The Vicious, Vain Stepsister (2)
Jiang Xuefu wore only a white nightgown that reached her knees, with delicate lace embroidered along its hem and sleeves. She appeared to have just finished bathing, and the girl's skin was dewy and rosy, as tender as a freshly peeled egg.
The ends of her hair were still damp, and her brows and eyes were lovely. Her lips were as lush and vivid as roses, while her moist almond eyes were both innocent and alluring. Even Su Jiu stared blankly for a moment.
That was, if one ignored the school uniform in the girl's hand.
Su Jiu recognized it at once as Senior Lu's school uniform and couldn't help panicking. "Jiang Xuefu, give me back the uniform!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. It's just a school uniform. Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Or..." The girl's pretty eyes shifted slowly, and she asked with ill intent, "Do you have some shameful thoughts?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Give it back!"
Angry and anxious, Su Jiu jumped up and lunged for the uniform, only for Jiang Xuefu to turn lightly aside. Her hand barely brushed the sleeve, and she failed to get hold of it.
"This is Senior Lu's uniform, isn't it?" Jiang Xuefu looked at Su Jiu with some satisfaction. Leaning against the doorway, she said carelessly, "As it happens, the student council has a gathering tomorrow. I'll return it to Senior Lu."
Jiang Xuefu had caused a sensation as soon as she entered the school because of her outstanding looks. She also loved having fun, so in less than a week, her excellent popularity had earned her a recommendation to join the student council. There happened to be a gathering tomorrow, which would give her a chance to see what this legendary Senior Lu looked like.
The next morning, when they were still a few hundred meters from the school gate, the girl resting against the back seat opened her eyes. Still drowsy, she glanced at the girl in the front passenger seat. "Why haven't you gotten out yet?"
This was a so-called "rule" Jiang Xuefu had laid down for Su Jiu from the start. After all, she didn't want anyone at school to know about their relationship.
Su Jiu froze when Jiang Xuefu called out to her, and a faint flash of resentment passed swiftly through her eyes. This clearly belonged to the Su family...
"Hey, aren't you getting out?" Seeing that Su Jiu still hadn't moved after a long while, the girl in the back seat grew impatient. She stretched out a small foot clad in a dainty leather shoe and spitefully kicked the back of the front seat twice.
Su Jiu pressed her lips together, shouldered her backpack, and silently got out.
Only after the annoying thing was gone did Jiang Xuefu let out a pleased hum. "Uncle Zhou, let's go."
Through Jiang Sheng's efforts over the years, most of the people working for the Su family, both inside and outside the house, had already been replaced with his own people, including this driver. So Jiang Xuefu wasn't at all afraid that word of what had happened to Su Jiu would reach Su Jing.
At the school gate.
Jiang Xuefu had just gotten out of the car and was walking toward the school when a boy suddenly stepped in front of her, blocking her view.
She looked up to see a handsome boy with a slightly flushed face. His eyes darted away, as if he didn't dare look at her, and he stammered, "J-Jiang, I like you."
Jiang Xuefu, who had grown completely immune to such things, curved her lips in a smile. Her breathtakingly beautiful face made everyone secretly watching blush, but the girl's sweet voice spoke words that left them in despair. "Sorry, I don't like you."
Though the boy was deeply disappointed at being so bluntly rejected in public, he still pulled himself together. "All right. Sorry for bothering you."
Jiang Xuefu watched him struggle to hide his disappointment, and her gaze flickered.
She knew him: he was the Shen family's young master. The Shen family was one of North City's most elite wealthy families. Compared with the Su family, which had only been rich for two generations, they were as far apart as heaven and earth.
Until yesterday, he had still been a target for her fish pond, but comparing the Shen and Lu families, the Lu family clearly came out ahead.
Even Su Jiu had managed to hook up with the Lu family's heir, and Jiang Xuefu would never let Su Jiu trample all over her!
On the sixth floor of a building not far away,
Tan Shu had dragged Lu Zhiyan to the window and made him watch the entire spectacle of the confession.
"So that's the new junior. Tsk, tsk, no wonder Shen Er likes her so much." Tan Shu leaned against the window, watching the girl as she walked away. The interest and amazement in his eyes were plain to see.
Lu Zhiyan lifted his eyelids and gave him a cool glance. "Boring."
"Come on, don't be so stuffy~ I just happen to have been single for two days. This is practically a match made in heaven!"
Tan Shu sprawled lazily on the sofa beside him, already on his phone asking for Jiang Xuefu's contact information in a group chat of rich second-generation heirs.
More than a hundred messages flew through the chat, with Jiang Xuefu's name coming up again and again. A photo or two of the girl, seemingly taken on the sly, occasionally appeared among them, but there was no contact information.
Damn it, Tan Shu cursed inwardly. There was no way nobody had made a move on a beauty like her. The only explanation was that someone was keeping it to himself and didn't want to share. Tsk, what fake brothers.
"Hey, Zhiyan! I just remembered. Didn't someone say a pretty new junior had joined the student council? Could it be her?"
That group had praised her to the heavens, making even Tan Shu, a playboy who had grown up surrounded by beauties, a little curious. But now that he had seen her, they really hadn't been wrong.
Lu Zhiyan's hand paused over his fountain pen. He gestured with his eyes toward a tall stack of information forms nearby. "If you don't mind the trouble, look for yourself."
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