Chapter 357: Chapter 355: I Won’t Break the Law
There was a sudden THUD from upstairs.
All the people in the restaurant looked at each other and then towards the sound.
Jian Yanjun popped a piece of fried dough stick into his mouth and chewed loudly. "You all heard the shouts and shrieks from Xixi’s room last night, didn’t you?"
They all lived on the third floor, not too far from the master bedroom, and had heard it quite clearly.
"Heard it! It was so loud, sounded like a man!" Wan Yu’s face lit up with gossipy glee.
She scanned the room. "Where’s Si Yuhuan? Didn’t he stay here too? How come no one has seen him?"
The main door opened.
Jian Xi descended the stairs with a faint smile on her face, under everyone’s gaze.
"What’s the matter? Aren’t you all eating?"
Wan Yu asked with a mischievous smile, "Where’s Si Yuhuan? Where did that guy go?"
"How would I know where he went?"
Jian Xi nonchalantly asked a servant for a bowl of porridge and began to eat it slowly. "What are you looking at? Eat your food!"
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In the room, Si Yuhuan, who had been tied up by Jian Xi, finally wriggled free.
He was about to open the door when he remembered her threat.
"If you dare let anyone find out you stayed in my room last night, I guarantee you’ll never set foot in my house again."
Once versus countless times... Si Yuhuan understood the difference very clearly.
He lay back on the bed, one arm pillowed under his head, and replayed the previous night in his mind.
"Yuhan, Si Yuhuan..."
Jian Xi had called out his name and turned to embrace him tightly.
"My child... you must save my child," Jian Xi mumbled, and his heart felt as if it had sunk to the bottom of a lake. He had initially thought it was blatant exploitation, but Jian Xi’s next words shook him to the core.
"Mingming is my life, just like you... you’re my life."
Am I your life?
Si Yuhuan had gripped her chin, pressing for an answer.
Jian Xi was muddled with sleep and her words were indistinct, so he hadn’t heard her clearly.
But that was enough to keep him blissfully awake all night.
"I’m as important to you as your life, Jian Xi? Do you really think so? What a little liar," he mused.
He took out his phone and sent a text to Song Xicheng.
Song Xicheng texted back: "Not bad, bro! Trading your life for her true feelings—all that effort paid off. You won back your wife and got a son into the bargain!"
Si Yuhuan called him directly. "Why are you being so sour?"
"As long as she’s the mother, it doesn’t matter who the father is. From now on, any child of hers is my own."
Song Xicheng laughed heartily. "Who would have thought? Director Si, who usually stays away from women, would end up like this for one. Instead of chasing women, you’d better worry about the takeover bid for W Country’s Salsi Group! This time, it might not be so easy for you to win."
"Sorry, my wife has already joined forces with her family to support me wholeheartedly. This deal is in the bag."
"I... Alright, you win," Song Xicheng conceded, his tone tinged with envious sour grapes.
"The day after tomorrow, I’m going to W Country."
"Sure, I’ll be eagerly awaiting your esteemed arrival," Song Xicheng grumbled.
Si Yuhuan raised an eyebrow. "You’re also going to the bidding just to coast along?"
"What are you talking about! Even if I can’t win it, it’s worth going just to watch the show."
"Alright, see you in W Country."
Si Yuhuan hung up. A moment later, he heard the click of the door lock.
He immediately undid two buttons of his shirt, revealing his attractive pectoral muscles and collarbones.
CREAK—
The door opened.
"AHH—"
Wan Yu barged in, saw the scene, and screamed as she bolted out.
Damn it!
Downstairs in the restaurant, Jian Xi immediately rose from her seat and ran towards the room.
Wan Yu wailed, her face a mask of distress, "Si Yuhuan is an exhibitionist! But his body is so hot! I’m scared to death, I’m leaving! I won’t come here again. Don’t worry, I won’t utter a word of what I saw today. Xixi, you’re really something, getting back together so quickly. I wish you both a blissful future. If you need anything, just call."
Jian Xi followed her gaze into the room.
Si Yuhuan was frantically buttoning up, his complexion as dark as the bottom of a sooty pot. "Jian Xi, is this how you throw your husband under the bus?"
"Stop talking nonsense! What husband? Even Wan Yu found it hard on the eyes! Why dress so provocatively for no reason?"
Si Yuhuan choked back his anger.
"Xixi? What’s wrong?"
Jian Yanjun sensed something was amiss and came upstairs.
Jian Xi quickly shoved Si Yuhuan back into the room. "It’s nothing. She saw the robot vacuum cleaner and thought it was a mouse. Yes! That’s exactly it. She got scared and left."
What a lame excuse.
Yet Jian Yanjun believed it. "She’s really timid. It seems I really need to take you girls out for some resilience training."
"Fifth Brother, you should go rest. I need to sleep too; I’m still waiting for Xinxin’s news! I need to be fully energized to catch all these bastards in one go."
Jian Yanjun nodded, his gaze following Jian Xi’s towards her room. "Yes! I should rest. After all, there are things I shouldn’t see, shouldn’t hear, and definitely mustn’t discover."
Jian Xi’s face instantly flushed as red as a sunset cloud. "Fifth Brother, it’s not what you’re thinking!"
Damn! I’ve been discovered!
Si Yuhuan leaned against the doorframe, showing off his handsome profile. "Who do you think your Fifth Brother is? If there’s any sound from inside, you think he can’t hear it?"
"That’s true."
Jian Xi hung her head. "You knew all along, why didn’t you tell me!"
She had been leaping around like a monkey all morning.
"You didn’t ask."
Si Yuhuan yawned and headed back into the room. "I need to catch up on sleep."
"Go to the guest room!"
Now that they’d been discovered, there was no point in hiding it. She tried to drag Si Yuhuan out, but he was too heavy; she couldn’t budge him an inch, even with all her strength.
Si Yuhuan deftly reversed their positions, pulling her into his arms. "Let’s sleep together."
"Sleep with you? In your dreams!"
The little minx was clearly saying the opposite of what she felt. Si Yuhuan wasn’t upset at all. "I wonder who it was last night that said they valued me more than their own life."
He felt it necessary to embellish her words a little.
Jian Xi’s eyes bulged like saucers. "Nonsense! How could I possibly say such rubbish!"
I definitely didn’t say that!
Jian Xi racked her brain. Could it be? Maybe I didn’t say he was more important than my life... perhaps I said I wanted *his* life! Or that he once wanted *mine*? In any case, I have absolutely no intention of getting back together with Si Yuhuan!
Si Yuhuan, still basking in the sweet afterglow of what he perceived as Jian Xi’s confession, said with conviction, "Fine, if you don’t say it, it means you’re shy. I know, women always mean the opposite of what they say."
"’Mean the opposite of what I say’? My foot!"
Si Yuhuan was thrown out.
The door slammed shut.
Si Yuhuan, still in a remarkably good mood, said from outside the door, "Don’t worry. I’ll definitely help you rescue your son, eliminate everyone involved, and give you the resolution you deserve."
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Si Yuhuan summoned Huang Ying for a private meeting.
"Here’s 10,000,000. I need you to do me a favor."
Si Yuhuan’s expression was grave; he had an important task to entrust to her.
"Director Si isn’t asking me to go rob houses and commit arson, is he?"
His grave demeanor made Huang Ying a little apprehensive.
"I need you to poison someone."
It was a new drug Si Yuhuan had obtained from Jian Sirun. Anyone who ingested it would immediately show no signs of life, appearing dead. The effect would last for three days.
After three days, once the dust settled at Secret Gate, Xinxin, with her abilities, would handle everything without leaving a trace. By then, rescuing Mingming would be effortless.
"You’re not joking, right? Poisoning is a crime!"
Huang Ying immediately refused, her head shaking like a rattle.