Don't think of rebirth.

Chapter 596 Engagement

When Yao Huarong saw Lu Chi for the first time, she thought: This little brother is so handsome.

At that time, Lu Chi had just moved to the Yao family. Yao Huarong's grandfather and Lu Chi's grandfather were close friends. However, in middle age, due to differences in ideals and beliefs, the two chose to go their separate ways.

When Yao Huarong was seven years old, Grandpa Yao received a contact from Grandpa Lu.

Grandpa Lu's wife and children died early. The son-in-law was willing to take care of Lu Chi for the sake of Grandpa Lu's pension. But when he saw that Grandpa Lu was dying, he didn't want to bring Lu Chi along as a burden and affect his search for the next one, so he slipped away.

Grandpa Lu had no other choice but to drag his sick body around to look for help. Finally, he came to Grandpa Yao for help, hoping that Grandpa Yao would take care of Lu Chi until he grew up.

Grandpa Yao accepted the entrustment of his old friend and took Lu Chi to the Yao family.

Yao Huarong's mother and father also loved the child very much, and took care of Lu Chi as an adopted son, just as if he was giving their daughter a playmate. After all, the Yao family could raise one more child.

Having lost the only grandfather who loved him and being abandoned by his biological father, Lu Chi, who now lives under the care of others, was very silent and withdrawn at first.

During that time, it was Yao Huarong who accompanied this handsome little brother, shared her toys with him, read his favorite picture books to him, and dragged him out to play. Only then did Lu Chi slowly become cheerful.

When Yao Huarong was in elementary school, she suffered from Hashimoto's thyroiditis due to a viral infection. Before she was cured, her weight remained high.

Even though the teacher explained to the students that Yao Huarong gained weight due to illness, there were still some people who were too extreme and laughed at Yao Huarong for being fat and even deliberately imitated her difficulty swallowing.

Yao Huarong felt very aggrieved, but her parents were very busy at work and she didn't want to make them worry, so she just endured it and remained silent.

On the first day Lu Chi transferred to Yao Huarong's school, he beat up those guys who made fun of Yao Huarong.

He beat those guys so hard that they cried for their mothers and fathers, and he also had swollen eyes and a bleeding nose.

He stood in front of the teacher, stiffened his neck and said, "They were the first to laugh at Yao Huarong."

The fight was eventually settled by Yao Huarong's mother and father. After learning the truth, they calmly compensated the students' medical expenses and then dealt with their parents.

In the end, the families not only returned the medical expenses, but also paid additional compensation for Yao Huarong's mental loss.

This incident is an incomparable precious memory for Yao Huarong.

It's normal for her to fall in love with Lu Chi after spending so much time with him.

But before she recovered from her illness, Yao Huarong was always concerned about her weight, and felt that she was not worthy of the excellent Lu Chi.

After she recovered from her illness and her weight returned to normal, she didn't know how to speak up because she had kept it a secret for so long.

She thought, it’s okay, Lu Chi lives in her house and she will have many opportunities to confess.

It was not until junior high school that the beauty from the next class confessed to Lu Chi, and Lu Chi agreed.

Upon hearing the news, Yao Huarong was struck by lightning. While her mother and father were away, she grabbed Lu Chi and asked him why he agreed to someone else's confession.

Lu Chi's answer was just one sentence: "Who I date is none of your business, right?"

Yao Huarong couldn't respond and could only let go of her hand in a daze, watching Lu Chi return to his room.

Indeed, Lu Chi can date anyone he wants. She has not confessed to Lu Chi and she is not his girlfriend. What right does she have to question him?

But, she originally thought... Lu Chi also liked her, otherwise why had he been so nice to her all these years?

That night, Yao Huarong locked herself in the room and cried silently all night.

However, Lu Chi and the beauty from the next class did not date for long. They broke up after one or two months. Yao Huarong was surprised but felt that she could not miss the opportunity again, so she mustered up the courage to confess to Lu Chi.

However, Lu Chi rejected her and said that he had no such thoughts about her.

As if to prove his words, Lu Chi got together with another girl the next day.

Yao Huarong looked at the intimate scenes between the two and felt sad, yet it was difficult for her to give up her love. In the end, she just silently continued her secret love which was no different from an open love.

When he was in the second grade of junior high school, Lu Chi’s biological father Hou Tao, who had disappeared for many years, suddenly showed up.

He made a small fortune by doing business with the inheritance of his grandfather Lu that he had swept away. However, in order to attract clients during the start-up period, he drank too much alcohol, which caused his spermatogenesis to be permanently impaired, and he became infertile.

So Hou Tao ran over with eager eyes, shamelessly trying to take back Lu Chi, his biological child.

The Yao family thought that Lu Chi had been abandoned for so many years and had no feelings for Hou Tao. Unexpectedly, after considering for a few days, Lu Chi decided to leave the Yao family and return to Hou Tao.

Although Yao's mother and father did not understand Lu Chi's actions, he was very persistent and they had no choice but to let him and Hou Tao leave.

Yao Huarong was still sad, thinking that it would be impossible for them to even live under the same roof, but unexpectedly Hou Tao said, "The two children have been together for such a long time, and they have developed feelings for each other. How about pairing them up?"

Yao's mother and father were almost laughing out of anger. Although Hou Tao had also become rich, how could he compare to the Yao family?

If before, when Lu Chi was still in the Yao family, then considering their daughter's love for him, as long as Lu Chi agreed, Yao's mother and father would not mind Lu Chi becoming their son-in-law.

But Hou Tao's proposal now is obviously an attempt to take advantage of the Yao family's favor, which is too shameless.

But Yao Huarong didn’t think so. She just wanted to know what Lu Chi would choose.

This time, Lu Chi’s answer was: “Okay.”

Finally, Yao's parents couldn't persuade their daughter and agreed to arrange a marriage between Yao Huarong and Lu Chi. However, they were also wary of Hou Tao, fearing that Yao Huarong would become too obsessed with love and give all the family property to outsiders.

After the engagement was confirmed, Yao Huarong was so happy that she told her best friends about it.

Her friends also knew that she liked Lu Chi. Although they didn’t know the details, they were still happy for her.

However, when Lu Chi learned that Yao Huarong had told others about the engagement, he was in a bad mood and got angry at Yao Huarong for the first time.

He said he didn't want his engagement to be known to everyone as they were still students and it would have a bad influence.

Yao Huarong felt aggrieved and worried that Lu Chi wanted to hide the engagement.

But after observing for a while and finding that he really didn't interact with other girls, she believed Lu Chi's words, stopped publicizing their engagement, and asked her friends to keep it a secret.

In this way, the two of them were promoted to high school and enrolled in Mingde.

In the new environment, naturally no one knew that the two were engaged. Yao Huarong followed Lu Chi as usual and was very happy that they were assigned to the same class.

She followed Lu Chi to join the debate club. Because of the tacit understanding they had since childhood, the two performed very well as partners and were praised by their predecessors.

But the good times didn’t last long. Yao Huarong noticed that Lu Chi would always look out the window during club activities and was reprimanded several times by his seniors for being distracted.

Not far from the window of the debate club is the training ground of the track and field club.

Yao Huarong didn't like sweating or doing sports, so she couldn't understand why those people were cheering for a few seconds of progress.

It’s just that Lu Chi had seen a lot, so she also observed along the way.

So, she noticed that Lu Chi would only look over when a certain girl appeared.

That girl was Yuan Wuwei.