Lu Yan rejected Baduo's invitation to endorse, and also politely told them that she would not change her mind easily, and hoped that they could find a better candidate again.
Susan insisted that Lu Yan must think about it again, and offered her a very generous salary.
This made Xu Panyang and the others jealous and extremely uncomfortable.
You must know that the advertising fee of Baduo's one endorsement is more than the sum of the expenses of several advertisements she has endorsed in the past.
However, after hearing the salary amount, Lu Yan didn't even blink her eyes.
So for her, money is not the most important thing, time is.
When she left later, Ofina said to Susan: "It seems that there is no hope, her attitude is very firm, and she is not at all interested in the salary we offer."
Susan smiled, and said calmly and calmly: "I'll give her three months to think about it, don't make a conclusion right now."
"Do you think she will change her mind?"
"Everybody changes their mind sometimes."
"Susan, this girl's conditions are indeed very good, but she is not irreplaceable, why must it be her?"
Susan turned to look at Ofina, and said firmly: "She is the one and only one. Not only do I want to sign her, but I also want to sign her for a long time. The future of this girl...is limitless."
…
In the first semester of her freshman year, Lu Yan began to encourage herself to lose weight.
She was irritated by the slender, slender girls at school.
Nancheng Communication University is an art college. Most of the girls here will debut in the entertainment industry in the future. They are particularly strict with their bodies. Most of the girls in the school are definitely hangers. son.
Lu Yan is a gluttonous cat. She has never deliberately avoided food or lost weight in the past. From time to time, she would go out for barbecue with Lu Zhen, so compared with the skinny and pale girls around her, her face should be fuller and rounder. With a healthy complexion.
Now that she has embarked on this path, Lu Yan certainly knows the importance of managing her figure, so no matter how Jian Yao changes her recipe to seduce her every night, she will resolutely control her appetite and never eat too much.
In the evening, Shen Kuo took Lu Yan to the newly opened dumpling shop at the back door of the school for dinner.
Two bowls of steaming oil-drenched dumplings were served, Shen Kuo took two mouthfuls, and his eyes stopped on Lu Yan's chopsticks.
She pounded it back and forth with chopsticks, peeled off the dumpling skin, and ate the meat and vegetables.
Shen Kuo knocked on the rim of her bowl, and said casually, "Next time, I'll take you directly to eat meat, okay?"
Lu Yan curled her lips and said, "The dumpling skin is too thick, and I'm on a diet."
"Eat meat to lose weight?"
"You don't understand. The dumpling skin is made of starch. Starch is definitely a catalyst for obesity. On the contrary, meat is rich in protein and is not easy to gain weight. Therefore, to lose weight... you must eat meat."
Shen Kuo frowned, not quite understanding Lu Yan's "weight loss theory".
It's not just him, Lu Zhen doesn't understand either. People of their generation simply can't understand the behavior of girls clamoring to lose weight.
Shen Kuo looked at her greasy little mouth, and there was a kind of kindness in his eyes.
There is no one who eats meat to lose weight.
He also smashed the dumpling wrapper with chopsticks, gave Lu Yan the meat dumpling inside, and put the dumpling wrapper in her bowl back into his own bowl.
Lu Yan said, "What are you doing?"
"I like to eat dumpling wrappers."
"Nonsense, you just think I'm a waste."
"Isn't it a waste?"
Lu Yan looked at the dumpling wrappers in her bowl, as if...it was a waste, she grinned, and put all the dumpling wrappers in her bowl to Shen Kuo: "Then help me eat."
Shen Kuo didn't refuse, he felt that eating more meat is always good, so he gave Lu Yan his own meat.
Lu Yan leaned on the table with her elbows, looked at the people around her, and whispered to him, "Other people will think we are disgusting."
Shen Kuo picked up a piece of dumpling wrapper with his chopsticks, lowered his head to eat, and said casually, "I don't care what others do."
I don't dislike you.
Lu Yan pursed her lips to laugh, but tried her best to hold back, and looked at him with a half-smile.
Shen Kuo lowered his head to eat, his eyelashes were long, and his eyes were drooping.
No matter what he does, he is very serious, even eating.
I don't know if I am so serious about doing other things...
The picture in my mind suddenly became a little hard to describe.
Her cheeks were slightly flushed, she quickly shook off the random thoughts in her mind, and continued to eat with her head down.
"What are you thinking?" Shen Kuo noticed Lu Yan's blushing cheeks.
"No, I didn't think about anything."
Shen Kuo's eyes were dark, with a hint of probing, as if he could see into her heart, which made Lu Yan feel guilty.
She rubbed her nose and continued to eat with her head down: "Stop staring at me!"
Shen Kuo smiled faintly: "I know."
Lu Yan asked alertly: "What do you know?"
He put down his chopsticks and said nothing.
Lu Yan panicked and grabbed his sleeve: "What do you know!"
Shen Kuo still didn't speak, and nodded between her eyebrows: "Don't talk about eating, eat seriously."
At this moment, a tall boy in a sweatshirt sat across the table from the two—
"Shen Kuo, what a coincidence! You also have dinner."
"Um."
"Ehhh? This girl is..."
Shen Kuo said without hesitation: "My girlfriend."
"Eh?"
The boy was even more astonished, scratching his head: "Girlfriend? You actually have a girlfriend!"
Lu Yan asked back: "Why can't he have a girlfriend?"
The boy reacted for a few seconds, and finally said: "I didn't mean that, don't mind my sister-in-law, I'm Shen Kuo's roommate, and my name is Yang Yan."
"Hello, my name is Lu Yan."
Yang Yan stared at Lu Yan for a long while, apparently he didn't expect that Shen Kuo actually had a girlfriend, let alone...his girlfriend was so beautiful.
"Sister-in-law, you don't know, so many girls in our school chased him, and Shen Kuo refused them all. We thought he didn't like women."
Lu Yan blinked: "Really, do you think he likes boys?"
He scratched his head and gave a smirk: "Isn't it that Lu Zhen always destroys the girl's confession to him? One time I received an invitation letter, but it hadn't been opened yet, so Lu Zhen snatched it and tore it up. We all thought he was with you." Lu Zhen...what's the matter."
The corners of Lu Yan's mouth twitched: "How dare Lu Zhen tear up his love letter..."
"That's right, Shen Kuo's peach blossoms this year have been blocked by Lu Zhen, it's simply."
Yang Yan has a cheerful and talkative personality, and he talked endlessly: "During the freshman year, Lu Zhen even said that Shen Kuo was from their Lu family, so don't try to touch anyone..."
Lu Yan rubbed her forehead in embarrassment, she was too embarrassed to look at Shen Kuo.
Yang Yan let out another "hey" and stared at Lu Yan for a long time—
"Your eyes... are like Lu Zhen, and your nose is like..."
Lu Yan didn't want to admit that she had anything to do with that idiot Lu Zhen: "It doesn't look like it, we don't..."
"She is Lu Zhen's sister." Shen Kuo said calmly.
"I rely on!!!"
Yang Yan widened his eyes, looked at Lu Yan, and suddenly realized: "So that's the case! No wonder Lu Zhen protects our brother Shen so much, so it's my brother-in-law, hahaha."
Lu Yan became interested, and quickly asked, "Is Lu Zhen protecting him?"
"That's not right!" Yang Yan simply ordered a bowl of dumplings, sat down and said slowly: "Lu Zhen is a man with a knife mouth and a bean curd heart. On the surface, he hates him, but in fact, he is good to him. Send any delicious food to his dormitory; We are in the same class, and we buy two Cokes in PE class; It's time to roll up your sleeves..."
The corners of Lu Yan's mouth raised, feeling very happy in her heart.
Her father is such a person, with a straight temper, without so many twists and turns, and without a heart, he loves the house as much as he likes, and he will do his best to protect the people Lu Yan likes and cares about...
When the hot dumplings were served, Yang Yan removed the disposable chopsticks, and casually said to Shen Kuo, "By the way, Shen Kuo, don't worry too much about this scholarship. I didn't make it this time, come back next year. "
"Then we'll go back first, you eat slowly." Chen Kuo picked up Lu Yan and was about to leave.
Lu Yan grasped the key words in the words, and turned around to ask Yang Yan: "You said he didn't get a scholarship this year?"
Yang Yan put the hot dumpling into his mouth, and said curtly, "Yes, he failed the make-up exam."
"Failed?!"
Lu Yan's expression changed instantly: "Why did he fail the exam?"
"Hey, you don't know yet, he didn't come to take the first exam."
"I'll explain it to you on the way."
Shen Kuo squeezed Lu Yan's hand and pulled her away, not wanting to let Yang Yan's big, open mouth say anything more.
His hand was so hard that Lu Yan's white wrist was flushed. She broke away from him and asked, "What's going on?"
Under the moon shadow treetops, Shen Kuo replied casually: "I was in Beicheng when I took the exam for the first class."
"If you don't take the final exam, why are you in Beicheng?"
"I was outside the isolation building of the hospital..."
Lu Yan suddenly became speechless, and suddenly remembered that at that time, she was quarantined because of suspected SARS...
"At that time, you were outside the hospital all the time?"
"Um."
Lu Yan recalled that she was quarantined for three weeks at that time.
"Not for those three weeks, you..."
"Come every day." Shen Kuo said calmly, "I've been waiting for you downstairs except for sleeping and eating."
There was a soreness in Lu Yan's throat.
At that time in Beicheng, the temperature was twenty degrees below zero, and he just stood there in the snow...waiting for her.
"Why are you waiting for me?"
She was very distressed, her eye circles were slightly red, she reached out and patted his chest lightly, but Shen Kuo held her hand instead.
"I am afraid."
She looked up at him in surprise, his brows drooped, under the street lamp, his dark eyes were hidden in the shadows, and there was a glimmer of light.
"At that time, I was really afraid. I was afraid that when I woke up, there would be no more you in this world. I was afraid that I would not know where to find you."
Lu Yan's mind suddenly went blank for a few seconds, she had never seen such a helpless and terrified side of Shen Kuo.
He is Shen Kuo, the man who is calm and composed at all times, he also has times of fear.
He was afraid that there would be no more of her in this world, but she... didn't belong to this world at all.
Lu Yan hugged Shen Kuo's waist tightly, buried her head in his chest, and said coquettishly, "Shen Kuo."
"What's wrong?"
"I can't go anywhere."
"Um?"
"Time can't separate us, even if we do, you have to wait for me, and I will find you, I will!"
Shen Kuo frowned: "Suddenly it's like parting from life and death."
"You promise me! If I suddenly disappear, you can't get married, you must wait for me, you... promise me!"
A few tears leaked from the corners of her eyes, all rubbing against his skirt.
The emotions just now were swept away, but Shen Kuo was actually amused by her: "Can't you get married?"
Lu Yan felt even more sad, and cried out: "Anyway, you can't be with others... because I will definitely find you. If you get married when I find you, I will be very sad."
Shen Kuo suddenly wanted to laugh, but seeing that the little girl was serious, he felt a little helpless, and said softly, "Didn't I already promise you?"
He had promised her a long time ago that she was the only one in his life.
Unless she does not marry.
Lu Yan's heart became heavier and heavier, and she became more and more frightened.
Shen Kuo in the previous life was really never married; Shen Kuo in the previous life also said that he was waiting for someone.
Lu Yan closed her eyes, unwilling to think about it again.
She hugged him tightly, and said in a slightly hoarse and weak voice: "I love you, Shen Kuo."
Shen Kuo lowered his head and kissed her hair: "I know."
He knows that Lu Yan loves him very much, loves him very much...
After that night, Lu Yan recalled the events of her previous life countless times in her dreams.
After Lu Zhen went bankrupt in her previous life, the bank confiscated all her assets, including their house.
She and Lu Zhen's father and daughter lived in a narrow rented house. Lu Zhen was burdened with high debts. Those usurers came to collect the debts and threatened to use his daughter to pay off the debts, which almost drove him crazy.
Lu Yan has seen how crazy a man can go. In order to protect her, her father didn't even sleep every night, and guarded the door with red eyes and a knife.
Lu Zhen couldn't bear to see his father getting more and more haggard, so he went to Shen Kuo crying and begged him to let Lu Zhen go.
At that time, Shen Kuo wore suits and leather shoes without any wrinkles on her clothes. Although she was old...but the years did not leave any traces on his face. He looked so young and so handsome.
But different from the young man, his eyes were dark and deep, full of wind and cloud.
Without the recklessness and innocence of a teenager, he has the stability and bearing that a mature man should have. At that time, he was definitely the most perfect moment in a man's life.
Under his gaze, Lu Yan was trembling with fear. She cried and begged him, calling him Uncle Shen, to let her father go.
In the dream, Lu Yan recalled so many details.
For example, Shen Kuo didn't want to see her at first, she blocked him at the door of the company, he stared at her face for a long time, and then brought her into the office, drove everyone out, closed the door, and gave her Poured a glass...
tomato juice.
Her favorite tomato juice...
For another example, when she called him Uncle Shen, she saw his hands visibly trembling.
Later, Shen Kuo told her that Lu Zhen could be let go, but there was one condition—
She moved into Shen's house and lived with him.
At that time, Lu Yan felt dizzy and terrified. She thought that Shen Kuo was going to do something terrible to her.
However, it turned out that she was thinking too much.
Shen Kuo asked her to move out of the rented house with a bad environment. In the Shen family mansion, he gave her an independent room, which was bigger and more luxurious than her previous room.
Shen Kuo was busy with work on weekdays, so he didn't pay much attention to her, and only kept her at home.
But the servants at home treated her with great respect, and when Shen Kuo came back from get off work, sometimes he would stop at the door of her room for a while.
But he never bothered her.
Or in other words... He carefully restrained himself so as not to scare her.
Lu Yan actually noticed all these details, but she didn't think about it that much at the time.
Until now, the bits and pieces of the past are gathered in her heart, and the answer to the mystery seems to be obvious...
Does this mean that one day, she will disappear from this world
According to the current development of the plot, Lu Zhen and Jian Yao will definitely get better and better, then another her will be born in this world.
She doesn't belong to this world.
Her mission of coming to this world has not been completed, she has not found her little aunt, she has not yet figured out the cause of her mother's death...
Not reconciled to leaving like this, nor do I want to leave.
Lu Yan was worried and melancholy for several days, and felt that her worries were unfounded, and fate had its own arrangements, so it was useless to think about it now.
That afternoon, when Lu Zhen passed by the college office, she happened to hear Shen Kuo and the counselor talking about student loans again.
"In your case, you can apply, but you have to go to the neighborhood committee to get a seal first, and then go through the process."
"How long will it take?"
"The number of student loan places is limited, and there are many students in the college who are in a similar situation to yours, so there is no rush. We will still have to take an assessment at that time."
Teacher Qin thought for a while, and then said: "Shen Kuo, in your situation, you can actually apply for a poor student subsidy, and it should be approved soon. The student loan cycle is too long."
Shen Kuo shook his head and refused, "I don't need a subsidy. I will pay back the loan after I earn money."
"Hey... Then you go back and wait for the news."
Shen Kuo nodded, took the documents and walked out of the office. Lu Zhen hurriedly hid behind the office door, with her back against the wall, for fear of being seen by him.
Shen Kuo seemed to be lost in thought and didn't notice him.
Lu Zhen watched his leaving back, touched his chin, thought for a moment, and immediately walked to the counselor's office.
"Ms. Qin, I also want to apply for a student loan!"
The counselor, Mr. Qin, saw that it was Lu Zhen who came in, and reprimanded him, "What are you doing?"
What is the background of the Lu family? Isn't it a joke that he applied for a student loan
Lu Zhen put her hands on the desk and asked Teacher Qin: "What is a student loan, and what is a poverty subsidy?"
Teacher Qin explained: "A student loan is a loan applied for from the bank. It is repaid after graduation, and the poverty allowance does not have to be repaid. It is the school's welfare and comes from the kind donations of people in the society."
Lu Zhen nodded thoughtfully.
In the evening, when Lu Zhen called Lu Yan, she casually mentioned: "That guy is too arrogant, he would rather repay the loan than the school's welfare subsidy."
Lu Yan listened to her narration and did not speak for a long time.
Lu Zhen continued: "His tuition is deducted by the scholarship, but speaking of it, he failed last semester. If there is no scholarship, what will that guy do with his tuition this semester?"
"Does he have other sources of income? For example, like in high school... a small business or something." Lu Yan asked.
Lu Zhen smiled and said, "Do you think that the computer department of Q University is the best in the country for nothing? Not to mention the explosive number of courses every day, it is the heavy learning tasks after class. Compared with the third year of high school More than that.”
Lu Yan curled her lips: "Then I think you are quite free."
"Hey, this... It's not idle, it's just that your father will arrange the time reasonably."
Lu Zhen brought the topic back to Shen Kuo: "That guy is like an emotionless learning machine. Except for class, he spends most of his time in the library. At the same time, he seems to have to do projects with a group of graduate students. He probably doesn't have time. Go out and do other things."
"Oh... "
In other words, he no longer has any source of income, no wonder he has to apply for student loans.
Lu Zhen gloated a little, and said with a smile: "It can be seen that the kid is definitely not as well off as he was in high school, otherwise why can't he think about...eating steamed buns in soup in the cafeteria."
Lu Yan hung up the phone, thinking it was wrong, so she called Zhong Kai again.
"Hey, Xiao Yanyan, call me so late, what's the matter?" Zhong Kai seems to be very busy, the background sound is noisy, and he can still hear him calling: "Put it there, put it there, hey, be careful, don't give it to me." I knocked."
"Brother Zhong Kai, I just want to ask you, Shen Kuo...isn't he doing things with you now?"
Zhong Kai rubbed his head and asked blankly, "Are you talking about business?"
"Um."
"No, since he was in college, he's been very busy. It's hard for us to see each other."
"Then he...does he have another source of income?"
"I really don't know that."
Zhong Kai said frankly: "After Shen Kuo's father left, his burden was not so heavy, so he didn't put his mind on making money. He said it himself. After he went to college, he realized that his vision in the past was limited. He wanted to I will be able to do great things in the future, so now I must seize all the time and learn knowledge to improve my skills.”
"I see, thank you Uncle Zhong Kai."
Zhong Kai asked worriedly: "Did something happen to him, he is short of money, you tell me, I..."
"No." Lu Yan said quickly: "It's okay, I'll just ask casually, you must not ask him."
Lu Yan knew that boys always want face.
Zhong Kai sighed softly, fearing that Lu Yan would dislike Shen Kuo, he said to her: "Xiao Yanyan, our elder brother Shen is quite down and out now, there is nothing we can do, his father has been ill for many years, and almost wiped out the whole family. It's all exhausted, but if you give him some time, he won't be poor all his life, you...don't hate him!"
"how come... "
How could she hate him.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Yan walked back to the dormitory with heavy steps.
In the dormitory, the girls were already asleep, and she climbed onto the bed softly, looking at the dark ceiling, not feeling sleepy at all.
Jian Yao, who was in the next bed, climbed onto her bed, lay down beside her, and asked softly with her breath, "What's the matter?"
"Recently, there have been a lot of troubles." Lu Yan wrapped herself in the blanket and whispered, "My boyfriend is so poor, I'm so sad, although I know it will get better, but still..."
I feel sorry for him.
He is such a proud and stubborn person, but he is forced into a corner by life.
Jian Yao turned over, hugged her, patted her belly lightly, exhaled like blue, and said softly: "You can help him, but you have to be skillful, and don't let him feel that his self-esteem is hurt, understand."
"My own money is all given by my family... I, I can't use my family's money..."
The corners of Jian Yao's mouth twitched, and she said slowly: "You want to make money, but are you afraid that there will be no way out?"
Lu Yan suddenly remembered something, hugged her, buried her head in the socket of her neck, and murmured: "You reminded me, mom..."
"Hey, you little girl, what are you shouting about..."
Lu Yan refused to let go.
Jian Yao only thought that she was acting like a spoiled child, and didn't push her away. She followed her words and said, "Sleep, sleep, sleep with mom."
The next morning, Lu Yan found out from her schoolbag the business card given to her by Susan, the person in charge of Baduo, hesitated for a few minutes, and finally called her.
"Hello Ms. Susan, I'm Lu Yan."
Susan was obviously very surprised when she received the call. She didn't even open the morning meeting. She came to the quiet floor-to-ceiling window and said enthusiastically, "Miss Lu Yan, are you ready to give me a reply?"
"Well, after thinking about it, I want to take back what I said before that I don't consider endorsement. I am willing to be the new product endorsement of Bardot this season."
Susan excitedly clenched her fist and said yes, but fortunately there was no one around.
She straightened her clothes immediately, restrained her excitement, and said calmly, "I'll send you the company address right away. You can come to the company headquarters anytime you find time. We signed a contract. It's best to come here today. You don't need to make an appointment. Go to the front desk and say My name will do."
"that... "
Susan heard Lu Yan's hesitant tone, and quickly asked, "Do you have any questions?"
"It's the endorsement fee, can I... advance it in advance?"