A pampered young lady from a wealthy family is reborn, choosing a rich wife over a rich man.

Noticing Meng Zhixue's suddenly dimmed almond-shaped eyes, Zhou Yu raised his hand to stroke her cheek and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

"...It's nothing." Meng Zhixue turned her head away, dodging his hand. "Let's go inside, it's so cold outside."

We've arrived at the Blues Cafe.

Zhou Yu's hand, which had been suspended in mid-air, clenched slightly. Just as Meng Zhixue raised her hand to push the door, he reached out again to help her open the heavy, thick metal and glass door, afraid that she would have difficulty.

A wave of warmth washed over me.

The coffee shop was much warmer than outside.

Meng Zhixue took off her warm, fluffy scarf and then her thick woolen coat, casually draping it over the back of the chair.

"What would you like to drink?" Zhou Yu asked.

Meng Zhixue thought for a moment, then chuckled, "You're a busy CEO, you drink coffee and stay up all night expanding your empire. I don't need that, I need to get my beauty sleep, plain water is fine with me."

Zhou Yu couldn't help but chuckle. Ignoring her, he directly beckoned a waiter to order him a coffee and then instructed, "Give this lady a glass of warm water and a dessert platter."

Meng Zhixue quickly said, "It's late at night, I don't eat desserts."

"Aren't you going to eat dessert and save room for cake when we get back?" Zhou Yu asked.

Meng Zhixue gave an awkward smile: "It's mainly because it wastes food..."

Zhou Yu lifted his eyelids to look at her, his dark, beautiful peach blossom eyes filled with a bright smile. He closed the menu and said, "It's fine if you don't eat it; it's pleasing to the eye and won't be a waste."

Meng Zhixue: "..."

Why did she feel like this person wasn't just talking about desserts, but also implying something else?

However, she quickly regained her attention and urged, "Tell me quickly, what was that you were talking about?"

Zhou Yu nodded: "Actually, it's very simple."

"My parents went on vacation abroad and encountered Snow White who was pretending to be dead. They were both very surprised. My dad was just genuinely shocked, while my mom was more angry than surprised."

"She thinks that the reason I haven't dated women all these years is because of Bai Xue, and even because of Bai Xue's death, it's because of that aspect of my life... um, no way."

At this point, Zhou Yu paused, looked at her with a smile, and said, "Fortunately, you trusted me from the beginning."

Meng Zhixue: "..."

What's with the "fortunately" and the "belief"?

The reason I know he's faking it is because he bullied people too much in his past life!

Just as she was about to say something, Zhou Yu's cold voice continued, "After discovering that Bai Xue had only faked her death, my mother had even more complaints about her."

"Bai Xue asked her to keep it a secret. Although she didn't accept Bai Xue's explanation, she chose to keep it from me because she didn't want me to have anything to do with Bai Xue anymore. She also didn't know that Bai Xue suddenly returned to China later."

"Furthermore, when I rejected Bai Xue, the Bai family became enraged and hired someone to kidnap them, using their safety to force me to marry Bai Xue."

"No way?" Meng Zhixue stared in disbelief, then asked, "By the way, you said before that Madam Zhou and the others were alright, just a little frightened, right?"

"Yes." Zhou Yu nodded with a smile. "They're fine and resting at home now."

"That's good." Meng Zhixue still had a good impression of Mrs. Zhou from this life. She then said, "The Bai family forced you to marry Bai Xue? They don't think that once you're married, the past can be wiped clean and you can live happily ever after, do they?"

She would get angry if someone lied to her like that!

And they'll be angry for a long time!

Zhou Yu scoffed lightly: "In the adult world, besides emotions, there are also interests. Sometimes interests take precedence over emotions, and emotions become insignificant."

He didn't mention any other demands from the Bai family.

The Bai family not only demanded that he share shares with Bai Xue, but also required him to participate in several of Zhou's key projects and sell them a piece of land with great development potential at a low price...

They're asking for an exorbitant amount, as if they're planning to rob us one last time and then never see us again.

Meng Zhixue clearly hadn't connected this to the cutthroat world of business, and asked in surprise, "So, the Bai family wants Bai Xue to take a share of your assets?"

After asking, she seemed to understand something: "Oh right, that's a good idea. Marry and divorce several CEOs, and you can get rich and reach the pinnacle of life!"

"...But the premise is that the CEOs are all naive, rich, and incredibly philanthropic people."

"You all sign prenuptial agreements when you get married, right?"

She looked Zhou Yu up and down, and couldn't help but sigh, "The Bai family is really bold. Someone as shrewd and cunning as you, with such deep scheming, who can devour his opponents without making a sound, leaving not even bone fragments, unless you willingly let yourself be manipulated, it's hard for others to outmaneuver you, right?"

Zhou Yu: "..."

With so many adjectives, he couldn't immediately tell whether he was being insulted or praised.

It seems to be half and half?

Meng Zhixue then said, "Isn't the Bai family quite powerful? Is it really necessary for them to break ties with you like this?"

Zhou Yu shook his head: "Human desires are endless. The Bai family made their fortune in coal mining in their early years, and at best they were nouveau riche. In recent years, Bai Xue's brother made reckless investments and squandered a lot of the family's wealth. If I hadn't given them a hand, they wouldn't have been able to maintain their current prosperity."

"Now they are afraid that Bai Xue's faked death will anger me, and that I will stop helping the Bai family in the future, or even take my anger out on the Bai family. That's why they did something bad in a moment of confusion."

Over the years, he had taken good care of the Bai family out of consideration for Bai Xue, which resulted in them becoming increasingly greedy, a failure on his part.

But who could have imagined that Snow White would "come back to life"?

Meng Zhixue understood.

She didn't join Zhou Yu in saying that the Bai family were nouveau riche and looking down on them.

After all, she's not even a nouveau riche.

But while she had figured out what happened in this life, she still hadn't figured out what happened in her previous life. She didn't know if Zhou Yu's sudden trip abroad in her past life was also related to Bai Xue, and she had nowhere to ask anyone.

Fortunately, she's easygoing; if she can't figure something out, she just stops thinking about it.

It doesn't matter.

She covered her mouth and yawned, a layer of physiological mist rising in her watery almond-shaped eyes. Meng Zhixue checked the time and said, "Young Master Zhou, shall we go?"

"Okay." Zhou Yu nodded, not forgetting to remind him, "Get dressed before you go out."

Meng Zhixue: "Oh..."

He gave Zhou Yu a strange look.

Why didn't she realize before that this man had the potential to be a male mother?

The two left the Blues Cafe and walked back to Villa No. 28.

The two of them barely spoke on the way.

Just as Meng Zhixue said "goodbye" and was about to enter the gate, Zhou Yu suddenly called out to her, "Zhixue..."

This was the first time he had called her so intimately, and he asked, "May I ask you two questions?"

Meng Zhixue suppressed the urge to yawn and nodded slightly: "Mm."

However, the next second, Zhou Yu's question startled her awake.

"I want to ask you..." he said, "You've never been in a relationship, never been with a man, so who is that man you're talking about who kept you up all night, who dragged you around like a bull day and night, and who terrified you?"

Meng Zhixue slowly widened her almond-shaped eyes, her brain on the verge of freezing.

However, Zhou Yu then asked, "If that's what you're afraid of, I promise you I'll only do it with you once a day, five days a week with two days off. Would you be my girlfriend?"