Chapter 2: Playing the Fool to Catch the Tiger

After the mother and daughter persuaded him for a long time, Shi Yucheng finally relented: "Alright."

After speaking, he stood up, prepared to go to the Study, walked two steps, then turned back to admonish: "Yuke, be a little nicer to your sister. Don't always call her a fool in your daily life; a young lady shouldn't be too mean."

"Got it," Yuke replied, making a face at her father's back in defiance, but she didn't take his words to heart at all.

However, thinking that the fool would soon replace her in marrying the blind man of the Sheng Family, and that the shares of the Sheng Family would belong to her, she felt better.

"Xuanxuan, where are you? Big sister will play a game with you."

Shi Youxuan bounced out from behind a pillar: "I'm here, Xuanxuan loves playing games the most..."

Yuke took several ten-yuan bills and one hundred-yuan bill out of her wallet, first threw a ten-yuan bill and that hundred-yuan bill onto the floor, then pursed her lips and smiled, waiting to watch a good show!

Shi Youxuan certainly didn't disappoint her; she picked up the ten-yuan bill without hesitation and stuffed it into her pocket, but didn't even glance at the hundred-yuan bill.

Yuke smiled until her eyes curved into slits, then threw another ten-yuan bill and the hundred-yuan bill onto the floor, but Shi Youxuan still picked up the ten-yuan bill without hesitation, then smiled at her sister with an innocent face.

"Wrong, let's do it again."

She threw the bills out again, but every time Shi Youxuan only picked up the ten-yuan one, while turning a blind eye to the hundred-yuan bill, every single time!

It wasn't until the last ten-yuan bill in Yuke's hand also ended up in Shi Youxuan's pocket that the hundred-yuan bill was still "abandoned" on the floor by the fool.

She hugged her mother's arm and acted like a spoiled child: "Mom, you saw it. I wanted to listen to Dad and be nicer to her, but she didn't want it."

"Alright, just listen to your father and be nicer to her. I'm tired from the day, I'm going back to my room to lie down for a while." As long as her own biological daughter was happy, Jiang Yadan didn't care whether Shi Youxuan was "losing out" or "taking advantage."

The game ended. Yuke picked up the hundred-yuan bill from the floor and patted Shi Youxuan's face: "A fool is just a fool." After saying this, she put the large bill into her wallet with satisfaction and turned to go back to her room as well.

Shi Youxuan laughed foolishly, her smile pure and ignorant.

Since she was small, she didn't know how many times they had played this kind of game. Every time, Shi Youxuan would pick the smaller denomination and give up the larger one. Yuke always mocked her for being a fool, but she didn't know that this was how Shi Youxuan had made her very first pot of gold.

When Shi Youxuan was twelve years old, she accidentally heard her parents arguing outside the Study!

It was then that she learned her biological father had left a large fortune in the Shi Family, and this money had somehow unknowingly ended up under her foster mother's name.

Shi Yucheng told Jiang Yadan to spit out the money and return it to his foster daughter.

Only then did Shi Youxuan realize that in the last two years, she had nearly died in "accidents" several times; thinking about it carefully, it must have had something to do with her foster mother!

Some people, for the sake of money, really can stop at nothing.

That afternoon, Shi Youxuan was pushed hard by Yuke on the stairs...

She rolled to the bottom of the stairs, fell unconscious, and after being resuscitated at the hospital, she became a "fool."

A fool would never have a day of independence. For so many years, Shi Youxuan had been feigning foolishness to protect herself.

Fortunately, Shi Yucheng was very good to her, giving Shi Youxuan a little warmth in this home, and Jiang Yadan, seeing that she would never be more outstanding than her own daughter, was much more tolerant of her. Just like that, she grew up safely to twenty years old.

She agreed to the substitute marriage to repay Shi Yucheng for his many years of raising her!

From then on, what she owed the Shi Family would be wiped clean.

And everything Jiang Yadan and Yuke had once done to her would also be time for a reckoning after she took the place in the marriage.

Shi Youxuan returned to her room, closed the door, then hugged her teddy bear doll and crawled into the wardrobe. She unzipped the back of the doll, reached inside and fished around... and pulled out a compact laptop.

The laptop opened silently. There were no icons on the desktop. Shi Youxuan skillfully pulled up a hidden folder, entered a password, and logged onto QQ. Jian Yining's avatar was flashing constantly. After clicking it, a string of messages popped up: Yingzi, Dingsheng Group has a secret major project with an investment of tens of billions. Should we get involved?

What do you think about the Qingfeng merger case?

Will you attend the company board meeting?

In fact, a project worth tens of billions or a merger that shocked the whole country were not the things Jian Yining cared about most. What he cared about most was whether Yingzi would attend the board meeting!

Yingzi was Shi Youxuan's online handle. The two of them met online five years ago by chance. Jian Yining was Shi Youxuan's partner, and the two of them jointly operated a venture capital firm.

Shi Youxuan was responsible for trading and making major company decisions, while Jian Yining was responsible for personnel transfers and specific administrative arrangements.

The company had been established for five years, and their partnership was perfect, only Jian Yining didn't know what Yingzi looked like, whether she was old or young, or if she was a man or a woman.

Shi Youxuan's ten fingers flew, typing out decisions on the keyboard and sending them over, then she closed the laptop, stuffed it back into the doll, walked out of the large wardrobe, and opened the bedroom door: "So hungry, Xuanxuan is so hungry!"