Chapter 168 - Full of Shrewd Strategies (1/2)

“Why?” Yun Xi stared at him, puzzled.

It’s not that she hadn’t thought of this trick to frame her mother.

It was just that baiting Jiang Henglin hadn’t been a bad idea either.

“Since you’d already guessed that your mother planned on framing you, if you’d planted it back on your mother, not only would you have embarra.s.sed your mother, but you could’ve also seized the opportunity to jeopardize her and Liang Xinyi’s relations.h.i.+p. Yun Ziling would’ve also suffered humiliation because of your mother, and that would’ve caused a rift in their mother-daughter relations.h.i.+p. Over time, she would have become disappointed and resentful toward your mother. After separating them, dealing with the brainless Yun Ziling would be easy for you. Besides, your mother would have stolen my belongings, and your father definitely wouldn’t have let her off the hook for that. Killing four birds with one stone would have saved you the trouble of climbing up the wall and into the window.”

Yun Xi nodded. He truly deserved to be the head of the Mu family, since he had so many shrewd strategies.

“I didn’t do that because I’m not as ruthless as you think.”

If she had done that, her mother definitely would have been caught and sent to jail.

She didn’t want that kind of a.s.sociation with her name, because then she wouldn’t be able to gain a foothold in the higher society in the future.

It wasn’t really that she wasn’t that ruthless, but, after starting her life over again, she knew how to weigh all the pros and cons.

If she wanted to rise to the top and become someone like Mu Feichi and wanted to stop simply looking up to the people in power, she must rely on her own abilities without getting her hands dirty.

“Furthermore, by climbing up the wall and into the window, I also achieved what you said and dealt with the matter more smoothly.”

Causing a rift in the relations.h.i.+p between her mother and Liang Xinyi and Yun Ziling wouldn’t happen overnight.

Her mother needed to use Liang Xinyi to deal with her, and she also needed Liang Xinyi in the Yun family to counterbalance her aunt in the countryside.

As for Yun Ziling, she was her mother’s lifeblood.

Moreover, she was also the bait she would use to fish out Jiang Henglin.

Mu Feichi gazed at her gravely and curled his lips without saying anything.

She didn’t know whether or not Mu Feichi could read her thoughts, but, as for a woman’s calculations, she thought it best that men remained ignorant of them.

Calculating women were by no means popular with men.

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After the parents’ meeting, Yun Xi’s name spread throughout the school.