Xu Nuannuan had a timid personality.
Facing power and authority, she was cowardly and afraid. She knew that with her family background, there was no way she could compete with those people.
All she could do was to study desperately, bury herself in books, and focus on her own business, paying no heed to the outside world.
As for the bullying and the grievances of being excluded, she had no choice but to swallow them all.
Before graduation, Xu Nuannuan managed to make herself a transparent person. Her personality was so soft that even the girl who bullied her eventually found it boring.
The publicly available information showed that Yu Qiu had little interaction with Xu Nuannuan at that time. Even though they were deskmates, they were no different from strangers.
"Xu Nuannuan did know my elder brother, but it seems that they weren't very familiar with each other," Yu Sheng murmured doubtfully after looking through the information several times to make sure there was no sign of any romantic relationship between them.
"These pale words can only describe the surface. None of us were there, so it's impossible to understand their past from these few words. But you can see the essence through the phenomenon by looking at their schedules," Shen Weixun said, pointing at the schedules of various activities they participated in during their school days.
Math Olympiad: 12 participants.
Names: Xu Nuannuan... Yu Qiu.
Composition Contest: 5 participants.
Names: Xu Nuannuan... Yu Qiu.
English Contest: 7 participants.
Names: Xu Nuannuan... Yu Qiu.
Chemistry Contest, Physics Contest, School Sports Meeting, School Gala...
During their time at the same school, they participated in all kinds of activities and competitions, and their names were on every list.
In terms of academic performance, they were both excellent students.
Logically speaking, for activities that only outstanding students could participate in, it was not surprising that they met each other every time.
Especially Xu Nuannuan.
Her family was not well - off. Participating in these competitions and winning prizes could earn her bonuses and awards from the school, which would improve her life. So as long as she was capable, she would surely apply to participate.
The strange thing was not about her.
It was Yu Qiu.
At that time, the Yu family's business was booming and had even become one of the most prominent families in the city. As the heir carefully cultivated by the Yu family, Yu Qiu didn't lack money and didn't need to spare his energy for these things. These activities would only add a little luster to his already excellent resume, but they didn't really matter much to him.
His energy should have been focused on more meaningful things.
But he participated in every single one of these events.
What's more interesting was that he had actively applied for several of them.
Especially during the period when he was about to go abroad, when he had a lot of things to prepare for and needed to focus all his energy on his studies, he still managed to participate in several competitions that were of no use to him.
And of course, Xu Nuannuan was also in these competitions.
Moreover, before Xu Nuannuan transferred to the school, Yu Qiu hardly ever participated in any campus activities that would waste his time.
From these schedules, it was quite obvious that Yu Qiu seemed to have been following Xu Nuannuan around.
"Do you see the problem? It's quite interesting. Based on these schedules, I can roughly guess that your elder brother must have been secretly in love with Xu Nuannuan since their school days. Although he never made it clear and didn't have much contact with her, he would always show up wherever Xu Nuannuan was," Shen Weixun said as he took the phone from Yu Sheng's hand. This was all he could find out in such a short time. If they wanted to confirm their guess and find out what exactly happened between them, they would need to spend more time inquiring and investigating.
"But I still think that woman is deliberately approaching my elder brother with ill intentions," Yu Sheng said. It took him a long time to reluctantly accept the possibility that his aloof elder brother had a crush on an ordinary girl. This was really a huge blow to the image of his elder brother in his mind. But the evidence in the information seemed to suggest that this guess was very likely to be true. If Xu Nuannuan hadn't acted so much today and made Niannian scolded, and if there hadn't been so much shrewdness and calculation in her eyes, he might have been able to accept her as his future sister - in - law. But now that he had seen through her, he just couldn't accept it. Looking at his elder brother and Xu Nuannuan, he seemed to see himself and Zhao Tang in the past. He understood more deeply how annoying he had been back then, and he also disliked Xu Nuannuan, who was so similar to Zhao Tang.
"You're not your elder brother. What does it matter what you think of her intentions? As long as Yu Qiu thinks she's good, that's enough. Just like you back then, did it really matter what kind of girl Zhao Tang was? No, what mattered was that you liked her," Shen Weixun sneered. Yu Sheng immediately blushed with embarrassment but couldn't refute him, so he could only force out a couple of dry laughs.
"Then what should we do next, Third Senior Brother? I don't want big brother to get into trouble. If he's with that seductive sister, he's definitely going to be in big trouble," Niannian said, knocking on her slightly dizzy head and getting back to the main point.
The current focus was not on Yu Qiu's feelings for Xu Nuannuan.
It was about how to help Yu Qiu out of this mess.
If things continued like this, even prison time would be considered a light punishment. Yu Qiu might even lose his life.
"I think it's better to guide than to block," Shen Weixun pondered for a while and came up with a rough plan.
"Since we can't cut off their fateful bond, we might as well give them a push and let this ill - fated relationship develop naturally, so that Yu Qiu's future disaster will come earlier.
"With us keeping an eye on them, Xu Nuannuan shouldn't be able to cause too much trouble. We just need to step in in time before Yu Qiu faces his disaster and help him get through this, and the problem should be solved."
Niannian suddenly had an epiphany. All her thoughts became clear in an instant. Third Senior Brother was really the smartest and most reliable person! He came up with a solution so quickly!
From the Taoist point of view, a person's fate is predestined. But this predestination doesn't mean that a person will definitely encounter a certain event at a specific time.
It means that within a certain period, a person is likely to encounter a certain type of event.
Even death is the same.
For example, if a person is fated to face a life - and - death crisis before the age of thirty, it doesn't mean that he will surely die before thirty.
The disaster can be overcome. As long as he gets through this crisis, he can live a long and peaceful life in the future.