“You!”

Chen Ming was indeed enraged, immediately pushing back his chair and standing up, about to walk toward Yan Ming.

There were four or five other men at Chen Ming’s table, while Yan Ming was alone and outnumbered.

With this setup, if any physical conflict occurred, Yan Ming would be at a disadvantage!

Although Yan Ming remained composed and extremely calm, Yu Tian’s heart was much more anxious.

Perhaps it was truly quick thinking in an emergency – in a flash of inspiration, Yu Tian hesitated no more. She walked directly to the window and fully opened what had originally been a slightly ajar window.

Instantly, all the outdoor sunlight poured into the makeup room that had previously been dimly lit, enveloping Yu Tian’s body.

She stood in the light, resting her chin on her hand, her smooth black long hair cascading beside her cheeks, making her skin appear snow-white and her complexion rosy as rouge.

“Senior Chen Ming.”

Yu Tian rested her cheek on her hand, waving at Chen Ming with a charming yet languid gesture.

Chen Ming’s movement indeed stopped. His gaze completely shifted away from Yan Ming and fixed on Yu Tian’s face.

Yu Tian deliberately positioned herself at her most beautiful angle, reaching out to leisurely gather the strands of hair that had fallen. Her eyes sparkled as she looked at Chen Ming with affection: “I didn’t expect to see you here, Senior.”

Chen Ming immediately resumed his false gentlemanly demeanor, showing a polite smile: “You are?”

Yu Tian smiled, her voice sweet and tender: “I’m Yu Tian.”

Chen Ming was a prominent figure at Rong Medical University, but Yu Tian’s name was equally well-known.

Although they weren’t from the same year and had little interaction, Chen Ming had heard about a junior named Yu Tian from the lower years who was extraordinarily beautiful. During his university years, he had always been pursued by others, never had any single periods, never lacked girlfriends, and had never seen Yu Tian in person, so he wasn’t particularly curious about her.

He just hadn’t expected her to be this beautiful.

Chen Ming almost immediately and proactively pulled out his phone: “Junior Yu Tian, I didn’t expect you to know me too. What a coincidence – why don’t we exchange contact information?”

But Yu Tian only looked at Chen Ming with an enticing gaze and smiled, her voice coquettish: “I don’t want to.”

She looked at Chen Ming with charming playfulness: “Later, they’ll auction the chance to take me for a drive tonight. If you win the bid, Senior, after the drive, I’ll give you my contact information.”

Chen Ming also smiled: “Good, then I’m determined to win.”

Yu Tian had originally been manipulating Chen Ming with ease, acting with complete composure. However, when her gaze inadvertently caught sight of Yan Ming behind Chen Ming, who was looking at her with indifferent eyes, she had just been unruffled and calm, but suddenly felt like an elementary student caught cheating by the principal, becoming flustered all at once.

But the act still had to be completed.

Only Yu Tian was no longer at ease; fortunately, there was just one last line left.

“Then, Senior, hurry to the front desk to register now, don’t miss it.”

She spoke stammering, but fortunately, Chen Ming interpreted it as shyness. He flirted a bit more, thinking himself quite charming, then led his group to the front desk to register.

Previously, when the situation was urgent, Yu Tian hadn’t thought much about it.

But now that Chen Ming’s group had left and only she and Yan Ming remained on the small balcony, Yu Tian felt somewhat awkward and at a loss.

The confident, composed persona of a stunning woman who could manipulate men completely collapsed. Yu Tian became nervous and trembling, like a shy and anxious little girl.

Yan Ming stood up and walked to the window where Yu Tian was currently leaning, pursing his lips as he looked at her without speaking.

In the end, Yu Tian was the first to give in.

She felt somewhat dejected and aggrieved: “Shouldn’t you thank me? Why do you look like a debt collector? If I hadn’t helped you out of that situation just now to protect you, they might have beaten you up!”

It was better when Yu Tian didn’t speak, but once she did, all the sourness and frustration in her heart poured out. She huffed angrily: “It’s indeed good that you spoke up for people with disabilities, but is having a sense of justice that important? No one was watching anyway. No matter how well you spoke, there was no audience to resonate with it, and it might even lead to retaliation. Sometimes people need to be flexible and realistic. Even if you completely disagree with these people’s views in your heart, when they outnumber you and you’re alone, you should at least assess the situation. Just now was so dangerous, it wasn’t worth it…”

“It’s not that no one was watching.”

But Yan Ming hadn’t listened to Yu Tian’s words. He directly interrupted her, glanced at her once, then looked down at the ground: “Weren’t you watching?”

Yu Tian glared at Yan Ming: “Hey! Is this the time to split hairs?”

Yan Ming sighed, his tone becoming annoying as he said mockingly: “But indeed, next time I won’t speak up. After speaking up, some people become ‘Senior Chen Ming,’ while others become ‘hey.'”

This man looked at Yu Tian expressionlessly: “Indeed not worth it.”

He glanced at Yu Tian: “Little ungrateful wolf.”

“…”

Yu Tian was simply speechless. Who was the little ungrateful wolf?!

She was about to retort when she heard Yan Ming continue: “The way you unconsciously roll your eyes at me makes you look even more like one. And didn’t I tell you not to glare at me anymore? Glaring at others would damage…”

“Damage my beauty? I don’t think so.” Yu Tian refused to back down and decided to change tactics. She rested her cheek on her hand, looking at Yan Ming with innocent and watery eyes, “I called him ‘Senior Chen Ming,’ so calling you ‘Big Brother Yan Ming’ should be fine, right?”

She deliberately widened her eyes to stare at Yan Ming, her voice becoming coquettishly sweet as she deliberately countered: “Big Brother Yan Ming, am I not pretty when I glare at you?”

Yu Tian didn’t expect this to have any effect; she was just unwilling to always be at a disadvantage with Yan Ming.

However, unexpectedly, after she called him that, Yan Ming, who had just been looking at her righteously, suddenly averted his gaze, and his voice became somewhat unnatural.

“Who is your big brother?”

Right, they didn’t have that kind of relationship anymore.

Yu Tian also felt it was somewhat embarrassing. She looked at the time – the auction would probably start soon, and the counselor had asked her to make an appearance to invite as many alumni as possible to join the auction.

“I’m leaving.”

Yu Tian was too lazy to continue acting. She resumed her usual expression, threw out this sentence, and walked gracefully toward the makeup room door. But as soon as she turned the door handle, Yu Tian discovered trouble.

This makeup room had probably been unused for years. Whether the door lock had a problem or not, Yu Tian twisted the handle several times, but it remained completely immovable, as if something was stuck.

It seemed like someone outside heard the commotion and tried to help open the door from outside, but unfortunately, that also failed.

Yu Tian became somewhat anxious. She looked at the time – it was almost time for her scheduled appearance with the counselor, but this door…

“Just climb through the window.”

Just when Yu Tian was getting frantic, Yan Ming’s calm voice came from behind her.

Yu Tian turned around to find that Yan Ming hadn’t left. He was leaning against the window, looking at her.

Climbing through the window could indeed get her out, but…

But the makeup room window was quite high, and the small balcony outside was dug somewhat below ground level. Yu Tian was also wearing ten-centimeter stilettos and a formal gown today. This formal dress was even rented – if she jumped down and tore the dress, not only would it be unseemly on stage, but she’d also have to pay compensation…

“I’ll carry you down.”

Yan Ming’s expression was calm and composed as he looked at the hesitating Yu Tian: “Or do you have another solution?”

Indeed, there wasn’t one, and time was running short.

Yu Tian gritted her teeth and couldn’t worry about so much anymore. She lifted her skirt, climbed onto the windowsill, first took off her high heels and handed them to Yan Ming, then, barefoot, cautiously opened her arms toward Yan Ming like a child.

Although there was a height difference between the windowsill and the small balcony, Yan Ming was tall with long legs. Standing at the window, he looked like he could easily carry Yu Tian down.

If the person standing there now was Qi Sihao, Yu Tian wouldn’t be polite at all – she would make Qi Sihao help. But the one standing there was Yan Ming, and for some unknown reason, Yu Tian became restrained and guilty.

But she didn’t want Yan Ming to see through this.

Yu Tian put her hands on her hips, deliberately acting very composed: “You carry…”

Before she could finish saying “me,” a pair of strong hands lifted her waist. Yu Tian hadn’t reacted at all when she was already effortlessly carried down from the windowsill. Because she had no mental preparation, Yu Tian didn’t balance her center of gravity well, and the feeling of being airborne made her instinctively feel dangerous.

“Yu Tian, I don’t need your protection.”

Because they were close due to the carrying motion, Yan Ming’s voice was right next to her ear. His voice wasn’t high, but Yu Tian heard every word with crystal clarity.

He said—

“If one person here must be protected, it definitely wouldn’t be me.”

Yan Ming only said this one sentence, with no other words.

When she regained awareness, Yu Tian realized her hands had already fearfully wrapped around Yan Ming’s neck, while Yan Ming, holding her waist with one arm, seemed to be deliberately avoiding her as his entire neck turned to the side.

Soon, Yu Tian was steadily placed on the ground.

But Yu Tian was still inexplicably a bit angry. She couldn’t help muttering: “Is it necessary? I’m not a bacterium. You won’t even look at me, so why bother being helpful? Acting like you’re disgusted with me. You could have just not carried me; I could have found someone else to help…”

Carrying her down from the windowsill was Yan Ming’s suggestion. How come when it came to actually doing it, he acted like he was avoiding her like a plague?

Yan Ming originally seemed like he didn’t plan to respond, but hearing Yu Tian getting more and more outrageous, he couldn’t help himself and walked over. Before Yu Tian could react, he lifted her waist again on the ground, his gaze still directed elsewhere.

“Look for yourself – if I looked straight ahead at this moment, what would I see?”

After saying this, he put Yu Tian back down, then looked at her with annoyance.

“Can you be more mindful?” Although he was scolding Yu Tian verbally, Yan Ming still didn’t leave. He walked to the side, brought the high heels Yu Tian had taken off and given to him back in front of her, “Put your shoes on.”

Although slow to realize, Yu Tian quickly understood Yan Ming’s intention.

When he had held her waist and gently lifted her just now, Yu Tian’s chest had appeared directly in front of Yan Ming’s line of sight. If he hadn’t turned his head away, then…

So it wasn’t disgust or unwillingness, just gentlemanly self-restraint and etiquette.

Making herself seem foolish and unreasonable.

Yu Tian felt a bit embarrassed and could only bury her head in her hands to avoid the situation.

But the more nervous she became, the more prone she was to mishaps. The small balcony was laid with wooden flooring. Because the ceiling here was made of glass, the wooden floor experienced year-round sun exposure. Although there were annual repairs, due to its age, gaps had eventually appeared between wooden boards due to thermal expansion and contraction.

One of Yu Tian’s stiletto heels suddenly got stuck in this gap.

Just as she was about to pull it out herself, Yan Ming crouched down first, helped her extract the stiletto, and placed it in front of her bare foot.

“Troublesome.” Although his words sounded disdainful, Yan Ming’s tone was very flat. He urged, “Hurry up and put it on.”

“Alright…”

Yu Tian was mumbling and about to continue bending down to put on the shoe when the shoe in her hand was snatched away by Yan Ming again.

He crouched down again, clumsily and somewhat roughly putting the stiletto onto Yu Tian’s fair foot himself.

“Did you graduate from our school? How can you be so thoughtless?” After putting the shoe on Yu Tian, Yan Ming stood up again, his tone still calm and ordinary, as if he had just casually picked up some trash.

Yu Tian was puzzled about why she was being scolded again and looked up at Yan Ming with a confused expression.

Yan Ming rubbed his forehead, looking somewhat troubled but helpless.

“Yu Tian, you’re wearing a low-cut formal dress today.”

He frowned slightly: “So don’t bend over like that in front of men, whether putting on shoes or picking things up. If you must bend over, at least use one hand to cover your chest. Do you understand?”

Yan Ming looked quite fierce. Yu Tian obediently nodded: “I understand. It’s mainly that I don’t usually dress like this, so I didn’t have this awareness and didn’t pay attention for a moment…”

The flutter in her heart from when Yan Ming bent down to put her shoes on still hadn’t calmed down even now. Yu Tian felt somewhat flushed and nervous. Sunlight streaming through the glass ceiling fell on Yan Ming, making him seem to glow. Yu Tian secretly looked at his face, feeling somewhat self-destructive inside.

Yan Ming was too good-looking.

She was just an ordinary human, so she ultimately couldn’t avoid the cliché of judging by appearance, experiencing unnecessary emotional fluctuations because of his looks.

Yu Tian tried hard to hide this change. She stared at Yan Ming and said dryly, “If my dad were still alive, he might say the same thing to me.”

“…”

Yan Ming seemed somewhat speechless. He glared at Yu Tian: “Who is your dad? I’m not that old. Pay attention to yourself.”

After saying this, the man walked away with a stern face.