A few meters behind Jiang Zongyan stood Lu Chen and several men dressed in immaculate suits and wearing gold-rimmed glasses—the very picture of elite business professionals.
They were watching the two of them with teasing smiles, each one barely holding back laughter.
Zhou Suisui froze.
Don’t tell her these people had been there the whole time and had witnessed everything?
At one meter ninety, Jiang Zongyan had broad shoulders and a narrow waist, looking as solid as a sturdy door.
Standing in front of him, Zhou Suisui’s view was completely blocked. She hadn’t noticed at all that there were so many people behind him.
The moment she recalled what she had just done—how deliberately she had teased and flirted with Jiang Zongyan—
Boom!
The sky came crashing down on Zhou Suisui.
Her cheeks burning, she put away her phone and fled.
“Brother Yan, I just remembered that my cat is about to have kittens. I’ll come play with you another time!”
“Suisui, isn’t your cat male? You’re leaving already? We’re throwing a welcome dinner for Brother Yan tonight. Come join us! Brother Lu will take you out to have some fun!”
Lu Chen was an incorrigible tease. He refused to let her off and shouted after her retreating figure.
“No, no, you guys have fun.”
Zhou Suisui was so flustered that she nearly tripped over her own feet.
“Suisui, are you embarrassed? Careful now—don’t fall!”
Lu Chen laughed so hard he doubled over, shaking with mirth.
Jiang Zongyan narrowed his eyes dangerously and shot him a warning look.
“…”
Lu Chen immediately wiped the oily grin off his face and gave an awkward laugh.
“Hehe, it’s been a while since I last saw the Zhou family’s little sister. She’s ridiculously cute now, isn’t she? No wonder Zhou Sui'an guards her so closely—he even sent people to follow his own sister.”
“Follow her?”
Jiang Zongyan looked puzzled.
Lu Chen raised an eyebrow and pointed across the street. “Over there.”
Jiang Zongyan followed his gaze. Behind the flower bed across the road, two dark figures were skulking around and watching them.
Judging by their builds, they were probably the twin brothers from the Zhou family, both international taekwondo champions.
The corners of his mouth twitched.
Did Zhou Sui'an treat his sister like a precious treasure, or like a dangerous criminal serving a life sentence?
Lu Chen said meaningfully, “She really has changed now that she’s grown up. The Zhou family’s little sister has become so beautiful—it’s practically a complete transformation! If she were my sister, I’d be watching out for the wolves outside too.”
He deliberately emphasized the word “wolves” and cast a sideways glance at Jiang Zongyan.
Jiang Zongyan’s eyes narrowed slightly, and the corner of his mouth curved into a roguish smile.
“You seem to know quite a lot about this. Want me to mention it to your grandfather and have him arrange a blind date for you?”
Lu Chen’s expression changed. He immediately surrendered. “No, no, no! I was wrong. I’ll shut up.”
Jiang Zongyan turned and walked away. Lu Chen shamelessly followed him.
“Be honest. You really don’t have any feelings for Suisui?”
“I only see her as a little sister.”
Jiang Zongyan opened the car door and got into the passenger seat of the Lamborghini.
Lu Chen was lazy by nature. He braced one hand on the window and vaulted into the driver’s seat.
“Really? If you’re not going after her, I will. Suisui is exactly my type.”
Jiang Zongyan turned to look at him, wearing a smile that didn’t reach his eyes.
“As long as you’re not afraid of Zhou Sui'an’s knives, go ahead.”
Lu Chen shuddered. “Terrifying. I invited him to tonight’s welcome dinner too. I’ll have him bring Suisui along.”
-
Before the campaign had even begun, it had already ended in defeat.
When Zhou Suisui got home, she collapsed onto the sofa and grabbed a cushion to cover her entire face.
How humiliating!
She had embarrassed herself beyond redemption!
Whenever she thought of the teasing looks on Lu Chen and the others’ faces, or remembered how she had acted coyly and drawn circles on Jiang Zongyan’s chest with her finger, she wanted nothing more than to crawl into a hole and hide.
How was she supposed to show her face in their social circle ever again?
“How did it go? Come on, tell me! Did my brother give you his WeChat?”
Jiang Ruitian had just returned from the Matchmaking Temple with Mrs. Jiang and had immediately come over to question Zhou Suisui.
The Jiang and Zhou families lived in the same villa compound, practically next door to each other. It took only five minutes to walk between their homes.
“For now, don’t mention your brother to me. Your brother is simply—simply awful!”
Zhou Suisui was furious, on the verge of tears.
He clearly knew that so many people were there, yet he hadn’t warned her at all. He had just stood there and watched her make a fool of herself!
“Huh? What did my brother do to make you so angry?”
Jiang Ruitian was a little worried.
What was wrong with her brother? Was he really planning to stay single for the rest of his life?
It was giving her a headache!
That afternoon, she had told her mother about the matter, and her mother had been absolutely delighted. She had finally managed to push her brother onto someone.
If Suisui returned him or changed her mind after only half a day, her mother would definitely think she had pulled off a scam.
“He watched me embarrass myself!”
Zhou Suisui clenched her fists, pouted, and indignantly recounted everything that had just happened.
Jiang Ruitian’s lips twitched. She wanted to laugh but was afraid of making her best friend feel worse.
“That doesn’t even count as a problem!”
“It’s nothing at all!”
“When it comes to the man we women want, we have to make our move with precision, speed, and decisiveness! He’s laughing at you now, but later he’ll be the one who can’t even hope to reach you—ugh, no, that came out wrong. Later, you’ll make him kneel before you and sing ‘I Surrender’!”
Just imagining her brother kneeling in front of Suisui made her burst out laughing.
“Even you’re laughing at me?!”
“Jiang Ruitian, you’re just as awful as your brother. Hmph!”
“Don’t, don’t be like that, my precious bestie. For the sake of splitting your allowance with me, I’ll give you one more piece of advice.”
“I’m not listening.”
Zhou Suisui covered her ears with both hands.
Jiang Ruitian threw herself onto her and forcibly pried her hands away.
“No man can resist a green tea girl. You have to learn how to play sweet and innocent.”
Zhou Suisui scoffed. “I can’t. I’d never do that, even if you beat me to death.”
Jiang Ruitian analyzed the situation with great seriousness. “If you don’t know how, you can learn. Do you still want to become my sister-in-law?”
No.
She refused to be psychologically manipulated.
“Look at Su Wan, that little white lotus. Isn’t she an expert at acting sweet and innocent? With that talent, she has Brother Sui'an wrapped around her little finger.”
The moment Zhou Sui'an was mentioned, Zhou Suisui instantly felt motivated again.
That was right. As long as her brother was doing well, what did this little setback matter?
“Lu Chen is holding a welcome dinner for my brother at Peninsula Club at six-thirty tonight. We’re going together.”
“I’m not going!”
Zhou Suisui had only just perked up before wilting again.
That shameless man Lu Chen had laughed the loudest of them all when he invited her earlier.
Jiang Zongyan hadn’t said anything, but who knew how much he had laughed at her inwardly?
She absolutely was not going.
Just then, her phone buzzed.
Zhou Suisui opened the message, and the next second, she leaped up from the sofa in outrage.
“What? Su Wan actually wants my brother to compensate her? Which direction does she face when she dreams at night? Tell me—I want to dream too!”
Zhou Suisui’s chest heaved as she immediately called Assistant Wen.
“My brother agreed?”
Assistant Wen was probably somewhere he couldn’t speak freely, because his voice was very low.
“Miss, Su Wan’s manager sent the breach-of-contract compensation agreement to CEO Zhou earlier this afternoon. But CEO Zhou was busy dealing with your matter at the time and didn’t respond. Just now, Su Wan called him in tears, and that’s when CEO Zhou realized it had all been a misunderstanding. He’s sent the agreement to the finance department and told them to handle it as they see fit.”
Zhou Suisui was so furious that her head throbbed with each surge of blood. Gritting her teeth, she said, “Has his brain been kicked by a donkey? He can actually put up with this! Does he think he’s some kind of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?!”
“Well…”
Wen Jing was momentarily speechless, struggling not to laugh.
Deep down, he silently gave the young miss a thumbs-up.
What a satisfying comeback!
She was practically saying exactly what he wanted to say.
Su Wan was utterly shameless.
She had actually used CEO Zhou’s confession as an opportunity to launch Tianyu’s products.
Who didn’t know that Tianyu had made its fortune by copying Zhou Corporation’s products? They made a living doing unethical things. The two companies had been locked in so many lawsuits that they could fill an entire stack of files.
The media had been watching the two companies closely from the start, ready to blow any little development out of proportion.
If CEO Zhou had gone there last night without knowing the truth, wouldn’t Tianyu have seized the opportunity to drag Zhou Corporation through the mud?!
And she still had the nerve to ask CEO Zhou to cover her compensation!
Dream on!
If she didn’t have a mirror, she could’ve squatted down and used her own urine to take a good look at herself. How dare she act so entitled?
