The Master's Mask Unveiled Again

Chapter 185: Chapter 184 The Lying Expert is Not a Lying Expert (Added Chapter)

Back then.

In the class competition for the best painting, the teacher selected Lu Mian as the first, not her. Afraid that Lu Mian would steal her parents’ attention, she deliberately knocked over the kettle, soaking Lu Mian’s sketchbook.

At that time, her watercolor pens were also soaked on the desk, and she blamed Lu Mian for everything in one breath.

Mom believed her.

So, she watched with her own eyes as Lu Mian tore up the sketchbook and threw it into the trash, never touching a paintbrush again.

But why would something that was clearly destroyed be published?

Lu Mian casually plucked a leaf, toying with it as she crushed it.

Lu Xinnuan instinctively stepped back several paces. The last time Lu Mian played with a leaf, she pinched her viciously, the shadow of that moment lingered, making her tremble involuntarily to the bone.

This time, however, Lu Mian had no intention of hurting her, considering her no more than an ant. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

She smiled faintly, “So, you relied on the original works being destroyed and drew a counterfeit in their place? So, you took advantage of my being kidnapped and dead without evidence to enter it in the competition?”

“I…” Lu Xinnuan really had thought so.

Who knew Lu Mian was still alive, who knew she would come back?

If she didn’t come back, then the first place in the physics competition would have been hers, and Sufeng Company would have eagerly invited her to join them.

All would be as wonderful as before!

But where exactly did the problem lie?

Lu Xinnuan didn’t know whether Lu Mian was acquainted with the head of Sufeng, but what she was certain of was that Lu Mian’s paintings from that year had not been destroyed.

“Did you redraw a set and submit them for publication?”

Well, Lu Mian certainly hadn’t done that, after all, those things were trivial to her.

It was just that a little accident happened that year; um, and then, that set of water-soaked, torn paintings was taken and published by someone.

If it weren’t for Xinnuan submitting her work to Sufeng, she wouldn’t have even remembered that incident.

“Believe what you want.” Her tone indifferent.

“You!” Lu Xinnuan clenched her fists, seething with resentment, “You’re always so aloof and dismissive, you must have been laughing at all of us behind our backs! Lu Mian, do you even have a heart?!”

“…”

Lu Mian’s ears buzzed with annoyance.

Narrowing her lashes, her thin lips blew on the leaf in her hand. With a gentle flick of her finger, the leaf, as if it had eyes, skimmed past Lu Xinnuan’s cheek and flew away.

Lu Xinnuan didn’t react in time, her eyes widening.

The sharp edge of the leaf left a mark on her cheek; her blood stilled, and by the time she realized it, a warm liquid was already trickling down her face.

She no longer had the courage to block her.

Watching Lu Mian’s retreating figure from a distance, she covered her bleeding face and screamed, “Lu Mian, you demon!”

No one responded to her.

She stumbled back, but suddenly noticed a figure standing not far away.

The night was cool, shrouded in darkness; Fu Man wasn’t sure how long she had been standing there.

“Mom…” she ran over, covering her face.

Fu Man’s lips trembled as she looked at her now-unfamiliar younger daughter. After a long while, she finally asked a question.

“The year you turned six, when you broke your arm, was it really Lu Mian who pushed you?” Because of that injury, Xinnuan was hospitalized and held back a year in school, and she had also forced Lu Mian to repeat the grade.

“I…” Lu Xinnuan hesitated. Seemingly unable to bear it any longer, covering her wound, she hurried back to the side building.

Fu Man already knew the answer.

Suddenly collapsing to the ground, she cried until her eyes were dry.

It turned out, the habitual liar she had always blamed was not the liar.

The younger daughter she had always cherished was actually the one who truly lied!

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Lu Mian sent a message to their group of five.

Mian: “Everything’s settled!”

Zero: “Manual applause for Brother Mian! Flying kiss.jpg”

Yu: “Hurry back, I’ve sent Dongyang to bring you some food.”

Yuan: “You have us too!”

Lu Mian looked at the five avatars in the group, a smile slowly spreading across her lips. Finally, her eyes landed on that dim avatar, her gaze turning complex.

She sighed.

As she was lost in thought, that dim avatar suddenly lit up.