Chapter 10: The Young Miss Wants to Keep a Body Double?

In the past few years, in order to complete system tasks, she had indeed acted a bit recklessly.

“It’s all because I was too young back then…”

Xia Nanxing had just sighed when she saw the message from her bodyguard A Jin, saying he was waiting outside.

At this, Xia Nanxing lost all interest in idle chatter and immediately shooed everyone away. “Alright, alright, all of you go rest. After everything that happened today, everyone must be tired. I need to rest too.”

The doctor had also advised Xia Nanxing to stay in the hospital for observation for a day or two and rest quietly. Once she spoke, Xia Wenbo and Lu Jiashu didn’t dare disturb her further and quickly left.

As soon as they were gone, A Jin stealthily entered the ward.

“Young Miss, are you alright?”

“I’m fine, I’m fine.” Xia Nanxing waved her hand dismissively and asked, “Did my father inquire about the task I had you handle tonight?”

A Jin answered honestly, “The Chairman just called and asked.”

Xia Nanxing understood—that meant Xia Zhengyang knew everything. After all, the other bodyguards were all his people.

“But the Chairman didn’t say much. In fact, he praised us for doing a good job.”

Since his daughter’s love brain was an unchangeable fact, Xia Zhengyang could at least take solace in the fact that she wasn’t stupid and had some cunning.

Standards had a way of slipping lower and lower.

A Jin explained, “Our people kept a close watch on Xia Yingying. After she was knocked out, she was injected with some kind of drug—it didn’t look like anything good. They didn’t dare kill her in the lounge, so we didn’t intervene. It was also us who promptly informed the Lu family about her being locked in the basement.”

If Lu Huaijin had really sealed off all exits to conduct a search, things would have escalated badly. A Jin and the others assumed their Young Miss would definitely protect Lu Huaijin’s interests, so they decisively stepped in to help.

Judging by Xia Nanxing’s previous orders, they had executed this mission flawlessly.

What a perfect plan to kill with a borrowed knife.

The only unexpected twist was the incident at the banquet that landed Xia Nanxing in the hospital. But that wasn’t A Jin’s fault—after all, Xia Nanxing couldn’t have had seven or eight bodyguards around her at the time.

Xia Nanxing had only ordered the bodyguards to stir up trouble to complete the system task and advance the protagonists’ romantic development. She hadn’t actually intended to do anything serious.

Hearing about Xia Yingying’s ordeal, Xia Nanxing frowned. But considering that Lu Huaijin would likely take Xia Yingying to the hospital for a checkup, she didn’t see the need to interfere further.

“Alright. Consider this matter closed. The bonuses will be transferred to your accounts later.”

Seeing that the Young Miss wasn’t making an issue of these minor details, A Jin quietly sighed in relief. “Thank you, Young Miss.”

Xia Nanxing adopted a serious expression. “Now, I have another, far more important task for you.”

“Young Miss, your orders?”

“You must carry this out in secret. No one is to know, especially my father.” Xia Nanxing emphasized this warning.

She needed to find someone for a contractual marriage, and it had to be kept hidden from her father. Otherwise, he might have the pretty boy she was keeping eliminated.

The condition for inheriting the ten-billion fortune—being single after at least one year of marriage—wasn’t due to her mother’s leniency.

Because as long as the Xia family doesn’t go bankrupt and Xia Nanxing doesn’t lose her mind, she would most likely enter a power-matched, business-arranged marriage. By then, the two families would cross-share stocks, forming a more stable strategic partnership, making divorce an extremely complicated affair. Many couples in business marriages, even after their relationship falls apart and they each go their own way, never consider divorce.

At that point, the state of her romantic life would be uncertain, but one thing was guaranteed—she’d have money to spend.

So while Xia Nanxing wouldn’t gain money by getting married, she could by getting divorced. Because if things truly reached the point of divorce, the situation would become uncontrollable.

Even if Xia Nanxing lost her mind and decided to keep a gigolo, divorcing him after a year would at least prove she’d learned her lesson and regained her senses.

Worried her daughter might struggle during such times, her mother had prepared a ten-billion inheritance as a lifeline.

This mother had planned meticulously, but she never expected Xia Nanxing would uncover these hidden conditions and find loopholes to exploit.

Xia Nanxing beckoned A Jin over, signaling him to lean in, and whispered her instructions: “Go find me a few valedictorian campus hunks with clean backgrounds and good health. Preferably ones whose families are in some financial difficulty.”

Even for a contractual marriage, she couldn’t possibly settle for someone ugly, stupid, or dim-witted.

Otherwise, it would just add another glaring stain to her already notorious reputation.

Hearing these requirements, A Jin’s eyes widened instantly.

Wasn’t this exactly Lu Huaijin’s situation back then?

Valedictorian, campus hunk, a sick mother, and a fragile him.

A Jin had seen Xia Nanxing’s recent social media post the moment it went up.

He speculated inwardly: *Had the young mistress, unwilling to be the other woman after Young Master Lu announced his girlfriend, decided to give up chasing him and instead raise a body double?*

Wow~ His young mistress was finally refusing to hang herself on the same tree!

As her loyal bodyguard and attentive assistant, A Jin dutifully pressed further: “Young Mistress, do you have any specific requirements for appearance?”

Like, say, needing a seventy percent resemblance to *that* person.

“Not really. The masses have sharp eyes—if they’re called campus hunks, they must be handsome. If a department hunk is exceptionally good-looking, that works too.”

Xia Nanxing added sternly, “Handle this alone. Keep it quiet.”

A Jin gave an OK sign. “Don’t worry, Young Mistress. I understand—I’ll be discreet.”

Even without her saying it, he knew. Besides guarding against Chairman Xia, he’d also have to watch out for Lu Huaijin.

When raising a body double, of course, you had to hide it from the original.

If Young Master Lu ever broke up and Xia Nanxing got another shot at pursuing him, only for him to find out about the body double—what a massive stumbling block that would be for her love life!

“Good that you understand. Now hurry and find me candidates. I want a list of profiles within three days.”

“Understood, understood. I’ll get right on it.”

Xia Nanxing smirked. Three days to find candidates, seven to observe, finalize the choice within half a month, obtain the marriage certificate within a month, and secure the ten-billion inheritance in a year.

*This* was what efficiency looked like.

Once she had money, no one—not even her old man of a father—would dare control her.

Every time he lost an argument, he’d freeze her accounts. Absolutely outrageous!