Chapter 64: Please Show Some Self-Respect

Shi Yuke's face turned crimson immediately, but it was not from shyness, it was from anger: "Mr. Sheng, please show some self-respect. I am not familiar with you, so don't try to get chummy with me."

With his "prospective mother-in-law" present, Sheng Yukai was actually being this flippant; he was definitely doing it on purpose.

Jiang Yadan also saw it, blocking her daughter and looking stern: "My daughter is a girl from a good family. Don't you go spouting nonsense and affecting my daughter's reputation."

Sheng Yukai had been to the Shi Family twice, each time taking advantage of when Shi Yucheng was not home, but Jiang Yadan was always there.

Every time, she was incredibly enthusiastic toward Sheng Yukai, with the look of a mother-in-law eyeing a son-in-law, and the standard of hospitality was of the highest grade.

Yet now, she had suddenly turned hostile along with Shi Yuke, even pretending not to know him.

The three of them sat together, and with Jiang Yadan and Shi Yuke's cold attitude toward him, Sheng Yukai would truly be a fool if he couldn't see what was going on.

However, he did not expose the mother and daughter, but smiled instead: "Sorry to have bothered you."

Then he pulled his mother toward the seat where his father was sitting.

Bai Xue was puzzled: "Why didn't you expose them just now? They are just people who fawn over power and only know how to climb the social ladder."

She had never really taken a liking to Shi Yuke being her daughter-in-law in the first place.

But her not liking her was one thing; for Shi Yuke to want to climb the social ladder and look down on her son was another matter entirely.

Sheng Yukai smiled coldly: "Want to climb the social ladder? No problem, I can help her."

"Mom, don't worry about my affairs; just wait and watch the show."

Sheng Jiang's family of three was eating not far away, and the three people here were all very uncomfortable.

Especially Wang Yingzhi, who had been oppressed by Bai Xue for over twenty years; the habits she had formed were not easily changed.

Her eyes would unconsciously glance toward Bai Xue, fearing that she might suddenly take a whim to come over and pick a fight!

Although Shi Yuke and Jiang Yadan were outwardly calmer than Wang Yingzhi, they were also very uneasy inside, and the three of them ate this meal with their own hidden agendas, making it completely tasteless.

The dishes at Sheng Yukai's table hadn't even been fully served yet, and the party here had already broken up.

When leaving the restaurant, the three of them tacitly took a detour to exit, and only after walking out the front door did they all let out a long sigh of relief.

Wang Yingzhi took off the bracelet she hadn't managed to give away earlier and put it on Shi Yuke's wrist: "Yuke, from now on you are my daughter-in-law. After you and Hanyu get married, you must not flirt with Sheng Yukai."

Shi Yuke blushed, not knowing if it was from shyness or anger.

Her eye sockets were also red, and tears welled up in her eyes: "Sheng Yukai has pursued me, but I have never looked at him properly. If you don't believe me, Auntie, you should take the bracelet back."

She made a move to take it off, and Wang Yingzhi hurriedly pressed her wrist: "Don't take it off, I believe you. Auntie is just giving you a reminder, not doubting you... From now on, we two must be of one mind; you have to help me deal with that woman Bai Xue..."

The two hit it off immediately; while Sheng Hanyu still knew nothing, Wang Yingzhi had already found his next wife candidate and even given the betrothal gift!

The three parted ways at the restaurant entrance, and Wang Yingzhi did not go home, going directly to the Sheng Hanyu Villa to tell her son about this matter.

However, she had a wasted trip to the villa; her son was not there, and the housekeeper also knew nothing.

Where did he go, when would he be back, and why couldn't his phone be reached?

The housekeeper just shook his head, "don't know" to everything.

Wang Yingzhi sat in the living room in a huff, waiting; she didn't believe her son wouldn't return.

After waiting for several hours, her stomach bloated from drinking tea and she had run to the restroom a dozen times, but even as it got dark, Sheng Hanyu still hadn't returned.

Only then did she prepare to leave, but the few hours weren't spent sitting in vain; during this time, there was an endless stream of visitors delivering gifts and Invitations.

Only then did Wang Yingzhi realize that her son was so popular?

However, she didn't regret choosing Shi Yuke as her daughter-in-law; these people delivering gifts and Invitations hadn't gone to the Sheng Family Mansion to find her, but had sent them directly here, which meant they didn't take her seriously at all!

A daughter from such a family would not do.

Wang Yingzhi left, and the housekeeper hurriedly had the servants pack up the food, carrying the food box to the opposite side himself.

It was over an hour past dinner time, and as the housekeeper set the food on the dining table, he explained the reason for being late: "Sorry, Eldest Young Master, dinner was late. Madam came over suddenly this afternoon, and I could only come out after she left."

"Hmm." Sheng Hanyu grunted to show he knew.

He didn't ask what Wang Yingzhi had come for; it was nothing more than seeing his eyes were healed and wanting to use his influence to throw her weight around.

Or perhaps, like those uninvited guests opposite, she had the same goal of finding him a next wife, or maybe she had already found one and came to claim credit... anyway, it was definitely nothing good.

The meal was the same as at noon, with a table full of dishes, only there was an extra dish of spicy crab!

"Why was this packed in as well?"

As the housekeeper took it back, he explained: "This dish was brought by Madam, who insisted you liked to eat it. The kitchen packed it by mistake, so I'll take it back..."

Sheng Hanyu did not like seafood, but he loved spicy food.

Sheng Yukai did not eat spicy food and did not eat most seafood, but he liked crab the most.

Wang Yingzhi had probably been away from her son for too long and had mixed up the two men's tastes.

Shi Youxuan smelled the food in the room and came down from upstairs; the housekeeper was stunned when he saw her: "Who are you?"

She looked so familiar.

In the housekeeper's impression, there should only be a servant named Achou here who couldn't cook and was mediocre at cleaning.

As a result, a strange woman came down from upstairs; it wasn't Achou, and just looking at her face, she was a complete stranger, but the feeling she gave was very familiar—how to put it? She was very much like the missing Eldest Young Mistress.

She didn't answer, sitting directly at the dining table, her eyes glowing at the spicy crab!

Shi Youxuan loved spicy crab the most, bar none.

Sheng Hanyu personally took the spicy crab out of the food box and placed it in front of Yingzi: "If you like it, eat it all."

"Thank you."

Yingzi agreed happily, not even using chopsticks, picking up a piece of crab with her hands and putting it into her mouth, eating with great satisfaction.

The plate of spicy crab soon hit the bottom, and it was too late when Shi Youxuan realized the two of them had been staring at her the whole time.

The housekeeper was stunned: "The way you ate the crab just now was really like our Eldest Young Mistress, exactly the same."

Sheng Hanyu glared at him, and the housekeeper realized he had been loose-lipped, hurriedly saying: "Please enjoy your meal, I'll come back to clean up in a while." Having said that, he turned to leave.

Sheng Hanyu: "No need to come back tonight; take one thing back when you deliver the food tomorrow."

So he interpreted it as the Eldest Young Master not wanting to be disturbed, and agreed hurriedly, leaving quickly.

"Do you like eating crab?" Sheng Hanyu asked.

It wasn't just the housekeeper who thought they were alike; the way Yingzi ate crab was exactly the same as Shi Youxuan, and now he also felt the two were alike.

The way she ate was the same, their height was the same, their figure... he stared at the woman, and Shi Youxuan felt her heart creeped out by his gaze, very afraid that she would be recognized by the man.

"Where are your eyes looking? Keep looking and I'll dig your eyeballs out."

She put her hands on her hips and began to speak without restraint, looking fierce and malicious: "No wonder Jian Yixin doesn't want to come out to see you. You have a woman in your heart, you occupy a woman in name, and there are countless women outside thinking of you. What are you still looking at me for? Are you short of women?"

Sheng Hanyu's face was so gloomy that ink could be wrung out of it, but he didn't look away; he just stared, his scrutinizing gaze turning into a glare!

Yet she didn't know how to restrain herself at all: "Tsk tsk, you really can't judge a book by its cover. Someone like you, who looks cold and arrogant on the outside, is actually eating from the bowl while eyeing the pot, and still thinking about someone else's vegetable patch... Ah! What are you doing?"