Chapter 140: Unable to Hold Back Any Longer—Liu Meiyun Finally Makes Her Move Against Song Mo!

Just as Liu Meiyun was wavering, unable to make up her mind.

Chen Xi had also finished watching Song Mo's piano piece and MV.

Seeing the Song Mo in the video—seemingly glowing all over, living beneath everyone's envious and adoring gazes—Chen Xi was not affected by Song Mo's music in the slightest.

His jealousy and hatred toward Song Mo gave him a powerful resistance to Song Mo's piano music, because the more dazzling Song Mo appeared, the more his jealousy and resentment intensified.

The two cancelling each other out—if anything, the jealousy and hatred only grew even stronger.

Chen Xi could sense the inner turmoil Liu Meiyun was feeling right now.

He no longer had many choices left.

If the delay stretched on any longer, and Liu Meiyun realized she had already been infected by Chen Xi, then Chen Xi would lose his chance to take revenge on Song Mo.

Chen Xi's faint, ghostly voice rose in Liu Meiyun's ear.

"Song Mo really is outstanding, isn't he? Look online—it's all praise and affection for him. He's like someone standing in the light, dazzling."

"Someone like me, who can't even appear in polite company and has to stay out of the light, probably will never have any intersection with him in this lifetime."

Chen Xi's wording was "someone like me," but the meaning he expressed was actually mocking Liu Meiyun.

After all, she was the one hiding in the shadows.

Unable to have any intersection with Song Mo.

Liu Meiyun caught his meaning, and a violent, cruel emotion rose in her heart. She swung a vicious slap across Chen Xi's face.

In an icy voice she said: "What are you getting at, beating around the bush?"

"What kind of thing are you, to dare chatter in my ear?"

Chen Xi laughed twice.

Because his face had been slapped swollen, the moment he laughed, his face twitched in pain.

But he didn't care in the slightest.

"Liu Meiyun, aren't you the Underground Empress?"

"Why is it that the thing you crave, you can't get?"

"Hahahaha!"

"Actually, you're the same sort of trash as me—both of us seething with envy over other people's lives, like rats hiding in the dark, always coveting beautiful things!"

"I can't get what I want, and you can't get what you want either, can you?"

Chen Xi's words thoroughly enraged Liu Meiyun.

She slapped him back and forth, over a dozen times in a row, until her own hand ached from the blows, looking like an enraged lioness.

"You think you're fit to compare yourself to me?"

"Whatever I want, I get—it's just a matter of whether I bother to go take it!"

Liu Meiyun had already had Chen Xi's entire background investigated down to the last detail, and naturally knew what a despicable, contemptible person he was. Comparing herself to him was simply an insult!

Chen Xi was still laughing.

"Let me tell you—if you don't make a move against Song Mo now, then in the future, you'll only have less and less chance!"

Liu Meiyun's heart abruptly fell still and quiet.

She glanced at Chen Xi.

What he said did, admittedly, have some truth to it.

The craving inside Liu Meiyun's heart was also nearly impossible to hold back any longer.

She lit a lady's cigarette and fell silent, thinking it over for a long time.

After finishing three in a row, Liu Meiyun gently exhaled the smoke from her lips and asked Chen Xi:

"Tell me—how do we get Song Mo to come out and meet us?"

"Or… how do we get a handle on his movements?"

……

Evening.

Song Mo wanted to pick up Xia Rou and Xia Yu for dinner, but was turned down.

The reason was that Xia Rou had a full schedule of classes today and there wasn't enough time.

After all, the two girls were still college students, and universities nowadays had much more complete and standardized systems than before; it really wasn't as easy as many parents assumed.

Especially if you wanted to study properly…

College days were also a rare experience to be had.

Song Mo didn't want his own reasons to disrupt the youthful days that Xia Rou and Xia Yu ought to have and enjoy, so he didn't press the matter.

He stopped in front of Dushima Yingxue's door.

Song Mo hesitated for a moment, then knocked.

When the door opened, Dushima Yingxue's flower-like smiling face appeared before Song Mo's eyes. She had just showered, and her hair was still slightly damp.

There was a fresh, clean scent of cherry blossoms.

"Yingxue, time to eat."

"I have something to tell you in a bit."

"Hai!"

Dushima Yingxue bowed slightly, then said:

"Sensei, I'll come out once I've finished blow-drying my hair."

At the dining table.

Song Mo told Dushima Yingxue about the business collaboration.

Dushima Yingxue considered it for a moment, then agreed without hesitation.

Her eyes curved together with her brows.

Like a rainbow bridge reflected in water and sky.

Dushima Yingxue said with a faint smile:

"Yingxue will definitely do her utmost to help Teacher, to make Teacher become a Fortune 500 business mogul!"

In reality, Song Mo hadn't explained things too clearly to Dushima Yingxue.

He only said he had opened a pharmaceutical company, and asked Dushima Yingxue whether she was interested in this area; if she was willing, they could discuss it in detail.

He hadn't expected that Dushima Yingxue, without even learning the details, would directly agree in one breath, and even stated she would unconditionally support Song Mo's enterprise.

"After all, supporting Teacher's enterprise is also Yingxue's duty as a woman!"

That sentence sounded very strange.

It was a bit like what a Yamato nadeshiko-type woman would say to her own husband, yet Dushima Yingxue hadn't used words like husband… nor had she said it was a disciple supporting her teacher.

Ambiguous, easy to cause misunderstanding.

Song Mo said:

"Yesterday, because it was late, I wanted to keep you here for a casual meal, so I just let you, Yingxue, stay at my home."

"But you are a girl, and normally only I live at home, so it's still somewhat inconvenient."

"I've already arranged for someone to prepare a residence for you. Yingxue, after we finish eating, I'll send you to the residence I've arranged."

Dushima Yingxue being a single woman, her possibly feeling inconvenienced is one thing.

There is another reason.

It is that Song Mo was also avoiding suspicion.

Setting aside the identities of student and teacher, he and Dushima Yingxue are both young people brimming with vigor and vitality; at this age when hormones are constantly surging, always being together, it's inevitable that sparks will fly.

After hearing Song Mo's words, a trace of sorrow surfaced on Dushima Yingxue's face.

Very cinematic.

Like a newly widowed woman in a cherry-blossom film.

Sorrowful and plaintive.

Giving people a contradictory feeling of wanting both to protect and to bully her at the same time.

"Did Yingxue do something wrong, so Teacher dislikes me?"

"Ah? No, I was just thinking you might not be used to it…"

"Used to it!"

Dushima Yingxue cut Song Mo off.

"Teacher, after all, I crossed the ocean, traveling all the way to Huaguo to study."

"If I live alone, I'll be very scared."

Song Mo hesitated for a moment.

"Uh uh…"

"You can rest assured, Huaguo is very safe, and I'll have the housekeeper live with you."

Dushima Yingxue firmly refused:

"That's even more not okay!"

"Living with a stranger, I won't be used to it at all!"

"Teacher, your house is so big! It has six floors up and down, it's not like I can't fit, why are you chasing me away?"

Dushima Yingxue aggressively questioned Song Mo.

Not mentioning at all that when she participated in the Martial Arts Tournament Song Mo held, in New York she also lived alone, and at that time she showed no sign of being afraid.

Song Mo thought for a moment; after all, Song Wanrou also lived in the house, so he wasn't exactly living alone with Dushima Yingxue, and compromised:

"Fine, if you don't want to change places, then stay at my place for now."

Dushima Yingxue revealed a faint smile.

"Thank you, Teacher!"

Song Mo, meanwhile, was thinking.

Actually, the place he lived wasn't far from Modu University, so perhaps he should let Xia Yu and Xia Rou move into the house, and arrange a driver to pick up and drop off the two of them.

That would also be very convenient.

With his wife there,

He wouldn't have to worry about the suspicion of impropriety with Dushima Yingxue,

And he could also kiss his own wife every day…

(End of this chapter)