Chapter 8

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When Lu Yan came to the new classroom, she saw Shi Ya sitting upright in the front row wearing the skirt that Shi Xuexian had carefully prepared for her.

Shi Ya missed the entry score requirement of Beicheng No. 3 Middle School by just three points short.

Seeing that Lu Jian didn’t seem to want to help her, Shi Xuexian had to use the identity of Mrs. Lu to beg the principal of Beicheng No. 3 Middle School.

She didn’t expect that the principal actually not only knew Lu Jian’s ex-wife and even had a very good impression of her. Shi Xuexian received a lot of sarcasm from him. Despite that, she could only smile. After all, she was the one asking for help.

Coming out of the principal’s office that afternoon, she was shivering with anger and her lips were pale.

Fortunately enough, after a long round of begging, the principal finally helped her and agreed to let Shi Ya enroll. It seems like it all worked out after the humiliation she had faced.

Even though Shi Ya and Lu Yan were in the same class, Lu Yan didn’t want to talk to her. She walked straight to the back of the classroom to take a seat.

When Lu Yan was in high school in her previous life, she always liked to sit in the back of the classroom. This was because she used to watch beauty tips videos with the girls or play games with the boys in class.

Several girls she’d seen before who were looking for her father were sitting and huddling together in front of her, chatting and whispering loudly enough for her to hear–

“I heard that the Lu family’s young miss is also in our class!”

“Is it true? Lu Zhen’s sister is with us?!”

“Yes, but I don’t know who she is.”

“If you become friends with her, you will be able to see Lu Zhen often!”

“Hahaha, what’s the use of that? I can just look at him from a distance.”

“Huh? You are too silly. If you become friends with his sister, you might get closer to him.”

The girls looked around, guessing who might be the sister Lu Zhen. Lu Yan lowered her head. She looked exactly like him so she didn’t want to be the focus of everyone.

…

Lu Zhen was indeed quite popular in school. After all, he was handsome and had a sunny and outgoing personality. Everyone had a good impression of him, and even the school’s teachers were partial to him.

Shi Ya stretched her neck long and leaned up like a swan, with an expression on her face as if she was afraid that others would not know that she was related to Lu Zhen.

Her best friend Qin Qin saw through her thoughts at a glance, so she deliberately raised her tone and said, “Ya Ya, I heard that your brother Lu Zhen is going to have a music party tonight. I really want to go.”

Her voice was controlled just right to make everyone around her shift their attention to their discussion, while also not sounding deliberate to not be labelled as fake.

The girls immediately cast curious gazes at Shi Ya. She stretched out her hand to pull a strand of hair behind her ears and held up her head even higher as she cleared her throat to say softly, “You know, I’m not a person who likes parties. So I don’t think I want to attend. But if you want to go, I can tell my brother.”

Qin Qin took Shi Ya’s hand, smiled and replied, “Thank you Yaya .”

Shi Ya felt extremely inferior because she was not a true member of the Lu family. She was extremely face-saving and prideful, so naturally she didn’t have many friends around. Qin Qin was her junior high school classmate. Qin Qin had always tried to gain her favor because she knew that Shi Ya lived in the Lu family’s manor. Therefore, the two of them quickly became “best friends”.

Under Qin Qin’s propaganda, half of the classmates knew that Shi Ya was the younger sister of the school grass Lu Zhen. Many girls sat next to Shi Ya, trying to please Lu Zhen’s rumoured sister.

“It’s mom who bought me this skirt, it’s from a Parisian brand.”

“My brother is not home most of the time so I don’t meet him often.”

“He did not come to see me. You know what kind of man my brother is. On the surface he may not talk much to me, but he actually loves me very much .”

Shi Ya really enjoyed the feeling of being watched and surrounded because Shi Ya suffered a lot of cold shoulder and disregard as a child. Why? It was because Shi Xuexian gave birth to her out of a wedlock. It was a shocking scandal at that moment. Her childhood situation caused her to desperately want to be the center of attention.

Lu Yan just thought it was funny. At home, her mother Shi Xuexian tried her best to separate the father-son relationship between Lu Zhen and Lu Jian. But now, she shamelessly labelled herself as Lu Zhen’s good sister.

Of course, with this “unintentional” declaration, Shi Ya was able to make a name for herself in the new semester and become a high-profile girl in the class. It was not only because she was Lu Zhen’s younger sister, but also because she was the young miss of the Lu Group.

The Lu’s Group had been operating industries and factories since the Republic of China. Since its development, it has undergone many reforms and structural upgrades. Now it was well-known throughout the country and the Lu family was considered as one of the wealthiest families in China.

These dreamy auras are enough to inflate Shi Ya’s vanity infinitely.

Lu Yan put on her headphones as she did not want to hear those girls flattering Shi Ya.

At this moment, a girl next to her approached her and asked curiously, “Is this your Walkman?”

Lu Yan raised her head and looked at her. The girl had nice skin and a pair of bright apricot eyes, and her smile was sweet, like a crescent moon.

She took out the Walkman and handed it to the girl. The girl took it excitedly, and lamented, “I really want to buy a Walkman, but it’s too expensive.”

“My brother gave it to me.”

Lu Zhen had indulged and spoiled her to no end. Bicycles, Walkman , game consoles… Whatever she wanted, He would find a way to give it to her.

Back then, that harsh dad would never buy her a game console, unless the sun came out from the west.

So the treatment towards a sister and a daughter is still very different.

“Whose song are you listening to?”

“Leslie Cheung’s.”

“Ah! I really like him too. Can I listen to it together with you??”

Lu Yan saw that the girl had a cheerful personality, so she handed an earpiece to her. At that time, the friendship between girls was always very simple. After listening to the song together, the two quickly became familiar with each other.

The girl’s name was Qi Yuhuan, but the boys in the previous class always liked to tease her by calling her [1]Yang Guifei, which made her very distressed.

[1] p/f note: Yang Guifei is one of the four beauties of ancient China. Yang Guifei’s other name is Yang Yuhuan. Not sure how this is considered an insult but what i think is that they are making fun of her name because Yuhuan as a name is uncommon

Her parents chose this name for her so she couldn’t do anything about it.

Lu Yan asked her, “Are you a student who was promoted to junior high school?”

“Yes.”

“Do you know a girl named Jian Yao?”

Qi Yuhuan shook her head blankly, “I don’t know, why?”

“I want to meet her, she is a very important person to me.”

After all, that was her mother who she hadn’t seen even once.

There was another very important reason why Lu Yan wanted to study in Beicheng No. 3 Middle School and that was meeting Jian Yao.

“Is she a student in our school?” Qi Yuhuan asked.

“It should be.”

“What grade?”

“I don’t know.”

Qi Yuhuan was a warm-hearted girl. After thinking about it, she offered, “Several of my junior high school classmates are scattered in several classes in high school. I can ask them to help you and see if there is a girl called Jian Yao in their class .”

“Thank you! If you can find her, I’ll be very grateful.”

” You’re welcome.”

While they were talking, suddenly a girl at the window exclaimed, “Lu Zhen is coming!”

Almost half of the girls in the class craned their necks and looked out the window.

Being a cool boy, Lu Zhen’s dressing style was also similar to that of avant-garde. His outfit was with a black jacket and leggings, a pair of black leather high-top shoes, and loose laces.

From the perspective of Lu Yan’s modern aesthetics, his leggings were glaring to the eyes. However this was not the modern era, so the girls around her felt that he was shining and handsome.

He didn’t hesitate to walk into the classroom 1-2 with a stride.

Everyone thought that Lu Zhen was looking for Shi Ya. But he walked past her without even glancing at her, and walked straight towards Lu Yan, “Who told you to bring the Walkman to school?”

“Why can’t I bring it?”

“If the old man knows, he will beat me.”

Lu Yan was still listening to music with headphones on, Lu Zhen unceremoniously tore them off. THen he stepped on the stool, and leaned over to look at her.

Lu Yan smiled and said, “I won’t let him know. It’s our secret.”

As the elder brother, he naturally doesn’t want to be too harsh on his sister. He sat in the empty seat in front of her and handed her two tickets.

“There is a party tonight, come join your dad. No, I mean, come to join your brother.”

He was taken aback by how naturally he referred to himself as her “dad” .

Lu Yan accepted the ticket and readily agreed, “Okay!”

He didn’t want to bother her anymore so he left. Before leaving, he patted the back of her head and asked her to put the Walkman away.

She hugged her head and curled up her lips.

Seeing that the two of them were so intimate and natural when they got along with each other, the classmates naturally realized that their relationship was not simple. Then their eyes fell on Shi Ya, and their impression towards her changed–

“What’s the matter? Didn’t she say that Lu Zhen is her brother? But he ignored her and gave the performance ticket to someone else.”

“She was lying! Lu Yan and Lu Zhen look really similar, and both are named Lu.”

“I heard that the Lu family has a stepmother, this one should be the daughter brought in by the stepmother.”

“Please, a stepsister and a biological sister are tens of thousands of miles away. How thick of a face does she have to be to say that she’s his sister?.”

“I almost believed her lie.”

Shi Ya’s face was red, her hands gripped the corners of the skirt tightly. A pinkish white bite that was self-inflicted could be seen on her lower lip.

This is the so-called self-inflicted embarrassment. As much adoration and flattery others can give her, the same amount of embarrassment was returned..

Lu Yan felt that even if she didn’t act, Shi Ya could kill herself.

What was really difficult to deal with was her cunning mother. Her schemes turned the Lu family’s father and son against each other.

When Lu Jian was sick in his later years and was nearing death, not having a good relationship with his son and losing his daughter became his biggest regret in this life.

Then Lu Zhen finally lost his youthful spirit, bereaved of his father, wife, daughter… He became a real lonely man.

After Lu Yan’s reincarnation, she vowed she would never let the people she cared about receive the slightest harm.

Qi Yuhuan looked at Lu Yan expectantly with a pair of apricot eyes. To be precise, she looked expectantly at the two tickets in her hand.

She handed the ticket to Qi Yuhuan generously, “Let’s go together tonight.”

“Wow!” Qi Yuhuan exclaimed with joy, “There will be a good show tonight.”

Lu Yan was puzzled, “What’s so good? A play? “

“You do not know? Your brother’s music party was because of his and Shen Kuo’s rivalry! “

“What rivalry?”

“I heard that Shen Kuo with a few friends staged a dance hall to debut tonight, right on the entertainment street. After Lu Zhen knew about it, he rented the basement opposite and set up a dance hall, and it was for free. Everyone could go in and play, making it clear that he wanted to ruin Shen Kuo’s stage! Who would want to buy another dance hall’s ticket when there’s a free one? For Lu Zhen to throw money like this, your family is really rich!”

Lu Yan frowned, “Really?”

Lu Zhen did all these things, but didn’t tell her.

“I’ll know if I go and have a look tonight.”

“Okay.”

After school, Shen Kuo carried his bag and walked out of the campus lazily.

A gust of wind blew by, and Lu Zhen’s music party flyer floated to his feet, just to be stepped on by his left foot.

Shen Kuo picked up the leaflet and looked at it, with a chill in the corner of his eyes.

The song and dance hall he opened with his friends spent all the savings he earned over the years of part-time work, and the free song and dance hall of Young Master Lu clearly stated that he was going to oppose him and squeeze his business.

After a while, Shen Kuo threw the leaflet into the trash can, and then walked in the direction of the entertainment street.

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