321 Everyday Engagemen

"What the actual F*ck?!" Lu Sheng cursed out loud while Lu Han tried to keep his jaw from falling and dislocating.

Madam Lu placed a hand on her chest exclaiming in surprise, as if she would start jumping in glee any moment now while Master Lu looked like he was ready to kill the so-called closed off guy, who looked like he had said the most obvious of things.

As if engagements were a daily quota for him! He wasn't even serious enough to look humble to ask for their blessings, he looked smug like it was the most mundane thing to say to someone who you have just met!

The male of the Household had known his ways for long. He was a callous and rough man who took no bullsh*t, even if one was too foresee his shenanigans you couldn't help but see the match was too unbalanced to create an equilibrium.

The man was built like a barbarian and she was a twig that was fragile enough to break with the snap of his hand, neither in wealth nor in strength were they equal. When the honeymoon period fades, if there was a honeymoon period to begin with, such relationships with a superior and inferior partner hardly survived.

The only reason Master Lu had leaped for the Li Family was because they owed him years of immunity that he had granted them from the Government forces. They owed it to him and the contract would keep the marriage to last but this was shoving his daughter to an open cannon!

"Enough of this drama!" Master Lu snapped, he turned to Madam Lu and shouted, "Take her inside!"

Madam Lu rolled her eyes at the dramatics of the old man and was about to retort some sense into him when someone beat her to it.

"No! Daddy I…I love him!" Lu Xinyi stammered as her cheeks tinted by making such a avowal in front of her father. But she stood her ground and held his arm as if they were going to drag her away.

Master Lu looked at her incredulously like she had grown another head, "Since when? Last week?" His sarcasm paused her to blink several times.

It had been only about a month he had confessed to her and a week that she told him that she returned his feelings. So he was pretty much right…

But he made her heart race, his hugs were comforting, he listened to her rant about her rejected plots with a smile, he is always there for her every evening complimenting her cooking when he could be anywhere in the world eating professionally made cuisines, he appraised her painting and did gardening with her. He made her feel… special.

Like she was the only one in the room that was in his focus and the rest of the world was a suspended blur…

And she had known him for almost a year. He always stayed respectful to her and had been a friend before a prospect partner but wasn't it what a good partner would be like?

What he was for her was a sensei, a friend, a shoulder to cry on when it was too much for her heart to take, a lap to lay on her day spent in peace. When she didn't know who she was, he helped her find herself and then the only thing she knew was him.

Furthermore, there was nobody else she knew that could ever replace him and there was nobody else that could ever be what he was for her.

What if it was only a week she had loved him for? Lu Xinyi the ever open book confirmed the words by her stupefied reactions causing another wave of gasps.

Her eyes widened seeing people take the wrong meaning of her bewilderment. Her shocked eyes at once turned to Yu Youhan who just smiled at her softly. 

Her throat was clawed by her voice stuck in her throat. Her eyes welled up at the thought of this love of theirs ending in a tragedy because of her mistake.

She was desperate and pleading her father with her eyes as it trailed between the one who gave her life and the one who was her life.

Yu Youhan cupped her face and pecked her on her lips widening her eyes and the others at the table. 

Master Lu looked about ready to jump him but Madam Lu held him by the arm, he was a flame away and would burst in flames and her brothers looked redder than she was. The only one who was blooming with pleasant smiles was Madam Lu.

They kissed a lot as he liked doing it and she found his kisses good too but in front of her family it was mortifying.

While she couldn't see it, every other person in the room could see his possessive declaration. It was his way of branding her.

"Go," Recovering from her initial shock she looked like she wanted to argue but he shook her head and she closed her mouth and left to go to her room escorted by the Housemaid.

One glare was enough to send Lu Sheng and Lu Han on their way. Master Lu and Yu Youhan sat by each other glaring at each other.

The tension in the room by the former General and the Young tycoon was sizzling and could provide electricity to the damn cit. Madam Lu wanted to slid out of there on her hands and knees so they wouldn't notice her.

Inwardly she was ecstatic for the girl; she was a little lily bud and was destined to live a tough life in compensation of the easy life she had lived. 

In the Elite society women talked in hushes and whisper though nothing about his love life is ever heard. His iron-fist Business tactics are renowned but the devotion and tenderness in the eyes of the brute man was what won her over.

The Li's guy though could charm your pants off was lethal in a sweet knife manner that you wouldn't even realize was slitting your throat until your head was on the spike.

The imposter Lei Xinyi could handle such type because she was one, but Lu Xinyi was naïve and would never figure out his games unless he had played her.

But Yu Youhan was plain in his method, brutal and straightforward and if he was true in his pursuit of her then the rest would come easy.

Master Lu s broke the menacing silence with his concluding statement, "My daughter is not marrying you!"

He looked almost bored to have the confrontation, "I love her." He took a pause smirked, still facing down, "She stayed almost four months in my residence. No man would dare look at her with my name attached to her."

"And that's the lamest argument you could raise." Master Lu spoke with suppressed rage because the Young man was right. 

Even with Li Yuan as her ex, she was off the Market. He had to strike a deal to make the other girl his adopted daughter in papers for it to be possible. But if Yu Youhan name was to be associated with her, he would have to buy a husband for her and still he would die than marry her!

Yu Youhan relented and thought. The man was to be his Father in law after all. Bad relationship with him wouldn't have good impression on his relation with Lu Xinyi.

So he tried to explain. Coldly. 

"When she crashed on my Headquarters the brakes on her car were trampled and she was drugged," Master Lu shock confirmed he had no prior knowledge of the fiasco and his lack of argument proved he knew it to be true, "Who do you plan to marry her off to? A senator? A General? Or a corrupt Businessman? When the dam breaks lose no one will protect her like a Yu."

The tension was brewing like a storm on the raging sea about to take the world by a tornado…

"Aww… Aren't you a hopeless romantic!" Madam Lu exclaimed but as Master Lu's glare sharpened on her she started coughing and avoided his eyes, "Sorry! Something struck in the throat."

Madam Lu turned to Yu Youhan with a serious poker face and gave him a stern look, "What I meant to say was that you should rethink about all the aspects and see if you still find her that desirable candidate. After all feelings hardly contributes in successful marriage." When Master Li nodded and turned back to Yu Youhan she winked and shook her head at Yu Youhan.

He suppressed his emerging smile and fixed his eyes back on Master Lu who spoke earnestly, "Not only that we are not sure when you decide to bolt out of matrimony. Mainly, it Is not for you to come with our hand. Your parents should have come…"

Yu Youhan cut him off, "My family doesn't know I am here but any woman about to be my wife will be their next Matriarch. And… you want guarantee?"

It was true, his family would be ecstatic he was marrying 'who' wouldn't even be a question as they were certain the next heir would be a surprise bastard. She will be cherished like a dew and loved like a dear.

Master Lu looked at him contemplating for a while. The Young man had a point. Although The Lu Family was one of the most influential Families it contrasted to the other side of the law. They were defenseless in those areas especially now that the Li's had withdrawn their protocol.

The man in front of him could offer him both happiness and protection for Lu Xinyi but…

Master Lu was deep in thought when Yu Youhan ever self-assured voice cut his thought process, "15 percent of all my properties, off and on shores will be in Lu Xinyi names as my gift to her on our engagement." Master Lu eyes widened and he was speechless to utter another syllable. Even wealthy Romeo wouldn't do something drastic as such especially since engagement isn't marriage and for all you know she could break it

But to Yu Youhan it was simple when she was going to be his wife anyway. Her name or his name wouldn't matter. And… it was strategic in case something happened to him; it would ensure her safety and survival.

Madam Lu gasped and looked about ready to swoon on him when he spoke again, "Another 35 percent when she will be my wife and another 50 and she will give birth to my first heir and it was supposed to take place regardless of your intervention."

This is half his fortune they were talking about!