“Unless they just don’t want me to do well. Even after they’ve graduated, even after we will have nothing to do with each other anymore, they still want to ruin my examinations.” Yuan Keqing was beginning to create conspiracy theories.
Zhou Jingan had had enough of that.
Yuan Keqing surely liked to judge others in the worst possible way.
“Do you really think that everyone is as disgusting as you are?” Zhou Jingan asked her with disgust.
Zhou Jingan was incredibly handsome. But now such a handsome man was looking at her with disdain and had just told her that she was disgusting.
Yuan Keqing felt a sharp pang in her heart.
She looked away, and then suddenly she thought of something.
“Tan Mo? Is it Tan Mo?” Yuan Keqing suddenly thought of Tan Mo.
“Don’t try to push this on Tan Mo.” Zhou Jingan laughed coldly. “But it seems now that you have finally remembered.
“When Tan Mo was taking her exam, you told her purposely that Mr. Wei had been hurt in an attempt to affect her examination. Tan Mo hurried and turned her exam in half an hour early in order to leave to go and see Mr. Wei.” Zhou Jingan spoke in a loud voice so that Xu Mingjing and Yuan Keqing could hear him clearly.
“Tan Mo is a generous girl, so she never complained about it. She just kept her distance to prevent herself from being targeted by you again. She considers what happened something in the past already.” Zhou Jingan wanted to leave Tan Mo out of it; otherwise these two women would blame Tan Mo again.
But according to what Wei Zhiqian had told him, going by how these two typically acted, even if this had nothing to do with Tan Mo, they would blame Tan Mo for it anyway.
Afterward, they were surely going to harass her at the Tan’s home.
Zhou Jingan asked Wei Zhiqian that if he had thought of that already, then why should he mention Tan Mo’s name to the two of them? Was it because he wanted to let the two of them understand what they had done wrong?
But Wei Zhiqian shook his head and said, “The entire Tan household, with the exception of Mrs. Tan, is already sick of the two of them, including Tan Mo. Tan Mo is actually very smart, and she saw through Yuan Keqing right away. But just like her three brothers, they held themselves back because of Mrs. Tan.
“It seems that Mrs. Tan is no longer close anymore with her sister and Yuan Keqing because they hardly ever see one another anymore. But they are sisters after all. If, at a later time, Xu MIngjing and Yuan Keqing asked her for help, as long as it did not involve a conflict of interest with the Tan household and as long as it did not involve the children of the Tan household, then Mrs. Tan would surely help.
“Once a long time passes and the current conflict starts to fade away, she will again shift toward Xu Mingjing and Yuan Keqing. And then Tan Mo and her brothers will have to restrain themselves again.”
“But Mrs. Tan doesn’t seem like a foolish person,” Zhou Jingan answered Wei Zhiqian.
“Who knows what will happen in the future? It’s good that she isn’t, but if it does happen, then what should we do?” Wei Zhiqian said. “Even if there is a thousand-in-one possibility, I don’t want to gamble with Tan Mo.
“Xu Mingjing is Mrs. Tan’s sister after all. They are connected by blood, so Mrs. Tan may be influenced easily by her sister.” Wei Zhiqian wagged his index finger and said, “Since we are not sure, then we should make sure that such a day will never come.
“Tell them that I was the one who ordered you to delay them in order to make sure she can’t take her first test. According to how they are, they won’t dare make trouble if they know it was me. Even if they know it was me, the two of them are going to make trouble for the Tan household. They will go there and cry and accuse Xu Mingzhen of not treating them like family.
“They will make trouble, and I will do something about it, but not right away. Let them make trouble, and let them wash away the last of Mrs. Tan’s patience for them so that she will be tired of them. Then, in the future, no matter what happens to Xu Mingjing and Yuan Keqing, if they ask Mrs. Tan for help, Mrs. Tan will be reluctant to help them.” Wei Zhiqian rubbed his finger along the edge of his nose. “That way, they will no longer have a chance to hurt Tan Mo. At least, they won’t be able to do so with any help from the Tan household. Tan Mo shouldn’t have to tolerate that absurdity.
“Mrs. Tan hasn’t been communicating much with the Yuan household in recent years, so Xu Mingjing and Yuan Keqing have been behaving better. But they have been quiet for too long. I worry that Mrs. Tan will forget what they have done in the past. It’s about time to remind Mrs. Tan,” said Wei Zhiqian.
Zhou Jingan understood the situation. “Xu Mingjing and Yuan Keqing will make trouble for the Tan household, but it will only be temporary. And this time when they go to make trouble, Mrs. Tan will become fully tired of them, and in the future she will no longer help Xu Mingjing.”
“That’s right.” Wei Zhiqian nodded and continued, “They can make a fuss if they want to, but after making a fuss, who will they go to for help in the future? They are the ones making the fuss, and they are also the ones asking for a favor. Mrs. Tan won’t allow that. She will lose her patience with them.”
“Mr. Wei, that’s a good move. Cutting off the problem at its roots,” Zhou Jingan said.
At the same time, he thought to himself, ‘Wei Zhiqian surely is doing a lot for Tan Mo.’
Zhou Jingan stored away his excess thoughts and looked Xu Mingjing in the eyes and said, “Mr. Wei said that he won’t make it a big deal.
“Yuan Keqing used him to affect Tan Mo’s examination, and he never forgot what she did,” Zhou Jingan said in a mocking tone. He laughed coldly and said, “But do you think he is a person that someone like you can take advantage of? Anyone who has taken advantage of him has never had a good ending.
“Because of a single phone call, Tan Mo turned in her exam half an hour early in order to visit Mr. Wei in the hospital.” Zhou Jingan raised his wrist and looked at his watch, saying, “Mr. Wei said to make you miss the same amount of time that Tan Mo missed for her examination.”
“Tan Mo turned in her exam early. She answered all the questions. But if I go there half an hour late, I won’t even be able to take the test,” Yuan Keqing complained. “That’s not fair!”
“There is nothing I can do about that.” Zhou Jingan shrugged. “If I let you go in, will you come out half an hour early? What a joke.
“Since you won’t come out early, I have no choice but to delay you for a bit. As for whether or not that half-hour delay will result in you being unable to take the test, that is not within the scope of my consideration.” Zhou Jingan was in no hurry, so he talked slowly. “Your motives were the same anyway. You didn’t want Tan Mo to have a chance to take the test.”
“But she finished her exam in the end. And she got a perfect score.” Yuan Keqing was feeling very sorry for herself, and she didn’t think she had done anything wrong. “Tan Mo didn’t suffer any loss. How could you not let me take the test?”
After hearing that, Zhou Jingan said with a look of mockery, “Tan Mo handed in her exam early and got a full score because of her own skill. She is so good that your scheme came to nothing, but that doesn’t mean that you did nothing wrong. That doesn’t mean that you deserve to be forgiven.”
