The two people who were holding the cage stiffly stood beside it, their eyes filled with fear.

“You two go back and be punished yourselves.” Yu Shi finished speaking, then lightly called out to the dog, “Wu Biao!”

The dog heard the call and immediately stopped licking, its body leaning towards Sheng Weixia, it reluctantly but unwillingly turned its head towards Yu Shi.

No one could understand what kind of eye contact was going on between the man and the dog.

But Sheng Weixia, who was closest, clearly saw the dog’s pitiful expression, its head drooping, it moved inch by inch to the other side of the cage, towards Yu Shi.

“Take Wu Biao back to Master Li’s.” His tone was very calm, but the dog let out a whimper.

After leaving these words, Yu Shi turned around, walked to the door and instructed, “A Jiu, you take her back.”

Who this “her” referred to, no one could guess, until a young man walked in front of Sheng Weixia: “Miss Sheng, I’ll take you back.”

Whew…

He finally did a good deed.

Sheng Weixia was very tired, she replied: “Thank you.”

She found her handbag and followed him.

This A Jiu was Yu Shi’s right-hand man.

No one knew when he started working for Yu Shi, A Jiu was helping him when Yu Shi first emerged.

When he became a rising star, no one dared to underestimate A Jiu, many big coal bosses didn’t dare to put on airs in front of him.

“It’s my pleasure.” A Jiu pushed open the invisible door on the wall, controlled the door to step aside and waved, bowing his head to make a gesture of invitation.

Sheng Weixia walked through the door and heard the sound of footsteps behind her: “Sister, I’ll go with you.”

“Aren’t you going to play?” Sheng Weixia looked at Gu Qingwei curiously.

She had always gotten along well with the two Yu family granddaughters, and at this time, Yu Shulan had just been reprimanded, she should have stayed to comfort her, why would she leave so easily?

Gu Qingwei’s eyes drooped: “We’ll go home separately, Mom and Dad still think we’re fighting again, and they’ll worry about us again…”

A Jiu acted as if he hadn’t heard anything, maintaining his expressionless face.

“That’s the truth.” Sheng Weixia looked at Gu Qingwei with amusement.

Sometimes she admired this sister, she had been acting for so long, she probably believed it herself.

“As a child, you can’t add to your parents’ worries.” Gu Qingwei bit her lip.

Sheng Weixia was tired: “Then do as you please.”

Her gaze lingered on the other’s upper lip for a moment.

The cleft lip repair was very good, there might still be some traces, but Gu Qingwei’s masterful concealing technique had already covered up the scars left by the surgery.

Objectively speaking, from Xiao Cui’s point of view, she had made a very bold investment in her biological daughter.

The Gu family not only went to great lengths to find experts in Beijing to perform surgery on Gu Qingwei, in order to repay the large amount of money owed for the surgery and the favors owed, Gu Desheng gave up his iron rice bowl as the group leader of the cotton spinning factory, boldly learned to burn charcoal, made money to buy a tractor, and then gradually partnered with others to contract a coal mine, which led to their good life later.

To put it mildly, the Gu family and Gu Qingwei could be said to have achieved each other.

Sheng Weixia thought faintly, the lost time could not be regained, the fate between people was destined, and the feelings between parents and children would not be made up for overnight because of blood ties.

They loved Gu Qingwei, that was right.

They didn’t love her that much, that was also right.

When she no longer wanted to get equal love and recognition like she did in her previous life, she wouldn’t be disappointed—and she wouldn’t be hurt.

Yu Shi’s car was a black Santana, not particularly eye-catching in Jinzhong City, but you have to know that the Yu family didn’t give their younger generation separate cars, he was only two years older than them, at the age of twenty, he could have a car that was so expensive, it was unique in Jinzhong City.

A Jiu opened the back door for them, but Gu Qingwei insisted on sitting in the passenger seat: “How could I let Brother A Jiu be the driver?”

Sheng Weixia bent down and sat in the back seat, pressing on her slightly swollen temples.

After the car started, Gu Qingwei exclaimed: “Oh, I forgot to tell our driver.”

“This is the internal passage of Yanbo Jiangnan, it doesn’t connect to the parking lot.” A Jiu politely explained, and when he drove out of the passage, he rolled down the window and told the gatekeeper to find the Gu family driver in the parking lot.

“Thank you!”

A Jiu nodded, and then he didn’t speak again during the drive.

The car smelled very clean, with a faint scent of fresh herbs.

Sheng Weixia remembered that she had been very close to Yu Shi in front of the cage, and she seemed to have faintly smelled this scent.

No.

She had smelled it earlier.

In her previous life, before she graduated, she finally got an internship opportunity at an investment bank on Wall Street.

That day, the person in charge of the Chinese company that had commissioned them to acquire an overseas company came to the investment bank to discuss business, and her superior manager specifically asked her to check the materials and deliver them to the meeting room.

She pushed open the door and saw Yu Shi.

He was wearing a fine suit, he was sharper than he had looked at the wedding, his demeanor was calm, making it impossible to see through him at a glance.

She paused for a moment, her steps didn’t stop, she placed a stack of documents on his desk.

As she bent over, she smelled a very faint scent on him.

She didn’t like men wearing perfume very much, but that scent wasn’t like perfume, it was more like… some kind of herb.

Very comfortable.

His gaze lightly swept over her, without stopping, he returned to her superior manager.

Oh, he probably didn’t remember who she was.

Sheng Weixia felt relieved by this discovery.

Thinking back to that scene, it was actually quite embarrassing.

After the meeting, they didn’t have much of an advantage in this acquisition project, but in the end, they still got it.

That was the last week of her internship, the company would decide to keep one out of the three interns.

She wanted to stay, but she knew it was almost impossible, because the other two were better qualified than her.

However, in the end, she was the one who got to stay.

Later, her superior manager said that the client said one sentence: Your company’s conditions are not the best, but sometimes suitability doesn’t mean the best.

—Just like you, you bring good luck.

If they hadn’t had this project that quarter, the whole team’s KPI wouldn’t have been completed.

Sheng Weixia was lost in her memories, half asleep and half awake all the way, until the car stopped in front of the Gu family’s villa, A Jiu opened the back door: “Miss Sheng, we’re here.”

She came to her senses: “Thank you. I was a little tired today, I fell asleep as soon as I got in the car.”

She was about to get out of the car with her bag, when Gu Qingwei came over and gently took her arm: “Sister, I’ll help you.”

A Jiu bent slightly: “It’s our fault, Wu Biao scared you, if you feel uncomfortable, please tell me anytime.”

He handed her a business card.

She glanced at it, Yu Shi’s personal business card?

Before Gu Qingwei could look over curiously, Sheng Weixia took it and put it in her bag.

At this time, her father, Gu Desheng, was standing at the door, when he saw A Jiu, his eyes lit up: “Yo, it’s A Jiu! Where’s Yu Shi? Is he in the car too?”

Sheng Weixia was very familiar with this, this was the expression of someone who smelled a golden turtle son-in-law.

The coal bosses’ view on the marriage of the next generation was very simple and brutal, they wanted a strong alliance, they wanted a win-win.

A strong alliance marriage was represented by Yu Shi’s eldest uncle, who married the eldest daughter of the Ma family, whose coal mines were second only to the Yu family, almost monopolizing the large and good mines in Jinzhong and several surrounding cities.

A win-win marriage was represented by Yu Shi’s second uncle, who married the daughter of a leader in Beijing, whose business investments spread across several provinces nearby.

Besides mining, they invested in whatever made money.

The coal bosses had shown their descendants the truth of investment with real money early on: Don’t play with those fancy numbers, don’t listen to what experts say, see how the rich people do it, and follow them!

Gu Desheng understood the value of this truth.

The coal bosses who were richer than him had already arranged their children’s marriages early on.

So, he had also started to look for a marriage partner for Gu Qingwei, and now there was Sheng Weixia, so his efforts were naturally even greater.

—As long as his daughter married well, he would be proud even if he didn’t have a son.

When it came to the hottest son-in-law candidates in Jinzhong City, if Yu Shi wasn’t number one, no one dared to be.

When he saw Yu Shi’s car appear in front of his own gate in the twilight, you can imagine how wild this old man’s thoughts must have been.

A Jiu nodded slightly: “Mr. Gu, hello, my boss isn’t in the car.”

Gu Qingwei stomped her foot: “Dad, what are you looking at, it’s just Brother Yu Shi’s car, he was kind enough to let A Jiu send my sister and me back.”

“Okay, okay, okay…”

Gu Desheng lovingly patted Gu Qingwei’s head, his gaze returned to meet Sheng Weixia’s.

He visibly became awkward for a moment, his hand retracted unconsciously and hung down.

In her previous life, she was jealous of this warmth and closeness.

Now, thinking about it, it was foolish to put happiness on others.

She smiled faintly and looked away, saying goodbye to A Jiu, then turned and walked inside.

“Miss Sheng, I’m going back, call me if you need anything.” A Jiu finished speaking and turned to get in the car.

It wasn’t until he saw the car drive away that Gu Desheng realized something was unusual: A Jiu was sending his biological daughter back?

At the door, Mrs. Jiang Xiuhou looked at her biological daughter in a daze.

Why did it feel like she was different after going out and coming back?

The couple both thought about it, and looked at each other with heavy hearts.

Stepping back into the Gu family’s gate, Sheng Weixia felt no ripples in her heart.

Jiang Xiuhou, who was still looking at her, felt even more strange—

Just yesterday, she was still teaching her not to eat too fast at dinner, not to chew with her mouth open, and to walk with steady and small steps…

But now, her demeanor, her every move, was more composed and natural than if she had deliberately practiced it.

Jiang Xiuhou had been selected to join the art troupe twenty years ago, and she knew that this kind of change in posture and temperament was the most difficult to achieve, without years of training and practice, it wouldn’t have any effect.