When Nicholas Xiu heard this, he raised his eyebrows and slowly opened his red lips. He said in a deep voice, “Recently, I’ve been thinking about it carefully. We’ve been cheated.”
His eyes were deep, like a piece of black jade, and they were vaguely red. “He came to Country M personally and did not hide anything, making us place all our attention on him. As for Xue Xi’s abnormality, we blamed it on her being Xiang’s girlfriend, so we ignored her. It was only when she’d left that I realized that something was amiss, but it was already too late.”
Nicholas lowered his eyes. “Professor Derry, you don’t need to know what secrets she has. You just need to know that she is very important to Country M! If I had known earlier, I would have stayed at the airport that day and saved her even if I’d had to offend Xiang.”
Professor Derry was stunned.
She was very important to Country M? The status of Count Nicholas was not as simple as that of a mere count. Since he’d said that much, he would do his best to bring her back.
…
Mr. Guo’s funds had all been frozen. Under the law, he had to repay the students’ allowance.
In an instant, Mr. Guo became a rat that everyone wanted to beat up. At the same time, Xue Xi became a celebrity in the school. She was fearless and dared to do anything. She became synonymous with it.
After the students in the class realized that they had misunderstood her, they became even more friendly to her.
Even those who had long realized that she was cold on the outside but warm on the inside started to get close to her. Many people wanted to speak to her and make friends, but they did not dare to.
In the school forum, everyone was praising her with the tags, #Most Beautiful School belle #Competition. She also won with an absolute advantage and became the newest school belle.
Those who were originally scolding her online also apologized one by one.
Unfortunately, Xue Xi did not care about that and continued to attend classes as usual. After class, Ye Li came to fetch her home on Friday night.
She had finished reading five more books this week and could finally go home to exchange her books. Hence, she excitedly brought the books to the car and heard Ye Li say, “Xixi, let’s go watch a play!”
Xue Xi: “…”
She silently looked at the book in her hand and wanted to reject it, but when she met Ye Li’s hopeful eyes, she eventually nodded.
Forget it, I’ll accompany her to watch.
After she got in the car, Ye Li’s phone rang. She turned on the speaker mode and Xue Sheng’s voice sounded from the other end. “Dear, when are you guys coming home? Why is there no one at home?”
Ye Li: “…Ah, I forgot to tell you that Xixi and I are meeting someone to watch a play tonight. You can eat by yourself!”
Xue Sheng: “?”
He could not help but say silently, “I also want to watch the play.”
Ye Li retorted unceremoniously, “How can you watch? Have you finished your work? Your daughter has provided you with the funds and even developed that so-called acid. If you still can’t do well and earn money, won’t you be letting your daughter down?”
Xue Sheng: “?”
Ye Li continued, “If you have the time to watch a play, why don’t you settle more company matters? If you lose your daughter’s money, I’ll make sure you can never return to the master bedroom to sleep again!”
Xue Sheng: “Dear, you can’t be so ruthless.”
Ye Li sighed. “Old Xue, it’s not that I’m ruthless. Think about it. As parents, what can we give our daughter? You still have four years. Can you be ready with your daughter’s dowry in four years? Don’t tell me you’re going to give your daughter’s own money to her as her dowry!”
Xue Sheng: “How can that be?! I’ll definitely give Xixi the most perfect wedding in the world! I’ll have her get married like a princess!”
Ye Li: “…Mhm. Be good and get busy!”
Xue Sheng: “…Okay.”
After Ye Li happily hung up, Xue Xi was stunned and looked at her. “Mom, who are we meeting?”
Ye Li had said on the phone that she was meeting someone to watch a play.
Ye Li replied, “Your Auntie Lin Jing!”
Xue Xi: “?”
It’s only been a month and you’re already so familiar with Lin Jing?
However, since Ye Li had come to the capital and it was a new environment, it was not bad for her to have a friend. Xue Xi could interact with Lin Jing and see if she harbored any ill intentions.
If not, she’d then let her mother go out with her.
As she thought this, Xue Xi obediently nodded and picked up the book to read. Although she had already read it once and memorized it, it was really too boring not to do anything else.
They were going to the Huaxia Capital Theater today. The play they were staging today was not bad, but the venue was relatively small and could only accommodate about 200 people.
When the two of them arrived, Ye Li had already taken out her phone and sent Lin Jing a message on WeChat: “I’m here. Where are you?”
Lin Jing replied, so Xue Xi also heard it. “I’m here too. I’m queuing up at the entrance of the theater! Come!”
Ye Li: “Okay, okay.”
At the same time, at the entrance of the theater.
The person-in-charge of the theater was standing at the entrance in fear. “Ms. Lin, you… you really don’t have to queue. You can just enter directly. Or should I arrange a VIP passageway for you?”
Wearing a green dress, Lin Jing gave off a graceful and elegant feeling. She held a bag of the same color in her hand and said in a serious tone, “No need. We still have to queue.”
She could not give her in-law the feeling that she was high and mighty. Why was it that others were queuing while she was the only one who did not? What if she frightened her in-law?
She must not have known who she was, so she had to be closer to the people. Otherwise, there would be a sense of distance.
It’s the details that determined success and failure. It was not easy for her to get close to Ye Li in two months.
As she thought this, her eyes flickered again. She picked up her phone and called Xiang Huai.
The call was quickly connected.
Xiang Huai’s voice was a little lazy. “Your Majesty, why are you looking for me?”
Lin Jing said, “I’m in the theater. Come and accompany me!”
Xiang Huai: “I’m busy! I’m not free. Watch by yourself.”
Lin Jing: “Ha, care to gamble if I won’t tell your mother-in-law that my son is you?”
Xiang Huai: “…Your Majesty, please excuse me. I’m suddenly not busy here. I’ll go look for you now!”
Lin Jing was satisfied. “Stop talking nonsense. There are five minutes left. Come quickly!”
Xiang Huai: “No problem. I’m very close to you. I’ll be there in two minutes.”
After saying that, he hung up.
Two minutes later, Xiang Huai walked over impatiently. As he walked, he typed on his phone as though he was giving orders to his subordinates. When he reached Lin Jing, he put away his phone and said helplessly, “Mom, this play is so boring. Why are you watching this?”
Lin Jing nodded in one direction and smiled. “Are you still going to say that it’s boring?”
Xiang Huai turned around and saw Ye Li and Xue Xi walking over.
