Chapter 102-103

Chapter 102: Very Good At Disguising ... Downstairs at the Yan Corporation. Luo Yilin got out of the car. He had just hung up on a call asking Yan Jinyun out for a meal when he saw a familiar car coming over. That was Feng Yuan’s favorite sports car. It had been specially modified and usually only used in the arena. Today, he actually drove it out and it even appeared here. He didn’t care why Feng Yuan was suddenly willing to drive this car out. What he cared about was that Feng Yuan’s appearance here might ruin his plans. He was calling Yan Jinyun just now to ask her out, but she said that she had a lot of things to do and couldn’t spare the time for now. They could meet again next time. Next time? It was Monday and he didn’t go back to school. Although his school was also in North City, it required more than two hours of driving. Hence, he specially applied for leave. He wanted to use the good opportunity of the Yan Corporation changing hands to invite Yan Jinyun out to celebrate. The current Yan Jinyun was even more attractive to him than before. In the past, other than her own excellence, Yan Jinyun was only the heir of the Yan Corporation. She was now the legitimate head of the Yan Corporation. She was already in charge of such a big company at the age of 18. She was also outstanding. Moreover, the only person who could shake her position, Yan Jinyu, was obviously supporting her as the head of the family. In other words, Yan Jinyun’s status as the head of the Yan Family was stable. There must be many families eyeing to marry her. Even if they couldn’t “marry” her, there would still be many people who wanted to marry the Yan Family. Marriage with the head of the Yan Family was a huge benefit. 　 　 Of course, he wanted to completely make her his before others had any thoughts! She was busy, so it was fine if he couldn’t make an appointment! Could she even eat dinner in the office? Even if she settled dinner in the office, could she still sleep in the office at night? He would be able to wait for her here. At that time, she would not reject his invitation even if it was for the sake of both parties. On the contrary, it was very likely that she would be touched by him especially waiting here. Even if Yan Jinyun was the cold and difficult top socialite, it couldn’t change the fact that she was only 18 years old. At 18 years old, she was just a little girl. At this age, as long as he said a few good words and acted infatuated, how could he not be able to handle a little girl? Everything was going according to his plan, but Feng Yuan had to appear at this moment! Of course, Luo Yilin was not happy. His gaze towards Feng Yuan was even a little unfriendly. He looked at Feng Yuan with an unfriendly gaze. Feng Yuan did not give him a good attitude either. He frowned at him, “Cousin, why are you here?” Yan Jinyun was someone who had been in the same class as him since kindergarten. Now that such a big thing had happened to the Yan Corporation, Yan Jinyun had to snatch power from her biological father. Not to mention how uncomfortable she would feel, she had just taken over the Yan Corporation. He wondered if she would be bullied by the elders of the Yan Corporation because of her young age. 　 　 If Yan Jinyun was bullied, Jinyu probably wouldn’t sit back and done nothing. No matter if Jinyu was really as simple as she seemed on the surface, the Yan Corporation was still an established company after all. The elders of the Yan Corporation were not easy to provoke. Jinyu had just returned to North City not long ago, and there were so many unhappy things at her birthday party yesterday. It was best not to let Jinyu get involved in these matters. Jinyu couldn’t be implicated, and Yan Jinyun didn’t have anyone to rely on, so he could only watch over her personally. In order to let Jinyu feel at ease and to protect Yan Jinyun from being bullied by others. Hence, he specially applied for a week’s leave to stay at home to keep watch. Yes, stay at home. The Feng Family was mainly in the entertainment industry and was better at handling public opinion. He called the relevant person in charge of the company and asked him to control all the news about the Yan Corporation changing hands and try his best to guide the public opinion in the direction that was favorable to Yan Jinyun. To him, this was just a call. He didn’t care much about it, so other than himself, only the person in charge who received his call knew about this. Of course, because he didn’t care, he didn’t specially instruct the person-in-charge not to tell anyone, so this matter quickly reached Luo Linlin and Feng Chen’s ears. The two of them didn’t say anything about this, but they had already reached a conclusion. Since Feng Yuan had specially applied for leave to “take care of Yan Jinyun on Yan Jinyu’s behalf”, he naturally had to keep an eye on everyone and everything related to Yan Jinyun. 　 　 Feng Yuan had been holding a grudge against Luo Yilin for how he looked at Yan Jinyun, so he had been worried. Hence, he got someone to keep an eye on Luo Yilin. However, he realized that Luo Yilin didn’t return to school to attend classes today, which made Feng Yuan even more vigilant. He could not stop worrying, so he chose a car from the garage at home. However, he did not know why he chose this particular car. It was not even noon when he arrived. The car was parked near the Yan Corporation building. He chose a spot where he could see the Yan Corporation’s main entrance and parked the car. He sat in the car and stared at it. He was afraid that Luo Yilin would look for Yan Jinyun. Luo Yilin looked like a gentleman and he used to think so too. However, he completely changed his opinion of Luo Yilin when he saw how Luo Yilin looked at Yan Jinyun that day. If it was someone else who had feelings for Yan Jinyun, he wouldn’t interfere. However, if it was Luo Yilin, he had no choice but to interfere. He didn’t wait in the car for almost six hours for nothing. Luo Yilin was indeed here! “I’m meeting Yun’er for a meal. What about Cousin? Why are you here?” Seeing that Luo Yilin said this without changing his expression, Feng Yuan sneered in his heart. Treating Yan Jinyun to a meal? Did he think he was a fool? Although Yan Jinyun wasn’t a likable person, she would keep her word. Since she had promised him that she would stay away from Luo Yilin, how could she have agreed to Luo Yilin’s invitation to eat with him on the first day she took over the Yan Corporation? He pretended to be angry. “Yan Jinyun asked Cousin out for a meal?! What’s wrong with her? Didn’t she call me to pick her up and bring her out to celebrate? Why did she agree to Cousin’s invitation again?” Hearing this, Luo Yilin almost couldn’t maintain his gentlemanly smile. Seeing this, Feng Yuan felt a little happy, but he didn’t give him a chance to speak, “But that’s not right. Yan Jinyun just called me and said that she called a few close friends to celebrate her taking over the Yan Corporation and also wanted to go play and relax. She asked me to pick her up at six.” He raised his hand to look at the time. “It’ll be six in a few minutes. She should be coming down soon, right?” He looked at Luo Yilin and continued, “Could it be that she called Cousin too? But that’s not right either. Yan Jinyun clearly said that other than the classmates in our class who are close to her, there’s no one else.” Luo Yilin couldn’t maintain his smile anymore. Busy? How busy! It seemed like he couldn’t wait any longer. Among the influential families in North City, his reputation was the best. He had heard more than one person say in private that he was the most compatible with Yan Jinyun in North City. However, even he wasn’t liked by Yan Jinyun. She had the time to ask her friends out to play, but she rejected his invitation with the excuse that she was busy… As for why he knew that she was rejecting him, it was very simple. If she wasn’t rejecting him, she could totally say that she had another appointment and not use busyness as an excuse. 　 　 Suppressing his anger, he maintained his gentlemanly image again, “So you two have an appointment. Yun’er didn’t call me. I sent her a message to ask her out for a meal. Perhaps she’s still busy, so she didn’t reply to me immediately. I thought that since it’s already this late, I would have to eat dinner no matter how busy I was, so I came over directly. I was planning to wait for Yun’er downstairs before going to eat with her.” Of course, that was a lie. Luo Yilin could maintain this gentlemanly image for so many years, which meant that he was a very scheming person and was very good at pretending. Just like now, even in a situation that was completely disadvantageous to him, he could still say such words to save his face without changing his expression. He wasn’t worried that after Feng Yuan and Yan Jinyun met, his lies would be exposed because he no longer had the patience to wait. He was going to make Yan Jinyun his today! After Yan Jinyun became his woman, even if she would take such an unimportant lie to heart, she wouldn’t have the mood to care about it anymore. On the second day after the Yan Corporation changed hands, the news that the head of the Yan Corporation, the top socialite in North City, and the young master of the Luo Family, whose status was second only to the Yan Family in North City, were lying on the same bed was exposed. Not to mention what would happen to her, just to salvage her image and stabilize the Yan Corporation’s share price, she had a lot of things to do. How could she have the leisure to care about the small lie that he and Feng Yuan had told her? “Since you’re celebrating for Yun’er, do you mind if I join you? Luo Qiu has been having a high fever these few days. I’ve applied for a few days of leave to stay at home and won’t be going to school for the time being. I happen to have time.” It was true that the eldest daughter of the Luo Family, Luo Qiu, was sick and had applied for leave at home. As Luo Qiu’s cousin and classmate, Feng Yuan naturally knew about this. Perhaps, Luo Yilin really didn’t ask for leave because of Yan Jinyun. But no matter what, it was an undeniable fact that Luo Yilin had appeared at the Yan Corporation building. He had designs on Yan Jinyun! He thought that he had found a good excuse to send Luo Yilin away. Who knew that he would be so shameless as to follow them! Alright, it was just an excuse that he had thought of casually. How was he going to clean up the mess now? He didn’t have the ability to lie through his teeth like Luo Yilin. Yan Jinyun was busy and didn’t reply to his message? No matter how busy Yan Jinyun was, how could she not even have the time to pick up her phone to reply to a message? To think that Luo Yilin could think of that! “I can’t decide that. Today is Yan Jinyun’s event. With my “incompatible relationship” with her, I was able to get her invitation because we are classmates and have many common friends. I simply came to pick her up because it was on the way.” *** Chapter 103: How Thick-Skinned ... “Cousin, please wait a moment. I’ll call her and ask her. If Yan Jinyun minds, I can’t do anything about it. After all, Yan Jinyun only invited her classmates. Everyone’s about the same age. Cousin… Sigh, I’m not saying that Cousin is old. It’s just that Cousin is a few years older than us and not familiar with our classmates. With you around, we won’t be able to play to our hearts’ content.” Luo Yilin’s face darkened. He smiled stiffly. “I’m only 20. I’m not much older than you.” “Don’t worry. I won’t stay long. I’ll go and see where you have your event. I’ll leave once I’m sure it’s safe. You said it yourself. I’m older than you. I’ve naturally seen more than you. There are many things that you might miss out but I won’t.” 　 　 “…” Feng Yuan.?How thick-skinned! You even decided to play along! “Alright, Cousin, wait for me. I’ll call Yan Jinyun.” He turned around with the phone in his hand and coughed dryly twice before dialing the number. He sounded confident when he said that, but he was not confident at all when he made the call. After all, he was the one who made up those words just now. Yan Jinyun didn’t even know that he had come to the Yan Corporation! The call was connected. Yan Jinyun didn’t waste any time. She answered his call and asked, “What’s the matter?” Feng Yuan didn’t have the mood to argue with her anymore. He took a deep breath and finished his words in one go, “Yan Jinyun, what are you doing? You said that you found a few friends to go out and play with, and at the same time, celebrate with you. I’ve already arrived at the Yan Corporation. Why aren’t you coming down yet? Didn’t you ask me to pick you up at six? Oh, right, I saw my cousin here at the Yan Corporation. He asked me to ask you if you mind bringing him along for our gathering?” Yan Jinyun was stunned by Feng Yuan’s shout and wanted to scold him back out of habit. However, Feng Yuan kept talking, and she couldn’t find a chance to interrupt. Hence, she finished listening to Feng Yuan. With her intelligence, how could she not understand why Feng Yuan said these words? “On speaker?” Feng Yuan understood what Yan Jinyun meant. She was asking if he had put the call on speaker. He turned back to look at Luo Yilin and said, “No.” He simply smiled at Luo Yilin, who was staring at him. “It has nothing to do with Cousin. Yan Jinyun asked me if Jinyu was around, but I said no.” “You want me to call Jinyu along?” “I’ll get a few people to find a private room at the clubhouse later. I’ll be downstairs in a few minutes. Since he wants to follow, just let him follow.” The conversation was completely incongruous. But both of them understood what the other party meant. 　 　 Yan Jinyun knew Feng Yuan very well. He wouldn’t have suddenly said such nonsense to her if it wasn’t something that he couldn’t handle. She had clearly rejected Luo Yilin’s invitation, but Luo Yilin still appeared at the Yan Corporation’s building. She was not stupid. She could figure it out immediately. Luo Yilin would definitely bump into her if he really waited for her downstairs. At that time, she couldn’t say anything to reject Luo Yilin if she wanted to maintain a superficial friendly relationship with the Luo Family for the Yan Family. Yan Jinyun suddenly heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Feng Yuan was here. As for why Feng Yuan was here, she did not want to investigate further now. Not long after the shareholders’ meeting ended, when the Yan Corporation’s news was all over the place, she received the news that the Feng Family had contributed a lot to guide the public’s opinion. Regardless of whether the Feng Family was protecting the Yan Corporation because of their grandparents and couldn’t bear to see anything happen to the Yan Corporation, or because of Yan Jinyu, or… Feng Yuan did all these for her, she had accepted the Feng Family’s kind intentions. They continued their incongruous conversation. “Alright, I won’t call her then. Come downstairs quickly. I said I would pick you up at six. It’s six now!” Yan Jinyun, “…Find a way to get him to talk. See what he wants to do. I’ll go down after I finish reading this document.” Although she understood what Feng Yuan meant, she couldn’t control her emotions when she heard him talking to her in such a provocative tone. She wanted to explode! However, she still tried her best to control it. She would endure it for now and think about it later. “Okay, I will.” The call ended. Feng Yuan put his phone back into his pocket, “Yan Jinyun will be down soon. She asked me to ask if you want to wait for her in the lobby on the first floor of the Yan Corporation? Oh, if you want to go, Cousin can go by himself. I won’t go. I’ll wait for her in the car.” He turned around and opened the car door to get in as he spoke. However, he suddenly stopped and looked up at Luo Yilin while holding the car door. “Oh, I forgot to ask Cousin. Since you applied for leave because of Little Qiu, why don’t you stay at home and take good care of Little Qiu? Is Little Qiu better already?” 　 　 “But that’s not right. I just came out of the house not long ago. When I went out, my mother told me that Aunt called her and said that Little Qiu is still having a high fever.” Feng Yuan continued, “Oh, I forgot. Cousin, your major in university is completely unrelated to medicine. Even if you’re at home, you won’t be able to help much. Why don’t you let the private doctor and aunt take good care of Little Qiu? But I still don’t understand. Cousin, since you’re not at home to take care of Little Qiu, who’s still having a high fever, why did you take leave and not go to class?” Without waiting for Luo Yilin to reply, Feng Yuan smiled and got into his red sports car. He didn’t care about Luo Yilin’s expression now. His mother didn’t have a very close relationship with the Luo Family to begin with. Other than having a better relationship with Luo Qiu, who was in the same class as him, his relationship with the rest of the Luo Family was very ordinary. As for Yan Jinyun wanting him to find out Luo Yilin’s intention… Hmph! Even if he didn’t ask anything, he knew very well that Luo Yilin had taken a fancy to Yan Jinyun and wanted to find an opportunity to interact with her more. Yan Jinyun wasn’t much, but in his opinion, Luo Yilin wasn’t worthy of Yan Jinyun at all! It was all Feng Yuan’s fault. Luo Yilin had tried to speak but to no avail. He had to answer Feng Yuan’s question, but Feng Yuan had no intention of listening at all. Luo Yilin’s expression became even worse. Luo Yilin glanced at Feng Yuan, who was sitting in the sports car with a dark expression. He took a deep breath and suppressed his anger. He calmly retracted his gaze and stood leaning against his car. There was no hurry. He would let Feng Yuan off for now. He would slowly deal with him after Yan Jinyun became his. After a while, Yan Jinyun came downstairs. Yan Jinyun was wearing a professional suit. She was wearing high heels and a small black tight dress, making her look even taller and slender. Her figure was also outlined. Her legs were fair and straight. Luo Yilin’s eyes lit up at first, then a hint of lust flashed past them. Yan Jinyun didn’t notice the lust in his eyes. She just inexplicably didn’t like the way he looked at her. 　 　 Hiding her disgust, Yan Jinyun nodded slightly and greeted, “Young Master Luo.” Young Master Luo… It was that address again. It made Luo Yilin very unhappy. However, Luo Yilin suppressed these bad emotions and forced a warm smile on his face. He pretended to be doting and said, “Yun’er, didn’t I tell you not to call me Young Master Luo? Just call me Brother Luo like before. Otherwise, we will seem very distant.” “Young Master Luo must be joking. Although the Yan Family and the Luo Family are both in North City, we don’t have many business dealings, and we rarely interact with each other. So, to be honest, the relationship between our two families isn’t actually that deep. I was insensible in the past and neglected this point, which was why I addressed Young Master Luo as my elder brother. I won’t be so rude in the future.” Luo Yilin’s expression gradually twisted, but he had to control it with all his might. He couldn’t ruin his image at this time, or all his efforts would be wasted. “…Look at what Yun’er is saying. You’re regarding me as an outsider. Alright, I was so focused on talking that I forgot to congratulate Yun’er for becoming the youngest chairwoman of a multinational corporation in the history of North City.” “Thank you.” “Yun’er wants to play with her friends. Which venue did you book?” “Years Like Flowing Water.” It was a clubhouse in North City that was about the same level as Elegant Bamboo. “I’ll take Feng Yuan’s car. If Young Master Luo isn’t busy, you can come over with us to play.” “Of course I have time. Look, you rejected my invitation, but I still couldn’t help but want to look for you.” Hearing this, Yan Jinyun looked at him deeply. She had rejected him with the excuse that she was too busy. In this situation, anyone with a brain would know that her previous rejection was an excuse, but Luo Yilin deliberately didn’t ask further. Yan Jinyun was very curious about the reason, but she didn’t intend to ask further. “Young Master Luo, you’re being too polite.” After saying that, she turned and walked towards Feng Yuan’s car. When she got closer, she realized that Feng Yuan was staring at her in a daze. His gaze landed on her, making Yan Jinyun feel uncomfortable for a moment. “W-Why are you looking at me like that?” Perhaps she felt that her tone was not imposing enough, she hurriedly continued, “What are you looking at?! Haven’t you seen a beautiful girl before?” “…” Feng Yuan. With this bad temper, she had wasted her barely passable face! To think that he had thought she looked very charismatic in a professional suit after changing out of her gentle white dress. He had wanted to praise her… Indeed, Yan Jinyun didn’t deserve his praise! However, Yan Jinyun looked much better in this dress than she did in the white dress. “Get in!” Yan Jinyun glared at him before opening the car door and getting in. *** “Beauty Yu, they seem to be going to the ‘Years Like Flowing Water’. Do you want to follow them?” “Mm-hm.”