…”
