Chapter 51 Shen Xiu Jin Zhao stood beside her car, his eyes indifferent...
Someone stopped the car?
Jiang Xiliu's trip was a spur-of-the-moment decision; she only brought A Biao and a driver with her in the car.
"Are there many people on the other side?" Jiang Xiliu hadn't looked ahead and didn't see what happened when the driver braked.
"Just a little boy," the driver said.
Little boy?
Did he just pick a random car because he didn't want to live anymore, or did he target her car to extort money?
The driver braked in time, so he probably didn't hit anyone, but the person is now lying in front of the car and hasn't moved for a while.
"Ah Biao, go down and check the situation."
"Yes, Miss."
The boy who had fallen in front immediately got up when he saw someone getting off the bus; his pants were torn in a large patch.
Although I wasn't hit, I still fell down.
Although the boy's body hadn't fully developed yet, he wasn't short. Standing next to Ah Biao, their heights weren't much different. His fine red hair was blown a little messy by the wind, making him look like a rebellious teenager.
Jiang Xiliu glanced ahead with displeasure: Hmm? He looks somewhat familiar? But she definitely didn't recognize him.
She felt the face looked familiar because she had just seen the one that resembled his.
After the two had been talking for a short while, A Biao knocked on Jiang Xiliu's car window: "Miss, the person who stopped the car up ahead is Shen Xiu. He said he has something to say to you."
Shen Xiu? Shen Yu's half-brother who just came of age? Oh, I misspoke. It was confirmed on the day he came of age that he had no relation to Shen Xiu's father.
Shen Xiu should be his half-brother.
“No, that paternity test report is fake.” Upon hearing Jiang Xiliu’s question, Shen Xiu immediately retorted from the car door. He bent down, leaned close to the car window, and said, “Look at my face, doesn’t it look like Shen Yu’s? That paternity test was forged by Shen Yu. It was all his conspiracy.”
They do resemble each other, but it's also possible that both Shen Yu and Shen Xiu resemble their mother, since their mothers are sisters.
Jiang Xiliu leaned back in her car seat: "Whether you're a member of the Shen family or not is none of my business. Why are you stopping my car?"
"Me," Shen Xiu glanced around and whispered through the car window, "I'm here to seek cooperation with you."
"Cooperation?" Jiang Xiliu raised an eyebrow. She had just been so angry with her half-brother that she felt dizzy. She stared at the red-haired boy in front of her. "What do you want to cooperate with me on?"
“I know you hate my brother, so I’ll pull Shen Yu down from his position as heir to the Shen family.” Shen Xiu was also afraid that Jiang Xiliu would refuse, so he gritted his teeth and said, “If I take that position, I can give you a quarter of my shares.”
Jiang Xiliu looked down on Shen Xiu. Even though she disliked Shen Yu, she never underestimated him. So in her eyes, Shen Xiu had no chance of winning against him. Just as she was about to refuse, System 0777 appeared.
[System 0777: Young Miss, let's cooperate! We need to cooperate! Shen Xiu is the villain in the novel.]
[System 0777: ...However, the novel ended badly before Shen Xiu even appeared, but he is mentioned in the novel's character introduction!]
Jiang Xiliu finally faced Shen Xiu squarely: He really is like a rebellious teenager. How could someone like that become a villain in the future?
Never mind, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
"Let's talk in the car." Jiang Xiliu rolled up the car window.
Shen Xiu breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn't really had high hopes before coming to find Jiang Xiliu.
Ever since that paternity test report circulated in their circle, his former classmates and friends have all kept their distance from him, fearing that if they were associated with him, they would be retaliated against by Shen Yu.
Shen Xiu was kicked out of the Shen family. His mother wanted to take him abroad, but Shen Xiu refused. He was a child of the Shen family. Why should he let Shen Yu slander him and leave in disgrace?
His mother always felt sorry for Shen Yu, but she believed that this feeling of guilt should not make him keep backing down, nor should it make him bear such infamy.
After much deliberation, Shen Xiu realized that only Jiang Xiliu dared to help him.
Young people are reckless; regardless of the probability of success, they just rush in and give it a try.
So Shen Xiu simply waited on the road, and when he saw the Jiang family's car, he ran from the side of the road to the middle of the road and used his body to block it.
Jiang Xiliu sized up Shen Xiu.
The boy wore a gray hooded sweatshirt underneath a black leather jacket, and had an ear cartilage clip on his left ear. A few strands of black hair remained undyed in his red hair.
Jiang Xiliu didn't know if he had deliberately left those few strands of black hair, or if the hair dye had run out at the end. In any case, the dampness made her eyes hurt a little.
She closed her eyes briefly: "Tell me first, what do you have that can bring Shen Yu down?"
Shen Xiu paused for a moment, then patted his chest: "Isn't myself enough?"
Jiang Xiliu:......
She slapped away the little ball of light that was huddled in the corner of her mind, saying it only brought her useless teammates.
Just then, Ah Biao received a message from the family security guards and, in his simple-minded manner, said to Shen Xiu, "Miss, Mr. Jin and Mr. Shen are fighting."
Before Jiang Xiliu could speak, Shen Xiu frowned and exclaimed, "My brother is back from Germany? No, that's impossible. Has he been hiding in China since my birthday?"
Jiang Xiliu ignored Shen Xiu's questioning gaze: "Who won?"
A Biao: "It should be considered a draw." It was because the Jiang family's security force, with its large numbers, barely managed to hold its own against Shen Yu's elite bodyguards.
[System 0777 tentatively announced: Jin Zhao won! Jin Zhao has fewer injuries than Shen Yu.]
Jin Zhao had just recovered, and Shen Yu's leg was not fully healed either; the two were truly evenly matched.
Jiang Xiliu ignored System 0777, nodded slightly to A Biao, and then turned to Shen Xiu: "Cooperation is possible, but you need to find something on Shen Yu first before you come to talk to me. By the way, where do you live?"
She had no destination in mind when she came out this time, so she decided to do a good deed to the end and quickly send this so-called future villain away.
Shen Xiu gave a polite smile: "I have nowhere to stay right now."
He is rich, but whether it's renting or buying a house or staying in a hotel, everyone says "NO" to him.
Shen Yu was too ruthless, leaving Shen Xiu only the option of going abroad. This meant that Shen Xiu had to give up everything in the Shen family and start a new life alone abroad.
Shen Xiu was forced into this situation by no other choice.
“I can give you all my money.” Shen Xiu took out his bank card from his pocket. “The card isn’t frozen, it’s just that my brother won’t allow any place to take me in.”
Jiang Xiliu: "...You can't even find a place to stay, how can you be so confident that you can drag Shen Yu down?" She really wanted to back out and kick Shen Xiu out of the car.
“I still have shares in the Shen family, though not many.” Shen Xiu was putting up all his cards this time. “If I fail, these shares can be given to you.”
Jiang Xiliu leaned forward slightly: "How did you come to have shares in the Shen family?"
As far as she knew, most of them were in Shen Yu's hands, and the rest were either in Grandpa Shen's hands or...
"Did your fake dad give it to you?"
“It’s really Dad!” Shen Xiu corrected indignantly, then suddenly deflated. “On my birthday, he transferred his shares to my name early in the morning with a lawyer. After my brother framed me that night, my dad wanted to take them back, but the paperwork was complete. Unless I give them up, they will still be mine.”
Of course, Shen Xiu wasn't foolish enough to give up, so he simply took it and ran.
However, he himself knew that if he couldn't pull Shen Yu down, not only would he lose what he had, but it would also become a hot potato.
"Do you want them?" Shen Xiu blinked. This silly boy still knew how to negotiate. "As long as you agree to cooperate with me, you won't lose money no matter if we succeed or not."
Jiang Xiliu certainly wanted it; it was like a golden opportunity falling from the sky.
[System 0777 noticed the young lady's change in mood and immediately straightened its back: Young lady, I'm reliable!]
"Where do you go to school?" Jiang Xiliu became generous and easy to talk to. "I can buy you an apartment nearby."
The kind that only grants temporary residency rights.
She's not so generous as to lose her mind.
Shen Xiu touched his nose and said, "I just got into Peking University this year and I'm a freshman."
Jiang Xiliu's expression at this moment was even more shocked than when she first learned that Shen Xiu had shares in the Shen family.
Her gaze traveled from top to bottom, then from bottom to top: Him!? Peking University? Is this a school you can just get into by throwing money at it?
Let's not even talk about Jin Zhao; he looks like he's smart. But Shen Xiu is clearly a rebellious red-haired teenager who seems simple-minded and naive. What makes him so special?
Even the slow-witted Shen Xiu could sense the filth in Jiang Xiliu's eyes.
He got a little agitated: "I'm a sports student, a specially recruited sports student!"
"Oh." Jiang Xiliu knew it; he didn't look like someone who could score over 700 on a cultural exam. She calmly turned to the driver and said, "To Peking University."
"Yes, Miss."
Liao Junqi had just prepared a property for her there, so she didn't need to buy anything or add anything else; Shen Xiu could move in immediately.
These past two days, I've been holed up in a four-person dorm room and it's really not comfortable.
He wasn't used to the communal bathroom in the dorm, and he couldn't sleep at night because of his roommates' snoring. What he found most unacceptable was the washing machine in the laundry room: someone was actually washing shoes in it!
A pampered young master who has been spoiled since childhood will naturally not wash his clothes by hand.
So, Shen Xiu, who had been washing clothes in the washing machine for two days in a row, almost fainted when he saw the pair of shoes that smelled terrible being taken out of the washing machine.
Shen Xiu was really eager to leave the four-person room, and even borrowed his roommate's ID card to check into a hotel.
Of course, he didn't succeed.
When Shen Xiu followed Jiang Xiliu into the elevator, he knew that Jiang Xiliu hadn't made the wrong choice.
She was the only one who wasn't afraid of offending Shen Yu; she was beautiful and kind-hearted.
"Sister~ How did you end up buying a house here?" Shen Xiu, finally about to escape his misery, changed his form of address in the car.
Jiang Xiliu is four years older than him, so it's fine for him to call her "sister." But... Shen Xiu's tone made Jiang Xiliu feel something was off, though she couldn't quite put her finger on why.
She casually withdrew her gaze from him and led him to enter his fingerprint into the keypad lock: "You'll be living here from now on."
She added, “Our partnership ends when you graduate. If you need anything in the meantime, feel free to contact Abiao. If you haven’t managed to get rid of Shen Yu by graduation, not only will you have to give me your shares, but you’ll also have to get out of my house. Understand?”
After nearly four years, Shen Xiu felt it was about time: "I understand."
After settling the accommodation issue, Chen Xiu offered, "Sister, let me treat you to a meal. There's a food street near our school that's incredibly delicious and fragrant—a taste you've definitely never experienced before."
Jiang Xiliu knew where he was referring to. She recalled the smell she had caught when she passed by before and nodded without hesitation: "Okay."
The residential area is quite a distance from the food street, but Jiang Xiliu doesn't want to walk a single step.
The three of them stepped out of the elevator.
As soon as she stepped out of the lobby on the first floor, she saw Jin Zhao standing next to her car, staring at her indifferently, and Shen Xiu, who was tugging at her sleeve without any respect.
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Author's note: The real, charming, dark-skinned PE student has arrived.
It's late tonight, there's a rain of red envelopes [blue heart].
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