The Reborn Scummy A and the Sickly O Got Together (GL, ABO) - Chapter 5

The summer solstice had just passed.

Located in the northern coastal region, the capital quickly descended into humid and sweltering weather.

The Lu family ancestral home was said to have a history of two hundred years, dating back to the Qianlong era. Originally a grand three-courtyard mansion, it housed over thirty people at its peak just the masters, mistresses, and their children from various branches.

It was quite the prominent family.

A century passed in the blink of an eye, and the original layout had long been altered through renovations.

Now, only the main three-story building remained, with each floor covering around 300 square meters. It included a master bedroom, secondary bedrooms, a study, a living and dining area, and a game room, while the top floor boasted an open-air swimming pool with a 50-meter-long track.

Additionally, there was a glass greenhouse, a tennis court, and a spacious south-facing terrace off the master bedroom that overlooked the flat, emerald-green lawn in the backyard.

Luo Mingyue, of course, had no right to the master bedroom. Her room was one of the secondary bedrooms on the second floor.

The master bedroom on this floor belonged to Lu Ping, the eldest son of the Lu family, a male alpha and, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the future heir.

Currently, ten members of the Lu family lived in this old residence, spanning three generations. To an ordinary family, this would be considered a thriving household.

That day, the young ladies of the Lu family had all dressed up, sparing no effort in their preparations.

Apart from Lu An, who had married into wealth right after graduating from university and moved out, Lu Ping and his two younger sisters, Lu Xi and Lu Le, had all opted for soft, light-colored homewear that exuded understated elegance.

Lu Jia also cautiously joined them. Among the remaining three sisters, Lu Ping didn’t consider Lu Jia the most beautiful, but she was undoubtedly the omega most appealing to alphas.

Lu Jia’s background was awkward, to say the least in Lu Ping’s eyes, even more disgraceful than Luo Mingyue’s origins.

At least Luo Mingyue was the legitimate child of his aunt’s legal marriage.

Lu Jia, on the other hand, was the illegitimate daughter of the son of his grandmother’s sister in other words, the granddaughter of his great-aunt.

The relation was so distant that, a century ago, he could have legally married her.

However, by the time Lu Jia’s mother brought her to the Lu family’s doorstep, his great-aunt’s family had long since moved overseas.

Given the unpleasant fallout from the family division, relatives had turned into enemies they’d rather never see again, and all contact had been severed.

Unable to track down the other side of the globe, Lu Jia’s mother simply left the child at the Lu family’s gate in the capital, with a note explaining the situation, before vanishing into the crowd without a trace.

She was an Asian exchange student who had graduated that year and promptly returned to her home country.

Old Madam Lu didn’t mind having another child in the household. After some deliberation and considering she was an omega, she decided to raise Lu Jia within the family.

So, in Lu Ping’s view, when it came to status, Lu Jia, an illegitimate child from a distant branch was even lower than Luo Mingyue.

Lu Jia wore a gray-blue floral dress, her waist-length hair left loose, unpermed and undyed plain but sweetly innocent.

Lu Xi and Lu Le, arms linked, chatted about the distinguished guest arriving that day:

“What era is this, and they’re still so superstitious? Some fortune-teller said our family’s feng shui could change their luck, so the Feng family asked, and Grandmother was all too eager to invite them over. It’s not like our family is that far beneath the Fengs, is it? Now that we’re hosting some young mistress, don’t expect me to indulge her.”