A few people chatted and joked for a while. Lu Shiyao brought them fresh fruit and then sat beside Yan Huaizhang, listening to them talk about some trivial matters.
Her gaze kept lingering on the two people opposite, seeming to want to say something. The way she looked at Chong Yan was complicated, and the way she looked at Zhuo Lin was even stranger. The other three noticed her peculiar expression, and Yan Huaizhang directly asked, "Yaoyao, are there some misunderstandings between you and Miss Zhou, and Mr. Ran?"
In fact, he had started to suspect when she asked him to take her to their wedding last time. He had also secretly investigated, but found no connection between the three of them. Not only had they never met, but they hadn't even been in the same place at the same time.
So he thought Lu Shiyao was just curious.
Now it seemed to be more than that.
Lu Shiyao slowly withdrew her gaze, lowered her head, and said, "I just felt that Mr. Ran looked a bit like a friend I used to have. Looking closely, he's not quite the same. It's nothing."
"Which friend? Do I know him?"
She shook her head, "An old friend, we don't keep in touch anymore."
Having said that, she didn't want to bring it up again. Yan Huaizhang wasn't playing the role of an overbearing CEO, but a gentle and considerate white moonlight. Naturally, he wouldn't be aggressive.
"So that's how it is," he smiled. "Mr. Ran doesn't look like a common face, does he?"
The others didn't chime in.
The minor interlude was temporarily set aside. The two stayed for a while longer before saying they had to leave.
Lu Shiyao saw them out. When they entered the elevator, she didn't follow. As they walked out of the hospital and were about to get into the car, Lu Shiyao, panting, chased after them.
"Miss Zhou, please wait."
Zhuo Lin felt that if she didn't clarify Lu Shiyao's doubts, this woman would be suspicious every few days.
Chong Yan was surprised to see her, but showed no other reaction. He subconsciously assumed Yan Huaizhang had sent her to relay a message.
Zhuo Lin pushed him into the car and said to him, "Sit for a while, I'll be back shortly."
"Okay."
Zhuo Lin walked back. The two of them stopped by the railing at the hospital's main entrance. Lu Shiyao was still out of breath. On such a hot day, her face was flushed. She moved her lips, and after a great deal of resolve, she chased after them. But when she opened her mouth, she didn't know what to say. After a long hesitation, she lowered her head and remained silent.
Zhuo Lin looked at her flushed cheeks and asked after a moment's thought, "Are you trying to perform 'silence is golden' for me?"
Lu Shiyao was startled, and then almost burst out laughing.
She felt that although the person in front of her looked fierce, she was quite easy to get along with. If one was carefree and didn't take her pointed remarks to heart, it would be easy.
"Miss Zhou is joking," she said, composing herself. "I just feel that as people with similar or the same experiences, we should talk." Su Dan Novel Network.
"I never said I was the same as you."
"So you're not reborn," she said, sounding a little excited. "Then are you a transmigration? Where did you transmigrate from? You're so capable, are you from the interstellar era? Why do you like Ran Chongyan? You know I'm reborn, so you should know our story. Why would you like such a scumbag man..."
"You'd better remain silent then."
Lu Shiyao's voice stopped abruptly, and then she burst into laughter.
After a while, she managed to collect herself, gasping for breath, and said, "Sorry, I'm not attacking you personally. Look at what he did in his past life, he was a perfect scumbag. How could you possibly like someone like that?"
Zhuo Lin decided to offer a counterpoint. "People can change. Look at him, was he always like this in his past life?"
"Yes."
"Was he this smart? Was his academic performance this good?"
Lu Shiyao said matter-of-factly, "Of course. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to deceive me. He got a direct admission to S University in his past life and was also in research. However, without your support, he could only do minor tasks under his mentor and achieved fame much later."
Zhuo Lin: "..."
It actually made some sense.
She glanced at the car over there, then said, "If there's nothing else, we can find a place to talk."
Lu Shiyao was naturally eager. So she messaged Yan Huaizhang, and Zhuo Lin also had the driver take Chong Yan back to the laboratory first. Then the two of them went to a coffee shop not far from the hospital.
Picking up her coffee, Lu Shiyao began to recount the story of their past lives.
From the beginning, Zhuo Lin felt something was wrong.
Although she didn't have much of the plot, she had the general trajectory of Chong Yan's life. It wasn't just similar to what Lu Shiyao was saying; it was completely unrelated.
In the plot she received, Ran Chongyan was a timid and pitiful individual. He lost his father at a young age, and then his mother. He lived by begging from house to house from the age of ten. By the time he grew up, he had always lived at the bottom of society, struggling through life, and never had a good life.
But in Lu Shiyao's story, Ran Chongyan's life was much more exciting.
He was born in a remote rural village and studied very hard, firmly believing that education could change his life. Therefore, he became the first high school student in his village, and the first university student, and he was admitted with honors.
However, people who grew up in such an environment would inevitably have some psychological issues. Ran Chongyan was no exception. On the surface, he was a handsome, youthful, and sunny senior, but inwardly, he was very dark and narrow-minded.
He hated his background and was disgusted with his family's circumstances. At the same time, he disliked those wealthy and powerful classmates, feeling that those people relied on their parents and wouldn't go far.
Until his final internship before graduation, those with wealthy and powerful backgrounds could enter good workplaces or study abroad through their parents' arrangements. He, on the other hand, couldn't find any connections and could only follow his mentor, taking on small tasks, doing manual labor every day without accumulating any experience, and completely wasting his time.
At this time, Lu Shiyao appeared.
Her family might not have been a noble and influential one in S City, but in Chong Yan's eyes, she was definitely a beautiful and wealthy white-collar worker.
Lu Shiyao liked gentle and handsome boys, so Ran Chongyan began to shape himself in that direction. He had always maintained a gentle and sunny image to fit in with those classmates. Lu Shiyao quickly fell for his advances, and the two became a couple.
When Lu Shiyao's father learned of his background, he naturally strongly opposed their relationship. He had humiliated Ran Chongyan many times. Although Lu Shiyao stood firmly by his side, even going so far as to oppose her own father, and offended many friends and relatives to protect him.
Instead of feeling grateful, Ran Chongyan developed a sense of resentment towards her. This resentment grew stronger as they got married and lived together, and as Lu Shiyao's father began to treat him as family and take care of him.
Lu Shiyao's father was very strict with people. He was dissatisfied with Ran Chongyan but couldn't change his daughter's decision, so he was exceptionally harsh with Ran Chongyan, which deepened his resentment.
However, he hid it very well. Only after Lu Shiyao's father passed away and the Lu family's company fell into his hands did he reveal his true colors. He confessed to Lu Shiyao all his years of resentment and his true feelings towards Lu Shiyao and the Lu family.
Lu Shiyao was furious, but before she could avenge her father, she was killed by one of Ran Chongyan's admirers.