The Guide to Rising to Power: The Ultimate Schemes of a Green Tea Beauty

After it was over, Xie Yunzhou, that brooding man, rolled up his sleeves and gave her a bath himself. When the hot water was poured over her head, Shen Yao wished she could disappear into the ground.

Not to mention that when Xie Yunzhou was wiping the water stains off the desk, he slowly whispered something in her ear:

"The customer service representative was really cute. They didn't want the five yuan, and they didn't even apologize. I'm giving them a five-star review."

Shen Yao blushed and punched him twice, only to be met with a low chuckle from the man.

However, she has always been a flexible person; she can throw a tantrum when she wants and make money when she wants to.

Once her legs weren't so weak anymore, she used a soft voice and a sweet tone to linger around Xie Yunzhou for a couple of rounds before finally managing to get his 20 million into her own pocket.

Great! Adding Fang Yunci's previous deal, it's a total of forty million. Giving Qin Fang twenty million, we net twenty million.

In just a few days, Shen Yao managed to get something for nothing and rediscovered a long-lost sense of familiarity.

It's more interesting to cheat and swindle men out of their money like this.

It's a quick way to make money, requires little brainpower, and just a few words and a bit of feigned grievances can make your savings grow.

After Xie Yunzhou finished calculating the bill, he put his phone on the table and glanced at them indifferently: "Do you have a grudge against Liang Zhenghe?"

The tone clearly said: If there were no grudge, why would you, a money-grubber, spend so much of your "hard-earned" money? You'd drag that uncle, who's not even related by blood, to the ends of the earth and send him to jail.

Shen Yao subtly sowed discord in his heart, never mentioning Xue Huaiqing and Liang Xiheng's affair:

"Before he ran away, he wanted to transfer the shares to me. I just want to find him quickly and ask my uncle if he knew from the beginning that Hengxin was going to have problems? Was he deliberately...doing this to me?"

She had already said this to Fang Yunci once, so using it again now was second nature to her.

Xie Yunzhou only needed to understand one thing—that old bastard Liang Zhenghe wanted to harm her.

Xie Yunzhou's face immediately darkened, and a faint hint of fierceness appeared in his usually cold eyes.

Shen Yao didn't say anything more. That was enough for Xie Yunzhou's personality.

She put on an expression that suggested she didn't want to talk much and that hid her hurt feelings, said goodbye to him, and left satisfied.

The matter is not over yet.

To show sufficient respect for her opponent Liang Zhenghe, Shen Yao made an exception for the first time and followed suit, whispering sweet nothings in the pillow to each of the men.

When Shen Yao went to the Xiao family for dinner, she casually mentioned Liang Zhenghe's matter in front of Xiao Weilin, and even deliberately brought up Xiao Weichen when his brother was also present.

Xiao Weilin slammed his chopsticks on the table with a "clatter," causing the bowls and plates to shake.

"That old geezer is so cunning!"

He turned and glared at Shen Yao, his anger seeming directed at a stranger, or perhaps he was using this as an excuse to vent his frustrations.

"Shen Yao, do you see that? The older a man gets, the more cunning and ruthless he becomes. Stay away from men like that!"

These words were delivered with a sharp and resounding force, and their veiled insult was so strong that everyone present could sense it.

Xiao Weichen, who was eating next to his brother, coughed and paused in mid-air after his brother said, "Men become more cunning as they get older."

Even though I wasn't insulting him, I felt inexplicably annoyed.

Shen Yao nodded, her expression unchanged: "You're right."

Xiao Weilin glanced at her, and was appeased by her words.

When Shen Yao visited Yu Hang at the training camp, she spoke to him once with the emotion of an older sister, and Yu Hang immediately said:

"Senior, I caught that old guy for you."

When Xiang Yuchuan returned from school, she nestled on the sofa in the large villa he had given her, grumbling and reviewing the events.

Xiang Yuchuan said in a deep voice, "He can't go far."

Xue Huaiqing was someone who knew everything from beginning to end, so Shen Yao didn't need to waste any more words.

Lu Xiuting wasn't in a hurry. She had already planned it out. She would wait until Liang Zhenghe was actually caught before slowly applying the eye drops. There was no need to rush.

Zhou Jingyan, however, was too upright and principled, stubborn to the end, and rarely got angry.

Shen Yao pondered for several days and decided to put in some serious effort.

For the next few nights, she deliberately stayed up until three or four in the morning, keeping her eyes open in the dark until her eyelids felt heavy and sore. During the day, she forced herself to stay awake and continued her work as usual, never taking a nap.

He forced himself to look like he hadn't slept all night, was burdened with worries, and was tormented by betrayal, looking haggard.

She even put on a bare-faced, haggard makeup look.

Her naturally beautiful face was ruined by using a little foundation to whiten her lips, making her usually rosy and full lips look pale and chapped; then she used concealer and shadow to blend under her eyes layer by layer, creating a rare bluish-black look of weariness.

Every night when Zhou Jingyan came home, he would tiptoe to her room and peek inside.

That day, he opened the door and saw her huddled under the covers, half her face buried in the pillow, her lips pale and bloodless, and a faint bluish shadow under her eyes.

She looked like a small white flower that was about to wither.

Zhou Jingyan paused for a moment.

He walked over, sat down on the edge of the bed, and gently placed the back of his hand on her forehead; it wasn't hot.

The man asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Shen Yao shifted, burying her face deeper into the pillow, and mumbled, "It's nothing."

Zhou Jingyan didn't say anything, but just sat quietly on the edge of the bed, his hand on her shoulder, waiting steadily and patiently.

I endured it all, and endured it all again.

Finally, Shen Yao turned over, her eyes and nose red, tears clinging to her eyelashes for a long time before rolling down her cheeks in the blink of an eye.

"Brother Jingyan... I really don't understand."

"He's my uncle. Even though we're not related by blood, I've always considered him family."

"Isn't he family? How could family scheme against me and harm me like this? He deliberately transferred shares to me in the first place; was it all a trap from the beginning? Sister Zhao Tang and Yuan Zhu both said he intentionally framed me..."

Shen Yao lay in Zhou Jingyan's arms, babbling incoherently, her face buried in his chest, her wet eyelashes rubbing against his shirt.

Human nature is repetitive. She was almost killed by Liang Zhenghe back then, so what's wrong with repeating it a few more times!

Zhou Jingyan understood her very well.

She already had a fragile background and no one to rely on, so she always cherished the few acts of kindness and family she had. That's why the pain of being betrayed by her closest relatives felt so excruciating.

Zhou Jingyan felt a lump in his throat just hearing that Liang Zhenghe was actually trying to harm Yao Yao, such a young and pitiful girl.

Adding to the matter of Liang Xiheng, he had always felt guilty towards Shen Yao, feeling that he was too indecisive and too merciful to the enemy, which was why she suffered so much abroad.

The man's inner fire was completely ignited.

"fine."

He raised his hand and gently patted Shen Yao's back, his voice gentle yet carrying an unusual firmness.

"I will help. I will make him pay."

Shen Yao silently gave him a thumbs up in her heart. Jing Yan never disappoints.

She refused to believe that they couldn't catch Liang Zhenghe.

Shen Yao added sweetly to herself:

"Uncle, Yao Yao has missed you so much."