You're my wife, don't doubt it!

"I'm busy," Shen Jie said succinctly. "Don't follow me anymore."

The elevator doors opened with a "ding," and Shen Jie pulled Lu Jiya out, with Xiao Yao quickly following behind.

Suddenly, Lu Ziya stopped and turned to face Xiao Yao: "Young man, please have some self-respect. Your behavior has gone beyond the scope of normal pursuit. To put it bluntly, it has escalated to XSR. If you continue to pester Xu Qingwei, I will tell the priest."

Xiao Yao stood there stunned, but saw Shen Jie secretly smiling. He didn't say anything, just watched her and Lu Jia disappear around the corner of the corridor.

Helpless, the boy strolled to the men's restroom on the sixth floor, opened a stall, and sat down on the clean and tidy toilet.

My phone rang; there was a new message.

"Are you sick? You said you wanted to keep a low profile during summer camp, so why are you being so unclear in front of outsiders? Can't you just send a message if something happens?"

"What time tonight, and where to meet?"

Upon seeing these two messages, Xiao Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the pent-up frustration that had been building up inside him all day was finally released.

He was about to reply to Shen Jie's message when he suddenly heard voices coming from outside the cubicle.

"Dad, slow down." The male voice sounded somewhat familiar.

"Take it easy, I'm not that old yet." It was a stubborn voice.

"Okay, son, although I'm getting old, you're still so young. So, what do you think of this summer camp?"

"Smooth-talking. Seeing these energetic young people, so unlike you, makes me very happy. The future of the church rests on them." The old man said, "This is all God's grace."

Xiao Yao remembered that the old man's voice was that of Grandpa Yu who gave the opening ceremony speech.

"Yes, we should thank God. Dad, there's something I'm hesitant to say, given my position." That was the voice of the "eldest uncle."

"Speak," said Grandpa Yu.

"Are you really going to transfer all our shares in Meiyu Group to Lihua?" the eldest uncle asked.

"Back then, Lihua was expelled from the family because she had disgraced the family, and it was justifiable to deal with her according to family rules," said Grandpa Yu. "But so many years have passed, her daughter is all grown up, and I am old... I don't want to sit idly by and watch the mother and daughter live such a miserable life... Otherwise, it would ultimately be contrary to the spirit of Christian love."

“Son knows you value relationships, but… Lihua hasn’t gone through the divorce proceedings with that man yet, so he’ll have half of her rights.”

“I did think of that,” said Old Master Yu. “It would be fine to give it to Dayang’s name—she’s not young anymore, and after a few years, she’s grown into a beautiful young woman. No matter what her mother did or who her father is, the child is always innocent, isn’t that right, Paul?”

“Yes, that’s right,” Yu Baolu said. “Dad, I fully support your idea. I’m just worried…”

"worry about what?"

"I'm worried that Da Yang will follow in Li Hua's footsteps, and that your good intentions will end up in the hands of another thief, which will only harm Da Yang."

Chapter 286 Two-Door Son-in-Law?

2023-08-06

*This chapter is also known as "A Golden Pie Fell From the Sky"

Yu Texuan and Yu Baolu, father and son, chatted in the toilet for the time it takes to smoke half a cigarette. Their voices and footsteps gradually faded away. Xiao Yao was still sitting on the toilet seat, holding his phone, his palms were numb and sweaty, and his legs were also numb.

I don't know if I'm too lucky or too unlucky, but I always seem to hear something incredible while sitting on the toilet—the last time was when I overheard Song Haijian plotting against me in Fangzhong's school toilet.

The phone in my hand lit up again; it was a message from Xu Qingwei.

"Hey? Say something! Are you meeting me tonight or not? Where are we meeting?"

This impatient little girl!

"I ran to the bathroom to call you, why didn't you answer?"

Sure enough, there was a missed call.

The third message reads: "Never mind if we don't meet. I'm going to the Taize prayer with my roommate tonight."

What is the meaning of this?

"Yes, yes, yes, how could I not see you?" Xiao Yao quickly replied, "Let's go pray together in Shanghai."

"My phone was on silent and didn't vibrate, so I missed the call."

Thankfully, it was on silent mode and there was no vibration, otherwise the Yu family elders would have discovered that someone was in the bathroom.

"Let me tell you, I just took a dump on your floor and overheard something incredible."

Shen Jie's reply text message came immediately: "Damn it, can't you use a more civilized and polite word? Stop yelling, hurry up and come down, or all the meat will be eaten!"

Isn't defecating in a designated restroom a sign of civility and dignity? Holding a meeting in a restroom would be uncivilized and undignified, wouldn't it?

Upon seeing the text message, Xiao Yao stood up from the toilet, pulled up his pants, and casually pressed the flush button.

"Wow--"

On his way to the restaurant, Xiao Yao kept pondering the significance of the conversation he had just overheard.

Although I've never heard of the name "Meiyu," it's clear that the Yu family patriarch wants to give Yu Luying a large sum of money.

This "inheritance" is, of course, just a facade. It represents a desire for reconciliation, a signal that the family will accept Yu Lihua again—or at least accept Yu Luying.

This is undoubtedly a great thing.

Materially speaking, at the very least, the Yu mother and daughter no longer have to squeeze into the small room in the Shikumen (stone gate) house. Yu Luying no longer has to live in the same room or sleep in the same bed as her mother—she can have her own small room and a soft bed, just like other children her age.

From a spiritual perspective, Xiao Yao, who was abandoned by his parents, is particularly able to understand and appreciate the meaning behind the English word "Family".

He was genuinely happy for Yu Luying.

However, it is clear that there are bad people among the crowd.

Her maternal uncle... whose name was Paul, was clearly trying to sabotage Yu Luying's grandfather's judgment, and his purpose was obvious—to seize the family fortune for himself.

It's unknown whether the Yu family has any other second-generation members. If not, with Brother Bo becoming a monk and Li Hua's mother-in-law being excommunicated, the family fortune would naturally fall into the hands of that eldest uncle.

The Bible tells the story of a man who owned many sheep and cattle, yet coveted the only lamb of a poor man. This man was severely punished by God, and his descendants suffered the same fate.

He was eating lavish meals himself, yet he wouldn't even leave a drop of rib soup for his sister. He even took the name of the Apostle Paul, yet he was bullying orphans and widows. Bah!

I really want to find his palace and cleave his shadowy skull open with a single sword stroke... Waaaaaah!

Honestly, if temples could help people "repent" and "change their minds," that would be much more effective than ruining people at the drop of a hat—the current situation, where we're hesitant to act for fear of harming others, is truly unbearable.

Despite possessing superhuman strength, he can only do Batman's things...

By the way, how does the "Phantom Thieves" group, which has been circulating online recently, manage to get people to publicly repent without turning them into useless individuals?

If you master this technology, putting aside everything else, getting Shen Jie's father's blessing for your love should be a piece of cake, right?

and many more.

Xiao Yao suddenly realized that his idea was somewhat dangerous.

If Brother Bo finds out, he will definitely reprimand me severely, saying things like "tampering with free will" or "arbitrarily changing other people's minds is a very dangerous slippery slope."

While rationally agreeing with his statement—that if one possesses the power to change the minds of others at will, and has no constraints, or only self-restraint, one will undoubtedly become a great dictator, even if one was once acting for justice, one will ultimately degenerate into pursuing personal desires and subjective justice—it is still somewhat frustrating to possess power yet still suffer from constant humiliation when one is armed with a weapon and has murderous intent.

What Xiao Yao was particularly bothered by was that Yu Baolu's words and actions clearly implied that he was being used against him.

Just before leaving the restroom, what did he say to Grandpa Yu? He said that Yu Luying had a boyfriend, the one he met at noon, who was not only a "sycophantic foreign teacher," but also "rumored online to have more than two boyfriends and had a bad reputation," and "had abducted Shen's only daughter," and something about "it's hard to say whether she and Da Yang were too intimate." In his words, it seemed that Yu Luying had become the second Yu Lihua, and even worse.

It's hard to imagine that such defamation came from my own uncle's mouth—all for a few shares in the business? How dare you call me a "sycophant"?

Ha, people from Shanghai!

Although Xiao Yao believed that Yu Baolu was just using his topic to his advantage, he still felt resentful about being used as a "gun".

To be honest, this matter doesn't have much direct impact on Xiao Yao himself. After all, he's going to marry Shen Jie in the future, and he doesn't care how much Yu Luying owns—he's just considering things from her perspective.

Even if Yu Luying doesn't inherit the family business in the end, it shouldn't be Xiao Yao's responsibility—otherwise, how can he unload this burden of conscience?

Xiao Yao was thinking to himself that he would discuss this matter with Yu Luying that evening, and then they could discuss it together after Shen Jie and Yu Luying made up.

Oh right, I also need to let Brother Bo know. This is such a big deal... Even though he's a monk, he's still a member of the Yu family. And as far as Xiao Yao knows, Yu Bo treats Yu Luying like his own daughter.

Just do it.

Otherwise, you could go directly to "meet the Emperor" and have an open and frank talk with Old Master Yu.

Xiao Yao shook his head, dispelling this naive fantasy.

They were complete strangers who had just met, and he already carried a bad impression and hostility. Even if Grandpa Yu was willing to sit down and have a chat, how could he make the other party realize the truth in just a few words: that he, Xiao Yao, was actually a good person?

Objectively speaking, it is quite difficult—very difficult.

I can't exactly reveal to him that I actually won't marry Yu Luying, can I?

This is even more outrageous; it's ridiculous that his mother opened the door for him. It's outrageous to the extreme.

With these wild thoughts swirling in his mind, Xiao Yao wandered around the Saint Love Hotel for a long time, as if lost in a maze, before finally finding the door to the dining hall where he had been waiting for lunch.

Unlike lunch, dinner was a buffet. There weren't many people in the hall, indicating that many had already finished their meals and left.

Shen Jie's warning that "the meat is almost all gone" is clearly an exaggeration—there is still plenty of meat, but the seafood has been swept away to almost nothing.

You newcomers...

While selecting dishes with a large platter, Xiao Yao noticed the elegant piano music echoing in the dining room, and casually turned his gaze to the magnificent grand piano next to the "master of ceremonies".

The person playing the piano turned out to be Shen Jie's unlucky roommate, the fierce one, what was his name again... I don't know, anyway, it was the one who said he was a lesbian.

Shen Jie sat at the table next to the piano, elegantly eating spaghetti with a knife and fork. The moment Xiao Yao saw her, his heart and everything else inside him were filled with passion.

The girl had actually tied her medium-short hair into a small braid sticking out to the sky. She was still wearing the white short-sleeved shirt she had worn during the day, but she had changed her short skirt into a pair of skinny jeans. On her feet were a pair of chunky dad shoes that Xiao Yao had never seen her wear before. The two cotton socks peeking out between the pant legs of the skinny jeans and the uppers of the dad shoes were white overall, but with a large light blue ring in the middle.