Chapter 166 The Three Unexpected Things She Gave Us

Shi Nian shook her head, not telling them the specifics, only saying that she had to leave first.

Huo Yanmo thought for a moment and said, "Where do you want to go? I'll take you there."

Shi Nian looked at Huo Yanmo and said, "The Lu family."

Huo Yanmo looked at her carefully, then nodded.

Then, a car stopped downstairs at the Lu family's building.

"I'll go up with you," Huo Yanmo said.

"No need," Shi Nian said, not wanting things to get too complicated for the time being.

She already had a plan in mind for how to win this bet, and the six gems were the key to it.

That person, Lin...

They never follow the rules.

She needs to test the waters first to find out what's going on.

We can't expose what she's doing here.

Huo Yanmo nodded and said, "I'll wait for you in the parking lot."

Shi Nian didn't hesitate and nodded in agreement.

Thus, Shi Nian got out of the car and walked into the Lu Group Building.

Huo Yanmo drove the car to the parking lot and sat down. The gentle smile that had been on his face before was gone.

He took out his phone and dialed someone's number.

After two beeps, someone answered the phone.

"Go do something for me..."

After explaining a series of things, he put down his phone and looked out the car window at the Lu Group building in the distance.

At this moment, Shi Nian was standing in the president's office.

As soon as she walked in, she saw Lu Yanzhi standing opposite her.

His expression was grim, and when he saw her, he threw a toy gun that was spitting out flowers onto the table next to him.

On the other side, Lin came forward with a smile.

"Nian, it's been a long time." Lin said, then hesitated slightly, looked her up and down, and said, "Nian, you've really changed a lot compared to before."

Shi Nian ignored his words and asked directly, "What brings you here today?"

"Oh, right." Lin took a document out of her handbag and handed it to Shi Nian.

"Look, this is the document you and Lu signed when you went to F country to find me."

The document even had traces of blood that had long since congealed and dried on it.

Shi Nian's gaze lingered on the contract, and the events of that year in Country F seemed to be repeating themselves once again.

That day, Lu Yanzhi rushed over, jumped into the ice pool and pulled her out. She stared intently at Lin and said her last words to him—"You promised me."

"I promised you." At this moment, in the CEO's office, the man, whose face had matured considerably over the years, uttered the same words.

The blood-stained contract stood out starkly under the bright office lights.

Before Shi Nian could even take the contract, a large, well-defined hand had already snatched it away.

It was Lu Yanzhi.

Just like that late autumn years ago, when he held her in his arms, and with his hands stained with her blood, he took the pen and seal and signed the contract.

At this moment, he held the contract in his hand, his eyes narrowed, staring dangerously at Lin in front of him.

Lin looked at Lu Yanzhi, a red light flashing in his eyes.

Then he smiled.

“I’ve followed this contract until now because of Nian.” He looked at Lu Yanzhi and said, “Now that you’re divorced, I think this contract should be null and void.”

After saying that, he looked at Shi Nian and smiled, "What do you think, Nian? Just say the word and I'll terminate this contract immediately."

Shi Nian didn't look at Lin; she simply walked to Lu Yanzhi's side, reached out, and took the contract.

Each sheet, each page, is filled with countless sentences and clauses, representing the invisible blades wielded in the power struggle between the two sides back then.

They won back then.

But she didn't win.

On the contrary, she lost completely in this gamble.

Shi Nian placed the contract on the table to the side and looked at Lin, who was standing opposite her, smiling as he looked at her.

“Lin Xuan,” she said, calling out his full name.

"Hmm?" A pleased smile appeared on his lips. Compared to the shock and resentment he felt back then, he now resembled a knight waiting for a princess to give him her orders.

But Shi Nian knew that all of this was just an illusion.

He was actually a ruthless demon with blood on his hands.

“If you want to break the contract, please come up with a more suitable reason,” she said. “I don’t want to be your excuse.”

"I don't want to be the arrow you borrowed with straw boats."

A fleeting look of surprise crossed Lin Xuan's face.

"Huh?" He seemed unable to believe what she said.

Just like back then, he couldn't believe that he, who had always been carefree and playful, had actually been tricked by her.

The betting game back then was initiated by Shi Nian.

No one knew this except the two of them.

Everyone assumed that Lin Xuan held all the initiative and that he was blackmailing Shi Nian into a confrontation with him.

But in reality, it was she who spoke first.

For Lin Xuan at that time, this was the second unexpected event in his more than twenty years of life.

And the first accident was also caused by her.

Within the ten or so minutes that Lu Yanzhi left.

She surprised him three times in total.

He, who had no intention of signing the contract, gave them their only victory in many years.

And now, after many years apart, she has once again surprised him.

“I thought you would hate him.” Lin Xuan smiled and looked at Lu Yanzhi standing next to him. “You would want to do everything you can to get revenge on him.”

Shi Nian lowered her eyes slightly, avoiding the question.

“If you called me here just for this contract, then I want to say this,” she said, “this is between you two and has nothing to do with me. I was just a former employee of Lu’s Group. Now that I’m gone, you should handle this yourselves and clarify the responsibilities involved.”

After a slight pause, Shi Nian continued, "You can stop cooperating for any reason, but please don't drag me into it."

"I have other matters to attend to, please excuse me."

After saying that, Shi Nian turned to leave.

It's not that I don't hate, it's just that I don't want to be someone else's convenient pawn.

She came here today simply to see what Lin Xuan wanted to do after so many years.

Now that she knows, she doesn't want to stay here for even a second longer.

The next moment, her wrist was grabbed, and when she turned around, she saw Lu Yanzhi's dark eyes.

"Back then, in Country F, what exactly happened during those ten-odd minutes I was away?" Lu Yanzhi asked.

Before she could speak, he continued, "Shi Nian, the child we lost that year was also my child. I think I have the right to know."

With a slight sting in her nose, Shi Nian forcefully shook off Lu Yanzhi's hand.

Her gaze swept over the contract.

He once said that the Lu family was also their child, and that if they worked together, they would definitely be able to transform the Lu family.

He had promised her that.

He and the Lu family will be her strongest and most powerful support.

But now he won't even give her anything from the Shi family.

His promises seem never to have been fulfilled.

So, should she tell him what happened back then?