After that heart - to - heart talk Su Li didn"t pay any attention to the going ons at home and carried on with her own things. Though the information she had recieved indicated that both Yu Jian and Yu Yan were responsible for the car accident that left Yu Yue comatose, she felt that it couldn"t be completely true. Even if Yu Jian favoured the younger daughter, he couldn"t have been callous enough to plot his other daughter"s death. She was his own flesh and blood after everything was said and done. Also, she felt as if the system hadn"t given her the complete information and she didn"t trust it since there was no true freebies in the world. How could it be that as soon as she reached the end of her mortal coil, she was given another opportunity. Even if she was dead to the outside world she herself knew that her soul lived on with all the memories intact so somewhere something fishy was going on. More importantly from what she had observed Yu Jian didn"t look like someone who would forsake the other person after their usefulness was over and if he really had a hand in the incident the system wouldn"t have just asked her to leave him alone. In essence, the crux of the non - compete clause was that she couldn"t hurt him economically or emotionally. Therefore, giving it much thought she decided to see what kind of an att.i.tude he had towards her and Yu Yan. If he was impartial and fair she wouldn"t mind showing him some semblance of filial piety and be a docile daughter and as far as Yu Yan was concerned she decided to give her a maximum of three chances. If Yu Yan still didn"t correct her crooked ways she ll show her what it really meant to go against one"s own blood. Afterall, the only constraint the system had set upon her was to look after Yu Yan"s physical well - being but there were many other ways and means to hurt her where it really mattered.In the last few days Yu Yan had transferred her schools and had started attending the new one. It was a place which was exclusive to the rich children. Unlike other schools, it didn"t have a provision to accept students with excellent grades but were unfortunately improvised financially. She loved the school as it was completely different from the one she attended prior to this. After the banquet at home almost everyone knew she was Yu Jian"s daughter so it gave her a strong backing. She felt as if she could spread her wings and soar into the sky. She knew that some people grumbled about her behind her back but n.o.body pointed her less than desirable origin to her face which showed that it wasn"t important where one came from. People recognised her worth and she made a few friends. Life outside the residence was wonderful. The only thing she was dissatisfied with was that the other day she again failed to get a rise out of her sister and then the next day father informed her that the twins - Zixi and Mei were placed under her charge. When she tried to probe him about Yu Yue"s reaction he simply told her not to worry about it and that other arrangements would be made for her.
She couldn"t fathom the reason behind his decision. If it was said that he placed more importance upon on her or was trying to compensate her out of guilt, she wouldn"t believe it since this went beyond it as they had been trained for his legal heir and she didn"t believe she had that much weight inside his heart. On the other hand, if it was that Yu Yue had showed her dissatisfaction to him in private and he took the decision in a pique of anger, there had been no movements from either side to reconcile or agitate each other. This left her with a feeling that she couldn"t grasp either of their thought process which was not in her interest.
She had asked Zixi to inquire about all things related to Yu Yue from her daily routine to all the people she was close to. The results were less than desirable. Yu Yue wasn"t excessively close to any of her male friends so nothing on that front would work and all her female friends were people Yu Yan couldn"t go against right now. Therefore, she couldn"t work from the inside to use someone already close to Yu Yue to give that ent.i.tled girl a new emotional blow.
The next few weeks pa.s.sed uneventfully. It was as if everyone was waiting for some sort of signal to start making their moves either overtly or covertly. Meal times were spent with Yu Jian trying to break the ice that had frosted over the relations.h.i.+p between his two daughters but to no avail. It wasn"t as if Yu Yan hadn"t tried to cajole her elder sister. Even Yu Yue herself hadn"t said or done anything to warrant his displeasure rather she was quite cordial with her younger sister. However, this polite behaviour had a sense of alienation to it. Even to himself she was deferential and compliant to all his words the way she had been before a new member had entered their family but he could see that their father daughter relation wasn"t comparable to what it used to be. Since that day she had never entered his study of her own accord whereas before she would always come to him for even inconsequential matters. He had made up his mind to let the situation be until Yu Yan"s birthday but if there were no changes after that then he"ll sit them both down for a family meeting and try to clear the air.
Yu Yan"s eighteenth birthday was here. Since the day she had entered the doors of this place she had been looking forward to it. She had antic.i.p.ated that her eighteenth was to eclipse all other eighteenth"s. She had dropped enough hints to sink a s.h.i.+p to her father infront of Yu Yue. Though it wouldn"t be as extravagant an affair as that of Yu Yue"s, still close family friends would be invited. The celebration would be held at the main residence as opposed to Yu Yue"s initial advice of holding it at a hotel. It was her birth right to use the residence to entertain her guests. Father hadn"t said anything for a few minutes after that talk but then had no objections and thus she recieved his tacit approval. She had even called some of the more useful people from her orphanage and the school she had attended while staying there. She had made some plans that would only come to fruition with their help.
Father"s gift to her was three percent shares of the company with an increase of .5 percent for every year she would work at the company with the upper limit being set at twenty percent. She was also informed that after working for half a decade she could either keep on climbing up the ladder or she could venture out and do her own things. This didn"t please her at all. She had seen him transferring eighteen percent of the shares to Yu Yue on her birthday whereas her upper limit was already set at a meager few points more than that.
Yu Yue"s birthday present for her younger sister was a complete traditional stationary set. Expensively treated paper bound in the form of eighteen diaries. It had Yu Yan"s name monogrammed in the paper which she herself thought was a nice personal touch but it looked as if her gift fell short of the expectations Yu Yan had held out for her observing her cordial behaviour towards her. Anyways she herself had done her part to not give anyone a chance to find faults with her or say that she was stingy.