Chapter 95: The Mysterious Invitation

Yingzi's shoulders heaved, tears streaming down her face, and then she couldn't control herself and ran out.

"I'll go check on her." Jian Yining chased after her.

He was the only one who knew Yingzi's true identity, and he also knew that Yingzi was feeling emotional because of the scene.

When he went out, he saw she hadn't run far; she was hiding in a corner, crying quite sorrowfully. Jian Yining ran over and handed her a tissue: "Wipe your face, stop crying. You have to control your emotions; it's very easy to be found out this way."

Yingzi nodded, saying through her tears, "Mm, I know, I won't cry."

She said she wouldn't cry, but she was still very sad.

Jian Yining said, half-serious and half-teasing: "I'll lend you my shoulder, lean on it however you like."

"Sob, sob, sob..."

Yingzi really did lean on Jian Yining's shoulder and cried to her heart's content. Before she saw Shi Yucheng, she felt she was very strong, and she also felt very free outside.

Being Yingzi was much more comfortable than being Shi Youxuan; she could do whatever she wanted and go wherever she wanted.

But every time she saw Shi Yucheng, she was deeply moved and felt profound self-reproach!

Her father loved her so very much. It had only been two months since she "went missing," yet his hair was almost entirely white, and his back had become hunched from worry; he looked as if he had aged twenty years.

Shi Youxuan knew in her heart that this was all because he had been worried sick and fretting over her day and night.

She didn't dare to imagine how heartbroken her father would be if he knew she hadn't been lost at all, and that she was not far from him but refused to come out to see him!

Seeing that he couldn't coax her no matter what, Jian Yining said casually: "Yingzi, you really can't keep crying. Today is the Sheng Family Old Master's funeral. If you cry like this, people who don't know better will think you're crying for the Old Master."

This line worked, and it had an immediate effect.

Shi Youxuan stopped crying. Jian Yining was right; in this state, it was indeed easy for people to misunderstand.

It would be bad if they misunderstood that she and Sheng Hanyu had something going on. After all, she wasn't the closest person to him; who would cry like a dog at a friend's elder's funeral?

After the funeral, the Old Master was laid to rest.

The very next day, almost everyone in the business world of Jiangzhou City received a mysterious Invitation!

It invited everyone to attend a cocktail party jointly hosted by Dingsheng Group and Tianma Group three days later. The Invitation was very polite: We respectfully request your presence!

They would definitely attend; that didn't even need to be considered. Although they didn't know who had sent the Invitation, the name of Dingsheng Group was like thunder to the ears. Everyone had only heard of it but had never actually seen the big boss behind Dingsheng.

There were only legends of Dingsheng in the world, and no one had ever seen the true face of the BOSS. Now that the BOSS was about to show their face, Jiangzhou was almost boiling over!

Moreover, it wasn't just him; there was also that legendary investment genius partner behind Tianma, which made everyone equally curious.

Originally, everyone thought Tianma was founded solely by Jian Yining, but Jian Yining had said he had a partner. Those classic cases and projects that made a fortune were basically the work of the partner.

But who was his partner?

They had been kept from appearing for a long time, and this time they would likely see both ultimate big BOSSes together. It was hard not to be excited.

Sheng Family Mansion.

"Auntie, I beg you, please just let me see A Kai once. I was really dragged away by my father that day; I didn't mean to..." Shi Yuke stood outside the main gate, her face covered in tears, pleading bitterly.

This was already her third time coming here, but each time she couldn't even get through the main gate!

That day at the press conference, Shi Yuke had first spotted Sheng Hanyu and his group on the surveillance, but she hadn't noticed Shi Yucheng finding the room where she was staying.

In order to curry favor with Sheng Yukai and fool around with him, Shi Yuke had kept saying she was staying at her cousin's house, but she had forgotten to collude with her cousin!

Jiang Siwei went to the Shi Family to play with Shi Yuke... and that was how Shi Yucheng discovered his daughter had been lying the whole time.

Shi Yucheng couldn't get through to his eldest daughter's phone and was going to the TV station to post a missing person notice. When Jiang Yadan saw she couldn't suppress it, she told the truth, so he found the Presidential Suite at the Prince Hotel and forcibly took Shi Yuke away.

Shi Yuke first said the wrong thing, and then vanished without a word.

Bai Xue, who was already full of anger, immediately vented all of this onto Shi Yuke.

Bai Xue said many bad things about Shi Yuke in front of her son, saying that for Sheng Hanyu to find the press conference so accurately, it must have been Shi Yuke who tipped him off.

She also said that a woman like Shi Yuke was someone who would abandon her principles for profit. Don't look at how she acted submissive and pretended to be obedient on the surface; in reality, she must have taken money from Sheng Hanyu to deliberately sabotage him.

She also said Shi Yuke was playing both sides, being good to whoever was more powerful, and that she didn't truly love Sheng Yukai at all... "Take this opportunity to make a clean break with her and find a wife who is worthy of your status..."

Sheng Yukai wasn't stupid; he could feel whether Shi Yuke was sincere or fake now.

But with his mother saying it so often in his ear, the scales in his heart did indeed start to tilt!

He hadn't really wanted to marry Shi Yuke in the first place, so now that his mother strongly opposed it, he just went with the flow and agreed.

So he added Shi Yuke's phone number to his blacklist, deleted her on WeChat, and when she came to the door, he avoided seeing her, letting his mother handle it instead.

"Hurry up and leave. If you don't leave, I'm calling the police."

Bai Xue didn't hide her inner disgust for Shi Yuke at all, and even used harsh words: "This is truly the first time I've seen a woman as thick-skinned as you. People don't want you anymore, yet you still cling to them. What kind of thing are you?"

Shi Yuke still didn't give up, pleading bitterly: "Auntie, what happened that day really was a misunderstanding. Please let me see A Kai; I will explain it to him face-to-face. Just one meeting, please?"

"No."

Bai Xue's last bit of patience was exhausted by Shi Yuke. At this moment, the clear sky suddenly became windy, dark clouds gathered from all directions, and soon, bean-sized raindrops began to patter down.

Bai Xue had long since hidden inside the house, sitting on an Italian leather sofa, drinking hot tea, eating snacks, and watching TV.

Shi Yuke hadn't left yet; she stood in the heavy rain, her whole body soaked through!

She firmly believed Sheng Yukai was at home and hadn't gone anywhere; he was just hiding from her.

Wang Yingzhi leaned against the window and watched for a long time. Unable to bear it, she said to her sister-in-law: "Why don't you let the girl in? It's quite pitiful, the rain outside is so heavy..."

Bai Xue retorted with just one sentence: "Let her in for what? To be a concubine for the eldest brother?"

This was a very excessive thing to say, but Wang Yingzhi didn't dare to refute it.

She sheepishly shrank back from the window and went upstairs with her head lowered.

Sheng Yukai was indeed just as Shi Yuke had guessed; he hadn't gone anywhere for the past two days and was at home.

He saw everything—how Shi Yuke stood in the heavy rain outside without hiding or avoiding it—and his heart ached!

But he still couldn't go out to see her; he could tell Shi Yuke was performing a bitter-suffering ruse.

If he went out now, it would be even harder to get rid of that woman later.

Sheng Yukai left the window and "swish" pulled the curtains shut; although his heart ached, he could not go out, so he simply decided that what the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over.

"It's bad, Miss Shi has fainted..." a servant shouted from outside.

He scrambled up from the bed to look outside; the main gate was already open, and two servants were carrying Shi Yuke toward the gatehouse...

Sheng Yukai pulled the door open and rushed out, but when he reached the living room, he was held back by his mother: "What are you doing? I'm telling you, don't be foolish at a time like this; Ying Zi of Tianma is the one you should be concerned about. If you get entangled with this woman again, you won't have a single chance left!"