Chapter 2

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Lu Yan sat behind Lu Zhen as he rode on the motorcycle. Countless eyes of envy from the girls fell onto her.

The awesome motorcycle was from a very popular American brand.

At this age of time, only rich heirs like Lu Zhen could afford it among the entire school. God knows how many girls dreamed of getting on this expensive motorcycle and driving around the campus.

Even Lu Zhen’s girlfriend, Shu Mengfei, had never rode on his motorcycle. There was no other reason than the fact that she was proud and did not want rumours targeting her; rumors like her having a sugar daddy.

So Lu Yan inadvertently became the first lucky person to ride on Lu Zhen’s motorcycle.

The girls were so jealous that they bit their lips tightly.

Lu Zhen permitted her to do so purely because she resembled his little sister who had been kidnaped back then. He was planning to take her home when things were settled to see if his father would recognize her.

After the sunset and breeze, Lu Yan’s mood became very calm as she enjoyed the scenery of the streets along the way.

The scenes that could only be seen in the TV series in her era now appeared right before here. It felt so amazing and magical.

She naturally hugged Lu Zhen’s thin waist and pressed her cheek against his back.

As she was growing up, her father had never ridden a motorcycle with her. That was because there were cars at home, so she mostly used luxury cars for transportation.

Moreover, her dad was very busy at work and hardly had any time to accompany her. Only after getting into trouble at school, would Lu Zhen rush to the school to scold her and even sometimes beat her.

Her mother passed away unexpectedly when she was very young. It was Lu Zhen, her irritable dad, who cleaned up her mess and raised her up. Of course, he would often beat her when she was young.

However, when Lu Zhen reached middle age, his personality finally calmed down and began to act a little more like a dad.

It was a pity that when he finally learned to be a father, his daughter had already grown up.

So Lu Yan was actually very happy to see her teenage father.

“Lu Zhen, what kind of person is your girlfriend?”

“Why are you asking this?!”

“No reason, I just want to know what kind of person my mother is. After all, my mother died before I was born.”

Liang Ting on the side couldn’t help but laugh at her, “Hahaha, your mother died before you were born! Hahahaha!”

Lu Zhen didn’t laugh, but instead his expression became more complicated.

His little sister, who was kidnaped, was a mentally retarded child.

Maybe this girl was really his sister who was abducted by human traffickers back then.

He casually replied, “My girlfriend is the most innocent and pure person in the whole world.”

“Wow.”

Her mother’s death was a hidden pain in her father’s heart . After she passed away, her father had been depressed for many years. He never mentioned anything about her to Lu Yan. However, he did talk about her once in which he said that her mother was the most precious memory he cherished in his heart.

Lu Yan was really curious. What kind of person was her mother to be embedded in her father’s heart for so many years?

Wait, there seemed to be something wrong, her mother’s name was composed of two Chinese characters[1]. So Shu Mengfei, the “most innocent and pure girlfriend in the world”, was not her mother!

[1] Editor note- Could technically mean syllables since every chinese character has 1 syllables so her mother name has 2 syllables while Shu Mengfei has 3 syllables (3 character)

Lu Zhen looked at his watch before speeding up to head towards the billiard room.

Twenty minutes later, a group of unruly teenagers stepped aggressively into the billiard room of the Entertainment Street.

This Entertainment Street had a sense of generational heritage. In Lu Yan’s era, there were no dance halls and billiard rooms there. Instead, there were a variety of bars with unique styles. Lu Yan would often spend time with a few friends there to play and relax.

What she did not expect was that her young dad often came to this entertainment street too!

A different era, but the same hot youth!

The billiard room at that time was not as refined as it was in Lu Yan’s era. The room is filled with quarreling and flirting. Cigarette smoke occupied the whole room. Everyone was allowed to go in, with most of them being young drop-outs or young students that were not doing well in their studies. They gather here after school to have some shots and socialize.

Lu Zhen led Lu Yan through a long and narrow underground passage, and the eyes of the surrounding gangsters fell on her.

She was born with a beautiful appearance. In the era when girls were especially not good at taking good care of their skin, she stood out from the crowd with that white skin. It was so tender that water could be squeezed from her face. So naturally it was difficult for her to not be eye-catching.

Lu Yan followed her teenage dad closely, clenching the corner of his clothes in fear.

Of course, Lu Zhen didn’t want the girl who could be his mentally retarded sister to get lost, so he grabbed her thin shoulders and led her through the crowd to the billiard room.

There were more than a dozen billiard tables in the billiard room with crowds encircling each one of them. The room was shrouded in darkness, except for the tables which were bathing in rays of white light shining from the lamps of the ceiling.

Shen Kuo, who was wearing a cardigan shirt, stood by the pool table. He slowly and calmly arranged the billiard balls in the triangular mold.

He had long fingers, fair hands, and light blue vessels visibly extended from his knuckles to his forearms.

He lowered his head to organize the balls, not affected by the sudden quiet atmosphere surrounding him.

A few strands of hair hung casually on his forehead, and his dark brown eyes shrouded in the shadow casted by his eyebrows, looking deep and unfathomable.

Under the bright light of the ceiling lamp, his handsome features were exceptionally vivid.

When Shen Kuo was a teenager, even if he stood there doing nothing, his aura was still strong and compelling. Many years later, he would even gain a mature and extraordinary aura.

He would become eventually a legend in Beicheng’s business community, for it only took him ten years to move up from poverty to prosperity from scratch.

Lu Zhen saw Shen Kuo and was overwhelmed by anger. He picked up the stool beside him as he walked towards him aggressively before slamming it onto him

Shen Kuo grabbed the stool with one hand. Lu Zhen tugged at it a few times, but he still couldn’t take it back.

Shen Kuo had done rough work for many years, so his arm muscle strength was way better compared to that of a rich heir like Lu Zhen.

“Shen Kuo, you fucking let go!”

Shen Kuo raised his eyes and glanced at him coldly, “The chair broke, so you have to pay.”

His voice was low and mellow, yet flat and calm.

Lu Zhen took out his wallet again, pulled out a few banknotes and threw them on the table as he said with pride, “Today I want to practice with you. The broken tables, chairs and benches’ repair fee will be paid by me!”

Shen Kuo lowered his eyes and glanced at those tickets lightly, his eyes were cold.

The world is so unfair. There are people who are starving, and there are people who spend extravagantly.

His hands clenched into fists until his knuckles became red.

At this moment, a slender white hand stretched out, and with a “swish”, took away some of the money in a flash.

Lu Zhen and Shen Kuo turned their heads at the same time, and saw that Lu Yan folded the banknotes neatly and put them in her bag.

Seeing everyone staring at her, so she blinked her eyes and had to return the money.

“Liang Ting, get this girl away.” Lu Zhenchong shouted to his buddies next to him.

He hurried over, dragged Lu Yan away and instructed her, “You stand farther away so you won’t get hurt.”

Lu Yan pulled on Lu Zhen’s clothes and said, “Dad, don’t fight. You can’t beat him.”

He was speechless

Of course, She knew that his father could not even be considered Shen Kuo’s opponent. He couldn’t do business as successfully as Shen Kuo. He was not in his level in terms of scheming and conspiring. Even in fights, he couldn’t hold a candle to Shen Kuo, who had often practiced combat.

Basically, her father had a sad life ahead that was completely crushed by classmate Shen Kuo.

Lu Zhen looked at Shen Kuo, “Shen Kuo, let’s not talk about past grievances. Can you be an actual man and not seduce my girlfriend!?”

“I don’t even know who your girlfriend is.”

“Shu Mengfei!”

He expressionlessly replied, “I don’t know her.”

“There are eyes and ears around the school, and you still don’t admit it?!”

“Are you done?” Shen Kuo’s eyes were calm, “I’m going to work.”

Lu Zhen’s eyes trembled, and his hands were clenched into fists. It seemed that he was really furious and pissed off.

“Just hold it off. How dare you still want to go to work when I’m talking to you .”

Right as Lu Zhen finished speaking, he took the tripod from his hand and threw it to the side.

Shen Kuo’s face was cold, the blue veins on his forehead were bulging. However, he suppressed his anger, holding his lips tightly and looking at Lu Zhen deeply, “Pick it up.”

“I will not.”

Lu Zhen walked over and patted his face, “You really are stubborn and can’t be convinced. Fight me. You still owe me ten years of fire.”

‘Ten years of fire’, this sentence was really true.

It took Shen Kuo ten years to catch up with Lu Zhen, and another ten years to trample him under his feet.

Could it be that Shen Kuo’s crazy revenge against the Lu Group was because of the humiliation he suffered in the hands of Lu Zhen when he was young?

Although Lu Yan knew that family should be prioritized over the enemy, she still couldn’t stand her dad’s bullying. She broke free of Liang Ting’s restraint and was about to step forward to stop Lu Zhen when someone yelled, “The cops are coming! ”

“Run! “

The billiard room was in chaos. People were attempting to flee, and the policeman’s voice could heard from the door

“Stop!”

“No one is allowed to run! “

“Lu Zhen you brat, it’s you again !”

Lu Yan and Lu Zhen were separated, separated by the flow of people that were staggering towards the exit.

She was also afraid of being caught by the police. If those boys were to be arrested, they would be detained for a night at most. On the other hand, if she was caught without identification papers, God knows where she would be sent.

The smell of sweat and bodily odor from the surrounding men assailed Lu Yan’s nose, making her dizzy. Suddenly, she slipped and fell down.

Someone stepped on Lu Yan’s left hand causing her to shriek, “Ah! Don’t step on me!”

The men were running so they couldn’t hear her voice . As the chaos of the crowd ensued, a figure appeared in front of her abruptly, holding her head to his chest and preventing her from being stepped on.

Lu Yan looked up tremblingly and all she could see was Shen Kuo’s well-defined neck.

From close up, the boy’s facial features were three-dimensional, with a sharp outline, and his lower jaw was adorned with light blue stubble.

Shen Kuo braced his hands on either side of her body, and his plaid-colored cardigan shirt draped over her hands, which she clutched tightly.

She was plastered against his chest, so close that she could hear his steady and powerful heartbeat. She could smell his body’s scent; it was a faint smell of tobacco with a hint of bitterness of Chinese medicine.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Shen Kuo stood up and ran towards the back door while holding Lu Yan’s wrist.

Lu Yan’s slender wrist was gripped by his powerful palm. She ran with him as if in a trance, completely forgetting her father.

Shen Kuo took her to the backyard and opened the locked iron door with the key. After leaving, they found themselves in the narrow and humid alley of Tong Zilou.

He took many turns in the alley and ran with her for more than ten minutes. The hustle and bustle finally faded away.

Time was getting late, and the night spread like a tide.

Shen Kuo finally stopped, letting go of her wrist.

The girl’s wrist is as slender as bamboo. Her thin, slender body was a perfect complement to her thin pitch-black hair hanging over her shoulder, with its ends brushing by her pretty collarbone.

When she looked at him, there was a sense of fear in her eyes.

Shen Kuo’s mind was deep and keen so he was naturally aware of the girl’s defense against him.

Whenever a girl saw him, their first reaction would be fear.

A guy like him was not lovable by nature.

It is true Lu Yan was afraid of Shen Kuo, but it was justified and well-founded. Shen Kuo would eventually bankrupt her father’s company and overpowered his father’s dignity by a large amount.

How could she not be afraid of him?

Shen Kuo played with a lighter, shielded it from the wind with one hand, and turned his head to light a cigarette. His actions were a bit arrogant.

Without looking at her, he casually asked, “Lu Zhen’s girlfriend?”

“No, no, I’m his daughter…sister.”

“Sister…” Shen Kuo murmured softly and turned away uncaringly.

“Uncle Shen, no. Classmate Shen, Please wait a minute!”

Lu Yan stepped forward, took out the few banknotes that Lu Zhen had just given her from her bag. She counted them before giving him three, and kept two for herself. .

However, after struggling for a few seconds, she still gave him the remaining two, including the unissued red ticket.

“My brother broke your place. I am paying you for the damage. He really shouldn’t do that. I apologize to you on his behalf.”

Shen Kuo was a little surprised that Lu Zhen actually had such a reasonable sister.

Her eyes are clear and her eyebrows are open and upright. She is an honest girl.

But he had already lost his true self. He was used to talking nonsense to people.

In this world, not everyone was qualified to live as they wished.

At the very least, he was not qualified.

Shen Kuo felt comfortable around her.

“I didn’t know why you targeted him repeatedly. But now I know, it was him who bullied you first. You’re a strong man, please don’t hold any grudges against him.”

Lu Yan stuffed money into Shen Kuo’s pocket, asking for his forgiveness.

Shen Kuo took the money and looked at it. A trace of irony suddenly flashed in his eyes.

This time, his job in the billiard room might not be able to keep up.

Lu Yan knew that Shen Kuo was arrogant and ruthless, and he would certainly take revenge on Lu Zhen later on. For this amount of money, if she wanted him not to hold any grudges, it would be unrealistic.

She even got ready, waiting for Shen Kuo to throw the money heavily on her face, but…

Shen Kuo sneered, folded the money one by one as he put it into the jacket pocket on his chest.

The world was difficult, he had been at the bottom for many years. Who the hell can live without money?

His back gradually disappearing in the darkness of the alley. Lu Yan waved at him but he couldn’t see it.

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[Editor note] : Hi, please let me know if any sentence, wording or grammar seem weird to you (You can msg me in discord, welp#7432). Any criticism is welcome so I can improve my editing because I want to make it a more fun and easier read for you all, the readers :D. Thanks for reading!

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