After five bigwigs in Beijing's elite circle fell into their trap, I fled.

Chapter 86 Trapping Her

A few minutes later, Jiang Shu and Yan Yu were already sitting at the very edge of the grass.

The competition for the questions continued. Without Yan Yu's participation, the atmosphere finally picked up, with everyone vying for the questions in a lively back-and-forth. However, people still occasionally glanced at Yan Yu, their eyes filled with a mix of emotions: lingering fear, nostalgia, and surprise.

Yan Yu has been subjected to countless gazes from millions of fans, and has long since become unfazed by any change in his situation.

He completely ignored the subtle glances from those around him, his gaze fixed solely on his sugar daddy. Since getting the snacks, Jiang Shu hadn't looked at Yan Yu once more.

She touched the spicy strips, then the French fries, then the instant noodles, and after touching the instant noodles, she went back to the spicy strips...

After looking at them for a few times, Yan Yu suddenly pleaded, "Sister, I really want to try these snacks, but I have to sing for you later, and eating them will affect my voice—would you be willing to try each one for me and then tell me what they taste like?"

Jiang Shu hesitated: "But Li Yubai..."

"Please, sister," Yan Yu said softly, with a hint of coquetry and a touch of flirtation, "I'll take care of Li Yubai. I'm not afraid of that old man!"

Jiang Shu took a deep breath: "Then I... will reluctantly help you..."

Ten minutes later, Jiang Shu threw a pile of packaging waste into the trash can, looked at the few remaining snacks, and breathed a satisfied sigh of relief.

The young man's flawless white fingers handed over a bottle of mineral water: "Drink some water. After you drink it, your mouth will be tasteless, and even Li Yubai with his dog nose might not be able to detect it."

“Yan Yu.” Jiang Shu looked at the boy with bright eyes, “I’ll go back and work overtime to mend your canary. It’s so small, it’ll be done in three days! Come over as soon as possible, this family, especially me, really needs you to join us…”

Yan Yu sighed, "That old man Li Yubai has such a huge piece of dog skin that he hasn't even finished sewing up yet. Can he really let me cut in line first?"

"You said it yourself, the dog skin is too big. Don't we usually tackle the simple and efficient problems first when doing our homework, and then tackle the difficult ones last?"

"In that case, thank you, sister." The boy lowered his voice. "If the old man becomes resentful and seeks revenge, sister, you must protect me, okay?"

……

At the end of the gathering, last year's top science student was invited to share his learning experience with everyone.

"Hello everyone, fellow students. Next, I'd like to share my humble opinions on study methods, time management, tips for improving scores, optimizing review, and pre-exam mindset..."

After listening for a while, Yan Yu suggested leaving early.

Jiang Shu asked, puzzled, "I think what he said was very interesting!"

"For most people, it's definitely useful," Yan Yu said in a voice that no one else could hear. "But in the two months before the exam, apart from the mindset, everything else is... well, it's like trying to mend the sheepfold after the sheep have almost run out of sheep..."

Jiang Shu sighed, "If only I could have heard him say all this a year earlier."

“Sister doesn’t need to pay attention to others.” Yan Yu smiled. “The world’s most talented academic genius is right in front of you. You can… use him as you please.”

Jiang Shu tentatively asked, "You?"

"Ning Yunzhan is a genius in architecture, but otherwise he's like an idiot; Li Yubai and Feng Li received elite family education and have no experience with the college entrance examination; Rong Jingchen has never been exposed to the Chinese college entrance examination culture and has only known fighting since he was a child, so maybe in sports... can you count on him to tutor you?"

Jiang Shu thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

"I'm different." Yan Yu said with a hint of youthful arrogance. "I've won countless gold medals in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science... Harvard, MIT, Peking University, and more than ten other prestigious universities are all places I've conquered; I've participated in setting the college entrance examination and postgraduate entrance examination questions for several years, and I have excellent relationships with top professors at major universities around the world; I compiled the advanced guidebook for the Global Hacker Alliance; the world's largest technology kingdom, covering thousands of high-end algorithms across various subjects, belongs to my family..."

Jiang Shu's heart skipped a beat, and she grabbed the boy's hand: "Yan Yu, please take me soaring!"

The boy's lips curved slightly beneath his mask...

……

By the time Yan Yu and Jiang Shu arrived at the family team-building event, the bored men had already started causing a ruckus.

Li Yubai casually crushed several jewelry brands he disliked during an online meeting; Ning Yunzhan and Rong Jingchen won a whole cellar of red wine from their opponent in a poker game; and the Crown Prince, after picking peach blossoms, gave an order to Nie Hongnian, who was in charge of the Fengshen Group in the capital, to expose some interesting scandals about big stars and flood the internet with posts, causing Weibo to crash for a full hour...

"How was the social gathering?" Li Yubai glanced at the bag of snacks in Yan Yu's hand.

"Not bad." Jiang Shu walked under the parasol, grabbed a handful of peeled nuts and ate them. "Our family team building can begin now—wait, water obstacle course? I'm very good at that! What's the reward for winning?" Reward? Ning Yunzhan, who was focused on getting wet, hadn't really thought about it.

He asked casually, "What kind of reward would the patron be hoping for?"

Feng Li glanced at him: "Master Jiang is easily embarrassed. Even if she wants a big reward, she'd be too embarrassed to say so. Why ask her..."

Ning Yunzhan thought for a moment and said, "You're right. How about we each give ourselves a personal item as a reward? — It's all about the process, you know what I mean."

"What does 'focusing on the process' mean?" Jiang Shu asked, not understanding.

“The process is…” Li Yubai began thoughtfully, “cooperating and helping each other during the challenges, and deepening our relationships.”

Jiang Shu sighed, "It seems like you guys don't get along very well. You should try to improve things... How about this, to help you all cooperate and achieve a win-win situation, I'll offer you a super prize!"

She casually tossed out a string of bracelets.

The cheap bracelet was exactly the same as the ones Li Yubai and the others were wearing on their wrists...

"Master Jiang, are you selling this bracelet wholesale?" Ning Yunzhan was startled. "I thought it was just for a few of us..."

"Can cheap wholesale goods save your life?" Jiang Shu scoffed arrogantly. "Ali is the most qualified to speak on the value of this thing. Back then, when Rong Jingchen threw those bombs, Ali escaped unscathed thanks to this bracelet..."

“It’s good stuff.” Feng Li nodded readily, then rolled up his sleeve and shook a new string of beads on his wrist. “The old one was ruined, so Master Jiang gave me another one.”

Yan Yu stretched out her hand: "We're family, sister can't show favoritism. I want a second skewer too."

Rong Jingchen and Ning Yunzhan also glanced over silently...

Jiang Shu suddenly felt a pang of regret: "It's not that I'm unwilling to give them, but I spent ten years making only ten strings in total. These may look like just a few wooden beads, but they have many defensive formations carved inside, so they're very time-consuming to make. Ali's beads broke, so I really can't afford to give her two strings each."

"Two skewers per person, ten skewers for five people," Li Yubai said softly. "Isn't that perfect?"

"I gave one to my mom..." Jiang Shu suggested, "Next time you come back to the village with me, who will go ask her for it?"

My dear future mother-in-law...

Asking Jiang Liuyun for something would be tantamount to courting death...

Jiang Shu was distressed: "I had nine bracelets, six of which I gave to you, and today I took out one as a lucky draw prize. The remaining two are only enough for me to develop two more clients... I don't have the energy right now, and I don't have time to make new bracelets. Why am I feeling inexplicably anxious...?"

Feng Li scoffed: "Only enough to develop two more clients?"

Even though Ning Yunzhan had no romantic feelings for his sugar daddy, he still felt a headache coming on: "You already have five at home, and you're still worried?"

Li Yubai sighed helplessly, "Tell me, who have you taken a fancy to this time?"

"Not yet." Jiang Shu was a little frustrated: "He has to be rich enough to pay 10,000 yuan a day for being a kept man, he has to be chaste and not go around attracting bad suitors while in my arms, he has to be of good character and not use underhanded tricks to drain my luck, and he has to be good-looking so I can enjoy his company..."

Tired of agonizing over it, Jiang Shu simply gave up!

She got up and walked towards the temporary changing room in the distance: "Let's not talk about such troublesome things! I'll go change into a more stylish outfit and then subdue all of you during the challenge!"

The girl walked away with a lazy and somewhat arrogant gait.

The five men toasted each other, finished their drinks, and stood up.

Rong Jingchen said coldly, "I will not allow a sixth one to appear. Whoever she sets her sights on, I will destroy..."

Feng Li clicked his tongue, his peach blossom eyes turning icy cold: "You talk as if I gave you permission..."

Neither Yan Yu nor Li Yubai spoke, but their expressions were inscrutable.

Ning Yunzhan said softly, "Let's go, use your wet seduction to firmly bind her."

(End of this chapter)