Chapter 54: Pretending to be a Girlfriend

He was seething with anger, and now Sheng Hanyu was twisting the knife in his heart; he really wanted to hit someone!

"Come with me."

Yingzi dragged Jian Yining into the room; the bedsheets were neat and tidy, with only a trace of someone having sat on the corner of the bed.

There was a chair opposite the bed, pulled right up against the desk, and there were quite a few papers laid out on the desk; the computer on the desk was still on, and the Word document on the screen was a price quote...

Yingzi hadn't been wrong; they really had been discussing work plans last night!

Jian Yining reacted extremely quickly, turning around with a face full of smiles: "Hard work, hard work. I bet you two haven't eaten breakfast yet, and I haven't either. Shall we go out and grab a bite together?"

It was normal for Yingzi to have no expression on her face, but Sheng Hanyu also had no expression—this was a precursor to settling scores later!

"I'll go buy it and bring it back; Hanyu Ge, you get some rest."

Jian Yining pulled Yingzi, wanting to slip away.

"Stop."

Sheng Hanyu's voice was not quiet; pretending not to hear would be a bit too much.

Jian Yining could only stop, biting the bullet as he turned back around, not forgetting to hide Yingzi behind him: "Hanyu Ge, you don't eat seafood, right? I remember."

"Don't change the subject."

Sheng Hanyu was perfectly clear about his little schemes.

The punch he had just taken still hurt on his face, but he wasn't angry in his heart.

Sheng Hanyu said: "Your sister is still alive, and I am going to wait for her here. You two go back. If you have anything in the future, come here to find me; I live here."

Jian Yining suspected something was wrong with his ears: "Hanyu Ge, I didn't hear clearly what you just said. Could you say it again?"

"Stop talking, let's go. I'll tell you on the way." This time it was Shi Youxuan who pulled him toward the outside.

Finally in the car, Jian Yining asked anxiously: "Can you tell me now? He said my sister is still alive; you aren't fooling him again, are you?"

Yingzi nodded guiltily: "Yes."

"Yes?"

"My god, what am I supposed to say about you?"

Jian Yining raised his hand to slap, but ended up hitting his own face: "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have let you use my sister's ID card back then."

If he had gotten Yingzi someone else's ID card back then, Sheng Hanyu wouldn't have followed the clues to find Yingzi, and none of the things that followed would have happened.

Now Yingzi's Apartment had been occupied by him—Jian Yining felt that Sheng Hanyu had done the right thing!

With the Apartment occupied, Yingzi could only live in his Villa; wasn't that just perfect?

Shi Youxuan didn't notice Jian Yining's little thoughts; she took a house sale contract out of her pocket and handed it to him: "Here."

"What is this?" He took it.

Shi Youxuan pursed her lips and smiled: "See for yourself."

She had been wearing the mask all night; although it was very thin, it wasn't breathable. Since she was in the car anyway, Shi Youxuan took the mask off to get some air.

Her fair skin was exposed to the sunlight, as tender and smooth as the white of a freshly peeled hard-boiled egg, and her features were perfectly matched, so beautiful that Jian Yining could hardly take his eyes off her.

Discovering that Jian Yining was staring at her, she put the mask back on and urged: "Look at the contract, why are you looking at me?"

Jian Yining unfolded the paper, and after reading it, his eyes widened in shock, exclaiming: "My god, Yingzi, you aren't joking with me, are you? A crappy apartment in exchange for ten percent of Dingsheng's shares? This deal of yours is quite a bargain..."

That was what he said, but Jian Yining knew it couldn't be a joke; Sheng Hanyu's own signature and thumbprint were at the bottom.

No wonder Sheng Hanyu had just said he would live in the Apartment from now on; the Apartment was his home.

It really was his home now, though the price paid was a bit high!

"Going home, going home."

Starting the car and driving off, Jian Yining said: "Since Sheng Hanyu is living in the Apartment from now on, you don't have to dress up as Achou in the Villa, right? And don't wear this mask either; there's no one else in the Villa, wearing this thing isn't breathable."

"No."

Shi Youxuan refused: "The people in the opposite villa know me."

Right.

He remembered; on the eve of his return to the country, he had requested to meet Yingzi online, and Yingzi had readily agreed and even sent him her location, which was Sheng Hanyu Villa.

At the time, he had mistakenly thought that the person he had been in contact with for five years but never met was Sheng Hanyu; later, when he thought about it carefully, the logic didn't hold up, and that was when he re-established contact with Yingzi.

"Did you use your real face when you lived in Sheng Hanyu Villa back then?" Jian Yining asked.

Shi Youxuan nodded: "Mm."

"Oh my."

Jian Yining tapped her forehead with his finger: "Tell me, are you stupid? Are you stupid? Why didn't you know to hide it a bit back then?"

Shi Youxuan: "At the time, I thought I'd stay for two days and then leave, never to be seen again in this lifetime. Who knew you guys would end up living across the street?"

This was the truth; she really hadn't expected it.

Jian Yining misunderstood; he thought Yingzi was just looking for a place to kill time back then, so she went to work as a servant for the Sheng Family, and he had never once thought that Yingzi and Shi Youxuan could be the same person!

"It's fine, just be careful when you go out. Let's go home." Jian Yining ended the topic and drove, preparing to return to the Villa.

Shi Youxuan asked: "When will you give me the new ID card?" He was speechless.

It wasn't that he hadn't taken the matter to heart, but that he was deliberately dragging his feet.

He had selfish motives; without an ID card, Yingzi could only live in his Villa, and he could see her every day.

"Hey, are you going to talk? You aren't trying to..."

Shi Youxuan was halfway through her sentence when Jian Yining's phone rang; he was just worrying about how to explain it, and the call came at just the right time.

The call was from Lady Jian.

Jian Yining: "Mom, what's the matter?"

Lady Jian: "A Ning, come home immediately, come back right now." His mother was very serious; it must be something urgent.

"Mom, I'm on the road; it'll take an hour to get home. What happened? Tell me about it first."

Lady Jian said, "Shi Yuke is at our house, and she says she is your girlfriend."

He immediately became anxious: "What girlfriend? Where is this even coming from? Mom, please don't believe her nonsense, it's absolutely not true..."

Lady Jian wanted to say more but hesitated; seeing her son speak this way, she stopped worrying, urged him to drive carefully, and said they would discuss the details after he got home.

Jian Yining hurriedly explained that he was afraid Yingzi would misunderstand.

He was overthinking it; not only did Yingzi not misunderstand, but after he hung up the phone, she ruthlessly mocked him: "Serves you right. I told you not to pay attention to that woman Shi Yuke, but you wouldn't listen."

"If you didn't believe me, fine, but you even brought her home. Now you've gotten mud all over yourself..."

Shi Youxuan's schadenfreude didn't last two minutes before she regretted it.

Because Jian Yining said, "Yingzi, come back with me, tell my parents you are my girlfriend, and make that woman get lost." After saying this, he didn't wait for her consent before turning the car around and driving back toward his home.

Shi Youxuan was startled and immediately objected: "No, Jian Yining, I don't agree. Stop the car immediately, did you hear me?"

He heard her, but he didn't stop at all, nor did he turn the car around.

Jian Yining said, "Yingzi, you can't just stand by and watch me die. Just help me this once, let's get Shi Yuke out of there first."

It wasn't that Shi Youxuan didn't want to help, but mainly because she hadn't disguised herself much today and only had a thin Human Skin Mask in her hand; she was afraid Shi Yuke would recognize who she was.

Shi Yuke was different from Sheng Hanyu; Sheng Hanyu had only seen her a limited number of times, and since his heart was never on Shi Youxuan, he hadn't linked Yingzi and Shi Youxuan together.

But Shi Yuke was different; the two grew up together, and she had always been resentful of Shi Youxuan's face and figure, so she remembered them particularly clearly.

Worried about being recognized yet unable to explain it clearly to Jian Yining, Shi Youxuan was extremely anxious, but at this moment, a shopping mall by the side of the road gave her a sudden inspiration.

"Stop the car, I'm going down to buy some clothes to change into."

Jian Yining just assumed she was nervous about meeting his parents and wanted to dress up, so he happily parked the car by the side of the road, preparing to accompany her down.

"No need, you wait in the car, I'll be back very soon."

It was indeed very soon, but when Yingzi returned, Jian Yining almost vomited blood!