After Miss Lu became the only one to enjoy the limelight, her six brothers knelt down and begged for

Ji Chiqian was so focused on catching up with the person in front of him that he didn't pay any attention to where he was standing.

He fell to the ground with a muffled groan.

Lu Ning heard a voice beside her. She turned around and saw Ji Chiqian lying on the ground. She quickly went back to help him up: "Are you alright?"

She saw that Ji Chiqian's hand was bleeding.

She said, "I'll go get you the first-aid kit."

Ji Chiqian grabbed her hand, his thin lips pressed coldly: "Don't go."

Lu Ning lowered her head: "Stop the bleeding first."

"I will go with you."

Ji Chiqian stood up and walked out with Lu Ning.

The gym owner, who had been watching from the sidelines, saw Ji Chiqian injured and quickly stepped forward, saying, "The first-aid kit is in my office."

The two went to the boss's office.

The gym owner took out a first-aid kit and handed it directly to Lu Ning: "I have something to do, could you help me out?"

Before Lu Ning could say anything, the gym owner left.

She had no choice but to open the medical kit and disinfect Ji Chiqian's arm.

She glanced at the wound: "You'll probably need to go to the hospital for stitches."

Ji Chiqian didn't speak. He looked up at Lu Ning and thought for a long time but didn't know what to say.

Lu Ning simply put a band-aid on him; she could feel that he was watching her the whole time.

After putting the medical kit away, she turned to leave.

Someone grabbed her wrist; their palm was warm.

Lu Ning didn't turn around. She looked at the ceiling and said, "I'm going back to school."

Ji Chiqian looked at her slender wrist and said weakly, "Can we calm down for a few days and then talk?"

Lu Ning glanced at his injured arm, but ultimately couldn't bring herself to push him away.

In the end, she gave a faint reply.

Ji Chiqian finally breathed a sigh of relief: "I'll take you back."

"no need."

Lu Ning refused outright: "After all, I don't want to be in the headlines and get all the attention if people find out who you are. Besides, you rarely went to crowded places with me before, did you?"

She only just realized that Ji Chiqian always booked out entire venues to avoid being recognized.

Ji Chiqian was speechless; he truly had no way to explain.

After Lu Ning changed her clothes in the locker room, she left the gym, but as she walked down the street, she could clearly feel someone following her from a distance.

She knew who it was, but she never turned around.

Only after she entered the campus did she hide behind a tree and secretly look back.

She saw the figure standing at the school gate, tall and slender, with three-dimensional and deep features.

He had only been standing there for a short while when two girls came up to him and asked for his contact information.

Lu Ning reluctantly withdrew her gaze. What was she hoping for?

"Are you OK?"

Lu Ning turned around and saw Chen Yu sitting on the bench over there.

Her expression was somewhat unnatural: "I'm fine."

Chen Yu glanced at the school gate, her expression somewhat complicated. The man standing at the school gate was the heir of the Ji family.

Chen Yu never expected that Lu Ning's boyfriend would actually be that guy from the Ji family.

Lu Ning sat down next to Chen Yu and saw that Chen Yu was holding a book, probably reading in the sun outside.

"Wipe your tears."

When Lu Ning saw the tissue Chen Yu handed her, she hesitated for a moment but still took it.

Chen Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Your boyfriend is quite handsome."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ning knew that Chen Yu had probably just seen Ji Chiqian. She gave a wry smile and said, "Now you should know who he is. I only just found out myself."

"Is this the reason you had a conflict with him?"

Chen Yu immediately guessed the reason.

She had heard gossip from Mo Shanshan that Lu Ning's boyfriend was poor and didn't have much money.

But who would have thought that Lu Ning's boyfriend was the heir of the Ji family? If he was poor, then everyone present would be poor.

"Yes, I didn't expect him to lie to me for so long."

Lu Ning knew that given Chen Yu's status, she must have had dealings with the Ji family and must have met Ji Chiqian.

She looked at Chen Yu with some confusion: "Has my older brother never met Ji Chiqian?"

"I'm not too sure about that, but people from different circles really don't have much interaction. I only saw him a few times when I was a child, and I haven't seen him since I grew up."

It's normal that a man of Ji Chiqian's status and position wouldn't recognize him after he grew up, given his work, social engagements, and business trips, and the fact that he rarely appeared in public and wasn't part of that circle.

Chen Yu paused for a moment: "As for your older brother, things between him and me are not completely settled yet, and the Chen family has not made his identity public, so we won't take him to these circles to meet people."

It's normal that Lu Dongyou doesn't know Ji Chiqian.

Lu Ning understood.

She glanced at Chen Yu: "But I had a frank talk with him today and broke up with him. We're not compatible, and besides, he has a fiancée."

"He doesn't have a fiancée. Yesterday's entertainment headline report was false. The Mo family has always wanted their eldest daughter to get engaged to Ji Chiqian. Although Mrs. Ji agreed, the eldest son of the Ji family has never agreed. All the rumors circulating over the years are false."

Chen Yu looked at Lu Ning seriously: "You can doubt my character, but you can't doubt the information I've gathered."

Lu Ning smiled. After all, Chen Yu was the eldest daughter of the Chen family, so her words were bound to be credible.

She looked at the ground: "But even so, the difference in our social status is too great, and I don't want to work so hard."

If she were to be with Ji Chiqian, she would definitely face a lot of obstacles.

Moreover, Ji Chiqian never told her his true identity from the beginning. What was he trying to protect her from?

Lu Ning didn't want to think about it too much, lest she feel bad.

"But based on what I've known over the years, the eldest brother of the Ji family is a self-disciplined and very ambitious young man. If you two really like each other, he will help you sort everything out. Aunt Ji and Grandma Ji are both very kind people."

Lu Ning felt inexplicably heartbroken when she thought about how good Madam Ji had been to her before.

Now, Madam Ji probably won't like her anymore.

"We'll talk about the future later."

Lu Ning couldn't think about all that right now.

Chen Yu immediately changed the subject: "Lu Ning, are you free to go back to the Lu family recently?"

"I can go back anytime, but have you told my older brother?"

Chen Yu shook her head: "I didn't say, and I didn't want to say it in advance."

Lu Ning roughly understood what Chen Yu meant; he wanted to launch a surprise attack to see clearly.

She discovered that although Chen Yu seemed quiet and insecure, she was actually a very opinionated girl.

Lu Ning raised an eyebrow: "But knowing my older brother as I do, he'll be unhappy if you suddenly show up without warning."

Chen Yu pursed her lips and thought for a moment before saying, "I'll message him later."

At that moment, Lu Ning's phone rang several times.

She saw a notification on her phone. In the Lu family's loving group chat, Lu Wu tagged all members: "[I've booked a table at Liyuan Restaurant tonight. I'd like to invite the whole family to dinner to celebrate Xiangxiang and I officially being together and to discuss our engagement.]"

Getting engaged so soon?

After glancing at it, Lu Ning said to Chen Yu, "Let me invite you to the opera house tonight to see a good show."