The marriage was not the grandfather's idea. It was that he had seen through Ye Ran’s heart and her years of pretense, and had done her a favor out of convenience.
Lu Linshen had always been painfully aware that everyone around him had an agenda, his grandfather and parents included. If he could not shoulder the heavy burden of the Lu Family, if he could not perfectly fulfill his role as the heir and manage all the assets of the Lu Group, then he would be out—useless. Even his grandfather, who had raised him, would not have the heart to cast him out, but he would surely look upon him with the disgust one reserves for a failure.
He could not afford a single mistake. He could not fail. He could not allow personal loss to implicate or drag down the entire Lu Family. From the moment he understood the world, an invisible weight had rested upon his shoulders. Because of this, no one he encountered could ever truly reach the depths of his heart.
Chapter 29