Chapter 1156 - 770: Who Gave Gong Youyun This Opportunity?

"If you didn’t have the ill intent of wanting me to make a fool of myself, maybe no student in the whole classroom would have turned to stare at me."

Yin Shixiu wasn’t indifferent to her; it’s just that he already had to shoulder enough burdens. If he took on any more, he’d really be unable to explain himself clearly.

"Then..."

Su Xiaomeng was struck silent, her voice choked by his words.

"You’re my wife. Why would I want to disrupt your class?" Yin Shixiu sighed lightly, moving around the table to lean where Chi Lun had just been standing.

"Then why did you come? Don’t tell me you came to listen to my lecture. I teach literary translation, not finance."

Su Xiaomeng took a deep breath, her eyes coldly watching him.

"Literary translation... I’m somewhat interested in literature, but translation, not so much," Yin Shixiu murmured. "You don’t listen to what I say, so I can only prove it through actions... It’s not that I refuse to spend time with you; I thought I could manage without spending so much time with you, thinking that even if we were busy in our respective fields, our hearts would still be together. I assumed we had moved past a stage where we needed to be together every day to feel each other’s intentions..."

"I may have overestimated the binding force of marriage and underestimated your insecurities, putting too much importance on work, which led to neglecting you and the children."

Yin Shixiu spoke his mind, and though Su Xiaomeng didn’t look at him, she didn’t shut him out either. She listened, taking in his every word...

"Meng Meng, you’re right. Perhaps the biggest issue is... I never thought we would drift apart, never even considered that we would argue over such matters... It’s my inherent confidence and self-satisfaction that’s exhausted you."

"You always make everything sound so wonderful," Su Xiaomeng finally spoke, calm and serene, without the emotional outburst from before.

She turned to face him directly,

"You say you want to prove with actions that you’re willing to spend time with me? Yin Shixiu, what? Are you planning to resign from your position as CEO of the Yin Group?"

"Do you want me to resign as CEO?"

Of course, Su Xiaomeng would never ask him to give up the Yin Group. She only asked to mock him, not expecting he would turn the question back on her.

His gaze was unwavering, a pitch-black night in his eyes...

"Yes."

Su Xiaomeng emphatically uttered the word, her eyes fixed on him as if supervising, determined to uncover his deceitful side.

However, instead of finding his hypocrisy, she stumbled into a knowing smile that embarrassed her deeply.

Yet...

"You’ve started using your treacherous business tactics on me. You ask me if I want you to resign... Haha, do you want me to carry the blame for the tens of thousands of people in the Yin Group, the hundreds in the Yin Family?"

Yin Shixiu continued to smile gently.

Su Xiaomeng truly couldn’t stand his current nonchalant appearance, the sense that everything was under his control, was horribly aggravating!

"Yin Shixiu, you’re missing the point. I don’t really need your company. I’ve said that I’m also busy."

"Then what do you want me to do? Not show up in front of you, you feel uncomfortable. Show up in front of you, you say you don’t need it... What can I do to make you feel I am still that man who loves you deeply, that I haven’t changed?"

Su Xiaomeng turned her head away, "Don’t ask me, I don’t know."

"..."

Yin Shixiu took her hand, gently patting it, "If you don’t know, then I’ll continue with my own way. I’ll keep attending your classes, and I’ll do it openly."

Su Xiaomeng looked at him with an expression of torment, "And you still dare to say you’re not here to disrupt my field?"

"Whether attending your class or disrupting your field, I need to stay where you can see me."

Yin Shixiu withdrew his hand, putting both hands into his pocket, "I know you haven’t told anyone you’re my wife. I didn’t care about that initially, but thinking about it now... you do need to mention it, don’t you? Otherwise... how will we solve this issue on the school forum?"

"Isn’t it just them calling me ’Mop Teacher’? Isn’t it them calling me ’He Dongshi’? I don’t mind. Just like Professor Chi said, so many proper teachers, but few as unique as my spectacular start! Embarrassing, but also brilliant!"

Su Xiaomeng lifted her chin, confronting Yin Shixiu.

Yin Shixiu looked at her... his expression complex, especially when she proudly repeated what Chi Lun said... his gaze fixated on her,

"Professor Chi... huh, are Professor Chi’s words that pleasing?"

Yin Shixiu’s tone was laced with sarcasm, and Su Xiaomeng heard it clearly. "At least when I’m gossiped about by students like this, he’s here to encourage me, unlike you, who comes to fan the flames and even wants to tear the place down!"

"So... he might as well be your husband?"

A trace of threat flashed through Yin Shixiu’s eyes, the atmosphere instantly turning serious as the two locked eyes...

"You haven’t even solved your personal issues, and you come to mock me?"

Yin Shixiu glanced at Chi Lun’s desk, asking slowly, "If one day, Chi Lun shows he’s interested in you, loves you and wants to pursue you... what would you do?"

"Impossible!"

"Why impossible?"

Su Xiaomeng hurriedly replied, "I’ve been married for many years, and I have two children. Is he crazy to like a married woman like me?"

"He’s already crazy, so why not?"

"Yin Shixiu, you don’t even know Professor Chi, how can you say that about him?"

"You’ve only known him for a few days. Do you understand him? Why are you defending him so much?"

"You should leave. I don’t want to argue with you over such meaningless issues."

"First, answer me. Suppose this Professor Chi of yours goes crazy and clearly tells you he’s very fond of you, what would you do?"

Su Xiaomeng took a deep breath and spoke to Yin Shixiu, word by word, "If that day ever comes, I will clearly tell him that I have a family, a partner who I love, and he should give up on this."

"That’s exactly what I said to Gong Youyun."

"..."

"Continuing the assumption... Would you resign? Would you decisively refuse to work with him?"

Su Xiaomeng’s expression stiffened, her hands went cold, and she looked at Yin Shixiu... So, after all this, he was waiting here.

Yin Shixiu slightly curved his lips,

"You just need to think about it, no need to answer. Then, let me just tell you, the reason Gong Youyun answered your call in my office that day wasn’t because I was entangled with her, but because she was demoted by the Swire Technology Group Headquarters in the United Kingdom and is no longer involved in the joint project between Yin Group and Swire."

"Then why did she come to you?"

Su Xiaomeng snorted lightly, her laugh reflecting her distrust of these words.

"She came to me hoping I could help her, hoping I would put in a good word for her with the president of Swire so she could continue working on the project."

"The first thing she did when something went wrong was come to you, it seems her relationship with you in private is indeed quite good..."

Su Xiaomeng continued to mock coldly.

Yin Shixiu stared straight at Su Xiaomeng, "Aren’t you curious why she was demoted even when she was doing well?"

"You don’t mean to say it was you who caused it, do you?"

Su Xiaomeng curled her lips slightly.

"Otherwise, Mrs. Yin, can you tell me who else has the ability to make the president of the UK’s largest tech company, the Swire Group, issue a direct order for a personnel change?"

"..."

"You asked me about the lipstick stain on my shirt... I really can’t give you an explanation. I don’t even know when it got there. The only thing I can do is to dispel your doubts."

"You so neatly washed your hands of this... Miss Gong Youyun must be feeling terrible, right?"

"You said that you’d accept all my explanations, but it’s clear you don’t want to accept the explanation I’m giving now."

"I accept it, your explanation is very good, very convincing, I almost believed it."

"..."

"A woman who isn’t close to you can so easily enter the office of Yin Shixiu? Naturally pick up your phone calls?"

"If her purpose is to destroy your trust in me, isn’t she just borrowing your line of thinking?"

"Ha... it seems she took advantage of nobody paying attention and snuck into your office, coincidentally hearing me call you... and she happens to be a particularly shameless woman..."

"That’s exactly it."

"..."

"Meng Meng, do you think it’s me who has given other women the chance to provoke you, or is it you who has given an insignificant woman the chance to damage our relationship?"

Yin Shixiu looked at her and asked like this.

"..."

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Su Xiaomeng sat in the chair, Yin Shixiu’s words playing over and over in her mind...

Is it me who has given other women the chance to challenge you, or have you given an insignificant woman the chance to damage our relationship?

An insignificant woman...

Is Gong Youyun really just an insignificant woman? Yin Shixiu wants to say that everything this woman has done, said, and shown has nothing to do with him?

In the end, what he wants to say is not about how guilty or regretful he is, but to accuse her of not trusting him, of being overly suspicious...

"Teacher Su, let me remind you that you’ve been spacing out for a full two hours."

Chi Lun had already written over three thousand words in his instructional paper, while Su Xiaomeng remained in the same position as two hours ago, without any difference.

"Professor Chi..."

Luckily, even though she was in a daze, she wasn’t deaf or blind, she could still hear what he was saying.

"Hmm?"

"Do you think all men are the same? Acting shamelessly, being domineering, quibbling, shirking responsibility, using fallacious arguments, only allowing themselves to do wrong while not letting others have their way?"

Su Xiaomeng seriously looked at Chi Lun, truly curious about this question.

Chi Lun furrowed his brow, thought deeply for a moment, then nodded, "Hmm, they really are."

"..."