On both sides of the winding mountain road, there are tall platanus trees, black cars hovering up the mountain road, and a courtyard full of Western European style sits halfway up the mountain.

Jiang Rui was sitting in the living room of this mansion.

Her identity in this world is a rich daughter named Zhou Qiaoqiao, the only daughter of the Zhou family, with a good family background, a bright-looking appearance, and a favorite since she was a child, she is the envy of everyone.

It is a pity that such a charming girl died in the apartment alone due to excessive drinking. The reason is that his fiancée, Lou Minglang, has changed his mind and fell in love with a female college student who was an intern at the company.

Zhou Qiaoqiao disdains to rob men with other women, and likewise, she can’t stand someone stepping on her self-esteem. So her wish was that Jiang Rui would let Lou Minglang bow his head in front of her no matter what method she used so that he would not be able to stand up for the rest of his life.

And Jiang Rui’s goal in this world is Lou Minglang’s third uncle, Lou Wenyuan.

“Miss Zhou drinks tea.” Aunt Li, the servant, brought the tea.

“Thank you.” Jiang Rui nodded slightly.

This courtyard is the main house of the Lou family. Zhou Qiaoqiao used to come to play with Lou Minglang in the past. She was a frequent visitor here. It wasn’t until Lou Minglang moved out a few years ago that she did not come here very often. All the old servants in the house recognized her.

Although Zhou Qiaoqiao is proud and somewhat self-willed as a little girl, she has received good tutoring since she was a child, so even if she speaks to the servants, she is restrained and polite. Everyone likes her.

“Miss Zhou is coming, so she should call in advance. Master is coming back quite late these days,” said Aunt Li.

“It’s okay, Aunt Li can go to work, don’t worry about me.”

“Would you like some snacks? I remember Miss Zhou liked lava cakes the most when she was young.”

According to Zhou Qiaoqiao’s current mood, how can she eat it? Jiang Rui politely refused, “Thank you, Aunt Li, I’m not hungry yet.”

“Hey, if you need anything later, just say it.”

“Okay.”

Such a temporary intention to run to the door is actually considered impulsive, but Zhou Qiaoqiao has such a temperament, she can not be wronged, saying that wind is rain.

Fortunately, Jiang Rui was lucky. In the evening, Lou Wenyuan came back.

The carved wrought iron gate slowly opened and a black car drove in and stopped outside the gate of the main building.

The butler was already waiting outside the door, waiting for the car to stop, stepped forward and opened the rear door.

First, a foot stretched out inside the car, wearing exquisitely crafted leather shoes under his feet and the straight trouser legs did not have any wrinkles.

“Miss Zhou has been waiting for you all afternoon.” The butler reported.

The expression on Lou Wenyuan’s face remained unchanged, “Is Minglang here?”

“No, Miss Zhou came here especially to find you.”

“I see.”

Jiang Rui heard an unhurried footstep and looked up.

Although Lou Wenyuan is Lou Minglang’s elder, he is not much older than him, only thirty-five or sixteen. He dressed in a suit and leather shoes, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, gentle and elegant, not like a businessman, but more like a harmless scholar.

However, older people in Hong Kong City will never forget how Lou Wenyuan, who was just over 20 years old, quietly won the position of the head of the Lou family more than ten years ago and forced his two illegitimate brothers to leave other countries.

After he took over, the Lou family has gradually grown. In the past, there were several other families that could be compared with it, but now they are hard to beat. In Hong Kong City, if the Lou family was number two, no one would dare to recognize number one.

No one dared to regard Lou Wenyuan’s harmlessness as real harmlessness. Those who could not figure it out had already paid a heavy price for their contempt.

“Uncle Lou—” Jiang Rui stood up and greeted him. When ‘Uncle Lou’ had already spoken out, she changed her words abruptly when she remembered the purpose of her trip: “Mr. Lou.”

Lou Wenyuan did not seem to notice anything unusual, with a smile at the corner of his mouth, in a gentle tone: “Qiaoqiao is here, why didn’t you go to see Minglang today?”

For the time being, only he and Zhou Qiaoqiao knew about Lou Minglang’s transfer of love, and no one else knew about it.

Hearing Lou Wenyuan mention him, Jiang Rui had a trace of sadness and unwillingness in her eyes. But she forced herself to bear it, pursed her lips, and raised her chin, like a proud little phoenix, “I have one thing to say to Mr. Lou. Let’s talk alone.”

“Oh? It is worth such solemnity, it must not be a trivial matter, follow me to the study.” Although he said that, looking at Lou Wenyuan’s expression, he still regarded this as a child’s request and did not take it seriously.

Jiang Rui followed him to the study on the second floor and Aunt Li served them tea.

“Bring Miss Zhou a snack.” Lou Wenyuan ordered.

Before Aunt Li answered, Jiang Rui said, “No, thank you, Mr. Lou.”

Aunt Li looked at Lou Wenyuan and saw him nod before leaving.

“Are you having trouble with Minglang?” Lou Wenyuan asked as they sat on the sofa facing each other across the coffee table.

Jiang Rui did not answer. She was silent for a while, and after mustering up her courage, she directly explained the purpose of her visit: “I hope Mr. Lou can marry me.”

Unexpectedly, she would say such a thing. Lou Wenyuan raised his brows slightly.

His mother was French and he inherited his mother’s deep eyes and straight nose, and the irises of the eyeballs are light gray. When he looks at people, they are almost as cruel as cold-blooded squamous animals.

So he often wears glasses, this thin layer of isolation makes him look much gentler.

But the purer the person, the sharper the intuition. Although Lou Wenyuan always showed others with a smile, Zhou Qiaoqiao had been afraid of him since she was a child. Every time she came to Lou’s house to look for Lou Minglang, when she saw him, she always called Uncle Lou and avoided him.

Like in nature, herbivores have an inherent fear of top predators.

Jiang Rui exchanged glances with him and was about to move away almost immediately, but she bit her lip to hold back, her back straightened, and her palms on her knees were unconsciously clenched.

Lou Wenyuan still curled his lips, taking her words as a child’s willfulness, “Did you really get into trouble with Minglang? I’ll call him later and ask him to apologize to you.”

“No need.” Jiang Rui categorically refused, pursing her lips stubbornly, forcing herself to look at him, “I don’t like him anymore. I want to divorce him. I hope I can marry Mr. Lou. What conditions do you have?”

Listening to her regard the marriage as a negotiation, Lou Wenyuan seemed to feel funny and the smile at the corner of his mouth became more obvious, “Don’t say childish words. I’ll call Minglang back now, let him apologize to you in person, and then have dinner together. Uncle Lou will teach him a lesson for you so that he will never dare to mess with you in the future, how about it?”

He said, preparing to take out his phone.

“Don’t call him! I said I don’t like him anymore! I just don’t like him!” Finally, Jiang Rui could not maintain the calm appearance she had pretended and yelled to stop him. Her tone was very fierce, but her words were full of crying. Like a kitten lashing out at its enemies, trying to maintain its last bit of dignity. But its sharp claws have no power at all, they can only scratch people’s itches and want to bully her unscrupulously even more.

Lou Wenyuan stopped temporarily.

Jiang Rui could not hold back her emotions for a while and it might be that she wanted to use this impulse to speak out. Otherwise, when she calmed down, she might not have had the courage to speak to Lou Wenyuan like this.

“Didn’t you always look at him as unpleasant? Now that I am retiring from him and marrying you, the Zhou family will also be on your side and you can bring down Lou Minglang with you. Isn’t that what you want? Aren’t you satisfied? If you have any conditions, tell them all!”

This could be called venting anger, but Lou Wenyuan was not angry and handed her a tissue. His tone was still tolerant: “Minglang is my nephew, how can I dislike him? There is no need to knock him down. Where did you hear that nonsense? Don’t talk about it in the future.”

Jiang Rui wiped away her tears indiscriminately, her nose turned red from crying and stubbornly repeated: “I don’t like him anyway. I didn’t like him first!”

As if thinking of something, she suddenly raised her head to look at Lou Wenyuan. “Why don’t you agree to marry me? Am I not pretty enough? Do you also like those female college students who have little soup and water?”

The word also immediately let Lou Wenyuan understand the ins and outs. But he did not speak, just looked back at Jiang Rui quietly.

Jiang Rui looked away almost instantly. She was so obsessed with him, but in order to avenge another person, she forced herself to such an extent.

At this moment, she was like a little phoenix that just fell into the water, propping up all the feathers all over her body, only to protect the last bit of pride.

She once again forced herself to look at him, her tone of voice stubbornly unreasonable, but choked up, “I won’t give up, I will keep looking for you until you agree.”

Lou Wenyuan did not respond to this.

“I won’t give up.” She repeated, sniffed, raised her chin, got up, and left.

Lou Wenyuan worked in the study for a while, changed into his home clothes, and went downstairs for dinner.

Aunt Li brought the bowl and chopsticks, looked at his expression, and carefully asked, “Sir, what’s wrong with Miss Zhou?”

“It’s just a little cat.” Lou Wenyuan smiled at the corner of his mouth, carelessly, not knowing what he thought of, his smile was slightly frozen. He muttered silently: “It’s another cat…”

On the other side, Jiang Rui drove down the mountain. Although her eyes were still red, the expression on her face was as calm as water.

She had understood Lou Wenyuan before and knew that he was not as gentle as he showed, and even very dangerous. Such people are often deep-minded, suspicious, and sensitive. If people play scheming in front of him, they may be seen through immediately. And the more coquettish, impulsive, unreasonable, and the more unintelligible the true temperament is displayed, perhaps it is not easy to be suspected.

At least today’s trial was considered a success. Although Lou Wenyuan treated her words as a childish joke, he did not refuse her request to come back again.

That’s enough.

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