Chapter 75 Chapter 75 "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Yu Ziche paced anxiously in the guest room, his heart pounding with excitement and nervousness.
He listened to the movement in the master bedroom next door and calculated the time. He felt that Xitong should have fallen into a deep sleep by now due to extreme fatigue and the trace amount of sleeping pills in the thermos on the bedside.
Taking a deep breath and putting on the black mask again, he walked silently to the door of the master bedroom like a ghost.
He tentatively turned the doorknob - as Xueying had expected and Su Luyao had inadvertently revealed, Xitong did not have the habit of locking the door.
The door slid open silently.
Yu Ziche was overjoyed, slipped in, and gently closed the door.
There was only a dim bedside lamp on in the master bedroom, and the light was ambiguous.
On the big bed, the quilt was slightly raised.
The air was filled with the scent of the perfume that Xitong often used.
Yu Ziche swallowed his saliva, walked lightly, and approached the bed like the most despicable thief. He imagined the scene where he could do whatever he wanted next, and his blood was boiling.
However, when he was only a few steps away from the bed——
"Yu Ziche."
A clear, calm female voice with a hint of cold mockery suddenly sounded in the quiet room.
Yu Ziche's whole body stiffened, as if he was under a spell of immobilization, and he suddenly stopped in place!
He looked towards the source of the sound in disbelief.
On the big bed, Xitong didn't fall asleep at all!
She was leaning against the head of the bed, wearing neat pajamas, with her arms folded across her chest, staring at him coldly.
There wasn't a trace of sleepiness in those eyes, nor was there the expected confusion or fear. Instead, there was only a sharpness that saw through everything and a kind of... contempt as if looking at a clown.
"You...you didn't sleep?!"
The man screamed, and the blood instantly drained from his face under the mask.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Xitong's voice was eerily calm.
At this moment, the door of the master bedroom was pushed open, and Yu Sixie's tall figure appeared at the door.
There was no expression on his face, but his eyes were like two ice picks, piercing straight at his cousin who was standing stiffly in the middle of the room, wearing a ridiculous mask.
The man was still wearing a formal suit, obviously he had just returned, or rather, had returned a long time ago.
“Brother…?!” Yu Ziche was completely panicked, his mind went blank.
Why is he here?! Shouldn't he be drinking tea with Mr. Liu...
"Surprised?"
Yu Sixie spoke slowly, his voice low and filled with the dead silence before a storm. "Or are you more surprised why Xiaoxi is soberly waiting for you here?"
The answer was revealed a day ago.
While Xitong was being constantly "harassed" by Liu Lianzi in the United States and was exhausted, back in Beijing, Su Luyao did not reply to Xueying's "tempting" message. Instead, she directly sent Xitong the chat records of how Xueying tried to lure her with "Stardust Antiquities" and asked her to monitor Xitong's social updates.
Although Su Luyao is a homebody, she is not stupid.
Xueying's words "the opposite sex other than Mr. Yu" and her intention to find out the relationship between Xitong and the Yu family made her smell a more dangerous atmosphere.
This is not just jealousy directed at Xi Tong personally, but may also involve some kind of conspiracy against the Yu family as a whole.
After Xitong learned all this, he immediately became alert.
She thought of Xue Ying's sudden "illness" that asked her to take her place on the business trip, as well as Yu Ziche's recent abnormal courtesy and inquiries... The outline of a vague but dangerous conspiracy gradually became clear.
She immediately contacted Yu Sixie.
The two quickly communicated the information they had.
Yu Sixie had already had reservations about Xue Ying moving into his home, and this moment further confirmed his suspicions.
They took advantage of the situation. On the one hand, Xi Tong pretended to be tired to paralyze the other party; on the other hand, Yu Sixie pretended to agree to Yu Ziche's social event, but actually made secret arrangements and went home early to wait and see what would happen.
Xue Ying thought her plan had succeeded, and she even found an excuse. At the "right" time, she led Yu Sixie, who she thought had just returned from a social event, to "happen" to pass by the master bedroom. She wanted him to "witness with his own eyes" the "unbearable" scene of Xi Tong and Yu Zi Che's entanglement, and completely destroy Xi Tong's image in Yu Sixie's heart.
When Xueying, with a feigned panic, led Yu Sixie to the door of the master bedroom and was about to "accidentally" discover something, she saw this scene instead -
Xitong sat awake on the bed with cold eyes.
Yu Ziche, wearing a mask like a clown, stood stiffly in the middle of the room, his face full of fear and despair.
The color on Xueying's face instantly faded.
"No...Mr. Yu, I...I just heard some strange noises..."
Xueying's voice was trembling and filled with tears.
Yu Sixie didn't even glance at her. His eyes were always fixed on Yu Ziche. His tone was icy cold without a trace of warmth: "It seems that you have forgotten my warning."
He waved his hand, and two bodyguards who had appeared in the corridor immediately stepped forward, one on the left and one on the right, holding the almost paralyzed Yu Ziche.
"Brother! I was wrong! Brother!"
Yu Ziche completely collapsed.
Yu Sixie's expression remained unchanged. "Take him away. Without my permission, he is not allowed to take a single step out of the room. Cut off all contact with the outside world."
This is house arrest.
For Yu Ziche, who was used to a life of debauchery, this made him more desperate than being beaten.
Yu Ziche was dragged away, and his cries and pleas for mercy gradually faded away.
Only then did Yu Sixie turn his gaze to the pale and shaky Xue Ying.
"Ms. Xue," his voice remained calm, yet it held a chill that could freeze a soul. "I think you need to give me, and Xiaoxi, an explanation. An explanation about many things."
Xueying collapsed to the ground... Was everything she had worked so hard for going to completely collapse at this moment?
…
It was late at night and there was only a warm yellow wall lamp left in the master bedroom, and the light was softly cast on the big bed.
Xitong washed away her tiredness, changed into a comfortable silk nightgown, and leaned in Yu Sixie's arms.
His strong arms were around her, his chin resting lightly on the top of her head, and a sense of tranquility and intimacy permeated the two of them.
"Are you...scared today?"
Yu Sixie asked in a low voice, his fingers unconsciously entwined with a strand of Xitong's slightly damp hair.
Xitong shook her head in his arms, her voice a little muffled: "It's okay. It's more... disgusting."
She thought of Yu Ziche sneaking in wearing a mask, and Xue Ying's eyes that seemed innocent but actually harbored evil intentions, and her stomach felt uncomfortable.
Yu Sixie's arms tightened a little, with a soothing force.
"It was my negligence. I shouldn't have let her live here."
There was a subtle hint of self-blame in his tone.
If it weren't for his parents' persuasion, and a little pity for Xueying's "life experience", he would never let such a hidden danger get close to Xitong.
"I don't blame you," Xitong raised her head and looked at his well-defined jawline, "She's so good at disguising herself..."
"Yaoyao showed me the chat logs. She first tempted Yaoyao with an out-of-print book, hoping she'd spy on my social life. She specifically mentioned 'opposite sex other than Mr. Yu.' And... plus, she suddenly 'fell ill' and asked me to cover for her on a business trip, and Yu Ziche happened to be unusually active in getting you out of the way that day... What a coincidence."
Xitong had no conclusive evidence to prove that Yu Ziche's actions tonight were directly instructed by Xueying, but all the clues clearly pointed to her.
"I know."
Yu Sixie's voice was low and firm. "From her deliberate imitation of your dress style to her pretentious mention of your past in front of me, trying to elicit my 'resonance' and sympathy...her thoughts are not difficult to guess."
He paused, his tone tinged with sarcasm: "I just didn't expect that she would resort to such despicable means and drag that idiot Yu Ziche into this."
Xi Tong felt the steady heartbeat coming from Yu Sixie's chest, and the chill caused by the calculation was gradually dispelled.
"We don't have direct evidence right now, so we can't touch her."
"No rush."
Yu Sixie's voice regained its usual calmness and control. "Once the snake has left its hole, it won't just move once. She went to great lengths to move in, and her goal is definitely not just to create a misunderstanding. As long as she has other intentions, she will always reveal more."
He lowered his head and kissed her hair, his tone becoming extremely firm: "Before this, you just need to know that no matter what she says or does, no matter what I see or hear... I believe you."
Xitong's heart felt like warm water was flowing through it, soft and calm.
She raised her head and met his deep and focused gaze, the trust in it was as solid as a rock, unshakable.
"I believe you too." Xi Tong responded softly, with a slight smile on her lips. "Even if you get entangled by a 'little devil' someday, I believe you have the ability to kick her away, or..."
She blinked, with a hint of cunning, and said, "Let me take care of it myself."
Yu Sixie was amused by Xitong's words, and the low laughter vibrated in his chest.
He lowered his head, resting his forehead against hers, their noses touching, their breaths mingling.
"That day won't come." The man's voice was hoarse and magnetic, carrying an unquestionable promise. "In my eyes and in my heart, there has always been only you. It was, it is, and it will be in the future. Whether you remember it or not."
The dim light cast the embracing figures on the wall, interweaving into an inseparable whole.
…
After Yu Ziche was put under house arrest, facing Yu Sixie's cold questioning and the possibility of even more severe punishment, he burst out with a twisted wisdom in extreme fear.
He insisted that everything was done by him alone and Xue Ying was completely coerced by him.
"It's me! I forced her to do it!"
Yu Ziche burst into tears and knelt in front of Yu's father, Yu's mother and Yu Sixie, portraying himself as a despicable villain who coveted his sister-in-law's beauty and forced his innocent girlfriend to cooperate with him.
"Yingying doesn't know anything! She's just too timid to resist me! I threatened her with her family's troubles, so she had to help me pass on the news... Brother, uncle and aunt, if you want to punish me, punish me! Don't implicate her, she's really pitiful!"
Yu Ziche's performance of "self-sacrifice" was a mixture of truth and falsehood. He put himself in an even more unbearable situation, but successfully removed Xue Ying from the position of mastermind and portrayed her as a victim who was powerless to resist.
Yu's father and mother already felt some pity for Xue Ying, and after hearing Yu Ziche's "confession", they sighed even more about Xue Ying's "experience".
As a result, he still retained a complex feeling of "being willing to take responsibility" towards Yu Ziche, this "bastard".
In order to "make up" for the "grievances" and "implicity" suffered by Xueying, or perhaps it was the result of Yu Ziche's pleading with his parents in W City:
Yu's father and mother came forward and persuaded Yu Sixie to gradually transfer some marginal and non-core industries and social resources of the Yu family, which were originally managed by Yu Ziche, to Xue Ying as an agent.
The reason is very sufficient: Xueying is a top student in the business school with outstanding abilities, and now she is "innocently" implicated. It is reasonable to give her some opportunities as compensation and training.
Besides, these industries and resources are insignificant to the Yu family. Even if Xue Ying messes up, the losses are within a controllable range.
Yu Sixie watched this farce coldly. He knew very well that Xue Ying was not as innocent as she seemed.
But without solid evidence at the moment, and considering his parents' attitude, he chose to acquiesce for the time being.
He also wanted to see what the snake would do after gaining more power and resources.
So, it was a blessing in disguise.
Not only was Xue Ying not implicated by Yu Ziche's downfall, but she took over the business he left behind.
With the knowledge she learned in business school and her determination to win, she quickly put the originally disorganized business into good order and even discovered some new profit points.
The girl began to frequently attend business receptions and celebrity salons that she had only admired from afar before.
With the ambiguous "relationship" with the Yu family, as well as her increasingly calm and appropriate conversation, increasingly refined dressing style, and that unique temperament that was a mixture of fragility and tenacity, she quickly gained a foothold in upper society.
She is no longer the girl who needed to imitate Xitong to attract attention.
She found her own style—simple, sophisticated, and with a touch of detached elegance. People around her began to praise her:
"Miss Xue is really young and promising, with outstanding abilities."
"Yingying is becoming more and more powerful now. She is indeed someone favored by the Yu family."
"Her temperament is so unique, gentle and independent, it's hard to look away."
Praises surrounded Xue Ying, and power and resources were like nourishing soil, allowing her to bloom more beautifully.
She responded to everyone's compliments with a smile, but the ambition in her eyes, in the corner where no one noticed, was quietly burning even more fiercely.
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