After work, Yun Xiyue returned home, her soul lost.
She collapsed onto the sofa, motionless, as if her soul had been drained from her body.
Seeing her like this, Su Yang immediately rushed over, his heart aching, serving her tea and water, showing concern, like the most considerate husband.
"Xi Xi, what's wrong? Is work not going well again? Don't be afraid, I'm here! I've already..."
Before he could finish speaking,
Lin Meizhu lunged at him like a shark that had smelled blood!
She shoved Su Yang aside and cursed at him:
"Get out, get out! Can't you see our Xi Xi is in a bad mood?"
"Still standing there, being an eyesore! It's all because you're useless, making our Xi Xi suffer so much outside!"
"Jinx! It's all your fault, why aren't you getting out?"
"Go wash my clothes, you good-for-nothing who can't see what needs to be done!"
After scolding Su Yang, she immediately put on a motherly face, took Yun Xiyue's hand, and with a look of heartache, led her back to her room to begin a new round of "brainwashing."
"My precious daughter, look how haggard you've become!"
"Sigh, it's all because Mama is incompetent, making you suffer..."
"But seeing you like this now, Mama's heart truly aches!"
"Oh, right!"
Her eyes suddenly lit up as if she had thought of a lifeline.
"Xi Xi, have you forgotten?"
"Didn't Young Master Lu say at your birthday banquet that he was waiting for you to call him to discuss your career plans?"
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"
"Just think, as long as Young Master Lu is willing to help you, let alone your company's leaders, is there anyone in this Demon Capital region he can't handle? Then, who would dare bully you?"
"Xi Xi, why don't you give Young Master Lu a call and talk to him?"
"Even if you don't explicitly ask him for help, I believe Young Master Lu is so considerate and understanding, he'll help you solve this little problem."
"Sigh, this is an opportunity Mama fought for you, you must seize it!"
...After her mother left.
Yun Xiyue lay alone on the cold bed, tossing and turning, unable to find peace.
She recalled her mother's words, her heart constantly struggling.
She didn't want to do this.
She didn't want to use this almost "self-selling" method to ask for help from a man she had only known for a few days.
And she was already married, Su Yang's nominal wife... even though for the past two years, they had been no different from strangers, and she had never even initiated a conversation with Su Yang.
She recalled Director Wang's mean and malicious face at the company... the schadenfreude in her colleagues' eyes in the conference room... she was, after all, just a weak woman, longing for a reliable presence to protect her in his arms.
Ultimately, the cruelty of reality mercilessly crushed her fragile pride.
She comforted herself: I'm just going to chat with Young Master Lu, listen to his advice, I'm definitely not really asking him for help! And it's not "selling myself"... although she knew perfectly well what this meant.
But she really didn't want to endure that old hag's temper at the company every day.
She found the number she had saved from the birthday banquet in her contacts.
With a grit of her teeth and a close of her eyes, she pressed call.
The call was quickly answered.
Lu Cheng's familiar, gentle voice came from the phone.
"Hello? Miss Yun? What's wrong?"
Yun Xiyue gathered her courage, her voice carrying a hint of humility she didn't even notice, and requested to "talk about career plans" with Lu Cheng.
They agreed to meet the next day at noon, at the coffee shop below her company.
On the other end of the phone, Lu Cheng didn't ask many questions.
He simply replied with a faint, single word: "Okay."
...Just as Yun Xiyue hung up the phone that seemed to determine her future fate, her heart a mix of emotions, overwhelmed with feelings.
There was a knock on her door.
Su Yang's voice rang out from outside the door, with excitement in his tone.
"Xi Xi, are you asleep? Don't worry about work anymore!"
"Actually, I've already asked Young Master Lu for help, and he promised he'll help you solve your work problems very soon!"
"Then, you'll also believe that Lu Cheng was invited by me at the birthday banquet."
Listening to Su Yang's boastful words from outside the door, Yun Xiyue felt an immense sense of absurdity and ridicule!
She had just struggled for a long time before personally dialing that number.
And Su Yang, the very next second after she hung up, came running to tell her that all of this was his doing?
"Was he eavesdropping on my call?"
"Is he treating me like an idiot? Am I that easy to fool?"
"Or is he completely insane, and everything he hears automatically gets beautified into his own achievements?"
"There seems to be such a disease, right? Is he really insane?"
She gently massaged her temples, trying to relieve some of the stress.
At this moment, she felt utterly exhausted and too tired to get up and open the door to face Su Yang.
She just lay on the bed, and through the thick door, still replied in an extremely perfunctory tone:
"Mhm, okay, I know, you're amazing."
Su Yang wasn't an idiot; from outside the door, he naturally heard the perfunctoriness and impatience in Yun Xiyue's tone.
But he stubbornly believed that this was only because Xi Xi hadn't seen the truth with her own eyes yet.
Once his prediction came true, Yun Xiyue would naturally understand.
Through the door, he continued to speak to Yun Xiyue in the room:
"Xi Xi, just wait and see!"
"Tomorrow, once your work problems are solved, everything will be revealed!"
"Then, you'll know that I, Su Yang, didn't lie to you!"
Yun Xiyue, listening to Su Yang's confident assurance from inside the room, only felt pathetic and ridiculous.
She pulled the blanket tightly over her head.
She was too tired to reply, and didn't want to hear Su Yang's confident fantasies anymore.
Yes, of course, tomorrow the "truth will be revealed"... because the person who made the appointment with him was me!
The tiny bit of goodwill Su Yang had accumulated in her heart over the past two years, through his diligent and uncomplaining work,
had all vanished due to his inexplicable crazy talk in the past few days!