Chapter 49: The Scourge of the Lu Family, Stunned by the Rebuke

Her father flung open the door, his face twisted with hostility. “Bai Lu, are you looking to die?”

“I should be asking you—who’s my mother?” Bai Lu, driven half-mad with anger, leapt up and grabbed her father by the collar. “Come with me for a paternity test! Once the results are out, I’ll make sure you apologize to me in tears!”

Lu Yiting glanced at Gu Pianran, who had caught up from behind, looking utterly stunned. “Damn, Old Third Gu, what’s going on? Did you drive Bai Lu insane with your scolding?”

Gu Pianran clutched his stomach. “Bai Lu really has lost her mind. She’s claiming you’re her father, and that the two of us are a couple.”

Lu Yiting exploded at once. “Bai Lu, I’ve tolerated your nonsense about claiming me as your father. But now you’re saying I’m a couple with Old Third Gu? Are you really that desperate to die?”

“Stop spouting foul language! You’re the one who’s corrupted me!” Bai Lu dropped all pretense and laid her cards on the table. “To hell with slowly building some father-daughter bond. Forget waiting until we’re familiar with each other! Today, you must come with me for a paternity test! If you refuse, I’ll spill everything online. When public opinion erupts, you’ll have no choice but to prove your innocence with a paternity test anyway!”

Bai Lu sneered coldly. “Lu Yiting, make your choice! Either come with me today, or wait until I expose you, and then go for the test!”

And who was Lu Yiting?

The infamous hellion of the Lu family!

In the entertainment industry, he played the part of a refined, otherworldly gentleman, as if untouched by the world’s filth, almost ethereal. Yet in the business world, anyone with any status who had dealings with the Lu family knew that Lu Yiting was a devil incarnate! If things didn’t go his way, harsh words were the mildest you’d get—if he raised his hand, he wouldn’t stop until you were barely breathing.

Yet today, this hellion, Lu Yiting, was being berated by Bai Lu, and so thoroughly that he couldn’t get a word in edgewise.

Lu Yiting was so furious, he wanted to hit someone.

Bai Lu immediately thrust her face forward. “Go ahead, hit me. Right here. Even if you beat me to death today, I will still be your biological daughter! You have a daughter out there you never knew about, let her suffer endlessly and be bullied, and now you want to beat her to death yourself! Fine, Lu Yiting, if you’ve got the guts, kill me!”

Lu Yiting choked, “You—”

“And you don’t even know who my mother is! Scandalous! You pretend to be so upright, two decades in the business without a single scandal. If your fans found out you had an eighteen-year-old daughter, they’d be so ashamed they’d drown themselves in a puddle of their own piss!”

Lu Yiting, again, “You—”

“Stop cursing! Have some respect for your age! You have no restraint, even in front of your daughter! I never used to swear—at least never out loud. I always cursed you quietly in my heart! But thanks to you, now I’m spouting obscenities, too! Damn it!”

Gu Pianran fell silent.

At this point, he was starting to believe the two really were father and daughter.

The way they both got all worked up, eyebrows flying, was uncanny.

Lu Yiting, flummoxed by this sudden wild daughter, nearly burst a blood vessel. He sat on the coffee table in the living room, chain-smoking half a pack of cigarettes.

From time to time, he’d look up and scrutinize Bai Lu’s face.

To be honest, now that he looked closely, she really did bear some resemblance to him.

Not in the contours, but in the features.

Her eyes weren’t like his. But the nose and mouth, yes.

“Damn it, are you really my daughter? Who the hell did I have you with?”

Bai Lu shot back, “Why ask me? Who am I supposed to ask?”

Gu Pianran leaned silently against the wall, arms crossed, also studying her inch by inch.

As if he could burn a hole in her face just by looking.

Bai Lu stretched out her neck, letting them look their fill.

“No matter how long you stare, you won’t see anything new. Come do a paternity test with me. You pick the hospital—I won’t have a chance to tamper with anything.” Bai Lu sneered, her eyes gleaming. “If the test shows I’m not your daughter, I’ll kill myself on the spot. How about it?”

Gu Pianran looked into her bright, shining eyes, then at her defiant brow. After a moment’s daze, he straightened up. “Yiting, let’s go.”

Lu Yiting snapped, “Old Third Gu, are you going to join Bai Lu in her madness? At least ask her how she knows I’m her father! Who told her?”

Bai Lu sneered, “How I know is none of your business. With your status as a movie king, if I were lying about this, you could end my career with a word. By the way, Gu Pianran, didn’t you always think I was seducing men left and right? I know how powerful the Gu Group is. You could easily get Tang Xing and Ye Jingyan to dump me with a single word. So, let’s settle this—dare to come with me for a paternity test?”

Lu Yiting gnashed his teeth. “Bai Lu, you’d better be telling the truth. If not—”

“In that case, I’m your father! Ungrateful child!” Bai Lu gritted her teeth even harder than her father.

Lu Yiting clutched his head. “Damn, damn, damn—I’m really about to have a stroke…”

Gu Pianran said nothing.

All the same, it was oddly satisfying to hear Bai Lu berate the second Lu brother.

Who would’ve thought he’d ever have a day like this?

Heaven has eyes.

The hospital was a private facility owned by the Gu Group.

With President Gu himself present, the process was expedited—a result could be out in five hours, though it wouldn’t be the most accurate.

Scientifically precise results would take at least three days.

Bai Lu seemed to have changed entirely. No longer volatile or brash enough to jump up and quarrel with Lu Yiting, she sat quietly, holding her phone, occasionally breaking into a sweet smile, looking almost foolish with happiness.

But whenever her eyes met those of Lu Yiting or Gu Pianran, she instantly reverted to a rabbit with fangs, fierce as could be.

Lu Yiting, seeing her sweet and docile smile, raised an eyebrow. “What are you looking at? Are you in a relationship? What’s so funny about your phone?”

Bai Lu retorted, “What’s it to you? Are you my father? Even if you are, you haven’t given me a single meal or drink in eighteen years—what right do you have to butt into my love life? I’m eighteen, long past the age for puppy love! If you want to lecture me, wait until the test results are in!”

Lu Yiting started, “I’ll be damned if I—” but forcibly swallowed the last word.

Even if Bai Lu wasn’t his daughter, cursing like that in front of a newly-adult girl was out of line.

Gu Pianran handed over a bottle of water. “Here, have some water.”

“I can’t afford to. I don’t dare. Who knows if I’d end up seducing President Gu again! I’ve got Yu Fuqing on my left, Tang the assistant on my right, and Ye Jingyan as a backup—I’m more than satisfied. I don’t need to bother with President Gu!” Bai Lu’s mouth rattled off words faster than a machine gun.

Gu Pianran winced. Head pounding.

Lu Yiting said, “I’m going out for a smoke.”

Gu Pianran replied, “I’ll join you.”

Bai Lu called after them, “Oh, are you scared? Movie King Lu, President Gu, are you both scared now?”

Lu Yiting flopped back down, his handsome face twisted with rage. “Scared? Not a chance!”

Gu Pianran was far better at keeping his composure than Lu Yiting, maintaining a refined smile, his skills deep as the sea. No wonder he was called the smiling tiger, Gu the Blade—striking fatally from the shadows.

Gu the Blade was a nickname well-earned.

It was rather like her own, Bai the Wild One.