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"What about you? Why do you always target Lu Zhishu?" Chen Pan looked up at him. "Are you jealous of him?"
"What is there for him to be jealous of?" Lu Zhinan said, "All our family's hopes are now pinned on me. Lu Zhishu is out of the picture, so if he's jealous, he should be jealous of me."
"If it's not jealousy, then why?"
Lu Zhinan didn't answer. After a moment, he said, "We've been at odds since childhood."
"There has to be a reason for not getting along since childhood, right?"
Lu Zhinan turned his head and looked at her with lowered eyebrows, "What did Lu Zhishu say to you?"
Chen Pan: "He didn't say anything. He just said that he was very withdrawn for a while when he was a child, but later he taught himself and got into university."
Lu Zhinan: "Then I think that's when I started to hate him."
Shen Pan: "What's the specific reason?"
Lu Zhinan: "There's no reason. I just hate him. Haven't you noticed that he and I don't seem like a family? Or... don't you think Lu Zhishu doesn't look like a member of our family?"
Chen Pan: "I can see it. I can see it from the fact that your parents have no objection to him marrying me. Your family's behavior towards him made me think for a time that he was not my biological son."
Lu Zhinan: "This is the survival rule of our family. Of the two sons, only one can be the legitimate heir. It's either him or me. I couldn't compete with him before, but now... he has no chance."
Shen Pan: "If you two didn't look alike, I really want to take you for identification to see if you are brothers."
No one else can describe fratricide so lightly.
Lu Zhinan asked: "How do we look alike?"
Chen Pan gestured around his own face and said, "T-zone. And your father, the three of you are very similar."
Lu Zhinan smiled, "I'm wearing makeup, can you still tell?"
Shen Pan: "What else? Makeup is not plastic surgery."
Lu Zhinan turned his head away from her and murmured, "I don't think they look alike at all."
Chen Pan: "Who does he look like? Not like your father, or not like Lu Zhishu."
Lu Zhinan didn't answer.
Chen Pan took a few quick steps, passed Lu Zhinan, and turned to face him. She looked at Lu Zhinan as she walked backwards.
This was the first time she wanted to take a good look at his face.
For no other reason than to confirm my own observations.
Lu Zhishu's father looks very similar to Lu Zhishu, that can be confirmed at a glance, but Lu Zhinan... Chen Pan is not so sure.
Just like Lu Zhinan said, he was wearing makeup, which might have an impact.
"Why are you looking at me?" Lu Zhinan was forced to slow down.
Chen Pan: "Your makeup is smudged."
Lu Zhinan was extremely panicked for a moment. He quickly took out a mirror from his pocket and looked left and right.
Shen Pan couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Just kidding."
Lu Zhinan closed the mirror with a gloomy face.
"Lu Zhishu looks pretty good without makeup and even with a little dressing up. You should look good too," Chen Pan asked. "Why do you go to so much trouble to dress up?"
"Think I'm a bitch?"
"No," Chen Pan said, "It's the 21st century, and it's quite normal for boys to wear makeup. I just feel... you're too meticulous, and it makes me, a girl, feel a little embarrassed."
"Then I asked you if you wanted to be beautiful, and you still confronted me."
"What girl doesn't want to be beautiful?" Chen Pan said with a smile, "Becoming beautiful doesn't happen overnight. Skincare, exercise, health care, makeup, which one doesn't require time? Unfortunately, for office workers like me, even an extra hour of sleep a day is a luxury. If you want to gain something, you have to pay for it. You can't be without either time or money. And I don't have either."
"How long does it take you to change your hairstyle and clothes?"
"Then what?" Chen Pan asked, "The makeup on your face can only last for a few hours. What happens after that? Don't you have to maintain and repeat it day after day? What I lack is not just one or two hours, but one or two hours every day."
"Slob." Lu Zhinan complained.
"Whatever you say," Chen Pan said, acting like a scoundrel. "I'm just like this. Don't try to make me change. Especially—don't try to trick me into falling into your emotional trap by taking me shopping or changing my image. In my eyes, that's not as romantic as Lu Zhishu buying me two buns in our school cafeteria."
"..." Lu Zhinan frowned, then raised his eyes and asked, "Where is your school?"
"Um?"
"Forget it," Lu Zhinan lowered his head.
"Didn't you say you would take me back when we reached the end? We're almost at the end," Shen Pan was about to look back, but as she was walking backwards, she was caught off guard and almost bumped into someone walking towards them.
"Be careful," Lu Zhinan was quick to grab her shoulders and pull her into his arms, avoiding the person who was looking down at his phone.
"Sorry, sorry," the man was also startled and apologized immediately.
"Do you have eyes?" Lu Zhinan put his arm around Chen Pan's shoulders and said ferociously.
Shen Pan immediately broke away from Lu Zhinan and pushed away his arm around her, "Okay, stop arguing. I didn't look at the road, and there was something wrong with me."
Lu Zhinan's serious face, filled with anger, suddenly turned into surprise. "Just let it go like this?"
"What else?" Chen Pan said, "It's not a big deal, just apologize to each other, and it will be over, right?"
Lu Zhinan stared at the man unwillingly.
Chen Pan was afraid that he might fight with someone in a fit of rage, so he stood in front of Lu Zhinan and let the man go.
She turned around and saw that the anger in Lu Zhinan's eyes had not subsided, and she couldn't help feeling curious.
He wasn't angry when she scolded him like that before and even tried to hit him.
A passerby accidentally bumped into him, and he got extremely angry.
It's really baffling and weird.
"If this were the imperial capital, I would definitely cut off a finger from him."
"You also know that this is not the imperial capital," Chen Pan said with a bit of a chill, "you should restrain yourself a bit."
I vaguely remember Lu Zhishu saying that when Lu Zhinan was abroad, he had pulled out people's nails and peeled off their scalps...
Thinking of this, Shen Pan felt that the smell of his men's perfume that she had just touched seemed to have a hint of blood.
Contradiction, really contradiction.
In her opinion, Lu Zhinan was extremely simple and extremely cruel.
"Should we walk back or ask your assistant to drive the car over?" Shen Pan asked.
"Walk back."
Chen Pan said nothing, turned around and led the way, then walked back along the other side of the street.
This time they were not walking one in front and one behind. Lu Zhinan chose to stand on the outside and walked forward side by side with her.
There is a lot of traffic outside.
His action startled Shen Pan suddenly.
She secretly glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and saw another similar face.
Very similar, really similar.
If Lu Zhinan hadn't sprayed that choking perfume and dressed so well, Chen Pan would have thought that the person standing next to her was Lu Zhishu.
She didn't understand why there were so many of them before.
Now I understand.
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