As soon as Shen Mu finished speaking, the old man’s cane slammed heavily on the floor.
“She’s already engaged! And she’s using her young age as an excuse? With her behavior, she still wants to marry into the Lu family? She even wants to follow Qingrou into the entertainment industry! She’s made me lose face!” the old man exclaimed.
“Dad, Qingxue…” Shen Lishan tried to speak up for his younger daughter.
“Shut up!” the old man scolded.
“If it wasn’t for you spoiling her all the time, would she have come up with such a vicious idea?”
“Sisters fight and make up all the time, but she actually wanted to ruin her own sister’s reputation! Confiscate her allowance and forbid her from going out this holiday! Let her reflect on her actions at home! If she causes any more trouble, send her abroad to study! Tonight, she will kneel in the ancestral hall!”
Shen Qingxue cried as she was forced to kneel in the ancestral hall, and Xu Ruyun followed to comfort her daughter.
Sitting on the sofa, Shen Lishan asked displeasedly, “Little Mu, why didn’t you tell us about the persecution by Mr. Zhang?”Shen Mu raised an eyebrow.
“Father, are you mistaken? The one who persecuted me was Shen Qingxue. Mr. Zhang didn’t even touch a hair on my head.”
Shen Lishan was taken aback and frowned.
“Then you should have solved it behind closed doors! What’s the point of making a scene at the banquet?”
Shen Mu sneered inwardly.
In his father’s eyes, perhaps only his own face and Xu Ruyun’s two daughters mattered.
When had he ever cared about Shen Mu, who had been weak and powerless since childhood?
Even when Shen Qingxue did something as damaging as this to him, all he did was withhold her allowance and make her kneel for a while.
Shen Mu didn’t have much hope for this family.
She got up and said lightly, “I’m tired, I’ll go rest first. Grandpa, go to bed early. Goodnight.”
At night, Shen Mu tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep, with Ou Jin’s words from today constantly on her mind.
“Yun Xiao is a man who doesn’t like to take credit.”
“Sometimes, not all questions are asked to get answers, but also to show one’s attitude.”
So, when Huo Yunxiao asked her if she had learned martial arts, was it to get an accurate answer, or to understand her attitude?
After thinking it over, Shen Mu dialed Huo Yunxiao’s phone number.
In C City, Huo Yunxiao was sitting in the conference room of the branch company.
The managers below were looking at Huo Yunxiao’s personal phone vibrating wildly on the table, but Huo Yunxiao seemed to be in a trance, supporting his temples and staring at the incoming call display on his phone without moving.
After the busy tone rang for a long time, just when Shen Mu thought the call wouldn’t be answered, a magnetic male voice came from the other end, “Hello?”
“I know, Miss Shen, do you need something?” Huo Yunxiao’s voice was a bit cold.
Shen Mu twisted the tassels on the pillow and softly said, “Thank you for today, and also for last time…”
“Miss Shen, do you always just thank people verbally?” Huo Yunxiao interrupted her, “I don’t really need anyone’s thanks.”
The phone clicked and Shen Mu felt her ears buzzing.
When she hung up the phone on Huo Yunxiao without hesitation that day, this was how she felt.
It was as if the person on the other end of the phone had ruthlessly cut off the only connection between them, cold as a knife.
In the conference room of C City.
Huo Yunxiao looked at his black screen phone, his aura suddenly dropping, his eyes as cold as the polar ice and snow.He looked at the supervisor who had just reported their work, tapping his slender fingers on the table: “This is your performance for the first half of the year?”
The supervisors were so scared that they lowered their heads in silence, not daring to breathe, not knowing which one of them had angered the CEO by making a call at this time, causing them to suffer!
Han Cheng wiped the sweat from his forehead silently.
He had followed Huo Yunxiao for so many years and thought he understood him well, but now, he couldn’t even guess what was on his boss’s mind!
Answering Miss Shen’s call on one hand and hanging up on the other, and then not being happy about it?
A man’s heart is like the deep sea…
Shen Mu threw her phone aside and went to sleep under the covers.
She had never coaxed anyone in her past life or this life, how could she coax a killer?
The next morning, Shen Mu went downstairs for breakfast, and the servants changed their usual attitude, respectfully greeting her: “Good morning, Miss.”
As soon as Shen Mu sat down, a servant came in and handed her an invitation with a smile: “Miss, Mrs. Lu sent an invitation for you to attend a party at the Lu’s this afternoon.”
Shen Mu took the invitation and glanced at it.
It was indeed from the Lu family.She was a bit surprised.
Yesterday, she had publicly humiliated the Lu family, yet Mrs. Lu still invited her to the party today?
Shen Mu sipped her juice and asked, “Does Shen Qingxue have one too?”
The servant looked around carefully and whispered, “No… Mrs. Lu specifically instructed us to only invite you.”
Shen Mu smiled faintly.
Mrs. Lu and Shen Mu’s late mother were good friends, and the daughter-in-law’s choice had always been more inclined towards Shen Mu.
In addition, after yesterday’s birthday banquet where Shen Qingxue framed her own sister, everyone knew about her malicious and scheming nature.
It was unlikely that they would want to accept her into the family.
She placed the invitation on the table and said, “Tell the Lu family that I’m not feeling well and won’t be attending the party.”
Right now, she had more important things to deal with than the Lu family!
After breakfast, Shen Mu returned to her room, opened her computer, and simultaneously launched an extremely sophisticated and complex program.
The green bytes scrolled across the black screen like jumbled passwords.
If there were top hackers present, they would probably be infuriated to the point of vomiting, because Shen Mu was stealing money from the world’s most top-notch bank’s security system.
Countless hackers worked tirelessly to accomplish what this young woman in her twenties was doing while munching on a bag of chips and occasionally glancing at her computer, yawning out of boredom.
This was not the first time Shen Mu had done something like this.
Her hacking skills were unparalleled in K continent.
The reason she stole from the most secure bank was twofold: firstly, thirty million was a drop in the ocean for these banks and wouldn’t cause any commotion; secondly… it was more challenging.
The second hand on the clock stopped at twelve.
Shen Mu pressed the enter key and the bytes stopped jumping.
The balance in her overseas account was exactly thirty million!
If Shen Lishan wanted to sell her mother’s inheritance, she didn’t mind being the buyer!
Before Shen Mu could shut down her computer, the door was slammed open!
Shen Qingxue rushed in, holding the invitation letter from the Lu family, and glared at Shen Mu in anger.
“Shen Mu! What is this?”
Shen Mu shrugged.
“Can’t you read? It’s an invitation to Mrs. Lu’s party. Do you want me to read it to you?”
Shen Qingxue was so angry she almost fainted.
“I know it’s an invitation! I’m asking you, why did the Lu family invite you to the party?”
Shen Mu leaned against her temple, closed her computer, and said helplessly, “You should ask the Lu family. Aren’t you the official girlfriend of Lu Xize? Why don’t you ask him?”
“Oh, right,” Shen Mu smirked.
“I forgot. After the birthday party, everyone knows that Shen Sanxiaojie has a vicious heart. Why didn’t your gentle and considerate Lu Shao come to support you?”
“Or… does he not want you anymore?”