Why would Ye Yunjian appear in such a remote place?
Her back involuntarily tensed, and Qiao Yu's expression became strained, her face contorted in a grimace that looked worse than if she were crying. She clenched her fingers, afraid to make a move. Even without turning around to face the other person, the barely perceptible gaze sweeping over her made her almost want to run away.
After a long standoff, the pressure suddenly disappeared, and Meng E breathed a sigh of relief, saying in a low voice, "Aunt Ye got in the car and left."
Qiao Yu felt even more uneasy.
To be overheard by the person in question doubting someone's abilities is nothing short of a blatant provocation.
The sound of car tires crunching over gravel on the road grew closer and closer, as if it were about to pass by. Reflexively turning her head, Qiao Yu saw a face with deep, refined features through the black car window. The person was upright, with an elegant demeanor, unlike the intense aura of Song Wanzi and Lu Shangyi. While appearing gentle and approachable, they were actually quite difficult to get close to.
As they passed in front of them, the other person slowly turned their head. Through the unclear black glass, Qiao Yu saw a faint, ambiguous smile curving up the corner of their lips.
Qiao Yu was so embarrassed that she almost dug out a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment on the spot. She must have heard it!
She wouldn't have made that expression if she hadn't heard it!
Meng E clearly realized the problem as well, and leaned towards Qiao Yu in a flustered manner. She spoke without any confidence, "What should we do, Yu Yu? Will Aunt Ye..." She covered her neck, "...will she hold a grudge against us two young girls?"
Qiao Yu subconsciously denied it, "She's a magnanimous person, she shouldn't care about such details."
“But,” Meng’e said, her eyes wide with fear, “we were just talking about her pride as a top alpha.”
Forcibly suppressing her unease, Qiao Yu sternly lectured Meng E, "There are no 'buts'. Besides, she couldn't have seen what we looked like clearly through the car window. Next time we see her, we can just deny it, right?"
But Meng'e said, "But I think Aunt Ye deliberately turned her head to look at you just now, just to tell you that it's good, woman, you have successfully caught my attention."
"I'll remember you."
Qiao Yu: "..."
Oh my god, this is truly bad luck meeting bad luck again, bad luck has reached its peak.
That wasn't all. Meng E grabbed Qiao Yu's clothes and continued talking non-stop, "And I've also heard Tang Shu say that Aunt Ye is particularly vengeful." She was so scared that her voice trembled. "Have you heard of Chu Mi, the female artist who competed with Sister Song for the endorsement last time? Actually, she used to be a pampered young lady in the capital."
"Just because they offended Aunt Ye, the Chu family went bankrupt and in debt in just three months, and had to rely on Chu Mi to enter the entertainment industry to make movies to pay off the debt. Moreover, I also heard that even with Sister Lu's protection, Chu Mi's career path is not smooth. Many of her endorsements and scripts are maliciously intercepted at the last minute before signing."
"They all say that Aunt Ye did it, although none of us have any evidence."
Qiao Yu wasn't initially panicked, but after hearing Meng E's story about Chu Mi, she started to feel terrified. However, despite being incredibly scared inside, as the future top assertive woman in the capital, she couldn't afford to lose face. Qiao Yu stared blankly at Meng E, "What good would it do you to scare me to death?"
Meng E thought about it carefully, "Will I be heartbroken for losing such a beautiful friend?"
Qiao Yu was at a loss for whether to be happy because Meng E praised her or furious because Meng E cursed her.
Returning to school with a long face, Qiao Yu even dreamt during her lunch break that Ye Yunjian was walking towards her with a cold smile, saying, "I heard you doubt my ability?" As she spoke, she unbuttoned her white shirt and said with a forced smile, "I'll let you try it yourself."
Qiao Yu shook her head frantically, explaining, "No, Aunt Ye, I've never been in a relationship before!"
To his surprise, the other person was even more satisfied after hearing this, saying, "Never been in a relationship before? I love women who have never been in a relationship."
Qiao Yu was immediately startled awake.
Realizing it was just a dream, she quickly breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and decided not to go see Ye Yunjian again before differentiating herself. Jiang Mei noticed her unusual behavior and handed her a bottle of water. "Had a nightmare?"
Qiao Yu took the water. "Hmm, I dreamt of a really scary person..." She paused, then glanced warily at the back door of the classroom. Only after confirming that no one was there did she feel relieved. However, she felt that it wasn't very good to say that about Ye Yunjian, so she changed her words, "I dreamt of an elder who was in a very high position and very difficult to approach."
Jiang Mei didn't recognize the elder Qiao Yu mentioned, so she handed her a piece of candy. "Did she ever yell at you before?"
"No, not at all," Qiao Yu shook her head. But the look Ye Yunjian gave her when he turned to leave was even more terrifying than if he had yelled at her to her face.
She was terrified!
Jiang Mei withdrew her empty palm and suddenly felt for no reason that the elder Qiao Yu mentioned might not be her real elder, but rather the Ye Yunjian, who had never appeared in her matching results.
She suspected that Qiao Yu must have already seen the other person somewhere.
Jiang Mei slowly opened the book and asked casually, "By the way, have you met Aunt Ye? Isn't Aunt Ye very tall? She takes very good care of herself and has an extraordinary temperament?"
"How did you know..." Qiao Yu answered subconsciously, then belatedly shut her mouth and quickly explained, "I heard them say that Aunt Ye is quite tall."
Jiang Mei smiled softly, nodded ambiguously, and then asked, "Is Sister Lu taller or Aunt Ye taller?"
Qiao Yu glared at her, "You really think you can fool me now? Do you think I'm a fool?"
Jiang Mei's smile deepened, making her delicate features even more captivating. Qiao Yu stared at her for a long time without realizing it, and just as she relaxed her guard, Jiang Mei asked again, completely unsuspectingly, "Am I pretty?"
"Of course," Qiao Yu nodded.
Jiang Mei blinked gently, "Am I prettier or Aunt Ye?"
Qiao Yu couldn't figure it out right away, so she honestly answered, "I don't know."
Jiang Mei hummed thoughtfully and began to work on the questions seriously, as if it had just been a casual question. Qiao Yu scratched her face, and the system summarized the reason for her existence: "Every woman's beauty is tempting, and no one is willing to give it up."
Qiao Yu hit it, and it flew away in a flash, disappearing into thin air.
A moment later, the system popped its head out again to remind her, "Host, is there something you forgot to drink? It's been 4.8 hours now."
Qiao Yu immediately sneered, "Is it that I can't lift a knife anymore, or have I given you too much freedom lately?"
After driving away the increasingly arrogant system, Qiao Yu received a message of concern from her heartless father several days later: "I heard you fainted yesterday?"
Qiao Yu said coldly, "So you finally remembered you have a child?"
Feeling embarrassed by his daughter's retort, Qiao Jinghuai coughed lightly twice, clenching his fist and putting it to his mouth. He ignored his daughter's gentle concern. "It's like this," he said, "your mother came back yesterday and said you've made a lot of new friends recently, so I was thinking of giving you some pocket money to help with social interactions."
Qiao Yu's tone finally softened a bit, "Then you're going to unfreeze my bank card?"
“That was my original plan,” Qiao Jinghuai said with a smile. “But the housekeeper just said that since I froze your bank card, our family’s expenses last week have been reduced by half. So after careful consideration, I plan to give you a full thousand yuan of pocket money every week from now on.”
"A thousand yuan? A whole thousand yuan?" Qiao Yu was shocked. "I spend more than a thousand yuan just to go out for a meal!"
"That's your own problem," Qiao Jinghuai said earnestly. "If a businessman can't even control his own wallet, how can he manage thousands of employees in his company? How can he manage the three suitable marriage partners on his matchmaking list?"
Qiao Yu was speechless. "..." She was already being lucky to be free from the control of those three, yet they wanted to overstep their bounds and try to control them?
That's just wishful thinking.
"Oh, right." Qiao Jinghuai changed the subject and said, "Your cousin is getting engaged to her boyfriend tomorrow. Ask your homeroom teacher for leave in advance, and I'll have someone pick you up for lunch."
Qiao Yu was reluctant, "Take another day off? I've already taken two days off this week."
"So, I'll double your allowance this week?"
Qiao Yu quickly bowed down for the sake of five pecks of rice.
After hanging up the phone, I opened the "We Are a Loving Family" group chat, and sure enough, they were talking about my cousin's engagement. My second aunt was as lively as ever today, praising her future son-in-law with witty remarks while also taking a jab at her nephew and niece, "If you ask me, Junhao and Yuyu aren't young anymore, how come there's no sign of anything happening? If this were before, I would have been pregnant by now when I was Junhao's age."
Her third aunt was unhappy with what she said and immediately responded with sarcasm, "Yes, back when you gave birth to Jingjing, Jingjing immediately rolled up her sleeves and built two thatched huts for you."
"Pfft!" Qiao Yu couldn't help but laugh out loud. Although she couldn't see her second aunt's expression at this moment, she was sure it must be quite a sight.
Third Aunt was difficult to get along with, so Second Aunt, having vented her anger, stopped provoking her and turned her attention to Qiao Yu, saying, "If you ask me, Yu Yu isn't young anymore, it's time to put finding a partner on the agenda. What's the use of a girl having such good grades? Getting married is more reliable."
“I think Yuyu should go back to the company and start from the bottom after graduating from high school. If she doesn’t understand anything, she can just ask Jingjing for help. We’re all sisters. Jingjing is generous and won’t hold back or be wary of Yuyu. Didn’t the company recently open up a general manager position? If we give it to Jingjing, Yuyu can learn more by working alongside her.”
After tagging Qiao Yu, she said, "Yu Yu, do you have someone you like right now? How about your second aunt introduces you to someone? I have a relative back home who has a son who just graduated from junior college. Don't let his low education fool you, he's a very honest and kind person."
Auntie San immediately retorted, "You, a college graduate, have the nerve to introduce yourself to Yu Yu?"
Before anyone else could speak, Third Aunt tagged Qiao Yu again, "Yu Yu, have you gone for genetic matching? Which family's young master or young lady are you being matched with?"
After the question was asked, the loving family fell silent. Qiao Yu had no idea what she was up to. She simply replied, "I did it."
"We matched so many people that the organization printed over a hundred pages of paper, and the printer ran out of ink before we finished printing."
Auntie immediately became suspicious, "Qiao Yu, don't try to fool us, how could there be so many people?"
Qiao Yu said in a very innocent tone, "Why would I lie to you? I have no reason to lie about something like this. And to be honest, even my cousin's name was on the list. I was completely shocked when I saw it. My cousin and I are blood relatives, how could we get married? That would be against ethics and morality!"
Before anyone could speak, Qiao Jing's fiancé jumped out and asked a question mark.
After replying to the message, Qiao Yu put her phone aside. There was probably going to be a lot of noise in the group today, so she decided to wait until they finished arguing before going to the chat.
However, she soon received a serious reprimand from Ms. Qiao: "Don't talk nonsense like that again."
"You don't feel ashamed to be associated with Qiao Junhao and his gang?"
Lu Shangyi, Song Wanzi, Ye Yunjian, and Jiang Mei, or even that EGA classmate from that night—aren't they all better than Qiao Junhao and Qiao Jing? Mrs. Qiao couldn't help but have some doubts about her own daughter's taste.
After meeting Lu Shangyi and the others, how could she still be interested in those two fake rich kids?
Qiao Yu didn't argue with her mother. She obediently replied with three "yes, yes, yes"s before quickly turning off her phone, completely cutting herself off from all news outside of school.
Sitting in the car, Ye Yunjian recalled the two young girls discussing adult topics without batting an eye. He took out his phone and opened the Orange app. After typing in some text, the page indeed displayed a variety of strange and unusual items. Resting his forehead on his hand, he pondered for a moment before ordering every single item he could find.
Qiao Yu suddenly sneezed violently, along with a chilling sensation running down her spine. She looked around warily and said to Meng E, "Why do I have this feeling that Aunt Ye is at school?"
Meng E was initially bewildered, but upon hearing the name Aunt Ye, she immediately became alert. "Really?"
"Aunt Ye has no reason to come to our school."
Their eyes met, and they both said in unison, "Shall we find a place to hide first?"
Suddenly feeling incredibly nervous, the two of them quickly and furtively hid in the bathroom. Then they asked someone to help them ask the security guard at the school gate. After confirming that Ye Yunjian had not appeared, Qiao Yu did not go out immediately. Instead, she seriously began to reason, "Then why did I have a premonition that my life was threatened just now?"
She frowned, her emotions written all over her face. "Could it be that Aunt Ye is secretly planning how to punish me?"
The more she thought about it, the more reasonable her guess seemed. She hurriedly walked out of the bathroom, clasped her hands together, and prayed to the sky: "I hope that I will never have to breathe the same air as Aunt Ye within ten meters in this lifetime."
Meng E said coldly, "The Buddha said, I do not save those who do not even have a high school diploma."
Qiao Yu opened her eyes, “…………”
Whose side are you on?
Unable to avoid her cousin Qiao Jing's engagement party, Qiao Yu went with mixed feelings. Fortunately, Ye Yunjian wasn't invited. Qiao Yu thought about it and realized it made sense; what kind of important figure was Ye Yunjian? Why would he come to such a small place?
Let alone Qiao Jing, even her elderly parents probably hadn't really interacted with Ye Yunjian more than a few times.
With this in mind, Qiao Yu sat down comfortably. Both Qiao Jinghuai and his wife were respectable people; they stood with an air of nobility and sat with their backs ramrod straight. Qiao Yu followed suit, straightening her back and obediently waiting for the engagement ceremony to begin.
The second aunt, the protagonist's biological mother, was so happy today that she was almost out of her mind. And because she is usually very talkative, as soon as she saw Qiao Yu, she started nagging, "Yu Yu, what have you thought about what I mentioned in the group yesterday?"
The sunlight was piercing, and Qiao Yu squinted as she asked, "Which one are you referring to?"
"Of course I mean the matter of you learning from Jingjing." Auntie said anxiously, "Look, our company is missing such an important position. Who else can replace Jingjing? Besides, your cousin-in-law is also excellent. Maybe he can come in and help our company in the future."
Mrs. Qiao stared at her displeasedly. "Have you said enough?"
Auntie hesitated. She wasn't very educated and had already suffered several losses at Madam Qiao's hands, so she clearly didn't dare to be disrespectful in front of her. However, as she left, she still tried to persuade Qiao Yu, "Yu Yu, think it over again. Your auntie won't harm you. Don't you know what kind of person your cousin is…?"
Under Mrs. Qiao's sharp gaze, she finally shut up and left awkwardly.
Qiao Yu said to Qiao Jinghuai with disdain, "As a businessman, if you can't even manage your own company's employees, how can you manage your own wallet?"
Qiao Jinghuai silently looked up at the sky, pretending that he hadn't heard anything.
Qiao Yu snorted inwardly, "This matter will not be over until my hard-earned money is returned."
During the ceremony, Qiao Yu overheard others saying that Qiao Jing's fiancé was a rich second-generation heir whose family had made a small fortune because they were distant relatives of the Lu family. Her second uncle's family chose him because of their connection with the Lu family.
Qiao Yu shook her leg after hearing this. "That's it?"
If she said her match was Ye Yunjian, wouldn't they be terrified?
However, given her current awkward relationship with Ye Yunjian, Qiao Yu would absolutely not dare to make this matter public.
After the ceremony, Qiao Yu and her parents rode in the same car back to school. Halfway there, the car radio started broadcasting financial news again: "Financial Breaking! Qiao's Group has made another big move! It is understood that the wife of the Qiao Group's president successfully acquired a leading cosmetics brand under the Ye Group this morning. Qiao's Group will now have its fourth wholly owned brand..."
Qiao Yu was stunned. "Mom?"
Mrs. Qiao remained motionless until Qiao Yu called out again, at which point she finally turned around expressionlessly. "What's the big deal? It's just acquiring a company."
So what? Acquired a company? That's all?! Listen to that, listen to that, is that something a human being should say?
That's the Ye family! Ye Yunjian, Ms. Ye's warm haven!
Qiao Yu was terrified. "Mom, aren't you afraid?" Aren't you afraid of being retaliated against by Aunt Ye and being seen as a thorn in her side?
Mrs. Qiao was somewhat puzzled. "Afraid? What's there to be afraid of?"
Qiao Yu didn't know what to say for a moment. She could only close her eyes and desperately repeat to herself: Parents' behavior has nothing to do with their children. Parents' behavior has nothing to do with their children. The father's debts are paid by the father, and the mother's debts are paid by the mother. She is just a minor. She is innocent.
However, even after praying for a long time, Qiao Yu still couldn't feel at ease.
Trembling, Qiao Yu pulled out her phone and sent a message to both Lu Shangyi and Song Wanzi at the same time: "Sister, if I'm being chased, will you save me? Will you just stand by and watch me get killed by my enemies?"
After two anxious minutes, Lu Shangyi and Song Wanzi's replies arrived simultaneously. Each of them shared a link with identical content: "Have your parents had any complaints about my family lately?"
He clicked on the link in a daze: "The severely underestimated powerful Qiao family of western Beijing. Recently, the Qiao family of western Beijing has single-handedly shaken the Song family of southern Beijing, the Lu family of northern Beijing, and the Ye family of eastern Beijing, and is suspected of replacing the Ye family as the new overlord of the capital!"
Qiao Yu was completely dumbfounded. What the heck?
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