Lu Jin found him utterly unreasonable: "Do you know what you're doing? You're hurting her!"
"Then why does she keep challenging my bottom line by being ambiguous with other men?" Lu Shen said angrily.
Lu Jin turned the question around and asked him, "What about Li Rou? What is your relationship with Li Rou?"
“We’re business partners, why don’t you even believe me?” Lu Shen felt increasingly upset and went downstairs to leave.
Leaving Lu Jin standing there, she pushed the door, but Jian Ruoxi locked it from the inside.
"Sister-in-law, it's me."
Upon hearing Lu Jin's voice, Jian Ruoxi opened the door and sat down in a chair, feeling dejected. She felt that her life was somewhat dark; she had lost her career and her relationship was on the verge of collapse.
"Lu Jin, what do you think I should do?"
The door was surrounded by bodyguards arranged by Lu Shen, so the two of them couldn't fly out.
Lu Jin whispered carefully in her ear, "Wait a little longer, sister-in-law, there will be a way."
On the other side of the coffee shop, two familiar faces were sitting, but no one would have guessed that they actually knew each other.
The woman, with exquisite makeup, was Li Rou. She asked, "How have you been lately?"
Hu Lan said, "It's alright, life goes on anyway."
The two of them had known each other before, but not because of Jian Ruoxi, but because of Hu Lan's ex-wife, Xu Tong.
Li Rou and Xu Tong were best friends and often hung out together. Over time, Li Rou also met Xu Tong's boyfriend at the time, Hu Lan. Later, when they got married, Li Rou was even a bridesmaid.
However, Li Rou had not seen Hu Lan since their divorce. The reason she was able to contact him this time was because Li Rou had heard from Lu Shen that Jian Ruoxi was getting along very well with the CEO of a company.
Li Rou, who already wanted to break them up, steered the conversation further: "Which company's CEO is so overconfident?"
"The Hu family, Hu Lan has been pursuing Jian Ruoxi lately." Lu Shen's eyes were full of anger, along with a hint of jealousy and envy.
Li Rou feigned surprise: "He's really bold, but my sister-in-law is really something too, why is she getting so close to that man?"
As she spoke, Li Rou turned her anger on Jian Ruoxi in an attempt to sow discord between the two, especially since she and Hu Lan were old acquaintances.
After getting off work, she immediately called Hu Lan and said, "Hu Lan, this is Li Rou. I know you've been pursuing Jian Ruoxi. I have a way to help you."
The two then met.
At first, Li Rou said, "Tongtong was also greatly traumatized at that time, so don't blame her."
Hu Lan didn't want to bring up his unlucky ex-wife at all, so he changed the subject: "Could you have helped me pursue Jian Ruoxi before? How could you have helped?"
Seeing this, Li Rou said, "Lu Shen and I started a company together. We are almost always together during work hours, and I also have the idea of marrying Lu Shen."
Hearing Li Rou say this, Hu Lan understood what she meant: "I've also been pursuing Jian Ruoxi recently, and I feel that she's wavering a bit."
Since the two of them share the same goal, Li Rou said, "So neither of us wants them to get married, right?"
“Yes, we can cooperate,” Hu Lan replied.
Thinking about Jian Ruoxi's actions during this period, Li Rou said, "She has been getting very close to you lately. Last night, Lu Shen put her under house arrest."
Hu Lan was anxious. He couldn't bear to see Jian Ruoxi suffer, especially since it was done by his rival. "I'm going to the Lu family to find her."
After saying that, she got up to leave, but Li Rou stopped her: "Don't rush, it's just house arrest, it won't threaten her life."
“If you make a scene now, it will only make Lu Shen extremely jealous. You might not even be able to get her out, let alone talk about the two of you being together.” Li Rou’s words woke Hu Lan up.
Hu Lan asked her, "Why didn't you tell me about this sooner?"
“If I had told you from the beginning, you would have acted exactly the same way you are now,” Li Rou continued. “We still have a long time ahead of us, so let’s plan this out slowly.”
Although the two shared the same goal, Hu Lan told Li Rou, "No matter what, you are not allowed to hurt Jian Ruoxi."
Li Rou promised, "Of course not. You must also promise me that you will not lay a hand on the Lu family company."
Hu Lan showed no interest in the Lu family's affairs: "Our company's business has very little overlap with theirs, so there's no need to worry."
However, when the two parted, Li Rou looked at Hu Lan's departing figure, and the fierce look in her eyes had not yet disappeared.
Although she verbally promised Hu Lan that she wouldn't hurt Jian Ruoxi, Li Rou was not a kind-hearted person and immediately called Xu Tong.
"Tongtong, I met with Hu Lan."
Xu Tong was somewhat surprised: "The two of you?"
Li Rou continued, "Hu Lan is pursuing a woman."
A simple sentence, but it was as if a bomb had been dropped on Xu Tong's heart. Ever since the divorce, Xu Tong had been looking for an opportunity to meet with Hu Lan.
However, each time he received a cold reply from Hu Lan: "If there's nothing else, I'll hang up now."
The reason Hu Lan didn't sever ties with Xu Tong was because of her daughter, Xin Xin. After all, Xu Tong was her biological mother, and there was still affection between them.
However, except when Xu Tong was seeing his child, Hu Lan would refuse to let him in at other times.
This made her hopes of remarrying extremely slim. She asked Li Rou, "Are they together?"
Li Rou said, "No, he's just pursuing her, and that woman is about to marry Lu Shen."
"Does that mean Hu Lan is pursuing a married woman?" Xu Tong couldn't understand it. Her Xu family was rich and powerful, and she herself was good-looking and capable. Why would Hu Lan be so foolish?
Li Rou continued to embellish the story: "This person is a celebrity, Jian Ruoxi. You should have heard of her."
The more information Xu Tong obtained, the angrier he became. Why should an actress be favored by Hu Lan?
She said, "Help me mess with her."
This thrilled Li Rou. The Xu family was very powerful, and if she could get Xu Tong's help to deal with Jian Ruoxi, things would be much easier for her.
She could avoid a direct conflict with Jian Ruoxi and still maintain her relationship with Lu Shen.
“I heard a while ago that she went to the kindergarten with Hu Lan to attend Xin Xin’s parent-teacher meeting. She and Lu Shen had a big fight because of this.”
No one is more worried about their daughter than a mother. Xu Tong was practically exploding with anger as she shouted into the phone, "Where did this wild woman come from, daring to touch Xin Xin? I swear I won't let her get away with this!"
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