Chapter 21

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Shu Yian originally thought that Su Wen would hate her for saying she likes Yan Ruxue now. But now, she realized that Su Wen was just afraid that her “thoughtless” pursuit of Yan Ruxue would make their relationship seem suspicious to others!

This person….really has no heart at all.

Who knows which poor soul will end up with her in the future.

Shu Yian pursed her lips, but eventually returned back to her writing. She turned on her computer, but she didn’t dare to read the comments. Although she says she doesn’t care, if there really is someone who criticizes her a little too much, even her mood will inevitably be affected.

Therefore, she decided to edit the third chapter instead.

The relationship between the two leads must not be rushed, so there must be a stumbling block in the middle to help them along. Since the childhood friend was already used and introduced in Chapter 2 to bring the two leads together, there was a need for another character.

Shu Yian thought about it for a while before she decided to use herself as the framework for the new character. Su Wen would have a fiancee and her name would be Shu Ya.

Shu Ya and Su Wen’s grandmothers are best friends with each other and both unilaterally decided to create an engagement between their two granddaughters who have never met each other.

Shu Ya has been living abroad with her mother ever since she was little and only returned to China for college to study design. On the other hand, Su Wen has been living her entire life in China and only went abroad for college as well. Thus, the two of them coincidentally missed each other by just a little twist in fate.

It wasn’t until Shu Ya’s coming-of–age birthday party that the two announced their engagement, but after the announcement, it didn’t take long for Su Wen to fall in love with someone else.

It stands to reason that in this kind of novel, Shu Ya must be the villainess who obstructs the main couple’s love. However, since she has added her own traits to this villainess, Shu Yian didn’t write her as someone so evil.

Instead, she created a villainess who is gentle and knowledgeable, understanding and warm. The key point is that this villainess isn’t an idiot in love, but someone smart enough with common sense.

And because this villainess is so nice, Su Wen is unable to muster up the shamelessness to break off the engagement.

Shu Yian stretched tiredly. Her typing speed is a little slow, so it took her until noon to finish the chapter. She turned off her laptop and rubbed her sore eyes.

Right now, only her and Su Wen were in the office. With nothing else to do, Shu Yian’s eyes inevitably wandered over to Su Wen.

Now that she thinks about it, although she knew how unreliable this person was, Su Wen is undoubtedly very reasonable and responsible when it comes to work.

She has good looks too, so when she acts seriously, once could see why she was considered so charming. Young girls tend to fall in love easily, and if Shu Yian didn’t have mind-reading skills she would feel the same. Even she would feel her heart skip a beat if she saw someone like this in her old life.

Oh, that’s not correct, knowing her, she would probably fall in love at first sight!

Ah, but what a pity it was that she could read minds. Now she can no longer look at Su Wen with normal eyes.

In her eyes, she is simply a fool.

After finishing her work, Su Wen raised her head and noticed Shu Yian staring at her.

【Why is this person staring at me in a daze again?】

She really can’t figure out what Shu Yian is thinking. One moment the woman seems to love her, and then in the next moment she hates her. She has lived for over 20 years, but she has never seen such a fickle person. Even now she couldn’t figure out why Shu Yian was staring at her.

Shu Yian didn’t feel like wasting her breath, and instead grabbed a notebook and wrote a word in large letters on it before showing it to Su Wen.

Ugly!

【Asshole! How dare you call me ugly?!】

Su Wen can say with no exaggeration that the number of men and women who have chased after her before can fill the entire street. All of them were tempted by this beauty of hers! Wasn’t Shu Yian tempted by this beauty as well? Now that she has looked long enough has she gotten tired of her beauty? Does she think she’s ugly now?

Su Wen was immediately angry, but getting into a catfight with others was not her style. Instead, she wrote a couple of words on her paper and showed it to Shu Yian.

Right back at you!

Shu Yian read the words and then wrote a few more words: No you!

Zhou Yu, who had just opened the door to say something to Su Wen, walked into this bizarre scene. She looked at the words on their papers and couldn’t help but sigh.

【How immature, even children don’t argue like this.】

【Could it be they’re bringing the dynamics of their sex life into their normal lives?】

【One of them presses the other down first, but then is flipped around and the positions are reversed. Then it keeps going back and forth so much that it has spilled over into real life.】

Shu Yian heard Zhou Yu’s inner voice.

“…..”

Didn’t this person clearly promise her that she would no longer think of these things in the future? Why is it happening again?

Did she really think she would be safe as long as she doesn’t say it out loud?

Shu Yian glared at Zhou Yu, but this girl didn’t understand her gaze at all as there was not a hint of fear in her eyes as she stared back.

Fine, you win!

Shu Yian failed to do anything in the end, she really couldn’t do anything about this girl’s mind.

After roughly 10 seconds of awkward silence, Su Wen nonchalantly placed the paper with the ugly words on it underneath her other documents and then asked in a somber tone, as if nothing had happened, “What do you need?”

Zhou Yu shook herself out of her stupor and hurriedly bowed as she apologized, “My apologies, President Su, but someone from the Guangyu Corporation has called and said that Mr. Wen wants to invite you to the Enoterra bar to negotiate business contracts tonight. I was going to transfer the call to you and let them ask you for the answer themselves, but since I already had the documents prepared in hand, I thought I would give the documents to you first before asking you directly…”

She had a lot of things on her mind and since the party on the other line was impatient waiting for a reply, she had forgotten to knock on the door in her hurry. Although Su Wen didn’t say anything about it, it was still her fault and so Zhou Yu apologize before she could get in trouble.

“Tell them to set the time and I’ll meet them there.”

Su Wen’s company mainly works in retail business, dealing with items in jewelry, clothing, and sometimes real estate. Meanwhile, the Guangyu Corporation focuses on internet businesses. Su Wen had recently planned on expanding their business to the internet, so this discussion was rather important.

After Secretary Zhou left, only Shu Yian and Su Wen were left in the office.

“We’ll go tougher tonight.”

In this empty office, it was clear that these words were meant for Shu Yian.”

“I refuse!” Shu Yian has never been a fan of business dinners, not to mention she refuses to work overtime for free and waste her time by accompanying Su Wen.

This request was impossible for her. All that wasted time could be used to finish her novel instead!

Su Wen’s gaze dropped to her work documents, seemingly unfazed at all as she said lightly, “Alright, then you also do not need to come to work tomorrow.”

Tch, this tasteless person. She only knows how to threaten others.

Shu Yian gave her a look of deep contempt and took out her own blackmail she had used in the beginning, “If you stop me from coming to work, then I’ll post marriage requests* for you online!” (*T/N: The actual term is 相亲 which is similar to the Japanese “omiai” where a matchmaker arranges a meeting between two people. Kinda like a blind date with intentions of marrying.)

“No matter. For every post you make, I’ll not only take it down, but I’ll also post a marriage request for you!”

【Come, let’s engage in mutual destruction!】

【You think I’m afraid of you?】

【Money can even make ghosts go to heaven! I have all the money in the world to get people to take down those posts, but do you?】

“Fine, I’ll go!” Shu Yian begrudgingly agreed. She secretly spat in her heart, you better hope you don’t fall into my hands! Or else I’ll let you taste a fate worse than death!

The business dinner was set for eight in the evening. When Su Wen and Shu Yian arrived at the private room arranged for the meeting, there were already people inside.

Businesspeople often negotiated over dinner and drinks. Sometimes they would even hire a few women to come and add onto the fun. So Shu Yian wasn’t fazed by the girls wearing heavy makeup inside the room.

Su Wen quickly wrapped an arm around Shu Yian’s waist and smiled outwardly as she introduced her, “This is President Wen*.” (*T/N: This “wen” is different from Su “wen”. The man’s wen means “language/culture” while President Su’s “wen” means “kiss”.)

“Nice to meet you, President Wen.” Although she had no idea who this man was, Shu Yian gave her greetings for Su Wen’s sake.

The person called President Wen is a middle-aged uncle with a beer belly, a bald head, and an average appearance. He also gave off an unpleasant and uncomfortable feeling whenever he glanced at Shu Yian.

Everyone there was part of the same social circles, and have all met each other in some banquet or another. Soon enough, the man recognized Shu Yian, “This must be President Su’s fiancee! Miss Shu, right? You two really are a match made in heaven.”

Although his words sounded sincere on the surface, it wasn’t so in his heart.

【I was told that these two are not on good terms with each other, but it seems they are as thick as thieves? Tch, this really throws a wrench in my plans!】

Shu Yian sat quietly to the side as she listened to his inner voice. Loud music played in the room, but luckily she was close enough to be able to hear the minds of the girl next to her along with President Wen.

The girl kept glancing at President Wen and winking at him.

【We agreed to drug Su Wen and then seduce and sleep with her, but now that she has brought her fiancee, what should we do?】

Shu Yian pursed her lips.

Drugs?

If she knew this would happen she would have never agreed to come. Let Su Wen deal with her own mess, but is it too late for her to leave?

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