Are you stupid? I am the villain behind the scenes

The next afternoon, Shen Lanyi and Yi Yun boarded a plane to Baicheng.

With Yi Yun, a passionate local "tour guide", Shen Lanyi didn't need to make any plans and could just enjoy the whole trip.

In this way, Shen Lanyi spent nearly half a year comfortably in Baicheng.

During this period, she lived a very happy life every day. Gradually, she fell in love with this vibrant city and was attracted by Yi Yun, who was gentle, considerate, humorous and handsome.

But she didn't accept his confession.

This is just a temporary refusal to agree.

There were two reasons why Shen Lanyi did not agree to Yi Yun's confession.

Firstly, she felt that she was still engaged to Li Cenyuan, and she wanted to cancel the engagement first.

The second is that she was worried that her parents would object to her interacting with ordinary people.

The aristocratic family has expressly forbidden members of the aristocratic family from marrying and having children with ordinary people. Even if they are not getting married but just dating, Shen Lanyi is still afraid that her parents will not agree due to the family rules.

Therefore, she wanted to wait a little longer, until Li Cenyuan took the lead in breaking this restrictive "rule". This way, it would not be so difficult for her to speak to her parents later.

During this period, Shen Lanyi was busy immersing herself in the novel life in Baicheng, and her contact with Li Cenyuan gradually decreased. The number of chats was very few, but she knew that Li Cenyuan was just like her. He had also met someone he liked and planned to bring him back to Xuanzhou for his family to recognize.

So Shen Lanyi waited, waiting for Li Cenyuan to bring the good news of success.

As a result, she never got to wait, and Shen Lanyi thought that Li Cenyuan's struggle was not going well, so she planned to return to Xuanzhou to help him.

Two people together are always better than one person alone.

After making the decision, Shen Lanyi immediately said goodbye to Yi Yun and prepared to return to Xuanzhou.

When Yi Yun learned that Chen Lanyi was leaving, he instantly became like a puppy abandoned by its owner, with a look of loss and reluctance in his eyes. It was only after Chen Lanyi coaxed him for a long time, saying that she would agree to his confession the next time they met, that he reluctantly sent her home.

After being away from home for more than half a year, when Shen Lanyi arrived in Xuanzhou, she first returned to the Shen family and met her mother whom she had not seen for a long time. They talked about many things that happened during the journey, including Yi Yun.

Shen Lanyi was immersed in her memories and did not notice the complexity that flashed across her mother's eyes when she mentioned Yi Yun.

At the end of the conversation, Chen Lanyi tentatively asked Chen Huaiqin about her opinion of Yi Yun. Chen Huaiqin didn't want to see her daughter's disappointed expression, so she smiled and said softly, "The person my daughter likes will naturally not be bad."

"Then mother has agreed that Yi Yun and I can be together?" Shen Lanyi's eyes lit up instantly, and she looked at Chen Huaiqin expectantly.

"I can't agree to this on my own. Your father needs to give his approval."

Although Chen Huaiqin is the clan leader's wife, the family has strict rules when it comes to her children's lifelong affairs, and she cannot make the decision alone.

Chen Huaiqin was full of hope at this moment, she only hoped that her beloved daughter Shen Lingtan would not be like Li Qingchi and let Shen Lanyi follow in Li Cenyuan's footsteps.

"I will convince my father." Shen Lanyi said firmly. Her father has always doted on her and almost always granted her requests. This time should be no exception.

If her father doesn't agree, she will find another way and throw a tantrum, and her father will always soften his heart.

Seeing Shen Lanyi's determined look, Chen Huaiqin opened her mouth, wanting to say something but stopping herself, and finally just said softly: "You've been on the road all day, go back and rest first."

"Okay." Shen Lanyi also wanted to sort out her thoughts and think about how to talk to her father.

She hummed a tuneless little tune and walked briskly towards her yard.

When passing by the small garden, the sound of two servants talking on the side of the road came into her ears, and the four words "Master Cen Yuan" made her stop instantly.

She raised her hand and gently patted her head, feeling very annoyed. She had been so busy talking about her own affairs that she forgot to ask her mother about Li Cenyuan's situation.

Just when Shen Lanyi wanted to ask the two servants nearby, he heard one of them say, "I heard that Master Cen Yuan was driven out of the Li family by the Li clan leader because of that girl."

Shen Lanyi was stunned. Cen Yuan was kicked out of the Li family? So serious?

Because of worry, Shen Lanyi immediately took out her cell phone from her pocket and called Li Cenyuan, but no one answered.

She called a few days ago but no one answered.

What happened to Cen Yuan? Why didn't he answer the phone?

"No, I have to go to the Li family to check the situation." Shen Lanyi bit her lower lip, looking panicked, and hurried to the Li family.

She didn't notice at all that after she turned and ran away, the two servants stopped talking, looked at each other, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Lanyi rushed to Li's house but did not see Li Cenyuan. Instead, she accidentally discovered Li Qingchi's secret experiment.

Looking at the cruel and bloody scenes in front of her, Shen Lanyi felt dizzy. She couldn't accept that Uncle Chi, who was always kind and gentle, could be such a beast in human form, and she started arguing with Li Qingchi on the spot.

Finally, she glared at him and threatened that if he didn't kill her, she would make this secret experiment public.

Li Qingchi would not allow his secret to be exposed, and he wanted to kill Shen Lanyi. Fortunately, Shen Lingtan arrived in time and took away Shen Lanyi who was on the verge of collapse.

Later, Shen Lanyi answered the call from Li Qingchi, and Li Qingchi threatened her to keep it secret by threatening the entire Shen family.

Chen Lanyi held the phone, her hands trembling, struggling painfully inside. After a struggle between heaven and man, she finally went against her conscience and gritted her teeth to agree.

Then, Shen Lanyi proposed to leave Xuanzhou. She really couldn't continue to live in this familiar yet unfamiliar land as if nothing had happened. Every inch of air made her feel depressed and suffocated.

Li Qingchi hesitated for a moment and agreed to Shen Lanyi's request, but put forward a more demanding condition, asking her to cut off contact with everyone in Xuanzhou, including her family and friends, otherwise, he would not dare to guarantee the safety of her family and friends.

When Chen Lanyi heard this, she felt as if her heart was torn apart and she was in so much pain that she wished she was dead.

Gazing at the familiar scenery outside the window and thinking of the smiling faces of her relatives and friends, she finally agreed to Li Qingchi's harsh conditions in despair and with tears in her eyes.

The next day, Shen Lanyi proposed to Shen Lingtan that she wanted to leave the Shen family. This earth-shattering decision caused a big quarrel between the father and daughter. Shen Lingtan was so angry that his face turned blue. He even slapped Shen Lanyi and yelled at her to get out of the Shen family.

Just like that, Shen Lanyi left the Shen family alone, left Xuanzhou where she had lived for many years, and took nothing with her.

After leaving Xuanzhou, Chen Lanyi, feeling hopeless, didn't know where to go. There was only one place that came to her mind, and that was Baicheng, the place where she had stayed for nearly half a year. Baicheng was the only place she was familiar with.

Three days.

Three days ago, she returned to Xuanzhou from Baicheng with hope; three days later, she dragged her heavy body and set foot on the land of Baicheng again.

But she is no longer the optimistic and open-minded Shen Lanyi. Her world has been turned upside down and shattered.

After arriving in Baicheng, Shen Lanyi walked on the road in a daze like a zombie. Suddenly, a person who shouldn't be here appeared in front of him.

"Elder Ren." Shen Lanyi looked at Ren Hui with empty eyes, lifeless, and her voice seemed to come from a distant valley, vague and weak.

"Lan Yi..." Ren Hui looked at Chen Lan Yi, who was completely different from the past, with a look of heartache.

After all, this was the child he watched grow up.

"Elder Ren is following me? Why, Chief Li is worried about sending you to supervise me, or -" Chen Lanyi raised a sneer at the corner of his mouth, "Are you here to kill me to prevent future troubles?"

Ren Hui's face flashed a little unnatural when his thoughts were spoken, but he quickly regained his composure and frowned, "Lan Yi, don't say that. The clan leader is also thinking about the family."

What responded to him was still Shen Lanyi's mocking sneer.

Ren Hui pretended not to hear and continued to persuade earnestly: "You should live outside this continent first. When the experiment is successful, you can return to Xuanzhou. By then, you will still be the eldest daughter of the Shen family."

In fact, Ren Hui came here with the order from Li Qingchi to kill Shen Lanyi. He followed her secretly all the way here. However, facing this child whom he had watched grow up, Ren Hui couldn't bring himself to do it. So he changed his mind temporarily and turned to persuade Shen Lanyi.

The reason why Li Qingchi wanted to kill her was simply because he was afraid that Shen Lanyi would leak the secret. However, as long as she stayed outside the continent quietly and waited until the experiment was completed, Shen Lanyi would no longer pose a threat to them. By then, she would return to Xuanzhou, and Li Qingchi would know that she was still alive, and he didn't expect her to pursue the matter any further.

"No need." Shen Lanyi was extremely tired, and her voice seemed to have exhausted all her strength, "Xuanzhou, I will never go back."

"If Elder Ren doesn't want to kill me, please leave. I don't want to see you."

Ren Hui: "Don't be willful."

Shen Lanyi turned her head away, unwilling to look at him again.

Ren Hui shook his head helplessly, turned around and slowly left.

Not until the footsteps gradually faded away did Shen Lanyi slowly turn her head back, tears streaming down like a flood that broke through a dam, instantly wetting her cheeks.

She thought she couldn't shed tears anymore, but it turned out that she had overestimated her own strength.

She is not strong at all.

Taking mechanical steps, Chen Lanyi started walking on the noisy street again.

Cars whizzed past her, creating gusts of wind, but she felt as if she was in a lonely world and the noise around her had nothing to do with her.

What should she do?

Chen Lanyi looked into the distance with confused eyes, feeling that the road ahead of her was shrouded in thick fog and looked bleak.