Lu Guixin.

As the only girl among the juniors of the Lu family and the Gu family, she was not only doted on by her grandparents and god-grandfather, but she was also protected by two uncles, two elder brothers, and various big bosses. She was extremely well-loved.

She had the face of a dangerous beauty and was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but she was obedient and sensible. Her clear, young eyes were always pure and harmless.

Every year, the latest new clothes and jewelry from top luxury brands and the black VIP cards used for spending at various luxury malls would appear in Lu Guixin’s room first.

The big bosses from all walks of life claim that girls should be raised in a rich manner.

No matter what happened to Lu Guixin, regardless if it was big or small—even if it was a little scratch that she got from training—it could attract everyone’s attention. Even if they had urgent matters to attend to, they would still rush to Lu Guixin’s side and care for her immediately.

At the same time, all sorts of expensive gifts would be sent over.

Lu Guixin would accept all of them out of courtesy. She put on all of the different clothes every day and never repeated the same ones. You could say that she was a people pleaser who wanted to treat everyone equally.

Despite so, the elders were still jealous, and they still fought intensely and passionately to be in her favor.

It was until Lu Guixin ended her middle school examinations that they let out the big news that caused a commotion among the elders.

This was because Lu Guixin told them that she did not intend to attend high school in the capital, but she wanted to attend Ming City High School.

The elders began to plan to be transferred to Ming City for work, and some of them personally managed the office branch in Ming City. They lived in Ming City temporarily.

A lot of big bosses were about to go over to Ming City, and the current mayor of the city was stupefied. He immediately asked his superiors about what had exactly happened.

…

At Royal Garden.

On the night when the middle school examinations results were released, it was a rare occasion that the family of five reunited in the dining room.

Lu Jilai and Lu Jixing rushed over at the last minute.

“Are you really going to attend school in Ming City?” Lu Jixing asked, and he looked up. One of his sharp eyebrows was slightly raised.

He sat properly and nothing like the casual and sloppy manner that he was usually in.

Lu Guixin nodded. “Of course, it is Mom and Auntie Jinyang’s alma mater. It can’t be any worse than the high schools in the capital.”

Lu Jilai turned to Gu Mang. “Mom, do you agree to this?”

Gu Mang propped her face up by her hand. Her loose lounge outfit was piled on her elbow, revealing her slender, pale arms. She took a bite of fish casually and hummed in agreement.

Then Lu Jilai turned to Lu Chengzhou. “Dad, you too?”

The two brothers trained at Red Flame and Jijing Island. Lu Guixin was the only one who had always been staying in the capital, and she only went out occasionally. She spent very little time outside.

These years, almost all of the core research projects in No. 14 Research Center had been shifted from Ming City to the capital.

His father seldom went to Ming City. Would he now agree to let Lu Guixin go there on her own? 

Lu Chengzhou refilled the soup in Gu Mang’s bowl and placed it by her hand. His tone was deep and lazy, “As your Mom says.”

Lu Jilai and Lu Jixing were also at a loss for words.

They shouldn’t have asked.

Lu Jixing squinted a little. “Guixin, are you trying to be like Mom and become a top scholar at the university entrance exams in Ming City High School?”

Lu Guixin’s beautiful and harmless face looked very serious. “Don’t think so highly of me. My grades are very bad, there’s no way I can be a top scholar. I’m just barely making it into high school.”

Everyone else kept quiet.

The corner of Lu Jixing’s lips twitched, and he scoffed speechlessly. He looked down and took a piece of pork ribs for himself. Then, he stuffed it into his mouth. He couldn’t be bothered to watch her pretend for any longer.

Lu Jilai laughed lightly and said in a teasing and lazy manner. “Well, things are going to get exciting in Ming City.”

All of them would have to follow.

Since Lu Guixin was young, she has been labeled with two adjectives. Pretty and ordinary.

Over the years, it never changed. In the primary school leaving examinations and the middle school examinations, she never gave any surprises.

Other than her looks, she did not inherit a single positive trait or intelligence from Gu Mang and Lu Chengzhou. It was as if she was not their biological child.

Lu Zhan had been held back when he wanted to speak about it several times. He wanted Lu Chengzhou to get a DNA test and see if Lu Guixin really carried the blood of the Lu family. Her intelligence level was ridiculously bad.

But as he watched Lu Guixin grow older and resemble Gu Mang more, he conceded. Perhaps his granddaughter was a ‘bug’ and just had a simpler mind than others naturally. They could not do anything about it.

That messy yet beautiful look of hers made the elders worried, yet they couldn’t help liking her.

She was so beautiful, yet her abilities were ordinary. In the future, she had to be well protected, lest she gets bullied by others.

Everyone had the same thoughts as Lu Zhan.

All of them were just afraid that Lu Guixin would feel a sense of disorientation since her two elder brothers had such a high IQ and were so good at fighting. They were afraid that she might even have low self-esteem and that it would hurt her mental health. As such, they showered Lu Guixin with unconditional love.

It was normal that all of them had decided to accompany her to Ming City for her studies.

Lu Guixin was silent for two seconds, then she looked up at Lu Chengzhou. She tried to convince him by acting coy. “Dad, can we not have Grandpa and Uncle Responsive Dragon go to Ming City? I’m just going there for school.”

Lu Chengzhou was just asking Gu Mang about the taste of the soup. When he heard this, he answered, “They’re just worried about you.”

“If they’re going to tag along, wouldn’t it be totally unnecessary for me to go to Ming City High School? I might as well study at a high school in the capital.” She had wanted to go to Ming City as she did not want to be watched so closely by everyone. She had already grown up.

“That’s great, then don’t go to Ming City.” Lu Chengzhou looked up, and the corner of his thin lips curved up. “Stay in the capital then. Although you’ve grown up, I still have to keep you around.”

Lu Jixing looked as if he had expected it. He knew it. His father would never let her go.

Lu Guixin did not expect that Lu Chengzhou, who had always agreed to everything she said unconditionally, would stop her. She looked at Gu Mang and pleaded, “Mom…”

Gu Mang’s eyes matched with her dark pupils, and they were rather similar to that of Lu Chengzhou’s. They made her look pitiful, and they were misty.

Gu Mang raised her exquisite brows slightly and picked up her phone. Then, she tapped into her QQ group chat and threw her phone on the table. She pushed it to Lu Guixin’s hand with her finger.

“If you have something to say, type it in on your own.” She said in a cold tone and continued to drink her soup with a spoon casually.

Lu Guixin kept quiet.

Her mother was really lazy.

The group chat records were filled with conversations about going to Ming City.

Lu Guixin recalled the tone in which her mother usually spoke in, and she tapped on the space to enter her message. Then, she began to type. “Ming City’s pretty good, huh? Alright, all of you should go and don’t come back.”

Send.

Lu Jilai couldn’t hold back his laughter. He stroked his nose. “You… learned pretty well.”

In the next second, messages flowed in the group chat as if something had exploded.

“Nonono! The capital is great! The capital is amazing! We love the capital! The Fengshui is good! There are many pretty ladies!”

“Do you think it’s possible that Responsive Dragon is the mastermind and we are all just accomplices. But now we have decided to renounce the darkness and step into the light! We will follow the big boss! Responsive Dragon can go to Ming City on his own and never return!”

“F*ck you, Flying Serpent! Why are you so ready to betray me?!”

…

Lu Chengzhou was the one to convince Lu Zhan. No one knew how, but Lu Zhan agreed.

He even made a 30 minute phone call with Lu Guixin.

Lu Guixin responded obediently throughout the call. “I got it, Grandpa. Don’t worry. Yeah, yeah. I’ll come back during the summer and winter vacation. I’ll come back and visit you and I will take good care of myself.”

…

On the night before leaving the capital.

Lu Guixin was packing her luggage when there was suddenly a cold voice.

“Are you going to wear all these clothes that you’re bringing?”

Lu Guixin turned to look at the entrance and saw Gu Mang dressed in black loungewear with her arms folded. She had one leg bent, and her toes were pressed against the ground as she leaned lazily against the door frame.

“Mom.” Lu Guixin called out obediently.

Then, she looked down at the white lacy shirt in the suitcase and the Chanel-style candy-colored sweater, preppy skirt, floral dress, and a bunch of beautiful hair ties. Every piece of clothing gave off fashionable and energetic young lady vibes.

Indeed, she was… not going to wear these clothes that she had brought along. She was just going to act pretentious.

In the capital, she always wore clothes that her aunts and uncles gave to her. Those were what they found beautiful. When she arrives in Ming City, there will be nothing that she cares about and no one to please.

Since the day before yesterday, a bunch of parcels was already being sent to Ming City.

Gu Mang’s eyes fell on Lu Guixin’s misty blue suitcase, “Did you bring your black jacket?”

Lu Guixin’s heart skipped a beat. There was a subtle change in the well-mannered girl’s usually gentle eyes. She stared at Gu Mang with her dark pupils, and they were clear and bright. There was a deep and sharp look in them that did not match her age.

This was the first time that the mother and daughter maintained such direct eye contact.

Gu Mang’s eyes were dark, sharp, and piercing. She restrained her raised brows, and the aura that she gave off due to how time has changed her made it hard to deal with.

Lu Guixin has always been living in the capital, but she seldom got to see Gu Mang, let alone have any mother and daughter interaction.

But since she was young, she had heard it. She was very clear about how impressive her mother was.

Although Lu Guixin was young, that few seconds of eye contact was hard for her, and it made her concede fully.

She asked softly. “Do you already know?”

Gu Mang seemed to be smiling. “The person even the big bosses of Ghost Street in the capital fear and surrender to, the Casino Menace. Throwing a few tricks and landing the boxing champion of the casino into ICU. Wrecking havoc, all dressed in a black jacket. Leaving Ghost Street with a sack of US dollars. Lu Guixin, you’re really impressive.”

She spoke slowly, and she looked down slightly. Then, she took out a cigarette from her pocket calmly.

The corner of Lu Guixin’s eyes twitched a little, and she reached up to stroke the back of her neck. Then, she answered very humbly. “Compared to you, Mom, I’m still lacking.”

Gu Mang bit onto the cigarette. When she heard this, she smirked and lit the cigarette with a lighter.

Just as she took a puff, an arm reached out from behind her and swiped the cigarette out of her mouth. The person then conveniently threw it into a potted plant beside them.

Gu Mang put away her smile and turned expressionlessly to see Lu Chengzhou standing beside her.

“Our daughter is still a minor. Sister Mang, please control yourself.” Lu Chengzhou said as he rested his arm on Gu Mang’s shoulder and leaned his broad back down a little.

“Do I still have to control myself around her?” Gu Mang raised her chin. “What kind of place is Ghost Street? Ask your daughter, how many years has she been messing around there for? Is there anything she hasn’t seen?”

Lu Chengzhou stared at her.

His daughter?

Ghost Street was in the capital. It was a zone where all sorts of people mixed around, and no one guarded the area. The relationship between the forces was complicated, and the system was hard to deal with.

It was not that Gu Mang and Lu Chengzhou could not manage it. It was just that if they did so, there would surely be other forces that would make a comeback. Another street will just appear. It was better that they just maintained the current Ghost Street where they at least knew what was going on and that things were still within their control.

Lu Guixin had been fooling around in Ghost Street for at least five years.

The big boss of Ghost Street had such a big mental trauma that whenever he saw the person in the black jacket, he would take a few more glances.

Gu Mang always knew that such a person existed. As the person acted on her own, she only told Lu Qi to keep a lookout.

Gu Mang accidentally found out about Lu Guixin’s little secret during an incident.

That day, she did not intend to return to the Royal Garden. Afterward, there were some changes with her plans, so she did not greet anyone when she returned. At 3am, she came out to have a drink after looking at some reports, and she did not switch on the lights. Just then, Lu Guixin returned, dressed in black. She gave off murderous vibes.

Perhaps it was because Lu Guixin knew that she was not coming home, so she did not disguise herself. That was why she was exposed.

Was there anything their daughter hadn’t seen?

Lu Guixin answered softly. “I’ve never seen the boss of Shadow League smoke in front of her own daughter.”

Gu Mang glanced over coldly.

Lu Guixin stood up straight immediately and raised her arms up in surrender. She laughed and revealed her straight teeth, then she tried to please her. “Mom, I’m sorry.”

Gu Mang stared at her face. Two seconds later, she smirked slyly. “Do you know why no one messed with me when I was schooling?”

“Yeah.” Lu Guixin answered awkwardly. “I do… You overdid it.”

She was too pretentious.

At that time, her mother was very good at fighting. No matter how pretty she was, no one dared to mess with this big boss. Even the two adults, Uncle Qin and Uncle He, were really afraid of her.

She was different. In the eyes of everyone, she was a beautiful noob who had no ability to fend for herself.

If she had known earlier, she would not have hidden.

It was because Lu Suiyi and Lu Suibian did not have a childhood, and they were always sent to learn with a bunch of old men to do research. Seeing that gave her trauma.

Lu Chengzhou held back his laughter and said to Lu Guixin. “Bring whatever you like. If you don’t like them, get new ones when you arrive in Ming City.”

Lu Guixin nodded, and her eyes curled up. “Yes, Dad.”

Gu Mang took out the black card to Seal Palace from her pocket and threw it over. “Don’t cause trouble for Ms. Xi.”

The sound of the card piercing through the air was sharp and clear.

Lu Guixin caught it between her slender, white, and well-defined fingers. She looked nothing like someone who could not fend for herself.

She answered obediently. “I’ve looked through the school rules. I’ll definitely be a good student and not let myself go. Don’t worry, Mom.”

Lu Chengzhou was silent for a second. Then, he said in a soft voice and sounded like he was laughing a little. “These words sound a little familiar.”

Gu Mang kept quiet.

…