Chapter 114: Earnest Confession

Shi Youxuan was slightly stunned, but she soon said, "Stop messing around; you still have the mood to joke with me at a time like this."

Jian Yining grew anxious: "Yingzi, look into my eyes. I am not joking with you; I am speaking to you very seriously, confessing my feelings to you."

"I like you—no, I love you."

"I liked you very much even before I had met you. At that time, I thought that after returning to the country, I must confess to you and be with you forever..."

Shi Youxuan interrupted: "What if I were an old lady?"

Jian Yining: "As long as you are single, an old lady is fine too."

Shi Youxuan: "What if I were a man?"

Jian Yining: "Yingzi, I like you. The person I like is just you. Whether you are a woman or a man, young or old, beautiful as a flower or an ugly monster, it is not a problem. I only love you; I love you as a person, just you and no one else."

Shi Youxuan pulled her hand away from his grip with force, stood up, and pushed him toward the door: "Go back. Don't add to my troubles right now; I'm already troubled enough..."

"I am serious, will you consider it?"

"Out, out, don't make trouble."

Shi Youxuan pushed Jian Yining out the front door, then closed it, only then leaning against the door and letting out a long, heavy sigh!

Can't do anything right, but number one at making trouble.

She couldn't even handle one Sheng Hanyu, and now with Jian Yining added to the mix, is this going to be the death of her?

Jian Yining's confession was deep and sincere; it would be a lie to say she wasn't moved.

But being moved does not equate to love.

……

Yingzi had been "missing" for three days.

For these past few days, no one could find where she was; her phone was off, and she wasn't replying to QQ or WeChat.

Jian Yining regretted that he shouldn't have confessed so suddenly, as it had scared her away to the point where even he couldn't find her.

Sheng Hanyu, however, didn't have much of a reaction; he didn't even look for her, just busying himself with whatever he needed to do, without a hint of anxiety.

The Land King auction began. Dingsheng and Tianma jointly won the plot of land. Sheng Yukai threw his bidding paddle on the spot and left with a dark face and no grace at all!

This auction was the first formal showdown between him and Sheng Hanyu in the business world!

Everyone was treating this showdown as a weather vane; if he won, the Sheng Group would remain the boss of Jiangzhou, and his status would remain unchanged.

But if he lost... the future would be unpredictable.

Sheng Yukai had put a lot of effort and preparation into this auction; he had been determined to win, yet he lost thoroughly.

He was in a bad mood and went to a nightclub to drown his sorrows in alcohol.

Yelaixiang Bar.

"Yo, who is this? Our great Chairman Sheng has arrived. You haven't been here for a long time; have you been bewitched by some little vixen elsewhere?" The madam of Yelaixiang twisted her water-snake-like waist, her scarlet-nailed finger pointing at Sheng Yukai's forehead.

The madam was twenty-seven or twenty-eight; although she wasn't young, her figure was beyond reproach.

Sheng Yukai pinched her waist flirtatiously: "Cut the crap, you're keeping me company today."

"Alright, whatever way you say you want company, I'll listen to you today..." The two of them embraced each other and went to a private room.

Drinking until midnight, Sheng Yukai's tongue was thick from intoxication, yet he still wanted more.

"You can't drink any more; it's bad for your health. Shall we continue drinking tomorrow?" The madam coaxed Sheng Yukai with soft words, asking if he wanted to rest here or get a room at a hotel.

Sheng Yukai slurred: "Send, send me home! I want to go home to sleep!"

"Fine, I'll listen to you and send you home."

The madam wanted to have the nightclub's Security Guard send him, but he didn't agree; he insisted that she personally send him back.

If he wanted her to send him, she would. Upon arriving at the Sheng Family Mansion, the madam helped the dead-drunk Sheng Yukai through the front gate.

Bai Xue was shocked enough to see her son dead-drunk, but she was even more shocked to see a seductive woman bringing him back: "Who are you? How could A Kai be with you?"

She looked down on Yuke, but the woman in front of her clearly wasn't a respectable person, and Bai Xue looked down on women of this status even more.

The woman was used to reading people's expressions; she could tell that the noble lady before her looked down on her.

"I'm his girlfriend. Where is A Kai's bedroom? I'll send him back to his room."

Her voice wasn't low, and Yuke, who happened to be coming out of a room, heard it clearly.

"You said you are whose girlfriend?" Yuke's nose was almost crooked with anger. She had been worried and anxious at home all night, only for her husband to return home with a disreputable woman from outside, who even claimed to be his girlfriend.

"I'm A Kai's girlfriend, didn't you hear clearly just now?" Seeing Yuke, the madam didn't shrink back; instead, her arrogance grew: "You must be Mrs. A Kai, right? We're both women, so let's not make things difficult for each other. A Kai belongs to me tonight; you go find another room to sleep in."

As she spoke, she helped Sheng Yukai upstairs, preparing to take over the nest.

Yuke stood on the stairs and blocked their path, so angry she couldn't even speak clearly: "You, you shameless thing, get out of here immediately."

Even if Bai Xue looked down on Yuke, she still felt her son was in the wrong here.

Bringing a woman from a house of ill repute home in the middle of the night was indeed going too far!

She prepared to order a servant to take over for the young master and then kick the woman out, but by then, the two women were already arguing on the stairs.

Yuke cursed her for being shameless, saying that seducing her man wasn't enough, and she even had the nerve to come to someone's home.

She cursed the woman for being seductive and lewd, a woman who would be slept with by a thousand men and never married by anyone her whole life!

Such words had no effect on the woman, but the madam's counterattack almost made Yuke die of anger.

The madam mocked Yuke for putting on airs and acting like the Chairman's Wife, when in reality, she was no different from her!

She even said that if she hadn't taken advantage of Sheng Yukai's crisis to strike while the iron was hot, she would never have had the chance to marry in; she was just a hen that couldn't lay eggs, so what right did she have to clamor in front of her?

These were all things Sheng Yukai had said while drunk; of course, he hadn't just said these things while drunk, he had also said he wanted to divorce Yuke and marry the madam...

The madam wouldn't take it seriously, but that didn't stop her from using these words to anger Yuke.

Yuke was furious and, from her higher position, gave her a hard push—"Ah!" The madam fell backward, but with Sheng Yukai as a cushion, the two of them tumbled down the stairs together.

"A Kai!"

Watching her son tumble down the stairs, Bai Xue rushed over in a panic.

It was just that she was too late; Sheng Yukai had already rolled down the stairs to her feet, bruised and battered!

"It hurts, ouch, it hurts so much!" Sheng Yukai sobered up in a daze, and upon waking, he discovered he was lying on the floor at home.

"Ouch—"

The madam climbed up from the floor and immediately started throwing a tantrum, rolling around in the lobby.

She even took out her phone to take a selfie, then sent it to her friends at the nightclub, telling them to find reporters and call the police, claiming that she had been beaten by the Chairman's Wife at the Sheng Family...

Such a huge commotion startled everyone.

In the end, it was Sheng Hai who stepped in, settling the matter with the madam using money, making her delete the photos on her phone, and giving her enough hush money for the matter to be dropped.

Sheng Yukai was taken back to his room by the servants, and Bai Xue applied medicine to him personally.

Fortunately, other than suffering some flesh wounds, he had not broken any bones. As Bai Xue applied the medicine, she nagged: "There is no woman like your wife; this woman's heart is too cruel. She didn't show any mercy when she pushed you. I think she just wanted to kill you; she has no good intentions..."