Ji Shiyan put his hands behind his back and glanced at Lu Yining from time to time. Although he seemed calm on the surface, he was actually secretly anxious in his heart.
Dead brain, come up with a topic to talk about!
It's so quiet, what's the big deal?
Lu Yining didn't say anything, and Ji Shiyan couldn't think of a topic to talk about. The two of them just stood there quietly. After a while, a question suddenly came to his mind and he quickly explained it.
"Ningning, she and I are just cousins. We don't usually have any physical contact. She just came over and wanted to hug me. That was her behavior. I just dodged her. Anyway, I will never accept anyone of the opposite sex hugging me."
"Except for girlfriends, of course."
Lu Yining remained calm after hearing this, but he was thinking in his heart.
[This Pu Minglan is madly in love with Ji Shiyan. I remember it was recorded in the original book. After Pu Minglan confessed her love to Ji Shiyan, she was rejected. She blamed it all on the original heroine, Lu Yanke.]
Pu Minglan believed that Ji Shiyan refused to accept her confession because Lu Yanke was blocking her path. This led to Pu Minglan constantly targeting Lu Yanke. No matter how big or small the matter was, as long as she could target Lu Yanke and make her unhappy, Pu Minglan would do anything.
[Emm... But now... It seems that the person Pu Minglan is targeting has changed from Lu Yanke to me...]
"What kind of person do you think your cousin, Pu Minglan, is?"
Lu Yining asked casually.
As soon as this question came out, Ji Shiyan's mind instantly rang with alarm bells. This question must be answered carefully, without any carelessness!
Ji Shiyan pretended to think seriously. After a while, he said, "She may seem innocent, but in reality, she is cunning and ruthless. She is definitely not a good person."
Lu Yining glanced at him with some surprise: "I thought you would protect your cousin."
[After all, we are all family. I thought Ji Shiyan would praise Pu Minglan more in front of me.]
[I didn't expect... that he would actually... sacrifice his own family for the sake of justice?]
And... Pu Minglan's methods are indeed quite cruel, but... how did Ji Shiyan know this?
Lu Yining was very curious about this, so she simply asked the question in her mind.
When asked, Ji Shiyan's expression became a little complicated. He seemed to be looking back to the past, his eyes were blurred and unfocused.
Lu Yining waited for a long time before he heard him say, "When I was in junior high school, there was a family dinner at home. My mother asked me to pick up my cousin after school and then go home together."
"After school, I went to her classroom but found no one there. I asked her classmates, and they said she and a few other classmates had gone to the school's bamboo garden."
"I was a little puzzled at the time. I couldn't quite understand why she didn't go home after school and went to the bamboo forest instead. But not long after, I got the answer to this question."
At this point, Ji Shiyan narrowed his eyes, and the coldness on his body became more and more intense: "When I rushed over, I actually saw my cousin beating someone!"
"Seven or eight girls formed a circle and kept kicking the girl on the ground. I also saw my cousin reach out and grab the girl's hair, then push her head down and bang it on the ground over and over again."
"I was planning to stop it, but a teacher happened to pass by and saw it, so he rushed over to stop it."
"So to this day, she doesn't know that I discovered her other side a long time ago. And from that time on, I no longer wanted to talk to her or have more contact with her."
"What a pity." Ji Shiyan sighed. "The teacher was standing a little far away at the time. His yell actually gave others a chance to escape. Plus, there were no surveillance cameras installed in the Bamboo Forest Garden, so four out of the seven or eight people managed to escape."
"Among the four people who escaped, one of them is your cousin." Lu Yining confirmed.
"Yes." Ji Shiyan nodded. "If there weren't surveillance cameras installed in the Bamboo Forest Garden, they wouldn't have been able to escape. She would have been among those punished."
"At first, I was curious why that girl didn't report the bullying to the teacher and tell him who was bullying her."
"It wasn't until later that I found out that the girl had told the teacher, and that the teacher had also told the principal about it. But the principal, because of the power of the Ji family, didn't do anything to my cousin. He didn't even do anything to the girls who escaped, because their families were also very powerful and influential."
"The principal even silenced the teacher and the victim, preventing them from speaking the truth. Therefore, the only people who were disciplined were those whose families had little or no connections, or whose families had some but not very strong ones."
At this point, a hint of disappointment flashed across Ji Shiyan's eyes. That was the first time he had a clear understanding of this society, and it was also the first time he was disappointed with the principal.
Seeing that Ji Shiyan was in a low mood, Lu Yining spoke to him in a cheerful tone: "Then congratulations, at least you saw through her true nature early on and stopped being deceived by her."
Hearing this, Ji Shiyan was stunned for a moment, but soon he smiled in relief. This was indeed the case. If it weren't for that time, he would probably still think that his cousin was a good person.
If it weren't for that time, he wouldn't have known that his cousin was the kind of person who had two faces in front of others and behind their backs.
"What you said makes perfect sense."
Lu Yining hummed, looked at the surrounding scenery, and thought to herself: [Time flies when we chat while walking. In just a few words, we arrived at the small pavilion.]
Lu Yining was just about to express her admiration for the beautiful scenery here when the next second her cell phone rang, interrupting everything she wanted to say.
She took out her cell phone, and after seeing the note on it, she moved her fingers and answered the call.
"Hello~ Third brother, did you miss me? Why did you call me? Are you asking me to go shopping?"
[Third Brother is really lazy sometimes.]
[Whenever he stays in the same place, if someone asks him to move, or if he doesn't have something he wants, he will always stare blankly at the ceiling for a long time...]
[It took so long that sometimes I would wonder if it was a statue, and then he would reluctantly get up and take it...]
[I don't know if he was questioning his life or pondering something during this daze...]
[Sometimes, he's just too lazy to move and asks someone else to get it.]
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