Chapter 98 Could it be that I came here because...

Gong Lu gave a low chuckle before speaking, his tone carrying a trace of emotion. “Your ancestor? Your clan usually keeps that one on a pedestal. Now that they’re alive and kicking, how could they possibly be easy to care for?”

As expected.

Ye Luo pressed her lips together but said nothing.

“Besides,” Gong Lu went on, “at first I didn’t say that because of this. I said it because he was the school tyrant and always stirring up trouble.”

Ye Luo had already guessed that he might have said it because her ancestor was a school bully, so she was not surprised when Gong Lu admitted it.

Still, she could not help asking, “Then do you know what kind of background my ancestor has? You didn’t stand up for your sister and deal with him because he has a family background that even you’re wary of, right?”

“You’re so capable. What kind of background he has, you’ll find out sooner or later.”

In other words, he wasn’t going to say.

Ye Luo only looked at him.

“As for not dealing with him...” Gong Lu let out another soft laugh before continuing, “the ancestor of the person I like—I never once planned to lay a hand on him.”

Whether those words were true or false, Ye Luo felt nothing.

In the era three hundred years later, many people had told her they liked her. Whether sincere or not, she had heard it so often that she had grown somewhat numb.

But the people who had said they liked her back then all treated her with reverence, not daring to say a single word that might upset her.

This man, however, was different. He was openly, arrogantly, and forcefully declaring ownership over her, and that disgusted her immensely.

If she were to say she felt anything at all, it would be aversion.

But how had she ended up meeting a man like this?

With that thought, Ye Luo remembered that her consciousness had entered He Luo’s body, and because He Luo had been under Gong Lu’s care, she had ended up meeting him.

And Gong Lu knew everything about her...

At that realization, Ye Luo’s mind shook violently. She turned abruptly to look at Gong Lu again, disbelief flashing across her face. “Could it be that I came here because of...”

She stopped mid-sentence.

Gong Lu, puzzled, asked, “Because of what?”

Ye Luo immediately replied coolly, “Nothing.”

Her tone was flat, and her expression gave nothing away, but her thoughts had become complicated.

She was wondering whether her arrival here was not necessarily because of her ancestor and ancestress, but quite possibly because of the man before her...

Otherwise, why had she entered no one else’s body and instead found herself in the body of the girl he had been looking after, while he also knew her so well?

But whatever the reason, she was now in the same era as her ancestor, and she could not simply ignore him.

Seeing her like that, Gong Lu could tell that she clearly had something on her mind, even if she refused to say it.

He teased, “You’re not suspecting that I was the one who brought you here, are you?”

Before she could answer, he went on, still in a joking tone, “If I had that kind of ability, I would have had you come here long ago. Still, your arrival here really is strange. I had originally thought I would never see you again in this lifetime.”

Ye Luo instantly seized on the key point. “You’ve seen me before?”

Gong Lu only smiled and said nothing.

Yet Ye Luo was certain now that he had indeed seen her before. Last time, he had also said that he knew where she was and what she looked like, only that he had no way to go find her.

Even knowing he would not answer, she still asked, “Have you been to my era before?”

Gong Lu remained silent, smiling faintly.

Ye Luo took that as a tacit admission. She opened her mouth, intending to say something else, but then Gong Lu’s phone rang.

He glanced at it, then picked it up and answered, “Mom, what is it?”

A woman’s voice, older in age, came through the line. “I’ve already spoken with Qianqian’s parents. Once Qianqian’s ligament heals, you two will get engaged.”