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The headmaster sighed: "Okay, let's do the formalities today according to Miss Wen's wishes. 'Kuang Weihang', um, it's a really good name. Wen Xiaotao, do you like this name?"

Little Taozi looked up at Wen Tingli. From her sister's eyes, the naive girl seemed to understand something. She nodded her little head vigorously at the head teacher.

***
On this day, Wen Tingli finished shooting an advertisement on the set and happened to think of Kuang Zhilin, so she called him.

That night, he came in the middle of the night and worked very hard for her. For his kindness, she had to say thank you in person.

But the secretary told her: Mr. Kuang was busy receiving distinguished guests from Guangzhou and had not been in the office in recent days.

It was Guangzhou again. What kind of distinguished guest could make Kuang Zhilin accompany him all day? Wen Tingli couldn't help but become curious about this person's identity.

On the second night, Kuang Zhilin actually called me himself.

"Mr. Kuang?" Wen Tingli sat on the sofa and said with a smile, "Yes, I called you a few days ago. Thank you, thank you. Yes, the new film is doing pretty well... Thank you for your good words. In fact, I saw you at the premiere that night."

Kuang Zhilin smiled apologetically and said, "I'm really sorry. I've been so busy entertaining several important guests from out of town these days that I forgot to call Miss Wen back. Are you going to invite me to have tea at Gao's Dingxin Restaurant the day after tomorrow? And a thank-you gift? No, no, no, Kuang didn't help at all with that matter. Why should Miss Wen be so polite? Okay, okay, if I continue, it would be Kuang's fault. Kuang will be there on time."

***
On Saturday night, Wen Tingli attended an event hosted by Vice Chairman Weng of the Shanghai Film Association and rushed to Xiaonantian without stopping.

She's having dinner with her friends there tonight.

This place is quite quiet, located in an alley near Lafede Road. It has five floors, each floor only accommodating two tables of guests. The key is that the food and wine are also delicious.

Wen Tingli got off the car at the back door and someone immediately led her upstairs. The interior of the restaurant was a combination of Chinese and Western decorations, with a rose-colored hall, ivory marble pilasters, and thick carpets on the floor. Here, the sounds of rock-paper-scissors and the noise that were common in restaurants were completely absent.

The table they reserved was on the second floor. Gao Xiaowen waved at Wen Tingli and said, "We're waiting for you."

"Are the dishes ready?" Wen Tingli asked with a smile.

"Everything is ordered. Yan Zhenzhen and Gao Xiaowen didn't save money for you. They only ordered the most expensive dishes in the restaurant." Zhao Qingluo whispered to Wen Tingli, "I'm afraid you'll go bankrupt."

"Zhao Qingluo, don't come on. Wen Tingli is no longer the same as she used to be. She doesn't care about this little money."

Halfway through the meal, Dong Qinfang left her seat to go to the bathroom, and when she came back she said, "Guess who I saw, Kuang Zhilin."

Wen Tingli asked hurriedly: "Is he eating here too?"

"I saw him taking people upstairs, but unfortunately I didn't see the guest's face."

Wen Tingli told her friends, "On the day of the premiere, Mr. Kuang brought a lot of friends to support me. Afterwards, I never had a chance to thank them in person, so I thought it would be better for me to go over and say hello."

After asking the manager, we found out that the entire third floor was booked. In order to protect the privacy of the guests, the manager refused to lead the way at first, until Wen Tingli took out Kuang Zhilin's business card from her bag and showed it to him.

The third floor was quieter than the second. There was a private room at the end of the corridor with two gold-painted doors wide open. Servants filed in with silver plates in their hands. Wen Tingli walked to the door of the small hall and looked inside, and saw only two people sitting at a large round table.

One was Kuang Zhilin, and the other was a young lady dressed in fashionable clothes. Kuang Zhilin personally poured champagne for the lady. Both of them had their backs to the door, so they didn't notice Wen Tingli's arrival.

Wen Tingliwan never expected that it was a female guest. She was afraid of offending the other party and hurriedly retreated to the corridor. Suddenly she realized something and turned her head to look inside in surprise.

I saw a suit hanging on the empty chair on the left side of the round table, with a jade brooch pinned on the jacket pocket of the suit.

Wen Tingli recognized it as Lu Shicheng's tie clip at a glance. A vague guess emerged in her mind, and she quickly shifted her gaze back to the girl.

This time, she looked very carefully and suddenly heard someone coming from the other end of the corridor. She quickly hid behind a screen and looked out through the gap. The person was Lu Shicheng.

He walked straight into the small hall, pulled out the empty chair and sat down, looked at the dishes on the table, and asked the servant to put the menu in front of the girl: "Miss Ge, what else would you like to eat?"

The girl pushed the menu back and said, "Mr. Lu, please come. I'm not familiar with Shanghai, and I trust your taste."

Lu Shicheng didn't say anything else and just looked through the menu carefully.

Wen Tingli slipped out from behind the screen when the next wave of servants came to deliver the food.

When I went downstairs, I ran into Yan Zhenzhen and heard her whisper in my ear, "Why did you take so long? We ate up both plates of pork trotters."

When they were leaving the banquet, they saw Miss Ge and Lu Shicheng coming down from the building one after another, and Kuang Zhilin followed behind them.

Wen Tingli hid in the back row. Miss Ge seemed to be in a good mood. She turned back and talked to Lu Shicheng as she walked. Lu Shicheng was always humble in front of others, and he was always gentle and elegant in front of Miss Ge. He would occasionally answer a few words, but most of the time he would just listen quietly.

Miss Ge had her own car and her driver was waiting by the car, but Kuang Zhilin still went over to help Miss Ge open the door.

Miss Ge had just sat down when she stuck her head out and said something to Lu Shicheng.

Lu Shicheng nodded, and Miss Ge closed the car door with a smile. After she left, Lu Shicheng and Kuang Zhilin got into another car and left.

Wen Tingli stared ahead with a sharp gaze. Zhao Qingluo and the others did not dare to speak rashly. Finally, Gao Xiaowen was the first to break the silence: "Who was that person just now? Our Gao family knows a lot of people in Shanghai, but how come we have never seen such a person before?"

Dong Qinfang coughed and said, "That's the granddaughter of Chairman Ge of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce. I met her at Director Zheng's house at the Shipping Department a few days ago."

Gao Xiaowen smacked her lips. "The Ge family? The Ge family that did business with the Qing court back then?"

"Yes, it's the Ge family. When Miss Ge came, many families in Shanghai were in a state of excitement. The Zheng family invited her to visit, and my old man also urged me to go and meet them, but I heard that..."

She glanced at Wen Tingli's face and said very subtly: "Since Miss Ge came to Shanghai, it seems that the Lu family has always been responsible for entertaining her."

"Are the Lu family and the Ge family familiar with each other?"

"That's not clear, but didn't Lu Shicheng go to Guangzhou a while ago? Maybe the two of them met in Guangdong during this time. They are about the same age."

On the way back, Wen Tingli thought about Dong Qinfang's words.

If she remembered correctly, it was Dong Qinfang who told her tonight that Kuang Zhilin was entertaining guests upstairs.

Could it be that Dong Qinfang saw Lu Shicheng and Miss Ge at that time?
Dong Qinfang is different from Gao Xiaowen. She is the actual head of the Dong family of this generation. She is mature and tactful, and she has never liked to meddle in other people's business. Maybe she had heard about this a long time ago, so she tried to get her upstairs to see it with her own eyes.

As soon as she got home, she called the Dong family. Dong Qinfang sighed and said on the other end, "You are so smart, I can't hide anything from you. What do you want to ask?"

"Tell me everything you know, or I will never forgive you."

Dong Qinfang then told him what she had seen and heard over the previous two days. It turned out that the last time Lu Shicheng went to the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce for business, President Ge took a liking to Lu Shicheng at first sight. Afterwards, he sighed in front of everyone more than once that the Lu family had a successor.

This time Miss Ge came to Shanghai to play because it was arranged by Chairman Ge. Lu Shicheng has not yet married, and Miss Ge is in her prime. People outside are speculating whether the Ge family has the idea of ​​​​marrying with the Lu family.

"Most of the time it was Kuang Zhilin who entertained Miss Ge." Dong Qinfang said, "Let's not talk about the actual relationship between Lu Shicheng and Miss Ge. At least on the surface, the Lu family attaches great importance to the relationship with the Ge family. Let me ask you, what is going on between you and Lu Shicheng? Are you two really completely broken up?"

"It's broken. It's completely broken a long time ago."

***
After this incident, Wen Tingli originally wanted to cancel the tea party with Kuang Zhilin tomorrow. At most, she could have someone send the thank-you gift she prepared for Kuang Zhilin to Kuang's house.

But Kuang Zhilin is a well-known busy person. Unless someone is an important person, she will not easily agree to invitations to dinner and tea. It is rare that someone comes over and agrees to go out for tea, but she suddenly breaks the appointment, which inevitably makes people think that she is unreliable.

So the next night after having dinner at home, she still took a car to Gao's Dingxin Restaurant as originally planned. The reason she chose Gao's restaurant was because Gao Xiaowen was one of their own and with the Gao family's protection, she didn't have to worry about being seen by fans and reporters.

But the driver, Lao Li, didn't know what was wrong today. He suddenly rushed straight to the telephone booth on the roadside. Wen Tingli was so scared that she was scared to death: "Lao Li!"

Lao Li slammed on the brakes and the car stopped, but his head hit the steering wheel.

Wen Tingli was also bumped from behind. Old Li didn't bother to check his own injuries, and turned his head in panic: "Miss Wen, are you okay? I'm sorry, I don't know what happened just now..."

Wen Tingli rubbed her forehead and didn't say anything for a long time. When she looked up, she was suddenly startled.

"Mr. Li, you are covered in blood. You need to go to the hospital immediately."

"It's okay. I'll take Miss Wen to Dingxin Restaurant first."

"A head injury is no small matter." Wen Tingli turned around anxiously and looked around. "The Red Cross Hospital is nearby. You wait by the car. I'll go get two rickshaws."

The two arrived at the hospital. Fortunately, Lao Li only broke the corner of his eye, and Wen Tingli only had some minor skin injuries. However, when she was helping Lao Li out of the car, she was too anxious and kicked the step on the side of the road without paying attention, causing the nail of her right big toe to bleed. She needed to take anti-inflammatory drugs to stop the bleeding immediately.

The doctor in the emergency department originally arranged for Wen Tingli to receive treatment in the lobby, but a sharp-eyed fan at the scene immediately recognized Wen Tingli.

"Are you Miss Wen from "Fair Detective"? "

As soon as these words were spoken, curious passers-by kept coming over, and the hospital had to urgently arrange a single room for Wen Tingli. Wen Tingli was extremely anxious, as she didn't know how long it would take by the time she was done, so she asked the nurse to help her hire a caregiver and asked the caregiver to call Dingxin Restaurant.

"If Mr. Kuang arrives at the tea room on the second floor, please tell him, Miss Gao: I'm at the Red Cross Hospital. It's just a minor injury and can be treated in half an hour. Please wait, Mr. Kuang."

After a while, the attendant came back and said, "Your friend hasn't arrived yet, but Miss Gao said she will come to the hospital as soon as possible to take care of you."

"Hurry up and tell her not to come over. If she doesn't come over, my wounds will heal."

After saying these words, Wen Tingli lay on the hospital bed, and the more she thought about it, the more suspicious she felt that the car accident was.

Suddenly, I heard footsteps outside. It was a man's step. His steps were steady and fast, and there was a hint of urgency in them.

She tilted her head on the pillow and listened attentively. The man walked straight to the door of her ward, and for some reason, he suddenly slowed down his pace.

After a pause of a few seconds, the man knocked on the door twice slowly.

"Please come in."

"Mr. Meng?!"

There was clearly some anxiety in Meng Qiguang's eyes, but the moment he opened the door, he immediately suppressed all the emotions in his eyes, looked inside casually at the door, and smiled: "Is it really you? I went to the second floor to visit a friend, and happened to hear someone talking about the big star Miss Wen being treated in the emergency department. I thought it was a rumor, what's going on?"

Wen Tingli hurriedly sat up against the headboard and said with a smile: "Nothing happened. I just had an accident on the road."

Meng Qiguang glanced at the bed sheet covering Wen Tingli: "Where is the injury? Is it not serious?"

"My big toe hit the step. It's just a minor injury. It's nothing to worry about."

Meng Qiguang smiled and nodded: "You are probably the first celebrity who broke his toe. Fortunately, there are no tabloid reporters in the hospital right now, otherwise tomorrow's newspapers will probably be full of your ridiculous news."

He looked around the room: "Why is there no one around you?"

"I didn't ask them to come. He will be discharged in about half an hour. Why make such a fuss?"

Meng Qiguang glanced at the bedside table, and there was not even a glass of water on it. "The people around you are too careless."

He turned around and said something to the attendant outside the door. Wen Tingli hurriedly said behind him: "Mr. Meng, don't worry. Lao Li is going to make a phone call. He will help buy water when he comes back."

"But he's not here right now, right? And I'm fine."

After a while, Meng Qiguang's follower Xiao Gao bought a lot of fresh fruits and milk and brought them over. There were so many things that the two bedside tables could not hold them all.

Wen Tingli was really embarrassed. After thinking for a few seconds, she said to Meng Qiguang in a serious tone, "Mr. Meng, I have something to tell you."

Meng Qiguang glanced at his watch and turned to walk out: "I have to go upstairs to see my friend. If you need any help, just tell me."

"Mr. Meng--" Strangely, Meng Qiguang stopped as soon as he reached the door.

He stared ahead for a few seconds, then suddenly reached into his jacket pocket and said, "Hey, it was clearly in my hand just now."

"Did you lose anything?"

"The car keys are missing." Meng Qiguang returned to the house and scanned the ground. "They bumped into me when they were delivering something. Maybe I was knocked to the ground."

"I'll help you find it." Wen Tingli hurried to get down to the ground.

Meng Qiguang held her shoulders and said, "I can find it myself."

He searched around the bed twice but found nothing. He tilted his head inadvertently and smiled at Wen Tingli's shoulder, "It seems to have fallen on your pillow."

Wen Tingli turned her head and looked.

"How did it fall here?"

Meng Qiguang seemed a little puzzled as well. He leaned over and picked up the key from Wen Tingli's pillow: "Okay, I'm leaving."

At this moment, there was suddenly a noise at the door. Wen Tingli had a strange premonition in her mind. She subconsciously leaned out from Meng Qiguang's side and saw Lu Shicheng standing at the door.

He looked at the two of them in silence.

Wen Tingli said nothing.

Meng Qiguang greeted Lu Shicheng with a smile on his face: "Mr. Lu, what a coincidence?"

He deliberately stood by the bed without moving, but he didn't expect that Lu Shicheng didn't turn around and leave. Instead, he turned his gaze directly to Wen Tingli beside him: "Kuang Zhilin said you were in a car accident, are you okay?"

Meng Qiguang turned around and told Wen Tingli, "I'm leaving first. Be careful not to touch the wound."

These words sounded very intimate. Wen Tingli did not respond. Lu Shicheng stared at Meng Qiguang expressionlessly. He stood there with his hands in his trouser pockets without moving until Meng Qiguang walked away.

After Meng Qiguang left, Wen Tingli looked at Lu Shicheng: "What are you doing here? I didn't notify you!"

Lu Shicheng turned around and left.

"Go away! I just want to ask you, why didn't you just turn around and leave when Meng Qiguang was here just now?"

Lu Shicheng paused.

Walking away means announcing your exit.

He can't do it!

He was possessive of her, and both of them knew it.

He was speechless. It was not a pleasant feeling to have a corner of his heart torn out. He couldn't help but look back at her. Her beautiful eyes were staring at him.

After a moment of silence, he asked in a low voice: "Where is the injury?"

(End of this chapter)