Upon learning that he was here, the director even came to see him during the day.
Lu Man was taken aback again. How did he suddenly come here?
"Lu Qi wanted to fight for the leading role in the director's new film and made an appointment with the director in the room. Knowing the director's intentions, she ended up wanting to use me as a substitute when it came down to it. I refused, and when we argued, she knocked me out with a table lamp. The director was also accidentally injured by her," Lu Man explained briefly.
"I see," Han Zhuoli nodded.
Lu Man was surprised to find that he didn't have any suspicion in his eyes towards her.
He actually believed her.
"Do you believe me?" Lu Man asked in surprise.
"Why wouldn't I?" Han Zhuoli seemed to find the question absurd, as if believing her was a matter of course.
"Why?" Lu Man forgot that she was still being held in his arms at this moment, and all that remained in her heart was the impact of his trust in her.
They were strangers, having just met today, and he didn't know anything about her, yet he believed her so readily.
Even her own biological father didn't believe her.
But Han Zhuoli, whom she had just met, believed her without hesitation!
"There's no why. I know you're telling the truth," Han Zhuoli said.
This couldn't be explained, it was just because of his family's ability.
Each of the eight major families had their own abilities, and the next family head would also be someone who had awakened their family ability.
In each generation, only one person could awaken the family ability.
Therefore, once awakened, that person would inevitably become the next family head.
And Han Zhuoli's family ability was the ability to discern lies.
When someone spoke in front of him, he instinctively knew whether they were telling the truth or lying. It wasn't about knowing the other person's thoughts, just simply being able to discern when the other person spoke.
Very few people knew about the family abilities of the heads of the eight major families, and they only told those they trusted, and wouldn't casually reveal it to others.
Otherwise, their special abilities would become a fatal weakness.
It would be easy for someone with ill intentions to exploit or find ways to counter or use it.
Lu Man's eyes were a little warm. In two lifetimes, apart from her mother, no one had ever given her such trust.
Since her parents' divorce and Xia Qingyang entering the Lu family, she was as good as having lost her father.
Lu Qiyuan no longer believed her words. Whatever Xia Qingyang said, whatever Lu Qi said, he believed them.
Even though she was the one being bullied and framed, Lu Qiyuan never believed her, reprimanding her, punishing her, asking her to learn from Lu Qi, and to not bully Xia Qingyang, to be respectful to her stepmother.
It had been a long time since she had heard anyone say they trusted her.
And the person saying it was someone like Han Zhuoli, who had no relationship with her at all.
It was really funny.
Even a stranger could believe her words, while her own family didn't, and her childhood sweetheart, knowing the truth, would rather help the real culprit to frame her.
She had really failed in her past life.
Han Zhuoli's trust filled her heart with warmth, and a strange feeling arose within her, making her skin that was in contact with his feel unusually warm, and her heart was beating so fast that it felt like it was about to stop.
At this moment, the sudden ringing of the phone abruptly pulled Lu Man out of this strange feeling.
"Aren't you going to answer the phone?" Han Zhuoli said, but his hand was placed on her in a very inappropriate manner.
Lu Man had been lost in thought just now and hadn't noticed, but now she looked down.