Chapter 209: Chapter 196: A Mind Deeper Than the Night 1
"I’m blackmailing her?!"
At this moment, Rong Qiao was already so stirred up by Su Xiaomeng’s nonsense that she couldn’t even speak!
"Do you think that by making baseless accusations, others will believe you? Do you think if I complained to the manager about her, she could keep her job?"
"If you, Miss, don’t mind the trouble, I can go with you to that manager and resolve this issue properly."
Su Xiaomeng shrugged.
Rong Qiao glared at Su Xiaomeng.
She felt no guilt about complaining about this middle-aged auntie; it was just a matter of her saying the word.
But now, a reckless woman jumped out, and even if they did go to the manager, she didn’t know what this woman might stir up.
This woman had nothing better to do, but Rong Qiao didn’t have the time to play their game.
"I’ve noted you. Don’t let me run into you again, you brat!"
With that, Rong Qiao shot Su Xiaomeng a fierce glare and then left the restroom.
The middle-aged auntie’s expression was still caught in shock. She looked at Su Xiaomeng blankly and was at a loss...
"Miss, will that lady still complain about me?"
Su Xiaomeng said to the auntie, "I don’t know about that, but I think she won’t do anything to you tonight. She clearly looks like a rich girl, and even if she’s bored, she probably won’t team up with me to make trouble over such a small matter."
The middle-aged auntie scratched her head in frustration...
"It’s all my fault for being careless. I should have knocked first."
"Auntie, it’s okay, it’s a small matter. But there’s water all over the floor here, make sure to clean it up to prevent anyone from slipping later."
Su Xiaomeng said, and the auntie nodded repeatedly.
She washed her hands again and wiped her shoes before returning to her seat.
"Why did you take so long?"
Su Xiaomeng shrugged, then briefly recounted what happened with the woman she encountered in the restroom.
She explained the situation simply.
Then Yin Shixiu said, "She wasn’t wrong to complain about the auntie."
Su Xiaomeng paused with her chopsticks, looking at Yin Shixiu in slight surprise.
"That’s how the hotel service industry works; the customer is always right. Even if it was the cleaner’s accidental spilling of dirty water on the woman, even if the woman deliberately walked into it... the one held responsible in the end is still the cleaner."
"But why?"
Su Xiaomeng didn’t understand.
"You said the woman’s shoes cost five figures?"
"...That’s what she said."
Su Xiaomeng mumbled indifferently.
"Anyone who can afford five-figure shoes is either from a wealthy family or an industry elite. For hotels, the spending of such people is very tempting; the revenue from one meal can equal the cleaner’s monthly salary."
"Would they jeopardize a god of wealth for a cleaner?"
"Isn’t that just being money-eyed? Oh! By that logic, what sense is there in this world? Money’s all that matters!"
Su Xiaomeng didn’t like Yin Shixiu’s statement. It was too realistic and unsettling.
"It’s a fact."
"What fact? I admit, money is almost almighty these days, almost everything can be bought, and most problems can be solved with money. But if money erases social justice and no one debates right or wrong, isn’t that society too pathetic?"
Yin Shixiu rarely heard Su Xiaomeng speaking so passionately, arguing for reason.
"Pathetic... only for the lower classes. Society is always like this."
Survival of the fittest, that’s exactly what it is.
Su Xiaomeng glanced at Yin Shixiu, "If you say only money talks, isn’t everyone pathetic, not just the working class? Are the elites any better?"
"...Oh?"
"In the upper class, wealth isn’t evenly distributed either, there’s still disparity. Maybe only those who reach the very top of the pyramid can avoid being bullied?"
"Haha!"
Yin Shixiu chuckled and then stood up, reaching out to Su Xiaomeng, "Alright, alright, it seems my wife does have some insights and deep thoughts on certain issues!"
Su Xiaomeng lightly slapped his hand and said disdainfully, "I tell you, don’t look at me like you’re a life coach. It makes me uncomfortable..."
The feeling of him predicting her every move was unpleasant.
Yin Shixiu actually thought it was fine, that occasionally the two of them could discuss their views on society and the country.
Even if they were in different age groups, even if their understanding of society differed greatly.
"I said the woman wasn’t wrong to complain, but that doesn’t mean your actions were wrong either..."
Yin Shixiu put his arm around her shoulders and gently said, "She, as part of the high-consumption group, has the right to demand the best service. And you..."
He turned his head to look at her, gave her a light kiss on the lips, "Yesterday, you asked me why I ultimately chose you; now there’s your answer."
Su Xiaomeng didn’t get it, looking puzzled.
"Those who appear to live in the same world as me, those heiresses of wealthy families, seem like they’re compatible, yet they are worlds apart inside."
"No matter how compatible things seem on the surface, if they don’t match internally, it’s meaningless."
Su Xiaomeng looked up at him, smiling, "Shixiu, you’re getting better at talking... What should I do about that?"
"I think it’ll be no time before you can persuade me to go east when you say east, and I’ll agree with you without saying you’re wrong..."
"Haha!"
Yin Shixiu chuckled twice, looking at the little girl with a clearly teasing expression and mischievous eyes.
The two had booked a room at the hotel and were now leaving the restaurant, preparing to take the elevator down to the guest room section. The elevator hadn’t reached the floor yet, when—
"Brother Shixiu?"
A slightly sharp female voice rang out, not loud but enough to make Su Xiaomeng’s back crawl with goosebumps and her scalp numb!
Wasn’t this the voice of the woman who had made a fuss with her at the restroom entrance earlier?
Yin Shixiu turned around first, seeing Rong Qiao approaching the elevator accompanied by Ren Yixuan, slightly raised his brows, and nodded in greeting.
Su Xiaomeng closed her eyes, realizing that the woman actually knew Yin Shixiu?
Brother Shixiu...
Su Xiaomeng felt awful whenever another woman called Yin Shixiu ’brother’.
That woman, what was her name, Luo Feiya, also called him brother, having acted like a sister for years, and Duan Qiaoqiao was another who did the same...
"Brother Shixiu, who are you having dinner with?"
Rong Qiao was already close, and after asking, her inquisitive gaze fell on Su Xiaomeng beside him...
Su Xiaomeng naturally didn’t plan to dodge, and lifted her head with a full smile on her face. However, this previously prepared smile froze for a moment as her gaze landed on Ren Yixuan.
Ren Yixuan was still wearing the outfit from the airport that evening, from which it could be deduced...
Earlier at the airport, the one picking up Ren Yixuan was this woman.
Rong Qiao had a momentary mental blank upon seeing the woman standing next to Yin Shixiu was Su Xiaomeng...
What... is going on?
Yin Shixiu wrapped his arm around Su Xiaomeng’s shoulder, turned around, and said, "This is my wife, Su Xiaomeng."
Rong Qiao’s emotions were downright complicated.
It was one thing that Yin Shixiu was unwilling to marry into the Rong Family. But this woman in front of her, she couldn’t see anything special about her, especially since they had argued in the restroom earlier.
Rong Qiao’s impression of Su Xiaomeng was extremely bad.
Not only that...
"Oh, so it’s Brother Shixiu’s wife... No wonder she was so arrogant."
The latter part Rong Qiao lightly brushed over, before wrapping her arm around Ren Yixuan’s, and said with a smile, "Brother Shixiu, Miss Su, this is my boyfriend, Ren Yixuan."
Yin Shixiu chuckled softly and then said to Rong Qiao, "We met before. He and Xiaomeng are childhood friends, and I previously intended to pull Ren Yixuan into working at the Yin Family, but was later outmatched by your brother’s more convincing persuasion."
Rong Qiao’s expression suddenly became very conflicted.
The hand wrapped around Ren Yixuan’s arm slightly stiffened...
She remembered Rong Jing telling her that he managed to bring Ren Yixuan into the Rong Family because Yin Shixiu stole his woman...
Back then, Rong Qiao was also curious about what kind of woman could make Yin Shixiu go so far as to snatch from someone else.
Later, upon encountering Ren Yixuan, she didn’t expect that there could be a second man in this world who she could fall for at first sight!
She spent half a year pursuing Ren Yixuan, and they were happy together, which made her forget the words of Rong Jing.
But Ren Yixuan was indeed excellent, and occasionally she would recall he once had a relationship like that.
In the quiet of night, she would get a bit jealous, jealous that there was once a woman favored by Ren Yixuan who later caught Yin Shixiu’s eye...
She imagined that it must have been an extraordinary woman, outstanding in looks, figure, personality, intellect, and more.
But what’s with this girl in front of her who looks like a minor?
Ren Yixuan nodded slightly and then added, "In this recent competitive bidding in London, President Yin lived up to his reputation. I led the team to revise the design proposal for three days and nights, yet we still lost miserably in the end."
"Don’t say that, sometimes in a bidding competition, the win is just about that bit of luck, not necessarily tied to capability,"
Yin Shixiu said lightly.
Su Xiaomeng couldn’t help but glance at Yin Shixiu, realizing they had met in London and had a bidding competition together.
At this moment, the elevator doors opened.
Ren Yixuan gestured for them to go in first, while he and Rong Qiao followed.
"Which floor?"
"52."
Yin Shixiu replied.
Ren Yixuan pressed the button for the 52nd floor, then one for B2.
"Brother Shixiu, aren’t you going home?"
Rong Qiao couldn’t help but ask.
"Uh, I’ve been on a business trip for over a week, and today coincided with Christmas, so Xiaomeng and I are spending it out, at home with kids and elders, it’s always inconvenient."
Su Xiaomeng quickly tugged at Yin Shixiu’s sleeve, thinking, why are you telling others so much?
Always inconvenient? Inconvenient how...?
It’s making others’ thoughts run wild.
"So Brother Shixiu can be quite the romantic..."