The impact of Vice President Wu's sudden change of mind was no less than the pleasure of having millions of dollars in cash placed on the table for me to take at will. This was extremely important to me and Brother Ping. Before this, our confidence had already been severely shaken. I even made the worst-case scenario plan in my mind, preparing to sell Karen's villa to a local Thai person at a small profit.
After hanging up with Vice President Wu, Brother Ping and I looked at each other, and he asked me cautiously, "Was that call from Vice President Wu?"
"Um."
"What did he say?"
I rubbed my face with my palm and then laughed, "Just wait to count the money... The house they had their eye on in Malaysia has already been bought by someone else... They want to come back and take another look at our villa in Karen."
"Really? Or not?"
"Really, you should go to the airport to pick them up right away."
Brother Ping let out a long sigh, then squatted down and lit a cigarette. In that action, I saw the turmoil in his heart; he was almost in tears! ... I can understand this, because we have been under too much psychological pressure for the past month, especially Brother Ping. He put his life savings into this game with me. If we lose this time, he will lose his sense of security for the rest of his life.
After finishing a cigarette, Ping Ge straightened his clothes and then drove the Mercedes S-Class that he hadn't yet returned to the rental company to the airport.
...
After Ping Ge left, I changed into my swimsuit and started doing rehabilitation training in the swimming pool under the scorching sun. I want to get rid of the wheelchair as soon as possible and recover to my pre-surgery state in a short period of time. Although I won't be able to walk briskly at that time, I will still be able to walk with difficulty.
After swimming for a while, Yang Sisi changed into her swimsuit and went into the pool... Since she couldn't swim, she sat under the shade of a tree where she could surf and played on her phone.
When I stopped beside her, she put down her phone and said to me, "Can you teach me to swim?... Ever since, my parents have forbidden me from touching water. They say my grandma told my fortune, and I have a water calamity in my life. If I don't protect myself, I might die in the water one day!"
"Then you'd better go up there right away, this is no joke."
"Can someone drown in water that's 1.2 meters deep?"
"Don't be fooled by the shallowness of this swimming pool. When fate really decides to take you away, even a single sip of water can choke you to death!"
"You just don't want to teach me."
As soon as Yang Sisi finished speaking, her father stood on the second-floor balcony and shouted to her, "Sisi, why did you go into the swimming pool on such a sunny day?...Come up here quickly and take a look at this washing machine. I've been pressing the buttons for ages, but it won't work."
Yang Sisi replied impatiently, "Just say what you want to say. Can you stop using such outdated tricks? Not letting me swim... In such shallow water, am I going to choke to death or something?"
Her father ignored her complaints and said coldly, "Come up here quickly, there's a piece of clothing I urgently need to wear."
Yang Sisi pouted and tried to stand up, but the force of the water was too great and she lost her balance in an instant... She was really afraid of water, so the moment she fell, she instinctively struggled and then choked on the water, and choked quite badly.
I rushed over to her and helped her out of the water. She was coughing and her face was red... but she wasn't scared at all. As soon as she caught her breath, she complained to her dad, "Dad, are you my nemesis? I've been sitting here peacefully, and as soon as you call me, I fall down... You're the biggest calamity of my life!"
Still seemingly not satisfied, she added, "If you're so incapable of taking care of yourself, please bring a private nanny next time you go out... or you could bring my mom along."
I couldn't help but chime in, "If you bring your mom along, they'll probably get a double whammy... Your dad makes you work on the washing machine, and your mom makes you mow the lawn."
"Shut up! I bought this villa to enjoy myself... Don't make it sound like I'm in hell!"
I laughed and changed the subject, asking her, "Is the water in the swimming pool tasty?"
"what?"
"Is it a little salty?... Let me tell you, Brother Ping loves to sit in the spot you were just sitting in and pick at his toes!"
Yang Sisi was stunned for a moment, then she dry-heaved. After climbing ashore, she cursed at me, "Michael, are you a scoundrel? ... I'm telling you, tonight, you and Brother Ping are moving out of this villa... You can have Brother Ping take you to the overpass to pick your toes and play the victim."
"It's not really about playing the victim... Vice President Wu has come back again, insisting on buying our villa in Karen. After this afternoon, there will be two more millionaires on Phuket Island."
Yang Sisi ignored me, and then felt nauseous again. I took the opportunity to swim a lap in the pool. This is how Yang Sisi and I get along. Although we have been bickering for so many years, and sometimes we joke around too much, we never really take it to heart.
...
When I surfaced, Yang Sisi was still sitting in the same spot. She looked at me with a very serious expression and said, "Come here, I have something important to tell you."
I leaned against the edge of the swimming pool, watching her, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Yang Sisi whispered to me, "During the month I've been back in Shanghai, I've been inquiring about things related to the Binjiang Group... I've figured it out. Ye Zhi's biggest enemy there is her half-brother... It's possible that her encounter in Thailand was orchestrated by him..."
This was the first time I had learned that Ye Zhi had a younger brother. I had always thought that her father and the woman he met later had a daughter. Shocked, I replied to Yang Sisi, "Is your information accurate? ... After all, we share the same blood. They wouldn't do something so heinous, would they?"
"If her brother inherited Ye Lifan's (Ye Zhi's father) genes, what wouldn't he be capable of? ... Besides, they weren't born to the same mother, and they were born into a wealthy family. Who knows how much they secretly competed with each other... Anyway, I don't find it surprising... After all, he has those genes... Ye Zhi probably inherited her mother's personality and is a kind person. The reason she's so passive is probably because of the bond between her and her brother... If it were someone else, given her abilities, she should have turned the situation around long ago."
I wanted to refute it, but I also felt that this was the most reasonable explanation... because Ye Zhi had been back for a long time, and although she seemed to be scheming everywhere, she also revealed her forbearance everywhere, perhaps because she was thinking of this family bond... If what Yang Sisi said was true, then her brother was not just carrying a simple business crime, but was involved in murder!
However, I still don't quite believe Yang Sisi's side of the story. If this younger brother really had such ambition and a strong presence, Dai Qiang, who had worked at Binjiang Group for nearly three years, had no reason not to tell me. To chat with more like-minded people about "My Tenant Sister," follow "Hot Articles" or "rd444" on WeChat to discuss your favorite books with other book lovers.
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