Chapter 1052: Fighting Evil with Evil

She was quite matter-of-fact about it.

Nianyin could not stand it and roared at her, "Get down! Is that a position you should be sitting in? This property belongs to the Jin Family patriarch, and the current master here is Shi Ran. Whose master do you think you are? Aren't you afraid of shortening your life by sitting in that seat?"

Wang Yingzhi: "Ranran hasn't even said anything, so who do you think you are? Stop meddling in our family's affairs, get out, get out, get out!"

Shi Ran felt a throbbing pain in her temples.

Was this the helper her own mother had sent her?

This was a helper?

She was clearly a living ancestor who had come to throw her weight around.

However, Shi Ran could understand her mother's painstaking efforts; her mother wanted to train her ability to manage people.

To survive in this complex society and live well, being merely clever and understanding knowledge from books was far from enough.

One also had to face contact with all sorts of people from every walk of life.

Shi Youxuan sending Wang Yingzhi over could be considered well-intentioned, but it just didn't seem like something her own mother would do.

"You, get down from that seat and sit here." Shi Ran was expressionless as she pointed to the seat at the very end, her aura fully unleashed; although she did not possess her father's full majesty, she had seven-tenths of it.

The seat Shi Ran pointed to was below the positions of Lao Qi and Nianyin, and Wang Yingzhi was naturally unconvinced.

Lao Qi had followed Sheng Hanyu since he was a child, so in her eyes, he was just a servant of the Sheng Family, and since Nianyin and Lao Qi were a couple, they were naturally servants as well.

She had not yet realized that she no longer had any relationship with the Sheng Family, and still placed herself in the position of the Sheng Family's matriarch; now that Shi Ran made her sit at the very end, she was naturally unwilling.

"No..."

Wang Yingzhi had just started her sentence when she met Shi Ran's icy gaze; she was so startled that she shivered all over, and the rest of her words were forcibly swallowed back down.

At such a young age, her gaze was too terrifying—exactly the same as her father's.

She muttered as she sat at the very end: "Hmph! What difference does it make where I sit? It's just a seat; I'm a grown-up, I won't lower myself to your level..."

After the meal.

Zhang Ma took Wang Yingzhi to her room, and she was quite satisfied with it.

It was the best room in the entire house, clean and tidy, though not decorated very luxuriously.

There was only a small wardrobe, and the rest of the wall was covered in bookshelves filled with books; she did not like reading and felt they were in the way, so she wanted to have them removed, but no one listened to her.

Wang Yingzhi's excitement about arriving in A Country had vanished; she felt timid and constrained in this house, unable to do this and forbidden from doing that, and the excessive rules made her feel as if she had returned to the time when the patriarch was still alive.

It was too restrictive; she might as well go out and find trouble for others.

After taking a shower and changing her clothes, Wang Yingzhi prepared to go out when the sun was at its most scorching in the afternoon.

"Where are you going?" Zhang Ma asked.

She had received a call from the mistress asking her to supervise Wang Yingzhi, fearing she would stir up inappropriate trouble.

"What could I be doing? What could I be doing? I'm obviously going to find trouble for Chen Ran. If I don't do this kind of thing, are you going to do it? Why are you staring at me like a foreman?"

Wang Yingzhi was righteous and indignant.

Zhang Ma expressionlessly stepped aside: "You've worked hard."

"Hmph! As long as you know it!"

Wang Yingzhi marched out, full of spirit and vigor.

A moment later, she turned back: "Lao Qi, Lao Qi!"

Lao Qi was taking a nap in his room; he pushed the door open and walked out, displeased: "What is it?"

"Come down and be my driver; I don't trust the driver outside."

Lao Qi:...

Wang Yingzhi was clearly looking for trouble on purpose.

But if she wanted to be deliberate, so be it; he would accompany her on the trip, it was nothing important.

Chen Zhai.

That woman had said she would return soon, but she hadn't; Chen Ran thought she was just saying it casually and wouldn't actually come back.

But just at this moment, she had returned!

Wang Yingzhi was blunt: "Yo, what a coincidence, little basketball prince, to actually run into you here. Would you say it's fate?"

Chen Ran: "What are you talking about? I don't understand."

He had already made up his mind that if the old woman brought up what happened in Jiangzhou, he would push it away cleanly and not admit to anything at all.

But she didn't; seeing that he wouldn't admit it, the old woman didn't ask a second time, but instead changed the subject: "I'm giving you three days to vacate the house; I want to live in this house myself."

Chen Ran: "Isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to do this? I have a contract, and before the contract expires, you have no right to drive me away."

"That's a contract you signed with the previous owner, not with me. I don't acknowledge the validity of this contract. Now the ownership of the house is mine, so I have the right to ask you to leave. If you're not convinced, we can go to court and have a lawsuit!"

"Isn't your family very rich? The son of the Finance Minister, surely you can't even find a place to live? Or is it that your family has done too many bad things, and there isn't even anyone willing to rent a house to you..."

She was already foul-mouthed to begin with, and now that she was suppressing a belly full of anger, the words she spoke were nothing but the nastiest.

She even put on an attitude of being completely shameless.

Chen Ran was usually a person who could keep his cool, but now he was so angered by Wang Yingzhi that his face turned green.

"You are being unreasonable."

Wang Yingzhi: "How am I being unreasonable? Tell me, how am I being unreasonable? I do things openly and honestly, unlike some people who dare to do things but don't dare to admit them..."

She unleashed a barrage of words at Chen Ran.

Lao Qi stood behind her with his eyes lowered and his head bowed very low, so that no one would notice the amusement in his eyes.

Chen Ran had someone go out to check, fearing there might be reporters nearby.

The Sheng Family had done this kind of thing many times, and having suffered for it, they naturally learned their lesson.

But this time he had overthought it; there was no one, no reporters outside, absolutely no one.

The house was filled only with the incessant, noisy chatter of Wang Yingzhi; she said a great deal, and eventually, the general meaning became clear—if she didn't want to move, that was fine, she would move in and live with Chen Ran!

This was absolutely out of the question; it was too inconvenient.

Chen Ran frowned, yet he agreed: "Fine."

He would agree for now, then think of a way later.

He knew that the Sheng Family already knew his true identity, and perhaps they had sent this woman specifically to find dirt on him.

Even if the Sheng Family guessed the truth, it would be useless without evidence.

It might be better to keep her under his own nose; perhaps it would be easier to monitor her, and this old woman didn't look very bright... he had underestimated his opponent.

"You agree?"

"Mm."

"Good, I'm going to choose a room. It's my own house, so wanting a better room shouldn't be too much to ask, right?"

Chen Ran agreed: "It's not too much to ask." He had agreed rather rashly.

Wang Yingzhi spoke as she went upstairs, preparing to "choose a room."

Lao Qi followed behind her to ensure her safety.

"You can't do this, you cannot just barge in. This is our young master's private territory; what you are doing is too much..." the housekeeper stepped forward to block her.

"If you don't agree, you can move out. I'm not stopping you. Besides, your young master has already agreed, so why are you blocking me? Who do you think you are?"

Wang Yingzhi "openly and honestly" opened the rooms one by one to look inside.

Under the guise of choosing a room, she was actually trying to dig up some useful clues.