Chapter 233: The Sucker

"Not chasing."

Su Xi wanted to roll her eyes.

Su Yu also wanted to roll her eyes.

【How is this person so contrary? It doesn't match his menacing aura at all!】

【True. But I also agree with him not chasing. Yan Ranran's boyfriend is their family's sworn enemy, and moreover the perpetual runner-up who's always been suppressed by Ke Yuan!】

Wulongcha thought that the moment the Shui Family was mentioned, Su Yu might recall those dark days, so it chose to blur that man's information. If Su Yu didn't bring it up, it wouldn't volunteer it.

【Yan Ranran's public boyfriend and her secret boyfriend are sworn enemies. What is she thinking? Besides, the other one is a perpetual runner-up, which means that person's ability can't compare to Ke Yuan's. Why did she pick that guy? Is it because he's ugly, because he's incompetent? Or because the title of runner-up sounds nice?】

Su Yu didn't understand. This situation was too explosive! Especially since the Ke Yuan before her, setting aside his aura, looked genuinely handsome! Why did Yan Ranran refuse to be Ke Yuan's girlfriend back then? And why didn't she clarify that she wasn't Ke Yuan's girlfriend?

【Maybe she's after his money to spend.】

Wulongcha calculated the money the other party had spent on Yan Ranran. Sometimes, a single outing of theirs cost more than Ke Yuan's annual salary. The Ke Family absolutely could not afford that level of spending.

Su Yu didn't know the inside story. She was very puzzled: 【Was Ke Yuan unwilling to spend money on her when they were dating?】

Was Ke Yuan really that stingy?

【Host, would you ever complain about having too much money?】

【No, but I don't just take anyone's money either! Yan Ranran is no good. If she thought there was too little money, she could have told Ke Yuan directly. If Ke Yuan couldn't afford it, she should have just broken it off with him! Does her real boyfriend know? And he's willing to keep things like this?】

That's being cuckolded! Didn't they say a lot of people can't stand being cuckolded?

【They're all in the same circle—how could they not know!】

Wulongcha's channels for gathering information included groups within the circle. Those people had discussed the gossip about Ke Yuan and Yan Ranran more than once.

【Then why? Are there really devoted saintly suckers?】

Su Yu didn't believe it at all! A person raised surrounded by interests, yet still a pure-hearted romantic? More like a mutated species!

【He's playing a game. He likes to personally cultivate a puppet who loves him wholeheartedly, believes he's madly in love with her, and is willing to be his loyal dog, then has her marry into a peaceful family, and uses that woman to personally destroy that family. The woman will be reported and imprisoned by righteous people, spending the rest of her life in a cell. Yan Ranran is already his fifth target.】

Su Yu was a bit startled: 【Sending someone who loves him into another family and still making that woman believe him—there are quite a few perverts in the world!】

The world is simple, because it's all people!

The world is complex, because it's all people!

And Su Xi, synthesizing Su Yu's inner thoughts in her mind, instantly thought of a certain person. If it was him, then wasn't Ke Yuan just one link in that person's play?

Su Xi contacted Meng Xianle to confirm, focusing on investigating banquets that both Yan Ranran and Ke Yuan had attended. The hotels under the Su Family had hosted many banquets within the circle. If Yan Ranran and that man really had that kind of relationship, there would surely be some little telltale actions when they attended banquets.

Ke Yuan leaned against the sofa, his face dark and brooding, it was unclear what he was thinking. Su Yu had eaten her fill, finished listening to the gossip, and was a bit listless. She took the bouquet of decorative flowers on the table and plucked the petals off one by one. Before she finished plucking them, she was carried off to sleep by Ji Yan, who had hurried over in a rush.

In the quiet corner, there was only the sound of keyboard typing.

Zhu Xueheng, who had searched through most of the banquet venue, finally found these two.

"Oh, you two are here putting on a brooding act together?"

Zhu Xueheng walked over with a triumphant stride. He was here to share some good news this time. Even though he'd had bad luck at noon, running into a lunatic, the subsequent developments were very much to his liking.

His little princess was willing to let him, her father, marry her mommy. His wife also told him to prepare the wedding-related matters. The little princess even promised that she would be the flower girl who handed them the rings at the wedding ceremony. He felt that he had already stepped onto the path of a glorious life!

Why not the peak of life? Naturally because in the days to come, every tomorrow would be better than today!

Zhu Xueheng happily rambled through this good news, then looked at these two—one with an ice-cold expression, looking exactly like someone owed him tens of millions in unpaid debt, and one with a face as dark and gloomy as if his wife had died, looking like a rakshasa about to hit someone the next second.

"Aren't you two going to give any reaction at all?"

If these two hadn't looked so terrible, he would have wanted to shout, "Are we brothers or not?"

His great happy occasion—couldn't they give a somewhat normal reaction?

Su Xi's expression remained cold: "Congratulations. Don't forget the gift you promised our Xiao Yu."

She loved money!

"Sure!"

Zhu Xueheng was happy! His private coffers were ample, and he was delighted to throw money around. Only now did he feel he'd made a miscalculation! When it came to being a straight man, Su Yu was clearly more lively and adorable, with a sweeter way of speaking—a hundred times better than these two dark-faced brutes.

"Where is she? Did she get scared off by Ke Yuan's sour face?"

Zhu Xueheng remembered that Su Yu was a big-uncle-brain—wherever her uncle was, she was!

"Went to sleep."

Zhu Xueheng looked regretful: "That's too bad! Why not sleep here? Because Ke Yuan is too big and took up too much space?"

Su Xi: ……

Ke Yuan looked up, his gaze like a knife: "If you don't know how to speak, you can just not speak."

"Hah, I thought you were going to play brooding all afternoon. Why didn't you bring your girlfriend over? You two aren't married either, so you'd be perfect as my best man and bridesmaid. Then at my wedding, I'll give you the bouquet! When you two get married, this will definitely be a great story!"

Zhu Xueheng really couldn't hold it in. If his last shred of reason hadn't told him that this was the Su Family's banquet, Zhu Xueheng would have wanted to grab a microphone and announce this good news to everyone!

He, Zhu Xueheng, was going to hold a wedding with his already legally-wedded wife, Liang Lijiang!

From now on, they would be a properly married couple!

Anyone who tried to break them up was a homewrecker who deserved to be spat on! He could also, when a homewrecker came pestering, legitimately defend his marriage!

Ke Yuan's face grew even darker. That idiot crybaby Zhu Xueheng was getting married—his progress hadn't just been reset to zero, he'd also been slapped with a debuff!

Seeing that Ke Yuan simply refused to speak, Zhu Xueheng sidled up next to Su Xi. He'd originally wanted to ask what was wrong with Ke Yuan, but when he saw the computer screen, he clapped: "Clap, clap." "Oh, not easy—you're finally making a move on that family?"

Zhu Xueheng was thoroughly sick of that daughter Su Xi's adopted aunt had raised. That piece of work had a foul mouth, loved to flatter the high and step on the low, and relied on the sentiment from when Yang Zhichun had raised her mother to throw a tantrum every now and then—not enough to disgust people to death, but enough to disgust them!

It was clearly out of Yang Zhichun's kindness that she had raised the other party's mother for a period of time, allowing her mother to survive and grow up, yet every time, the mother-daughter pair's behavior made it seem as if the Su Family owed their family!

Not a shred of gratitude!

In Zhu Xueheng's opinion, the Su Family was just too good-tempered! Dealing with people like this only now instead of sooner was a real hidden danger!

"Grandma gave the word!"

Yang Zhichun had once had a daughter, but she wasn't born. Therefore, Yang Zhichun still had some genuine feelings for that daughter she'd picked up and raised for a while. But compared to Su Yu, who had suffered greatly, they—who had long since trampled all over Yang Zhichun's sincere heart with their constant antics—were nothing!

In the past, it was live and let live; whether they kept their distance or threw themselves at the family, Yang Zhichun didn't care. Now, they needed to get as far away as possible! If they wouldn't, he'd "help" them!

"It should've been this way all along! Our Xiao Yu is still the most useful!"

Su Xi didn't show it on his face, but nodded inwardly. Of course—Yang Zhichun already felt guilty toward Su Yu, so how could he possibly tolerate that family waving her banner to play the elder and scold Su Yu?

Soon there'd be two fewer dogs jumping around gleefully at every banquet, and Su Xi's mood improved considerably.

Zhu Xueheng brought up his wedding again at this point. "Our baby is amazing too! If not for her, I wouldn't have the wonderful life I have now. Ke Yuan, when are you going to have one? Whether the kid looks like you or like Yan Ranran, either would be great. Best if it's a daughter—let my daughter take your daughter out to play together!"

Su Xi twitched the corner of his mouth. You really are a master at bringing up exactly the topic that shouldn't be brought up!

"If a kid is actually born, it'll definitely be Yan Ranran's, but not necessarily Ke Yuan's. It might be the Shui Family's."

Ke Yuan's eyes suddenly turned bloodshot.

Zhu Xueheng jumped up in fright. "Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! What if he loses control and goes crazy? Couldn't you talk about this somewhere else?"

Su Xi hadn't wanted to either. He had just received news that his collaboration with the Xu family had gotten stuck. The people in that department wouldn't say exactly what was wrong with their documents—only that there were problems, telling them to re-verify everything themselves or go through the process again. And the head of that department was another son-in-law of the Shui Family.

The other side was being this blatant, which meant the Shui Family had grown too comfortable.

Su Xi happened to have free time—shouldn't he find something to keep them busy?

Meng Xianle's information had also just come through, and she'd even obtained a rather explosive video. He wasn't going to hold back!

"Why change locations? This spot is perfectly fine. Not many people come by."

This little corner was quiet; most of the guests were chatting in the central area.

Lin Junzhi, who had come over wanting to play with Su Yu: …

Right—she wasn't a person!

Lin Junzhi carefully backed away. She didn't notice that a bloodshot gaze followed her figure until she left.

Zhu Xueheng cautiously probed, "Can you still understand human speech?"

Ke Yuan sat where he was, like a lion ready to hunt at any moment. His aura startled Zhu Xueheng.

Zhu Xueheng nudged Su Xi. "If you've got something for him, don't rush to give it. Wait till he gets home. But in this state, he probably can't get home normally."

This guy looked like he was about to go on a killing spree! Though his reaction was perfectly normal too—who couldn't Yan Ranran have gone to? She actually went to that one from the Shui Family. Was she genuinely stupid or playing dumb?

"Ring ring ring~"

Ke Yuan saw the name displayed on the screen, calmed himself slightly, and tried his best to stay composed.

"Mom?"

"I got it. I'll head back right away."

Zhu Xueheng watched Ke Yuan stand up and hurriedly grabbed him. "Wait, you're really leaving?"

Zhu Xueheng was afraid that if Ke Yuan drove back in this state, there'd be a car accident.

Thanks for the votes, darlings~

Let me clarify the relationships here. Su Xi's grandmother had an adopted daughter—that is, Su Xi's adopted aunt—and the daughter born to that adopted daughter is the woman who earlier followed Su Yi inside and scolded Su Yu for being impolite.