The snack street.
Yu He didn't know that a small lie she told Qin Beiting almost changed Lu Chenyu's life upside down.
She and Chu Ying came out of a milk tea shop and went to a barbecue restaurant. As she temporarily went to the public restroom, a commotion suddenly broke out at a street corner.
"Whose old lady is this? She fell down."
"Isn't this a scam? I saw news before about old people specifically targeting schools to extort money. Students are easy to fool."
"If you don't have tens of millions of cash flow at home, I advise you not to help."
"Rich students walk away, and poor students had better not meddle."
A group of students surrounded an old grandmother with white hair lying on the ground, pointing fingers and taking videos.
The old grandmother was wearing tattered clothes, like an old beggar. A kind student wanted to help her up but was stopped by a boy next to him.
"Get out of the way!"
A cold voice came from behind the crowd.
Everyone turned around and saw Yu He standing coldly at the back of the crowd.
"School beauty, this kind of old lady is here to extort money. Don't be fooled. If you help her, she'll hold you accountable," a boy recognized Yu He and advised.
Yu He ignored him and walked to the old grandmother. The old lady's white hair reminded her of her grandmother in the countryside, so she instinctively came to take a look.
"School beauty..."
"Shut up, if you're not helping, don't make noise!"
The boy who had just advised her tried to persuade her again, but Yu He retorted coldly.
"Grandma, can your leg move?" Yu He squatted down, helped the old lady's arm, and made her sit on the ground. Then, her delicate fingers fell on her knee and pressed a few acupoints.
"Oh..." The old grandmother immediately let out a groan of discomfort.
"Madam, Madam! Who are you, and what have you done to our old madam?!"
At this moment, a woman in her fifties, followed by two bodyguards, pushed through the crowd and rushed over, pointing at Yu He and scolding her.
Seeing this scene, the onlookers gasped.
As expected, the old grandmother was here to extort money. As soon as someone helped her, her accomplice immediately showed up, pretending to be angry and demanding compensation.
The onlookers looked at Yu He with pity and a "wait and see" attitude. The boy who had just advised Yu He, wanting to see more drama, whispered to others, "See? I told her not to help, and now she's suffering the consequences..."
But in the next second, the onlookers were dumbfounded.
As the fifty-year-old woman cursed and ordered the bodyguards to apprehend Yu He, Yu He showed no panic on her face. She calmly took the old grandmother's pulse.
The two bodyguards approached Yu He menacingly and were about to make a move when suddenly a burly man in a black tracksuit and a mask leaped out from the crowd and blocked them.
He was agile and took down the two bodyguards in a few moves!
Then he disappeared into the crowd again. His speed was so fast that it made people doubt if they had hallucinated, but the two bodyguards rolling on the ground confirmed that he had been there.
The onlookers applauded enthusiastically.
Yu He looked up in the direction the man in black had left. She didn't recognize him, but his build seemed familiar, though she couldn't recall where she had seen him before.
Moreover, the man in black's actions didn't seem like someone who was simply stepping in to help the distressed. It was more like he had been secretly protecting her all along.
She suddenly thought of Qin Beiting.
Ever since she was kidnapped, Qin Beiting had either followed her himself or had Chen Dong follow her.
"You! You!" The woman was furious and was about to call for reinforcements when the old grandmother stopped her.
"Chunhua, don't be nervous. This young lady is not a bad person. I fell myself, and she saved me. My leg doesn't hurt as much now."
The old grandmother was no longer groaning. After Yu He pressed a few acupoints, her leg clearly hurt less. With Yu He's support, she could stand up.
The woman called Chunhua immediately went to help her and, after verifying the old grandmother's words, quickly apologized to Yu He, "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. Thank you for saving our old madam."
Then, she noticed the old grandmother's tattered clothes. "Madam, why are you wearing this? If the master and madam find out you ran out secretly, they'll be angry again."
The old grandmother waved her hand dismissively and chuckled, holding Yu He's hand.
"Young lady, thank you for saving me. Your name is Yu He, right? I can't repay your life-saving kindness. Our Lu family has two decent-looking grandsons. How about you pick one? Let him marry you as repayment."
Yu He: "..."
Hearing this, the onlookers were shocked. The Lu family!
Was it the Lu family they were thinking of?
She was Old Madam Lu?!
"Grandma, why are you here?"
Lu Chenyu, who had returned, spotted Yu He in the crowd from afar. When he came closer, he didn't expect his grandmother to be here too!
Onlookers: !!!
They didn't recognize Old Madam Lu, but they mostly knew the academic prodigy Lu Chenyu.
This old grandmother was indeed Old Madam Lu!
So, this wasn't a scam at all, but a test of humanity by the rich pretending to be poor?
The onlookers scattered instantly, afraid of being remembered.
Old Madam Lu, however, didn't care. Seeing Lu Chenyu arrive, she immediately called him to Yu He and introduced him, "This is my grandson. You've met before. See how you like him."
Lu Chenyu: ???
Yu He: "…………"
It's the 21st century, why do so many people still want to marry for repayment at the drop of a hat?!
However, she didn't expect such a coincidence to meet Old Madam Lu here.
She hadn't seen Old Madam Lu last time she went to the Lu family and was planning to ask Lu Enhua about Old Madam Lu's condition in the next few days. Now it seemed that Qi Yuanyuan's medical skills were not that good.
From Old Madam Lu's pulse, her rheumatoid arthritis had not improved. Moreover, Qi Yuanyuan had given her hormone medication, which seemed to suppress the pain temporarily but actually left behind great hidden dangers.
"You're too kind, I don't want him. If you insist on being polite, you can give me money," Yu He said.
"You saved me just for money?" Old Madam Lu asked with disappointment.
Last night, her younger daughter-in-law attended the Ye family's annual meeting and told her about Ye family's daughter, Yu He, saying that she was good-looking, excellent in studies and personality, and most importantly, Lu Chenyu liked her very much. She wanted to ask for her opinion.
Old Madam Lu had long hoped to hold a great-grandchild before she died. But her elder grandson was always in the army, mixed with the seventh young master of the Qin family, making her suspect if he liked men and didn't look for women.
So when she heard that her younger grandson was so capable, she couldn't help but want to see what Yu He, the one her younger daughter-in-law talked about, looked like. Coincidentally, someone found out that Yu He was on this pedestrian street.
So she dressed up and wanted to quietly test the waters, but her rheumatoid arthritis flared up, and she fell.