Ch8

Lu Chen knew he wouldn't be able to save his idiot from the illusion of love with just a few sentences, but for Bai Yulan, it was enough to plant a seed of doubt in his mind for now.

When she reached her room, she calmly began to scan around, and at last, as if remembering something, she began to make her way towards the white oak bookcase in her room.

As the young girl ran her hands over the stacked books, she tapped lightly on the board behind one of the shelves, and a muffled voice brought a charming smile to her face.

She deftly lifted the books in front of the shelf aside and grabbed the board she had just clicked, pulling it towards her.

The board, which seemed inseparable from the outside with the bookcase, was surprisingly easy to remove, revealing behind it an old-fashioned notebook, a key, and a jade ring in a velvet box.

'Luckily these items are still here'

These were the most important things that Bai Yulan had while living in the Bai mansion. While the key and the jade ring were the only things he had left from his mother, the notebook was the diary he kept for years, in which his deepest thoughts were written.

Leaving the key where it was and taking the diary and the jade ring, Bai Yulan reassembled the shelf and put everything back in place, then calmly began to rummage through her diary.

She didn't have much time, so she didn't dare linger too long. She quickly scanned her writings and began to tear off a few pages as she saw fit. As the sound of pages tearing occurred in the room, and looking at these torn pages she had gathered in her other hand, Bai Yulan couldn't help thinking about her past for a moment.

But knowing that she did not have time to delve into the memories, she quickly gathered himself and went out of his room, taking the Jade ring with her.

It was time to finally put on the stage for tonight's main plans.

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Thinking about what he had just overheard, Chu Shingyi couldn't help but frown.

He was late for the engagement ceremony of his stepbrother, who was only 2 months older than him, because his meeting was getting longer. Of course, on the way, his father called him and asked him to take the jewel to be given to Bai Meixie by the Chu family.

Although he was used to his father's use of him for errands like this, he was extremely bored living in a house surrounded by people who at every opportunity reminded him that he was just an illegitimate son.

Even though people always tried to suppress him, saying that he was not qualified for such a position, only Chu Shingyi was aware of the severe torture that this surname brought.

So, no matter how busy he was, he obediently accepted his father's words and set off for the Black Orchid store in the mall.

But how could the woman he met there be the same as the person who spoke the words that were now in his ears? Chu Shingyi was frozen in place for a while. He couldn't see her face because of the wall in front of him, but it didn't take him a genius to realize that there was an argument with the Lu family's youngest son.

He had initially thought of intervening in this incident, which he had witnessed by chance, when he stumbled upon the girl's counterattack and began to listen to her words echoing one after another.

Since he didn't have a close relationship with the Bai family, this oldest young lady also didn't have a good grasp of Bai Yulan's personality, but neither the silly and disastrous girl with the profile everyone knew in society, nor the completely naive and innocent girl speaking to her at the Mall.

Unbeknownst to him, the young man's eyes began to shine with a strange radiance as he thought over and over again about the girl's words and today's encounters. So much so that this situation caused him to forget why he was here for a moment, resulting in him losing the concept of time and continuing to stand still.

This was exactly what Bai Yulan saw as he descended the stairs; a Chu Shingyi holding the luxury bag of the Black orchid store in his hand and still standing stupefied in the expensive suit he wore when they met at the mall.

Seeing such an expression on the man's always solemn and sculptural smooth face involuntarily caused a very faint smile to form on Bai Yulan's face.

'He really looks sweet right now.'

Although she wanted to watch this image a little longer, Bai Yulan's eyes lit up with an idea that popped up in her mind, and as she descended the stairs, she shouted softly towards the man standing below in her cheerful and slightly flirty voice.