“You’re saying I stole something? Then go ahead and call the police. Let the officers come and arrest me~~”
Su Yi muted her microphone and squeezed out the sentence in a slow, deliberate, high-pitched voice. Without giving the other party time to react, she hung up and added the number to her blacklist.
Wan Lingzhen, who had been hung up on, didn’t react at first. It took a while for her to snap out of it, and when she did, she was livid. That wretched girl actually dared to speak to her like that!
As expected, she was the seed of that deadbeat ex-husband of hers. No matter how obedient she pretended to be, she couldn’t hide the malice in her bones. She had actually taken the opportunity of attending a banquet at someone’s house to steal the hostess’s diamond bracelet.
Wan Lingzhen had been out playing cards, winning three hands in a row and feeling quite proud of herself, when she was suddenly confronted with the accusation. It felt like a slap to the face; she had lost all dignity and wished she could just faint.
Su Yi, that wretched girl, was perfectly fine—refusing to pick up the phone and even having the nerve to be sarcastic.
She shouldn’t have had a momentary lapse of kindness. She had thought that since the girl was getting older, she would take her out to see the world and find someone from a decent family to marry. She figured that would be doing her duty as a mother. And this was the thanks she got!
Wan Lingzhen’s fury flared. She immediately dialed back, only to be informed that the other party was in another call.
She stood there dazed for a moment before slamming her phone down.
“Mrs. Mo, why such a temper? Calm down. What was your eldest daughter’s name again? Su… Su Yi, right? Su Yi is still young. Even though she’s in her twenties, she’s still a child. It’s normal for her to lose her way for a moment when she sees something nice. Anyway, it’s just a diamond bracelet; it’s not worth much. If this ruins the bond between mother and daughter, I would never be able to forgive myself.”
The next moment, words laced with laughter but sharp as thorns rang out behind her.
Wan Lingzhen cursed inwardly. She hadn’t controlled her temper, and the commotion of smashing her phone had been heard clearly by the person in the next room.
She turned around, the lingering anger still visible on her well-maintained face, and gave a fake smile. “Mrs. Chen, what are you saying? Is there any evidence to prove Su Yi stole it? Is there surveillance footage, or did someone see it with their own eyes?”
Mrs. Chen was stunned. She hadn’t expected Wan Lingzhen to say that. Clearly, the woman was so humiliated her teeth were nearly grinding to dust, showing she fully believed Su Yi had stolen the item, so why…
She immediately realized that Wan Lingzhen actually had some brains.
However, she had a witness. Trying to deny it? No way! This time, she was going to make this woman named Wan lose face big time.
“Of course someone saw it—”
“Mom! Mom! This is bad! Doudou is dying, waahhhh…”
A little boy rushed in crying, holding a dying Toy Poodle in his arms.
Mrs. Chen’s face changed instantly. “Doudou!”
Su Yi ended her day of hard work and fell into a beautiful dreamland.
The next day, she didn’t wake up until the sun was high in the sky. She reached for her phone and—holy crap—there were over a hundred missed calls, all from the Mo family servants.
Blacklisted. Every single one of them.
By the time she was done, her fingers were a bit stiff. Making her work this hard so early in the morning—how loathsome!
Su Yi threw a fierce punch at the air. After that, she opened Weibo to see if there was any news and found that she had made the trending searches again.
#Explosive! Affair Between Father-in-Law and Son-in-Law#
#Orc Streamer Sets New Record#
#Man Turns Lover Into Son-in-Law to Maintain Relationship#
#Heaven Above, Hangzhou Below: I Am Not the God of Melons#
How many times did she have to say it? She was not an “Orc Streamer”!
Who came up with that tag? Was her dignity as the world’s number one cute pet streamer worth nothing?
【Hahaha, ‘Orc Streamer.’ It’s so fitting! So talented!】
【Ahhh! My eyes! My worldview has shattered. How can there be such debauchery? .jpg】
【Holy crap! Father-in-law and son-in-law?? That’s wild! Does anyone have the video of the livestream? I’m begging!】
【I have the video, DM me if you want to see it.】
【Good ducky, good Little Su! You’re a true judge of justice. If it weren’t for Little Su, how much joy would we be missing? Wait, no, I mean, how many people would still be kept in the dark? That girl is so pitiful. If I encountered something like this, I’d really want to tear those two scumbags’ ‘tools of the crime’ apart.】
【All the joy for today and tomorrow is gone. Little Su, oh Little Su, at your age, how do you dare to work five days and take two off? You started with no days off, but now that you’re famous, you’ve forgotten your original intentions and gone to a five-two schedule? We ‘family members’ are so disappointed in you.】
Five days of work and two days off? Once she was rich, she was going to work two days and take five off!
Carrying such a simple and beautiful vision, Su Yi felt fully recharged. She prepared to visit the city’s largest and most luxurious mall to experience in advance what it felt like to have made it as a wealthy person.
She traveled during off-peak hours. Since she was resting on Monday and Tuesday while everyone else was at work, it definitely wouldn’t be crowded. She was so clever!
An hour later, Su Yi, standing in the middle of a massive crowd: “…”
So, was the economy bad and there were too many unemployed people, or was the economy great and there were just too many rich people?
She bought an ice cream and pondered this profound economic question while eating.
Just as she looked up, she ran straight into someone.
She was on the upward escalator; her mother was on the downward one.
Their eyes met.
Su Yi let out a sigh of regret. Looking at this face, which was forty to fifty percent similar to her own, this was definitely her biological mother. No one would believe it if she said they weren’t related.
She was well-maintained, looking thirty-something at most. She was exquisitely dressed, clearly a pampered noblewoman. The two servants behind her, with luxury shopping bags hanging from their arms, proved that she was indeed a high-society lady through and through.
Truly, money is the best skincare product! Su Yi couldn’t help but marvel. From an objective perspective, her parents really had taken the right path. If the two of them were still tied together, how could they live this life of being served and buying things without looking at the price?
In their family of three, one clung to a sugar daddy, one lived off a rich woman, and one was a baggage child—everyone had a bright future~~
The escalators moved slowly, one going up and one going down, the distance between them growing.
Both Su Yi and Wan Lingzhen remained in a posture of staring each other down.
Still as displeased with me as ever, my dear mother. Su Yi flashed a bright, amiable smile.
“What are you doing here? Stop right there!”
Seeing that she was about to get off the escalator, the person who had been staring at her with a furrowed brow since their eyes met suddenly spoke.
Su Yi asked back in shock, “Ma’am, who are you?”
Wan Lingzhen’s hostile expression froze. Ma’am??
Even the two servants behind her looked aghast.
The bystanders were also a bit surprised. These two ladies, who looked so similar and were both elegant and soft-featured—could they not be mother and daughter?
One was an exquisite noblewoman, while the other… uh, was wearing a tacky t-shirt and dragging around in slippers. They really didn’t look much like mother and daughter. Perhaps the lady had mistaken her for someone else?
Su Yi laughed out loud and ran away.
Wan Lingzhen was so angry her nose almost turned crooked.
“Go, catch her and bring her back.” She was both angry and anxious.
Mrs. Chen was busy trying to save her dying dog. Once the dog died, she would likely go crazy and use the “stolen item” incident to vent her fury over her “dog son’s” death. Wan Lingzhen had to instruct Su Yi not to talk nonsense before the woman lashed out; she couldn’t admit to stealing the diamond bracelet even if she was beaten to death!
“Yes, Ma’am.”
But Su Yi was already long gone.
Su Yi was currently experiencing what it was like to be rolled an eye at by a luxury brand sales associate (SA) at a world-famous brand’s counter.
“Miss, as I said just now, you cannot touch it directly with your hands.” An SA, who was practicing a high-pressure monitoring tactic on Su Yi, barely maintained a smile.
The subtext was: If you can’t afford it, don’t touch it!
She just wanted to see if this piece of clothing was woven with gold thread, okay? One piece cost six figures; how many livestream connections would she have to do?
Su Yi turned around, her lips curling into a smirk that looked like the Nike logo. “Don’t look down on the youth just because they’re poor!”
SA: “…”
How many “loser-reversal” novels had this beautiful but poorly dressed lady read?
“Don’t look down on the middle-aged poor, don’t look down on the elderly poor—respect the dead above all?” the SA mocked.
Su Yi: Heh, being mocked, are we?
Pfft—
Before she could release the classic Gray Wolf declaration of “I’ll definitely be back!”, a light chuckle came from behind her.
Su Yi turned around and—whoa—what a charming and bright beauty.
The SA who had just been shooting daggers at her performed a master-class face-changing act on the spot. Smiling broadly, she bypassed Su Yi to greet the newcomer. “Miss Zhou is here! The new arrivals just got in.”
The other idle SAs also rushed forward with extreme enthusiasm, and even the store manager walked over quickly.
It seemed she was a major client.
Su Yi expressed her understanding. It was also hard for her to restrain herself when a client dropped several “Carnivals” and asked to cut the line or extend the time.
Ms. Zhou, surrounded by the crowd like a star, still had a lingering smile on her face as she looked at Su Yi with a strange expression.
Su Yi raised an eyebrow. “Ms. Zhou knows me?”
She certainly didn’t know this Ms. Zhou.
Wan Lingzhen thought she was too unpresentable and almost never took her to high-society banquets, cocktail parties, birthday balls, or any of those miscellaneous social events.
Many people only knew that her eccentric parents had each tried every possible way to marry into wealthy families and had brought along a shared “baggage child,” but very few outsiders had ever seen what this baggage child looked like.
Could it be that she had accidentally blown her cover? Was this Ms. Zhou one of her fans?
There’s no helping it; I’m just too famous, Su Yi thought helplessly.
Ms. Zhou’s elegant eyebrows moved. “Su Yi?”
Su Yi: ??
Losing my real name?!
“It really is you, Su Yi. You don’t remember me? Back then, Cheng Lele and I were only in middle school. You were chasing my brother to give him a love letter, but you ended up stuffing it into my backpack, haha.”
With a crash like a thunderbolt, Su Yi was petrified on the spot.
She knew who this Ms. Zhou was now—the sister of the novel’s male lead, Zhou Minghuai. It was a piece of dark history she had deliberately tried to forget…
It’s fine. It’s OK. Fine. She had tons of dark history; this was only one ten-thousandth of it!
Su Yi was screaming like a groundhog internally, but her face remained calm. “So it’s you, Ms. Zhou. Long time no see. When did you return to the country? The motherland welcomes you.”
“I have to make a solemn declaration: I didn’t write that love letter. Cheng Lele wrote it. She was deeply in love with your brother. For his sake, she lost her appetite and couldn’t sleep, and she forced me to deliver the letter to him. She said she wouldn’t let me eat if I didn’t help her. I was a victim too, you understand?”
She wasn’t lying… well, only a little bit. Back then, what Cheng Lele said wasn’t that she wouldn’t let her eat, but that she would never talk to her again.
And back then, she was indeed firmly manipulated, terrified that Cheng Lele would ignore her. It would be too embarrassing to say that out loud.
Su Yi: Cheng Lele, how are you ever going to pay me back for what you owe me!
These words caused the other girl’s eyebrows to nearly fly off her face. Su Yi nodded with a smile, held her head high and her back straight, and quickly fled the scene.
“Miss Su! Ma’am, Miss Su is here!” Someone shouted in surprise the moment she stepped out of the store.
Su Yi bolted.
She turned left and right, slipped into the fire escape, and ran all the way to the top floor. Su Yi sat on the stairs, panting heavily. Wan Lingzhen looking for her was 100% bad news.
While catching her breath, she turned on her phone screen—dozens more missed calls.
Who is this bored?!
Just as she thought that, another call came in.
“Hello? Who is this? A Toy Poodle belonging to the family of a platform shareholder is sick and they want to consult me? If it’s sick, find a vet. I’m not a doctor… A reward of one million?! Wait—you’re right, I am a vet.”
Su Yi went into emergency overtime, issuing a temporary notice for a livestream. Her fans cheered and spread the word.
“Hello, may I ask what the problem is with the little baby Toy Poodle?”