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At this moment, hearing Jian Anning mention Cheng Tingting and the Cheng family, he felt a bit puzzled.

But immediately, he recalled, "Could it be that the Cheng family treated you badly? How have you been these past three years? Why did you come here?"

The more he thought about it, the more he was convinced that it must have been the Cheng family who had wronged her!

Indeed, he had gradually come to understand what Cheng Tingting’s so-called "good sister" really meant! Jian Anning indeed was her flesh and blood sister, but they had different fathers! Anning’s parents had divorced when she was young, and after her father and his family died in a car accident, she had no choice but to be taken in by her stepfather’s family.

Moreover, she was already sixteen when she was taken into her stepfather’s home.

At sixteen, one’s basic worldview is essentially formed.

Moreover, she had grown distant from her biological mother over the years.

In her stepfather’s family, there were children aside from her and Cheng Tingting.

With such a complicated family background, it was already tough for her to adapt, let alone dealing with someone like Cheng Tingting, who was scheming to strip her of everything she had?

It was just like at the beginning for him, when Cheng Tingting took him to the Cheng family’s banquet, almost everyone there, including their mother, instantly assumed he was Cheng Tingting’s boyfriend.

He tried to explain later, but the unanimous view of the others was: since you’ve already "chosen" Tingting, you could only let down Jian Anning.

So, was it also because of Cheng Tingting’s plundering and the Cheng family’s bias that she had to leave and come here?

Or perhaps, was it because of some other issue that had caused a conflict with the Cheng family, so she had to travel far across the ocean?

Regardless of the reason, it was definitely the Cheng family who had wronged her!

"Did Cheng Tingting do something?" Lu Jiayuan asked, "Or did your stepdad and your mom mistreat you? Tell me, I’ll help you figure out a solution!"

Jian Anning snorted in disdain. She remembered how she used to be irritated by Cheng Tingting’s display of "sisterly affection" in his presence, her sarcastic remarks. Now, was it her turn for the wheel of fortune to turn?

She just laughed, "The affairs of my family are not your concern. If you truly want to help me, then agree to one thing for me."

Lu Jiayuan’s eyes lit up, "Just say it! Not just one thing, a hundred things, a thousand things, I agree!"

Jian Anning said, "Please do me the favor of not telling the Cheng family about me being here, especially Cheng Tingting. I don’t want to see them for the time being."

Lu Jiayuan nodded, "I promise you."

In fact, he had long lost any contact with the Cheng family. His earlier fury and the urge to confront the Cheng family were just an impulsive reaction.

And Jian Anning, she just needed his assurance—perhaps he would think that Anning might have suffered some kind of injustice and didn’t want to return to the Cheng family, which is why she had come here, right?

"But with your qualifications, how could you end up as an assistant to a celebrity?" Lu Jiayuan agreed, but then he couldn’t help but feel utterly baffled by Anning becoming Yu Zexiao’s assistant.

In his opinion, Jian Anning was smart and had studied management.

Even if she left the Cheng family, she didn’t need to come to Huaxia Country to be Yu Zexiao’s assistant!

Especially since it wasn’t the first time he had seen Yu Zexiao’s attitude towards her—it was definitely not what one would call "friendly"!