A top student transmigrates into a book: Reborn in the 90s and rises to prominence.

However, Shao Wanwan knew why Jiang Zheyuan did this, so she didn't take it to heart. She looked at Lu Qin with a smile, appearing very well-behaved and non-threatening.

Shao Wanwan has a very striking appearance; in short, she is exceptionally eye-catching. In a crowd, you don't need to look at her clothes; you can spot her just by looking at her face.

But she didn't seem to care and didn't want to use her beauty at all.

A down jacket completely covered her neck.

She was wearing a very thick pair of flared jeans, and you could tell she was wearing thick thermal underwear underneath. Although she looked slim overall, the wrinkles in the jeans betrayed the fact that she was wearing a lot of layers underneath.

A thick scarf covered most of her face.

Only a pair of captivating eyes were visible.

This is completely different from the rumored vain Shao Wanwan.

This caused a significant deviation in the information Lu Qin received, resulting in poor effectiveness of the strategies she employed.

Lu Qin had seen plenty of vain women, and she had her own way of dealing with them.

For example, the clothes she's wearing today are high-end and designer brands; any vain woman could recognize them at a glance.

Once they recognize it, they'll want it. If they can't afford it, they'll ask Jiang Zheyuan for it. After a while, Jiang Zheyuan will naturally be able to see through their tricks.

But things didn't go as she had imagined.

On Christmas Day, she dressed up in various ways, while the other person showed up dressed like a schoolgirl. Although she was dressed appropriately, she wasn't particularly eye-catching.

Today, she's prioritizing warmth again.

She was so cold she was practically frozen solid.

But Jiang Zheyuan was still only worried about whether Shao Wanwan's hands were frostbitten.

She's almost frozen to death, okay?

Lu Qin stood there, feeling like she wanted to die.

Fortunately, Tiger took off his coat and draped it over her shoulders, then said, "I'll go with you to buy some roasted pears! I saw a stall over there selling roasted sweet potatoes and roasted pears."

Although I don't want to leave Jiang Zheyuan, this is the only way I can maintain some dignity for now.

Lu Qin nodded hurriedly.

Tiger asked with a smile, "We'll buy one for you too. You can wait for us near the fountain!"

"Lu Qin is even harder to deal with than Su Dapeng, isn't she?" Shao Wanwan teased Jiang Zheyuan with a smile as she watched their retreating figures.

Jiang Zheyuan made a face as if he wanted to cry but had no tears.

"It must be because you gave her a lot of fantasies when she was a child, that's why she can't bear to give you up now. Someone she's always longed for has been snatched away by a Cheng Yaojin who came out of nowhere. Anyone would be just as persistent in that situation," Shao Wanwan sighed.

"You're not angry?" Jiang Zheyuan found it unbelievable.

“I might be angry that you were two-timing me, but what’s there to be angry about? I just feel sorry for her. She must really like you. Think about it! She’s beautiful, and you’re not bad either. You two are just like the male and female leads in those classic romance novels. It’s just… the script didn’t go the way she wanted.” Shao Wanwan knew Lu Qin’s ending and couldn’t really hate her. She was just too persistent, wasting her whole life for someone she could never have.

“I’m the only child in my family, right? My mom always wanted a daughter, but she couldn’t have a second child because of her health.”

As you know, my mother always wished for a daughter, someone she could braid her hair with and take her shopping. She would be so much more lively than me, a quiet and unsociable child. Lu Qin fulfilled my mother's needs in this regard to a great extent.

Lu Qin was always lively and cheerful, with a particularly sweet tongue. She loved spending time at my house, and I would always be doing my own thing. But my mother would always pull her in to talk, and sometimes she would buy her clothes, dressing her up like a little doll. Perhaps we didn't set clear boundaries when we were little, which led to her misunderstanding. But I have absolutely no romantic feelings for her.

Shao Wanwan was naturally aware of this.

This is another advantage of transmigrating into a book: you don't have to put in much effort to distinguish between good and bad people.

Although she knew Jiang Zheyuan's thoughts, Shao Wanwan couldn't help but ask mischievously, "If, I mean if, the person your father made you marry was Lu Qin, and it was Lu Qin who was repaying the debt of gratitude, would you treat her the same way you treat me? Didn't you dislike me very much at the beginning? You don't need to lie to me, I can tell."

Jiang Zheyuan was sweating profusely for a moment.

At first, he didn't just dislike Shao Wanwan; he hated her—a strong, intense hatred.

When did things start to change?

He doesn't know anything.

Actually, if you think about it carefully, maybe he hates himself more than he hates Shao Wanwan!

I failed to protect her in my previous life.

“It’s different, it’s really different…” Jiang Zheyuan said “different” twice.

Shao Wanwan told him to stop teasing him, "What's the difference? Lu Qin is also very beautiful, and you two have a foundation of affection..."

Jiang Zheyuan looked intently at Shao Wanwan.

She said seriously, "It's just that the emotional foundation is different. I've always treated her as a friend, or even family. But with you..." It was different from the beginning. Even if there was hatred, we were still husband and wife, and we were husband and wife before. How could we be ordinary friends?

Jiang Zheyuan's unspoken words were all conveyed through his eyes.

Shao Wanwan naturally didn't have mind-reading abilities, but she knew that if this topic continued, it wouldn't be fun anymore.

Jiang Zheyuan treated her differently from the very beginning.

Their story, which began as an engaged couple, was inherently different from the script of childhood friends.

It's too cruel to compare them side by side.

"So what are you going to do?" Shao Wanwan asked with a sigh.

Lu Qin's life shouldn't have been wasted like this. Jiang Zheyuan is a very good man, but he can't be in two places at once; he only has one.

Lu Qin will never be able to have Jiang Zheyuan.

“I also think it’s time to make her give up completely, but I really can’t think of any way. After all, I didn’t expect her to return to China so soon.” This was Jiang Zheyuan’s honest opinion. Lu Qin caught him off guard and completely disrupted his plans.

This made him, who had originally wanted to take things slowly, start to feel restless again.

I really want to give myself and Shao Wanwan a formal status right away.

Compared to Shao Wanwan, he really needed the title of husband.

He didn't want to possess Shao Wanwan, but he wanted to be possessed by Shao Wanwan.

It is a complete and utter devotion.

But he could never say such sweet nothings out loud; he could only think them in his heart.

That makes sense, Shao Wanwan nodded.

“If she keeps revolving around you, she’ll never forget you. In that case, she’ll waste her life. You can go back to doing whatever you were doing, and she’ll be so pitiful,” Shao Wanwan said from the bottom of her heart.

Currently, both Lu Qin and Shao Moli like Jiang Zheyuan.

But they are indeed different.

Lu Qin's feelings for Jiang Zheyuan were completely unrequited.

In the book, Shao Moli is the official love interest. Even if they don't end up together, Shao Moli's career achievements are enough to keep her too busy to wallow in self-pity.

Lu Qin truly wasted her entire life.