Chapter 205: Chapter 192: Is It Lack of Love, or Lack of Something Else...
Su Xiaomeng was really a bit sleepy, so she nodded, "Mm... okay, we’ll spend Christmas together..."
Yin Shixiu listened to Su Xiaomeng’s increasingly steady breathing on the other end of the phone, and only hung up the call after a long while.
He pressed the landline on the desk...
A female secretary walked in, "President Yin."
"Here’s your phone back, I just made an international call. The phone bill—"
"No need to reimburse it, President Yin."
The female secretary smiled, "As long as you’ve made up with the Madam President, it’s all good."
Yin Shixiu nodded, "OK, Thank you."
The secretary left the office, and Yin Shixiu leaned back in his chair, thinking about what Su Xiaomeng had just said...
"He said she really dislikes me, feels that being cousins with me makes him embarrassed..."
He didn’t know Bai Shunyuan very well, but he did know that, despite his bad temper, this young man was not without sense.
Even if he doesn’t consider Su Xiaomeng’s status as a daughter-in-law of the Yin Family, he would still care about his grandfather Bai Fengmao’s feelings, and even more, the relationship between his father and Xiaomeng’s mother.
Being harsh to Su Xiaomeng was really unnecessary.
Yin Shixiu lightly tapped his forefinger on the table...
Forget it, maybe this outcome is better for Bai Shunyuan.
"You think you can threaten me with just this recording? Jiang Shanshan, you really don’t know your limits."
"Wasn’t it already reckless to provoke you in the first place?"
"Heh... fine, I underestimated you. Well, if you want to release it, go ahead, do it quickly, don’t hesitate. I want to see what impact this recording could possibly have on me."
"Perhaps, maybe it won’t have any impact on you at all, you’re the Young Master of the Bai Family, your father is a detective, your grandfather is a veteran in politics. Compared to you, I’m just an ordinary person."
"You’re aware, that’s good!"
"But what about Su Xiaomeng?"
Bai Shunyuan’s eyes glinted, "Are you out of your mind? It has nothing to do with her!"
"Why are you being so fierce..."
Jiang Shanshan chuckled softly. Although she had spent quite some time with Bai Shunyuan, it wasn’t entirely in vain, at least she could sense...
Bai Shunyuan was a bit agitated.
Despite saying "it has nothing to do with her," in his mind, he vaguely understood her implication.
"Actually... it really doesn’t concern her, I think, this won’t threaten you either, after all... you don’t really like her that much."
"Maybe it was just a temporary infatuation. So even if this girl, who has already become a mystery at school, with countless external opinions and gossip for a year, once again stirs up a storm at school, it shouldn’t affect you at all."
"Jiang Shanshan!"
Bai Shunyuan stepped forward and grabbed Jiang Shanshan’s neck!
He reached with his other hand to snatch Jiang Shanshan’s phone.
Jiang Shanshan quickly tucked the phone into her neck, where it fell inside her clothes.
Bai Shunyuan’s eye bags twitched a bit...
"I don’t mind if you feel, after all, you’ve felt before."
"So concerned, seems like you really do like Su Xiaomeng?"
Jiang Shanshan’s words seemed to suddenly awaken Bai Shunyuan, and he abruptly let go.
"What’s wrong?"
"Jiang Shanshan, you’re so presumptuous."
"...Am I?"
"You seem oblivious to what Su Xiaomeng’s true identity is."
"Your grandfather’s granddaughter, your cousin, also part of the Bai Family."
"Her husband is Yin Shixiu."
"If you don’t know this name, I suggest you go back and check carefully." Bai Shunyuan clapped his hands, putting them back in his pockets, leisurely watching Jiang Shanshan.
"I’m not agitated because I’m worried about Su Xiaomeng, I just didn’t expect you to be far more disgusting than I imagined."
"No matter how disgusting, didn’t you touch?"
"Yes, precisely because I realized I touched, it feels even more disgusting, nauseating..."
Bai Shunyuan’s disdainful expression actually hurt Jiang Shanshan.
But she held her ground, "Well, since you care so little about her, you needn’t worry about me releasing the recording."
"...Go ahead then, it’s up to you. But for the sake of how you’ve sometimes served me well, I kindly advise you: those who play with fire will inevitably get burned."
Bai Shunyuan’s eyes were as sharp as a blade, "If the recording gets released, I assure you, you and your whole family will end up in a terrible state."
Jiang Shanshan looked pale, seemingly weighing the pros and cons, she stared intently at Bai Shunyuan...
Bai Shunyuan blinked, then smirked, "I’m done playing with you, bye."
After he spoke, he turned around to leave.
Jiang Shanshan clenched her fist, "The photos of you and Su Xiaomeng together, I’ve shown them to that Yin Shixiu."
Bai Shunyuan’s steps halted.
Photos...
He smirked slightly, for a moment thinking Jiang Shanshan was a fool.
Even if he had feelings for Su Xiaomeng, it was only psychological. Photos? He hadn’t even kissed Su Xiaomeng, what kind of photos could she have taken?
However... this woman is a bit too bold.
Secret photographing, she actually dared...
He snorted lightly, dismissively stepping forward again.
"In the photo, the way you look at Su Xiaomeng! You need to see for yourself."
Photos...
"Jiang Shanshan, I’m suddenly very curious about what you want."
Bai Shunyuan turned around, facing the desperate rabbit who was about to jump over the wall.
"I want you."
"Haha..."
Bai Shunyuan laughed, "You want me?"
Jiang Shanshan pursed her lips, "Yes, I want you."
"Woman, haven’t you ever wanted me? Hahaha..."
Bai Shunyuan looked at Jiang Shanshan at this moment as if watching a joke, "I’m not playing with you anymore."
"Do you think I’m stupid?"
"Aren’t you stupid?"
"Alright, maybe I’m a bit stupid, thinking you’d consider Su Xiaomeng a bit more than expected. Indeed, after this recording is released, it won’t affect you, you’ll still be the Young Master of the Bai Family."
"... Around this time last year, the rumors about Su Xiaomeng being kept and having a child out of wedlock were rampant at school. This year at this time... it’s just a new topic of seducing her cousin, violating ethics."
"Haha!"
After hearing Jiang Shanshan’s words, Bai Shunyuan only felt like laughing, as if the day’s gloom had been swept away in an instant.
"I think you’re crazy. I like her, what’s it got to do with her?"
"It’s nothing to do with her that you like her? Why do you like her? How could you fall for her? No one would guess, no one would think? Don’t forget, in the eyes of most students and teachers, she’s a mystery."
"Moreover, how would her husband view her? If she even has the ability to seduce a blood-related cousin, wouldn’t her husband have reservations about her?"
The smile on Bai Shunyuan’s face faded, not because he thought Jiang Shanshan made sense, but because he suddenly took this woman seriously.
Jiang Shanshan knew about him and Su Xiaomeng being cousin siblings, which was no earlier than when he found out.
It had only been an hour or so, and she had already taken measures, using this to threaten him, even in the face of his indifference, after making threats, she hadn’t backed down, still speaking with certainty.
"You think too simply of others."
"I know why you’re saying this."
Jiang Shanshan raised her head, looking directly at him, "I don’t know Yin Shixiu, but judging by Xiao Ling senior sister’s situation and others’, it’s not hard to see that he’s an extraordinary person. Maybe once the recording is released, the school will act with the utmost speed and force to resolve the matter, just like last year."
"Moreover... I’ve met him, and he doesn’t seem like the kind of man who’d easily doubt his wife, so whether or not he’d have reservations, I can’t be sure."
Bai Shunyuan squinted at Jiang Shanshan. Her last two sentences affected him more than everything else before.
Obviously, she had already weighed the pros and cons, and even after the balance, she was still threatening him, which showed that...
She still had more to say.
Bai Shunyuan’s mind raced, thinking desperately...
If this recording were released, what other impact could it have?
Besides concerns about his own reputation, discussions, and such, what else?
He believed Su Xiaomeng wouldn’t suffer any harm, considering her husband is Yin Shixiu!
Stop!
Not suffer any harm...
Bai Shunyuan shuddered with realization!
"Everything I said earlier, I can’t guarantee, but there’s only one thing I can be sure of: if Su Xiaomeng knew you liked her, she would definitely find you very, very disgusting."
Bai Shunyuan glared at Jiang Shanshan with eyes bloodshot, flashing with a murderous light.
He took a deep breath, his fists clenching with a cracking sound.
For the first time in his life, he was being threatened.
"Heh, if you listened earlier, you’d know she already finds me disgusting and annoying. Do you think this alone can threaten me?"
Jiang Shanshan shrugged, giving Bai Shunyuan a smile, "Young Master Bai fears nothing. Now that I think about it, I’m indeed being overconfident. If you think the degree of hating someone for their character can be compared to the disgust from liking a blood relative, then consider me digging my own grave."
Jiang Shanshan finished speaking and turned away, leaving a sentence, "But whether it’s a dead-end or a way out, I will definitely try it."
Her figure walked away, and Bai Shunyuan stood in place, face pale.
Watching that figure walking farther and farther away, Bai Shunyuan for a moment really felt the urge to go up and kill that woman.
He took a deep breath, turned around...
Originally, he hadn’t planned to get along well with Su Xiaomeng, preferring her dislike over her continuing to smile at him.
He was convinced that his little bit of goodwill toward her was very faint, very faint...
So faint that after a night’s sleep, he would forget it entirely.
From then on, no one would bring it up again, and maybe after some time, he could still calmly call her cousin, and then smile and tell her, actually, I don’t dislike you that much, I think you’re quite good.
That’s what he thought.
But for some reason, after hearing so much of Jiang Shanshan’s nonsense, he realized...