This story was both melodramatic and cliché.
He'd heard it countless times when listening to storytellers in Tongxian City.
Rapists often used this trick to deceive women.
And profligate playboys who lured respectable women also used this method.
Yet, it was a highly effective tactic, almost always successful in ensnaring its target.
Lu Chengyun, with his seemingly gentle and carefree demeanor, turned out to be a "pretty boy" who rose to power by latching onto a woman.
He must have spent a lot of effort in seducing Miss Lu.
The timing, location, the words spoken, even every gesture, were probably meticulously planned out and rehearsed by him...
Lu Chengyun's image plummeted in Mo Hua's mind.
Lu Ming continued, "Miss Zhu conveyed her feelings to the Old Ancestor."
"The Old Ancestor didn't agree, feeling that though the Family Head was handsome, he had unsavory intentions and wasn't a suitable husband."
"Spoiled by the Old Ancestor's indulgence, Miss Zhu had a willful personality; she had to obtain whatever she wanted and thus relentlessly pressured the Old Ancestor until he consented to have the Family Head marry in."
"Refusing to eat, taking poison pills, cutting off her own meridians... she used all sorts of unbearable methods..."
"Left with no choice, the Old Ancestor had to agree, unable to withstand Miss Zhu's persistence."
"After the Family Head married in, he took the surname Lu, and the Old Ancestor even gave him a name, calling him Lu Chengyun."
Lu Chengyun...
Mo Hua stroked his chin thoughtfully.
Was the Lu Family Old Ancestor mocking him?
This name seemed to have positive connotations: riding the clouds to ascend, gracefully reaching the realm of immortals, the pursuit and hope of one on the path of Tao Cultivation.
But given Lu Chengyun's circumstances, it took on a different nuance.
Lu Chengyun, being a son-in-law, did the term "riding clouds" imply that he had climbed up in life by clinging onto the Lu Family?
In his bones, the Lu Family Old Ancestor probably still despised Lu Chengyun, using this name to remind him to never forget the fact that he became a son-in-law, dependent on the Lu Family...
One harboring ill intentions, and the other being sarcastic.
These two truly were cut from the same cloth.
Mo Hua asked further, "How many people in the Lu Family know about this?"
Lu Ming shook his head, "Very few. I had been in the Lu Family for so long before I entered the Corpse Mine, and I had never heard even a whisper of it..."