Chapter 284 No Mom... You Ruined My Life

Seeing the sadness in Lu AnLing's eyes, Lu Xiaoling felt as if someone held her heart in their hands and that they had squeezed it hard.

"No...I...I..." Lu Xiaoling started but she could not finish. The woman was speechless. In her mind, everything that would come out of her mouth would sound like an excuse, so she didn't know what to say.

Lu Xiaoling: "I wanted to save you from what I went through..."

"Save me?" Lu AnLing wanted to scoff. "No mom... you ruined my life."

Hearing this, Lu Xiaoling froze.

"Do you even know what happened to me when you sent me away to France? No. You don't. Because you abandoned me again. But this time, I didn't have a dad and you took my children away from me..." Lu AnLing said with a low voice as pain dripped from every word spoken.

Lu AnLing: "Do you know what you 'saving me' drove me to do?"

Lu AnLing lifted her sleeves and then she showed her mother her wrists. There were barely noticeable scars.

Seeing this, Lu Xiaoling felt her throat become hot. It was like she couldn't breathe but like she wanted to puke at the same time. For the first time, Lu Xiaoling realized the consequences of her actions.

Lu Xiaoling had signed the adoption papers because she thought it was for the best, but truly it wasnt...

Lu Xiaoling had lived a period in her life when she had blamed all her problems on Lu AnLing. She blamed her failed marriage, her bad relationship with her father and the emptiness in her heart, all on Lu AnLing but truly, none of this was Lu AnLing's fault. It was her own.

But even so, never had she ever wanted to cause Lu AnLing pain but it seemed like she had done it without meaning to.

Lu Xiaoling bowed her head to her daughter.

"I'm sorry... I'm so so sorry." Lu Xiaoling said, but it sounded more like a chant.

***

Many days had passed since Kang Liang has begun his investigation of the footage in Hotel Helios. Many hours had been dedicated to watching and rewatching clips and so, the man began to look like a zombie. His usually handsome face was now ashen and he had bags under his eyes from his lack of sleep.

This would usually bother Kang Liang but nowadays, he had more important things to worry about.

When he started his investigation, he had known that it would be long and hard but he did not expect there to be so many twists, turns and dead ends.

After re-watching the videos for what seemed to be the billionth time, Kang Liang had noticed that there was some footage missing.

Namely, the one which showed how Kang Jun had gotten to Lu AnLing's hotel room door.

Kang Liang found it strange that Kang Jun had passed out right in front of her door, and so he had checked to see how this had come to be but somehow, there was no footage at all.

And so, once again, the man had hit a wall.

Not having any time to waste, Kang Liang went to go find the manager and inquire about the tapes, but to his surprise, the manager was no help in finding them.

"You're telling me that the footage isn't here? How can that be? Who had access to this?!" Kang Liang said with annoyance.

Due to his lack of sleep, the man was very irritable and at this point in time, due to how badly he just wanted to figure things out, he could no longer control his annoyance.

The Manager of Hotel Helios looked at the boy with panic. "It doesn't seem to have been erased, so someone must have edited it out. This footage is from before the Kang Corporation acquired Hotel Helios, so anyone from back then to the ones who work in here nowadays could have taken it..."

Hearing this, Kang Liang massaged his temple.

"You must have some sort of employee log right? Give me a list of every single person who had or would have had access to this room," Kang Liang said commandingly.

Hearing this, the manager was speechless for a second.

"This might take a couple of days..." the manager said softly.

But as soon as he heard this, Kang Liane frowned.

"I don't have that much time to waste." Kang Liang said angrily. He had already spent a lot of time away from his duties at Halo Stars Entertainment that he feared that Mo Yichen would seriously cut him off.

Thinking about this, Kang Liang's head began to hurt. He then looked to the manager with coldness in his eyes.

Seeing the Managers dumbfounded expression, Kang Liang frowned. "I want it within the hour."

After saying this, Kang Liang left without allowing the manager to say a word.

This was rude, and Kang Liang was not the type to be rude but he felt completely annoyed.

Kang Liang then went to take a seat in the lounge of Hotel Helios. Once there, the man examined the place and thought.

How could someone have dared to drug Kang Jun or Kang Zhi? And why? Also, why would someone even want to drug Lu AnLing?

There was something going on but Kang Liang did not know what. But he was going to find out no matter what...

As much as Kang Liang had insisted that he wanted the employee log within the hour, noticing it would not be nearly enough time, he allowed the manager to have 3 hours more.

When the manager finally gave him the list, Kang Liang read through it as he sat at the bar and he chatted up the female bartender whenever she was free.

Kang Liang was a charming man so when he would speak to her, the female bartender would smile, laugh and twirl her hair. This reaction reinvigorated the tired Kang Liang so he smiled back and flirted as he usually did.

As he did this, Kang Liang tried to live in that moment and not in the constant moment of overthinking but then he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Could you give me some red wine, please." The voice said.

Hearing this, Kang Liang turned to see Lu Shuya sitting beside him.

The girl had not noticed it was him.

Like Kang Liang, Lu Shuya looked completely drained. Seeing this, Kang Liang wondered why...

But before he even thought of speaking to her, he examined the girl well.

The girl was nowhere near his type. She wasn't that pretty, with her defined nose and a usual blank expression on her face. And by the way she sat erect and coldly but with her arms and legs crossed, Kang Liang could tell that she was putting up a pretence of strength.

Kang Liang did not like those who played hard to get and this was exactly how Lu Shuya seemed to be.

But for some reason, after witnessing what she had done for Lu AnLing at the reunion, Kang Liang could not help but feel like there was something more to her.

Although, he couldn't put his finger on it...