She lowered her eyelids, leaning against the elevator wall with a calm expression, pretending to be a stranger to that troublesome soul.
Noticing the little child beside her excitedly standing on tiptoe to peek through the gap, she grabbed him by the collar of his small shirt. “Will you calm down on your own, or should Mama help you calm down, hmm?”
The little one immediately settled down, obediently hugging his mother’s leg and standing still, no longer looking outward.
Shang Lu, standing nearby, took in the unusual behavior of the mother and son.
A flicker of light passed through his eyes.
Does the ancestor know the person outside?
At that moment, the elevator doors fully opened.
Fu Shangbai, standing outside, coldly raised his head and saw Su Jiaojiao and her son inside the elevator.
He also recognized Su Jiaojiao’s face, which was strikingly vivid in its ugliness.
“What a coincidence, isn’t this the lady from the scenic area earlier?” Secretary Zhu beside him greeted Su Jiaojiao in surprise. “Hello.”
Su Jiaojiao lazily nodded with a smile. “Yes, hello.”
Her gaze calmly swept past Fu Shangbai’s face as she took Su Tuantuan’s little hand and stepped out of the elevator.
Fu Shangbai watched her leave the elevator before finally noticing Shang Lu inside.
The two had met numerous times at various business banquets over the years. Though not particularly close, they were familiar with each other.
“President Shang.”
“President Fu, your esteemed presence truly honors me!”
Shang Lu reached out to shake Fu Shangbai’s hand, smiling warmly. “May I ask what brings President Fu to Tongcheng? I’m quite familiar with the city. If there’s anything you need assistance with, please don’t hesitate to let me know.”
Fu Shangbai saw no reason to conceal his purpose for coming to Tongcheng. “Thank you for your kindness, President Shang. I came to pick someone up, but they’re almost here, so I won’t trouble you.”
Shang Lu nodded. “Alright, then. President Fu, please go about your business. Let’s catch up another time.”
He stepped out of the elevator, gesturing for Fu Shangbai to enter.
Fu Shangbai entered the elevator with Secretary Zhu.
Standing upright, he slowly raised his eyes to watch Su Jiaojiao’s back as she walked away step by step.
His gaze fixed on her retreating figure, his eyes darkening.
This figure from behind was exactly the same as the Jiaojiao he remembered…
As the elevator doors gradually closed and her figure grew farther away, Fu Shangbai suddenly reached out and pressed the elevator’s open button, stepping out in one swift motion!
“Excuse me, miss, what is your name?”
He stared at Su Jiaojiao’s back and asked.
Su Jiaojiao paused in her steps.
Ah, young man, why must you be so stubborn?
In past lives, you pursued me because I was a great beauty. Now that I’ve changed my face to something this ugly, why are you still fixated on me?
Are you just asking to be played?
If you’d just behave and not provoke me, I wouldn’t play you. Do you really have to rush headlong into being played?
She turned to look at Fu Shangbai.
Channeling her demonic power into her eyes, she clearly saw the dense purple aura surrounding him, even more intense than in previous lives!
That purple aura was a manifestation of his extraordinarily noble and weighty destiny.
For Su Jiaojiao, who urgently needed to find a noble person to protect her through her tribulation, seeing such a concentrated mass of purple aura swaying before her made it incredibly difficult not to play him!
Like in past lives, as soon as he pursued her, she half-heartedly followed him home to absorb his purple aura and seek protection…
Su Jiaojiao struggled to tear her gaze away from the purple aura enveloping him.
Though he was tempting, she truly couldn’t allow herself to play this person again!
She had to resist!
Thus, Su Jiaojiao deliberately provoked him, attempting to sever this ill-fated bond!”Why do you want to know my name? You look sickly and in desperate need of wild ginseng to stay alive, right? Do you still want some wild ginseng?”
She glanced at him and curled her lips. “Not bad-looking. Come on, tell me your age, family background, and any bad habits. If you satisfy me, I’ll sleep with you once and give you one ginseng root.”
“Uh…” Fu Shangbai stared at Su Jiaojiao for three seconds, then turned away with a cold expression. “Sorry to bother you.”
He had thought too much.
How could such a frivolous woman possibly be the Jiaojiao from his dreams?
Just a similar silhouette—over the years, he had encountered countless women with silhouettes resembling Jiaojiao, but every time he chased after them and saw their faces, they were never the person he was looking for.
This woman before him was merely more similar in silhouette to Jiaojiao than the others he had seen before.
But it was only a resemblance; she was ultimately not that person.
Su Jiaojiao watched the elevator doors close with a smile before taking her son and heading to the presidential suite with Shang Lu.
As soon as they entered, Shang Lu coaxed Su Tuantuan to go check out the rooms.
Su Tuantuan gave him a pitying look.
Hmph, trying to send me away so you can secretly flirt with my mother?
Well, don’t cry later. After all, dreams are meant to be shattered. One must stay strong.
Feeling a bit of sympathy for Shang Lu, Su Tuantuan toddled into the room on his short little legs.
As soon as he closed the door, he transformed into his fox form in a flash, leaped onto the windowsill, and scurried down the pipes with a series of thuds!
Mother!
Bye-bye!
Tuantuan is going to check out that uncle from earlier!
If you won’t tell Tuantuan what your relationship with him is, Tuantuan will find out on his own!
Meanwhile, at the suite entrance—
Shang Lu gently grabbed Su Jiaojiao’s sleeve to stop her from leaving. He leaned against the door, one leg bent in a lazily seductive pose.
“Ancestor…”
He gave Su Jiaojiao a flirtatious look and slowly placed his slender fingers on his collar.
While gazing at Su Jiaojiao with his clear, affectionate, and dewy eyes, he unbuttoned his shirt one by one, revealing his attractive collarbone.
“If Fu Shangbai won’t let you sleep with him, it’s fine. Sleep with me instead… I guarantee I’m good at it, and you’ll be satisfied.”
He looked at Su Jiaojiao tenderly, his voice as seductive as could be.
Su Jiaojiao smiled at him.
“How good are you? Could you possibly be as good at beating people up as I am, hmm?”
As soon as she finished speaking, she raised her hand and released a dazzling spell, striking Shang Lu right between the eyebrows!
“Yoo-hoo—”
In the next moment, a beautiful, bleating sika deer appeared at the doorway, its large, watery eyes wide with panic as it flailed its hooves helplessly!
Su Jiaojiao rubbed her wrist and glared at it coldly. “I told you to tone it down and stop acting so shameless, but you just wouldn’t listen, would you? I’ve been putting up with you for a long time today!”
She grabbed the deer by its antlers and began pummeling it fiercely!
Every punch landed with brutal force!
Each of her blows carried a savage, ruthless beauty!
And with every punch, he cried out in pain, embodying a delicate, fragile beauty!
“Yoo-hoo… Ancestor, I was wrong… Yoo-hoo…”
Shang Lu’s pleas for mercy were a chaotic mix of deer bleats and human speech!
Su Jiaojiao gave him a thorough beating before finally grabbing his antlers and lifting the several-hundred-pound sika deer spirit into the air!
She shook him coldly in mid-air and asked, “Still feeling shameless?”
Shang Lu’s deer-like eyes welled up with two glistening pools of tears. “I won’t dare anymore, Ancestor…”Thrown to the ground by Su Jiaojiao, he transformed into human form, lowered his eyes, and thought while grimacing in pain.
I won’t dare today!
Once my injuries heal tomorrow, I’ll dare again!
Only cowards give up easily. For the sake of the ancestor, I can overcome all difficulties and charge forward!
I, Shang Lu, am a warrior who never retreats!