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"Secondly, if any negative news about the Zhou family emerges, I hope that you, Mr. Han, can use your connections and resources to amplify the rumors in the business and industrial circles, making them burn even brighter."

Boss Han narrowed his eyes: "Using my influence to suppress the Zhou family?"

"We're leveraging each other's strengths," Lu Fan corrected. "With the Zhou family gone, Old Master Han can take over immediately."

Another silence fell. The wind picked up.

"Third?" Boss Han asked.

"Third," Lu Fan looked him in the eyes, "if nothing happens to the Zhou family in three days, or if I mess up the open house, not only will I not rent this building, but I will also refund double the feng shui consultant fee you paid me. From then on, I, Lu Fan, will disappear from your sight."

That's a harsh statement, but also quite realistic. It's about pushing yourself to the brink to create an opportunity.

Boss Han stared at him, then suddenly smiled, but this time there was something else in his smile.

"Kid, you've got more guts than I thought." He held out his hand. "Fine, I'll take the deal. Three days. I want to see how Zhou Li's family will succumb to the 'loophole' you mentioned!"

……

Lu Fan stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the large apartment, looking at the dazzling city lights outside.

"Wang Huajian stole my girlfriend and is now trying to ruin my life. The Zhou family, with such a large business, is going to such lengths to target a nobody like me..."

Lu Fan muttered to himself, his fingers unconsciously tracing patterns on the cold glass.

"On the surface, it's about spoiling her son and avenging Wang Huajian. But would a woman like Zhou Li really mobilize the entire family's resources to orchestrate such a massive scheme just because her son was taken advantage of for stealing someone else's girlfriend?"

He couldn't understand it before.

In the entertainment industry, it's common for people to flatter the powerful and praise the weak; being blacklisted or sidelined is not uncommon.

But for the Zhou family to launch a comprehensive attack, using public opinion, resources, connections, and even mystical methods, and even implicating everyone around him, has gone beyond the scope of "teaching a lesson".

It's more like... they're determined to completely drain him dry.

Just then, my phone rang.

It was an unfamiliar number, but Lu Fan seemed to have expected it and answered calmly.

"Have you found out?" A woman's voice came from the other end of the phone, cool yet concerned.

"I understand." Lu Fan walked to the sofa and sat down. "The Zhou family went to such great lengths, ostensibly to avenge Wang Huajian, but in reality, they wanted to use my luck to continue their family's power."

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone, followed by a surprised gasp: "Borrowing luck? Is there really such an evil method?"

"Yes," Lu Fan said with certainty. "Moreover, the one the Zhou family hired is quite cunning. They set up an 'Ambush from Ten Sides' formation, with Wang Huajian as the target and me as the 'fuel,' intending to drain my future fortune and transfer it to Wang Huajian to protect the Wang family from disaster and prolong their lives."

"The future's fortunes!" the woman pondered. "How much will they affect you?"

"If I succeed, everything will go wrong afterward, I'll be plagued by bad luck, and my career will be ruined—that's the least of my worries. At worst, I might even shorten my lifespan."

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

"What do you need me to do?" the woman asked again, her tone more serious.

"This formation will come into play over the next three days, adding firepower to the original plan," Lu Fan said. "Their formation has a key element: it must ensure that I am 'isolated and helpless'."

This "aid" refers to a force that can rival or be comparable to the Zhou family. They calculated that your father wouldn't help me, Su Qin is in dire straits herself, and as for Yu Tinglan, they used Li Chen to sow discord, also trying to cut off this "aid" for me.

"So now, they've decided you have no backing anymore?" The woman, Ding Xingyou, asked coldly.

That's right, the scene where Lu Fan and Ding Xingyou argued and left was all staged by the two of them.

Lu Fan then answered Ding Xingyou's question, and the two felt that this matter was not simple. So they decided to play along and put on a show to see what the person behind it was really up to.

That's why the two of them had a big argument on set.

"Yes." Lu Fan looked up at the deep night outside the window. "That's why they dared to activate the formation with all their might. And that's also their weakness."

"You want to play along again?"

"Yes." Lu Fan's voice was steady. "Let them think I'm already trapped, and lower their guard. When the formation reaches its crucial moment, when its power is most deeply connected to Wang Huajian's luck..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear.

Ding Xingyou gave a soft "Mmm": "I understand. Let me know when you need me. The Zhou family has overstepped their bounds these past few years. It's time for them to know that they're not the ones who call the shots in this mess."

Thank you.

"This isn't just helping you, it's helping me too. My dad's furious and says he's going to teach the Zhou family a lesson," Ding Xingyou said coldly.

The two exchanged a few words and then hung up the phone.

Lu Fan had just put his phone down when the doorbell rang.

He walked to the door, looked through the peephole, and was slightly taken aback.

Standing outside the door was Yu Tinglan.

She changed into casual clothes: a beige knit sweater, dark trousers, and her long hair was loosely draped over her shoulders. Her face showed obvious fatigue, but her eyes were bright.

Lu Fan opened the door.

Yu Tinglan glanced at him, said nothing, and walked in on her own. She kicked off her shoes as if she knew the way well, and walked barefoot on the floor toward the open kitchen.

"Aren't you afraid I'm here to settle scores with you?" She turned her back to him, opened the cupboard, took out a tea canister, and her tone was emotionless.

Lu Fan closed the door and followed him into the living room: "From the moment you didn't make me move out of this house, I knew that you still trusted me."

Yu Tinglan paused for a moment, but without turning around, she continued boiling water, warming the cup, and taking out the tea.

Steam rose up, carrying the aroma of tea.

"Sit down." She pushed the first cup of tea she had brewed in front of Lu Fan, then took the other cup and sat down at the other end of the sofa, curling her legs up like a relaxed cat.

Lu Fan sat down opposite her.

The two drank a few sips of tea in silence before Yu Tinglan finally looked up at Lu Fan, her tone as calm as if she were having a casual conversation:

"Lu Fan, what do you remember about that night by the river in South Korea two years ago?"

Lu Fan put down his teacup, thought seriously for a while, and frowned slightly:

"I remember it was very cold, the water was bone-chilling. I remember a woman shouting for help, saying her friend had fallen into the water."

I jumped in. It was dark in the water, and it took me a long time to pull the person up. Once ashore, I was shivering with cold. I received first aid, and left as soon as the ambulance arrived.

He paused, then shook his head: "The rest... is very blurry. That night was too chaotic and too cold; I can't remember many details."

"What should I wear?" Yu Tinglan asked.

Lu Fan tried to think: "I don't remember very clearly. At that time, my attention was entirely focused on saving people, and it was very dark."

Did I speak when I woke up?