The royal blue sports car was driving on the road, and it was a little quiet inside the car.

Ye Minghan held the steering wheel and looked up at the rearview mirror.

In the mirror, the girl lowered her eyes slightly, her expression couldn't be seen clearly, but she was obviously in a bad mood.

Thinking of the girl named Lan something, Ye Minghan frowned, and there was a gloom in his eyes.

It was obvious that Chi Rui was in a bad mood because of her.

Thinking of their conversation just now, Ye Minghan frowned even more tightly.

What did she do to make the little girl so angry?

"Brother Han." Chi Rui suddenly spoke.

"Hmm?" Ye Minghan looked at her calmly.

"How come you have time to pick me up today?" Chi Rui smiled slightly, seeming to have regained her composure. "Are you done with work?"

"Yeah." Ye Minghan nodded.

In fact, he just didn't want to be snatched away by his sister again.

He thought about it and asked, "The one named Lan something..."

Chi Rui's smile faded and he lowered his head again.

"She's not my sister," she said softly.

"Yeah." Ye Minghan didn't care about this and just asked, "Do you need my help?"

Chi Rui couldn't help but look up at him and felt a little warm in his heart.

"No need." She smiled faintly, "I'll take care of it."

"Really?"

"real."

Seeing that she insisted, Ye Minghan didn't say anything else.

When they got home, it was still early, so Chi Rui went back to her room to continue doing her homework. Ye Minghan watched her go upstairs, then took out his cell phone and went to the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Mr. Han?" A man's voice sounded on the phone.

"Well, can you help me check..."

Ye Minghan's voice lowered.

Upstairs, Chi Rui had already returned to her room.

She sat at the desk but didn't take out her homework to do.

She gently picked up the pen that Ye Minghan gave her and played with it between her fingertips, but Lan Xiang's resentful and greedy eyes appeared in front of her.

Chi Rui pursed her lips, feeling a strange and unfamiliar emotion growing in her heart.

Her fingertips stroked the word "Han" on the pen cap, and her eyes gradually became firm.

Brother Han, I won’t give it to her.

She took out her cell phone from her bag, opened the address book, and turned to the number with the letter Z in front of it, which was at the bottom and she hadn't seen it for a long time.

Chi Rui looked at the note and finally pressed it.

“Beep—beep—”

There was a busy tone on the phone.

After two rings, the call was connected, and a man's slightly surprised voice came from the other end, "Rui Rui?"

Listening to his strange yet familiar voice, Chi Rui was silent for a while, until he called her again uncertainly, she said softly: "Yes, it's me."

"Rui Rui, what's wrong?" Chi Zhaoli asked cautiously, "What do you want to talk to Dad about?"

"Are you in Xuancheng now?"

The girl's voice was still soft and gentle, but there was a hint of distance and coldness in it.

Chi Zhaoli paused, nodded and said, "Yes, I just arrived the day before yesterday."

Then he asked her, "Are you back too? Why didn't you tell Dad?"

Chi Rui was listening to the phone, his pen unconsciously scribbling on the draft paper.

Circles and circles, like a tangled mess.

"Brother Lang and Sister Nuanxi know." She said softly.

"…You told them?"

"No, they asked on their own initiative."

On the other end of the phone, Chi Zhaoli was silent.

Yes, although the custody was awarded to Liu Manzhi at the beginning, as a wealthy and aristocratic family, the Chi family naturally would not let their flesh and blood relatives live outside, so Chi Rui’s household registration has never been moved.

She is already a senior in high school this year, so naturally she has to come back to take the exam.

Seeing that he didn't say anything else, Chi Rui didn't want to continue this topic, so he said, "When are you free? Let's meet?"

Hearing this, Chi Zhaoli couldn't help but feel happy.

"I'm always free, it depends on your schedule."

"Then tomorrow afternoon is okay?" Chi Rui gave an address, which was the coffee shop that Ye Mengke took her to that day.

"No problem." Chi Zhaoli nodded happily, "How about I pick you up?"

Chi Rui shook his head. "No need. I can go there by myself."

"Well, Dad will be there on time."

"Well, I'm hanging up then."

After agreeing on the time and place, Chi Rui ended the call.

Putting down her phone, she slowly let out a breath, then cheered herself up, took out her exercise book and started studying.

After dinner in the evening, she and Ye Minghan walked back to the room together.

After saying goodbye to him, she suddenly thought of something and turned to him and said, "Brother Han."

"Huh?" Ye Minghan stopped where he was.

"You don't have to come pick me up tomorrow." Chi Rui said, "You don't have to ask Assistant Cen to come."

"Why?" Ye Minghan frowned.

Chi Rui squeezed the door handle and whispered, "I've made an appointment with a friend to go out and play."

Ye Minghan looked at her and saw that she avoided his gaze. He frowned, but finally agreed.

"Okay," he said.

Chi Rui couldn't help but feel relieved, and smiled at him and said, "Good night, Brother Han."

Then the girl entered the room and closed the door gently.

Ye Minghan looked at her closed door and stood in the corridor for a long time before turning around and going back to his room.

The next day, everything was normal.

In order to get along well with classmates and quickly integrate into the upper class circle, Lan Xiang had no time to cause trouble for Chi Rui.

At most, they would make up some "black material" about her in the school forum.

Although many people do not believe it, there are also many keyboard warriors who agree with it, and their words are full of sourness.

However, these posts did not exist for long and were quickly deleted.

Those keyboard warriors just remembered that Chi Rui was the person protected by the big devil Ye Minghan.

Even though the forum allows anonymous comments, everyone registers and logs in using their student ID number. If you want to find out who said something, the administrator will definitely be able to find it out accurately.

For a moment, the keyboard warriors were silent.

Seeing that all the posts had been deleted, Lan Xiang was furious, but there was nothing she could do but temporarily close the forum.

In fact, Lan Xiang also hesitated whether to continue to make trouble for Chi Rui, but when she thought of the handsome guy who behaved intimately with her yesterday, she decided to ignore her warning.

Anyway, what can Chi Rui do to her?

In her opinion, although Chi Rui is two years older than her, and to put it nicely, he has a good temper, but in fact, isn't he weak and can be bullied?

It's really a waste that he has such a pretty face and a mother who is an agent.

Such a good resource was wasted by her!

Lan Xiang quickly hooked up with her deskmate, and the two made an appointment to go out and play together after school, so that afternoon, she did not block Chi Rui at the school gate.

Chi Rui also got into Sheng Qingle's car and asked her to take her to the coffee shop.

Behind their car, a black Rolls-Royce was chasing in the distance.

Ye Minghan looked at the car in front.

He saw with his own eyes that little girl got into the back seat with her friend. Could it be... that she was just hanging out with her friends?

He frowned, feeling something was wrong.

The car in front quickly stopped by the roadside. Ye Minghan paused, quickly turned the steering wheel, parked the car on the other side, and hid it.

From a distance, I saw the familiar figure of the girl getting out of the car and waving goodbye to the people inside.

After the car that took her there left, she turned around and went into a coffee shop alone.

There is indeed a problem.

Ye Minghan narrowed his eyes and waited until the girl's figure completely disappeared in the coffee shop before he opened the door, got out of the car, and quickly followed her into the coffee shop.

He saw the girl at a glance.

She sat in a private seat by the window, with her back to the door, so she couldn't see this side. Opposite her sat a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties.

Ye Minghan frowned slightly, walked over quietly, and sat in the private seat next to them.

"Sir, what could I order?" the waiter came over.

Ye Minghan pursed his lips, picked up the menu, glanced at it, and casually pointed to the matcha cake and coffee set on the cover.

"Would you like a portion of this set meal?"

Ye Minghan didn't say anything, just nodded slightly, then waved his hand to let her leave.

"Okay, wait a moment."

Behind him, the waiter served meals to Chi Rui and the others.

"Rui Rui, try the cake first."

Chi Zhaoli moved the cake in front of her and smiled earnestly, "I checked online, the matcha cake in this shop is delicious."

Chi Rui nodded, picked up the fork, took a small sip, and drank some milk tea.

"Eat more, you are too thin now."

The man is in his forties, with gray hair at the temples. Although he is middle-aged, he still looks handsome. One can imagine how handsome he was when he was young.

Chi Rui only took two bites and then put down his fork.

She looked up at him and got straight to the point, "I met Lan Xiang at school these past two days."

Chi Zhaoli paused. He looked at the girl's completely unfamiliar eyes, and suddenly her childhood appearance appeared in front of him.

The girl was small, like a glutinous rice ball, and she loved to lie in his arms and act coquettishly.

He would occasionally tease her, "Rui Rui, who do you like best, dad or mom?"

The little girl would hug his neck and answer him crisply.

"Dad! I love Dad the most!"

…

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, my past memories are becoming clearer.

But at this moment, when he looked at his daughter's cold and indifferent eyes, Chi Zhaoli felt an inexplicable pain in his heart.

He clenched his fists and finally said what he had been holding in his heart for years.

"Rui Rui, although I am divorced from your mother, I have never done anything to let her down."

"Your Aunt Lan...she is also a pitiful person."

Chi Zhaoli sighed, "Her ex-husband often beat her, and he kept harassing her and her daughter after the divorce. She always asked me for help, and I couldn't just sit back and watch...but I never got together with her!"

When he said this, there was some grievance in his voice.

Chi Rui looked at him, but her heart was not really touched.

The deepest bond between her and the man in front of her was only the blood relationship. In her short seventeen years of life, he had not played much of a role.

As she recalled, she once called him uncle, but was later corrected by the adults.

"I think you should tell these words to your mother." Chi Rui said calmly.

Chi Zhaoli paused, picked up the coffee and took a sip.

His mouth was filled with a bitter taste, but it was nothing compared to the bitterness in his heart.

"I asked you to come out today because I have something to tell you." Chi Rui went straight to the point.

Chi Zhaoli collected his thoughts and nodded, "Well, go ahead."

"Can you let Lan Xiang transfer to another school?" Chi Rui said softly.

Chi Zhaoli was stunned, "Why?"

"I don't want to see her in school."

Chi Rui said this, took out his cell phone, called up the screenshot from the album, and gently moved it in front of him.