Shen Lan walked around the front hall and fled back to his bedroom in a panic. After closing the door, he completely relaxed.

She took a deep breath, walked into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

The person in the mirror was wearing a loose, tight black dress, her hair tied in a low ponytail, thick bangs, and black-framed glasses. She was just as Lu Yunfan described, old-fashioned, dull and boring.

A trace of loneliness flashed in Shen Lan's eyes. No girl doesn't love beauty, and she also wants to dress up beautifully.

But there was no way. The murderer who destroyed her family had not been found yet. Before her death, her mother held her hand and repeatedly told her to protect herself and not to get involved.

She could only disguise herself and try to reduce her presence. She lived cautiously over the years and did not dare to expose herself in front of anyone.

Shen Lan leaned closer to the mirror and carefully examined her disguise. Aside from a little dust on her clothes, there was nothing else... Eh?!

She frowned and quickly tilted her head.

I saw that the dark pink on the neck from the right ear down was gone, revealing a small piece of white and tender skin with a few bright red marks on it.

These dark powders are made by her using medicinal herbs. They can be washed off with hot water and will not fall off as long as you don't rub them hard.

But just now in the cave, Xiao Yun buried his entire face in her neck, especially his nose and lips kissing her skin, and almost all of the dark powder was rubbed off.

Shen Lan hurriedly took out a special powder from her handbag to cover it up, feeling uneasy.

The cave was so dark, he couldn't have seen it, right?!

After applying dark powder, Shen Lan changed into a black long dress. She checked herself in the mirror for a long time. After making sure that everything was fine, she walked around and entered the banquet hall.

As soon as he entered the banquet hall, Shen Lan saw Lu Yunfan.

He was dressed in a suit and had a handsome face. He was holding a glass of wine and chatting with the guests behind his parents. He did not look like a dissolute man hanging out with his ex-girlfriend in the back garden at all.

Zhou Xinran stood beside him, wearing a white dress, with a pretty and gentle face. The two of them occasionally smiled at each other, like a perfect couple.

Shen Lan clenched his fists and bit his lower lip with his teeth, feeling a sharp pain and confusion in his heart.

"Does it look good?" A female voice suddenly came from my ear.

Shen Lan looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was Lu Yunfan's sister Lu Yunqing.

She was wearing a pink flowing fishtail skirt, her skin was rosy and her face was pretty, but the undisguised malice on her face destroyed all her cuteness.

"Shen Lan, you see, my brother and Sister Xinran are a match made in heaven."

"I advise you to be sensible and call off the marriage as soon as possible so that everyone can save face. Otherwise, if you are kicked out of the house in the future, you will be the only one who will be embarrassed."

Shen Lan didn't say anything, staring blankly at the two people whispering in each other's ears, one standing on tiptoe, the other leaning over, the scene was just like in an idol drama.

Lu Yunfan seemed to sense something and suddenly looked up, accidentally meeting her eyes.

The smile in those eyes instantly turned cold, and there was hidden impatience and disgust in his eyes.

Shen Lan was trembling all over because of his gaze, and muttered to herself: "I took care of him for four years, and he said he would treat me well in the future..."

Lu Yunqing sneered: "Using favors to bind someone who doesn't like you, Shen Lan, that's all you can do. If Sister Xinran's family hadn't threatened her with death and forced her to go abroad, it wouldn't have been your turn to take care of my brother."

"Look at you, you're not even as good as my servants. Standing next to my brother will only embarrass him and bring shame to our Lu family..."

At this point, Lu Yunqing's eyes suddenly turned. "How about this? We'll pay you the market price for a nanny, 10,000 a month, which is 480,000 for four years. We won't take advantage of you, so we'll make it a round sum for you, 500,000. Take the money, leave my brother, and never come back. How about that?"

Five hundred thousand?! Shen Lan had spent four years of her precious youth, sacrificing all her social life for him, enduring all his bad tempers, researching prescriptions day and night, improving her massage techniques, and even learning to cook different herbal recipes every day just so he could eat well...

After all the effort, you want to get rid of her with just 500,000?

Shen Lan felt angry and aggrieved: "Let Lu Yunfan tell me in person!"

Lu Yunqing sighed, "You know very well that my brother loves Sister Xinran, and he's only doing you a favor. Has he ever touched you in these four years? My brother doesn't even like your looks and can't bring himself to kiss you. If you insist on marrying my brother, you'll be a widow forever."

Shen Lan froze in place, his mind filled with the image of Lu Yunfan and Zhou Xinran entangled in the back garden.

It was an intimacy, an ambiguous and lingering intimacy that I had never experienced before with her.

Under the dark powder, Shen Lan's face was pale, and her heart felt like it was being cut by a knife, causing her excruciating pain.

Mother Lu walked towards her with Lu Yunfan, staring at Shen Lan with a bad tone.

"Shen Lan, didn't I ask you to go to the back garden to deliver Yun Fan's coat? Where did you deliver the coat?"

Back garden?

Lu Yunfan's body tensed up, his eyes fixed on her: "You went to the back garden?"

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