Chapter 253 But I donst like you either (1/2)

Without batting an eye, Louis Lu looked at him straight in the eye and answered as blank, emotionless as ever. ”Yes.”

Upon hearing his cousin's blunt response, Ethan Lu heavily exhaled as he slowly rubbed his palms on his face. After three seconds, Ethan Lu raised his gaze once again and met Louis Lu's unfazed front.

”No, let me rephrase: Are you the one who did that to brother Mo? I mean, did you tried to kill him.” Low yet clear, Ethan Lu glanced at the second floor out of being cautious before he returned them to Louis Lu who was silently contemplating whether to answer or not.

Of course, the moment Ethan Lu received Chris Yu's warning, part of him already concluded this much— Louis Lu being involved with Morris Liu's recent incident because of his time in the country coincided with Kong Shuren's death. Hence, knowing his cousin whom he trusted despite their borderline in the Lu family power struggle, Ethan Lu and Louis Lu had always remained transparent with each other.

”No, I keep my hands clean— you know that.”

”Did you ask someone to do it for you? Lou, I don't have time to be playing words with you.” Furrowing his brows, Ethan Lu scoffed as Louis Lu was always like this. One should be precise and attentive whenever they were talking to this man before him or else, they would think that he was a liar.

After all, Louis Lu was always like this, like a genie that needed a complete, exact wish or question for it to be granted or answered truthfully. That is why Ethan Lu must ask all the questions possible to clear his suspicions towards Louis Lu. He was not to be blamed though as Louis Lu would never bother to explain his side of the story the reason why he was always misunderstood through the years.

”Playing games? I am not— I am merely answering your questions. If you're so curious, you should have said: Can you please explain your involvement with Morris Liu's shooting incident? If you said that, I would have probably finished my explanation by now and perhaps, I would already be on my way to the hotel that you booked for me.” In a matter of fact tone, Louis Lu crossed his legs one over the other and leaned his back against the sofa's backrest as he peered at Ethan Lu as if his cousin had turned weird.

Seeing Ethan Lu exhaled a heavy scoff as if he had already figured that out, Louis Lu mildly shook his head before he indifferently resumed. ”Well, back when I arrived here, I was told that your place was rather lively at night— I wasn't talking about your activities with your lover up there but your security surrounding the place. So, I was curious and I found out a thing or two: about our always entertaining family and the Liu Empire— it was amusing by the way.”

”What did you exactly do, Lou?” Toneless words escaped Ethan Lu's mouth as his deadpan gaze examined every little change of his cousin's gesture and expression. It was as if nothing could escape from his pair of eyes and one wrong move or gesture from Louis Lu, he would find out.

”I sold his schedule.” Without any reserve, Louis Lu responded along with the blinking of his eyes. ”No, actually, I purposely dropped it and someone picked it up.” Correcting himself, Louis Lu elaborated on how he ended up giving that information away by seemingly dropping the piece of notepad unintentionally.

”You did what? How— why?” Knitting his brows together, he leaned his head forward, grit his teeth, and asked in an almost whisper, afraid that Lexi would hear them. Ethan Lu's mind worked double-time as he processed the complex answer from his cousin. Sold Morris Liu's schedule? Just how did he do that? More importantly, why would he do such a thing? After all, if Louis Lu sold Morris Liu's schedule, the only possible conclusion to it was: he leaked Morris Liu's schedule to his enemies and hence, the ambush.

But WHY? That is the biggest question hovering inside his head as Ethan Lu could not wrap his head around what had gotten into his cousin to entangle himself with such a problem. In retrospect, his cousin was the most indifferent and wise person he had ever met. Thus, Ethan Lu was utterly shocked.