Stepdaughter of a wealthy family? The little darling of a Beijing tycoon

After all, he was different from others.

Li Hanting knew in his heart that he and Lu Jingxing were childhood friends.

Looking back, Lu Jingxing had always been a loner and didn't like to socialize, while he himself was mature and composed at a young age. Surprisingly, the two of them got along well and could talk about anything. In fact, Li Hanting was probably one of Lu Jingxing's few close friends.

At the dinner table, Li Hanting and Lu Jingxing chatted casually about their recent situations, keeping their conversation brief and to the point.

Shen Jingshu wisely kept her presence to a minimum, focusing solely on enjoying her food.

She was indeed satisfied with the meal; the taste was exquisite and delicious, befitting the standards of a top-tier club.

Having endured years of arduous cultivation in her past life, she had never tasted such delicious food. Therefore, she ate with exceptional care.

Lu Jingxing, who was standing to the side, seemed to be chatting with Li Hanting, but his gaze would occasionally and unintentionally sweep towards Shen Jingshu. His movements were natural, neither deliberate nor inappropriate.

After the meal, before the three of them had even left their seats, Li Hanting's phone suddenly rang.

He glanced at the caller ID, frowned slightly, and looked at Shen Jingshu with a somewhat troubled expression, but still answered the phone.

The situation on the other end of the phone seemed urgent. After listening, he nodded apologetically to Shen Jingshu, "Jingshu, something urgent has come up here, I have to leave right away. Have you finished eating? If you have, take a taxi home."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Jingxing said calmly, "It's alright, you can go ahead. I'll take her home later."

"You're delivering it?" Li Hanting was taken aback.

"Hmm." Lu Jingxing's lips curled slightly as he glanced at Shen Jingshu. "Since Miss Shen is your sister, then she's also my sister, right?"

Li Hanting breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, I feel much more at ease with you taking me." After saying that, he picked up his coat and hurriedly got up to leave.

Watching his hurried figure, Shen Jingshu suddenly called out to him, "Big brother."

She took out a pre-prepared amulet from her bag—or rather, from her spatial storage.

That was a gift she had wanted to give Li Hanting when they first met yesterday. "This is a peace charm I got when I went to the temple. Brother, you're in a hurry to leave now, so take it with you, just for peace of mind."

Li Hanting took it and found that it was just an ordinary peace charm.

As a policeman, he had always believed in materialism and didn't really believe in these things.

However, he couldn't resist the insistence of his elders, especially Lu Jingxing, who had a keen interest in metaphysics. Under their influence, he wasn't entirely averse to these things.

For some reason, the moment his fingertips touched the amulet, his fatigue and vague discomfort from the past few days miraculously subsided.

His heart stirred slightly, and he solemnly accepted it: "Thank you, Jing Shu, I will take it with me."

Shen Jingshu was somewhat surprised. She thought she would have to use some persuasion to convince him to accept it, but she didn't expect him to accept it so readily.

In her view, most criminal investigators believe in science, and she considered her actions a little "feudal superstition." Perhaps he accepted it because he was afraid of offending her.

After all, the two are getting along fairly well now.

After Li Hanting left, the private room fell silent instantly, leaving only Shen Jingshu and Lu Jingxing.

Shen Jingshu wasn't flustered at all; on the contrary, she couldn't wait to spend more time with Lu Jingxing.

In just the time it takes to eat a meal, she has quietly absorbed a lot of the purple energy from him.

Although the two were some distance apart, the dense purple aura continued to flow towards her.

While eating her dessert, she thought to herself: "If we ride in the same car later, won't I be able to inhale even more?"

With that thought in mind, she ate even more heartily.

After sitting for a while longer, the two got up to leave. Li Hanting had already paid the bill before leaving, and the two walked out of the restaurant one after the other.

Shen Jingshu recalled hearing Li Hanting say that Lu Jingxing was not interested in women, and also remembered the rumors from her previous life, so she deliberately lagged behind him by two steps to keep a safe distance.

Lu Jingxing naturally noticed, but he didn't say anything and just walked steadily ahead.

Upon arriving at the door, the driver was already waiting. He paused for a moment upon seeing Shen Jingshu, then greeted her with a smile, "Miss Shen, we meet again."

"Yes, my older brother and I came to have dinner and happened to run into President Lu. My brother has something urgent to attend to, so I'd like to trouble President Lu to take me home."

The driver nodded knowingly.

As they were talking, Lu Jingxing had already gotten into the car.

A strange sense of annoyance washed over him—this young girl could chat with the driver for a while, but she was like a mouse before a cat when she was with him, refusing to say a single word.

The driver respectfully opened the car door for Shen Jingshu, and she sat in the back seat on the other side, leaving a large space between them.

But the carriage was only so big. Lu Jingxing's purple aura kept emanating out, and Shen Jingshu was desperately absorbing it. She was afraid that she would be unable to suppress a smile on her face, so she could only pretend to be calm and look out the window, while in reality she was frantically absorbing the purple aura.

The drive from the clubhouse to the Li family home took almost an hour. The car was quiet, and no one spoke.

Shen Jingshu remained silent throughout, and Lu Jingxing, who was not good with words, did not speak up either.

However, his gaze kept falling on the little girl beside him who was looking out the window, and he felt a strange mix of emotions.

Lu Jingxing muttered to himself: Is the scenery outside the window really that beautiful? Or is she deliberately sitting so far away, as if she's afraid I'll eat her alive?

This girl is clearly not timid by nature, but she's putting on a well-behaved and obedient act.

When he investigated Shen Jingshu earlier, he had already discovered that she was doing live broadcasts online and acting as a metaphysical master.

Judging from today's situation, his good brother Li Hanting was clearly unaware of his stepsister's other identity.

Just now in the private room, when Shen Jingshu handed Li Hanting that peace talisman, he saw it clearly—a layer of golden light faintly flowed on the talisman paper, which was definitely not one of the ordinary goods on the market. It was clearly a genuine product that she had personally hand-painted and infused with spiritual power.

Its quality is no less than that of the one that Master Lingxu drew for him to suppress the evil energy in his body.

Lu Jingxing himself possessed an extremely strong purple aura, but within that purple aura, there was also a trace of barely perceptible cold and malevolent energy.

While others avoided it like the plague, Shen Jingshu was able to refine and absorb it with ease, completely unaffected.