Su Ping looked over through the car window.

The man in the driver's seat looked unfamiliar to her; she didn't know him.

What's this for?

After parking the car, the man quickly got out and opened the back door.

"Miss, please get in the car."

After the man opened the car door, he looked at Su Ping with a respectful attitude.

Su Ping realized that the man in front of her was just a tool, and the real mastermind was probably sitting in the back seat.

She glanced inside the car and could vaguely see the man's neatly trimmed suit trousers.

And the long, slender fingers resting on his lap; the man had fair skin and a prominent cinnabar mole at his knuckle.

Su Ping immediately looked away and refused, saying, "I don't know you. You've mistaken me for someone else."

Su Ping felt a little embarrassed when she thought about how he deleted the post she had liked on his WeChat Moments last time.

But before she could turn around, a warm, deep male voice rang out from inside the car.

"Miss Su, why don't you get in the car first? What I'm about to say involves the interests of your Su family and is about your father."

Hearing her approaching voice, the man in the car smiled faintly.

His smile looked somewhat disrespectful, contrasting with the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, making him look like a refined scoundrel.

As soon as Su Ping got into the car, the driver closed the door from the outside.

The atmosphere inside the car suddenly became somewhat awkward, and she could feel Shen Jiayu's gaze fixed on her face.

Thinking of the ambiguous hickeys on her neck, Su Ping awkwardly raised her hand and scratched her hair on both sides to cover them.

"President Shen."

Hearing her still address him as "President Shen," Shen Jiayu frowned and said...

“Your father’s project has run into some problems, and he’s still in the hospital. His family refuses to settle.”

Su Ping was taken aback. Su Zhinan had built his business from scratch and had been working in the business world for many years. She believed that her father would have a solution to this kind of problem.

Just as she expected, Shen Jiayu continued, "This isn't the tricky part. The tricky part is that something your father's company hasn't even announced yet was sold to a rival company by his subordinates without his knowledge. The losses are huge; at best, it could lead to bankruptcy, and at worst, imprisonment."

Su Ping was startled. She knew her father had been very busy these past few days and hadn't been home for several days.

I never expected that my father would still be concerned about my affairs even in such a situation.

They even spent money to remove the trending topic and issued a statement on the company's official Weibo account as soon as possible, just to avoid suffering any injustice.

The company holds the shared memories and hard work of Su Zhinan and his late wife, and she can't believe how her father has been facing all this alone these past few days.

Seeing Su Ping fall silent, Shen Jiayu gently rubbed his fingers that were hanging on the seat.

Su Ping took out her phone and called Su Zhinan. It took more than ten seconds for the call to be answered.

"Hello? Pingping, is there something you need on the phone with Daddy?"

His voice sounded noticeably tired, as if he had been working late into the night for several days without rest.

Thinking of what Shen Jiayu had just said, Su Ping felt a pang of sadness. She opened her mouth to speak, but the words stuck in her throat.

Su Zhinan seemed to be working on some documents. Noticing that Su Ping's mood was off, he spoke again, "Is your allowance running low?"

"Dad will transfer 500,000 yuan to your card later. The company has run into some problems recently, and we may be having some cash flow issues, but don't worry, Dad can handle it."

In the past, he would give his daughter millions of dollars in pocket money, but given the company's current situation, he simply couldn't continue doing that.

After all, such a big loss was caused by my own mistake, and now I can only try to find a way to make up for it.

Those former business partners had all heard about this, but they all remained silent, none of them wanting to get themselves into trouble by offering help.

"Dad, I don't need the money, I just miss you a little."

Hearing Su Ping's words, Su Zhinan felt a pang of tenderness in his heart.

Hearing his assistant knocking on the door again, he could only suppress his emotions and say, "Dad has been too busy lately. I'll come back and play with you for a few days when I'm done, okay?"

After hearing Su Ping's response, Su Zhinan hurriedly hung up the phone.

Inside the car, Shen Jiayu noticed that Su Ping wasn't in a very good mood, and his determination grew even stronger.

"I can help resolve that issue."

Hearing the cold voice of the man beside her, Su Ping was stunned for a moment and turned her head to look at him.

Her father had told her before that Shen Jiayu was no ordinary person; as a businessman who valued profit above all else, he would never do business that didn't bring him any benefit.

What is he after?

Thinking about what he was going to say later, Shen Jiayu coughed awkwardly and sat up slightly.

Is there some unspeakable reason behind it?

Su Ping's gaze involuntarily shifted downwards, landing on the suit trousers.

"I want you to pretend to be my girlfriend and come home with me."

"To avoid arousing my parents' suspicion, you'll have to play the role of my girlfriend for the next year or two, until I find someone more suitable."

Pretending to be a girlfriend?

Su Ping simply didn't believe that Shen Jiayu, a business tycoon, would lack women around him.

As if sensing her doubts, Shen Jiayu explained, "It's mainly Silan; he's only close to you."

When he mentioned Shen Silan, Su Ping's doubts were somewhat dispelled.

But pretending to be a girlfriend seems a bit outrageous no matter how you look at it.

Shen Jiayu knew she might not be able to accept it in a short time, but he wasn't in a hurry.

"I'm just giving you a suggestion. You can think it over in the next couple of days and then let me know."

Su Ping's head was buzzing; the sudden turn of events had caught her completely off guard.

She only had time to nod before opening the car door, getting out, and walking towards her car parked there.

Shen Jiayu watched her retreating figure, a slight smile playing on his lips, like a hunter eyeing his prey.

The net had been set, and he knew the prey would eventually return on its own, so he wasn't in a hurry.

If you push too hard, it will backfire. If the other side manages to break through the net you've set and escape, you'll lose more than you gain.

Because he was preoccupied with this matter, he quickly forced the car to stop when he heard the horn.

Finally, it stopped about a meter away from the car in front.

Her hands, gripping the steering wheel, began to tremble. She felt an intense chill, a coldness that seemed to emanate from the depths of her heart, which she could not alleviate even by turning the car's air conditioning to its maximum setting.

Listening to the noises outside the car window, her ears started to ring.

Although she quickly returned to normal, the feeling of panic she had just experienced continued to linger over her.

She forced herself to calm down and drove home.

At the same time, I comforted myself that it was definitely the result of last night's hangover, but my premonition was gradually developing in a bad direction.