Marrying the big shot (translated novel)

5: Dispute

When Qu Fei was waiting for someone to initiate a chat with him, Xue Zimu was a bit stunt. He truly didn't know why things were deviating from the experiences of his past life. Moreover, it seemed he had inexplicably become the target of a multitude of arrows?

Looking at the fake smile on Qu Fei and surrounding enmity, Xue Zimu wrinkled his eyebrows faintly. Except for the Xue Family, he didn't want to have conflicts with any other.

Xue Zimu's nature was to excel, this trait was completely inherited from his mother, Shu Qing. Shu Qing had originally brought Xue Zimu to the unfamiliar W City to live. Since she was a single mother, it was obvious that she faced many hardships but she firmly didn't marry again, no matter how good her appearance was and the endless pursuers.

Because of Xue Li's affair, Shu Qing lost confidence in marriage and gave all her energy to Xue Zimu. Besides, she firmly believed she could give Xue Zimu a good environment for growing up, just like anyone else. She practically neglected sleep and forget about food to work, whilst never neglecting Xue Zimu's education and care.

As proof, she indeed achieved her promise but pressured herself too greatly. When Xue Zimu was sixteen because of working overtime for too long, she worked herself to death.

A large part of Xue Zimu's temperament followed her temper, thus in the past even when he found Xue Li was deceiving him when he considered him a close relative, he only drew a clear line between him and the Xue Family.

However, he never thought he would reach heaven in a single bound and become a rich second-generation. When Xue Li's hidden intentions were revealed in the end, he also didn't want compromise the Xue Family by bringing a high position and great wealth, rather bore a large debt to avoid being Xue Li's tool to cling to the powerful and rich. He suffered and was beaten, yet at the court hearing persist on his innocence, even if that has no usefulness whatsoever.

In his past life, the result of his rebellion to the Xue Family could be said as a crushing defeat. But Xue Zimu would not use this to change his strong-minded nature, he could only be more rational and think of a roundabout route. Starting by finding a more suitable way of feigning civility and disguising as a pig to eat a tiger.

After rebirth, his greatest task was to retaliate against the Xue Family, of course, this could only be done after he could defend himself. For the sake of tackling the Xue Family, he must carefully antagonise them and he could ignore a few superficial ridicules.

So when the Qu Family began to lash out in all directions to greet Xue Zimu, he didn't take it to heart. Instead, because of recalling Qu Fei's rumours from his past life, he felt a little subtle.

"Mrs Xue, have these days been good?" Mrs Qu initiative took Qu Fei here, glancing at Xue Zimu, and saw Yao Yue's fake smile, "Didn't expect you to come, why didn't you go and greet Mrs Qi just then, making me not notice you were even here."

Yao Yue's smile strained.

The Qu Family was different from the other families that came to this banquet. Most of them like Yao Yue, came with the idea of trying it out, whereas the Qu Family already showed their determination to win this marriage. The Qu Family had recently moved from another province to Jing City for development and urgently needed to ally with local influences to gain a firm foot. Regardless of how it looked, the Qi Family was the best choice. Also, since they had recently moved, the rumours regarding Qi Yan weren't deeply understood. As an artist, Qu Fei could lean on this large Qi Family tree without any harm. So no matter, as long as Qu Fei became the marriage partner, the entire Qu Family could expect great things from the Qi Family.