Chapter 74: Try Them All?

Yang Lan was taken aback.

She cast a faint look at Lin Yeman.

When Lin Yeman said this, her expression was very calm, revealing not the slightest hint of emotional cracks.

For a moment, Yang Lan couldn't even be sure if she was speaking with a hidden meaning or simply joking.

Seeing the doubt in Yang Lan's pupils, Lin Yeman's straight face suddenly curled into a smile: "What? You weren't actually scared by me, were you? I was just teasing you."

"Although I admit, this person Shen Huai does indeed have a certain charm."

"But don't worry, Sister, I certainly won't fight you for a man." Lin Yeman narrowed her eyes with a smile and lightly tapped Yang Lan's right shoulder.

The atmosphere did a 180-degree turn in an instant.

Yang Lan's anxious heart finally eased up quite a bit: "Then should I go ask him out now?"

"Go, right now, immediately."

Lin Yeman raised the corners of her eyes, clenched her right hand into a fist, and made a "go for it" gesture at Yang Lan: "Go for it, I will definitely lend you a hand, Sister."

Seeing Lin Yeman's high fighting spirit, Yang Lan's emotions were stirred up as well.

She quickly rummaged through her bag for a mini Bluetooth earphone, then pulled out her phone and quickly pressed a shortcut key.

The next second.

Lin Yeman's phone rang.

The moment she heard the ringtone, Yang Lan smiled lightly, raised her phone, and waved at Lin Yeman: "Then I'm off."

Lin Yeman made an "OK" sign and quickly pressed the answer button.

The call was successfully established.

Listening to the faint, imperceptible crackle of electricity in her ear, Yang Lan felt incredibly confident.

With Lin Yeman's real-time assistance, it was like having an army of thousands at her command.

Yang Lan felt that she was terrifyingly strong right now.

With confident strides, Yang Lan walked quickly out of Lin Yeman's room.

She stood at the door to tidy her appearance, then held her head high and walked confidently toward Shen Huai's room across the hall.

Through the thick solid wood door.

Lin Yeman pressed against the door, listening to the footsteps quickly fading away outside, and the smile she had forced out collapsed instantly.

Just a moment ago.

When she said those words.

She could clearly feel that Yang Lan had panicked.

It was an unadorned panic and fear.

It was the subconscious possessiveness deep in a woman's heart at work.

It wasn't until she said it was a joke that her expression relaxed.

Comparing the two, it couldn't have been more obvious.

It seems.

Her sister is determined to win this time.

Thinking of this.

A bitterness rose from her heart.

Lin Yeman shook her head with a bitter smile, curling her lips into a self-deprecating smirk.

Truly, one who brings disaster upon oneself cannot live.

It's one thing that her own love cannot be spoken aloud.

Now she even has to help others quickly win over the person she likes, handing the person she likes over to someone else.

What kind of Military Advisor is she?

She is simply the king of jokers.

At this moment.

In Shen Huai's room.

A servant had already come to clean up the ceramic bowl shards on the floor and the beef noodles that had long since congealed into a lump.

An air freshener had also been sprayed to neutralize the food smell in the air.

Shen Huai sat alone on the sofa, legs crossed leisurely, his gaze fixed on the floor-to-ceiling window in front of him.

Outside the window.

A group of servants were watering and fertilizing the rare plants in the garden.

A cluster here, a cluster there.

Busy and bustling, yet all serving the Shen Family.

This scene looked exactly like the foreign medieval movie scenes he watched online.

Three words: unreal.

The clothes stained by ink had been changed, and he was already wearing the Tom haute couture suit that Yang Shuqin had prepared for him.

His already tall and lean figure appeared even more elegant and noble under the perfect backdrop of this suit.

The atmosphere was just right.

Shen Huai felt it was a pity not to have a cigar in his hand.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

A few hurried knocks came from behind, disturbing Shen Huai's rare moment of refined interest.

Before Shen Huai could speak, he heard the sound of the doorknob turning.

Yang Lan strode into the living room and walked straight in.

She scanned the room with a puzzled look, only noticing the person sitting on the sofa at the very end.

The moment she saw Shen Huai.

The draft Yang Lan had prepared in her mind vanished in an instant.

She stared at the man before her, dressed in a suit and exuding an air of nobility, her pupils dilating in shock.... So, so handsome?!

How can he be this handsome?! This is just too unreal!

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Yang Lan rush into the room, mouth agape but silent, just staring at him blankly, Shen Huai couldn't help but stand up, tilt his head, and wave his hand in front of her, "Do you... have something to tell me?"

"I... I..."

Yang Lan, whose values followed her aesthetic preferences, pointed at the door in a flustered manner: "I, I knocked on the door just now."

Watching Yang Lan's nervous and incoherent appearance, Shen Huai looked down at his clothes and immediately understood.

Indeed.

Clothes make the man.

While appearances cannot determine a person's true strength, surface-level presentation is indeed important.

If the Shen Huai before the change was a sunny, cheerful boy.

Then the current him was more like an ascetic, domineering CEO who had just acquired an overseas company and returned to inspect it.

Especially when he wasn't speaking.

The cold, aloof aura radiating from him pushed Yang Lan's social anxiety to the max.

"Sister, what's wrong?"

On the other end of the phone, Lin Yeman sat in the command center, holding the phone and asking quietly.

Lin Yeman's words traveled through the Bluetooth headset into Yang Lan's ears, which finally pulled her reason back.

Yang Lan swallowed, stared straight at Shen Huai, and finally squeezed out a sentence: "The clothes you changed into look really good."

"Thank you." Shen Huai returned a polite smile.

Although he was a loyal fan of Pinduoduo, his entire outfit cost nine yuan and nine cents with free shipping.

But under Yang Shuqin's relentless pestering, he knew almost every global luxury brand.

Of course, only to the extent of recognizing them.

After all, he had never been interested in things with such ridiculous markups, far exceeding their actual value.

"So he changed his clothes?" Lin Yeman raised an eyebrow and muttered.

No wonder Yang Lan's state on the other end of the phone had suddenly gone wrong.

So this guy had changed his battle gear.

Lin Yeman's eyes darkened, and she gripped the phone, saying loudly: "Sister, get straight to the point and ask him to go outside."

"Oh, okay, okay,"

Yang Lan nodded and immediately looked up at Shen Huai: "Look how dark it is today, let's go out for a stroll."

"Go out for a stroll?" Shen Huai frowned, "Is there something that can't be said in the room?"

"No!"

Yang Lan immediately and firmly denied it, "Don't couples like to go wild? Let's go outside too!"

Once these words were out.

Both people on either end of the phone were stunned into silence.

"Cough... Sister, the word 'go wild' is not used like that!!"

Lin Yeman was so desperate she had a headache.

Shen Huai wasn't doing much better.

His feigned, icy-mountain expression almost cracked because of that sentence.

"It's not used like that?...?"

Listening to Lin Yeman's continuous sighing, Yang Lan couldn't help but scratch her head.

"Oh, anyway, I want to ask you out, will you come with me?"

This time, Yang Lan switched to a more direct approach.

Shen Huai rubbed his brow helplessly.

Fine, fine, fine.

It seemed that the long-winded speech he had painstakingly delivered to her face earlier had all been in vain.

Not only did it fail to discourage Yang Lan, but how did she seem... even more persistent? "What do you want me to do when I go outside with you??"

Shen Huai finally compromised and asked in a deep voice.

"Just say you want to chat like couples do," Lin Yeman said quickly.

"Um... just do what couples do," Yang Lan said confidently.

???

"Not 'do'! It's 'chat', Sister!" Lin Yeman almost went crazy.

"Ah... not 'do', it's 'flirt'!"

"..."

At this moment.

Speechlessness was practically Shen Huai's native language.

He looked at Yang Lan in silence.

His gaze wandered.

Only then did Shen Huai notice that she was actually wearing a Bluetooth earphone in her right ear.

Watching Yang Lan's little expressions as she occasionally covered her right ear with extreme stealth.

Shen Huai could not help but secretly curl his lips, letting out an uninhibited, soft chuckle.

Joint operation?

That is underestimating me too much.

Consequently, Shen Huai walked slowly toward Yang Lan, leaned close to her right ear, and with a wicked smile, lowered his voice and spoke slowly: "Since it is a trial relationship, we should do everything that couples do to test the results."

(End of this chapter)