"Wait."
Sheng Shushu stopped, puzzled as Xiao Yu's long legs circumvented her, entering her field of vision.
Her cheek was lifted, and the man left a kiss on the corner of her lips.
Sheng Shushu didn't dare to move an inch, not even a pore, except for her eyebrows.
"What's the frown for, isn't it your request?" Xiao Yu's naturally cold voice asked.
She detected the sarcasm.
In her past life, she had tangled with him for a month, and he barely even glanced at her, probably not even clear about her name. It was only after she had done him a favor that she demanded he kiss her every day.
Latterly, he indeed kept this habit for several years as if it were a single day.
That's also why she always thought that he loved her too.
Sheng Shushu suddenly felt a twinge of sorrow.
In her past life, she was actually still immersed in his kisses.
Had he decided after weighing the pros and cons that night to go along with her?
As the illegitimate son of the Xiao Family, he snubbed the old man, and played tricks on his elder brother. He was a typical dark-hearted villain.
On the other hand, he was the humble and good son-in-law, then used her family's power to grow stronger, and with one fell swoop, in only five years, he became the head of the Xiao Clan, pushing the group's market value to the top ten globally.
Was it that night he had planned, waiting until his wings were hardened, to pressure her into a divorce and to grandly marry the moon of his desires?
"It's nothing." Sheng Shushu didn't really look at Xiao Yu in front of her.
She felt oppressed inside, just wanting to escape this place.
Still, she said, "I was talking nonsense earlier, don't take it to heart. Kissing every day is pretty perverse, right?"
Xiao Yu stood there.
"Talking about perversions after sleeping together."
His gaze was cold and dark, observing the ambiguous marks on her body, yet his tone seemed quite calm.
"I had a drink; I was confused." Sheng Shushu wasn't lying; indeed, she had drunk to bolster her courage.
"Anyway, about tonight..." Sheng Shushu quickly glanced at him, "I'm very sorry."
"Pretend you were scratched by a cat."
Having said that, she left at her fastest speed.
At the door.
Zong Zhizhi had just arrived, when a figure wafted past his nose.
"Was that..." Zong Zhizhi hadn't seen clearly, but it seemed like he had.
"Sheng Shushu?"
After all, there weren't many in the Capital Circle as beautiful as Sheng Shushu, with her cold white skin and long black hair, she was easily recognizable.
"Brother Yu?"
Zong Zhizhi saw him with a stern face and no reaction and shook the ointment in his hand.
"So, is this... for your personal use?"
Zong Zhizhi had looked at it when he bought it, it was for application in private areas.
Just before coming here, Zong Zhizhi actually thought that Brother Yu, out of boredom late at night, had played himself into a state, which was really presumptuous.
Xiao Yu was currently frowning.
Tonight she was somewhat different.
Zong Zhizhi also noticed and said with a smile, "The young lady is probably just embarrassed."
Considering Sheng Shushu's recent aggressive moves against Brother Yu, it was unlikely she would just run away like that.
"Either she is playing hard to get and will certainly be clingier than before by tomorrow morning," Zong Zhizhi asserted.
Xiao Yu looked at him for two seconds, not sure if he agreed.
"Don't touch my bed."
With that, Xiao Yu left those words and entered the bathroom with a tense face to continue his shower.
How could Zong Zhizhi dare to touch his bed?
They had known each other since sharing a tattered sack under a bridge, later moving together to an orphanage, he knew Brother Yu's temper better than anyone.
Strangers keep away.
In the Capital Circle, it was said that Xiao Yu being single in his thirties was because he was too proud, thinking too highly of himself—a mere illegitimate son, how could he catch the eye of any wealthy heiresses?
Naive opinions of women.
As the youngest business professor at Capital University, plenty of company CEOs sought his advice, even bringing their daughters along when meeting him.
What intentions? Even a dog would know.
It wasn't that Brother Yu couldn't match up to the young ladies of Capital City's wealthy families; none of them came close to him.
Rather, it was Sheng Shushu who, not exactly from a wealthy family, relied on her beauty to bully...
Zong Zhizhi's thoughts were interrupted, slowing down the car.
Up ahead, Sheng Shushu had caught a cab, so he followed her all the way until she got out and went back to her house.
Sheng Shushu didn't disturb anyone at home, entered the house, went upstairs, and went straight to the bedroom.
Exhausted, she collapsed and fell asleep straight away.
The next day.
Her friend Lu Banxia was blowing up her phone when she was still in bed.
"Sheng Shushu, you really skipped postpartum confinement to go out?"
"It's impolite, disturbing Mom's sleep," Sheng Shushu slowly sat up.
"Tch, if you were my mom, I'd make my dad pack his bags and leave in an instant, and find you a wolfish stepdad!"
"So, you didn't attend Xiao Yu's class?"
Xiao Yu's class was a specially designed course in Business Management at A University; he had been specially invited by Capital University to teach it. The class was full to the brim with students ranging from PhD and Master's candidates to gold-collar workers.
Sheng Shushu had never missed a single class, always arrived at the school early, only sat in the first row, and was the last one to leave.
So, Lu Banxia couldn't think of any reason why she would be absent.
"Old beast, how boring," Sheng Shushu replied casually and hung up.
Fang Min, worried, leaned over, "What's wrong? Is she sick or something?"
Lu Banxia looked at the hung-up phone, with an expression hard to describe, "She said that Xiao Yu... is no good?"
"You've verified that?"
Both of them turned to look at Xiao Yu at the podium.
"Impossible..."
Looking at his casually rolled-up sleeves, exposing a section of his wrist, firm and powerful, he looked sexy no matter how you looked at it.
"Without her here, Xiao Yu doesn't even get breakfast!" Fang Min teased.
Xiao Yu's tall figure was particularly erect and unusually crisp, and as he entered the classroom, his gaze swept across the desks.
For a month now, a breakfast prepared by Sheng Shushu had been unerringly placed there every day.
Not today.
Sheng Shushu had decided not to go.
In her past life, when she was betrayed by her boyfriend and cousin, there was only one thought in her mind,
—If I can't be Xiao Qingzhou's bride, I'll become his aunt-in-law.
That's why she had targeted Xiao Yu.
At this moment, Sheng Shushu wanted to laugh. What kind of revenge was this?
Her mind, which had finally grown a second thought, was apparently hollow!
What's more ridiculous is that she thought she had truly won him over, fallen in love with him, to the point of being tormented by her love.
Turns out, he had just been playing along with her, using her as a backdrop.
She really should excavate her love brain from her last life and offer it as a sacrifice.
In this life, she wouldn't provoke him, wouldn't attend his classes. That should be fine, right?
"Buzz, buzz!" The phone vibrated.
After reading the message, Sheng Shushu's face crumpled.
[Send two copies of the manual to my office. —Xiao Yu]
An unfamiliar number, but judging by the signature, it was Xiao Yu's private phone.
She'd been entangling with him for a month and he never gave it to her, so why expose himself now?
If it was before, she would have rushed to see him at once.
But now, Sheng Shushu tightened her grip on the phone and turned off the screen.
No reply.
*
Some people noticed that Xiao Yu rarely wrote on the blackboard today.
Instead, he checked his phone several times, only just putting it down now.
"Any questions for the last session?"
Xiao Yu was dragging the class on.
He closed his book, "If you have any questions, come to my office. I'll be there all day."
Lu Banxia sat perched at the edge of the desk, dialing Sheng Shushu's number.
"Sheng Shushu, you must have clinched it! Xiao Yu says he'll be in his office all day, is he waiting for you?"
Sheng Shushu had put a lot of effort into becoming Xiao Yu's teaching assistant, and visiting his office was her favorite thing to do.
Sheng Shushu sighed, "Be good, read more books, and don't be lovesick."
In her previous life, her headlong pursuit was half thanks to encouragement from her lovesick friends.
"What's wrong with being lovesick? Lovesick brains lack nutrition, and even zombies disdain a good life."
Sheng Shushu: "..."
The class wasn't wasted; they're quite good with predictions.
Lu Banxia was skeptical, "No way, you're so calm about this?"
"Yeah, not chasing after Xiao Yu anymore, decided that last night."
"So quickly got a new target?"
"Am I that casual?" Sheng Shushu disagreed.
Lu Banxia didn't buy it, "New target who? Who could possibly..."
Suddenly, a well-defined hand appeared on the table.
Curling fingers, tapping on the table,
"Tap, tap!"