Chapter 529: Chapter 179: The ’80s Prima Donna is Forced to Play the Top Student (14)

He was actually saying this to Xiao Xuezhen.

The teenager’s expression was cool and detached. His tall frame gave him a commanding presence, and he exuded an unapproachable, noble air that was impossible to ignore.

’What kind of family could raise a child like this?’

Xiao Xuezhen glanced at Sheng Leyun. The girl’s eyes were downcast, but he knew she wasn’t sad or upset at all. Instead, she was being arrogant and gloating, like a little demon.

He had to admit, the girl was lucky. No matter where she went, someone always spoke up for her.

The teenager’s reminder also made him recall that Sheng Leyun still had some dirt on him.

If he didn’t give her a satisfactory answer, he was absolutely certain this unfilial daughter would make his affair with Xingchen public knowledge!

Xiao Xuezhen shot them a look. This time, Xiao Hailan and Xiao Haiyang obediently stood with Pang and Junzi. With immense humiliation in their eyes, they began to bow and apologize, one after another.

Sheng Leyun didn’t make things difficult for them any longer, simply saying:

"You know, I’m actually pretty easy to get along with. If you’re good to me, I’ll be good to you. But if you’re full of schemes, then I might just have to rip you open and see what’s inside."

"I hope this is the first and last time. Of course, you’re more than welcome to try again. After all, who could resist such an easy way to make money?"

’Call her materialistic,’ Sheng Leyun thought, ’but nothing is reliable. Only RMB is the one true way!’

’Only when it hurts to give her money will they learn their lesson. And even if they don’t, I can at least make their lives so tight and busy that they won’t have time to bother me!’

As Xiao Xuezhen was leaving, Sheng Leyun even smiled and waved. "Mr. Xiao, remember to get a proper bed ready for me soon, so you can take me home..."

’Home?’

Xiao Xuezhen’s face was expressionless. He desperately wished she would just stay at the hotel permanently!

Moreover, he hadn’t expected the girl to be so clever as to shake Taozi’s tail.

He figured that Sheng Leyun must have used the free time in the afternoon to move all the money.

The thought of another 2,700 yuan being fed to an ungrateful brat made Xiao Xuezhen tremble with anger.

No matter how smart or calculating he was, his monthly salary was fixed. Half of his savings came from the pension he had embezzled from Sheng Xibao, and the other half was what he and his ex-wife had saved over many years.

Xiao Xuezhen had handed over the money so readily, but hadn’t he been planning to get it back all along?

But now...

’Why was I so foolish as to bring such trouble upon myself?’

’Beauty really is a fatal trap!’

When he got home, he was more exhausted than he had ever been. He washed up hastily, then went to his room to sleep without even glancing at the two children.

They lay flat on their backs.

Xiao Xuezhen’s mood had calmed by now. He put his arm around Ren Xingchen and sighed.

"Xingchen, it’s not that I don’t like Yunyun. It’s that, as you’ve seen, the three kids just can’t get along."

"I’m Hailan and Haiyang’s father. They’re not in good health, so how can I really just dump them on their maternal grandparents?"

"They say you can tell a person’s future by how they are at age three, and once a personality is formed, it’s hard to change. Hailan and Haiyang are already so old. If we’re too strict with them, it could cause problems."

"But I also know that, when it comes down to it, you’re Yunyun’s only relative..."

The man sighed helplessly, not hiding his exhaustion and dilemma.

Ren Xingchen hugged him tightly, her heart aching for her man. "I know, Brother Xiao. I don’t understand how the sweet, sensible child from before could suddenly change into a different person."

"If I had known it would be like this, I never would have brought her to the Capital City to ruin Hailan and Haiyang’s happiness."

"Even if you hadn’t brought it up, there’s something I wanted to talk to you about."

As if she had made up her mind, she whispered to him:

"Earlier, Yunyun talked to me about being fostered. She doesn’t want to live on the balcony. She said there’s an old lady on our first floor who lives alone in a ten-square-meter apartment and doesn’t have any relatives."

"Yunyun was thinking of living with the old lady to keep her company."

"At the time, I thought, ’She has a mother and a father. If we let her be fostered out, people will criticize us behind our backs.’ So I didn’t entertain the idea."

"But thinking about it now, it’s not a bad idea. If we can get the old lady to bring it up herself—insistently, as if her life depends on it—and Sheng Leyun agrees out of the kindness of her heart, then we wouldn’t be the bad guys, would we?"

"Anyway, she’d just be upstairs and downstairs from us. Besides sleeping in a different place, it wouldn’t be much different from how things are now."

"At worst, we just visit more often and look after her a bit. What could outsiders possibly say?"

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