Chapter 597: Financial Crocodile

"There is."

Her mother-in-law told her that when the two of them went on the luxury cruise, a young man stayed next door and had been very attentive to them the whole way, especially getting along famously with Sheng Jiang.

That man worked in finance!

"How old is that person, what is his accent, and do you have a photo of him?" Shi Youxuan's internal alarm bells rang loudly.

The first person she thought of was Zhu Yiwen!

Zhu Yiwen was not dead and had caused such a huge stir in L Country; if anyone said he would forget Sheng Hanyu and herself, Shi Youxuan would not believe it.

That man would stop at nothing, and he had failed last time by using Sheng Yukai.

This time, deliberately getting close to her father-in-law—it wasn't just possible, the probability was far too high.

"I have photos, I'll go get them for you to see."

Her mother-in-law turned back to the room and soon returned with a thick stack of photos.

There were photos of her father-in-law with that man, as well as group photos of the three of them together.

Some photos were taken on the cruise ship, and others were taken at tourist attractions along the way.

The man in the photos had an ordinary appearance and an unremarkable temperament, but just looking at the photos, one could feel a sense of affinity about him, making it very easy for people to take a liking to him.

Shi Youxuan dared not be careless; she was afraid this person had been sent by Zhu Yiwen.

Zhu Yiwen was no fool; he would not reveal his trump card so quickly.

"Mom, is he the one who has been chatting with Dad on WeChat recently? Dad seems very afraid of us finding out. It's not like it's a bad thing, so why not tell us? Is it because this person won't let him?"

"No, no."

Her mother-in-law explained to her: "Xiao Zhu is a very good person and didn't say he wanted to hide it from you. It's just that your father feels he has been spineless his whole life and needs to do something now to be worthy of the Sheng Family name..."

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law chatted for the whole morning.

Shi Youxuan figured it out: the man in the photos was named Zhu Xingye, and he also had the surname Zhu.

His ancestral home was R Country, but he worked on Wall Street in the United States. Because he completed a major project, the company rewarded him with a month of vacation, so he signed up for the luxury cruise and became their travel companion.

When Shi Youxuan returned the photos to her mother-in-law, she took the opportunity to hide one.

After lunch, during the lunch break, she sent the photo to Jian Yining and asked him to help investigate this man named Zhu Xingye.

Before long, the investigation results came out.

It was beyond Shi Youxuan's expectations.

The name Zhu Xingye was real, the person was real, and everything he had said to her father-in-law and mother-in-law was true!

Furthermore, he and Zhu Yiwen had absolutely no connection.

Except for sharing the same surname.

In the evening, Sheng Hanyu returned home.

After closing the door, Shi Youxuan showed her husband the information investigated during the day. He looked at it very carefully, but like his wife, he did not find any clues.

With a facial mask on, Shi Youxuan leaned over: "Husband, could it be that we are being too sensitive? Maybe this was just a chance encounter, and perhaps Zhu Xingye and Dad are just friends despite their age gap."

"Cannot be careless... ah!"

Sheng Hanyu looked up from the documents, and a pale face suddenly appeared before his eyes, giving him a fright.

"What kind of thing is this you've stuck on? Take it off, take it off, you'll scare someone to death." He reached out to peel it off, but she blocked him.

"Don't move, this is a hydrating mask Meiqi gave me, she said it's best to use it before sleeping."

Shi Youxuan didn't use masks before, yet her face was still supple and tender, with skin that was incredibly good.

But Meiqi said that after a woman turns twenty-five, moisture loss becomes severe.

Even if you can't feel it now, it will be too late when you do feel it later.

Moreover, she kept recommending skincare knowledge and its importance to her. Hearing it so often made it easy to be influenced, so when Meiqi strongly recommended the hydrating mask again, Shi Youxuan didn't refuse this time.

After using it once, it felt quite good.

This was her second time using it, and she had scared her husband.

"Your skin is very good even without masks; there's no need to stick this stuff on?" He still didn't like it.

He peeled it off in one go: "Huh? It actually seems quite good!"

Her beautiful face was supple, tender, and glowing; the more he looked, the more he loved it, so he leaned in...

"Mom—"

Shi Ran pushed the door open and entered: "My god, I'm sorry."

The daughter turned and went out, "Bang!" she closed the door for them.

The bit of romantic atmosphere from just a moment ago vanished into thin air instantly.

"It's all your fault. Why didn't you lock the door when you were the last one in?" Shi Youxuan said angrily, pinching her husband's arm.

Her husband was unconvinced: "Who was the last one to enter the room? Xuanxuan, you woman should be reasonable sometimes. Hand on your heart, tell me, who was the last one to enter the room just now?"

Shi Youxuan remembered; it was herself.

She was righteous and self-confident: "You, a grown man, are going to nitpick with me over such a small matter? Is it interesting? Is it? And your daughter, she doesn't even knock when entering someone else's room. How did you educate her to be so impolite..."

Turning black into white and making the unreasonable reasonable was Shi Youxuan's specialty.

In the past, Sheng Hanyu would always yield to her and dote on her.

But after a long time of always yielding, it was easy for him to feel unbalanced inside.

Gradually, he also began to resist, like now.

"You women are always like this. Every time you are unreasonable, you have to change the subject. Do you dare to put your hand on your heart and answer me directly: who was the last one to enter the room just now!"

She didn't manage to bluff her way through.

So Shi Youxuan touched the spot over her heart and once again became righteous and self-confident: "You were the last one to enter the room, so what? I'm saying it with my hand on my heart, do you have an opinion!"

"I have an opinion; you are lying."

"I didn't, you are the one twisting words."

The daily bickering of a married couple.

Sheng Hanyu: "You are just lying, you have no conscience at all; what you touched just now wasn't it."

Shi Youxuan: "Oh, you've grown quite capable now, haven't you? You can even insult people in a roundabout way. You're the one without a conscience, your conscience is rotten to the core..."

Sheng Hanyu: "Feel my conscience right here, let me feel where yours is!"

The couple laughed and played together.

"Snap!"

The light was turned off.

Sheng Jiang's company opened very quickly, and he gave it a very resounding name—Shengda Financial Group.

"Group" is usually a collective term for a company after it has grown and expanded; there really isn't anyone who would name a newly established company a "Group."

But Sheng Jiang insisted.

His reason for insisting was also quite funny—his son, daughter-in-law, nephew, and even his nephew's wife all controlled group companies; if the company he opened didn't have a resounding name, he would be laughed at!

Originally, when he opened the company, no one took it seriously, just treating it as a bit of fun.

Since no one took the company seriously, it didn't matter what it was called; he could call it whatever he liked, as long as he was happy!

On the day the company opened, the scene was quite grand.

Sheng Jiang booked the best hotel in Jiangzhou and sent out many Invitations.

The influential figures in the Jiangzhou business world all arrived; in addition, he invited political dignitaries, the Lüshi circle, the legal profession... basically every department that could show its face in Jiangzhou was invited!

When he was sending out the Invitations, he hadn't mentioned he would invite so many people, and Sheng Hanyu and Shi Youxuan only found out on the day of the opening.

But since people had come, they had to be hosted.

Yun Zhehao helped entertain the guests and, catching a spare moment, asked Sheng Hanyu: "Hanyu, you're not being a good friend; you started a finance company without even telling us, keeping it airtight."

His expression was already very ugly; he didn't know how many times he had heard such words today.

Everyone thought the company was started by him, and naturally, they had come here for his sake.