Chapter 319: Chapter 320 Same Bed, Siblings, and Night Chat (Part 2)
“Elder Brother, she’s back, right?”
“Who’s back?”
“You are playing dumb,” Chu Yuan said softly. She seemed to have no strength to be angry, and as if she finally plucked up the courage to say the person’s name, she said in a low voice, “Elder Sister… Ziyuan…”
Hearing this, I really wanted to ask her why she would take the initiative to call her elder sister. After all, just like how she disliked Liusu, she also disliked her, but she had never taken the initiative to call Liusu elder sister.
I also knew that I was pretending to be stupid, but even if I was exposed, I still couldn’t be ‘smart’, “Why did you suddenly think of her?” My tone was very casual as if I was asking a question that had nothing to do with me.
“I’m listening to your heartbeat at the moment, so can you stop lying?” Feeling annoyed and anxious, Chu Yuan suddenly hit my back with her forehead. “Actually, you also think that the mysterious Third Lady is her, right? That Mr. Li said that the Crouching Dragon Mountain Resort was developed five years ago, and it was developed because the Third Lady wanted to repay her birthplace, and… Elder Sister… Ziyuan also grew up in Bei Tian City and was taken to the United States by her father five years ago. Wasn’t her father a rich foreign boss? Also, that Mr. Li said that the Third Lady looks like Chinese, but rumors say that she is half Chinese. This sounds like… Elder Sister… Ziyuan even more…”
I felt that Chu Yuan deliberately forced herself to add the word ‘elder sister’ before ‘Ziyuan’. It was not a form of respect, but a kind of compensation for guilt. I was also a little puzzled when I heard Chu Yuan say that she could hear my heartbeats from my back… Could people really hear the human heartbeat from the back?
“It’s just a coincidence.” I comforted Chu Yuan and also comforted myself. “It’s not like you don’t know the temper of… your elder sister Xiao Zi, she is not such an ostentatious person. Besides, it has been five years already. She might have forgotten us long ago…”
“She may have forgotten me, but she will never forget you! You two grew up together, and she knows you longer than you know me!” Chu Yuan didn’t believe that I said at all, “apart from her, who else would do this to please you?” There seemed to be a hint of jealousy in her tone.
“We are siblings, how can it be the same?” I scolded Chu Yuan, but I felt a little strange in my heart. I couldn’t tell what it was exactly, but it felt like there was a small stone falling into the calm water, causing a little joyful splash. And the slightly angry scolding was just to cover my true feelings. It was very strange.
After hearing what I said, Chu Yuan didn’t respond to me. I heaved a long sigh and tried to comfort her, “No matter who the Third Lady is, it is absolutely impossible to be Ziyuan. Not to mention that she has no reason to please me, even if she has, do you really think that she has that kind of ability to do this kind of thing?”
Chu Yuan was not convinced, “Then who else could it be? Apart from her, do you know any foreigner who is super-rich?”
“Ziyuan is half Chinese, she is not a foreigner,” I corrected Chu Yuan’s mistake, and then solemnly said, “You don’t understand business matters. The so-called concession of 20% in capital contribution sounds scary, but in fact, it is just an empty promise. There is nothing substantive. Think about it, this cooperation project belongs to the Third Lady, so how much money should others put in to qualify as her partner, she has the final say. For example, originally, maybe she wanted her business partner to have at least 80, but she told other people that they must have 100 at least. So in this case, the 20% concession is exactly what she originally wanted.
“She is just using me to make people think that they could get a huge discount. In this way, it will show her sincerity, grandeur, and boldness, and stimulate others’ desire to compete to the greatest extent. But how would the company that is eager to stand out from the crowd still have the time to fight with her in a tug-of-war for interests?
“The more anxious those companies are, the less anxious the Third Lady is. So in the process of contract negotiation, the Third Lady will have absolute control. Maybe this is what she really wants. Businessmen are more deceitful than anyone else. Their only goal is profit. They would not care about who their childhood friends were. Besides, if she is really this childish, would other people in her company agree to it?
“She may be stupid, but do you think others in her company are stupid too? So, she indeed made me become a popular person in the business world, but the real benefit would be given to me by a fool like Li Xinghui. She didn’t lose anything herself, on the contrary, she also gained a lot.”
Chu Yuan was still young, and had no knowledge of the intrigues and lies in the business world. She was easily fooled by me. Although she was still dubious, her tone was obviously not as nervous and pessimistic as before, but a little more excited and hopeful. Although she was trying her best to suppress her feelings, “what you said makes sense, but if the Third Lady is not Elder Sister Ziyuan, why would she specifically name you?”
In fact, I had also thought about this issue seriously. Just now I also told Dong Xiaoye the same answer I had come up with, “Probably, she wants to keep my mouth shut. Since the Crouching Dragon Mountain Resort was developed by the Third Lady, it proves that she has a deep friendship with the Long Family. So in all likelihood, the Third Lady was also in Crouching Dragon Mountain Resort on the night of the accident. Didn’t I tell you already? When the gunmen body-searched the women in the manor that day, they also took the opportunity to take advantage of some women, and the Third Lady is a very influential person… Maybe she was afraid that I would say something to other people that would hurt her image.”
I always felt that this possibility was far more likely than Xiao Zi’s return. Like the Third Lady, Li Xinghui also tactfully and implicitly asked me not to tell the outside world what happened that night and insisted on giving me a brand new BMW 760 that he had just bought recently. Of course, the premise was that I must join him or Guo Xiang’s company first…
Rich people were very willing to spend money in order to protect their own faces.
Chu Yuan finally smiled after hearing what I said, “it seems very likely…”
“Right?” I also smiled. Both Chu Yuan and Dong Xiaoye agreed with the guess in my heart, which made me feel relieved. I was about to turn over to stretch my stiff body and stop Chu Yuan’s intimate hug. But Chu Yuan suddenly pressed her body against me vigilantly. She even lifted her leg and pressed it on top of me.
“What are you doing? !”
I didn’t know whether I should laugh or cry, “I should be the one that is asking this question, right? Sleeping in this posture is very tiring and I want to lie down to sleep. Why are you hugging me so tightly? Are you not hot?”
“Are you hot?” Chu Yuan asked me, “Didn’t you just take a shower?”
‘Are you really that stupid or pretending to be stupid? Is this a temperature problem? !’
Feeling the two bulging points on my back, I tried to remind her implicitly, “Yuan Yuan, are you… not wearing underwear… Ow!”
“Pervert! What are you talking about? !” This bratty girl twisted the tender meat on my waist, but unexpectedly, she didn’t let go of me, but shyly whispered, “wearing… bras while sleeping… is both uncomfortable and not good, and it can also affect the development of…”
“Oh, then don’t wear them,” I unexpectedly blurted out those words, and asked in a confused tone, “you are really a little bit slow in development… Ow!”
‘She bit me? !’ This bratty girl actually took a bite on my shoulder!
“If you talk nonsense again, I will kill you! Who said that I’m small? !”
“When did I say you are small? !” It was so painful that my eyes almost teared up, “Ow! Stop biting!”
“Humph!” Chu Yuan finally opened her mouth, panting angrily. After a moment of silence, she finally grumbled, “I’m only sixteen years old, and mine will get bigger in the future. At that time, you will not make fun of me anymore.”
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I rubbed the painful shoulder and said, “Who is making fun of you?”
Chu Yuan gritted her teeth and said fiercely, “You!”
‘She is really unreasonable…’ I was speechless…
“Why are you not talking?”
“I have nothing to say, I’m going to sleep now.” She didn’t even let me turn over. I was held tightly by Chu Yuan. Even though I tried to restrain my thoughts, I still couldn’t help having the most primitive desire triggered by her body. It made me very ashamed of myself.
“Did it really hurt that much?” Feeling a little guilty, Chu Yuan asked in a low voice, “you are so petty-minded. I was not even angry when you made fun of me, but you are angry at me just because of a small bite. Are you still a man?”
‘Why were you biting me if you were not angry?’ I wanted to laugh, but I dared not to, for fear that she would bite me again, “I’m not angry, I’m just really sleepy…”
Like me, Chu Yuan didn’t feel sleepy at all. After a moment of silence, she suddenly asked casually, “Elder Brother, …Elder Sister… Ziyuan… and Cheng Liusu, who do you like more?”
My heart trembled. Trying to avoid this question, I chuckled and said, “you little nosy parker, I don’t like anyone, I just like you.”
“You are not going to fool me!” Chu Yuan pinched me again, knowing that I had seen through her mind, “I’m serious, so can you be serious?”
The bratty girl didn’t like Liusu, but she also suspected my relationship with her, so she tried to use various methods to trick me into telling her about my relationship with Liusu. I pretended to be serious and said, “I’m very serious. Unless you think that I don’t like you.”