Lu Zhiwei drove to Luo Wuyan's apartment; she knew the apartment's password.

As soon as she entered the room, she took off her shoes without even putting them back on, found a comfortable position, and curled up on the sofa to catch up on her sleep.

Luo Wuyan was at the hospital picking up medicine for Lu Zhiwei. After paying, she carried the medicine to the underground parking lot.

Shen Jiarui stood by the rearview mirror, clutching his swollen cheekbone as he examined his injury.

"That old fox Lu Yunsheng hired such a large group of bodyguards to deal with me. I'm going to tear this hospital down later." Shen Jiarui's resentful voice echoed in the parking lot.

Seeing his expression, Luo Wuyan suppressed a laugh and walked past him to find her car.

Shen Jiarui saw Luo Wuyan's tomboyish face mocking him in the rearview mirror, which made his wound hurt even more: "You stop right there."

"Is something the matter, Second Young Master Shen? Who did you offend this time to get beaten up like this?" Luo Wuyan stopped in his tracks.

Shen Jiarui saw that she was carrying a bag of medicine and wanted to see if there was anything he could use, so he reached out and snatched it from Luo Wuyan's hand.

The medicine box was labeled with the words "Treatment for early threatened miscarriage".

Shen Jiarui pursed his lips and shoved the medicine box back into her hand: "You're pregnant?"

Luo Wuyan: "..."

"Any man actually interested in you? Your man has pretty unusual tastes." Shen Jiarui shook his head and teased.

"Shen Jiarui, do you know why you keep getting dumped?"

"I got dumped?" Shen Jiarui was so angry he couldn't speak.

Even though he didn't want to continue the relationship, he spent some money to make her initiate the breakup, thus saving her face.

Over time, rumors began to circulate that he was frequently dumped by women.

"Because of a foul mouth."

After saying that, Luo Wuyan was too lazy to argue with this idiot. She picked up the medicine, got into the car, started the engine, and drove away.

Shen Jiarui, already injured and furious, got back into his car and called Shen Jinmo: "Brother, you have to reimburse my medical expenses. I got beaten up."

“I’m in a worse situation than you,” Shen Jinmo said.

"What's the meaning?"

"I'm on the third floor of the hospital's surgical department."

Shen Jiarui hung up the phone and went straight to the hospital to find Shen Jinmo.

When they found him, Shen Jinmo was treating the burns on his wrist, the pinch on the back of his hand, and the bandages on his broken leg.

Shen Jiarui silently shut his mouth, which was full of complaints.

In terms of misery, the eldest brother's misery is worse.

Luo Wuyan drove back to her residential complex, entered the password, and went upstairs.

She found Lu Zhiwei sleeping peacefully on her sofa, without even a blanket.

I immediately went back to the room and grabbed a blanket to cover her up.

Lu Zhiwei was a very light sleeper. As soon as the blanket was pulled over her, she opened her eyes. "You're back?"

Luo Wuyan put the medicine on the table: "I brought the medicine back to you. Are you really planning to save this child? Didn't you say you didn't want to have him anymore?"

“The child is innocent, and there’s a high probability it won’t survive anyway. Let’s see what fate has in store for the child.” Lu Zhiwei sat up and started to open the medicine box.

Luo Wuyan turned around and poured her a glass of warm water.

After taking her medicine, Lu Zhiwei lay back down on the sofa. Luo Wuyan turned around and went back into the room to get a jewelry box and a contract.

The jewelry box was opened, revealing an exquisitely designed ring. The ring setting was engraved with a rose and inlaid with rubies, making it magnificent and elegant.

"I designed this ring for you. Each rose petal contains a fine needle, eighteen in total. There's a switch on the side; pressing it will trigger one of them. This hand of yours isn't just yours; it controls the entire alliance. I've heard about what happened at the academy. Next time something like this happens, don't use your hands, use the needles. But be careful with them. This is a one-time use ring; every one you use is one less."

Luo Wuyan patiently introduced her to his latest masterpiece.

Lu Zhiwei took the ring and examined its design with great delight.

Luo Wuyan was the first kindred spirit he had met in the art world, and his talent was no less than hers.

Why eighteen?

"Whoever bullies you will be sent to the eighteenth level of hell." Luo Wuyan explained the meaning of the ring in a simple and blunt way.

"As expected of you." Lu Zhiwei smiled and tried to put the ring on her index finger, but found that she couldn't get it on.

"It was designed according to the size of your ring finger. Your ring finger has been bare for so long, it's time to choose a new ring."

Lu Zhiwei slowly put the ring on her ring finger. Her fair and slender fingers made the ring look even more luxurious and exquisite: "Yes, it's about time I put on a new one."

The new one looks better than the old one.

"You asked me to send someone to buy the small villa where your grandmother lived, right? I asked several people to communicate with the real estate agents one after another. They all refused, saying that the house is only for rent now and not for sale. The house is close to the CBD and is very easy to rent. It was snapped up as soon as it was listed. I still managed to snatch one from someone else at a high price. It's the one your mother used to live in, the master bedroom on the second floor."

Luo Wuyan handed the rental contract and a set of house keys to Lu Zhiwei.

Lu Zhiwei took the contract and keys: "I'll move in and take a look first, and we'll figure out how to buy it back later."

The information that Tianxia Wushuang helped her find at that time.

The property was registered under Shen Jinmo's father's name, and she couldn't understand why her father would spend money to buy her mother Su Wan's villa from Zhao Xiuya back then.

Many years after Shen's father passed away, the property, which should have been distributed to Shen Jinmo as part of his inheritance, was instead entrusted to a third-party real estate agency.

Lu Zhiwei slept for half a day at Luo Wuyan's place.

In the evening, Ruan Jizhou made a phone call.

As soon as the call connected, Ruan Jizhou's hoarse and apologetic voice came from the other end: "I'm sorry, I went to record a closed-door variety show these past two days and handed in my phone. I didn't know you had gone through so much. This kind of thing will never happen again."

Upon receiving the phone, he learned that she had almost been assaulted at school and had been hospitalized overnight. He immediately stopped the recording of the variety show, even though the director had a good relationship with him and had gone to great lengths to persuade him to participate.

He thought that if the recording period for the variety show was shorter, he could have more time to spend with Lu Zhiwei.

In the end, it was a losing proposition.

His apology was incredibly sincere, but Lu Zhiwei still felt that something was off.

“You don’t need to apologize to me. You have your own things to do, how could you possibly be by my side 24 hours a day?” Lu Zhiwei said with a smile.

“If you don’t mind, I can do it.” Ruan Jizhou’s clear voice carried a firm tone.

This was the first time Lu Zhiwei had ever experienced the feeling of being steadfastly protected by someone without having made any promises to them.

Let's meet.

"Now?" Lu Zhiwei looked out the window. It was dark, and Luo Wuyan was not in the apartment. It seemed that she had gone to the Alliance.

She focused on the affairs of the Lu Group, while Luo Wuyan still managed the trivial matters of the alliance, and only the major decisions were made by her.

“Right now. Where are you? I’m coming to find you.” Ruan Jizhou got the news from Uncle Lu that she had gone to the emergency room overnight.

He was just coming out of a high-end nutritional supplement store, his trunk full of supplements to replenish qi and blood.

"I'll send you the address. Come pick me up, and let's go to the supermarket. I want to buy some daily necessities. I'm moving."

"good."