After leaving the Lu family home, Lu Jin took a deep breath; she had felt suffocated inside.
Grandma is like a giant hand, trying to manipulate everyone's emotions. She drove Tianlei away before, and now she wants to control my eldest brother's marriage.
"By the way, find the eldest brother. He probably doesn't want to marry Li Anran either."
Having worked with Ruoxi for a long time, she noticed that she could always see her older brother's shadow, silently watching over Ruoxi.
Everyone around could see that.
Upon arriving at Lu's Company, the receptionist led her to Lu Shen's office. "Miss, Young Master Lu is in a meeting. Please wait here for a moment."
After waiting for a long time, Lu Jin did not see his older brother, but only A-Jie came.
“Miss, Young Master Lu knows why you came. He told you not to bother trying to persuade him. Now the whole internet knows he’s getting engaged. Even for the sake of Lu Group’s reputation, he has to keep his word.”
These were Lu Shao's exact words, which the young master made him repeat verbatim.
Lu Jin understood the meaning behind the words. Her elder brother had already told her the reason for the engagement: for the sake of the Lu Group's reputation, he had to get engaged to Li Anran.
The only thing they didn't mention was liking or loving.
"It seems that you are still going to get engaged to that woman, brother. Have you said anything about your sister-in-law?"
The woman Lu Jin would willingly call "sister-in-law" could not possibly be Li Anran, just as in their hearts, there is only one young mistress.
"The young master said he hopes the young lady can help arrange another job for the young mistress on his engagement day."
"So that she won't see it and be sad."
Lu Jin and Lu Shen had the same idea; even if he didn't say anything, she would find a way to distract Ruoxi.
"Okay, I understand."
"Tell him that I'm keeping an eye on his sister-in-law and nothing will happen to her. Just keep an eye on Li Anran and don't let her cause us any trouble."
Li Anran was a greedy woman. Even though she got her wish and became her brother's fiancée, she was still worried that her sister-in-law would take revenge for what her brother and sister-in-law had done before.
A woman's intuition told her that Li Anran's return this time was not simply for the purpose of marrying into the Lu family.
Meanwhile, Li Anran was browsing news online about her engagement to Lu Shen.
The comments section below the news article was filled with congratulations from netizens, which put her in a very good mood.
Just as she was overjoyed, her phone received a call from her boss.
For the first time ever, Lu Jianming praised Li Anran, saying, "You did a good job this time. Now, enjoy being Lu Shen's fiancée."
"In the future, I will naturally call you when I need your help."
"Yes, thank you, boss."
After hanging up the phone, Li Anran hummed a song while imagining her wonderful future.
Suddenly, I felt like something was missing from the messages I was browsing.
She reopened her phone and scrolled through the news of her engagement again.
They finally realized something was wrong.
No one mentioned Jian Ruoxi, the ex-wife.
“This won’t do. After all, Jian Ruoxi has been a member of the Lu family for three years, and she was the young mistress of the Lu family for three years.”
"If you've forgotten something this important, I'll help you remember it."
So Li Anran started calling the media outlets she was familiar with, hoping they could write some news that was unfavorable to Jian Ruoxi at this juncture.
Once the news of her engagement to Lu Shen becomes public knowledge, and Jian Ruoxi's ex-wife reappears, many people will likely enjoy watching.
But what she received was a joint rejection from several media outlets.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Li, we cannot comment on what you have said."
Li Anran's illusions were shattered. "Why? The ideas I'm giving you will definitely boost your platform's click-through rate. You shouldn't have any reason to refuse."
"Before you contacted us, Ran Jie from Huarui had already spoken with each of us privately and gave us a large sum of money, plus a piece of entertainment news, on the condition that we sign an agreement promising not to publish any gossip about Jian Ruoxi during this period."
In fact, at the very beginning, they also wanted to publish articles in the same way that Li Anran suggested.
But before a single tweet could be written, the quick-thinking Ran Jie had already contacted them for a meeting.
The price and resources offered were just right, and they had no reason to refuse.
"Ran Jie? Who is that?" These days, Li Anran has been running to the Lu family to discuss her engagement and knows very little about what's going on online.
"It seems that Ran Jie will be Jian Ruoxi's agent from now on. He's a top agent, Ms. Li. I advise you to stop trying to get your hands on Jian Ruoxi."
After giving the advice, the media politely hung up the phone.
Li Anran refused to believe it; she didn't think Ran Jie had the ability to silence the media so easily.
I then called several other media outlets, and they all came to the same conclusion.
Li Anran was so angry that she almost threw her phone.
"Great, Jian Ruoxi, no matter where you go, someone will back you up. Just like the old lady said, you really are quite fickle."
"I'll let you off this time, but next time, don't let me catch you again."
After signing the agreement with the media, Ran Jie kept a watchful eye on things. If anyone contacted them specifically to leak gossip about Jian Ruoxi, he told them to let him know.
The media remembered this incident; they had just finished a phone call with Li Anran when they immediately betrayed her.
"Brother Ran Jie, you really are a prophet. Someone did want us to release news that was bad for Jian Ruoxi, but we blocked it."
"Who is it?" Ran Jie knew someone would target Jian Ruoxi.
“Li Anran. I heard she also called several other media outlets, but don’t worry, they all signed agreements and didn’t agree to her request.”
Ran Jie nodded. "Well done. The resources and news I promised you will be delivered to you later."
After putting down his phone, Ran Jie saw Jian Ruoxi across the street staring out the window, lost in thought. He hesitated, wondering whether to tell her about it.
Li Anran was so restless. Despite being engaged soon and about to become the new young mistress of the Lu family, she was still talking to Jian Ruoxi.
Li Anran probably knows best that as long as Jian Ruoxi is around, she will be a greater threat to her as the future young mistress.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something on my face?" Jian Ruoxi quickly took out her small mirror and looked at herself.
Ran Jie scoffed, "You're not even a big star yet, and you're already starting to worry about your image."
Jian Ruoxi had gotten used to Ran Jie's occasional sarcastic remarks.
I guess it's because she scolded Ran Jie too harshly last time, so much so that he still holds a grudge against her and feels uncomfortable if he doesn't insult her a few times.
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