In the end, Xia Wan failed to keep A Miao from leaving. When Xia Mei suddenly awakened, A Miao took advantage of Xia Wan's frustration. She shook off Xia Wan and escaped. The moment she walked out of the hotel entrance, she saw Shen I standing next to a car.
"Boss wants to see you." He opened the car door.
A Miao glanced at the car emblem and found that she did not recognize this one either. She curled her lip and entered the car. When she discovered it to be empty, she asked, "Where is he?"
"Don't tell me you think that Boss would stay here and wait for you." Shen I looked at her through the rearview mirror.
A Miao chuckled and lowered her head. "Just pretend that I didn't say that."
The car journey appeared to stretch on. Only when the sky seemed to have completely darkened, did the car stop in front of the entrance into an appealing antique courtyard. She followed the man in black passing through the long winding corridor as if she had entered an antique courtyard.
"She's here, Boss."
The heavy doors carved out of real wood were pushed open from the inside. A man appeared and made a gesture to invite A Miao inside. She slowly entered and walked past a splendid screen to see Shen Xinglan sitting on top of a tall step.
"My subordinate told me that you didn't answer your phone. Hm?" He reclined his back so that it rested against the armrest. He narrowed his eyes at her.
A Miao's skin was threatening to break out in goose pimples. The man sat high up on the steps, looking like a hegemon that commanded the world.
"Do you want to die? Have you lost your tongue?"
A Miao rubbed the space between her eyebrows. "It was an inconvenient time." She smartly took a seat nearby. "It's not like you're unaware of this."
When Shen Xinglan looked at her dull eyes, he looked away. "I'll get in touch with the Xia family at the end of the month. I'll be attending Xia Wan's birthday banquet."
"You want me to get going during the banquet?" There would be so many people at the banquet. Even if Xia Yongqiang lost his bronze mirror, he would not know who had done it. It wasn't like he could make everyone stay and search their bodies!
"Is there any problem?" Shen Xinglan thought that she was unwilling to.
A Miao shook her head. "Why didn't you make a fake one?" If there was a fake at hand, it would be a piece of cake to exchange it with the real thing and end the issue.
"I don't want to bother putting in that much effort." Shen Xinglan leaned against the armrest, his look appearing to tell A Miao that this had nothing to do with her. She clenched her teeth. She knew that he was talking nonsense but she had no way of rebutting him.
"Fine. I'll steal the bronze mirror and pass it to you at the banquet. Whether or not you can take it away will have nothing to do with me."
Shen Xinglan stared coldly at her. "No. You must take it out of the banquet and pass it to my subordinate."
"Why must I?" A Miao retorted angrily. "Do you think that the Xia family would let me take even one step out of the house?"
Sheng Xinglan smirked. "Because you owe me a favor today. Therefore you must take the bronze mirror out of the banquet."
A Miao was about to reply when he raised his hand. "Do you know how much the injection costs?"
"H-How much…"
Shen Xinglan extended his finger. Under the light, his finger appeared to be bewitchingly beautiful. Unfortunately, A Miao was in no mood to admire it and asked nervously, "One hundred?"
"Pfft!"
The man sneered.
A Miao clenched her teeth. "One thousand?"
"Keke!"
This time, he laughed in jest twice.
"D-Don't tell me it's ten thousand?" She refused to believe this.
Shen Xinglan knocked on the armrest. "One hundred thousand!"
"You psycho!" A Miao shouted. "One hundred thousand for a shot! You might as well go and rob someone!"
"How did your cousin sober up?" Shen Xinglan suddenly asked.
A Miao recalled how Bai Youran and Xia Mei had fallen unconscious after consuming the antidote. When Xia Mei woke up, she was still muddle-headed and kept crying about her headache.
"Don't you understand now?"
"I do…" A Miao replied dejectedly. She could immediately run and jump after getting the shot and suffered no after-effect whatsoever. So it turned out that the price for this was one hundred thousand. Had she known this earlier, she would rather fall unconscious.
Shen Xinglan nodded. "Remember this. If they capture you…"
"I must never tell them that I know you or it'll my head on the floor!" She continued his words for him in a single breath.
"Well said." Shen Xinglan waved his hand in a lazy manner. "You can go. Remember that you can't reject my calls in the future."
Instead of leaving, A Miao sat down and looked at him. "I'm hungry. I haven't had a bite to eat."
Shen Xinglan narrowed his eyes. This woman sure had guts!
"I'll hang up your call if I don't have anything to eat." A Miao hugged herself.
"Shen I!" he called out in a low voice. "Take her out for a meal."
A noise came from outside the door. Just as A Miao was about to turn around, she stopped and slowly walked up to him instead.
"Don't close to me." Shen Xinglan looked at her in disgust.
A Miao grinned and extended her hand to touch his body. She then immediately turned around and ran away.
Dumbfounded, Shen I watched as A Miao walked over to him. "Chop off her hands and feed them to the dogs!" Shen Xinglan's bellow came drifting from inside. A Miao unabashedly shouted, "If you chop off my hands, you won't have anyone doing the stealing for you!" Moments later, it sounded as if something was being thrown to the floor. When Shen I heard nothing else with his perked ears, he looked at A Miao with a complicated expression. "Come with me." "What do you want to eat?" he asked when they entered another house. "Meat!" A Miao answered without hesitation. Shen I left without saying anything. A Miao looked around the room and realized that it was yet another attic. There was a pond outside and the water appeared hazy in the dark of the night and underneath the serene moonlight. "Wicked capitalist!" She felt a deep sense of envy and once again cursed out Shen Xinglan's eight gene
Bai Youran itched to throttle A Miao to death at this moment. With a face full of tears, Xia Wan had told him about the circumstances back then. She said that she had no idea what happened to him and Xia Mei until A Miao showed up saying that both of them were drugged. It was also A Miao who came up with the antidote. "Mom, I don't agree with the change in my fiancee. Get Grandma to tell the Xia family that we'll cancel the marriage alliance if I can't marry Xia Wan!" That wretched woman had schemed against him. Had Xia Mei not gone with him, he would have slept with that woman and he would have been forced to marry her. He would not have let A Miao off if not for the fact that Xia Wan worried about the impact on Xia Mei if this incident became public. Yan Huihong looked at her son and sighed. "Do you really like Xia Wan that much?" "This isn't about whether I like her or not." Bai Youran resolutely exhaled a breath of
At the end of May, the notable young lady of the Xia family, Xia Wan, held her 24th birthday banquet in their family villa. Every notable young ladies and young masters in their network were invited. Those in the older generation were well aware of how much Xia Yongqiang's greed had expanded over the years. They knew he was planning to pull two families, the Bai and Ji families, to his side. However, he would still have to get both families to agree. The Xia and Bai families had great relations over the course of three generations and the marriage agreement decided back then never specified names. Thus, the Xia family intended to marry off a girl who had come out of nowhere to Bai Youran. If the Bai family was to agree, it would be a loud slap across their faces. "Mom, I heard that the Xia family invited Shen Xinglan today." Yan Huihong appeared to be in a good mood on the outside but there was a hint of mockery in her smile. "The Xia famil
A Miao placed herself in front of Zhou Xiao. "This is my friend. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't show up in front of us." "What gives you the right to dictate that?" Xia Mei sneered. "This is my home! Do you trust that I'll go and get someone to throw her out?" "Very well. Go ahead and do it!" A Miao looked in the direction of the second floor. "Ruin Xia Wan's banquet and let's see who'll be the disgraced one in the end!" Xia Mei's expression changed. Truly, she had no courage to do so. She clenched her teeth. "Hey! You’d better be honest! If I catch you stealing things, I'll send you to the police station!" After threatening Zhou Xiao, she shot A Miao a glare before turning around to leave. Downstairs, Xia Wan appeared in the crowd with people surrounding her. Xia Yongqiang was currently introducing her to everyone. A Miao quietly brought Zhou Xiao to a corner of the hall. They sat
"Damn it!" A Miao cursed. She estimated that no more than two minutes had passed since the blackout. She could not make any more delay. However... The direction was headed toward the garden. She remembered that there was a large fountain there. She closed her eyes and in the next second, she turned around without hesitation. "Let her go!" The scene in the garden caused A Miao's anger to erupt. Xia Mei was suppressing Zhao Xiao at the fountain, forcing the latter's head into the water. A Miao ran to them and shoved Xia Mei aside. With a turn of her body, Xia Mei plunged into the water. "Zhou Xiao, are you okay?" A Miao helped Zhou Xiao sit down, frantically patting her back. "Ha... A Miao... Ha..." Zhou Xiao was gasping for breath. She then burst into tears and threw herself into A Miao's embrace. "A Miao! I thought I'm going to die! I nearly died earlier." Xia Mei pathetically c
"What's wrong with your car?" "The engine burnt out. I'm calling for a repairman." Bai Youran glanced at A Miao who was seated in the backseat without concealing his loathing at all. "Where are you going?" Xia Wan chuckled. "I'm treating A Miao to dinner today. Why don't... Why don't you come with us?" Thinking that he was being humorous, Bai Youran replied, "I'm coming along even if you don't ask me! I'll drive, so ask your driver to drive my car to your home." If it was Xia Wan who planned for their meeting with Bai Youran, then A Miao had become thoroughly stupefied after seeing Shen Xinglan in the restaurant... "Mr. Shen!" Xia Wan cried in surprise. "So you're also here for dinner!" Shen Xinglan was not alone and his female companion was a familiar face. A Miao felt like it was a face that she frequently saw on television. However, it was not the same one she met in Xi
A Miao was walking downstairs for her meal when she heard Xia Mei's voice. She then turned around to go upstairs. "Stop right there!" Xia Mei threw the photo at her. "It's fine if you embarrass yourself, don't get us involved!" The photo depicted A Miao, dressed in a chick costume, delivering condoms. She picked up the photo but before she could take a clearer look, Yao Lili's voice resounded. "What is this?" Yao Lili snatched the photo out of A Miao's hands. Before long, she began screeching. "Disgusting! How can you do something like this?" Seeing the development of events, A Miao thought she might as well sit down. "It's just a job. You all don't have to make a fuss about it." "Job?" Xia Mei grabbed the photo and waved it in front of A Miao's face. "This photo is pinned up in our school board. Now everyone knows that there's someone in Xia family that does this sort of shady busine
"Is this stinky tofu?" Shen I pinched a block of the tofu with his fingers and gave it a sniff. He nearly vomited. He rushed to the door, about to open it. "Don't open the door." Shen II stopped him while he opened the windows. "The smell will get out." Shen I was dumbstruck as he imagined the entire office floor being filled with the smell of stinky tofu. He could not help but wanting to retch. "Boss, why don't you take a shower and change your clothes?" Shen II did not dare to look directly at Shen Xinglan. Shen Xinglan, who had not spoken all this while, slowly raised his head. The first thing he did was loosening his necktie. Then he took off his suit and shirt and walked into the bathroom. While walking in, he began to slowly turn around. "Hehehehehe..." Shen I swallowed uneasily. "Boss..." "Oh no. Did he get so mad that he lost his mind?" "Go.&quo