Hidden identities of the AI Heiress

Chapter 255: Chapter 255: Handsome Guys Don’t Cry
 

The Lu couple also realized what was going on. Was Qin Huan trying to create a rift between Tingting and Qiaoqiao?

The old lady slammed down her chopsticks, her face darkening, “How do you know that the second one doesn’t care about Tingting? Or, like Qiaoqiao said, have you been spying on them?”

“Mom, it’s a misunderstanding. I was just teasing Tingting because she wasn’t talking,” Qin Huan explained.

“Grandma, Auntie didn’t mean it, please don’t be angry,” Lu Ting said sweetly.

Qin Huan quickly added, “Tingting understands me.”

Finally, the elder spoke up, “Let’s talk about it after dinner.”

The dispute finally settled down.

Qin Huan felt stifled with frustration. If it had been Su Mian, the elders definitely wouldn’t have treated her this way.

Midway through the meal, a young man hurriedly entered, clearly having rushed back home.

Upon seeing him, Qin Huan asked, puzzled, “Didn’t you say you were going out to play with classmates and not coming back?”

Qiao Yun lifted her eyelids, glancing at the young man.

The youth was handsome, with fair skin, a high nose bridge, distinct facial features, and eyes that were both bright and proud.

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Tall and slender, dressed in a black and white tracksuit, he was strikingly stylish.

Seeing Qiao Yun looking at him again, the young man straightened his spine discreetly, one hand in his pocket, his eyes lowered as he looked at her, giving off an ‘I am too cool for anyone here’ vibe.

Su Mian began to introduce, “Qiaoqiao, this is your…”

The young man, with his proud glance and a cool face that said ‘you are all trash but me’, cut Su Mian off.

“Auntie, no need to introduce, we know each other,” he said.

Su Mian turned to ask Qiao Yun, quite surprised, “Qiaoqiao, you’ve met before?”

Qiao Yun exclaimed, bewildered.

Lu Shiran was shocked to see Qiao Yun’s unfamiliar face and widened his eyes in disbelief, pointing at her, “You don’t know me?”

“I don’t know you,” Qiao Yun truly didn’t recognize him.

Lu Shiran’s voice rose a few notches, “I’m Lu Shiran, remember now?”

Qiao Yun repeated, “I don’t know you.”

Lu Shiran’s expression went through a dramatic range of changes, more spectacular than a face-changing act. After a moment, he said, disheartened, “How can you not know me? I’m Lu Shiran from City No.1 Middle School. Now do you know?”

He said this as if slightly aggrieved, though his face still carried a cool haughtiness.

Qiao Yun saw that everyone was waiting for her response with interest and quietly replied, “Do I need to know?”

Lu Shiran thought to himself, good, woman, you’ve successfully caught my attention.

Qiao Yun said, “I go to Shengyang, not City No.1 Middle School.”

Lu Shiran was utterly deflated, his pretense gone, and he lamented, “You scored twenty points higher than me on this month’s exam, how can you not recognize me.”

The conversation between the two youngsters left the adults in stitches.

It was the old lady who explained to Qiao Yun, “My dear granddaughter, he’s your cousin. You both took the joint monthly exam last time, and you were upset for a long time when someone snatched the first place from you. Never imagined the person to beat my little grandson was my sweet granddaughter.”

Lu Shiran retorted, “Handsome guys don’t cry.”

“Yes, yes, you didn’t cry,” the old lady humored him.

Lu Shiran: “…”

With his hand in his pocket, he told Qiao Yun, “What goes around comes around. Next time, I will definitely beat you.”

Qiao Yun saw Lu Shiran pouting enough to hang an oil bottle and gently told him, “You should try harder.”

Thirty years might not be enough…

Of course, to avoid denting her cousin’s confidence, Qiao Yun didn’t voice that thought.

“Son, have you eaten? If not, sit down quickly,” Qin Huan was about to lose her patience with her foolish son.

Lu Shiran hadn’t known that his Second Uncle’s family was bringing his cousin home, so he had rushed back, still hungry.

He looked around and finally sat beside Qiao Yun, with an air of reluctance, begrudgingly explaining.

“Well, there were no seats left, that’s why I’m sitting beside you.”

Qiao Yun glanced at the seat Qin Huan had specifically emptied for Lu Shiran and nodded, “Mm-hmm.”

Lu Shiran grunted in satisfaction.