Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Yan Shu and Song Yinsheng were shrouded in gloom.

Yan Shu sighed countless times, "Why were you speaking so harshly? You scared Yao Yao."

Song Yinsheng gritted his teeth, "Do you see how scared she is? She's dreaming of marrying into a wealthy family and becoming a rich wife! This Yan Qiao is Yan Yaohui's daughter. If Yao Yao does something like this, who knows how Yan Yaohui will laugh at us behind our backs for not raising our child properly!"

Yan Shu looked troubled, completely unable to understand why Yan Yaoyao would have such a thought.

"Have we mistreated Yao Yao?"

A short while later, Song Yinsheng's youngest son walked in, dribbling a basketball.

Song Jing accurately tossed the basketball back into the box, and the tall, thin boy slumped down, clutching his stomach.

"Mom, is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry."

Seeing Song Jing's carefree attitude, Yan Shu felt even more troubled.

"Xiao Jing, do you feel like your parents have mistreated you?"

Song Jing was taken aback, and reached out to touch her parents.

"Mom, do you have a fever? Why are you talking strangely?"

Yan Shu glared at him and brushed his hand away.

"Mom is being serious with you."

Song Jing cleared his throat. "Can you tell the truth?"

"to be honest."

"Of course there are, there are tons!" Song Jing listed them off.

"Take this room for example. You gave my sister the sunny master bedroom, and my room doesn't even have a window. Besides a bed and a desk, it's hard to even turn around! Also, I remember my sister got a hundred yuan a week in pocket money when she was in junior high school, and what about mine? Why do I only get fifty now! And..."

"Alright, alright, stop talking."

Yan Shu rubbed her temples and interrupted him in time.

The more I listened, the more something felt off. I felt like I was the one who had wronged my son.

Although the Shen family started contacting people to remove the trending topic, the hype didn't subside for long and it came back up again.

This back-and-forth continued, and the important matter concerning Shen Zhou and Yan Yaoyao became the talk of the town.

Things didn't calm down until evening.

Ruan Cha admired Yan Qiao's magnanimity; a normal person would only feel ashamed in such a situation.

Yan Qiao said, "It's not that I'm magnanimous, it's just that I don't like him. Why should I care who he's with if he's someone I don't care about?"

If she were Yan Yaoyao's character today, and discovered that the person she deeply loved had been deceiving her all along, along with his fiancée, she would absolutely not forgive him.

Silo blinked and leaned closer.

"I don't have a fiancée. Would you consider marrying me?"

Yan Qiao laughed and pushed his head away, "If I really got together with you, Third Master Pei would skin me alive."

She wasn't attracted to Xi Luo's personality.

They're great as friends, but I don't feel that way about them as boyfriends.

Yan Qiao's ultimate goal in life is to lie down and be a lazy bum. If she can meet the right person and have a sweet romance, it would be nice to have it as a spice in her life.

Looking at her pretty face, Xi Luo, who was twenty-three years old, had seen many beauties.

No woman has ever inspired him to meticulously depict her in his heart like Yan Qiao.

His expression, conveyed through the camera lens, was projected onto the tablet screen on his desk on the other side of the Pacific.

Li Qiao stood to the side, trembling with fear, even her breathing was cautious.

Then, the live stream ended at the designated time, and the screen went completely black.

Li Qiao carefully closed the tablet.

"Young Master Luo is young. It's normal for him to be attracted to a pretty girl. It's just youthful infatuation."

Moreover, Yan Qiao is truly beautiful, with exceptionally superior bone structure.

The man in the leather chair remained silent, his well-defined hands casually resting on the table.

Li Qiao quickly glanced down at Pei Jingzhan; he showed neither joy nor anger, revealing no true emotion.

He wiped the sweat from his brow inwardly. Working for Third Master was well-paid, but he lived in constant fear.

"Third Master..."

“What do you think?” Pei Jingzhan began, then paused.

The deep voice resonated in Li Qiao's ears, causing him to bend down and listen.

"He likes her?"

Li Qiao glanced at Pei Jingzhan again. The man in front of her was not yet thirty but held a high position. He had the innate aura of a person in a high position, which made him imposing without anger.

Pei Jingzhan has excellent bone structure, strong facial contours, and smooth lines.

His eyes, long and narrow beneath thick eyebrows, with thick eyelashes and upturned corners, were naturally deep and affectionate. Unfortunately, he could hardly see any emotion in those eyes other than mockery.

Just like now, when talking about Xi Luo and Yan Qiao, he wasn't angry, but just smiled lightly.

However, Li Qiao was already used to the fact that this man treated everyone the same.

He considered for a moment and said, "It's not really liking, it's probably just a temporary feeling of novelty."

Pei Jingzhan remained silent, raising his eyes to look at him.

Li Qiao's hair stood on end; it was that look in his eyes, that arrogant mockery.

If someone else had that look in their eyes, they'd get beaten up sooner or later.

...

The morning after the incident, Shen Zhou received a phone call.

You could hear his mother, Ms. Zhou Yuanxi, cursing from a great distance.

If this weren't my own son, I would have thrown him out and buried him long ago.

"I don't care what you do outside, and I don't care who you sleep with, but your engagement to Yan Qiao is the bottom line! After you and Yan Qiao get married, you can keep whoever you like outside, why do you have to break ties with the Yan family?"

What she was worried about wasn't the Yan family, but rather that the old man would be unhappy.

Chen Zhou said helplessly, "Mom, this isn't the first time I've brought up breaking off the engagement. I've mentioned it many times, but does anyone listen?"

"Why is nobody listening! Even if we want to annul the engagement, we should do it gradually. There are plenty of ways!" Zhou Yuanxi said angrily.

The mother and son were already in an awkward position, and now that Shen Zhou has done something like this, who knows how the old man will be cursing them behind their backs.

"Anyway, I've already made it public, there's no going back." Chen Zhou simply decided to give up.

Zhou Yuanxi had no way to deal with him, so she suppressed her anger and said, "There is still room for maneuver in this matter. Even if we really have to break off the engagement, you can't be the one at fault. We should shift the blame back to you."

Shen Zhou instantly understood her meaning: she wanted Yan Qiao to take the blame.

"Mom, isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

“What’s wrong with that? How many times has Yan Qiao been criticized since she entered the entertainment industry? She doesn’t care if she gets criticized again.”

Zhou Yuanxi was already dissatisfied with this daughter-in-law. If it weren't for the old man's relationship with the Yan family, Yan Qiao would never have known which way the Shen family's front door faced.

"Alright, I'll handle this. Just wait and see. Also, you've come all this way to participate in this reality show, you have to come in first place, you hear me!"

Even Yan Qiao is inferior; it's shameful.

Shen Zhou looked helpless. "Mom, this is a reality show, it's not as simple as you think."

“I’ve already spoken to the investors. You can decide for yourself. Our family doesn’t care about those resources. We’re just trying to save face.” Seeing her son behaving so pathetically on this reality show, Zhou Yuanxi felt a tightness in her chest from anger.