Chapter 545: Spend a Little for Him

The free discussion session had just begun when Mu Xianyan walked straight over here.

She walked through the crowd, her gaze locked on Mu Youyu from head to toe.

Shi Che followed behind her, always keeping a distance of one or two steps.

Several times he opened his mouth to say something, but Mu Xianyan's "you'd better shut up" face blocked him each time.

He could only hold his glass and follow behind, like a pet being walked on a leash by its owner, step in step.

"Younger sister." Mu Xianyan walked up, then took off her mask, revealing a face with little makeup, her lip color light, very natural, and said, "When did you come to Y Guo? You didn't even tell me beforehand."

Mu Youyu raised her face, smiling sweetly, "I just arrived this afternoon, and I'll leave tomorrow afternoon. Thinking you're busy, older sister, I didn't want to disturb you."

"What do I have to be busy about?" Mu Xianyan reached out and pressed her hand on Mu Youyu's head, then turned her gaze to Jiang Liangjin, paused a moment, and uttered a stiff address, "Young Master Jiang."

Jiang Liangjin and she each addressed the other in their own way, "Hello, older sister."

Mu Xianyan then turned to Jun Chenling, "Prince Xun Li."

"Miss Mu." Jun Chenling nodded.

! Prince Xun Li is here too? Shi Che half-covered his face, lowering his voice: "Prince Xun Li, how are you?"

Jun Chenling gave a faint "hum" in response.

Lin Ning poked her head over from the side, "Hello, Sister Xianyan."

Mu Xianyan answered her, then casually asked, "Ningning, you're here too? How's school lately?"

Lin Ning: "Pretty good, just occasionally a few flies buzzing around my ears, annoying."

Shi Che also chimed in: "Schools here in Y Guo indeed have this kind of problem."

No one responded to his comment.

"Yanyan?" he tried calling out.

Mu Xianyan didn't turn her head, "Do you still have something?"

Shi Cleared his throat, "No problem, I just wanted to ask, how are you getting back later? Want me to give you a ride?"

Mu Xianyan finally turned her head, "I have a driver."

Mu Youyu's peripheral vision kept fixed on this side, she tilted her head, putting on a look of just remembering, and said, "Older sister, who is this?"

Mu Xianyan: "I don't know him."

Shi Che forced a smile, "Haha, Miss Mu, you're joking… we… we've met before, yes yes yes, I've also met your brother, do you remember?"

Mu Youyu exclaimed, "My brother? Which brother?"

Shi Che quickly added, "Young Master Ai Luoxiu, that's your little brother."

Mu Youyu drew out an "oh," her tone lingering, "It seems there was such a thing, but I don't really remember."

Mu Xianyan repeated those two words: "I don't know you, and my younger sister doesn't know you either."

The smile on Shi Che's face finally faded, "Yanyan, we…"

Mu Xianyan turned her head, "Oh, so we're very familiar?"

Lin Ning showed no sympathy at all, quickly covering her mouth with the back of her hand, pretending to cough.

Shi Che silently stepped back half a step, lowering his presence, pretending to be merely a breathing piece of furniture.

Mu Xianyan didn't look at him again, sat down on the sofa opposite her younger sister, turned her head and asked, "Where are you staying tonight? My place isn't far from here, want to come over?"

Mu Youyu shook her head, "It's already arranged, I'm staying at Brother Ling's place."

"Alright then."

As the few of them chatted without others around, Shi Che's mind was in a tangled mess.

One moment he wondered who had bid against him for that painting earlier, the next moment he wondered how to explain things to his brother when he went back.

At the time of bidding, he offered two million, and the other party directly raised it to nine million.

Afraid the painting would be snatched away, he panicked and raised his bid to ten million; after announcing the price he regretted it, thinking at the time that if anyone else raised the bid he would just back off and let someone else have it.

As it turned out, that person didn't follow up at all afterward…

Ten million! He could have bought that painting for just two million originally, but he used ten million, which happened to be the maximum amount he had prepared for today!!

Shi Che's gaze swept over the crowd again and again, trying to pick out from those blurry faces the culprit who made him spend an extra eight million.

Jiang Liangjin caught a glimpse of Shi Che's absentminded look from the corner of her eye, leaned toward Mu Youyu, and said, "He's got money to burn, spend a little for him."

Mu Youyu understood, this was about that painting, "What if he doesn't take it?"

Jiang Liangjin's expression didn't change, "Then I'll just buy it myself; anyway, Teacher Lin's paintings are never a loss."

Lin Ning watched the two put their heads together and mutter, stretching her neck out far but still not catching a word, "Can you two speak plainly? Is there something I shouldn't hear?"

Mu Youyu's eyes darted here and there.

Jun Chenling leisurely took over for his sister and replied, "No."

Lin Ning had nothing to say.

Mu Xianyan's phone rang, she lowered her brows, then hung up and smiled, "Younger sister, I'm leaving first, I still have some things to do. Let's meet again when I return to the country."

Mu Youyu nodded, "Okay, older sister, take care on the road."

Mu Xianyan put her mask back on, bade Jun Chenling farewell, then turned and walked toward the side door of the banquet hall.

"Yanyan, wait up, I'll see you out…" Shi Che, seeing this, hurried to follow, and the two disappeared one after the other outside the side door.

Jun Chenling leaned in, "Do you guys know that guy?"

Mu Youyu nodded, gave a rough explanation, then asked, "Brother Ling, do you know him?"

Jun Chenling nodded, it turned out to be the person who had previously bothered his sister with cramps, and that's definitely not a good thing.

He replied, "Not close, but I have some acquaintance with his brother; I once asked him for a piano and he didn't give it."

Lin Ning was shocked, "The Prince of Y Guo doesn't give away what he wants?"

Jiang Liangjin's side had already looked up the information, but knowing Mu Youyu didn't, he helped ask, "What's his identity?"

Jun Chenling replied: "The Shi family is one of the oldest hidden families in Y Guo."

He glanced at his sister's puzzled gaze and added: "In terms of history, the kind that can go toe-to-toe with the Paveika Duke's Mansion."

Mu Youyu blinked, and since her brother had grown up at their maternal grandfather's home, she naturally knew the status of the Paveika family in Y Guo.

Families that can be mentioned alongside the Duke's Mansion she could count on her fingers, and the surname "Shi" was clearly not on her list.

Jun Chenling saw his sister's confusion, tilted his head, "It's normal you don't know; the Shi family has hardly appeared in public over the past few decades. They basically don't participate in the aristocracy's open activities, and the younger generation is even more deeply hidden."

"Few in the circle know their details; besides the well-informed elders in the circle and us royal or imperial family members, hardly anyone knows they still exist."

Lin Ning followed up on the topic: "Then what are their family members called?"

Jun Chenling didn't even think: "Most are surnamed Shi. The one just now called Shi Che, 'Che' as in clear, the Shi family's... Young Master Two."

Jiang Liangjin put on a curious-baby tone: "Young Master Two? He doesn't look like someone who can make decisions."

Mu Youyu nodded.

Lin Ning also nodded vigorously.