Chapter 1209 - 811: He Didn’t Tell Su Xiaomeng the Truth

"Pu Wei, I’m calling to tell you that playing with fire will get you burned."

There was a brief silence on the other end of the call, followed by an exaggerated laughter, echoing through the phone’s speaker, almost deafening.

Pu Wei is a professor at Beijing University, always maintaining a highly intellectual image, dressing elegantly, with her hair neatly pinned back, without a hint of disarray, wearing thin-framed glasses, giving an impression of being approachable and gentle.

It’s hard for anyone to associate the witch-like laughter now with the well-regarded professor amongst the students and teachers at Beijing University.

But in this world, there are many who like to wear a chameleon cloak in public.

What someone is truly like behind the scenes, how would a normal person easily find out?

The laughter gradually stopped, and Yin Shixiu looked at the phone on the table. If it hadn’t been for Chen Lan retrieving Pu Wei’s information and seeing her photo, he might have forgotten this heartless woman.

Knowledgeable, elegant, intellectual, polite, raised well...

This woman, born into a family of professors, is the only one who ever let Yin Shixiu down.

"Shixiu, I remember this sentence, you said it ten years ago, but what happened afterward? Who ended up getting burned?"

Yin Shixiu’s fists clenched slightly, memories resurfacing, stirring a wave of irritability in his heart.

Pu Wei and Su Xiaomeng’s thesis plagiarism incident, he has a solution. He has the best domestic lawyer resources, the issue of thesis copyright, is really not difficult to solve.

It’s just Yin Shixiu didn’t expect Pu Wei to act so quickly, so viciously. She not only intends to ruin Su Xiaomeng, she even wants to steer public opinion, burning the Yin Family a bit as well.

With a "snap," Yin Shixiu directly hung up the phone.

If one were to ask what this woman wants... Ten years ago, she wanted to become the young madam of the Yin Family, ten years ago she had already set her sights on the position of Family Head.

Now...

Yin Shixiu couldn’t draw a conclusion yet, perhaps... just looking for trouble, tired of being a university professor, and seeking some thrill.

This is Pu Wei, harm without a trace in public, but harms both people and animals behind the scenes.

Just after hanging up, the phone rang again... Yin Shixiu took a moment to consider before answering,

"..."

He kept silent, only hearing the low laughter on the other end, as if he had said something amusing.

"Shixiu... you know me, I fear nothing, don’t care about anything. If I can take things this far, I surely have a way to escape unscathed. Even if there’s truly no way out, I’d certainly take someone with me to the grave. You should know who I’d take with me."

With a "snap," Yin Shixiu hung up again.

The call was quickly redialed from the other end...

Yin Shixiu tested the other person’s patience after one call, two calls, two calls then three calls... until the third call, he finally picked up and remained silent as before.

The voice on the other end was still from the same woman...

"Before eleven, meet at Pujiang Hotel, not far from the Yin Mansion. Once there, I’ll give you the room number. As long as you come, I can ensure your wife will go to school openly tomorrow, and the plagiarism incident will become a mere puff. I guarantee there will be no negative impact on your wife."

"Alright, hang up now, I’m waiting for you at the hotel."

After speaking, Pu Wei hung up first, while Yin Shixiu listened to the busy signal on the phone and laughed derisively!

Shutting off his phone, he picked it up and returned indoors. Su Xiaomeng had just finished showering, "You’re done?"

"Yes, all done."

Su Xiaomeng yawned and flopped onto the bed. Yin Shixiu moved closer, inhaling the pleasant scent of her shower gel, brushing his nose against her soft, exposed shoulder.

"Stop it, it’s ticklish... shouldn’t you shave?"

Su Xiaomeng muttered, turning her head, meeting Yin Shixiu’s eyes full of deep amusement...

Yin Shixiu leaned in and kissed her...

Su Xiaomeng’s eyes widened, then her brows and eyes curved into a crescent moon, extending her arm to wrap around his neck, smiling at him, brushing against his lips, asking,

"Shouldn’t you take a shower?"

"No shower..."

"...uh?"

"I’ll shower later."

After saying this, Yin Shixiu passionately kissed her lips, kneading and pressing, as if he hadn’t eaten.

Su Xiaomeng was already quite exhausted, mentally drained, but after a shower, seeing Yin Shixiu filled with amusement, she felt physically and mentally relaxed.

After an exhilarating session, Su Xiaomeng was genuinely tired, unable to muster any energy.

Yin Shixiu took a quick shower himself, then helped Su Xiaomeng clean up a bit. Under the bedside lamp, seeing her defenseless, gentle, and inviting sleeping face was a truly beautiful scene to him.

He didn’t tell Su Xiaomeng the truth...

Maybe someday she might accidentally find out those trivial old matters, and she’ll definitely be angry with him again.

No matter how many times he repeats the same point that makes her angry, Yin Shixiu still firmly believes... the less she knows about those dark aspects of human nature, the better.

The Yin Family...

Xiao Meng always thought that Yin Shiqing harming their child and using every means to compete with him for the position of the Family Head was the extent of human evil.

She always thought she had experienced too much, feeling invulnerable, thinking that no matter what problems she faced, she wouldn’t be caught off guard.

Actually, what she has experienced and understood is just the tip of the iceberg...

Among families like the Yin Family, both in the open and hidden, there are countless in Beijing alone.

The Pu Family, a family of professors, with professional academics and highly respected titles, earning admiration and envy from everyone.

When the high-society ladies gather, they’re always saying how they wish their children could be as smart and knowledgeable as the Pu sisters!

However... the so-called Pu Family is merely a wolf’s lair wrapped in gold and jade.

The grandfather of the Pu Family generation was indeed an honest intellectual, upright and diligent in academia, but by the second generation, the winds of academia started to sway, and treasures, money and profit, beauty and power became far more interesting than so-called academic papers.

Pu Wei was a student of Zhou Mengqin’s student, but this relationship was not truly a mentor-granddisciple connection...

A student’s student... essentially has no relationship with the mother.

But it was with this tenuous connection that Pu Wei entered the gates of the Yin Mansion.

The first time Yin Shixiu saw Pu Wei, she was dressed in a pure white dress, sitting composedly on the sofa, quietly listening to her mother and her teacher talk, showing no signs of impatience.

At the time, he had simply been passing by Zheng Garden, not intending to step in, when he suddenly heard her voice opposing the academic views of her teacher and his mother; her arguments were sincere, her viewpoints clear and innovative, speaking with poise and grace.

It was clear she enjoyed an excellent upbringing.

Just from that debate, his mother developed a very favorable impression of her.

He ultimately did not enter Zheng Garden, choosing to continue "passing by" after listening to Pu Wei’s academic standpoint.

However, what Yin Shixiu didn’t expect was that Pu Wei would come to the Yin Mansion every week afterward, sometimes accompanying her teacher, sometimes invited by his mother, and other times coming by herself.

Yin Shixiu doesn’t remember exactly when they formally met, only remembering her as confident and beautiful, dignified and elegant.

Yet those qualities weren’t enough to win over Yin Shixiu’s affection.

But over time, through one seemingly "accidental" encounter after another, Yin Shixiu discovered that Pu Wei was like a deep and unfathomable black hole, constantly giving him surprises.

She excelled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

A female student studying languages and translation even understood finance.

Among the excellent women around him, Pu Wei was perhaps the only one who never showed any fondness for him.

Whether it was dating Chu Jiao or later trying to date Pu Wei, it seemed to be due to a common disease at that age.

A strong sense of competition, a craving for conquest.

He wasn’t the type to fawn over others. Yin Shixiu prided himself on not having many romantic partners, but when it came to the ways of love, he knew them well because of his high emotional intelligence, believing he could see through others’ minds and emotions, thinking he could elicit appropriate affection.

Little did he know... he had really met his match.

She came prepared, having done enough homework on him, Yin Shixiu, before even stepping through the gates of the Yin Mansion, pretending to know nothing about him during their interactions, but actually being familiar with him.

She came and went without any pretense, those so-called "coincidences" were truly coincidences, without a trace of any careful design.

Only after Yin Shixiu painstakingly recalled later did he find her patience genuinely terrifying.

She seemed to have planned ahead, if not one year, then two, or three...

Practicing calligraphy with the grandfather, she invited him to join, playing chess with the old gentleman, he made the move to observe; even when she sat at the piano playing, he casually went over to play along.

In a moment, he was genuinely attracted to such a talented, cultured woman.

She was single-minded, beautiful, and pure, unlike others with so many thoughts, always using poor acting skills to test his intelligence.

Yet, after nearly a year of companionship, if not for that singular occasion of overhearing her call with his father, he might have continued with this woman indefinitely...

He once told Xiao Meng, walking among the world of men, it was full of demons and monsters, a quote from a book.

Back then, Xiao Meng had many reflections as well, but in the end, she still smiled brightly and said to him, "I don’t think so, look at me, I’m nothing but a kind little angel."

Yes, she was a kind little angel...

Yin Shixiu gently caressed her slightly flushed cheeks... he knew, there wasn’t another Su Xiaomeng in this world, which was why he married her without hesitation.

She was different from any other woman he had known or understood...