TRSGVM 08

Chapter 08

“Xueyao-jie, you treat me like a little brother… could it be that you want a share of my family’s property?”

To be honest, that sentence was quite vicious. It was no different from accusing Qi Xueyao of harboring ulterior motives and coming to Qi Lin’s home with bad intentions.

The truth was that at this time, Qi Xueyao had just graduated and was looking for a job. Her personality was still rather simple, and she hadn’t thought that far ahead. She certainly wasn’t coveting Qi Lin’s family wealth.

Her eventual dark transformation only came later, after stepping into society and experiencing a series of harsh events.

“Qi Lin, you’ve gone too far! When Uncle and Aunt come back, I’m going to tell them everything you said to me.”

Qi Xueyao couldn’t eat anymore. Her chest rose and fell rapidly as she looked at Qi Lin with a pretty face filled with shame and anger.

“No problem. Who you want to tell is your freedom. I can’t interfere.”

“Oh right, my parents probably won’t be back until the weekend. Wouldn’t it be a bit late if you wait until then to tell them?”

“How about this—I’ll give you my phone. You can call them right now.”

“And let me give you a friendly reminder. If you tell the old man about this, his reaction might not be the scolding you imagine. He might even praise me for growing up and no longer being the foolish young master of a landlord family.”

Qi Lin handed over his phone and grinned.

Those words made Qi Xueyao’s ears turn completely red. She was obviously furious to the extreme.

How had she never realized before that the guy in front of her was not only a useless rich second generation living off his family, but also a shameless rogue like a street thug?

“I know you look down on and hate a spoiled rich second-generation like me. But it doesn’t matter—I like you. After all, you’re my Xueyao-jie, and you’re quite a pretty girl.”

Qi Lin’s gaze swept up and down Qi Xueyao’s outfit—a Chanel-style suit skirt paired with black stockings.

“Qi Lin, you’re disgusting!”

Qi Xueyao could no longer endure it. Her beautiful eyes reddened as she was almost driven to tears.

After scolding Qi Lin, she stood up and ran back to her room.

She was probably hiding there to cry.

“Heh…”

Looking at the result of his actions, Qi Lin only sneered. There was no sense of satisfaction.

Provoking Qi Xueyao and making her angry was merely an insignificant appetizer. The real show was yet to come.

“Xiao Lin, Aunt Chen can see that you quite like Xueyao. Then why…”

At some point, Aunt Chen had walked up behind Qi Lin, hesitating to finish her sentence.

Qi Lin naturally understood what Aunt Chen wanted to say. His behavior just now had indeed been too excessive for any girl.

“Aunt Chen, if you want a girl to remember you, you have to leave an impression on her. A good impression or a bad one—aren’t they both still impressions?”

Qi Lin smiled faintly and said something rather thought-provoking.

Of course, if outsiders heard such words, they would probably find them shocking.

But Aunt Chen had watched Qi Lin grow up. He believed that in the end she would still stand on his side.

“Aunt Chen just hopes you two children can end up together.”

Qi Lin had his own thoughts. She was only a housemaid.

Although she treated Qi Lin like her own son, she didn’t want to interfere in his affairs.

Aunt Chen smiled kindly and began clearing the dishes.

After finishing his meal, Qi Lin walked up the familiar spiral staircase and returned to his room.

Along the way, he touched the railings, the walls, the paintings, every bit of greenery around him with a sense of nostalgia and emotion.

In his previous life, during the final month, the court had sealed off the villa where he had lived for over twenty years—a place that held all of his memories.

At that time, Qi Lin’s heart had been filled with despair, and he drifted through life in a daze.

Now that he had returned to the home he knew so well, he even felt the urge to burst into tears.

…

“September 28, 2002. Friday.”

Lying on the soft bed, Qi Lin finally opened Lan Yuxi’s diary.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.

If he wanted to start with Wang Cheng’s girlfriend, he had to dig out the deepest secrets in her heart.

“Today is the 27th, which means this is Lan Yuxi’s diary entry for tomorrow…”

“That’s actually pretty good. If I can learn Lan Yuxi’s secret, I can make preparations in advance.”

Qi Lin smiled and continued reading.

“After the morning reading class ended, I was preparing to go to the office to hand in homework. Perhaps because the teachers had gone to a meeting, the office was completely empty.”

“After placing the homework on the desk, I was about to leave when I accidentally saw a reference answer sheet.”

“My goodness—these are actually the answers to the upcoming grade-level unified exam!”

“It was probably because the teacher was called away to a meeting in a hurry and forgot to put them away, leaving them on the desk.”

“At that moment I really wanted to leave, but my heart started beating uncontrollably.”

“Even though I’ve been studying especially hard lately, my ranking in the grade still hasn’t improved. I can’t get into the top ten.”

“I’m the class monitor. I can’t let everyone look down on me, right?”

“Just this once. I promise, just this once.”

“As long as I don’t move the answer sheet and simply copy the answers onto my own paper with a pen, the teacher definitely won’t notice.”

“… ”

“Phew, the exam is finally over. But I can’t leave yet, otherwise someone might discover the cheating.”

“I’ll wait until all the classmates leave, then go to the restroom and tear up the answers and flush them away. That way no one will ever know that I cheated.”

The diary ended there.