Peiping Hotel, twenty-first floor, presidential suite.
Besides the living room, the suite had two separate bedrooms.
Bai Liuyue took one.
Jiang Yunshen and Xie Chengxiao shared the other.
However, one slept on the bed, and the other on the sofa.
Xie Chengxiao was somewhat dissatisfied and disgusted by this arrangement.
"The room smells."
"I don't want to sleep on the sofa in here."
The implication was that Jiang Yunshen had a weird smell.
Hearing this, Jiang Yunshen raised his sharp eyebrows, even more displeased.
"Xie Chengxiao! Letting you stay here is already doing you a huge favor. What, now you want to steal my bed too?"
Of course, he muttered the next sentence in his heart without saying it aloud: You even want to steal my fiancée.
Bai Liuyue waved her hand at the two men and said,
"Stop arguing. The people from the police department have been keeping an eye outside these past two days."
"If Xie Chengxiao's whereabouts are exposed, we'll be in big trouble."
"How about... letting him sleep on the sofa in my room? It's more spacious than the one here."
Jiang Yunshen immediately shook his head. "No way!"
A trace of temptation flashed in Xie Chengxiao's eyes.
But he kept a straight face and said solemnly, "Your fiancé is here. It's inappropriate for me to sleep in your room."
Jiang Yunshen glared at him.
"Xie Chengxiao, why are you pretending to be so innocent? You're secretly thrilled, aren't you?"
"Don't talk nonsense. I'm not that kind of person. Liuyue knows best, right?" After speaking, he glanced at Bai Liuyue with his long, narrow phoenix eyes.
Jiang Yunshen sneered.
He muttered,
"It's a good thing I'm not your real fiancé. If I were, I'd shoot you dead, you seductive fox!"
Through their three-party talks, Xie Chengxiao had learned that Jiang Yunshen was merely an 'ally fiancé'.
It was just a temporary relationship.
Only then did he let go of the grudge in his heart, and his arrogance flared up again.
Xie Chengxiao pointed at himself and said, "Are you praising me? Thanks."
Jiang Yunshen choked with anger.
Why hadn't he noticed how shameless Xie Chengxiao was before?
Always wearing a cold face every day, making those who didn't know better think he was some god of death or King of Hell?
In reality, he was just a pure, two-faced manipulator playing the innocent victim.
In the end.
Jiang Yunshen gave up the bed to Xie Chengxiao and went to sleep on the sofa himself.
Bai Liuyue looked at him somewhat apologetically and said,
"Yunshen, I'm really sorry to wrong you like this. Once the heat dies down in a couple of days and new information comes from Jinzhong, Xie Chengxiao can take the opportunity to leave."
"It's nothing. For the sake of our plan, suffering a little grievance is nothing," Jiang Yunshen lowered his eyes.
He thought to himself: Isn't it just playing pitiful? As if I don't know how to do that.
The three of them coexisted in this bizarre yet harmonious way for two days.
They didn't leave the hotel; all their meals were delivered to the door via room service.
The police department searched everywhere these past few days but unfortunately found no trace, while President Jiang, lying in a hospital bed, underwent emergency resuscitation twice more.
He kept calling out for his son, his son.
Unfortunately, his highly regarded eldest son had long fled to Jinzhong, preparing to rally the forces of the Fengtian clique's Marshal Zhang to completely seize power.
As for his youngest son, he was holed up in the Peiping Hotel, guarding his fiancée and refusing to go out.
There was an atmosphere of an impending storm.
Two days later.
The latest news arrived.
Jiang Yushen, the eldest son of the Presidential Palace, was shot and killed by Marshal Zhang's men on his way to Jinzhong.
Seeing the situation go south, the troops accompanying the eldest son split up: some fled back to Peiping to report the news, while others secretly waited for an opportunity and killed Marshal Zhang's wife, Bai Baozhu, to vent their anger.
The second son, Jiang Yunshen, took advantage of President Jiang falling into another coma to assemble the army and march into the Northeast, completely conquering the Fengtian clique's territory.
"Bai Baozhu just died like that?" Xie Chengxiao still felt a sense of unreality.
Jiang Yunshen glanced at Bai Liuyue's expression and fanned the flames, saying,
"Oh, right! I almost forgot, she was your former wife. Are you feeling heartbroken?"
Xie Chengxiao was merely expressing his feelings, but hearing this guy say that,
he subconsciously looked at Bai Liuyue.
Seeing her faint expression, unable to tell whether she was happy or sad,
he hurriedly explained,
"I was just sighing over the brevity of life, nothing else. From the very beginning to the end, I never had any feelings for Bai Baozhu."
"Before, there was responsibility, but after the divorce, we had absolutely no relationship at all."
Bai Liuyue watched his anxious and flustered appearance, smiled, and curved her lips, saying,
"Mm, no need to explain. It has nothing to do with me."
"How can it have nothing to do with you, Liuyue? I..." Xie Chengxiao said solemnly once again, "I love you and want to marry you, so I don't want there to be any misunderstandings between us."
Jiang Yunshen choked with anger. Was he, the fiancé, just a mere decoration?
"I also love Xiaoyue. Is it even your turn to line up?" he finally couldn't help but say.
Bai Liuyue looked at him in surprise and said, "Yunshen, aren't we just allies? Didn't you say you didn't like me?"
Jiang Yunshen stammered a bit,
"That... that was before. Before, I was just slow to realize, but now... I know very well what it feels like to love someone."
As he spoke, the back of his ears turned red.
Xie Chengxiao narrowed his eyes. Great, he hadn't even dealt with Pei Yu yet, and now here came another one, Jiang Yunshen.
"Do you love Liuyue, or do you love her abilities?"
Jiang Yunshen: "Both! I don't deny it. Unlike some people..."
Xie Chengxiao sneered coldly.
"From the very first time I saw Liuyue, when she lowered her head to sew my epaulet for me, I had already fallen for her."
Jiang Yunshen mocked, "Oh, so what you love is just that she can sew your epaulets for you?"
"That's not it at all! I don't need you to judge my feelings for Liuyue."
"Heh, is that so?"
Having taken her eyes off them for just a moment, the two men started arguing again.
Bai Liuyue silently withdrew from the battlefield.
Let them argue.
When Pei Yu arrives later, it will probably be even livelier!
Half a month later.
The Fengtian warlord faction was completely wiped out.
The vast Northeast territory was divided into four parts.
The Bai family, the Pei family, the Xie family, and the Jiang family.
Of course.
In Bai Liuyue's heart, all of this belonged to her!
The gunshot wound President Jiang suffered was too severe. After hearing the news of his eldest son's death, he entered the emergency room for the third time and never came out.
With the support of Marshal Pei, Marshal Xie, and Bai Wenshan, Jiang Yunshen became the new President Jiang.
The various factions of the new Republic formed a harmonious yet delicate relationship once again.
When Bai Liuyue saw Bai Wenshan, her first question was, "Grandpa, how did Bai Baozhu die?"
As for Bai Baozhu, she didn't exactly like her, nor could she say she hated her.
It was just that as they walked their respective paths, they eventually became hostile forces.
On the path of politics, sacrifices were inevitable.
She just hadn't expected Bai Baozhu to disappear so quickly.
Bai Wenshan said in a deep voice, "The shot that killed Jiang Yushen was fired by Baozhu."
"What?"
Bai Baozhu had no enmity or grudge against Jiang Yushen. Why would this happen?
