A flirtatious beauty vs. a fake playboy
The first time they met,
Ruan Shu had been drinking. Tipsy and emboldened, she cornered him. “Brother Chi, how many months would it take you to win me over?”
Lu Qichi scoffed and glanced at her. “You’re the sixth woman to throw herself at me this month.”
“What a coincidence. Six is my lucky number.”
Later, Ruan Shu not only seduced him, she married him. But their whirlwind wedding was followed almost immediately by a whirlwind divorce.
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The day Lu Qichi won the World Superbike Championship,
the whole country erupted in cheers.
It was the first time anyone from the country had made it to the final since the event began, and he’d gone on to claim the championship.
After the race, reporters rushed to interview him.
At one point, they asked the question countless netizens were curious about: “We heard you were married before?”
At the time, Lu Qichi was holding his helmet and still wearing his racing suit. He looked dazed for a moment, then gazed at the reporter standing in the distance with a CCTV microphone and smiled. “No.”
Not far away, Ruan Shu heard his answer and couldn’t help tightening her grip on her own microphone.
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One night after they got back together,
Ruan Shu went with Lu Qichi to visit his parents in his hometown. There, she discovered that a photo of her receiving an award was tucked among the stack of certificates he’d carefully kept.
She narrowed her eyes, convinced she’d found proof she could use against him, and hurried over to Lu Qichi. “Care to explain?”
He raised his eyes, leisurely stubbed out his cigarette, and replied with a calm expression, “There’s nothing to explain. How about I give you a million?”
Ruan Shu was at a loss for words.
That million was the breakup payment she’d left him when she disappeared without a word after their divorce.