The Male Lead’s Villainess Stepmother - Chapter 162

Chapter 162 – Oh, so now you have a guilty conscience? (3)

Qin Luoyi seemed to have seen through her as well. Naturally, she would not let her have that opportunity. She thought about it for a few seconds. Giving Yan Shuyu a profound look, she said, “I hope you can keep to your words.”

Yan Shuyu nodded with confidence, “Don’t worry. I have very good work ethics.”

Qin Luoyi, “……”

So this wasn’t her first time, thought Qin Luoyi to herself in contempt. Then, she asked nonchalantly, “Okay, name your price then.”

She was about to become instantly rich. Yan Shuyu rubbed her hands together nervously and said, “500,000 yuan!”

What she really wanted to say was 5 million yuan. That way even if the rich woman discounted her by 50%, she’d still end up with 2.5 million yuan. That still wasn’t a shabby amount.

Alas, poverty had truly limited her imagination. She had never seen 5 million yuan in her two lives combined. She was intimidated and knocked off one zero when she spoke.

500,000 yuan wasn’t bad either. With that kind of money, she wouldn’t need to work too hard to be able to support herself and her instant son. Sweet. And that was how Yan Shuyu comforted herself. She then saw a look of contempt flashed through the rich woman’s eyes.

The rich woman said in a very merciful tone, “I’ll give you 2 million yuan. I hope you can stick to your words.”

Yan Shuyu, “……”

She never expected that the rich woman would voluntarily up the amount for her. Did she think that 500,000 yuan was such a small amount that it was an insult to her?

She wasn’t too far from the truth. Qin Luoyi felt that 500,000 yuan wasn’t even worth her wasting a check on.

She hadn’t expected that Yan Shuyu, who had been around Zhou Qinhe for such a long time now, would be so shallow that she was willing to give up on Boss Zhou for just 500,000 yuan. What would Boss Zhou think when he found out? Even just for Boss Zhou’s sake, she couldn’t possibly pay an amount that was so paltry that it was only fit for a beggar.

Before Qin Luoyi went there, her budget was as high as 10 million yuan. She was willing to pay a lot as long as her daughter could marry Boss Zhou.

Yan Shuyu obviously had no idea what kind of money she had missed out on. She held onto the 2-million-yuan check like she had all the wealth in the world and gave the god of wealth, er, the rich woman her most sincere gratitude.

Looking at Yan Shuyu’s loser look, Qin Luoyi snickered, grabbed her own purse, and left.

Yan Shuyu waved excitedly behind her and said, “Have a safe trip back!”

As soon as the rich woman was out of sight, Yan Shuyu couldn’t contain herself anymore. She brought the check with her to Manager Yang and even made a point to lock the office door behind her before she pulled the check out like it was some sort of a treasure and presented it to him. “Manager, do you know how I can cash this check?”

Instead of answering her question, Manager Yang asked her nosily, “What is going on?”

“Oh, the rich woman offered me a check to leave Boss Zhou.” Yan Shuyu summed it up briskly for Manager Yang.

To her surprise, her little buddy was also very good at grasping the main point. “Leave him? Since when have you two been a thing?”

“We are not.” Yan Shuyu was still hoping that Manager Yang would accompany her to cash the check so she only briefly described her relationship with the boss. “He’s courting me but I didn’t accept it.”

“If Boss Zhou was courting you, why did the rich woman ask you to leave him? Shouldn’t she be asking him to leave you?”

“Oh! You are right!” That was the first time Yan Shuyu noticed that the rich woman’s logic was somewhat flawed. But she was her god of wealth, so she was able to quickly find a reason to defend her. “Perhaps Boss Zhou was already too far gone and beyond reasoning. The rich woman had no other means other than coming at me?”

Manager Yang asked profoundly, “How is she related to Boss Zhou?”

“I asked her if she’s Boss Zhou’s mother and she said ‘more or less’. So I figured she was either his stepmother or someone from an older generation in the family?”

Yang Zifeng, “……”

“You didn’t even know who she is and you just accepted her check? Are you crazy?”

Yan Shuyu felt very righteous when she replied with, “I am going to turn him down one way or another anyway, why should I feel bad about accepting a check that was offered up to me?”

“Alright. You won.” Convinced, Yang Zifeng finally nodded. He took the check over from her, took a look at it, and snickered. “It’s just 2 million yuan. Sheesh, you made it sound like it was such an astronomical amount.”

Now it was Yan Shuyu’s turn to be stunned. “2 million yuan is not a lot of money?”

Yang Zifeng finally acted like the Second Generation Rich that he was and said casually, “Depends on the situation. Given Boss Zhou’s status, to have you ‘leave’ him, the starting price should at least be 5 to 10 million yuan.”

“Is 1,000 yuan the synonym for 1 million yuan for you rich people?” Yan Shuyu clutched her chest and felt her heart ache. “I guess I don’t have what it takes to become a parvenu riche.”

Seeing the painful look on her face, Yang Zifeng had no heart to tell her that she may not even be able to pocket this 2 million yuan. After all, the identity of that rich woman was quite questionable. It’d be better if she truly was Boss Zhou’s family member. If she isn’t, Yan Shuyu was getting excited over nothing.

Thinking about that, he decided to ask her in a roundabout way. “Did you want to go and cash it as soon as possible?”

Yan Shuyu nodded as quickly as she could. She had already lost 5 million yuan. She could only feel relieved after she had deposited the 2 million yuan.

Nevertheless, Manager Yang made a suggestion out of the blue. “I think you should wait on this. You have ten days to cash this check. A couple of days won’t make any different. This concerns Boss Zhou after all. Perhaps you should give him a heads up first.”

Yan Shuyu looked dumbfounded. “What am I supposed to tell him? That I sold him for money?”

“Oh, so now you have a guilty conscience?” Yang Zifeng teased her. But he, nonetheless, helped her analyze the situation. “You accepted her money to solve a problem for her, right? Wouldn’t it be better if you cash the check after you have reached an agreement with Boss Zhou?”