Rebirth: Once Again With You

Li Chunhua blinked her eyes a few times, and Lu Zheng was immediately enthralled by her beauty. He smiled widely, and a blush crept up his face.

"Well, that's a shame indeed. But I don't want to get associated with that cousin of mine if I can help it."

"Oh? Why? Aren't you guys a family?" Li Chunhua began to probe carefully.

Lu Zheng sighed. "Lu Ruan is a bully. Not only in school but also in the house. I mean, even if she is my cousin, I can't speak any good words for her. She is the black sheep of our family."

Li Chunhua could tell that Lu Zheng didn't like Lu Ruan. This made everything easier for her.

"If I may ask, why is it like that? I don't think anyone from your family will be that bad of a person."

"Chunhua, you are really too precious for this world. You should save your kind words for those who truly deserve it. Lu Ruan is definitely not one of those people. She is just a bully and troublemaker. She has always liked to be on top of other people's heads. Even her parents had given up on her."

Li Chunhua gasped. "That bad?"

Lu Zheng nodded. He leaned in closer while smiling mysteriously. "This is a secret, but I'll let you know. Lu Ruan used to date a man much older than her. He was almost as old as her father. And it happened when she was still in middle school. Imagine how much embarrassment she brought to the family!"

The news brought a genuine shock to Li Chunhua's face. She was speechless and didn't know what to think.

"You didn't expect it at all right? For a bad girl like her can get even lower than that. No one spoke about Lu Ruan in our family, or paid attention to her, so she became more unruly and hung out with delinquents. If it weren't for her wealthy family, I bet she couldn't go to school anymore."

Lu Zheng clicked his tongue in annoyance. "She is the one who is bad, but my uncle and aunt have to pay the price for it. And the said person didn't even feel apologetic at all. I can't stand a person like that. I prefer to be a nobody rather than be associated with someone like her."

Seeing the apparent hostility and disgust in Lu Zheng's eyes, Li Chunhua was confident that he hated Lu Ruan to the core. She didn't even have to do anything, and he already listed all of Lu Ruan's wrongdoing to her, as though he had been waiting all this time to tell it to someone.

"Chunhua, you shouldn't trust people that easily. You should avoid Lu Ruan if you can. She not only has questionable morals but also is very barbaric. A pure person like her is her favorite target."

Li Chunhua feigned a troubled expression before reluctantly agreeing. "If you said so, then I'll listen. But do you know if there is someone named Hu Jian among her acquaintances?"

"Hu Jian? I'm not sure. I would occasionally be forced to talk to her, but I had never heard her mention that name. But why are you asking me that?"

"I'm just curious. Lu Ruan is popular, and I heard recently that she had a friend with that name, but it seems I'm wrong."

"Lu Ruan is good for nothing, and she knew a bunch of shady people. She didn't even bother to try it anymore at this point."

"Isn't it dangerous? No matter what, your cousin is a girl. What if someone among those guys had any dangerous ideas about her?"

"Even if there is, she deserves it. Who told her to hang out with those kinds of people? She reaped what she sowed."

Li Chunhua couldn't care less about what he thought, but when she heard those cold words, she pitied Lu Ruan a bit. But that feeling quickly disappeared, considering that the girl was probably the reason Li Chunhua almost lost her sister.

"I see. But what if those people were the ones who influenced her to do bad things? Like that Hu Jian guy, for example."

"Well, if the seed was bad from the beginning, it couldn't be helped if she can only get along with those types of people. This Hu Jian guy is probably just one among her many bad acquaintances. Not that Lu Ruan is any better than them, though."

"I'm kind of worried. Do you know who is the one hanging out with her the most? They are probably the source of all trouble."

Lu Zheng fell into deep thought before he remembered something. "Come to think of it, she indeed said that she met with a good person recently. She said that person is the one who understands her the most. Not even Meng Renshu can't compare. I didn't understand what she talked about, though."

Li Chunhua's detective sense was tingling. It wasn't a secret that Lu Ruan was a hardcore admirer of Meng Renshu, to the point she almost looked like a maniac.

If someone like that suddenly spoke highly of another person, this might be worth investigating!

"Perhaps it was that person! Do you know anything about that guy?"

Lu Zheng shrugged in disinterest. With a sulking voice, he replied. "We are on a date right now. Why did we talk about an unrelated person? Chunhua, she's nothing for you to worry about."

"But I'm curious. Lu Ruan is your cousin, after all. I want to know more about her."

Lu Zheng was stunned, but later, he smiled flirtatiously. "If you want to know more about my life, you should ask more about me rather than Lu Ruan. Though, I can understand why you are so concerned about her. After all, we are in the same situation."

"Ah? What do you mean?"

"Because you are also bothered by the existence of your family members in school. Li Caiyi from class B is your twin sister, right?"

Li Chunhua didn't like where this conversation was headed.