Fu Jianzhi held his breath and stood behind the door, not daring to move.
He didn't expect Ruan Chen to suddenly walk in this direction. There was a distance to go down the stairs, and it was too late for him to run down. He could only stand stiffly behind that door.
In that instant, a thousand thoughts flashed through his mind.
What would happen if Ruan Chen found out about him? Would he think he was spying on her?
Will she hate herself?
Then, thanks to his good hearing, he faintly heard the threat coming from the phone, as well as Ruan Chen's reply.
Wait... what boyfriend?
Fu Jianzhi's mind went blank for a moment, a mix of emotions surging within him.
Then the door was pushed open.
Their eyes met.
Ruan Chen's anger hadn't completely dissipated when she met Fu Jianzhi's panicked gaze.
The person on the other end of the phone gave a time and address, extending a sincere invitation to Ruan Chen, and before Ruan Chen could refuse, said, "Don't you want to know how to save your boyfriend? Believe me, the first thing to do when he wakes up again is..."
Ruan Chen was too lazy to listen to his rambling anymore, and also didn't want to involve Fu Jianzhi in this matter, so she abruptly interrupted him, "Alright, I know."
"Sister..." Fu Jianzhi felt guilty and took a small step back, as if she had done something wrong.
He felt that Ruan Chen must be thinking of herself as a shameful voyeur at that moment.
"What a coincidence! What are you doing here? Are you not feeling well? Didn't your dad come with you?"
“I’m here for a follow-up appointment. It’s the same illness as before. The doctor told me to come regularly. My dad is busy, so the driver brought me here.”
Ruan Chen naturally asked, "Is the examination finished now? What's the situation?"
"The checkup is over, and the recovery is going well."
“Okay,” Ruan Chen also walked down the stairs. “I’ll see you downstairs. I’m done with my work anyway.”
Fu Jianzhi was surprised that Ruan Chen hadn't thought of anything, as if it were all just a logical coincidence.
All of this was just a coincidence.
"Sis, I was going downstairs when I heard you talking, so I stopped there."
"Yeah, it's quite a coincidence. My classmate was sick, so I came to visit. I also happened to remember when you were sick and hospitalized last time, looking like a pitiful little thing." Ruan Chen was somewhat absent-minded as she dealt with Fu Jianzhi, her mind mostly on her phone, talking to Xu Xiaolan.
Fu Jianzhi asked cautiously, "Is it a classmate you're very close to?"
Ruan Chen sensed something different in those words.
"...a classmate from No. 1 High School."
Fu Jianzhi, his hands practically rummaging through his pockets, remained calm and composed. "Sis, the rules at No. 1 High School must be pretty strict, right? China is still quite traditional. You know, back in my school abroad, I saw quite a few high school students who had no shame, doing things in broad daylight that I couldn't bear to watch..."
His voice grew softer and softer as he spoke.
Because Ruan Chen stopped.
She turned her head and looked at Fu Jianzhi with a half-smile, "Oh, are you trying to sow discord between me or give me a hint? You little brat, already meddling in your older sister's business?"
She knew about her ties to Fu Jianzhi, whether it was from another world line that seemed to have come from nowhere, or from everything she and he had experienced in this dimension of her own life.
Fu Jianzhi was annoyed, but not completely annoyed. He didn't dare to be annoyed by Ruan Chen's teasing, so he could only vent his emotions on himself. He picked at a hangnail on his thumb with his hand in his pocket until his fingertip was covered in sticky blood.
The phrase "little brat" is too hurtful to one's self-esteem.
I was clearly the same height as Ruan Chen.
Ruan Chen casually put her arm around his shoulder. "Your car? Let's go over there. I'll keep an eye on you."
“Let’s go together,” Fu Jianzhi said, as if afraid that Ruan Chen would turn around and go to see her “classmate” again. She took Ruan Chen’s arm and used her usual coquettish manner, “Sister, let’s go together, I want to go with you.”
“...Okay.” Ruan Chen sighed and sent a message to Cheng Lu.
"I'm being bothered by that brat, so I won't go see it. Just take a picture and send it to me."
"By the way, sis, who were you yelling at when you were on the phone?"
"Oh, it's about school. Some classmates are bullying someone, and I couldn't stand it." Ruan Chen started lying without batting an eye again.
After sending Ruan Chen back to her apartment, Fu Jianzhi instructed on the way back, "Find out what happened at No. 1 Middle School today."
He had just scanned various forums and online communities on his phone and found that the school rules at No. 1 Middle School were indeed strict, with no negative information whatsoever.
The driver said, "Young master, don't you never ask about Miss Ruan's affairs? Once, when the master mentioned Miss Ruan at the dinner table, you got angry and told him not to interfere or say anything."
Fu Jianzhi always treated the servants at home with gentleness and politeness, which was completely different from Fu Chengyu. Therefore, the servants of the Fu family were not afraid of him and dared to say a few more words to the young master.
But Fu Jianzhi did not answer today.
His somewhat gloomy gaze met the driver's through the rearview mirror.
The driver was jolted awake, realizing he had offended the driver.
"I want to know everything she did at No. 1 Middle School today, down to the smallest detail," Fu Jianzhi emphasized.
"Understood, young master."
When Ruan Chen got home and turned on her computer, Cheng Lu had already taken a picture of the masked man—Ruan Chen's stab was very measured, it didn't damage any internal organs, it only caused blood loss.
The masked man was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment, and the city police also placed him under close surveillance as a major suspect, with three shifts of officers guarding him outside the ward every step of the way.
Cheng Lu spent some effort to take a picture of the man, but she had no access to his medical records.
Ruan Chen asked Xu Xiaolan about the masked man's identity when she visited Bo Nian.
Logically speaking, this is nothing that can't be said, but Xu Xiaolan is deliberately secretive and stammers about not telling Ruan Chen.
She opened the photo Cheng Lu had sent. A sense of familiarity welled up inside Ruan Chen.
She was certain she had seen this face before.
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