Chapter 095: How Did Things Somehow Turn Into This?

Chapter 095: How Did Things Somehow Turn Into This?

Done.

The instant Madam Su rose to defend her daughter and rounded on Wu Chen in anger, Wu Chen had it done.

Because the moment she took that stance, it placed Su Qingying on the opposite side from him. She was defending a daughter who had been bullied and insulted. Which meant she would never again suspect that anything had passed between Wu Chen and Su Qingying.

He had mocked and insulted Su Qingying to her face, after all, without the slightest regard for how Su Qingying felt. Even if Su Qingying had genuinely harbored some special feeling for him before, she surely wouldn’t now.

That was the key.

Everything else was secondary. In all of today’s events, everything else was secondary. So what if Wu Chen had struck Su Qingying’s backside? So what if Madam Su still believed he’d taken advantage of the chance?

Su Qingying herself had never said she was unwilling.

There wasn’t even a victim in it. On what grounds could Madam Su press the matter further?

But precisely because Su Qingying hadn’t been unwilling, precisely because she hadn’t resisted and had cooperated so thoroughly with Wu Chen at the time—that was the greatest problem of all.

Madam Su could not be allowed to suspect that something existed between Su Qingying and Wu Chen, that Su Qingying had been taken in by him. That was the Su family’s gravest taboo at present.

Because the Su family was recruiting a live-in son-in-law. Su Ruiwen’s health was failing, and nobody knew how many years he could hold on. Su Qingying had to take over, which meant she had to marry. She needed a stable family, an outstanding man who could assist her, and that man had to marry into the Su family.

That was the crucial issue.

The truth was that Wu Chen didn’t care in the least about offending Madam Su over small matters, over a few sharp words.

She was only Madam Su, after all. Not Su Ruiwen.

Madam Su was Su Ruiwen’s capable wife. Over small matters she wouldn’t blow things up. She wouldn’t create a disturbance that damaged the major interests of the Su family and Jinfu Group. She had a sense of proportion.

Only over the great matters would she act without regard for consequence.

Su Qingying was the future of the Su family, the future of Jinfu Group.

Which made her romantic affairs the greatest matter of all.

That was what Su Ruiwen cared about too. Among all the Su family’s conditions for taking on a son-in-law, reasonable and unreasonable alike, the rest had been set by Madam Su. Only the requirement that he marry into the family had been set personally by Su Ruiwen.

Su Ruiwen had no intention of letting the fortune he had spent half a lifetime building benefit an outsider.

So although Su Ruiwen had never entirely approved of some of his wife’s methods with their daughter, on this present question of Su Qingying’s romance and marriage, husband and wife were of one mind.

Neither Madam Su nor Su Ruiwen would permit any bad boy to seduce their daughter and carry on a private affair with her.

And as long as that issue could be settled, every other problem was a small problem.

A problem nowhere near worth the Su family going to war with Li Ruobing over.

Li Ruobing’s personal power was far below the Su family’s, granted. But behind her stood her younger brother Li Ruotai, fiercely protective of his older sister, and behind the siblings stood the whole Li family—in the end far more powerful than the Su family.

Absent some problem that made peace impossible, both sides would certainly make peace if they could.

This could be called a bitter-flesh stratagem.

The one eating the bitterness was Su Qingying.

But stretch the point however far you liked, Wu Chen had merely mocked her in her presence with a few words, and the benefit to Su Qingying was enormous.

Because of it, Madam Su would drop that suspicion. She might even ache for her daughter, and conclude that the girl had endured Wu Chen’s advantage-taking style of…