Rong Lan raised her eyebrows. If Bai Rongran were in front of her, she would probably directly mock Bai Rongran for having delusions. Although she wasn't familiar with Chu Chuan and didn't have many memories related to him, from the few words Chu Chuan had said just now, she could guess that Chu Chuan was also a ruthless person. He was actually so crazy as to scheme against Bai Rongran and use the unborn child. His purpose seemed to be just to cuckold Chu Hengyuan. How could such a person possibly marry Bai Rongran?
Sure enough—
"Has Miss Bai lived in the slums for too long? So you have such low aspirations? You actually want to marry me, an illegitimate child of the Chu family? You're the long - awaited darling of the Bai family. In the future, what kind of man can't you get?"
Chu Chuan's tone was filled with strong malice.
Hearing Chu Chuan address Bai Rongran as "Miss Bai", Rong Lan couldn't help but speculate. Could it be that Chu Chuan had won Bai Rongran's heart with this address? After all, although the whole world knew that Bai Ronglan wasn't a child of the Bai family, the elders of the Bai family still wanted to recognize her. And since she was born an hour earlier than Bai Rongran, she should be the eldest daughter of the Bai family. Bai Rongran could only be considered the second daughter.
And Bai Rongran herself extremely hated it when someone called her "Second Miss Bai".
"You!" Bai Rongran was so angry that she could hardly speak smoothly. "Anyway, there are only two options! You marry me! Or I'll go and abort the child right now!"
"Then go and abort the child. Don't message me and ask me out casually in the future. It wouldn't be good if my elder brother found out. I have things to do in the company. I'm leaving."
Rong Lan looked at the man whose expression remained so calm that no fluctuations could be seen. "Did Chu Chuan say that it was Bai Rongran who messaged him?"
Wasn't it supposed to be Chu Hengyuan who messaged Chu Chuan and asked him to come?
Hearing Rong Lan's words, Chu Hengyuan looked up at her. A faint smile appeared on his face. "I just used some cheap tricks to give Chu Chuan an illusion."
Rong Lan felt even more strange. She secretly traced Chu Hengyuan's causal line.
Wasn't Chu Hengyuan supposed to be a poor man? He could afford to hire people to take pictures for him and use high - tech items like bugging devices and personal information tampering tools. No matter how you looked at it, he couldn't be short of money.
But her aunt had said that a person's words could deceive, and their eyes could deceive too, but only the causal line was real. The causal line wouldn't lie.
She had learned from her aunt for ten years how to read the causal lines of mortals. It couldn't be that after just a few hundred years, she had forgotten this skill, could it?
"The show seems to be over." Chu Hengyuan smiled slightly and took off his Bluetooth earphone.
The Bluetooth earphone returned to a state of just noise, and the voices of Bai Rongran and Chu Chuan could no longer be heard. It seemed that Chu Chuan had done what he said. He left without giving Bai Rongran a chance to continue.
Rong Lan imitated Chu Hengyuan, took off her Bluetooth earphone and handed it to him.
Chu Hengyuan took the earphone she handed over and put the pair of Bluetooth earphones back into the box. "Thank you very much, Miss Bai, for helping me invite the second daughter of the Bai family out. I'll send all the recordings and photos I got today to you."
Rong Lan, who was just about to ask Chu Hengyuan for the recordings, tilted her head. This man really knew how to handle interpersonal relationships. The speech she had prepared was useless.
"Then I'll thank Young Master Chu in advance." Rong Lan said, and then casually asked, "Does Young Master Chu want the photos and recordings to cancel the engagement with the Bai family?"
Chu Hengyuan readily admitted. "I can't marry a girl who has someone in her heart and in her belly. It would be best if I could cancel the engagement. If not, I can let Chu Chuan marry the second daughter of the Bai family. It'll be a favor to her."
Rong Lan blinked her eyes. So this man didn't plan to consider her? Then if she wanted to fulfill the wish of the ghost Bai Ronglan, wouldn't she have to take the initiative to tell Chu Hengyuan that she wanted to marry him and ask him to consider her?
No, no!
She was a reserved fox!
Moreover, she wasn't ready to marry a man who wasn't her ideal type.
She had to at least make sure that this world didn't overlap with the world she originally lived in. Otherwise, if her aunt found her one day and saw her marrying a man with no status or money, where would she put her face?
Chu Hengyuan didn't know the many thoughts in Rong Lan's mind. He mistook her silence for her thinking about whether, if he completely got rid of Bai Rongran, the elders of the Chu family would set their sights on her and ask her to marry him.
After all, from today's interaction, he could basically tell that this girl usually pretended to be weak to take advantage. Her own methods were not weak.
More importantly, she didn't like him.
A person like this would never want to be a marriage partner for the sake of a family alliance.
After thinking for a while, Chu Hengyuan finally put on his affectionate mask and added a lie, "Moreover, I have someone I like."
Rong Lan: "!!!"
She deeply felt that if her fox tail were still there at this moment, the whole tail would explode.
Chu Hengyuan had someone he liked. What should she do?
Could it be that the ghost deliberately set her up because it disliked her for occupying this body?
Chu Hengyuan inexplicably felt that he saw a flash of horror in Rong Lan's eyes. He thought he must have been wrong. The fact that he had someone he liked shouldn't be that scary.
Rong Lan forced a polite and embarrassed smile. "Young Master Chu has hidden it so well. I've never even heard that you have someone in your heart."
The strange thing was that she couldn't tell from the causal line either!
Chu Hengyuan smiled and avoided the topic. "Where are you going next, Miss Bai? Let me give you a ride?"
Seeing that Chu Hengyuan didn't want to talk about this topic, Rong Lan felt even more that he was protecting the girl he liked. She immediately opened the car door. "I won't trouble Young Master Chu."
She couldn't wait to go home and be alone to find a way to investigate the girl Chu Hengyuan liked.
Chu Hengyuan didn't force her. "Okay. See you next time."
"See you next time." After saying that, Rong Lan immediately got out of the car, left the parking lot and went to the side of the road to take a taxi.
When she returned to the Bai family, it was almost dinner time. She told the aunt at home that she had eaten outside before coming back and that she didn't need to be called for dinner. Then she went upstairs to her room, locked the door.
Computers were very strange to her. Nevertheless, she still turned on the computer, thinking of getting familiar with the high - tech of this world and finding a way to ask someone to help her investigate who the girl Chu Hengyuan liked was.
To live well, she could be a fox who stole someone's love interest. But before taking action, she had to understand the opponent.
Know your enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.
This was what her aunt had taught her after being a favored concubine in the emperor's harem for a lifetime.