Yu Yao discovered that Zhao Chuji truly deserved her status as the female lead, possessing an extraordinary intelligence that far surpassed ordinary people.
Perhaps because she had received a shock, from then on, she began to ask about Yu Yao’s whereabouts and even started to interfere with a portion of Yu Yao’s work.
Zhao Chuji put forward several constructive suggestions, which greatly improved the personnel management of Yu Yao’s public welfare foundation.
Yu Yao was amazed by Zhao Chuji’s sharpness in this aspect, and she began to re-examine her relationship with Zhao Chuji…
She could not protect Zhao Chuji for her entire life in the future. Zhao Chuji was already seventeen, and it was also time to cultivate her ability to handle matters independently.
Holding onto this thought, whenever she encountered any difficult problems afterward, Yu Yao also began to take the initiative to discuss them with Zhao Chuji…
Zhao Chuji did things in a way that hit the nail on the head, leaving no room for maneuvering; Yu Yao had a gentle disposition and would take the emotions of all parties into consideration more, so to a certain extent, the two of them formed a mutual complement.
Zhao Chuji originally thought that she would be very satisfied with this kind of effect…
Yu Yao finally stopped treating her as a child, and her words also carried weight in Yu Yao’s heart.
Moreover, no one else like Xiao Qin, who shared a close relationship with her, appeared by Yu Yao’s side again.
Yet, from some unknown moment onward, an abyss seemed to have grown within her heart. Inside the abyss, cold winds howled continuously, clamoring with dissatisfaction.
She did not even know exactly what she was dissatisfied with.
She only felt that her relationship with Yu Yao still seemed to have something left to be desired.
But as for exactly where it fell short, Zhao Chuji could not say.
She only knew that, with the passage of time, as she witnessed Yu Yao helping one person after another, she grew less and less dare to meet Yu Yao’s clear yet care-filled eyes.
She only thought about exhausting all her strength to treat Yu Yao well and fulfill all of Yu Yao’s wishes.
She worked hard continuously, wanting to earn more money to donate to Yu Yao’s public welfare organization.
Her company had almost become the highest-quality short-drama company within the industry.
But this seemed to generate a frustrating cycle yet again…
The moment she donated money, Yu Yao would have more work to do, spending most of her time running around outside;
If she did not donate money…
But the very purpose of her working hard to earn money was precisely to spend it on Yu Yao!
Her mind was impetuous and agitated, and she did not want to admit that all of her current emotions were being pulled and guided by Yu Yao, but the facts were proving to her piece by piece—
She cared about Yu Yao incomparably.
She even could not help but think: if only Yu Yao could turn into her figure toy!
Then she could carry Yu Yao with her every single moment, without needing to be filled with constant anxiety and worry all day long…
Zhao Chuji only felt that the wild fire in her heart burned more and more vigorously day by day, and at some unknown moment, it would start a prairie fire.
However, no one knew that she was already like a volcano that was about to erupt.
In everyone’s hearts, she was still that top student and beautiful scholar who was excellent in both character and studies, cold and detached, and short of words.
Recently, Yu Yao entered a mountain district.
Someone had provided information to the public welfare organization, saying that in their hometown, there still existed a severe phenomenon of favoring boys over girls and depriving female children of their right to go to school, requesting that people be sent to investigate and assist the relevant female children.
Remote areas not only had the phenomenon of favoring boys over girls, but in certain places, human trafficking would even exist. Yu Yao hired several bodyguards, and only after making full safety preparations did she enter the mountain district.
This time was just like usual; Yu Yao promised that she would return completely unscathed, but for some unknown reason, Zhao Chuji just felt that her heart was suspended in suspense and could not settle into a secure place.
Yu Yao was an idealist who had not yet met truly vicious and evil people, but she was different.
She was truly afraid that something would happen to Yu Yao.
The signal in the mountain district was poor, so it was very difficult for Zhao Chuji to connect with Yu Yao via phone calls.
Fortunately, her eavesdropping equipment had already been updated, possessing the best signal in the world, so she could still hear some information at all times.
If it were at all possible, Zhao Chuji wanted to enter the mountains together with Yu Yao.
However, recently her company had just planned to march into live-action television dramas and encountered quite a few obstacles, leaving her unable to walk away from her duties for the time being.
And because of the college entrance examination in the coming year, the school organized make-up classes during the summer vacation, and the teachers’ requirements for the students had also become much higher, so they did not grant leaves of absence very easily.
To maintain her well-behaved image as a good student, Zhao Chuji could only stay at the school.
A lot of vegetation was planted on the school campus, and the chirping of cicadas in the summer was unbearably noisy. Zhao Chuji took out a bottle of ice-cold water from the freezer with a cold face, and secretly, that sticky gaze followed over again.
Zhao Chuji took a deep breath, forcefully restraining the impulse within her heart to destroy everything, and looked icily at the youth behind her.
Many onlookers’ gazes immediately gathered around to watch the excitement.
The youth panted heavily, his face thoroughly red: “Chuji, I like you!”
Zhao Chuji usually would not pay any attention to him.
But thinking of this person’s pervasive and omnipresent spying, a plan formed in Zhao Chuji’s mind, and she paused her footsteps.
“If I remember correctly, this is the 5th time you have handed a love letter to me.”
“What exactly are you doing this for?”
“Because I like you!”
Seeing that Zhao Chuji actually remembered the number of times he had handed over love letters, the boy immediately became excited, staring dead at Zhao Chuji as he confessed his love to her.
“Like?”
Zhao Chuji knit her brows: “Is this your reason for stalking me into the female restroom?”
“I… I didn’t follow you inside!”
The boy did not expect that Zhao Chuji would expose the foul things he had done right in public, and his face turned white in an instant, yet he was still equivocating: “Besides, you locked the door from the inside, I didn’t see anything either!”
The students on the side noticed that something was wrong and called over a teacher.
“I just like you!”
Stimulated by the surrounding onlookers, the boy raised his voice.
Reckless of everything, he rushed over, his face filled with a bizarre smile, wanting to embrace Zhao Chuji: “I want to be with you every single moment, I want to embrace and touch you, I am not wrong…”
If anyone else were here, he might very well have succeeded.
But Zhao Chuji’s Taekwondo over the past two years had not been practiced in vain.
Before the boy could even get close, with a roundhouse kick from Zhao Chuji, the boy was kicked to the side.
A moment later, the teacher arrived.
Both of them were called to the office.
The surveillance video proved that Zhao Chuji was completely on the victim’s side and that the boy had been stalking her all along. To be safe, this matter still had to be notified to the parents of both sides.
Under Zhao Chuji’s indication, the fake parent smiled apologetically and requested a leave of absence from the teacher…
“I’m afraid the child was frightened; I want to ask for half a day off to take her to relax her mood.”
At this moment, the boy’s shouting and clamoring could still be heard from the office: “There’s nothing wrong with me liking her, you can’t stop me…”
It was estimated that the situation could not be handled well within a short period of time.
The homeroom teacher’s brows were tightly knit. Looking at Zhao Chuji who hung her head, the teacher let out a sigh, but still approved the leave.
Zhao Chuji immediately returned to the house.
By some strange combination of factors, she did not want to return to her own room.
She took a deep breath, pushed open the door, and entered Yu Yao’s room holding her earphones.
Inside the room, there seemed to still be the pure fragrance from Yu Yao’s body.
She collapsed onto Yu Yao’s bed, listening to the sounds on the other side of the earphones, and her anxious and irritable state of mind finally calmed down slightly.
Over there, the village chief was unexpectedly easy to talk to—
He agreed in one bite to let Yu Yao establish a special fund to help the female children in the village.
At the same time, the village chief invited Yu Yao to come to their house at night to participate in a bonfire party, and incidentally meet those girls.
Yu Yao and her group went back to the town, but her luggage bag was left behind at the village chief’s house.
Zhao Chuji frowned, and just as she was about to switch to another eavesdropping device, the village chief’s sinister and chilling voice came through the earphones.
“This is the first time I’ve ever seen such a beautiful girl!”
“My son has also reached the age to take a wife. Tonight it’s still the old plan, none of you compete with me for her!”
“Those people are just bodyguards, they won’t care too much. We will intoxicate everyone tonight, tie the person up and hide her in the mountains, and firmly insist that she left by herself. Even if the police come, they won’t be able to find her anyway…”