Wu Mangmang looked down at her clothes and shoes, then used her phone to check her face. These past two days of last-minute cramming had brought her back to the state she was in during university final exams. Her hair was now embarrassingly messy, held back with small clips to prevent her bangs from falling down and blocking her eyes.

Overall, she looked exactly like a middle-aged housewife going to the wet market.

“I’m going like this?” Wu Mangmang had an expression that said “you might as well just kill me.”

“I haven’t even done my hair,” but starting to do her hair now would definitely not leave enough time. “Can’t we meet tomorrow instead?”

Lu Sui was silent for a moment, then answered, “You look more homely this way.”

Wu Mangmang blinked, and with her average intelligence, she actually couldn’t figure out whether “homely” was a compliment or criticism.

Since they finished the exam quite late and encountered traffic jams, Wu Mangmang couldn’t even get out of the car halfway to change clothes. She could only wear her snow boots to meet Lu Jianan.

When Lu Jianan saw Wu Mangmang, she couldn’t help but glance at Lu Sui with her eyes.

This little girl was really tender-looking. Although she shouldn’t be too young age-wise, she looked so delectable.

Her outfit was a complete mess, utterly chaotic, but even so you found her pleasing to the eye and beautiful.

She was a beauty especially favored by heaven.

Lu Sui really had the nerve to pursue her.

Lu Sui looked back at Lu Jianan, meaning don’t be fooled by this girl’s appearance.

Wu Mangmang’s colorful disguise had successfully deceived Lu Sui back then.

Now she was putting on an innocent act and deceiving Lu Jianan.

But Wu Mangmang had to put on an innocent act – the other party was Lu Sui’s elder. Since Lu Sui’s parents had passed away, meeting Lu Jianan was no different from meeting the parents for Wu Mangmang.

“I wanted to invite you several days ago, but Lu Sui said you were taking exams, so I changed it to today. What are you taking exams for?” Lu Jianan asked with a smile.

Taking graduate entrance exams wasn’t shameful at all, and could even be considered honorable, but in front of Lu Jianan, Wu Mangmang somehow felt it was difficult to speak about.

The Lu family members all graduated from top international universities abroad. Domestic graduate students seemed to lack class compared to them.

Education really was the foundation of national strength.

“Graduate entrance exams,” Wu Mangmang said.

Lu Jianan smiled and said “Oh,” then after a moment added, “That’s great, reading cultivates character.”

Then Lu Jianan asked about Wu Mangmang’s major. After hearing it, her smile brightened considerably, “This kind of major indeed can only be studied domestically. Next week there happens to be a New Year auction in this field. If Mangmang is interested, you might as well come with me.”

Lu Jianan kept steering the conversation toward topics Wu Mangmang was familiar with, and Wu Mangmang was very grateful.

Her husband was surnamed Chen, had a very successful business, but was particularly refined and gentle, while also being humorous.

The conversation flowed smoothly during the meal, and even Lu Sui kept a smile on his face throughout.

Men’s conversation topics were nothing more than economics, politics, and future development trends.

Although Chen Shuming did most of the talking, Wu Mangmang could tell he seemed to particularly value Lu Sui’s opinions.

Of course, such family dinners inevitably involved mentioning various relatives. Wu Mangmang learned that Lu Sui had two more aunts – one currently abroad on a visit, another who had married overseas, also a strategic alliance.

Lu Sui also had an older sister who had married abroad to a family that even someone like Wu Mangmang, who didn’t care about politics and economics, had heard of.

The more Wu Mangmang listened, the more she felt like Cinderella.

Actually, these were just relatives from the Lu family side.

As for Lu Sui’s maternal relatives, they actually encountered one tonight.

That person heard Lu Jianan and Lu Sui were dining at the restaurant and came over voluntarily.

“Your little aunt happens to be eating here too,” Lu Jianan said to Lu Sui after listening to the waiter’s words.

Wu Mangmang had seen Lu Sui’s little aunt at the ball, but she had a deeper impression of her daughter – the one who called her an escort.

After Zhu Xin sat down, her attitude toward Wu Mangmang was not friendly.

Actually, you couldn’t blame her. Wu Mangmang herself felt like a peacock that had wandered into a group of phoenixes.

“Last time on the yacht, weren’t you Shen Ting’s companion?” Zhu Xin asked quite rudely.

“Xinxin,” Meng Yu scolded quietly.

Everyone knew about Shen Ting and Lu Sui’s relationship. The current girlfriend being the good brother’s ex-girlfriend sounded disgusting.

Unfortunately, this topic didn’t seem explosive enough – everyone present didn’t even change their expressions.

Wu Mangmang, considering Lu Sui’s face, wanted to respond to Zhu Xin, but Lu Sui spoke first, “Little aunt, did you arrange to meet someone here for dinner today?”

Meng Yu very tactfully smiled and pulled Zhu Xin to stand up, “Yes, your uncle is coming later too. We arranged to meet Haoming’s family to discuss marriage matters. We’ll go over first.”

Lu Sui nodded.

“This child Xinxin has been spoiled by Meng Yu,” Lu Jianan commented after the mother and daughter left, trying to comfort Wu Mangmang.

When Wu Mangmang walked out of the restaurant, she couldn’t help but take a deep breath. This feeling of being pampered and cared for by Lu Jianan made her feel somewhat suffocated.

And actually, Wu Mangmang would soon understand this point even more deeply.

Having a casual romance with Lu Sui seemed quite relaxed.

But things became completely different after the Christmas dinner.

Invitations came flying in like snowflakes.

And Lu Jianan appeared in her life for extended periods.

Wu Mangmang felt like she was taking one-on-one wealthy family bride tutoring classes.

Lu Jianan and Lu Sui really were – birds of a feather flock together.

On the surface they were satisfied with everything about you, then secretly used methods to transform you.

The worst part was that in this situation, Lu Sui couldn’t help at all.

Because the social circles of the master and mistress were like two completely different worlds.

Lu Sui was busy with horseback riding, playing ball, deep-sea fishing, playing cards…

While Wu Mangmang had to attend various salons, auctions, art exhibitions, and was even recommended by Lu Jianan to become a committee member of some women’s charity foundation.

Next, Lu Jianan insisted she must join some art board of directors.

In short, in just a few days, Wu Mangmang had gained several more titles and was busy with hair appointments, facial treatments, and various social engagements.

Wu Mangmang felt her level of busyness was no less than Obama’s, and deeply felt that even if Lu Sui cheated in the future and kept a bunch of mistresses at home, she wouldn’t have the energy to manage him.

Because being Mrs. Lu was more like a high-paying but high-pressure profession.

So as soon as New Year passed, Wu Mangmang couldn’t wait to return to work.

After the comparison, she felt that this nine-to-five job with weekends to look forward to was simply the most wonderful profession in the world.

Even Ms. Nie Jingjing became much more lovable, because her scheming methods were too crude. After Wu Mangmang had seen high-end green tea bitches and white lotuses, she only felt Nie Jingjing was charmingly straightforward.

Lu Sui flew to South Africa after New Year’s Day and didn’t return until just before the Spring Festival.

What Wu Mangmang didn’t expect was that even after she returned to work, Lu Jianan didn’t let her off.

In the evenings, she actually had to learn French and Spanish from scratch. These were teachers Lu Jianan had hired for her, and supposedly she would also need to learn Japanese, German, and the like in the future.

Weekends had various etiquette classes, flower arrangement, painting – she didn’t need to master them, but she definitely had to know how to appreciate them.

Even if Ms. Liu wanted to see Wu Mangmang, she now had to make an appointment with Cathy first.

Oh, forgot to mention – Cathy was Wu Mangmang’s new assistant, the kind who managed everything.

Cathy had two little assistants under her, plus the maid Annie. When Wu Mangmang went out now, one car couldn’t fit everyone.

However, every time Lu Sui called back, the conversations were extremely brief, as if someone was always looking for him.

This made Wu Mangmang feel like men were completely useless.

During this period, Wu Mangmang saw Wu Yong once, and this was time she had forcibly carved out from Cathy’s schedule.

At Wu Yong’s place, Wu Mangmang did nothing but simply sleep.

“I don’t think I need to come for consultations anymore, Dr. Wu. I sleep particularly well now – I can fall asleep standing up. I haven’t had an episode in a long time,” Wu Mangmang said.

Supported by women’s enormous vanity, Wu Mangmang would never go crazy in front of so many women watching the drama.

“Mangmang, you’re not happy,” Wu Yong looked at her and said just one sentence.

Wu Mangmang thought for a moment, then said, “If I told you I don’t have time to care about whether I’m happy or not, would you believe me?”

“Come to think of it, it’s really funny. It turns out busyness really is the best method for healing,” Wu Mangmang murmured. “Only today do I understand why my parents always seemed so busy when I was little.”

“That night before Christmas when you called me crying, what happened?” Wu Yong clearly felt that Wu Mangmang had already collapsed then, but the next day she rescheduled her appointment with the nurse and appeared today as if nothing had happened.

“Nothing much. At the time I thought my boyfriend was going to break up with me, and I couldn’t accept it. Later we made up. You know how love is – on and off,” Wu Mangmang said very nonchalantly.

But Wu Yong felt enormous worry in her heart.

Wu Mangmang’s first love back then was the trigger for her illness. Wu Yong also knew something about Wu Mangmang’s rich dating history afterward, but none of those relationships had caused her such huge emotional fluctuations, and the other party had only seemed like he was going to break up.

“Don’t worry, I know what you’re concerned about,” Wu Mangmang stood up to comfort Wu Yong. “It’s not that he’s particularly special, I just had some bad associations.”

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Mr. Lu, who had caused Wu Mangmang’s bad associations, finally returned to the city after flying to almost all five continents.

His arrival time was 1 AM. Wu Mangmang insisted on personally going to the airport to pick up Lu Sui, and even ordered a huge bouquet of red roses.

Wu Mangmang held the roses, which could completely hide her entire person.

When Lu Sui saw Wu Mangmang vigorously waving the bouquet at him at the arrival exit, he felt that helpless feeling for the Nth time in his life.

All N times were because of Wu Mangmang.

Wu Mangmang ran to Lu Sui and presented the roses to him like a treasure.

Lu Sui took them and politely smelled them, “Very fragrant,” then handed them to his assistant.

Peng Ze really didn’t want to accept this hot potato, because as he walked out, everyone was looking at him, seeming to say: Look, this person is so silly.

After Lu Sui’s arms were free, Wu Mangmang immediately enthusiastically threw herself at him, hugging his waist and shouting, “You’re finally back! I’ve been going crazy missing you!”

The entire team that had traveled with Lu Sui all had conflicted expressions of “I really want to look but don’t dare to look.”

Because Boss Lu had that kind of aura where you felt like approaching within a foot of him was a desecration of his royal body.

Today, under everyone’s eyes, Wu Mangmang had so casually hugged him. Everyone felt their eyes had been opened.

Lu Sui wanted to push Wu Mangmang away – he wasn’t used to this kind of passionate display in public.

But because Wu Mangmang’s words were so pleasing, pushing her away now would be too crushing. Lu Sui could only lift his hand and pat Wu Mangmang’s back, “Alright, I’m back.”

Wu Mangmang sensed Lu Sui’s stiffness and lightly felt his struggle, then she hugged even tighter and looked up at Lu Sui.

Lu Sui looked down to see Wu Mangmang’s pouted red lips, the chemical fragrance of her lip gloss rising up. He reluctantly lowered his head and quickly touched Wu Mangmang’s lips.

Wu Mangmang simply pulled Lu Sui’s head down and gave him two “smack smack” kisses on both cheeks, leaving perfect lip prints.

Then, before Lu Sui could crush her with his cold aura, Wu Mangmang decisively stepped back two steps, took tissues from her handbag and handed them to Lu Sui, gesturing for him to wipe it off himself.

Peng Ze and the others were choking on their own saliva trying to hold back laughter, everyone pretending they hadn’t seen anything.

Actually, there were several couples in the arrival hall having emotional reunions after long separations – the couple next to them was kissing so passionately they were almost putting on a live show.

It was just that people like Lu Sui always maintained their dignity. Wu Mangmang pursed her lips, feeling that Lu Sui probably couldn’t perform the drama of “a brief separation feels like a new marriage.”

As soon as they got in the car, Wu Mangmang couldn’t help but pour out her grievances to Lu Sui.

“You’re finally back! Do you know how your aunt has been torturing me this past month?” Wu Mangmang said, “I wasn’t this tired even during my college entrance exams.”

“She hired me…” Wu Mangmang counted on her fingers, “five, six, seven, eight teachers!”

“Every day I have to get up before dawn to learn how to walk and eat. Just how terrible must I be that I need to learn these things from scratch?”

Wu Mangmang had already rolled her eyes five times in just these few sentences.

“There are also two foreign language teachers – supposedly I need to master five languages. The most ridiculous thing is, she even hired a memory trainer to help me remember faces.”

“This shows aunt really likes you,” Lu Sui ended Wu Mangmang’s complaints with one sentence.