Chapter 1263: Instigation

Seeing Lu Tao leave, Yang Xiaoyun finally lifted her head.

She thought Lu Tao was very stupid. Little did he know that her marriage to Wang Yan was the result of a three-way compromise?

Of course, if you said she could truly let go, that would be impossible. She was just secretly burying all her grievances and dissatisfaction deep in her heart, not showing them.

So at this moment, she didn't cry, but she didn't laugh either. Her expression was quite complex, but finally, she shook her head and lay there, continuing to listen to music.

A little later, the young shop assistant returned with the milk tea.

"Boss, are you alright?" She felt the boss's unhappiness and couldn't help but ask with concern.

It was just the two of them in the shop. Her salary wasn't low, she had social security, and most of her food and drink were covered by the boss. She didn't want to lose this leisurely job, so she was afraid the boss would lose her mind and close the shop directly.

Just like the milk tea she went to buy, it was all on the boss; she just took the money from the counter herself.

"I'm fine, that person is sick." Yang Xiaoyun said, taking the milk tea and drinking it. The sweet taste made her squint her eyes involuntarily, as if all her bad moods had been swept away.

Just as Yang Xiaoyun was considering whether to inform Wang Yan and Mi Lai about the news, the bell at the shop door rang again. She looked over and saw Xia Lin, whose state was also not very good, walk in.

"You two are really interesting, couldn't you come together?" Yang Xiaoyun said with some annoyance.

Xia Lin walked in and sat down beside Yang Xiaoyun, looking somewhat surprised: "Lu Tao came too? What did he want with you?"

"You don't know?"

Yang Xiaoyun was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Then you'd better not know."

"Oh, don't be so annoying. Hurry up and tell me, what did he want with you? Was it..." Xia Lin paused, asking as if unsure, "Asking about Mi Lai?"

"You know?" Yang Xiaoyun's eyes flickered.

But then she thought, she was the legitimate wife; the one losing face would be Mi Lai, the one to be condemned would be Wang Yan, and she was the real victim. So she felt justified again, and praised herself for her persistence and the mechanism of the legal marriage certificate she had fought for.

"What do I know?"

Xia Lin didn't notice Yang Xiaoyun's abnormality. She sighed and said, "It's just that ever since you and Brother Yan got married, Lu Tao has been acting strange, absent-minded. I thought about it, and it must be Mi Lai. You don't know, that day we sat at the same table, the look Lu Tao gave Mi Lai..."

"So you came to me to complain?"

"Who else can I tell? I don't have many friends, just you."

Yang Xiaoyun asked: "Then what do you plan to do?"

"I don't know." Xia Lin shook her head, feeling very lost.

"Let me put your mind at ease, Mi Lai absolutely has no feelings for Lu Tao."

"This isn't about Mi Lai, you still don't understand, Xiaoyun." Xia Lin rested her head on the back of the chair, looking at the ceiling and the spotlights, "The problem now is that Lu Tao doesn't have me in his heart anymore; he doesn't love me. Even if he didn't rekindle old flames with Mi Lai, there would still be other women. He could fall in love with me at first sight, and of course, he could fall in love with someone else at first sight."

"Then what are your thoughts?"

"Let's see. I don't know what to do anymore. If he can change his mind, then I'll continue to be with him; if not, then let's part on good terms."

"Are you willing to let go?"

"What if I'm not willing?" Xia Lin shook her head with a bitter smile, "Come to think of it, I can consider this reaping what I sowed. Lu Tao and I let Mi Lai down. Having this result isn't too unexpected; after all, the beginning of Lu Tao and me was a betrayal of morality and conscience."

Yang Xiaoyun rolled her eyes. Bitch, you really have the nerve to say that.

If it weren't for her hooking up with Lu Tao, and Lu Tao breaking up with Mi Lai, could there be the current situation?

Xia Lin, you've caused so much harm!

Of course, Yang Xiaoyun wouldn't say this. After all, Xia Lin didn't know about Mi Lai's situation, and it looked like Lu Tao really wouldn't spread it widely. She certainly wouldn't insist on telling Xia Lin; that wouldn't do her any good...

She kept Xia Lin company for a while, and when evening came, the two ate dinner outside together, even drinking some alcohol, absorbing some of Xia Lin's negative emotions.

After all this, Yang Xiaoyun finally returned home.

When she returned, the house was already a mess. Mi Lai was wearing light clothing, revealing a large expanse of skin, naturally watching TV on the sofa. Beside her was the shirtless Wang Yan, working on a laptop.

"You're back." Mi Lai asked.

"You dogs, were you in such a hurry?" Yang Xiaoyun glared at Mi Lai and cursed at Wang Yan.

So Mi Lai smiled and walked over, helping Yang Xiaoyun take off her clothes...

Another battle ended; it was already late at night. Yang Xiaoyun offered Wang Yan a cigarette, and Mi Lai lit it for him.

Wang Mouren was carefree and incredibly comfortable~

"Let me tell you something, this is no small matter." Yang Xiaoyun's tone had a hint of schadenfreude.

"Tell us, how big could it be?" Mi Lai looked indifferent.

Wang Yan didn't speak, just turned his head with the cigarette in his mouth.

Yang Xiaoyun huffed and said: "Your affair has been exposed. Do you know who told me?"

"Lu Tao, I suppose." Mi Lai said indifferently.

"You know?" Yang Xiaoyun was very surprised.

Mi Lai let out a long breath and said: "I don't know when he saw it, maybe about half a month ago. One night when I was going home, he blocked the entrance to my complex and stopped my car..."

She gave a rough account of the process and said to Wang Yan, "I just don't understand, what does it have to do with him? Why is he playing the good guy? And he even found Xiaoyun to report me? What does he want?"

Wang Yan smiled and flicked the ash: "This is aimed at me."

"Don't be so self-absorbed. Lu Tao is just worried about Mi Lai and can't bear to see her go down the wrong path." Yang Xiaoyun even defended Lu Tao.

"Are you looking for trouble?" Mi Lai glared at Yang Xiaoyun.

"Pfft." Yang Xiaoyun gloated.

"Brother Yan~ Look at her~"

"Alright, it's no big deal." Wang Yan rubbed Mi Lai's head, then looked at Yang Xiaoyun with a smile, "You don't think about it, that's because Lu Tao didn't know you knew. If you didn't know, and Lu Tao told you about this, what would your reaction be? You would definitely make a huge scene, right? In the end, everyone would lose face and be unable to step down."

"How fresh, you two know about losing face too?" Yang Xiaoyun slapped Wang Yan in annoyance.

"Knowing about losing face and not being afraid of losing face are two different things. In short, Lu Tao's intentions are sinister and deserve to be punished. He wants to use your scene to destroy the underground affair between me and Mi Lai in his eyes, to save Mi Lai and pull her out of the sea of misery. This behavior is unjustifiable."

Mi Lai thought for a moment and said: "Maybe it's because I don't communicate with him? After he blocked my complex entrance that time, he went to the company, then to my complex. Haven't you seen that I've been living here lately? It's just to avoid him. He kept changing numbers to call me; I had to change my number again. It's so annoying."

Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "Doesn't this explain it? It's just that he couldn't reach you and thought you were hopeless, so the kid started using tactics. If you put it that way, what Xiaoyun said is also right; he really is doing it for your own good."

"Tsk, why are you like this too? I'll bite you, okay? No human rights for the mistress?" Mi Lai pounded Wang Yan with her little fists, "I'm really annoyed to death. Seeing him makes me annoyed with everyone else."

"This Lu Tao has come to our doorstep and doesn't want me to have a good time. I have to take some action."

"You aren't going to beat him up, are you?" Yang Xiaoyun said worriedly, "Don't do anything stupid. I feel like Lu Tao isn't clear-headed right now. If you beat him, he'll call the police and you'll be in trouble. Besides, his stepfather is an official and his biological father is a big boss; they aren't simple people either."

"Xiaoyun is right, don't be impulsive, Brother Yan." Mi Lai also chimed in.

Wang Yan shook his head with amusement: "Do you two really take me for a hooligan? That I only know how to fight when I encounter problems?"

"It's not like you aren't a hooligan." Yang Xiaoyun retorted, "Zhutou has told me your glorious deeds—not the ones from before, but the ones after you started doing business. You haven't hit fewer people."

"Mainly because the people I dealt with back then were all roughnecks. Now I'm in the internet business, dealing with cultured hooligans and cultured scumbags. How can I just hit people?"

Mi Lai asked: "Then what do you want to do?"

"Destroy him?" After receiving two slaps on the left and right, Wang Yan laughed out loud, then looked at Mi Lai, "Want to make money?"

"Of course I do. My dad asked me to do a project, but I don't know what to do. How do you suggest making money? And what does this have to do with Lu Tao?"

"Lu Tao always has art and his ideals on his lips. But the realization of his art and the achievement of his ideals depend on his biological father. His biological father is in real estate development, and your father is also in real estate development. So it's very simple: make his biological father go bankrupt. Let's see how much money he can make, and what he'll have left to talk about art and dreams."

"Isn't this too ruthless? You're directly taking his biological father's life?" Mi Lai said in surprise.

Wang Yan shook his head: "You think too highly of me, Mi Lai. It's not that I can make Lu Tao's biological father go bankrupt just by saying so. It's that your family's company and their family's company will engage in a commercial game and competition, and I will help your family's company. The result could be your family's company going bankrupt, or it could be theirs."

"Excluding our factors, it's just a normal commercial competition for them. As the saying goes, the business world is a battlefield. If you don't fight them, they will come to fight you. It just so happens that this incident occurred, and it just so happens that their company was chosen. Understand?"

"Then I'll listen to you." Mi Lai nodded, then hesitated and said, "But I don't think Lu Tao would care, right? I heard Huazi and the others discussing it, and it seems Lu Tao doesn't have much affection for his biological father."

"He doesn't have affection for his biological father, but does he not have affection for his biological father's money? Didn't you say he just bought an A4? Do you think he bought it with his own ability?"

"I'll say this first, we can't do such inhumane things." Mi Lai emphasized.

"You're just too soft-hearted."

Wang Yan laughed, "Lu Tao didn't want us to have a good time, yet you're still thinking about mercy. You don't think about it—if Xiaoyun really didn't know and made a scene at your doorstep, how would it end? If it spreads, this matter of mine could even make the news. By then, the whole country would be watching the spectacle. Of course, watching the spectacle doesn't matter; I'm not afraid of being talked about if I dare to do it. But if this matter really ferments, it will actually have a certain impact on Cheche. com. If handled poorly, my company's valuation dropping by several hundred million isn't a problem. He's destroying my career."

Yang Xiaoyun hugged Wang Yan and said: "I have no opinion. Do whatever you want; I fully support you."

"Go sell your flowers." Mi Lai struck back, mocking Yang Xiaoyun for having no grand vision.

Yang Xiaoyun didn't care. She didn't have one, so what?

She curled her lips and changed the subject: "Hey, let me tell you, Xia Lin is going to break up with Lu Tao!"

"How do you know?"

"She went to my shop one after the other with Lu Tao..." After recounting the events of the afternoon, Yang Xiaoyun's face was full of intense gossip. She said, "I don't think Xia Lin told me the truth. How could it be such a coincidence that they both went to my place within ten minutes of each other? Xia Lin must have been following Lu Tao."

"So Xia Lin must have seen Lu Tao being intimate with Mi Lai, and then became suspicious. I estimate that everything Lu Tao has done in the past few days has been under Xia Lin's eyes. Oh my, you don't know, let me tell you—when I was eating with Xia Lin, Xia Lin looked like her spirit had been drained; she couldn't eat, but she drank quite a bit of alcohol."

"Serves her right!" Mi Lai huffed.

"Satisfying, right?" Wang Yan asked with a smile.

"Too satisfying. Why should they be happy? They shouldn't have a good ending!" Mi Lai hugged Wang Yan, "Tell me, what do you want to do?"

"Actually, it's very simple."

Wang Yan said confidently, "Lu Tao's biological father's Yuanda company is a listed company in our country. In two years, just two years, they operated to go public through a series of acquisitions and mergers. Of course, we don't care about the messy things inside. As long as we make their capital chain have problems, it's easy to handle. You go and collect information on the plots of land listed for auction recently, and inquire about Yuanda's participation."

"As long as they participate in the bidding or auction, you follow them and bid. You raise the price to the upper limit, increasing their capital costs. I'll find people to manipulate their stock in the market, driving the stock price down. They will definitely have to spend money to drive the stock price up. I'll play a few rounds with them, and their liquid funds will be almost exhausted; after all, they have other projects under construction, right?"

"By then, the land they just bought will have to be sold, and it will have to be sold as quickly as possible. That's when you step in to take over the land, press down the price, and saving ten or eight million isn't a problem. It hasn't been developed yet, and you've already made money."

"If everything goes smoothly, and we beat them into delisting and bankruptcy, you can also pick up some existing high-quality projects at a bargain. As long as you finish the development, it's all money. Very simple, right?"

"Too simple, I understood it all." Yang Xiaoyun chimed in from the side.

Mi Lai rolled her eyes at her and nodded: "Okay, I'll be diligent at work these few days and collect information in this regard."

"If you keep an eye on them, you'll be able to make this money."

"Then what if I bid too high and it gets stuck in my hands?"

"It's impossible for it to get stuck in your hands. Housing prices are rising now, and the speed is getting faster and faster. If you can get the land, start construction, and get loans, you can make money by settling these three points. It's just a matter of how much you earn. At the very least, you can protect your principal. Even if your family's funds aren't enough, I can provide a bottom line for you. Our two companies can cooperate in development; we definitely won't let your family lose money."

Yang Xiaoyun was speechless on the side. They had already gained both the person and the wealth, and he was still saying "your family." You dogs, shameless, pfft...

In the following time, Wang Yan told Mi Lai some specific matters.

What he told Mi Lai was quite simple, but in reality, it was far from just those few sentences. There were many specific operations involved, and there were also risks.

Of course, for him, it was just that.

It was just that Lu Tao was a bit ignorant, or even one could say Lu Tao had lost his mind to do such a thing that harmed others without benefiting himself.

However, Lu Tao's thinking could be understood. After all, from Lu Tao's perspective, Yang Xiaoyun was kept in the dark. And he went to tell Yang Xiaoyun, so Yang Xiaoyun wouldn't say Lu Tao told her, but would go to follow and verify, preferably staging a scene of catching them in the act.

It's just that Lu Tao didn't expect that Wang Yan had already settled these things. Lu Tao couldn't have imagined that Yang Xiaoyun would treat this matter as a joke to tell Wang Yan and Mi Lai as soon as she got home.

With the information on both sides symmetrical, his Lu Tao's villainous face and sinister intentions were exposed.

Come to think of it, the love nest the three of them were in now was actually designed by Lu Tao. In the past, everyone could be considered friends, and Lu Tao even regarded Brother Yan as a confidant.

But so what?

It was Lu Tao who didn't play fair first, who didn't want things to be good first, and who provoked Wang Mouren's displeasure.

And since Wang Mouren was displeased, Lu Tao was going to have a miserable time.

Originally, Lu Tao had a bunch of problems, and Wang Mouren was too lazy to bother with him. Now that he had bumped into him himself, one couldn't blame Wang Mouren for adding a little fun to his simple, unadorned, and vibrant life...

Lu Tao was waiting for a reaction, but he waited for nothing.

Finally, after waiting for more than a week, he couldn't hold it in anymore and went to the Roadside Flower Shop again, but the young shop assistant told him that ever since he came last time, Yang Xiaoyun hadn't been to the shop at all, just letting her watch the shop herself.

So Lu Tao went to find Mi Lai again, but of course, he couldn't find her. After all, he couldn't find Mi Lai before, which was why he went to find Yang Xiaoyun.

He went to Huazi to ask for news, but Huazi told him that everything had been very good lately. He had just eaten with Wang Yan, Yang Xiaoyun, and Mi Lai two days ago, and didn't see anything wrong.

At the time, Lu Tao didn't understand why Yang Xiaoyun didn't make a move. After returning home, he understood.

Because Yang Xiaoyun had no money, and to Wang Yan, Yang Xiaoyun was just a dependent. And on the other hand, Wang Yan was a ruthless, big hooligan. It wasn't easy for Yang Xiaoyun to have the guts to make a scene, but she definitely couldn't make a scene that would lead to results. Even if she made a scene again, she would eventually have to face reality.

It was he who had been too naive before.

But what he couldn't understand was why Yang Xiaoyun could live in harmony with Mi Lai? Could it be that Yang Xiaoyun wouldn't make a scene at all?

What he couldn't understand to this day was that Mi Lai's family had money, and Mi Lai herself was beautiful. Who couldn't she find if she wanted a man? Why did she have to be involved with Wang Yan?

He really couldn't figure it out, really couldn't understand why Mi Lai had transformed into such a state... ===== CHAPTER 1264 =====

He really couldn't figure it out, really couldn't understand how Mi Lai had suddenly transformed into such a state...