Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest.

Chapter 229 Yan Yu, even if it’s for me

Princess Chen Lingyun of Jianghai has always had her way with him since she was a child, and few people can move her.

Even if you point at her nose and scold her, she will just smile and not be angry with you at all - after all, trash is not worthy of her attention.

But Chen Lingyun also has weaknesses.

Her worldview is inherited from her father: cold, selfish, and profit-driven; her values are inherited from her mother: greed, vanity, and perfectionism. But if we reverse the thinking, it precisely shows that in Chen Lingyun's spiritual world, her father and mother almost occupy her entire being, and are also her only two weaknesses and flaws.

Chen Tianming was a powerful figure, shrewd and capable, and few in Lu could pose a threat to him. Therefore, strictly speaking, Chen Lingyun's only weakness was her mother. If you scolded her, she would remain indifferent. However, if you scolded her and caused her pain, her defenses would break.

Sitting in the car, Chen Lingyun looked out the window and thought silently.

It is unlikely that Yan Yu will be nice to his mother. Not having a bad face is a victory. But his mother is willing to be nice to him, but he despises her and ignores her, which makes her feel very uncomfortable.

How do we do this?

Well, there is...

When they returned to the villa and just entered the living room, they saw Anna hurriedly coming downstairs to greet them.

"Who is this?" Chen's mother asked with a smile.

"Mom, she's our friend." Chen Lingyun explained, "She came back from abroad to play and is staying here for a few days."

"Hello, Auntie." After hearing what Chen Lingyun said, Anna quickly introduced herself.

"Okay, okay." Chen's mother, whose aesthetic tastes lean towards the West due to her early experience abroad, also likes this kind of sweet mixed-race girl with blonde hair and Persian cat looks. She smiled and sighed, "Yan Yu is surrounded by so many beautiful girls~"

Chen Lingyun smiled slightly, pretending not to hear her mother's hidden meaning: Daughter, you must seize the opportunity.

When Anna mentioned the "hundred flowers blooming" around Yan Yu, her expression became somewhat gloomy, but she still forced a smile and said:

"Thank you for the compliment, auntie."

Mother Chen wanted to continue testing the waters, but Chen Lingyun had already predicted what her mother was going to do. She quickly used her interrupting technique, hugged Mother Chen's arm, and said with a smile:
"Mom, let me show you this house."

"Okay." Although Chen's mother wanted to say, "It's not a garden courtyard, what's so good about this ordinary small villa?", she couldn't bear to refuse her daughter's enthusiastic invitation, and the two of them went upstairs hand in hand.

Yan Yu lazily lay on the sofa playing with his phone. If it was Lin Ning or Su Yunjin's mother who came, he might be more serious, but Chen's mother... who cares.

After reading the novel for a while, he suddenly realized that the atmosphere around him was a little strange.

The girls sat on the sofa, not talking or playing with their phones, but just looking at each other.

Usually in this situation, it can be concluded that they are communicating in secret and there is no other possibility.

"What are you talking about in the telepathic communication?" Yan Yu asked lazily.

"Nothing." Lin Ning immediately covered it up and said, "I was just wondering why Lingyun's mother is so young."

"Nonsense." Yan Yu sneered disdainfully, "If you spend money to go to a beauty salon twice a week for full body care, you can also look thirty when you are fifty."

Going to the beauty salon twice a week... this is beyond the girls' understanding. In their opinion, applying a mask and applying essence before going to bed every day is considered diligent skin care.

But we have money now, so why don’t we find a beauty salon and get regular care?

Seeing them exchange glances with each other, Yan Yu could not guess what they were communicating, and sneered:

"Beauty salons are for mortals. Why would we monks go to such trouble?"

Girls:?

Captain, you are courting death!
The next second, everyone immediately surrounded Yan Yu and started to question him about his beauty regimen.

Only Zhao Yuanzhen, who has always been confident in his appearance, smiled slightly, completely ignored their enthusiasm and discussion, and continued to search for posts and questions on the Internet about "how to please older women".

But Chen Lingyun took her mother to her bedroom. Once the door was closed, her mother no longer concealed her feelings and directly scolded her:

"What's wrong with you, Lingyun? Yan Yu is such a good man, don't you like him or do you just look down on him?"

"Mom, please stop worrying about me." Chen Lingyun said impatiently, "This is my own business. I know what's going on."

"Yes, yes. He has five or six girls around him. You'd better know!" Mother Chen said a lot, and finally calmed down a little. She asked seriously, "Lingyun, what do you think? Do you like Yan Yu or not?"

"What kind of love do you mean?" Chen Lingyun asked her, "Is it the same love you have for your father?" Mother Chen was choked for a moment, and after a while she said:
"What have we done to you?"

"Nothing." Chen Lingyun said calmly, "I just don't know what it means to like someone. Dad found another aunt outside and had a child with her, but you didn't care at all. Is this considered normal love?"

Mother Chen was silent for a while, then asked in a low voice:
"You know it all?"

"Everyone in the family knows about it, but you're hiding it from me alone. Do you think you can keep it a secret?" Chen Lingyun asked with a sneer.

"Ah, Lingyun." Mother Chen took her into her arms and said softly, "You've been very smart since you were a child. So, let me ask you a question."

"Imagine a man with two sons. He brings the older son up with all his heart and nurtures him without reservation, while the younger son is given away to someone else to raise since he was young, and he doesn't see him for three to five years. Which one do you think is his son?"

Chen Lingyun did not answer.

"With your father in his current position, it's unrealistic to keep him tied to my side." Mother Chen paused for a moment before continuing, "But he clearly distinguishes between marriage and desire. No matter how many women he has had outside or how many children he has, Chen Tianming has always had only one wife and one daughter. That's why I can accept it all calmly."

"That's what's strange about me," Chen Lingyun suddenly said. "Mom, you consider a lot of things, like reputation, benefits, and reality, but the only thing you don't consider is your own feelings. Do you not mind Dad doing this at all, or have you convinced yourself or even deceived yourself into not minding it?"

Mother Chen looked at her speechlessly, and hesitated for a long while before speaking:
"I……"

"Sure enough, Mom doesn't know either." Chen Lingyun smiled again, but there was only a false meaning in her smile. "Since Mom doesn't understand what love is, then don't worry about me and Yan Yu, okay?"

"Lingyun!" Mother Chen wanted to say something, but didn't know where to start. She said anxiously, "Mom and Dad's situation is different from yours. Our marriage does have some elements of mutual benefit, but that doesn't mean there's no love between us..."

No matter how Chen's mother explained, Chen Lingyun just held her mother's hand, said nothing, with a perfect and impeccable smile on her face.

In the living room, Yan Yu had finally dealt with the girls who were eager to look beautiful, when he saw Chen Lingyun coming down from upstairs.

"Lingyun?" Su Yunjin noticed that she was in a bad mood.

But Chen Lingyun turned a deaf ear to him and just walked out of the house silently towards the yard behind the house.

"Don't worry." Yan Yu stood up calmly, "I'll go take a look."

When he came to the yard, he saw Chen Lingyun sitting in the pavilion, staring at the river in the distance in a daze.

As I said before: when Chen Lingyun isn't faking a smile, she's actually quite pleasing to the eye. Standing just 1.56 meters tall, she's incredibly delicate and adorable. Even the most discerning of looks wouldn't admit that she's a top-tier sweetheart, perfectly honed in the male preference for delicate women.

But if she put on a perfect fake smile, and reminded Yan Yu of her previous life as a princess who looked at everyone as if they were idiots, and her disgusting habit of playing tricks on people and having fun like a little devil, the charm of this sweet girl would be cut in half and cut in half again, and he would lose all interest in her.

"Why are you putting little mushrooms here?" Yan Yu came to her side and sat down.

"Little mushroom?" Chen Lingyun glanced at him.

"Yes." Yan Yu gestured with his hand to measure her height. "She's so small and silly, and she doesn't talk. If she's not a little mushroom, what is she?"

Chen Lingyun didn't laugh, nor was she angry, she just looked at him silently.

After a while, she turned her head again and continued to look at the river in the distance.

"If you have anything that makes you unhappy, tell me and I'll be happy." Yan Yu continued to tease her and asked.

"I'm wondering," Chen Lingyun said softly, "What exactly is love?"

"I remember someone said she didn't care what true love was?" Yan Yu raised his eyebrows in surprise and said with a smile, "What's wrong? Are you going to take back what you said now?"

"Yeah." Chen Lingyun admitted frankly, "When I said that, I was sure that I didn't love you, and I didn't care whether I loved you or not. But now I'm not sure."

"So, it's because you started to care that you're not sure anymore." Yan Yu followed her gaze and saw the sparkling river and the vast mist. It was indeed a magnificent sight that made one forget all worries. No wonder Chen Lingyun always liked to sit by the large floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, drinking coffee and looking at the scenery.

"Maybe..." Chen Lingyun said in a low voice, as if talking to herself.

What's wrong with this girl? Why doesn't she just stop playing dumb? Has she gone from being a scumbag princess to a pure and innocent girl?

Yan Yu thought for a while and asked:
"So how are you going to figure it out? Don't you love solving problems?"

"Well, I have an idea." Chen Lingyun looked back at him again.

After staring at Yan Yu for a long time, she suddenly showed a serious expression and said:
"Yan Yu, for me..."

"...You should start a harem."

(End of this chapter)