Chapter 47: Taking the Initiative to Offer Favors

If it were anyone else, she would certainly accept a smiling face offered to her door, but for Shi Yuke, she would pass.

From childhood to adulthood, she understood all too well what kind of person Shi Yuke was.

Two-faced, turning against someone faster than flipping a book, and only using people when she needed them.

If she were still able to fall for Shi Yuke's tricks, she would truly be a fool!

"Go cook, don't try to get chummy, I'm not close to you."

……

With her warm face pressed against a cold butt, Shi Yuke looked at Jian Yining with grievance, but Jian Yining was only focused on the game on his phone, as if he hadn't even heard the conversation between the two women.

It was only when Shi Yuke had just walked into the kitchen that he leaned over: "Why do you always make things difficult for her? Did you two have some conflict in the past?"

"Stop talking nonsense, mind your own business."

Yingzi retorted with a single sentence.

When the dining table was covered with plates and bowls, Shi Yuke was so tired she had no appetite at all.

She only wanted to take a nice bath now, and then go to bed for a sleep.

But this thought was ultimately suppressed; she had worked hard to prepare a whole table of food just for the plan ahead, and she could not fall short at the final hurdle!

"Achou, taste this Kung Pao Chicken and see if it suits your palate?" Shi Yuke used a serving spoon to scoop a full spoonful of Kung Pao Chicken into Achou's bowl.

This was the dish she was best at; the chicken was fresh and tender, the cucumber refreshing, the peanuts crispy, interspersed with bright red chili peppers and golden diced carrots—just looking at it gave one an appetite.

Achou did not stand on ceremony, tasted it, and gave her evaluation: "Not bad."

This was the first time Achou had praised her, and Shi Yuke was very happy; she became even more attentive in serving her food, and insisted on finding merits to praise Achou for.

If there weren't any, she would force the praise.

Jian Yining seemed to be ignored; she was sucking up to Achou the whole time, and Achou was accepting it all.

Offering favors without a reason—if not for evil, then for theft.

After cleaning up the bowls and chopsticks after the meal, Shi Yuke said seemingly unintentionally: "A Ning, you came out very early, it's already afternoon, is it okay not to go home? Won't your mother be unhappy?"

"No."

Jian Yining didn't know what she was plotting, so he spoke the truth: "Even if I don't go back for a few days, it doesn't matter. I moved out to live alone a long time ago, and they are used to it."

"Is A Ning going to live here too?"

Jian Yining: "Yeah, am I welcome?"

Shi Yuke bit her lip and lowered her head, only looking up after a long while to say with difficulty: "A Ning, if you are going to stay here tonight, I will have to move out. It's not convenient to live together; it doesn't sound good."

Anyone who heard her say this would think Shi Yuke was a clean and self-respecting girl, but Shi Youxuan knew that was not the case at all; she had already lost her virginity when she was a freshman in college.

At that time, Shi Yuke's boyfriend was a rich second-generation heir who loved her dearly and gave her many expensive gifts, so the two naturally got together.

But later, Shi Yuke's horizons broadened, and she felt her boyfriend wasn't good enough for her, so they broke up.

Later, she dated several boyfriends one after another, each one richer and with more social status than the last.

But these people had one thing in common: no matter how they flirted outside, they all wanted their girlfriends to be virgins, which made Shi Yuke realize how stupid she had been to give herself away so easily.

Thus, she became increasingly "reserved" and would no longer let men get close to her body easily.

The more "reserved" she was, the more men cherished her, but this time Shi Yuke misunderstood; Jian Yining wanted to stay not because of her, but because he wanted to be under the same roof as Yingzi.

Jian Yining said readily: "I'll go home, you stay."

Originally, he said he would go back, intending to leave in the evening, but Shi Yuke looked defensive, and the way she looked at him was as if she were looking at a pervert.

He was a very considerate person who never made things difficult for others, so seeing this, he stood up from the sofa to take his leave: "Then I'll head back first and come see you all tomorrow."

"Okay, A Ning, you really are a good person; you are nothing like those playboy rich kids."

Shi Yuke knew that these rich and powerful young masters grew up listening to the praise of others since they were children.

They had heard every nice thing there was to hear and were immune to flattery.

But everyone likes to hear nice things; to praise them, one must be fresh and refined, and innovate!

So all her praise for these people was about how they were "different from others," creating a feeling of standing out from the crowd.

Jian Yining finally left, and Shi Yuke was overjoyed, preparing to start her plan, but when she turned to look for Achou in the living room, she wasn't there.

Finding her upstairs, she could hear the sound of Achou snoring from the hallway.

She frowned; a vulgar woman, snoring even while taking an afternoon nap.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Shi Yuke knocked lightly three times.

Her brow was furrowed, but her voice was as gentle as could be: "Achou, Achou!"

Achou wasn't sleeping in the room at all; the snoring was just a sound file being played.

She sat cross-legged on the bed with a laptop in front of her; the page displayed all the business projects of Dingsheng, which basically overlapped with the business scope involved by the Sheng Family!

Sheng Hanyu and Sheng Yukai were at odds; this was a fact plain to see.

But what puzzled her was, since the Sheng Family Old Master clearly favored Sheng Hanyu more, why would he let Sheng Yukai manage the company?

Being unable to see was simply not a reason.

By finding a few capable assistants and a Secretary, even if one couldn't see, one could still dominate the company; there must be a reason for the Old Master not to let him take over the Sheng Family.

Or perhaps he himself was unwilling, in which case there was nothing to be done.

But why would he be unwilling?

And since he could clearly see, why pretend to be blind?

"Dingsheng" Group—she had originally thought the company was named this for luck, meaning to be the most top-tier and prosperous, but later she saw that was not the case at all.

The meaning of "Dingsheng" should be to replace the Sheng Family.

Shi Youxuan couldn't figure out why he had to complicate simple things; he insisted on giving up what was within his reach with great effort, and then spent even more effort creating a company to destroy it!

Was his brain flooded?

It must be.

She hadn't figured it out yet when Shi Yuke came to harass her; it started with a soft knock on the door, then gradually grew heavier, and when she ignored her, she just kept knocking endlessly!

Putting away her computer, she opened the door angrily: "Are you sick? It's nap time, what are you doing if you're not sleeping?"

Shi Yuke put on a smiling face: "Achou, come with me to the Villa across the way."

"What are you going there for?"

Achou's face sank; it was already unsightly, and because of her displeasure, it looked even worse.

Tears welled up in Shi Yuke's eyes, and with reddened rims, she said: "My sister is the Eldest Young Mistress over there; she is missing now, and I miss her very much. I want to go see the place where she once lived to soothe my longing..."

When Shi Yuke reached the "affectionate" part, tears fell in torrents; if one didn't know the truth, one would really think she and Shi Youxuan had a very good relationship.

But she could never have dreamed that the Achou in front of her was her foolish sister, Shi Youxuan.

At this moment, she was watching her performance with cold eyes, and no matter how vivid and emotional her performance was, Achou didn't have the slightest reaction!

"Are you done?"

Shi Yuke's mouth was dry from talking, and she nodded: "I'm done."

"If you're done, get out, go, go, go." Achou started shooing her out.

After putting in so much effort to curry favor, she was just going to be kicked out like this? Shi Yuke was naturally unwilling to give up, so she didn't leave: "Achou, is your heart made of iron? Could it be that after I said so much, you aren't moved at all?"

Shi Youxuan thought to herself: It's already good enough that I had the patience to listen to your nonsense for so long, and you want me to be moved? Moved my foot!

"If you miss your sister, just move over there to live. There are plenty of servants and the house is big, there are plenty of people to wait on you; you can miss her however you want."