“Mr. Lu.”
“Hmm?”
“Don’t you think you’re a little too harsh on your nephews?” The two returned to the room, and Su Ran blinked at Lu Shao and asked.
“Harsh?”
“Yes.” Su Ran nodded.carpreads.pages.dev
Thinking about the Lu family, who didn’t even dare to breathe in front of Lu Shao, Su Ran found it a little funny and a little pitiful.
Lu Shao chuckled twice as he looked at Su Ran’s earnest expression.
“You saw the situation at home. If I’m not strict with them, I won’t be able to control them.” Lu Shao said solemnly.
Really? Su Ran raised an eyebrow, expressing doubt about Lu Shao’s explanation.
It seems that Lu Shao was also quite strict with his own son. The only difference was that her family’s Su Han dared to confront Lu Shao head-on.
“Are you sleepy?” Lu Shao asked.
Don’t say it, but when Lu Shao reminded her, Su Ran really did feel a little sleepy. After all, it was the middle of winter, and it was really suitable for sleeping. Of course, the most important reason was that the parent-teacher meeting at Su Han’s school was held a little too early.
Seeing Su Ran looking so tired, Lu Shao smiled and said, “Rest for a while first, I’ll call you later.”
“Okay,” Su Ran nodded. “Let’s go together.”
Although the room was quite warm, Su Ran had been feeling a bit chilly lately, so Mr. Lu was very honored to have another function as a hot water bottle. Su Ran slept without any burden.
Originally, Su Ran thought that when Lu Shao said he would call her later, he meant to call her to get up for dinner, but she didn’t expect that when Lu Shao woke her up, her luggage had already been packed.
It wasn’t until she boarded the plane with Lu Shao, her eyes still heavy with sleep, that Su Ran realized what was happening.
“Where are we going?” Su Ran asked Lu Shao with a puzzled look on her face.
“Country A, the Lu family has a vacation home there.” Lu Shao said.
“So, this time, you’re actually planning to take us on a vacation?” Su Ran asked, raising an eyebrow. Mr. Lu’s attitude didn’t seem like it was a spur-of-the-moment decision. So, was this the little secret between Lu Shao and his son?
Wait a minute!
“Where’s your son?” Why didn’t Su Han follow?
“At home.” Lu Shao said calmly.
“What?” Su Ran asked, her eyes widening. “Why aren’t we taking our son?”
“Since it’s the break, I’ll have Zhou Fu and Yan Yi take him with them to get him familiar with some company matters,” Lu Shao said seriously, pausing before adding, “And at home, he can just finish his winter break homework.”
Yes, it was not wrong to finish the winter vacation homework in advance to avoid rushing to do it before the start of school. Besides, with Zhou Fu watching, Su Ran was quite relieved.
But, just leaving your son at home like this, Mr. Lu, are you sure your conscience won’t hurt?
And…
“Su Han didn’t say anything?”
“No,” Lu Shao replied.
Although, the truth was that Su Han would only find out that his parents had left him to go on vacation about two hours later.
As for deception, it doesn’t exist.
Lu Shao’s agreement with Su Han was still valid, but with an additional condition: Su Han needed to finish his winter break homework first, and then Zhou Fu would send Su Han to Country A. As for whether Su Han could complete his winter break homework in a week, that was his own business.
……
After hearing Lu Shao’s words, Su Ran nodded, but she still somewhat disagreed.
“No, I’m still a little worried about leaving Su Han at home alone.” Su Ran frowned and said again.
Although she knew that Lu Shao didn’t bring Su Han, mostly because he wanted to leave some time for the two of them to be together, Su Ran still couldn’t help but feel a little worried about not bringing her son along.
“Don’t worry,” Lu Shao kissed Su Ran on the forehead and said, “We’ll only be gone for a week. We’ll be back in a week.”
“Besides, the child is grown up and should be given some space to live independently.”
“Sleep a little longer? The journey will probably take about 10 hours.”
“I’ve already slept for an entire afternoon.” Su Ran looked at Lu Shao and said in a low voice. However, having said that, on the plane, leaning against Lu Shao, Su Ran fell asleep again at some point.
……
When the two arrived at the Lu family’s manor in Country A, it was just morning.
The entire Lu family estate was very beautiful. But that wasn’t the main point. The main point was that from the entrance of the manor to the villa in the center, all the places were decorated with pure white flowers and white gauze.
The originally dignified and grand manor was once again draped in a layer of romantic and dreamy colors. Such attire was clearly not the norm in this manor.
The only situation that Su Ran could think of was one——a wedding scene.
Suppressing her slightly accelerated heartbeat, Su Ran followed Lu Shao into the villa. At the same time, she also saw the wedding dress in the room, which was obviously a “huge investment”.
Probably because he knew that Su Ran liked big, flowing wedding dresses, this wedding dress was also designed with a long skirt.
“You prepared this in advance?” Su Ran asked, looking at Lu Shao with twinkling eyes.
“Yes.” Lu Shao nodded with a smile.
After a pause, Lu Shao asked again, “How is it? Do you like it?”
Lu Shao looked at Su Ran with anticipation in his eyes, but his tone carried a hint of nervousness that was unusual for him.
Lu Shao saw a hint of redness in Su Ran’s eyes, and his heart couldn’t help but tighten.
“Xiao Ran?”
“Well, it’s not bad.” Su Ran said reluctantly, turning her slightly flushed face away. The next second, without waiting to look at Lu Shao, Su Ran buried her entire head in his shoulder.
“We’re an old married couple, why bother with all this, it’s a waste of money…” Su Ran leaned on Lu Shao’s shoulder, and finally felt safe enough to let the tears welling up in her eyes drip onto Mr. Lu’s clothes as she whispered.
Listening to Su Ran’s insincere words, Lu Shao’s tension finally eased a bit, and he let out two gentle chuckles.
“Because I owe you a wedding.”
After a pause, Lu Shao added, “You also owe me a wedding.”
Heavens! Who said Mr. Lu doesn’t understand romance?
Su Ran didn’t know what the specific standards of romance were, but she was already moved to tears by someone’s carefully planned surprise.
“The wedding dress… I chose it.”
“Do you like it?” Lu Shao asked.
“Mm.”
Hearing Su Ran’s response, Lu Shao’s lips curved into a smile.
“Then put it on.”
“Okay.”
“Ahem, then you go out first and wait outside.” Su Ran took off the wedding dress and looked at Lu Shao, who was still standing there. Her face flushed as she spoke.
“Don’t need my help?”
“No need,” Su Ran flatly refused, glancing at Lu Shao with a slight lift of her eyebrow, and added, “Besides, the element of surprise, get it?”
“Haha,” Lu Shao chuckled twice. As he exited the room, he added, “I’m outside. Call me if you need anything.”
“Yes, yes, you can go out first,” Su Ran nodded and said, “It might take a while.”
After all, wearing a wedding dress is not as easy as wearing a regular dress. Just these layers of white gauze alone require a lot of effort to arrange properly.
However, it should be fine, right?
Although it was her first time wearing a wedding dress, Su Ran had a lot of experience wearing similar gowns before. However, Su Ran’s thoughts were still too simple.
For aesthetic purposes, the back of the wedding dress was hollowed out, and this part was locked tightly with ribbons. The overall design seemed simple, but it was actually quite complicated.
Anyway, Su Ran herself couldn’t handle it. After trying to tighten the ribbon a bit, Su Ran gave up decisively.
“Lu Shao.”
“What? Do you need help?” Lu Shao’s voice came from outside the door.
“Uh, come in for a moment.”
“Wait!” Su Ran said anxiously as the door opened.
“What’s wrong?”
“Wait a moment before you come in.”
“10 minutes.”
Su Ran said, dragging the large train of her wedding dress, and quickly walked to the dressing table to put on some makeup first. For this makeup, Su Ran had even looked up how to do bridal makeup on her phone.
Thirty minutes later, when Lu Shao was called in by Su Ran again, Su Ran had already finished putting on her makeup. Lu Shao was stunned by the woman in a white wedding dress in front of him, and his eyes couldn’t hide a touch of amazement.
“Are you dazed?” Seeing Mr. Lu’s stunned expression, Su Ran couldn’t help but smile. She dragged her skirt, walked in front of him, raised her hand, and waved it in front of Lu Shao’s eyes, asking.
Lu Shao smiled as he grabbed Su Ran’s hand.
“How is it?” Blinking, Su Ran asked Lu Shao.
“Very beautiful.” Lu Shao said truthfully.
Lu Shao cleared his dry throat and asked, “What do you want me to do?”
“This.” Su Ran turned around, lifted the long hair hanging behind her, and revealed her back, where she had just finished half of the “major project”.
“Just follow the style below and help me put on the upper part of the ribbon.”
“Lu Shao?”
“Yes, okay.” After recovering his mind, Lu Shao responded.
“Sorry, I didn’t think it through.”
This manor was specially equipped with servants, but because he didn’t want to be disturbed, Lu Shao had arranged for all the servants to go to the logistics area in advance. Lu Shao had overlooked the complexity of wearing a wedding dress.
“No, I think it’s great this way,” Su Ran said with a smile.
Lu Shao spent almost 10 minutes putting the last piece of ribbon on the back of Su Ran’s dress.
“Are you ready?”
“Yes.”
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“By the way, do you think I should leave my hair down or put it up like this?” Su Ran turned around and asked, gesturing to Lu Shao as she put her hair up.
Upon hearing this, Lu Shao stepped forward, took hold of Su Ran’s hand that was originally holding up her hair, and let her long hair fall down again. Lu Shao lowered his head and planted a kiss on Su Ran’s forehead.
“No need, this is fine.” Lu Shao said with a smile.
After speaking, Lu Shao lifted the hem of Su Ran’s dress behind her and led her outside. Standing face to face with Su Ran, Lu Shao took out the wedding ring he had ordered earlier from his suit pocket.
“Su Ran, thank you for coming into my life, thank you for choosing to accept me, thank you for becoming my wife.”
“What I said to you before will never change. I will do everything I can to protect you and our child, and I will do everything I can to give you the best.”
Lu Shao put the ring on Su Ran’s ring finger and made his promise. Before Lu Shao could finish speaking, Su Ran had already thrown herself into Lu Shao’s arms.
“Lu Shao.”
“Hmm?”
“It was so nice to have met you.”
……
That night, Lu Shao walked into the room and saw Su Ran sitting in a lounge chair, lost in thought.
“What’s wrong? What are you thinking about?” Lu Shao asked as he crouched down in front of Su Ran. He was a little worried that Su Ran might not be used to being there all of a sudden.
The next second, Su Ran frowned slightly and said softly, “I miss our son.”
Since she came to this world, this was the first time Su Ran and her family’s Su Han were so far apart. Although she knew that Su Han was at home, and that Zhou Fu and the housekeeper were there, so there wouldn’t be any problems, and two hours ago, she had just urged Su Han to go to bed early on WeChat.
But when she couldn’t see him, Su Ran couldn’t help but wonder if her son had gone to bed obediently or if he was still playing with his phone… and other such questions.
Hearing Su Ran’s words, a hint of helplessness flashed across Lu Shao’s eyes, and he finally gave in.
“Tomorrow I’ll have Zhou Fu arrange to send him over.” Lu Shao sighed softly and said.
“Really? Ahem… then you.” Thinking about Su Han coming over tomorrow, Su Ran was still quite excited, but looking at Mr. Lu’s depressed expression, Su Ran felt that it was a bit inappropriate to be too excited now.
“I’ll have him bring over his winter break homework, as well as the big gift bag of practice problems you bought for him before.” Lu Shao said in a deep voice, his gaze slightly heavy.
“Therefore,” Lu Shao propped himself up and planted a kiss on Su Ran’s lips, then said, “Shouldn’t you give me your time now? Mrs. Lu?”
One of the few nights.
Upon hearing this, Su Ran’s face flushed. However, she still cooperated and let Lu Shao carry her to the bed.
……
That night.
Su Ran wasn’t sure if this person was finally able to indulge herself because her son wasn’t next door, or if she wanted to make the most of this rare evening alone.
In short, tonight a certain Mr. Lu really really had enough. Actually, Su Ran really wanted to remind Lu Shao that they were both adults and should exercise some restraint.
However, thinking about the “huge sacrifice” Lu Shao made because he missed his son, Su Ran’s heart softened, and she eventually let Lu Shao do whatever he wanted.
It’s just that——
“Um, Lu Shao…”
A sudden sharp pain in her abdomen made Su Ran frown instantly, followed by a very uncomfortable chest tightness.
“Stop for a moment……”
Su Ran pushed Lu Shao away, feeling a little uncomfortable. Feeling the slight force on his shoulder, Lu Shao was taken aback, and then he heard Su Ran’s voice that could not hide her discomfort. Lu Shao stopped abruptly.
“What’s wrong?” Lu Shao nervously turned up the lights next to him, only to find that Su Ran’s face was a little pale at this time, and his heart couldn’t help but tighten.
“Where are you not feeling well?”
“I,” feeling a wave of nausea and revulsion, Su Ran frowned deeply once more.
“I’m going to the bathroom…”