Xie Xiaoling's heart skipped a beat, and she tried to speak: "Mr. Sleep?"
"I brought you out not so you could continue to entangle with Yan Shenyu." The man spoke gently, yet there was a chilling feeling about him.
Xie Xiaoling was so frightened that she immediately lowered her head, only daring to look at the other person's shiny leather shoes.
After a long while, he said with a wronged tone, "But he bullied me so much. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be in this situation today."
Mr. Sleep suddenly laughed.
He didn't mock, but instead gave a gentle, loving laugh, like a kindergarten teacher.
"You actually think that all of this is thanks to Yan Shenyu?"
Xie Xiaoling paused, then hesitated and said, "Isn't that right?"
“No, none of that. It’s just because you’re impulsive, stupid, arrogant, and morally corrupt,” Mr. Sleep said slowly. “Don’t you know that you’ve become like this entirely because of yourself?”
Xie Xiaoling opened her mouth wide, and her breathing became rapid.
"I..." He opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.
But the other party didn't let him off the hook. Instead, they continued, "Otherwise, why is it that every time you lecture someone, every time you think your plan is flawless, it always gets exposed in the end, and you're the one who gets hurt in the end?"
Xie Xiaoling asked blankly, "So...it's all because I'm not good enough?"
“Yes, you are not strong enough,” Mr. Sleep’s gentle voice rang out. “Do you want to change?”
"I want to!" Xie Xiaoling nodded frantically. "Please tell me how to do it!"
"Very well, I need you to go home and apologize, and repair the relationship between your parents and the Xie family."
"What? But they gave my ring away without my permission, why should I..."
The man fell silent, and the dilapidated factory fell silent instantly, with only the howling wind echoing across the distant land.
The eerie silence made Xie Xiaoling uneasy. He instinctively stopped and looked at the man in front of him with unease.
"Think about it again," the man's gentle voice rang out, yet it sent a chill down one's spine. "Is that your ring?"
Xie Xiaoling gritted her teeth, and after a long while finally shook her head, saying with a hint of resentment and humiliation, "No."
“In that case, your parents are not at fault,” Mr. Sleep said, word by word. “Besides, you can’t take revenge on Yan Shenyu for the time being.”
Can't we retaliate against Yan Shenyu?
Xie Xiaoling blinked, too aggrieved to speak.
"Do you have any leverage over him that you're confident you can use to control him?"
Xie Xiaoling was taken aback, then shook her head.
Do you have a foolproof method to defeat Yan Shenyu?
Xie Xiaoling continued to shake her head.
"After taking revenge on him, will you be able to extricate yourself from the situation without being implicated?"
Xie Xiaoling shook her head in despair.
"You see, you're completely helpless against him. Your so-called revenge is nothing more than rushing over there to make a fool of yourself and become a laughingstock."
Xie Xiaoling opened her mouth, then sank into deep despair.
“I’ve come to you to discuss something important,” Mr. Sleep’s voice rang out, carrying a seductive tone. “You need to learn to take a long-term view and not be fixated on immediate gains.”
"To accomplish great things..." Xie Xiaoling's eyes shone with anticipation.
“Okay, I understand,” Xie Xiaoling looked at Mr. Sleep with excitement, then pressed his forehead to the cement floor and said in a devout tone, “I will do as you say. I will go to apologize to my parents and make a perfect plan.”
...
After Xie Xiaoling left, a man next to her suddenly spoke up.
"Boss, he's so stupid, isn't it a waste for us to go through all this trouble to get him out?"
"It's alright. Ah Bin dared to get involved in drugs behind my back. I'll take down that line sooner or later," the man said calmly. "Letting Xie Xiaoling out is just a side effect, to mislead everyone."
“And another thing,” the man glanced at him and said coldly, “your tie is crooked.”
"Clam??"……
After retrieving the "Heart of the Universe," Yan Shenyu delivered the ring and the certificate of authenticity to Xu Yi's home.
With a large sum of money suddenly appearing, Yan Shenyu's desire to buy a house began to stir again.
He dug out the designer who had previously rejected him on WeChat and proposed to talk to the homeowner of his dream house.
Designer: "I already..."
"Don't refuse me yet, I have money, I can raise the price!"
Designer: "..."
Perhaps having never encountered such an exasperating buyer, the designer hesitated for a moment before telling Secretary Lin about it.
Shortly after, the other party replied to Yan Shenyu: "I've given your WeChat ID to the landlord. If he's willing to add you, it proves that he's interested. If not, then there's really nothing I can do to help."
Yan Shenyu nodded and typed: "Understood, understood, thank you for your hard work."
To express his gratitude, he also transferred a large red envelope to the designer.
Upon hearing this, Secretary Lin was speechless. Why would there be such a bizarre buyer?
Secretary Lin couldn't hold back any longer after he saw the WeChat account.
This is actually Yan Shenyu?!
"Mr. Xie, there's something else I'd like to report to you." That afternoon, after reporting on his work, Secretary Lin also reported this matter to Xie Siyan.
"Yan Shenyu who wants to buy my house?" Xie Siyan raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, the designer sent me his WeChat." After a pause, Secretary Lin added, "Should I contact him?"
After a moment of silence, Xie Siyan shook his head: "No need, I'll handle things on his end."
Later, Xie Siyan created a new account and added Yan Shenyu on WeChat as the owner of that house.
...
After waiting all afternoon, Yan Shenyu finally received a call from the owner of his dream love room.
The account holder's WeChat ID name is the letter S, and their profile picture is a sunset over the sea.
After accepting the other party's WeChat, the chat box showed the words "Hello," which was the automatic reply from when the application was submitted. There was no other message.
She's a rather aloof person.
But Yan Shenyu was least afraid of aloofness. He opened the input box and took the initiative to say, "Hello, my name is Yan Shenyu. May I ask how I should address you?"
You can call me S.
Not even saying their name, so aloof indeed!
But he won't be easily defeated by this small setback!
Yan Shenyu opened S's Moments to find topics, but found that the other person's Moments were set to be visible for only three days, and there was not a single post.
Yan Shenyu was at a loss, so he clicked on his profile picture again to take a closer look. This time he noticed that a sailboat had appeared in the lower left corner of the sea.
Here's the common ground, isn't it?
Yan Shenyu asked him, "Your profile picture is a photo of you at sea. Do you also like sailing?"
S: "I occasionally go on vacation and have fun."
Yan Shenyu: "I have a friend who also likes sailing, and he's really good at tying knots."
Perhaps having found a starting point for the conversation, S quickly asked him, "What do you think of your friend who goes sailing?"
Yan Shenyu thought about how Xie Siyan tied the knot back then and replied, "He's a very nice person. It didn't hurt at all when he tied me up."
[...]
"Oh, that's not what I meant. Don't misunderstand. I don't have any unusual fetishes, and I don't have any special relationship with that friend. We're just ordinary friends."
【oh.】
Did I really make someone angry?
Yan Shenyu then changed his strategy, abandoning emotional connections and instead resorting to the simple and crude tactic of showering people with money.
I saw the design of your house through a designer and I really loved it. I was wondering if you have any plans to sell it? I can offer a price much higher than the market value.
Do you like the design of my house?
Since there was no direct rejection, it meant there was hope, so Yan Shenyu immediately sent a bunch of compliments.
[I love it! I've never seen such a beautiful house. Not only is the neighborhood and apartment layout great, but the overall color scheme and design are also fantastic. Every piece of furniture is like a work of art, especially the study with the spiral staircase—it's exactly what I dreamed of when I was in elementary school.]
So please move out of my house.
Yan Shenyu resisted the urge to send the last sentence as well, nodded, and pressed send.
Half a day later, the other party replied, "Most of them were my ideas."
Hmm? So this is asking me to praise him?
Is it just his imagination? Why does this homeowner seem a bit narcissistic?
"You have excellent taste," Yan Shenyu typed out expressionlessly.
【Um.】
So, are you considering giving it up?
As he sent the message, Yan Shenyu couldn't help but tremble slightly. He rarely felt this nervous; perhaps only confessing his feelings to someone he liked could compare to this.
Then, S replied to him.
【No.】
Yan Shenyu: "..."
No……
You didn't even have me praising you so much!
Yan Shenyu didn't want to waste any more time. After he said that the deal was off and they would have to delete each other, S changed his mind and said, "I'm not selling, but I have an empty room that you can rent to."