President Lu, Kneel Properly: Your Wife and Child Don't Want You Anymore

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Author:
函淩
Status:Ongoing

Summary

Lu Sihan, the youngest billionaire and head of the Lu Group in City A, is known for his cold, domineering persona in business. Five years ago, he drove away Shen Luning, the chief jewelry designer he loved, due to a misunderstanding involving his former flame, Jiang Wan. Shen Luning disappeared, pregnant and alone, into obscurity. The story begins with a shocking live stream where Lu Sihan, ignoring the stares of millions of viewers, kneels on one knee in a dilapidated alley before the security door of a sixth-floor walk-up apartment. He offers her ten billion, thirty percent of his company shares, and all his real estate, begging her to come out. Behind him, twelve black Phantom cars line the narrow street, and rows of bodyguards stand in stunned silence. The livestream title reads, "I am here to repay a debt from five years ago."

Behind the door, Shen Luning remains silent, refusing to open it. Lu Sihan, desperate and on the verge of breakdown, reveals a tattoo on his collarbone that reads, "Shen Luning, everything I have belongs to you." He threatens to carve a new line of ink into his skin if she does not appear, pressing a knife to his own flesh. Just as he begins to cut, the door opens. A small boy, roughly five years old, steps out holding a toy water gun. The child, Lu Xingye, shares Lu Sihan’s distinct eyes and calm demeanor. He coolly assesses the bleeding man and warns him not to waste money on medical bills, revealing a maturity far beyond his years. When Shen Luning finally appears, she is bare-faced, tired, and utterly indifferent. She tells the weeping Lu Sihan that if he is sick, he should see a psychiatrist, not her, and closes the door on him.

Lu Sihan is devastated but refuses to leave. He learns from a neighbor that Shen Luning has been living a humble life as a single mother, running a small Taobao shop. The situation escalates when viewers screenshot the apartment number and doorplate, exposing Shen Luning’s location to the entire internet. The livestream trends globally, branding her as the woman who rejected the richest man and sparking rumors about her past as a plagiarist and substitute lover. Realizing his actions have endangered her privacy and safety, Lu Sihan frantically tries to delete the footage but fails. He spends the night outside her building, refusing to leave, eventually sitting in his car by a convenience store until dawn.

The next morning, Shen Luning considers fleeing the city with her son to escape the media frenzy but cancels her flight after seeing Lu Sihan still waiting below. She allows her son to deliver a band-aid and milk to the man in the car. During this interaction, Lu Xingye reveals he knows Lu Sihan is his father, having searched for the name on a tablet. He gives Lu Sihan a list of his mother’s habits and warns him that pursuing her is difficult. The child’s empathy and emotional intelligence contrast sharply with Lu Sihan’s inability to express love normally, a struggle Lu Sihan acknowledges by seeking psychological help to understand how to love like a normal person. The story ends with Lu Sihan beginning his long, arduous attempt to win back Shen Luning and earn the trust of his son, while Shen Luning remains guarded, determined to protect her quiet life from the chaos Lu Sihan brings.

Novel Items

Tattoo

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Shi Jianchuan has a tattoo on his chest. He placed Qin Ya's hand over it and told her he has a signature too and is also hers. Qin Ya jokingly suggested he may have tattooed it himself and then pinned it on her, which Shi Jianchuan admitted.

Knife

Weapon

The weapon Shi Qi used to attack Shi Jianchuan. Shi Qi had bought the knife and struck first. During the struggle, Shi Jianchuan seized the blade and redirected it into Shi Qi's chest, killing him. The police determined this constituted justifiable defense under Article 20 of the Criminal Law.

Deep Blue Tie

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A custom-made deep blue tie with a small diamond embedded in the clasp. Lu Sihan removes it during the livestream as part of his dramatic gesture before threatening to carve his neck.

Peppa Pig Sticker

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A Peppa Pig sticker pasted over the peephole of Shen Luning's dark green security door, visible during the livestream.

Toy water gun

Weapon

Miao Suisui's primary weapon that can dissolve metal locks and reduce targets to ashes. It was upgraded into a laser cannon after paying 100,000 level-one crystal cores from the system shop. The cannon can eliminate half of a group with a single shot and fire massive lasers.

Pink-Blue Noise-Canceling Headphones

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Headphones worn by Lu Xingye when he opens the door. They are pink-blue in color and noise-canceling.

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novelmeister Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ February 7,2026

Okay so I need to talk about this rabbit because honestly it is the single most devastating plot device in this entire chapter and I am still not over it. Let me back up. Shen Luning has spent five years building this fragile, careful life for her and Xiao Niangao. She's hiding. She's running. And then Lu Sihan shows up like a rusty knife hacking through her dam. The plot tension here is incredible because everything is happening in real time — she's trying to book plane tickets, she's reading threatening text messages, she's watching his car sit downstairs like a predator waiting. But then Xiao Niangao gives away the rabbit. The rabbit she sewed while pregnant, the rabbit Lu Sihan once called "special" because the ears were crooked. The rabbit that was supposed to be a memory, a relic of a life she escaped. And her son just... hands it over. To a stranger. Because "he was bleeding." The plot twist isn't even a twist — it's a gut punch. Because we realize this child is too good for this world. He's kind in a way his mother tried to survive without becoming. And that's the real conflict here: not whether Lu Sihan will find her, but whether Xiao Niangao's goodness will be the thing that pulls her back into the light she's been running from. Also can we talk about the text message? "Accept your fate, Shen Luning." Chills. Actual chills. The author is layering threats like a horror movie and I cannot look away.

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Chesirebobo Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ March 1,2026

There's a moment in this text — just a tiny one — where the author describes dust dancing in a beam of sunlight on the floor, and it's the most cinematic thing I've read in months. "Dust danced in the beam of light, slow and unhurried, just as this morning should have been." That sentence. That is THAT sentence. Because the reader knows it shouldn't have been unhurried. We know Lu Sihan is downstairs. We know there's a threatening text message. We know the dam is cracking. And yet the dust is just... dancing. Unhurried. Oblivious. The author builds this entire world through sensory details that feel so specific they could only come from lived experience. The pillow that smells of "laundry detergent—the kind bought on sale at the supermarket, with too much lavender fragrance added." The Ultraman tin box hiding New Year's money. The toothpaste sitting in a Taobao shopping cart for three days. These aren't decorative details. They're the architecture of a life. A single mother's life, modest and careful and real. The black SUV downstairs — not a flashy Rolls-Royce, just an ordinary black car that could be mistaken for a family vehicle. That's how Lu Sihan operates. He doesn't need to announce himself. And the curtains. They keep coming back. Billowing like a giant white balloon. Sunlight squeezing through gaps. Shen Luning pulling them open and then closing them again like she's trying to control how much of the world gets to see her.

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Suny869 Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ January 5,2026

Let's talk about the elephant in the room that the author keeps carefully circling but never directly addressing: WHAT DID LU SIHAN DO? The stakes here are enormous and the author is playing 4D chess with them. On the surface, this is a romance about a man trying to win back the woman he hurt. But the real conflict is layered—there's Lu Sihan's childhood trauma (abandonment issues, the fear that "no one will ever want me"), there's Shen Luning's five years of silent suffering, and there's this child who exists in the crossfire and sees everything. The external conflict is clear: can Lu Sihan forgive himself enough to fight for this family? But the internal conflict is what makes the tension unbearable. Every time he looks at Xiao Niangao, he's confronted with the living proof of what he lost. Every time Shen Luning refuses to look at him directly, she's enforcing a boundary that he has no right to cross. And the suspense—the author maintains it brilliantly through what's NOT said. We get fragments: "those old news articles about Lu Group's CEO seen out late at night with a mysterious woman," the fact that she cried when looking at her phone, the psychologist session where Lu Sihan finally breaks. But the actual betrayal, the actual moment everything fell apart, is still hidden. And I am losing my mind. The stakes keep rising too. It's not just about whether they get back together now—it's about whether Lu Sihan can actually heal his childhood wounds instead of projecting them onto Shen Luning. The psychologist's line nails it: "You are not sick. You were hurt when you were young, and you still haven't healed." If he doesn't do this work, he'll keep repeating the same patterns, and this time the collateral damage includes a child. Xiao Niangao understands this better than anyone. When he says "if you don't keep apologizing, it definitely won't work," he's not just being cute—he's stating the fundamental stakes of the entire story. Apologizing isn't enough. He has to change. And that's the real conflict, the one that determines whether this family ever becomes three instead of two.

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BigNigg4 Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ March 21,2025

I need to talk about this child because honestly he stole the entire chapter. Let me just start by saying: this five-year-old is the most perceptive, emotionally intelligent character in the entire novel and it's not even close. He sees through Lu Sihan's lies immediately—"Your hand trembled just now when you touched it"—and calls him out with the calm authority of someone who has absolutely no patience for nonsense. And he's right, because he's been doing this for five years. He's the one who's been there "every time" his mom cried. The father-son dynamic between Lu Sihan and Xiao Niangao is written with such restraint. There's no DNA test scene, no dramatic revelation. Just one glance from the kid at the stairwell entrance that the author describes as "a child's instinctive, genetically ingrained recognition of a father." That's it. That's the whole scene. And it hit me like a truck. But the real character work is in Shen Luning. The kitchen scene where she's making that sunny-side-up egg—"round, can't be broken"—this woman has built an entire life around protecting her son while carrying this massive wound inside her. And when Xiao Niangao tells her about Lu Sihan smiling after putting on the band-aid, she just... flips the egg and says nothing. The author uses silence as a character trait here and it's brilliant. Her line "he's not part of our family" followed by the flashback to when Xiao Niangao told his kindergarten teacher "there are only two people in our family"—that's the emotional core of the entire relationship dynamic. She's keeping him at arm's length while simultaneously never having left. The contradiction IS the character. And Lu Sihan? The psychologist scene where he finally admits his twisted logic—"as long as I'm crazy enough, you won't leave"—that's a man who has been broken since childhood and is only now, five years later, beginning to understand why. His growth arc is just starting and I'm already invested.

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davinaaugust Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ June 14,2025

Okay so let me just say this chapter structure is absolutely masterful and I need a moment. The way the author circles back to the stuffed rabbit from earlier—those embroidered L&S on the inside of the ear, hidden for FIVE YEARS—is such a quiet, devastating plot device. It's not some grand dramatic reveal with fanfare. It's just there, in a crookedly sewn toy, and Lu Sihan discovers it completely by accident while sitting in his car like a wrecked man. That's how real emotional beats work in good storytelling: they don't announce themselves. And then Xiao Niangao appears. The kid walks out in those whale pajamas with Band-Aids and expired milk, knocks on the window exactly like his father would, and suddenly the entire plot pivots on this tiny human being who sees through everything. The author uses him as both comic relief and emotional wrecking ball simultaneously. When he says "pursuing my mom is very hard" and counts off five conditions on his fingers—that's plot progression disguised as a kid being adorable. The diary detail is what really sold me though. "Day one: She said she wouldn't treat me anymore, but she didn't leave." The author is telling us this man has been keeping track of every single day since she agreed to see him again, and he's showing it to a five-year-old like it's the most normal thing in the world. And the kid says "add a line about the Winnie the Pooh band-aid." I am not okay. The structure here moves from Lu Sihan's internal monologue → the psychologist reveal → the curtain movement → the child's arrival → the kitchen scene with Shen Luning. Each beat reveals something new about the past without exposition dumps. The author trusts the reader. That's rare. But here's what's eating at me: when Xiao Niangao says his mom was going to take him away and booked tickets but canceled them—why? And what exactly did Lu Sihan do five years ago that was "so big that Mom kept crying"? The author is building this mystery like a slow burn and I am HERE FOR IT.

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Rqmkh4e Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ March 15,2026

That rabbit. That absolutely ruined rabbit. Let me tell you why it haunts me. Shen Luning sewed it when she was seven months pregnant, living in the Lu family villa, alone except for a housekeeper. Her stitches were crooked. She pricked her fingers. She was crying over a poorly made toy while carrying a child she wasn't sure she could protect. And Lu Sihan came home early that day — not to comfort her, but to prevent her from meeting Jiang Wan. The man who told her the rabbit was "good" wasn't being kind. He was being strategic. He was making sure she stayed in the house, stayed quiet, stayed grateful for any scrap of normalcy he offered. "That's what makes it special," he said. "It's different from the ones you buy outside." Translation: you are different from other women. Your pain is what makes you valuable to me. Five years later, that same rabbit is in the hands of a stranger — Lu Xingye, who was bleeding, who looked like he was in pain, who Xiao Niangao decided deserved comfort more than his mother deserved to keep her past locked away. The rabbit is everything: a symbol of the mother's labor of love, a relic of manipulation, a bridge between enemies, and now a gift from a child who understands compassion better than the adults around him. And the ending — Lu Sihan clutching that rabbit, staring at the sixth-floor window, seeing her in her wrinkled T-shirt with pillow marks on her face — that's the image that will stay with me. The man who once told her the crooked rabbit was "special" now holds it like a holy object, and she's just a tired mother trying to survive. The power has shifted. The rabbit knows.

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