Chapter 1349: Capricious
Not long after Secretary Cao left, Wen Xinya informed Si Yiyan about what Secretary Cao told her.
Si Yiyan pulled her into his arms and gently fiddled with soft hairs in front of her chest. “Xinya, do you know how you have to plan strategies according to time, location and circ.u.mstances? Only by considering all factors can you gain an advantage.”
Throughout the past six years, Wen Xinya had been making tremendous progress in her personal growth and development. During critical times, he would give her some suitable reminders. Wen Xinya was extremely intelligent and would often come up with better ideas after receiving his prompts. Hence, he was extremely heartened about that.
Wen Xinya asked curiously, “Is this about the game of brains?”
During this period of time, Wen Xinya had been staying by Old Mr. Mo’s side and hence, got to know more about the things that Si Yiyan had learned back then. After finding out that Si Yiyan had learned about the brilliant strategies used during the ancient wartimes, she began to get rather curious about the political strategists.
Fortunately for her, Old Mr. Mo had quite a few volumes of books about that topic and hence, she flipped through them and skimmed through the content. However, she could not understand the strategies at all and Old Mr. Mo stopped her from reading them afterward.
Old Mr. Mo said, “The Ghost Valley political strategies can only be picked up by a select group of people, and if you don’t apply them after learning, you might end up harming yourself in the long run.”
Wen Xinya was not suitable for learning such strategies.
However, he remembered a line that he had come across in those strategy books: “Not all who master the strategies can put them to use appropriately. By concealing your abilities, you’d have better chances at winning.”
It was similar to what Si Yiyan said.
Si Yiyan smirked at her and said, “Not exactly. There are plenty of facets and parts to political strategies, and strategies of wisdom are only a small part. Whatever I said, were the most common types of strategies.”
Although he knew that Wen Xinya was extremely curious about political strategies, he did not plan to teach her at all.
Wen Xinya turned red, feeling as if she was ignorant after hearing his words.
Instead of poking fun at her, Si Yiyan caressed her hair and explained, “What I’m trying to say is, you have to change and devise your plan according to the circ.u.mstances and plan your next move according to the way things have turned out. The key is to decide what to do according to the time and place, but that’s also the most difficult thing to do.”
“Regardless of how this matter unfolds, you’ll be able to control it and adjust it to your advantage. You’ll only get to achieve your goals without mistake if you can control the way things turn out at all times.”
Ever since history, there were only a few people who could have such a brilliant mind. Zhuge Kongming was one of the most brilliant strategists in history, who could turn everything to his advantage.
Having understood what he meant, Wen Xinya exclaimed, “I doubt most people can do it so well!”
Of course, Si Yiyan was an extraordinary man who could plan strategies brilliantly and he was the best at controlling the situation, play mind games and retreat whenever necessary. It was the most terrifying type of strategy.
During ancient wartimes in China, there had been plenty of outstanding strategists who could control everything and turn everything to their favor singlehandedly.
Strategists were capricious with wielding their power!
Si Yiyan smiled and said, “You’ve already done it!”
Although she was not mature enough, she had made tremendous progress in developing strategies and she would definitely get better at it with more practice.
Wen Xinya stared at Si Yiyan, clearly having failed to realize that. “Have I done it?”
Si Yiyan answered, “Old Mr. Wen wanted to hold the jewelry exhibition and you used it to your advantage by taking the opportunity to deal with the Korean-Chinese Alliance.
“You made use of Ning Shuqian’s theft during the exhibition to express your intentions in implementing the heirloom sales strategy. This has completed a step of our plan against the Korean-Chinese Alliance.
“Wen Haowen and Ning Shuqian deliberately blew up the matter about the chandelier incident, so you made do with it and forced Wen Haowen and Ning Shuqian to help you with your next step in plotting against the Korean-Chinese Alliance.
“You controlled everything, from the planning, finetuning and execution. No matter what Wen Haowen and Ning Shuqian do, they won’t be able to escape your hands. The Korean-Chinese Alliance probably just thinks that Ning Shuqian messed up because of her incompetence and not because of someone else’s deliberate plot.”
She had managed to make use of her wits while concealing her abilities.
Wen Xinya said in a moment of enlightenment, “So this is what it means to act according to the changes in the situation.”
Actually, Si Yiyan’s were easy to understand on the literary level, but it was hard for her to truly know what it means because she had yet to experience it herself.
Si Yiyan rubbed his nose against hers affectionately and said with a chuckle, “Xinya, you’re really impressive.”
Wen Xinya was the only one who could impress Si Yiyan.
Wen Xinya chuckled and said, “I’m starting to think that I really am brilliant after hearing what you said.”
Although she was scheming and brainy, she could not compare to Si Yiyan at all and she was well aware of that too. However, she suddenly felt rather arrogant after receiving his compliment. After all, Si Yiyan rarely praised anyone.
Does that mean that she had gotten another step closer to Si Yiyan?
Staring at her rosy lips, Si Yiyan began to feel a little aroused and tempted. However, he decided to hold his urges back because it was an inappropriate time and place. “Xinya, leave the rest to me.”
Wen Xinya nodded. Reminded of Zhou Tianyu, Wen Xinya frantically asked, “How’s the investigation about the Zhou Family?”
For some reason, she had been feeling rather uneasy and had an ominous hunch that something bad was about to happen to Gu Junling and Zhou Tianyu.
Si Yiyan’s eyes turned dark and he pursed his lips before answering, “Don’t worry, I’ve been keeping it in mind.”
Xinya has been paying too much attention to Zhou Tianyu and Gu Junling. That’s rather strange. She definitely knows something that will be able to change their fates.
But, what is it?
It was not as easy to check on the Zhou Family, as he had imagined. Although the investigation was thorough, the results did not meet his expectations.
Wen Xinya nodded and said, “I know.”
She was rather disappointed by the fact that there was still no news.