8: Chapter 8 Reason? What reason do you want me to have?

The reason Xiao Ran sent Murong Lan away was to deal with this matter properly.

After all, the more she knew, the greater the harm it would cause her in the future.

At this moment.

Bai Lu took a step closer to him.

Xiao Ran frowned slightly and also took a step back.

"Sister Bai Lu! Please respect yourself!"

Bai Lu's eyebrow twitched slightly.

"Xiao Ran! Do you know how much your step back hurts me?"

"Sister Bai Lu, please don't be like this, okay? We can still be friends."

"No! I don't want to be your friend! I want to be your woman!"

Bai Lu, with her stunningly beautiful face and tearful, sobbing appearance, truly made one feel a touch of pity.

Xiao Ran felt a little depressed seeing her.

She had always been this persistent.

"Sister Bai Lu! Why bother? Let's just drop this and save each other some face, isn't that better?"

Xiao Ran also had his difficulties.

What man wouldn't want to have women on both sides?

Especially these top-tier rich and beautiful women; he certainly wouldn't let go of any of them who were deeply in love.

It's just that, right now, he was struggling just to survive... how could he talk about spending the rest of his life with them?

"Not good! Very not good! You are mine!"

Bai Lu's eyes were brimming with tears, the clear streaks like cracks on fine jade, ready to shatter at a touch.

Xiao Ran looked at her and shook his head, saying, "Let's sit down and talk first..."

"Mhm, mhm!"

She nodded repeatedly, obediently sitting across from him.

Her unfamiliar actions stirred something in Xiao Ran's heart.

She used to be incredibly strong-willed!

Two years without seeing her, and her personality had changed so much... "Xiao Ran... every time you saw me cry before, you would gently take out a tissue you carried and carefully wipe away my tears."

Bai Lu cried like a little girl who had lost favor, pouting and murmuring,

"Before, every time I was unhappy, you would hold my hand, constantly comfort me, tell me jokes, and even bark like a dog for me."

"But now, why..."

Xiao Ran frowned slightly, looking at the woman who was constantly playing the emotional card, and interrupted her spellcasting:

"Sister Bai Lu, the past is the past, and now is now. Everything has changed, and we should all look forward!"

"Xiao Ran! Have you forgotten the agreement between us?"

Bai Lu suddenly stopped crying, her charming eyes sparkling, like rippling water.

Xiao Ran's heart tightened.

'Agreement? What agreement? Why don't I know about it? Don't slander me! I'll sue you for slander!'

He considered himself to be very cautious.

When dating and breaking up, he never made any promises, nor did he set any agreements.

If there were any, they must have been made by his aliases!

What did it have to do with Xiao Ran?

"Sister Bai Lu, I don't remember us having any agreement?"

Bai Lu pouted, her tear-filled eyes brimming with resentment.

"Ranran... I said I would wait for you my whole life, but I really don't want to see you in another woman's arms. I'm truly in so much pain, my heart is breaking, do you know that?"

"Sister Bai Lu, we've already broken up! I can't just stay single for the rest of my life, can I?"

"You lied to me! You said that you had your pride, and you wouldn't be with a girl who was richer than you!" Bai Lu said angrily.

Xiao Ran was stunned; he had indeed said that.

It was a common breakup line, the kind you hear everywhere.

Two years had passed, and she still remembered it so clearly... Bai Lu saw his expression, and the anger in her heart intensified.

"How long has it been? And you're already with another rich girl! Where do you put me? Were all the things you said before just nonsense?!"

Her eyebrows shot up, her tone aggressive, showing signs of overturning the table at any moment.

Xiao Ran was speechless; this Bai Lu was starting to be utterly unreasonable!

The casual breakup excuse he made up back then was now being used to threaten him?

"Sister Bai Lu, be rational. We genuinely broke up a long time ago, and who I'm with now seemingly has nothing to do with you, right?"

"Rational? How do you expect me to be rational? Am I supposed to watch the man I love hugging and cuddling with another woman right before my eyes?"

"Why are you doing this to me? Why do you have to flirt with another woman in front of me?! Why?! What about me is inferior to her?!"

Bai Lu suddenly sprang to her feet, her chest heaving.

The scene of him hugging and cuddling with Murong Lan constantly stimulated her nerves, completely making her eyes red and her temper flare.

All the confusion, longing, resentment, and attachment accumulated over two years burst out in one go!

Her roaring voice attracted the attention of some customers.

Fortunately, there were partitions, so the actual scene couldn't be seen.

Otherwise, it might have made headlines in various schools.

"Sigh~~"

Xiao Ran sighed deeply.

He hadn't expected Bai Lu to become like this.

It made him somewhat nostalgic for the intellectual and gentle older sister she used to be, even if she was a bit strong-willed... Bai Lu was not from Donghai City; she was a native of Modu, a genuine rich and beautiful woman.

It was still a scorching summer.

Xiao Ran, who had just finished his college entrance exams, arrived in Modu, a city teeming with young rich women.

He knew that relationships couldn't be messed around with in one place, or he would eventually get into trouble.

So he shifted his base of operations and came to Modu.

Because Xiao Ran's system had a scouting function, whenever he discovered a high-quality woman, the system would give that woman a rating.

The higher the rating of the woman, the better the rewards obtained upon breaking up.

Of course, this was merely for reference, and it didn't mean he had to pursue every one he saw.

He couldn't possibly find a married high-quality woman and then rush forward to flirt with her.

He wasn't Cao Cao; he still had morals.

It was just that there were already divorced ones... ahem.

Upon arriving in Modu, Xiao Ran quickly identified a target: Bai Lu, the eldest daughter of the Bai family in Modu.

"By a stroke of luck," he found her.

Xiao Ran, slightly disguised, "fainted" in a shop run by Bai Lu, and the kind-hearted her personally sent the unconscious him to the hospital.

The hospital's final conclusion was malnutrition, poor physical condition, and fainting due to his body giving out.

Long plagued by illness, Xiao Ran's body was indeed in very poor condition; this was not faked.

But the golden core in his brain was still hidden by the system.

Unless Xiao Ran self-destructed or some other accident occurred, no one would know he had cancer.

After he was discharged from the hospital, using the excuse of repaying her life-saving kindness, he shamelessly came to Bai Lu's shop to work as a waiter.

And the kind Bai Lu, unable to refuse him, eventually let him stay and even arranged accommodation for him.

At that time, Bai Lu was still a senior university student, a full four years older than him!

With daily contact, and Xiao Ran's good looks and cunning, he launched a fierce offensive.

Bai Lu quickly fell into his clutches, and the two smoothly ignited the sparks of love.

Later, he learned that she had never even been in a relationship. No wonder she fell so easily.

From the day they confirmed their relationship, Xiao Ran accompanied her meticulously.

His shadow was left in every step of her life...