Chapter 17: The Three-Person Shuraba

The chamber orchestra was playing a melodious serenade; the melody was beautiful, subtle, and lingering, like a pair of lovers snuggling and whispering to each other.

Ling Wu pursed his lips and smiled, clearly not taking it to heart.

Yin Huaiyu was not too surprised by his attitude, merely sighing lightly: "Why won't you believe me? Do you think I'm very unreliable?"

Ling Wu: "..."

So you do have self-awareness.

"Tsk, fine."

These young masters treat romance like teasing a kitten or a puppy; when they are in a good mood, they hold you and coax you, but when they are in a bad mood, you are just a little toy that can be discarded at will.

Not fit for the table.

Although Ling Wu knew very little about Yin Huaiyu's past romantic history, he could be almost certain that a young master like Yin Huaiyu, who was so arrogant and cold-blooded to the core, absolutely belonged to this category.

Yin Huaiyu persisted: "The Yin Family isn't any worse than your Jin Family, right?"

"Our family doesn't have any messy illegitimate children, so there's no need to worry about inheritance issues; even if there were, those illegitimate children would have been gotten rid of by me long ago. A marriage alliance between our two families would have more benefits than drawbacks."

Ling Wu looked up at him.

Listen to that, what a naive and cruel tone.

Yin Huaiyu's cruelty and tenderness were both directed sharply outward; he never overly embellished his emotions, capable of making you feel both hair-raisingly terrified and deeply touched by his gentleness and consideration.

This was the kind of heir cultivated by a top-tier financial conglomerate family.

At the dining table, no one spoke.

Yin Huaiyu struck a standard pose of a superior, like a young male wolf that had just reached maturity, waiting unhurriedly for a reply.

A sudden voice shattered this silence.

—"Huaiyu, Ling Wu?"

The person who arrived was Yu Shixue, wearing a gray suit jacket with Montblanc cufflinks, paired with an exceptionally wild floral shirt underneath, his tie loose and sloppy, revealing his sexy collarbones.

He walked straight to the seat next to Ling Wu and sat down.

Yin Huaiyu's tone was not very pleasant: "Why are you here?"

Yu Shixue was concise: "I was negotiating a contract nearby, saw you when I was passing by, so I came in to take a look."

He teased: "Are you... on a date?"

Ling Wu hadn't even had time to lament how small the world was when, hearing the word "date," he choked on his water.

"Cough, cough... cough!"

He rested one hand on the dining table, covering his lips with his other slender, fair hand; because of the violent heaving of his chest, his cheeks and neck were flushed pink.

Yu Shixue pulled out a napkin and handed it to him, patting his back as if stroking him, his eyes somewhat wicked: "Drink slowly, don't choke again."

After Ling Wu finished coughing, he looked at him and explained: "Young Master Yu, you've misunderstood."

"I lost my phone at the artificial lake last time, Young Master Yin helped out, and I'm just treating him to a meal in return."

"In return?" Yin Huaiyu clutched his chest, looking as if he were wounded: "So eager to draw a line, how heartbreaking."

But there was not a hint of sadness on his face.

Yu Shixue had said those words on purpose; ever since that time at Jingwan, every time he saw Ling Wu's cold, unworldly face, he felt an urgent desire to make him show other expressions—whether it was anger or tears...

He liked such vivid and interesting expressions very much.

So he was just teasing him for fun.

Ling Wu naturally realized this too; both Yin Huaiyu and Yu Shixue saw him as a little toy to be amused by.

He felt a bit unhappy.

This so-called manga world is truly small.

【Yu Shixue is so bad, but the blushing face of the supporting male character baby is so cute.】

【Hahaha... the moment Yin Huaiyu saw Yu Shixue, it looked exactly like the main wife and the mistress meeting on a narrow path.】

【What a novel style.】

【Supporting male character, don't be fooled, don't like them; they will both end up liking the protagonist shou later, and then treat you as Cannon Fodder.】

【Yu Shixue and Yin Huaiyu are so handsome, handsome, handsome, handsome.】

So handsome?

The two men's appearances were indeed top-notch.

But Ling Wu was not a member of the "looks association" and would not decide who he liked based on whether they were good-looking or not.

Yu Shixue: "Do you mind if I disturb you?"

Ling Wu handed him the dining utensils: "It's fine."

It's not like I could just grab you and throw you out, right?

That would be too lacking in grace.

Yin Huaiyu's expression was somewhat unable to hold back a smile.

And so, an "uninvited intruder" had burst into this meal halfway through; the three of them appeared harmonious on the surface, clinking glasses, while undercurrents surged beneath, and they continued their meal to the sound of the melodious music.

Ling Wu buried his head in his food; he ate very refinedly, his lips parting and closing as he chewed in small bites.

Yin Huaiyu sat opposite him, his elbows resting on the armrests, his two long legs hooking Ling Wu's calves under the table; feeling the other's body stiffen, he asked deliberately: "What's wrong?"

Ling Wu found it absurd, blushing as he forcefully retracted his legs, afraid of being discovered by Yu Shixue next to him, but fortunately, the person opposite was focused on cutting his steak and did not notice the illicit scene under the table.

He glared at Yin Huaiyu with indignation.

The other party shrugged innocently, not feeling threatened at all.

On the contrary, he thought Ling Wu's fierce look was very cute.

Yin Huaiyu, as if savoring the taste, changed to using the tip of his shoe to rub against the other's slender calf, lifting the loose trouser leg, reaching inside from the bottom, and then rubbing against the skin above.

"Slap!"

Ling Wu put down the fork and stood up, his ear tips turning red under the simultaneous gaze of the two: "I'm going to the restroom."

His back quickly disappeared around the corner, with a sense of fleeing in a panic.

Yin Huaiyu took a sip of red wine and swirled the stemmed glass: "He is very cute, isn't he?"

"Indeed." Yu Shixue did not look up, his tone carrying a hint of warning: "If you want to play, you can find someone else; he is, after all, a member of the Jin Family, and dealing with that is very troublesome."

Yin Huaiyu: "Oh."

He placed the stemmed glass on the table, producing a crisp sound, and like a resting male lion, he looked him up and down with a lazy yet sharp gaze, only saying after a long while: "What if he weren't a member of the Jin Family?"

Yu Shixue frowned: "Don't you dare mess around."

"Haha... relax." Yin Huaiyu returned to his good-natured appearance, the imposing aura from just a moment ago as if it had never existed, and he said: "You already said he is a member of the Jin Family."

"Then what else could I do?"

Yu Shixue understood that Yin Huaiyu was not as easy to talk to as he appeared on the surface; he would seduce you to death in front of others, then kill you behind their backs, stopping at nothing to achieve his goals.

The more loose, lazy, and devil-may-care he appeared, the more careful you had to be.

Tsk.

Could Ling Wu, this little white rabbit who had just stepped into the forest, outplay the overlord who had already claimed the entire jungle as his territory?

"Ding!"

The cell phone rang.

Yin Huaiyu picked it up to look:

-05: There is a problem with the section of the project I am responsible for at the laboratory, I am going back to handle it.

Seeing his smile vanish, Yu Shixue asked: "What's wrong?"

Yin Huaiyu stood up: "Let's go, they are avoiding me like a flood or a wild beast and have already used an excuse to run off."