Chapter 9: Crying if You Don’t Give It to Me

Shuangxu asked unexpectedly, “So you’re planning to hand over this melon to Chenxing?”

“If they want it so badly, let them have it.”

“I thought you wouldn’t be able to swallow this.”

“My own child, I feel the pain myself. Others can trample on my hard work, but I can’t. Chenxing wants to engage in a price war, we definitely can’t beat them. Yundun choosing them is reasonable. It’s the same thing, I would choose the cheaper one too.”

Shu Yang had come to terms with it in the past two days, convincing herself: “It’s okay. Others have dirty methods, I lose, it’s my fault for misjudging people, but it’s not me who loses face, I have a clear conscience.”

“That money has already helped me solve Feixue’s financial problems, everyone’s overdue wages and bonuses have been paid, we can just start over. When I get better, I will get revenge!”

Shuangxu suddenly said, “Do you remember when we first met?”

Shu Yang naturally remembered: “You were so cold back then. You had acute gastroenteritis, I kindly sent you to the hospital, running around, and you paid me off with a roll of US dollars.”

“Not paid off, but gratitude.” Shuangxu corrected, “I had just been betrayed by my best friend at that time, and I didn’t want to make friends.”

“No wonder you never contacted me after leaving the hospital.” Shu Yang said, “Speaking of which, I have to thank my mixed-race ex-boyfriend.”

At that time, her ex-boyfriend lived in the same building as Shuangxu, and one night he sent harassing messages to Shuangxu.

It was a dilemma whether to tell the person involved about this.

After thinking it over, Shuangxu, taking the risk of potentially being in a bad position, directly forwarded the message content to Shu Yang.

“When you stormed into my house that day, I thought you were going to beat me up.” Shuangxu said, “Unexpectedly, you dragged me to find him, slapped him twice on the spot, one for yourself, one for me, and then you walked away coolly.”

“At that time, I thought, this woman is so cool, I really like her personality.” Shuangxu turned to look at Shu Yang, her smiling eyes were serious.

“I’m glad, after all these years, you’re still the same Shu Yang who can take it and let it go.”

Shu Yang opened her arms and hugged her: “Then learn from your senior sister, the most important thing in life is to be open-minded, men are everywhere.”

Shuangxu was stunned, her expression for a moment was like someone had discovered a secret she was trying to hide: “How did you know…”

“Guessing.” Shu Yang smiled weakly and slyly, “Shuangxu, your eyes are so beautiful, it’s a pity that you only see your brother.”

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Shuangxu returned to the Shen family in the evening, it was almost ten o’clock.

As she got out of the car, her phone buzzed in her pocket, a call from the Song family.

She couldn’t hide her return to China from the Song family. After publicly appearing at Shen Yu’s birthday party two days ago, the news of her return to Yancheng spread from rumors to confirmed facts.

She came back without permission, Cui Ning would find her sooner or later, Shuangxu wasn’t surprised at all.

Although Shuangxu is surnamed Song, the identity of the Song family’s eldest daughter is not real. She is the daughter of Song Mianzhi, but Cui Ning, the Song family’s wife, is not her mother.

She grew up in the Shen family, and her relationship with the Song family is not close, it can even be described as thin.

Five years ago, they forcibly packed Shuangxu and sent her abroad, which made the already thin family ties even thinner.

Standing outside the door under the tree, Shuangxu heard a dignified and noble female voice on the other end of the phone: “When did you come back?”

“Last Tuesday.”

“If I hadn’t heard someone mention it today, I wouldn’t even know you were back.” Cui Ning said, “You’ve been back for so many days, you don’t even know to come home and see us.”

The words blamed her for being unfilial and disrespectful, but Shuangxu knew better than anyone that if she really went back to see them, she would only be disliked.

What Cui Ning really blamed her for was coming back without their permission.

“I have a lot of things to do recently, I’ll go back after I’m done.” Shuangxu said.

“Come back this weekend.”

Cui Ning directly gave an order, leaving her no room to refuse, and then coldly hung up the phone.

Shuangxu took the phone away from her ear, taking advantage of the fact that she couldn’t hear anymore, and said, “Whoever wants to go back can go back.”

After saying that, she was about to go into the house, but suddenly a car horn sounded in her ear.

Shuangxu was startled, caught off guard, and only then did she notice the Koenigsegg, which looked like a big cockroach, parked not far away.

The window rolled down, and He Tingzhou sat in the car looking at her.

Shuangxu didn’t want to pay attention to him, but she couldn’t be impolite.

So the moment she saw him, she reacted quickly and shifted her gaze away, pretending not to see him and continued to walk forward.

Like a blind person with open eyes.

She had just taken a step when the man’s soft voice came over: “Don’t pretend.”

Shuangxu turned her back to him and took a deep breath, maintaining her politeness and turning around: “Brother Tingzhou, what a coincidence.”

“Not a coincidence. Looking for you. Come here.”

Shuangxu walked towards him in two small steps, like she was bound by foot, standing two meters away from the car: “Do you have something to say?”

You again.

He Tingzhou glanced at her lightly, that kind of resistance, as if she would suffocate if she got any closer to him.

“I don’t like looking up at people, get in the car and talk.”

So difficult to please.

Shuangxu didn’t want his cooperation anymore, she wanted to avoid him: “I just came back from the hospital, I might have a lot of germs, it’s not good to infect you.”

He Tingzhou’s thin lips curled up in a slight sneer: “Get in and try, see if you can kill me.”

“…”

Shuangxu bit the inside of her lower lip, and finally she took a step, walked around to the passenger side and got in.

The dark black high-grade leather and carbon fiber, as cold as He Tingzhou himself.

The moment Shuangxu sat down, she was enveloped in a deep, cool breath.

A kind of cold, pine wood fragrance, sharp yet with a hint of life, and a–>>

…Sweetness.

He Tingzhou held a candy in his mouth, biting it, and casually glanced at her.

“What university did you go to?”

“Stanford.” Shuangxu didn’t know why he asked that.

He Tingzhou: “Is the school motto to serve your senior sister?”

Shuangxu choked: “Can’t I serve myself? Now Feixue has half of my shares.”

“Half the shares can buy Shen Yu’s sister, Shu Zong is quite a businesswoman.”

Shuangxu didn’t like the tone of his voice when he said this: “My senior sister is good to me. Whether she’s scheming against me, I know myself.”

He Tingzhou gave a light snort, thick with sarcasm: “Little princess, aren’t there many people who are good to you?”

Are there many people who are good to her? Shuangxu didn’t think so.

“I was abandoned by my biological mother once when I was young, so I have a huge psychological shadow about being sent away. When I was first sent abroad, I was in a very bad state, and my senior sister was the only one who cared about me.”

“The food abroad is really not good, it’s hard to find authentic Chinese restaurants, I haven’t touched a stove since I was a kid, I can’t even tell how cooked noodles are.”

“My senior sister often came to accompany me, made me Chinese food, and during the Spring Festival, she ran all over the city to find ingredients for me just to make me a plate of dumplings.”

Shuangxu said: “If you really want to count, she didn’t save my life, and we haven’t known each other for very long, but she was the one who stayed with me through the toughest times. Now she’s in trouble, shouldn’t I help her?”

He Tingzhou obviously couldn’t understand this kind of bond and emotion.

“Does your brother know that a plate of dumplings can cheat you out of twenty million?”

Shuangxu knew he wouldn’t understand.

How could a young master like him, who comes from a prominent family and stands above everyone else, understand the feeling of being abandoned?

“There are things more valuable than twenty million in my heart, I don’t think I’m losing out.” Shuangxu didn’t want to say more, “You’re done mocking, can I go now?”

He Tingzhou put a document on her lap.

It was the contract for the liquid hydrogen drone, the terms were the same as the ones initially offered to Shu Yang.

Shuangxu’s slightly unhappy brow furrowed with suspicion.

“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t agree? Chensing is chasing after you to give it to you for free, you’re getting a freebie, why did you choose us?”

With a crunch, He Tingzhou bit the candy in his mouth, chewing slowly: “You cry if you don’t get it, little princess, you have such a big temper, go back and complain to your brother, I’m afraid your whole family will come and ask me to eat cake.”

“I didn’t cry…” Shuangxu wanted to deny it, but then she thought, if she admitted it, she could help Feixue get the deal, it wasn’t bad either.

She understood why He Tingzhou changed his mind.

It doesn’t matter to offend her, but he’s good friends with Shen Yu, Shen Yu loves her, even though He Da Shao is aloof, it’s not worth it to alienate his brother over such a trivial matter.

Such a small project for Yundun Group is like a hair on a lion, it’s better to give her face.

Understanding this, Shuangxu took the contract and got out of the car, she bent down and said to him before closing the door: “Thank you, Brother Tingzhou.”