After Lu Zhiyan left, only Lu Wenxi and Li Si remained in the room.
Li Si immediately got up and threw herself into his arms, tearfully tattling, “Wenxi, your brother is so mean. He said I’ve been a bad influence on you and made you skip class, and that I dressed like this to seduce you. He wouldn’t even give me a chance to explain. I’m so scared, sob sob!”
Of course, she didn’t say a single word about being exposed for faking her illness.
[Ugh, this female supporting character is stirring up trouble between the brothers again!]
[Why doesn’t she mention the part about faking her illness!]
[When will the Male Lead finally see her true colors?]
[The older brother saw through her scheming white lotus act at a glance. The Male Lead’s skill at spotting manipulative women still needs work.]
[But I think the brother went a bit too far. His attitude was so harsh.]
Lu Wenxi felt heartbroken and guilty.
He had thought that hiding Li Si here would be foolproof—he never expected his eldest brother to come looking for her.
“I’m sorry, Sisi, for making you suffer. I failed to protect you.”
Li Si sniffled, looking terribly wronged.
She wanted Lu Wenxi to feel guilty, so that he wouldn’t easily abandon her.
After her encounter with Lu Zhiyan today, she realized more and more that only Lu Wenxi would treat her unconditionally. Everyone else saw her as a bad person and treated her coldly.
Maybe, just like the bullet chat said, because she was the Vicious Female Supporting Character, everyone else was full of hostility toward her?
Lu Zhiyan surely wanted Lu Wenxi to be with the Female Lead, who matched him in status, which was why he had come all this way to warn her, even trying to drive her away.
The more Li Si thought about it, the more panicked she felt. She hugged Lu Wenxi even tighter and pleaded, “Wenxi, I don’t want to leave you. Please don’t s me away, okay?”
“Silly girl, how could I ever let you go?”
The thought of what Lu Zhiyan had just said made him extremely agitated.
Take her away?
In his dreams!
But Li Si’s attitude comforted Lu Wenxi. In front of Lu Zhiyan, he actually felt somewhat inferior.
As brothers, despite the several-year age gap, no matter what he did, people always compared him to his older brother, saying that if it were Lu Zhiyan, he would surely have done better.
Being compared like that year after year, anyone would develop an inferiority complex.
So when he learned that Lu Zhiyan had gone to see Li Si, it wasn’t just his possessiveness flaring up, bothered that she had been seen by another man—he was also worried that she might have a change of heart after meeting his brother.
Now it seemed she hadn’t been attracted to Lu Zhiyan at all—in fact, she disliked him.
It was Lu Zhiyan instead, that final glance he’d given Li Si, that made Lu Wenxi feel uneasy.
“He really didn’t do anything to you? How did this happen?”
Lu Wenxi’s gaze was fixed on Li Si’s lips.
Her lipstick was smudged, and even the area around her mouth was red, as if it were the mark left behind after being kissed passionately.
Li Si replied, “He said I was playing the victim while wearing this kind of lipstick, so he wiped it off.”
Lu Wenxi was furious. What business was it of his what lipstick she wore?
Controlling everything—was he that bored?
He really couldn’t understand why Lu Zhiyan had suddenly taken an interest in meddling in his affairs, when he hadn’t even visited once in years.
Someone must have had a loose tongue at Lanxing Pavilion yesterday and let the news slip out.
Li Si suddenly spoke up: “Wenxi, since your brother won’t let you skip class, then I won’t call you anymore when I’m feeling unwell. Just attend your classes properly at school—don’t worry about me.”
The thought that Lu Wenxi wouldn’t be able to skip class anymore, meaning he’d spend more time at school and more time around the Female Lead, made her anxious.
She retreated in order to advance: “Even though I’ll miss you so much, I’ll hold it in. You… just come see me whenever you have free time.”
As she spoke, she even shed a line of tears on cue.
[She’s playing the pity card again.]
[She’s clearly faking her illness. Besides, the Male Lead isn’t a doctor—why does she keep making him keep her company?]
[See, that’s her scheming nature—using this to make the Male Lead feel sorry for her!]
[It’s fine. The Male Lead promised his brother he won’t skip class anymore, so her schemes are useless.]
[Why do I feel like she has some other aga? Don’t tell me she wants the Male Lead to take her to school?]
[Male Lead, don’t fall for it!]
Lu Wenxi had his own considerations.
Li Si’s existence had already been discovered by his eldest brother. Even if he found her a new place to stay, it was only a matter of time before she was found again.
If his eldest brother came looking for her while he wasn’t home…
Just imagining it was unbearable.
Rather than hiding her while constantly worrying about Lu Zhiyan finding her, it was safer to keep her under his own watchful eye.
So he said, “Sisi, come to school with me!”
“Really?!”
Li Si’s eyes lit up as she looked at him in delighted surprise.
Lu Wenxi nodded. “Mm. I can’t bear to be apart from you for so long either. From now on, we’ll be together every moment.”
Although he hated the thought of other men staring at her, Lu Zhiyan posed a far greater threat than any of them.
“Wonderful!!”
Li Si never expected that a blessing would come from misfortune—she could go to school with him!
When the Female Lead appeared, she’d find a way to stop her.
Li Si regarded Lu Wenxi as her lifeline. Up to now, the only kindness she had felt had come from him, and of course she couldn’t bear to hand him over to anyone else.
With Lu Zhiyan as a point of comparison, Li Si felt even more strongly that she needed to hold on tight to Lu Wenxi.
[Has the Male Lead lost his mind? He’s actually taking her to school with him?]
[If she keeps following the Male Lead around, what about the Female Lead Baby?]
[This Vicious Female Supporting Character is definitely going to sabotage things!]
[Um… actually, I think this is pretty good. The female supporting character and the Male Lead are mutually in love—just let them be together!]
Exactly, exactly!
Li Si wholeheartedly agreed with that bullet chat. If she could, she’d give it a like.
Wasn’t it said there were three more male leads?
Just let the Female Lead up with those three instead. She only needed Lu Wenxi.
Having decided to bring Li Si to school, Lu Wenxi handled her enrollment procedures and had a uniform custom-made for her.
He specifically emphasized that the uniform’s skirt had to be long—past the knee.
When Si Yueying heard the news, he teased, “Didn’t they say your Sisi was in poor health and couldn’t come to school?”
Lu Wenxi replied, “She can’t bear to be apart from me, so I had no choice but to bring her along.”
Don’t think he didn’t know—Si Yueying had ill intentions toward Li Si, and he wasn’t about to give anyone the opportunity.
“Is that so?”
Si Yueying gave a noncommittal response, but in his heart he knew exactly the real reason Lu Wenxi was bringing her to school.
That kid Tang Yi really had his methods, leaking the information to Lu Zhiyan.
In all the world, the only person who could handle Lu Wenxi was his older brother—but no one expected it to go this smoothly.
Just thinking about getting to see him at school from now on, Si Yueying was already looking forward to it.