23. She's not Your Daughter.

                                    

                                          


                          
There were a great many people at the party and the place where they were standing was not in the corner. Moreover, Lin Ru looked obviously pissed off by Liu Chengyu, so they drew a lot of attention.
                          
Jung Jun-ah was pale. She was a public figure and also Liu Chengyu's fiancée, which was a fact envied by many people, so she was afraid that people may find out that Liu Chengyu wanted to break his engagement with her. She hurriedly tugged on Lin Ru's arm, shook her head at her and pleaded in a low voice, "Mom, there are too many people here. Let's go back and talk about it."
                          
Lin Ru took a look at Jung Jun-ah, and nodded with a sullen look. But when she was about to leave with Jung Jun-ah, Liu Chengyu suddenly said, "You don't have to go back. I have something to attend to in a while. Why don't we just solve it here?"
                          
Jung Hee-chul was shocked that Liu Chengyu had suddenly become so ruthless towards Jung Jun-ah, so he stared at him speechlessly. However, as a sophisticated person, Lin Ru was not frightened by Liu Chengyu's words. 
                          
Since she even refused to acknowledge her own daughter, she certainly wouldn't be swayed by a word of Liu Chengyu. She stared at Liu Chengyu with narrowed eyes and asked coldly, "Liu Chengyu, what do you mean?"
                          
Liu Chengyu chuckled and his eyes fell on Jung Jun-ah. Just as he was about to speak, however, Jung Jun-ah immediately let go of Lin Ru's hand, stepped forward to hold his hand and softly begged, "Chengyu, I beg you, let's talk about this when we go out, alright?"
                          
Liu Chengyu took his hand out of Jung Jun-ah's. Looking at Jung Jun-ah's pitiful look, he gave a mocking smile and said, "If I hadn't seen your true colors, I would have been cheated by you again."
                          
Jung Jun-ah was stunned. Her true colors? What did he mean?
                          
Did someone speak ill of her in front of Chengyu?
                          
Thinking of this, Jung Jun-ah burst into tears. She looked piteously at Liu Chengyu with tears in her eyes, and said in a low voice, "Chengyu, what's wrong with you? You scare me being like this..."
                          
Coldly looking at the tears on Jung Jun-ah's face, Liu Chengyu suddenly felt that humans were truly strange creatures. Before he met Erika and found out about the truth, whenever he saw Jung Jun-ah cry, he would feel that this girl was pitiful and needed to be protected. But now, after having seen her true colors, he only thought her tears were too repulsive and that he couldn't even bear looking at her.
                          
Seeing the look on Jung Jun-ah's face, Lin Ru frowned, but she still glared at Liu Chengyu and said coldly, "Liu Chengyu, you must give me an explanation tonight!"
                          
"Explanation?" Suddenly, someone came over and asked wonderingly, "What explanation?"
                          
Lin Ru looked up only to see a middle-aged couple coming over; they were Liu Chengyu's parents. She sneered and said, "Gonghua, Luoxian, you came just at the right time. Your son suddenly said he wanted to cancel the engagement with our Jun-ah. Don't you think you should give us an explanation?"
                          
Xi Luoxian was a good friend of Lin Ru during their time in university, and later on the both of them had worked in City A. Xi Luoxian's family was very powerful in City B and she had good appearance, manner and personality, so she married Liu Gonghua. 
                          
Although she was now forty or fifty years old, she looked to be in her thirties as she took very good care of herself. Hearing Lin Ru's words, she immediately frowned, turned her eyes to her son and asked seriously, "Chengyu, what's wrong with you? Have you forgotten what we taught you?"
                          
Liu Gonghua also frowned at Liu Chengyu. Obviously, he didn't agree with Liu Chengyu's decision, but he didn't say anything. In his opinion, even if his son had really done this, there had to be a reason.