Chapter 560 - Create An Illusion for Others (1/2)

“You see it through?” Shen Yan exhaled and said.

Liu Sijie was half choked and didn’t speak until he coughed to ease, “It’s so obvious. How couldn’t I see it through? Am I supposed to go to hell like Chen Wenxuan if I couldn’t see it?”

“Chen Wenxuan that bastard didn’t suffer enough. He did so many evil things but he was still attended at last.” Upon thinking of him, Shen Yan got angry. Why should he leave such big trouble behind?

“Are you still harassed with it…” Liu Sijie started to assail him with questions.

“Am I that kind of person?”

“Then that’s because there’s a sore in Xia Yu’s heart.”

Shen Yan, putting on a gloomy face, didn’t say anything. He viewed the documents in front of him, wrote his signature quickly on it and threw it to him, “Get out!”

“I won’t!” Liu Sijie directly sat onto the table and learnt forward to ask Shen Yan, “Tell me, what happened to you two?”

“Same old!”

“What is ‘same old’?” Liu Sijie neighed involuntarily, “Is it related to Young Master Mo?”

Liu Sijie kept nagging like an old woman, sitting on the table. Shen Yan finally lifted his eyelid and glanced at him, “Are you not busy enough recently?”

But the man on the table just snorted, “Don’t always use that word to bully me. We’ve known each other like brothers for so many years. I’ve found you grumpy in the past two weeks, putting on a gloomy face silently. During the meeting yesterday afternoon, you lost your temper twice. I mistook earlier that it was caused by the stress since the project didn’t run smoothly. Now it seems that it is not the reason behind.”

Liu Sijie talked excitedly but his words hit the points.

Shen Yan had been very grumpy recently. As if he had swallowed a ton of dynamite, he would have exploded due to a trifle in the company.

When Liu Sijie finished his “speech”, he paused to catch his breath. However, the man on the chair kept silent. He only knocked twice on the table with the signature pen in his hand. It was improper to talk about this topic in the office. Liu Sijie got the hint and dropped the topic in time. He involuntarily wiped his face.

“Fine. I’ll leave it since you don’t want to mention it.”

After Liu Sijie said so, he heaved a soft sigh while Shen Yan was still expressionless. The two were silent for a while. Then finally Liu Sijie spoke, “I hear that Zeng Mina is back.”

Shen Yan, who was silent all the time, replied at last, “And she asked Xia Yu out for lunch.”

“Why does she ask Xia Yu out?” Liu Sijie thought of the fact that Xia Yu was at odds with Zeng Mina earlier.

Shen Yan’s eyes flashed. Liu Sijie laughed again and said, “Don’t stare at me. Anyway, I’ve never liked her….”

Shen Yan didn’t reply to his answer. The flash in his eyes ceased and there was only a casual smile on the corner of his mouth.

Liu Sijie folded his lips and didn’t say anything. He just jumped off the table and patted his trousers.

“Alright. Back as she is, it is not related to you. You’d better think about how to wheedle Xia Yu.” After Liu Sijie said so, he took the documents on the table and walked out.

Shen Yan turned his chair around to the window, outside which the peach blossoms had fallen down. It was fine weather. Forget the unpleasant, could he make it?

When Shen Qiang knocked on the door and came in, Shen Yang was taking pain killers, with a half glass of cool water. After she drank it up, she laid the glass down and turned around. These days she had a sore and her teeth ached.

“Any progress?”

Shen Qiang nodded at once, “Yes!”

“What is it?”

“Eldest brother indeed met my sister at a teahouse. The two talked for nearly an hour in a private room.”

“Is the source reliable?”

“Absolutely reliable!”

Shen Yang snorted with the corner of her mouth and said, “Say it out. What did they talk about?”

Shen Qiang immediately leaned forward and lowered his voice, “It can’t be other things. It can be guessed that he must have wanted to draw her to his ally.”

“Did he really mean to draw Xia Yu to his ally?”

“Almost.”

“Did Xia Yu agree?”

“Not yet. But she said she would think about it.”

“Well…” Thinking about it for a while, Shen Yang said seemingly to herself, “This lad wants to draw Xia Yu to his ally to bully me.” After she said so, she punched the table with her fist with such strength that Shen Qiang, who was in the opposite direction, felt shocked.

This time Zeng Mina bought a villa in the suburbs after she came back. That place used to be two buildings which she bought from local residents. Later, she tore them down to rebuilt and bought the surrounding lands, forming a large tract. Then she spent much money inviting a garden-design team over here to build this fine house in the style of Suchou gardens.

The fine house was not very large but it had four parts, the eastern garden; the western garden; the courtyard; and hill lodges. Its most fantastic part lay in the landscape of the courtyard. Hill lodges had special layered stone-hills, which was designed by a master. And the landscape in the courtyard was designed with a left branch and a right branch, in the mode of which it was surrounded by hills and water. Additionally, it was delicately decorated with expensive and rare flora. Therefore, this private garden house both enjoyed the style of traditional garden architecture as well as modern innovation.

After Zeng Mina moved here, she began having morning lessons and evening lessons. She also arranged a room in the western garden as a Buddha lodge, in which Buddha was shrined with incense every morning and evening.

After she went through that dreadful experience, she appeared to be open-minded and devoted herself to Buddhism.

Ali watched the time, waiting at the door of the Buddha lodge. After a few minutes, she heard a sound inside. Then she knocked at the door and went in.

Zeng Mina just finished her morning lesson and was standing in front of the Buddha, serving with incense. Three sticks were held in her hand and were ignited. She softly blew out the fire on them, inserted them into the incense box and held them straight. Although she felt there was someone standing behind, she didn’t turn around. She kept staring at the Buddha and asked, “How’s it going on?”