The pretty little follower gets targeted by the crazy guys at the elite academy

Zhou Si stared at Lu Ran's disheveled and desperate appearance for a long time.

Then he turned and walked towards the villa.

"Keep up."

His voice drifted over from the front, muffled: "If she hits you, I don't care."

Lu Ran paused for a moment, then smiled.

That smile was big and bright, like a fish that had been stranded for five years finally being swept back into the sea by the waves.

"She can't beat me," Lu Ran said confidently.

Zhou Si: "You can't even beat me, how could you possibly beat her?"

Lu Ran: "So, how many times have you actually lost to that little girl Li Ruo?"

Zhou Si "..."

Lu Ran patted his shoulder: "Don't worry, she wouldn't bear to hit me."

"She wouldn't even hit Jiang Wu, how could she bear to hit me?"

Zhou Si paused for a moment.

"River mist?"

He turned around, his brows furrowed in a deep frown: "Jiang Wu really came?"

Lu Ran's expression also changed.

"You fucking don't know?"

His voice rose sharply: "Wasn't that mark on her neck left by Jiang Wu?"

Zhou Si's pupils suddenly contracted.

The two looked at each other and spoke at the same time:

"Lu Xingzhou".

"Lu Xingzhou".

[Hahahaha, those two idiots finally matched up!]

[Jiang Wu: ??? I've become a substitute?]

Lu Xingzhou sneezed upstairs!

So they still don't know Jiang Wu's whereabouts?! That little dog really hid too well!

[Zhou Si thought the hickey was left by Jiang Wu, and Lu Ran also thought it was left by Jiang Wu, but then they both realized at the same time that it was Lu Xingzhou? Hahaha...]

Only Lu Xingzhou knew Jiang Wu had been there! He even deliberately covered up Jiang Wu's traces!

[Damn! This information gap is incredible! Lu Xingzhou is winning big!]

Zhou Si's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

He turned and strode toward the villa, his boots clattering on the wooden walkway, each step carrying a murderous intent.

Lu Ran followed behind, having to jog to keep up with his pace.

"I knew it!"

Lu Ran ran and talked, his voice filled with schadenfreude:

"That coward Jiang Wu only dared to kiss her in the painting, he wouldn't dare to actually..."

He suddenly shut up.

Zhou Si didn't turn around, but his steps clearly paused for a moment.

"What did you say?" His voice drifted from the front, as cold as ice.

"It's nothing."

Lu Ran quickened her pace to walk alongside him: "I didn't say anything."

Zhou Si glanced at him sideways.

Lu Ran stared straight ahead, feigning innocence.

"Lu Ran".

"Um?"

"If you dare to hide it from me,"

"What am I hiding from you?"

Lu Ran interrupted him, a smirk playing on his lips:

"Did you hide it from me that Jiang Wu was here too? Or did you hide it from me that Jiang Wu touched Li Ruo's face right under your nose? Or did you hide it from me...?"

Zhou Si grabbed the back of his neck.

Lu Ran's voice was cut off in his throat, and he was almost lifted up, his feet off the ground.

"You son of a bitch!"

Lu Ran's elbow pushed back, but Zhou Si blocked it with his other hand.

He kicked his leg backward, but missed.

He was like a wildcat being choked by the scruff of its neck, flailing its limbs but unable to break free.

"When did you find out?"

Zhou Si's voice was close to his ear, so low it sounded like it came from hell.

"What do you know?" Lu Ran was still pretending to be stupid.

Zhou Si's fingers tightened.

Lu Ran's face flushed red, but the corners of his mouth were still turned up.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you!"

His voice was forced out through clenched teeth:

"I saw it from the sea! A mini-submarine approached the shore from the northeast of the island! That direction is the only way you can go, but you didn't go that way, so it must be someone else!"

Zhou Si loosened his grip.

Lu Ran landed on the ground, staggered a step, and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Could you go a little easier? You're going to snap my neck."

"Anything else?"

Zhou Si's voice grew colder, and his expression darkened further: "What else do you know?"

Lu Ran looked up at him.

"I also know,"

He pretended to be mysterious:

"That underwater vehicle is still near the island. It hasn't left. That means the people on the island are still there too."

Lu Ran was deliberately trying to make himself less noticeable.

He thought that as long as Zhou Si focused his attention on Jiang Wu, who was like a ghost that was everywhere, he would have more opportunities to take Li Ruo away when he came to the island.

Zhou Si's pupils contracted.

"You didn't find him, did you?"

Lu Ran tilted his head, his fiery red hair obscuring one eye:

"Zhou Si, your island had three hundred armed bodyguards, three layers of security, and full thermal imaging coverage... and yet a crazy little artist sneaked in, and you didn't find a single hair on his head."

He smiled.

That smile was big and bright, with a kind of reckless roguishness.

"You, the godfather of the underworld, were you a free gift with a phone top-up? Hahaha..."

Zhou Si's face was as black as if he wanted to kill someone.

[Lu Ran, try saying that again! You'll be thrown into the sea!]

He's so annoying, hahaha!

But what he said is true! Jiang Wu really did come in! Zhou Si really couldn't be found!

[Zhou Si: I'm going to throw you all into the Pacific Ocean one by one!!]

Looking at Zhou Si's expression, Lu Ran smiled even more happily.

He patted Zhou Si on the shoulder, but Zhou Si slapped him away.

"Alright, alright, stop looking so sullen."

Lu Ran put his hands in his pockets and tilted his head to look at the sky:

"She's upstairs, right? Lead the way."

Zhou Si didn't move.

"Ah Si".

Lu Ran's voice suddenly became serious, so serious it was unlike him:

"I'm very naive, I really wouldn't do that kind of thing to Li Ruo. I just want to see her and catch up with her like an old schoolmate."

Zhou Si looked at him expressionlessly, but inwardly he was sneering.

Alumni?

Reminiscing?

Don't think I don't know what you, Lu Ran, are up to.

It was this cunning appearance that deceived him back then, giving him the opportunity to undermine her.

"Just take a look and leave, really! I swear!"

Lu Ran's lips twitched slightly, then he raised his finger and swore to the heavens:

"I'm not like Lu Xingzhou, who's shameless enough to just stay and never leave."

Zhou Si remained silent for a while.

"She's changed," he said.

"Um?"

Lu Ran asked in confusion, "You've gotten uglier? You've changed your mind about her? How about... anyway, I don't mind... cough cough, I'm just kidding..."

Zhou Si gave her a fierce look and said calmly, "I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, but she's still the same, still so beautiful."

"She shows no signs of aging; she hasn't grown up and still looks like she's nineteen."

Lu Ran was stunned.

He stood there, his fiery red hair fluttering in the wind, his expression changing little by little.

From a roguish grin to emptiness, from emptiness to softness, as soft as sugar melted by the sun.

"That……"

His voice was a little hoarse: "I must be getting old, will she even recognize me?"

Zhou Si, preoccupied with his thoughts, pushed open the villa door and went inside.

The lobby was cool, with the air conditioning on full blast.

Lu Ran stood on the marble floor, water dripping from his body and pooling on the snow-white floor.

He looked down at himself.

My wetsuit was soaked through, I was barefoot, and my hair, which I thought was my best feature, was a mess. I looked like a drowned rat pulled out of the water.

He suddenly felt a little regretful.

You should have changed your clothes before coming.

At least... don't be this pathetic.

But it was too late.

Footsteps came from upstairs.

It was very light and slow, like someone walking down a hallway in slippers.

Lu Ran looked up at the corner of the stairs.

First, you see a pair of white slippers, then a light blue skirt, then a slender waist, and then a section of fair, white calves that are exposed.

Li Ruo stood at the corner of the stairs, holding a glass of ice water in her hand. Her long, glossy hair was draped over her shoulders, and her face was flushed from a bath.

There was a red mark around her neck and a few faint teeth marks on her collarbone, clearly indicating that she had just been thoroughly loved.

She looked down at the soaking wet boy downstairs and froze.

More than ten seconds passed.

No one spoke.

Lu Ran stood in the foyer, looking up at her.

His lips were trembling, and his eyes were red, but he didn't move, didn't rush forward, and didn't shout like he did five years ago.

He just stood there, looking up at her, as if to confirm if she was really her.

It's like they're confirming whether those five years really happened.

It's like confirming whether those 1,800-plus days and nights are real.