Lu Wanwan didn't even feel like she was caught red-handed, her face didn't even turn red, she coughed twice and asked, "Where is Xu Xingxing?"
Shen Yi pursed his lips and said, "I don't know."
Lu Wanwan looked at him in disbelief and asked again, "Didn't you say anything to her?"
Shen Yi shook his head, Xu Xingxing was an insignificant person to him, he didn't even remember what this cousin of hers looked like.
Although Lu Wanwan found it a bit strange, Shen Yi's reaction was still within her expectation.
After all, when she first started to pursue him, it took a lot of effort to gradually work her way into this man's heart.
At that time she had just finished reading the "The Rich Young Master's Gentle Love", the first time she transmigrated inside the book, she was quite familiar with the plot line which was still fresh in her mind. She had not yet started to pursue Shen Yi, and the cold and frosty boy didn't pay any attention to her, he usually didn't even gave her one glance.
Lu Wanwan knew that the male lead Shen Yi, every day after the end of classes, was bullied at school. Sometimes, it would stop after verbal humiliations, but more often than that, they would start to fight. The body under the school uniform was bruised all over, looking black and blue.
Lu Wanwan pretended to pass by by coincidence, she squatted in front of him, acting very naive, but Shen Yi did not even look at her and directly ordered her to scram.
Lu Wanwan boldly took him back to his apartment and without any trace of shyness, she directly stripped him off his school uniform.
Shen Yi, who was just beaten up, was sore all over and thus had little strength left to struggle away from her. Her actions made him so angry his face turned red.
The teenager's thin body was covered with scars, both new and old.
"Scram." He said through clenched teeth.
Lu Wanwan blinked innocently, "Schoolmate Shen, I'm just worried about you ah."
After applying medicine on Shen Yi, Lu Wanwan heard his stomach growl.The teenager's face turned red and the tips of his ears became flushed with pink.
Lu Wawan didn't say anything and just went into the kitchen to cook him a bowl of noodles.
In Lu Wanwan's eyes, Shen Yi, who was quiet and didn't like her very much in high school, had an "innocent and martyred man who wouldn't submit to death" kind of aura.
She had to show him goodwill many times before she was able to gradually melt Shen Yi's heart.
Lu Wanwan thought in her heart that the female lead Xu Xingxing hadn't had yet the opportunity to provide Shen Yi with warmth, and thus perhaps this was the reason why she hadn't yet made an impression on Shen Yi.
If everything went according to the plot line, she and Shen Yi would divorce, the Lu family would be going bankrupt, and the eldest miss Lu would end up destitute on the streets.
Thinking about it, she was quite miserable. What was even more miserable was that in the original story, on a rainy day, the eldest miss Lu, destitute, sick and about to starve to death, happened to see the female lead Xu Xingxing, dressed in expensive clothes, getting off the male lead's luxury car. She was like the moon surrounded by stars.
Xu Xingxing approached the original character. The once humble and timid illegitimate daughter was now shining so brightly that people didn't dare to look straight to her. She looked down at the woman sitting on her knees in a wretched state and let out a light laugh: "Cousin, what's the matter with you?"
The original character was so furious she passed out on the spot.
But no matter what, that was better than being locked up by Shen Yi for a lifetime.
The family's helper who was in charge of cooking had already prepared the New Year's eve dinner, and the family was now sitting around the table together.
The glasses on the table had all been filled with alcohol. Shen Yi's cell phone rang twice, but he refused the calls after just taking one look.
The grandfather Shen squeezed his phone, listening to the beeping sound, he was so furious he could die.
His face looked so somber the others didn't dare to breathe out loud.
Shen Yi's father didn't hold back and cursed, "That treacherous son!"
The grandfather Shen glared at him viciously, "Shut your mouth, isn't this all because of what you did ?!"
If he hadn't cheated and brought home his mistress so openly, Shen Yi's mother wouldn't have taken the child away, and later would not have left Shen Yi alone, leaving him to suffer so much outside.
In fact, Shen Yi's mother was also a respectable young lady from a prestigious family. She and Shen Yi's father had truly loved each other at one point and thus she absolutely couldn't bear his betrayal.
The gaze the old man used to glare at Shen Yi's father made him not dare say anything else.
Shen Shi smiled, gentle and polite, "Grandpa, I think my brother is eating at the Lu family's, calling him again won't be of any use."
The grandfather Shen rearranged his facial expression and said in a cold voice, "Let's eat."
*
As the saying goes, if you don't like someone, even if they didn't do anything, you still cannot help but dislike them.
Lu Wanwan's mother right now was feeling this way about Shen Yi. She felt that he had no good point.
She snorted and said with great dissatisfaction, "Doesn't he know he should turn off his phone when having a meal ?"
Shen Yi didn't say anything and just directly turned off his phone.
When a family was sitting together, drinking was inevitable. If it was before, Lu Wanwan's father definitely would have required Shen Yi to have one drink or two with him, but now he didn't even dare to fill his son-in-law's glass.
That was the second young master of the Shen family in front of him ah. That was the Shen family, well-known in the capital, that was able to crush their family with a single move.
It was better to be cautious when dealing with him, he couldn't offend him again.
Lu Wanwan's father felt that Shen Yi didn't seem to hold any affection for his daughter. When the two got married daughter back then, Lu Wanwan's father almost thought that his daughter had used money to coerce an innocent young man.
In the past, Lu Wanwan's father thought that it was a good thing if the two held no feelings for each other. In the future, when his daughter no longer liked Shen Yi, she could always go out and find a more docile man.
With money, she could find a man with two legs anywhere.
Lu Wanwan took the initiative to fill Shen Yi's glass with alcohol and smiled at him, "Quickly give a toast to my father ah."
Shen Yi was a poor drinker, and Lu Wanwan was very clear about it.
The man, however, didn't refuse and picked up his glass, spitting out stiffly the words, "Dad, I offer you a toast."
Lu Wanwan's father waved his hand repeatedly, "Don't, don't, don't, you're being too polite."
Lu Wanwan was smiling so much her smile became stiff, if she didn't get Shen Yi drunk today, she wasn't named Lu!
"Dad, that's what he ought to do, you're not angry with him, are you?"
As she said so, she pushed the glass of wine in front of her over and said with a smile, "Let him give you two toasts, so you won't be angry anymore."
When Lu Wanwan's father heard her words, his head hurt. He made a quick decision and said directly: "I quit drinking!"
"When did that happen?!"
"Just now."
"......"
Shen Yi didn't drink even a drop of alcohol, on the contrary, Lu Wanwan, feeling depressed, drank two cups which burned her throat as it went down her stomach. Her whole brain felt dizzy, and even her thoughts also slowed down a lot.
Lu Zhouzhi had the same kind of moral conduct as his sister. Though he couldn't hold his liquor, he absolutely had to drink, and now he was like an octopus hugging Lu Wanwan, wailing: "My poor sister wu wu wu, you've endured so much hardships wu wu wu, you've suffered so many wrongs wu wu wu."
As he said so, Lu Zhouzhi's tears were about to flow, when suddenly, his eyes opened wide in a glare and, looking straight at his sister, he said in a serious manner: "Sister, you better divorce Shen Yi, just one look at him and I can tell he's not a good thing."
Lu Wanwan froze and her brain whirled for a while before she understood his words.
Lu Zhouzhi waited, with wide-open eyes, for her reply.
"Burp, I feel like throwing up."
"......"
"Sister!!! You better keep a dashing male star around as a lover!"
Shen Yi reached his hand and yanked Lu Zhouzhi's wrist, his eyes frosty as he pulled, with force, the person away from Lu Wanwan. He then carried her in his arms in a full embrace.
Just as they walked into the bedroom, Lu Wanwan ran to the bathroom and held on to the toilet as she vomited. Only then did she gradually sober up from the alcohol.
She accidentally bumped into the shower head and, as hot water spilled out, her hair became drenched while her pair of eyes appeared wet.
Shen Yi silently dried her hair with a towel and changed her clothes as well.
*
The next day, when Lu Wanwan woke up, she didn't feel unwell anymore.
Shen Yi was nowhere to be seen, and she also didn't ask about his whereabouts.
When she went downstairs, Lu Wanwan's mother asked her to take the family dog out for a walk. Lu Wanwan, without even changing her clothes, directly took the dog out on a leash.
Unfortunately, after walking around for only a short while, Lu Wanwan ran into her second aunt.
The two families lived in the same neighborhood and running into each other was inevitable.
The woman in front of her looked less than forty years old and appeared very well preserved. Her face was harsh and she had red phoenix-like eyes, the corners of her eyes were lifted up towards her eyebrows.
(TL's note : red phoenix eyes are eyes whose outer corners incline upwards)
She laughed, "Wanwan, how come you look like this now? You look like an old woman who's past thirty years of age."
"But it can't be helped, after all you didn't listen to my advice and you absolutely had to get married to a poor boy. Now that you're living your days like this, you can't blame others. I'm a little sad for you though. "
"Are you still living in that little shabby apartment in the middle of the city? The other day, my daughter's husband bought another villa, if you really can't go on living there, you and your husband can move and go live in that villa."
Lu Wanwan almost rolled her eyes on the spot, but she held her temper and made a sinister smile: "Oh."
Back then, her aunt had introduced her to an old man who was over fifty years old, had already been married once and already had two children, his family had opened a coal mining factory and thus earned a little bit of money.
Her aunt glanced at her sideways, "Women ah, even if they look beautiful, their expectations cannot be too high, without money, everything is useless, it's not that I don't care for you, it's exactly because I care for you that I'm telling you these words. "
"Oh." She coldly grimaced.
"You ah, you don't listen to my words, but actually you were born to lead a poor life, you can't afford to drive a Mercedes and you can't live in a villa. In the future, your family's money will be your brother's, you won't be getting your share of it."
"Oh."
She didn't even want to bother paying attention to this so-called aunt.
Lu Wanwan was planning to walk away when the phone in her pocket rang. Lin Xu was the one who called.
(TL's note : as a reminder, Lin Xu is her old schoolmate, who the original miss Lu had an affair with, he last appeared on chapter 23)
She took a deep breath, "Lin Xu, is something the matter ?"
"Wanwan, I do have a matter I would like you to help me with."
"Tell me."
"Wanwan, how much do you know about Shen Yi's company?"
The plot of the story hadn't collapsed at all, it had always been moving forward according to the original novel.
Lu Wanwan didn't really intend to help Lin Xu steal intelligence. She just needed to pretend not to know anything and Shen Yi's current company would soon meet bankruptcy.
Lu Wanwan was really afraid of Shen Yi, she betrayed him once in the past in those years during which she was locked up. She used to fight with him and that time, she stole the documents in his office, seduced the bodyguard in order to steal his phone, and then called the police to report Shen Yi.
Of course, in the end, Shen Yi returned without any damage.
That was a very dark room, with no windows, completely impervious to light. Shen Yi knew that Lu Wanwan was afraid of the dark and he left her inside that room for three whole days.
Her eyes were filled with tears and she cried without any form.
On the third day, when the door of the room was opened, Lu Wanwan was curled up in the corner, shivering all over, stuttering and crying, "Wu wu wu I really won't dare to do that anymore wu wu wu."
If she betrayed Shen Yi, she was afraid that he would really leave her half dead.