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Chapter 128: Chapter 128 Don’t Worry, the Problem Has Been Solved
You can’t blame Yao Xuantong for thinking this way.
Because ever since Lu Ziye debuted these past two years, he indeed never participated in any offline activities other than performances, and he rarely even showed up for the promotion of his movies and TV series.
The only possibilities for him to attend the Shengjing school anniversary event this time are either that Lu Qianrou invited him, or that he came for her.
But if Lu Qianrou had invited him, she wouldn’t have failed to mention a word about it to her beforehand.
Moreover, the reason Lu Qianrou invited her to the school anniversary was to help attract attention to their team.
If she could invite her third brother, would they still worry about attracting attention? Would there be a need to invite her?
Therefore, there’s only one possibility: Lu Ziye must have come for her.
No, no.
Yao Xuantong originally intended to just show up and go through the motions, as a favour in return for Lu Qianrou’s invitation to visit the Lu Family.
But now that Lu Ziye will also come and spend the whole day with her, she must dress up meticulously!
Before next Wednesday, she has to go for beauty treatments every day, and she’ll go shopping for new makeup tomorrow.
She must appear before Lu Ziye in her most beautiful state!
While Yao Xuantong was excited beyond measures, Lu Qianrou was also thrilled beyond words.
She never expected that her third brother would also come to Shengjing for the school anniversary event next Wednesday, to work as a waiter in her shop, and to sing at the event.
Following the piano competition, her third brother had always been cold towards her, and Lu Qianrou had been afraid even to speak to him. 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝓫.𝓬ℴ𝓶
But now it seemed that he was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, he still cared about her very much!
However, while she was happy, Lu Qianrou suddenly realized upon seeing the "sister" mentioned in Lu Ziye’s Weibo post.
She’s not the only sister third brother has now.
Could the sister he’s referring to be Lu Sheng?
Could the shop he’s talking about be the one Lu Sheng and her group are preparing?
Thinking over it, Lu Qianrou felt it safer to ask her third brother directly, she couldn’t afford to be happy for nothing.
She immediately ran to the third floor to Lu Ziye’s room, took a deep breath, and raised her hand to knock on the door.
After a few seconds, Lu Ziye opened the door.
Seeing Lu Qianrou standing outside, he frowned almost imperceptibly: "Qianrou, what is it?"
"Third brother..."
Lu Ziye had been rarely home before, and Lu Qianrou seldom had a chance to interact with him this closely.
At this moment, seeing Lu Ziye’s delicately perfect face, standing so close to each other that she could even smell the faint scent of lemon on him, Lu Qianrou couldn’t help but blush.
"Third brother, I saw your Weibo post, that you’re coming to our school for the anniversary event next Wednesday?" Lu Qianrou asked.
Lu Ziye responded indifferently: "Yes, what about it?"
Suppressing her excitement, Lu Qianrou immediately asked: "You said you’re going to play a waiter for a day at your sister’s shop, the shop you’re talking about is..."
Before she could finish, Lu Ziye directly looked up and said: "It’s the shop Shengsheng and the others are preparing to set up."
The smile on Lu Qianrou’s face froze, and disbelief crept into her eyes.
...It really is Lu Sheng.
The shop third brother is going to is Lu Sheng’s shop, not the café she opened at all.
So, did she just overthink everything, did she just get ahead of herself?
Lu Qianrou suddenly choked up, and her eyes reddened in an instant.
Why... why is it always like this!
Lu Sheng snatched away what she wanted again!
Why was even third brother favoring her now!
Lu Qianrou really couldn’t stand it anymore, she was on the verge of crying and directly said: "Third brother, Lu Sheng is your sister, I am also your sister, why do you go to her store and not mine?"
Lu Ziye looked at her indignant appearance with a bit of confusion.
"You didn’t invite me to your store, did you?" Lu Ziye spoke in a calm tone, "Plus, didn’t you invite Yao Xuantong?"
"With Yao Xuantong there, the popularity of your store won’t be low. But it’s different for Shengsheng, she only has me."
When mentioning Lu Sheng, Lu Ziye’s tone unconsciously softened.
Hearing this, Lu Qianrou felt her blood pressure rise.
Yao Xuantong’s popularity wasn’t low, but could it compare to third brother’s?
One is just a recently popular it-girl, and the other is an A-list superstar who reached the peak as soon as he debuted, in film, music, and television. Are these two even comparable in drawing power?
Moreover, third brother never participates in offline activities, how would she have known he’d be willing to this time.
Otherwise, why would she bother to invite Yao Xuantong, instead of coming directly to her own brother?
Lu Qianrou felt angry and resentful in her heart.
If third brother went to Lu Sheng’s store, just the fans of third brother alone would be enough to fill up the entire Shengjing’s sports field, how would she then take the first place in popularity?
Now, she could only hope that on that day, Yao Xuantong attracted more male fans than third brother attracted female fans.
Lu Qianrou returned to her own room extremely aggrieved and checked Weibo again, only to find that her post had also blown up.
A large number of Lu Ziye’s fans came over, liking, sharing, and commenting on her post.
Lu Ziye’s fans all knew that Lu Qianrou is Lu Ziye’s sister, but very few knew about the existence of Lu Sheng, the illegitimate daughter recently taken in by the Lu family.
And Lu Ziye posted his Weibo just a short while after Lu Qianrou did.
So his fans naturally assumed that Lu Ziye was going to visit Lu Qianrou’s store on Wednesday.
Seeing those comments like [Experience of having a top-star brother] [Qianrou sister is so low-key, hiding the fact that Lu Ziye is going to join the event] [Does this mean Lu Ziye and Yao Xuantong will both work as café staff at Shengjing next Wednesday? CP fans are ecstatic!!], Lu Qianrou felt both ashamed and angry, she wished she could delete all these comments to stop her annoyance.
But there were too many fans of Lu Ziye, and the comments were increasing every second, she couldn’t possibly delete them all even if she wanted to.
She hated it so much! She really did!
She hated the damnable Lu Sheng, and she also hated her third brother.
If third brother went to Lu Sheng’s place on the day of the school anniversary celebration, her face would be completely lost! It was all third brother’s fault for embarrassing her like this!
Just as Lu Ziye posted on Weibo and stirred up a heated discussion, Lu Sheng also went online in their school celebration team’s group chat.
At this moment, the last message in the group chat was Lan Yu’s complaint from two hours ago.
[Damn it, our creative idea has been plagiarized by Lu Qianrou, how can someone be so shameless!]
[The content she posted was almost identical to the application form I submitted, and she even posted it earlier than us, it’s infuriating!]
Nobody in the group had spoken for a while.
Probably Han Jing and Lu Youye went to watch the drama, Lu Youming and Huo Yu had turned on do not disturb and hadn’t seen the messages at all.
Lu Sheng directly mentioned Lan Yu in the group and replied: [@Lan Yu, don’t worry, the problem has been taken care of.]
Lan Yu, seeing the message, was utterly baffled.
Solved? What problem has been solved?
Whether it was their shop theme being copied, or all their prepared purchases being unusable, even their custom-made waiter uniforms couldn’t be worn anymore, and the issue of how to attract popularity... weren’t they in a complete mess right now?
Could it be that Lu Sheng had already come up with a solution and taken care of everything??
