"Go find something to eat first, then go to sleep. Go back to Beicheng first thing tomorrow morning, and don't bother me here."
"No, I won't go back. I'm going to stay here and keep you company." Bie Yunzong grinned and moved closer to Su Yanxi, curiously looking at his wife's computer screen. "Let me see what you're looking at."
"Hmm? Qi Xiang'an?"
"I'm looking at an actor's profile. Sister Tong said that a film crew will be staying at this hotel tomorrow, and Qi Xiang'an is the lead actor in that film."
"Qi Xiang'an is moving in?"
"Um."
Su Yanxi sensed that Bie Yunzong's tone was a bit strange. She turned her head and caught her darling frowning, as if he was thinking about something.
"What, you know him?"
"No, no, no, how could I possibly know him?" Bie Yunzong waved his hands repeatedly in denial. "I just... oh, I just saw in the information that you and he were classmates at the same school, so I thought you two really had a connection!"
Bie Yunzong's personality is too straightforward, and he acts like a little tyrant towards everyone. He has a very, very fatal flaw - he is not good at lying.
He said he didn't know her, but his words and actions told Su Yanxi that he actually did.
At least they've heard of it or know something about it. In short, it's definitely not as simple as he claims, "How could we possibly know each other?"
"To be honest, my connection with Qi Xiang'an is quite deep." In order to further test Bie Yunzong, Su Yanxi naturally brought up Qi Xiang'an's story, "I was the top student at the Beijing Academy of Drama that year, and he was the second."
Before graduation, the school would conduct a grade ranking for the entire grade and all majors. Su Yanxi remembered that Qi Xiang'an was very impressive, with a score difference leading everyone else, while Su Yanxi was far behind him, the grade point maniac.
In addition to ranking students to give them a good reputation, the ranking is more importantly used to select "all-around excellent students".
“My GPA is the highest, so I should be awarded the title of Excellent Student. However, because I have a history of disciplinary action in my file, I cannot receive the title of Excellent Student. Therefore, the title of Excellent Student was passed on to the second-ranked Qi Xiang’an.”
Bie Yunzong nodded thoughtfully: "I see..."
Su Yanxi stared at him: "What are you thinking about, so engrossed?"
"N-nothing. I just think Qi Xiang'an is really lucky, he got a great deal for free!"
"Wife, you're really unlucky. You got nothing but a title that's all talk and no action."
Su Yanxi sighed softly, "It's my fault for being careless and easily falling for someone's trick."
"What...what trick did I fall for?"
After asking around, Bie Yunzong finally got to the point. He had been racking his brains for a long time, still unable to figure out what had framed his beloved wife back then.
"Honey, what exactly was the reason behind your disciplinary action back then?"
"Don't worry about that."
Su Yanxi avoided Bie Yunzong's question, gently clicked the mouse, and closed the encyclopedia page.
"It's late at night, I don't want to talk about these boring old stories. Come on, I'll find you some clothes to wear, and after you're dressed, I'll go out with you and we'll find something to eat."
The next morning, when Su Yanxi woke up early as usual, Bie Yunzong was still sleeping soundly, like a dead dog, wrapped in his blanket.
Su Yanxi, still dressed, angrily kicked the man lightly, finally managing to wake the sleeping dog.
“Wake up and go back to Beicheng, do you hear me?” Afraid that Bie Yunzong couldn’t hear her, Su Yanxi twisted the dog’s ear and whispered in Bie Yunzong’s ear, “If you’re here, I don’t have time to take care of you.”
Bie Yunzong, still half-asleep, finally realized that what he was holding in his arms was not his wife, but a blanket.
He released his grip silently, rubbing his eyes. "Um... I'm not going back. Haven't you heard the saying, 'It's easy to invite a god, but hard to send him away'?"
"Oh? You're a 'god' too?"
"Why not? I'm my wife's personal little god."
"How dare you say such a thing." Su Yanxi straightened her clothes. "I'm ignoring you now. I need to go to the film set to get my makeup done. You can figure out what to do after you wake up."
Bie Yunzong lazily replied with an "Oh," pulled the blanket up, and continued to sleep soundly.
While Su Yanxi was getting her makeup done in the dressing room, Zhou Tong and Lin Xiaohai both came over and chatted with her for a bit. Zhou Tong asked if her boyfriend had left yet, and warned him to be careful; Lin Xiaohai asked if the young master was still in his room, and warned him to be careful as well.
When answering Zhou Tong, Su Yanxi spoke politely, saying, "Okay, I'll remind him." But when answering Lin Xiaohai, Su Yanxi rolled her eyes and replied, "Let him do whatever he wants. As long as it doesn't bother me, I won't bother with him."
He had too many things to worry about lately. Besides filming and running errands, he also had to find time to investigate Qi Xiang'an. With all these things piling up, he didn't have time to deal with that nemesis.
"Su Yanxi?" Zhou Tong suddenly patted his shoulder, waking him from his meditation. "There's a collect-on-delivery package for you outside the door. You need to sign for it yourself. Go and see what it is."
Su Yanxi thanked him, took her phone, and went outside the dressing room to sign for the package.
As he pondered what it was, he searched for someone dressed in a delivery uniform. After searching around without finding anything, a man in a suit and tie suddenly stepped forward and bowed respectfully to him.
"Young Madam, I am here on the orders of Master and Madam to deliver some items to you. Please sign for them and then call Madam to let her know that you have received them."
"Okay." Realizing the other party was someone else's subordinate, Su Yanxi readily accepted the gift. "Just a letter?"
The subordinate nodded and repeated, "Yes. Please call the old lady and let her know you received this."
The subordinate was very nervous, fearing that Su Yanxi would not make the call and that he would be wrongly accused of embezzling funds.
Su Yanxi noticed her subordinate's nervousness and readily took out her phone to call her mother-in-law: "Hello, Mom, did you ask your subordinate to deliver the letter to me? I've received it, please don't worry."
He gestured for his subordinate to leave. The subordinate, relieved to hear Su Yanxi's phone call, bowed and withdrew.
Chapter 40
"You received it, right? Oh, good, good." Mother-in-law Cheng Xiaohui always treated Su Yanxi with kindness and affection. "Has it not been opened yet? No rush, we'll open it properly when we get home."
"What is it? I wasn't curious at first, but you've made me curious."
"It's nothing, it's just a small red envelope from your dad and me. We heard you and Yunzong had a fight, and you were so upset that you slept in the guest room and went to Guangcheng without saying a word the next morning." The mother-in-law gently and patiently coaxed her precious daughter-in-law, "Don't be angry, Yanxi. Yunzong has such a bad temper, he's not worth getting angry over."
Su Yanxi slapped his forehead in regret, almost forgetting about his parents, who were extremely concerned about their son and daughter-in-law's relationship, had many informants, and were better informed than anyone else!
"I'm not angry, I'm not angry, it was just a little tiff," Su Yanxi explained. "Yunzong came to Guangcheng to see me last night, just to make up with me. I haven't been angry since last night, so please don't worry."
"Really? Okay, that's good, it's good that you've made up!" The mother-in-law breathed a sigh of relief. "Since he's gone there, let him stay with you on set for a while. Not only will it let him get some experience and see how tiring it is to run a film crew, but it will also bring you closer and make it easier for you to develop your relationship."
This put Su Yanxi in a bit of a dilemma.
Su Yanxi tried to politely decline: "Mother-in-law, Yunzong and I have been together for seven years. How can we possibly make things closer after seven years?"
"Seven years? What's wrong with that?" the mother-in-law chuckled. "Seven years is precisely the time to strengthen your relationship! The seven-year itch, the seven-year itch, that's exactly what you're going through!"
Her mother-in-law's words were like a sudden enlightenment to Su Yanxi.
Oh right, how could he forget that saying? Seven years, seven years, the seven-year itch!
He and Bie Yunzong are at the critical juncture of their seven-year itch!
Author's Note:
Su Su: It turns out it wasn't that I was being paranoid or that I had a problem, but rather that it was the seven-year itch!
Dog: Huh? Where does it itch?
#22 A supercar worth millions and 200 million yuan in red envelopes as a token of my heart.
After hanging up the phone with her mother-in-law, Su Yanxi felt an unprecedented sense of relief.
Does this mean that experience matters? The phrase "seven-year itch" succinctly answered all of Su Yanxi's doubts.
After entering the seventh year, he became more sensitive and suspicious; he originally thought it was because he was becoming more and more unable to accept defeat, but now he finally has a reason: it's all the seven-year itch!
After finding a reasonable and feasible explanation, Su Yanxi finally broke free from the vicious cycle of self-reflection and introspection. He put away his phone and opened the "little red envelope" given to him by his mother-in-law.
His parents-in-law were not lying to him; when they said they would give him a red envelope, it really was a "red envelope"—a red, uncashed check.
The only thing that didn't match the description was that this red envelope wasn't "small" at all. The string of zeros really startled Su Yanxi!
"My goodness... how much money is in here?"
Nine figures, starting with the number 2—this check is worth two hundred million!
"My God, this check can be cashed for two hundred million?!"
Aside from his engagement and wedding, Su Yanxi had never received a larger red envelope from his in-laws. This clearly showed how much his outburst about sleeping in separate beds had frightened the two elders!
This further confirms Su Yanxi's conjecture: he really can't get a divorce.
"It was just a quarrel, and you're giving me this much? What would happen if it really escalated into a fight...?"
No wonder his subordinate was so nervous. If he were delivering a check worth two hundred million, he would definitely be terrified too.
As Su Yanxi was lost in thought, a voice suddenly sounded behind her: "Indeed, it's incredible."
He instinctively protected the check and turned around, only to find Xiang Mingyue looking smug. He said speechlessly, "When are you going to get rid of this habit of eavesdropping on people talking to themselves?"
"I won't change—I'm going to scare you!" Xiang Mingyue said shamelessly and confidently, "Why are you so nervous? What, did I interrupt you while you were looking at the two hundred million check?"
"So besides eavesdropping, you also like to peep?" Su Yanxi calmly put the check into her pocket. "Don't block the way if you don't want to. As the saying goes, even a good dog doesn't block the road."
Su Yanxi was unsure of how much Xiang Mingyue had overheard, and even less knew if Xiang Mingyue had figured out his true identity.
There probably isn't one? If they really could tell, they probably wouldn't have reacted with such arrogance.
"Make way, make way, you're rich, how dare I block your way?" Xiang Mingyue moved aside. "Let me remind you: don't be so smug, I already know who the capital and backers behind you are."
"Wow, that's impressive?" Su Yanxi laughed instead of getting angry, finding Xiang Mingyue's provocative behavior utterly ridiculous. "But if you really knew, why would you still be provoking me like this?"
"I……"
"I advise you to cherish your time and stop spouting nonsense. Instead of trying to win with underhanded tricks, you should improve your acting skills and defeat me with your abilities." Su Yanxi shrugged. "You have time to play childish games, but I don't have time to play along."
Su Yanxi walked away lightly, leaving Xiang Mingyue standing there, glaring at Su Yanxi's departing figure with impotent rage.
Xiang Mingyue stomped his foot in anger and cursed, "You're just a fox borrowing the tiger's power!"
After learning that the "rich patron" and the "rich boy" who went to Su Yanxi's dormitory for her birthday were the same person, Xiang Mingyue also figured out who "Bie Yunzong" really was.
It has to be said that Su Yanxi is really amazing. She actually managed to hook up with that super wealthy family, the Bie family, and even developed such a long-term relationship with the second young master of the Bie family!
Whether it's a sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship or a regular romantic relationship, it's quite remarkable that it's developed from college days to now.
The longer the relationship lasts, the harder it is to break. No wonder Su Yanxi is so arrogant, not afraid of being discovered at all!
"But unfortunately, I've already thought of a way." After cursing, Xiang Mingyue smiled confidently and muttered to himself with an air of triumph, "Even if other young masters treat you well, they certainly wouldn't want to be taken advantage of, right?"
Chapter 41
If that young master discovers that Su Yanxi doesn't truly care for him and is just using him as a long-term meal ticket, then... what will the young master think?
Will he fly into a rage?