Quick Transmigration: The Green Tea Mistress's Guide to Seduction - A Master's Handbook

Even so, Zhou He's gaze still fell on Xie Qingyu, as if he wanted an explanation.

One explanation for why Xie Qingyu stays with her uncle.

"You know, my uncle is a pretty good racer?" Xie Qingyu suddenly asked a completely unrelated question.

Zhou He shook his head; he didn't even know Zhou Shenye could drive a race car.

When Zhou Shenye started racing cars, he was still in elementary school.

He didn't even know why Xie Qingyu suddenly asked that question.

“There are so many things you don’t know, you don’t even know what you want,” Xie Qingyu said.

"The engagement date may be set soon. I wish you two, childhood sweethearts, a long and happy marriage." Xie Qingyu's face was full of smiles, seemingly offering her sincere blessings.

Xie Qingqing hadn't said a word since she came in, until Xie Qingyu said those words, at which point she trembled and looked at Xie Qingyu with some joy, but when her gaze fell on Zhou Shenye beside her, her eyes slowly lowered.

It shouldn't be like this.

How could it be reversed?

Xie Qingqing felt ashamed of her earlier joy. She had brought Xie Qingyu back to make up for the marriage Xie Qingyu didn't want, so how did it become that Xie Qingyu was happy about this unwanted marriage?

“If you want both, you’ll get nothing,” Zhou Shenye said, staring at Zhou He. “You learned this principle in your Chinese classics class when you were five years old.”

Zhou He blinked repeatedly, unable to utter another word.

He knew the outcome the moment he saw Zhou Shenye.

Leaving Zhou He stiff and Xie Qingqing beside him, Zhou Shenye took Xie Qingyu to another private room for dinner.

The food here is quite good. Xie Qingyu filled her stomach before she had time to talk to Zhou Shenye. "You knew they were here all along, yet you still provoked him."

Zhou Shenye lifted his eyelids and lazily said, "You have a treasure in your arms, yet you dare to leave it by the roadside instead of protecting it properly. You deserve it."

"Aren't you afraid of what others will say about you?" Xie Qingyu asked.

The curve of Zhou Shenye's lips remained unchanged. "What others say is their business."

Only I know what I gained.

Zhou Shenye looked at Xie Qingyu, but didn't say those words.

"I'm going to the restroom." Xie Qingyu got up and left.

Xie Qingyu never expected to run into Xie Qingqing in the restroom.

Since Xie Qingyu returned to the Xie family, she and Xie Qingqing have hardly ever spent time alone together.

Xie Qingyu was somewhat surprised to meet him here.

Xie Qingqing was about to leave, but when she saw Xie Qingyu come in, she stood there until Xie Qingyu came out to wash her hands.

Looking at Xie Qingqing leaning closer in the mirror, Xie Qingyu didn't say a word.

"How did you meet Zhou Shenye?" Xie Qingqing stared intently at Xie Qingyu, as if anxiously awaiting Xie Qingyu's answer.

"Well," Xie Qingyu tilted her head as if thinking for a moment, "it was Zhou He who introduced it."

"I have to thank you." Xie Qingyu turned to look at Xie Qingqing with sincere eyes. "Without you, I wouldn't have come back, I wouldn't have met Zhou He, and I wouldn't have met Zhou Shenye. I would probably have just married a random man in the countryside and lived a life of toiling in the fields."

Xie Qingyu's gaze looked extremely sincere. "Fortunately, you and your mother had your father bring me back, so I can live such a good life."

Xie Qingyu knew best how to kill someone by destroying their spirit.

Xie Qingqing's biggest concern was something she would gladly stab in the back again, for the sake of the original owner.

Also for the mother who arranged the marriage for her daughter.

After Xie Qingyu finished speaking, she walked out without paying attention to Xie Qingqing's extremely ugly expression, but unexpectedly ran into Zhou He outside the bathroom.

Meeting one is bad enough, but meeting two is even worse.

Xie Qingyu didn't know how much of what she said Zhou He had heard, but looking into his eyes, she knew he had heard most of it.

"Is it because of me?" Zhou He seemed unconvinced.

"Of course it's because of you. Without you, how would I have met your uncle? Nor would I have been caught by him at the club in the middle of the night." Xie Qingyu also knew what Zhou He cared about.

"Have you never wanted anything in your life?" Xie Qingyu suddenly asked when Zhou He was silent. "You let others decide your marriage, you don't have your own ideas. You clearly don't like me very much, but you were willing to get engaged to me. You clearly had some feelings for Xie Qingqing, but you didn't dare to really take the plunge and ask her..."

"You think that you just have to accept the decisions others make for you, right? Like that time with the arranged marriage, you were so concerned about it, but you still agreed because of Zhou Shenye's words. Because if you don't make a decision, you don't have to take responsibility, right?"

Xie Qingyu's words struck Zhou He like a hammer blow.

Xie Qingyu was mocking him, but also trying to wake him up.

If you don't make a decision, you don't have to take responsibility.

This has always been Zhou He's way of escaping from his tasks.

He trapped himself in the Zhou family's generation, a generation that had no access to power, where all he had to do was live a life of leisure and wait for death, with someone else to hold up the sky if things went wrong. As a result, he developed a habit of escaping problems.

No one restricted his development, yet he consciously relinquished his decision-making power.

She may seem irritable and unapproachable, but it's actually just another way of escaping.

While Zhou He stood there in a daze, Xie Qingyu walked straight away.

She only said those words because Zhou He had indeed helped her and had no ill intentions.

Xie Qingyu knew that meeting these two people in the restroom had indeed taken up some time, but she didn't expect to see such a scene when she returned.

She left the door open when she left, and the door to the private room was open so that people could see what was happening outside.

So when she came back, she could see the situation inside the private room at a glance.

Zhou Shenye was clearly not in a good condition. He was breathing rapidly, his eyes were red, the veins on his arms were bulging, one hand was clenched into a fist, and the other hand was almost crushing the Buddhist prayer beads in his hand.

The floor was littered with broken plates, clearly indicating a brief period of loss of control.

This wasn't the first time Xie Qingyu had seen Zhou Shenye have an attack, but it was the first time she'd seen it so severe.

The moment Xie Qingyu stepped in, she was locked onto by Zhou Shenye's gaze.

Xie Qingyu calmly closed the door to the private room. "Are you alright?"

Xie Qingyu did not receive a reply from Zhou Shenye.

Only the gaze in his scarlet eyes remained fixed on her, a mixture of disgust and surging desire.