Seriously, sir? You can even pursue a professor?

"This girl is really alluring."

Tang Rui leaned back in the back seat of the car, turned her head to look at Ruan Hongzhuang beside her, as if she were looking at a rare treasure.

"Look how tender her skin is, you could practically squeeze water out of it."

As she muttered to herself, she reached out mischievously, pretending to pinch Ruan Hongzhuang's cheek.

Ruan Hongzhuang looked down at the documents in her hand, raised her hand, and accurately stopped Tang Rui's groping hand.

"Stop fooling around."

Tang Rui reluctantly withdrew her salted pig's hand, then changed the subject and asked:

"Hey Hongzhuang, I heard your aunt has found you another blind date. He seems pretty good in every way. When are you planning to meet him?"

Ruan Hongzhuang continued looking at the documents in her hand and replied calmly, "I told her I have a boyfriend."

"You have a boyfriend?" Tang Rui perked up instantly, shoving her head right under Ruan Hongzhuang's eyelids. "How come I didn't know? Who is it? Do I know him?"

"It's made up," Ruan Hongzhuang replied, gently pushing Tang Rui's head away.

"Made up?" Tang Rui was taken aback. "Wow, Hongzhuang, you've learned how to fool your auntie. What if your auntie wants to see you?"

"I'm away on a business trip."

"We can't keep going on business trips all the time; Auntie definitely won't believe us after a while."

"He died outside."

Ruan Hongzhuang spoke slowly and deliberately, flipping through the documents in her hand.

Tang Rui's expression froze instantly, and a speechless look flashed in her eyes.

Tang Zheng, who was in the driver's seat, couldn't help but cough lightly as he listened to the conversation in the back seat. He glanced at Ruan Hongzhuang in the back seat out of the corner of his eye through the rearview mirror.

Aunt Ruan is as powerful as ever.

As for why he called his sister's best friend "Auntie," it was because Ruan Hongzhuang was the youngest daughter of his grandfather's close friend. So even though this "Auntie" was only six years older than him, he still had to call her "Auntie."

Tang Rui glanced at her younger brother in the front row, her eyes darting around, and half-jokingly said to Ruan Hongzhuang beside her, "Hey Hongzhuang, why don't you consider my brother? He's single, we know him well, he's good-looking, and he has no bad habits..."

Ruan Hongzhuang continued looking at the documents, ignoring her best friend.

"See? Your Aunt Ruan agreed." Tang Rui said excitedly to Tang Zheng in the front row, as if she had received Ruan Hongzhuang's tacit approval. "Brother, you'd better seize this opportunity and do your best. If you marry your Aunt Ruan, our family's ancestral graves will be emitting auspicious smoke."

"No, it's 'burned'," Tang Rui corrected.

Tang Zheng twitched the corner of his mouth and said helplessly, "Sis, you'd better stop your supernatural powers and calm down for a while, or our ancestral graves will explode."

Upon hearing this, Ruan Hongzhuang, sitting in the back row, slightly twitched her lowered eyelids and her lips curled up almost imperceptibly.

Just then, a black shadow suddenly darted out from the green belt on the side of the street!

Tang Zheng's pupils contracted slightly, and he instinctively stepped on the brakes.

"squeak--!!!"

The screeching sound of tires shattered the tranquility of dusk, and the three people inside the car were thrown forward violently by the powerful inertia. The seat belts tightened instantly, making their chests feel constricted.

A completely black cat, without a single stray hair, darted past the front bumper of the car. Its movements were as light as a shadow. After landing, it turned around and looked at Tang Zheng in the driver's seat with its emerald-green eyes.

"What's wrong? Why did you suddenly step on the brakes?" Tang Rui asked Tang Zheng in the front seat, somewhat startled, as she sat up straight.

"A cat just darted out from the side," Tang Zheng said, glancing in the direction the black cat had disappeared before preparing to restart the car.

However, at that moment, a violent wave of dizziness suddenly struck.

It wasn't just ordinary dizziness; it felt more like someone had smashed an invisible hammer into the back of his head.

The whole world began to spin, twist, and shatter wildly, and the scene in sight was like a shattered stained glass window, splitting into countless bizarre fragments.

The world spun around.

A darkness so thick it was almost tangible surged in from all directions, greedily devouring all his consciousness.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Tang Zheng's consciousness slowly surfaced like a stone that had sunk to the bottom of the water, and his vision gradually became clearer.

The car roof was yellowed, and a tattered amulet hung precariously on it, the embroidered image of Guanyin already faded.

A faint smell of tobacco and car air freshener lingered around my nose, which was somewhat unpleasant.

This is a taxi.

He was sitting in the passenger seat.

"Jinghan University, young man, you're really impressive." The driver turned to look at Tang Zheng, revealing a set of teeth slightly yellowed from smoking. "If my son could be half as successful as you, I'd be laughing in my sleep."

Tang Zheng turned his head to look at the uncle, and out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of a young woman sitting in the back row.

The woman had long, flowing hair, a somewhat aloof expression, and an exceptionally beautiful face.

Aunt Ruan?

She looks much younger.

Wait, this scene seems a bit...

The next second, a fragment from the river of memories was extracted, and Tang Zheng's pupils contracted. He suddenly turned his head to look at the oncoming lane ahead.

At the same time of dusk, the streetlights had just come on, and their orange glow seemed especially warm in the darkening sky.

A white sedan, as if manipulated by an invisible hand, suddenly veered off the road and hurtled straight toward them.

"Brake! Slam on the brakes!"

Before Tang Zheng could finish speaking, a violent collision sounded.

Tang Zheng's vision went black, and he lost consciousness again.

After an unknown amount of time, a soft touch came to my lips, carrying a faint fragrance and a warm breath, which I gently put into my mouth.

Like a drowning man grasping at a straw, Tang Zheng greedily inhaled that breath, his consciousness slowly returning...

He slowly opened his heavy eyelids, and through his blurred vision, a pretty face without makeup came into view.

The girl's brows were furrowed, and her clear almond-shaped eyes were filled with concern and worry.

"How are you? Is anything bothering you?"

"I'm fine... Aunt Ruan." Tang Zheng shook his head, feeling a little dizzy.

The slight pain in my shoulder indicated that what I was seeing was not an illusion.

"Sit still and don't move. The ambulance will be here soon."

"it is good."

Just then, a somewhat strained voice came from the side.

"Cough cough, young man, are you alright?"

Tang Zheng turned his head to look at the uncle's face, which was sharded with glass, and the blood trickling from the corner of his mouth...

"Uncle, you...you'd better not say anything for now."

This scene of rebirth doesn't seem so pleasant.