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Xie Zhaoyuan: "So where are you living now?"

Shen Yan said it casually: "I live in a small apartment that I bought myself before. I secretly bought that apartment with the money I made from investments. My dad doesn't know and can't stop me from living there."

"Do you have any money on you?" Xie Zhaoyuan reached out and took a strawberry, biting off the bright red tip in one bite.

Shen Yan nodded: "I have money. The original owner of this body was, after all, the only daughter of the Shen family. Over the years, she has saved up a lot of money. Even if I never work, I can live a life free from financial worries."

"Hmm." Xie Zhaoyuan felt a little relieved. "That's good. But what I don't understand is why your father is suddenly so insistent on you going on blind dates."

Shen Yanhui pursed her lips speechlessly: "Because I'm a woman. Although he loves me, he's not comfortable handing the Shen Group over to me. He always thinks I'll ruin the whole company. So he's eager for me to marry a man of marriageable age from another family, so that the two families can work together to save the Shen Group."

“It can’t be that bad…” Xie Zhaoyuan frowned, finding it hard to understand Shen Yingshan’s thinking. “Even we outsiders can see your ability to manage the company. How could your father not trust you?”

Song Yan shook her head: "It's not that he doesn't trust me, it's that he doesn't trust women. Although the Shen Group isn't a particularly powerful company in Yuncheng, it's still a force to be reckoned with. He thinks that I, as a woman, am completely incapable of running the company on my own, so he wants to force me into a marriage alliance."

The word "marriage alliance" made Xie Zhaoyuan very uncomfortable. "Your father's thought process is quite peculiar. He doesn't trust the company to his own daughter, but he trusts a stranger from another family. Isn't he afraid that if you marry him, the company and you will be taken advantage of?"

“Sigh…” Shen Yan sighed again, “I don’t know what he’s thinking. Besides, the marriage partners he’s chosen are all really ugly and bizarre.”

Xie Zhaoyuan: "How bizarre?"

Shen Yan rolled her eyes and said angrily, "There was this guy who was bald at a young age, and the first thing he asked me was if I was a virgin? He said he wouldn't want me if I wasn't. And then there was this cube-shaped guy who was exactly the same height and weight as me. After eating three steaks and two seafood fried rice dishes, he suddenly told me very seriously that if I wanted to marry him, I had to give up high heels. Because he's not very tall, and if I stood next to him, I definitely couldn't be taller than him!"

"Hahaha!" Xie Zhaoyuan laughed so hard her shoulders shook. "Is there anything else?"

Shen Yan rested her hands on her knees, her face displaying a rich array of expressions: "Of course!"

She gets angry whenever blind dates are mentioned, and her previously lifeless face instantly becomes energetic.

She dragged out all those bizarre blind date partners and proceeded to ridicule them one by one in front of Xie Zhaoyuan. The more Xie Zhaoyuan listened, the funnier it became, until she collapsed onto the sofa laughing.

"I'm speechless. We're all people with two eyes and one nose, so how can they be so bizarre?" Shen Yanhui felt both angry and amused, her expression twisted from the torment.

Xie Zhaoyuan smiled so hard her face turned red: "You've run into so many oddballs, your luck is truly extraordinary."

Shen Yanhui held her forehead, looking like she wanted to laugh but didn't want to.

"Hahahaha!" Xie Zhaoyuan, always eager for a good show, laughed arrogantly.

Shen Yan looked at her with some helplessness, and after a moment, she suddenly called out to her very seriously.

"Xie Zhaoyuan."

"Hmm?" Xie Zhaoyuan turned to meet her gaze.

"You..." she began hesitantly, "You're not mad at me anymore?"

Xie Zhaoyuan knew what she meant, so she said frankly, "That's strange."

Shen Yanhui's heart skipped a beat: "If you blame me, then why are you still being so nice to me?"

Xie Zhaoyuan answered frankly: "Because you helped me. Although there was a deal between us, what you did for me went far beyond the scope of the deal."

"For example, on the day of the live broadcast, if you hadn't been managing things outside and stopped Qin Sisi the moment she rushed over, my child probably wouldn't have been born so smoothly."

"Moreover... as things stand, this deal is actually unfair to you."

"Hmm?" Shen Yan's mind was unusually slow today; she couldn't understand such a simple sentence.

"Why do you think it's unfair?" she asked, somewhat bewildered.

Xie Zhaoyuan said somewhat embarrassedly, "We agreed on a deal: you would help me get what I wanted, and I would help you get the favorability you needed. But now, I've lost count of all the things you've done for me, and all the favorability you wanted, I've only given you a few, which are better than nothing."

“You give too much, and I give too little. Where is the fairness between us? Plus, you bought so many clothes and toys for Xiangxiang, and several large boxes of supplements for me. What I owe you is probably piled up like a mountain…”

"But that doesn't stop me from blaming you. I haven't forgiven you for what you did to me before."

"You..." Shen Yan Hui was almost moved by what she said, but then she changed the subject and started to act stubbornly and arrogantly again.

"Why...why won't you forgive me?" Shen Yanhui tried hard to suppress her laughter. "You yourself said you owe me a lot, so why can't you forgive me for what I did before?"

“Because merits and demerits don’t cancel each other out.” Xie Zhaoyuan slumped on the sofa, looking at her lazily. “To me, merit is merit, and demerit is demerit. The two cannot be compared at all, much less cancel each other out. You have helped me a lot and have been very good to me and Xiangxiang. I am grateful to you and am willing to be your friend.”

“But that doesn’t mean you can just let bygones be bygones. You deliberately got close to Pei Xingzhi to try and interfere in our relationship, and you said hurtful things to me many times in an attempt to force me to leave. I still remember all of that.”

"I...I feel I need to say something in my defense," Shen Yanhui said softly, raising her chin guiltily.

Xie Zhaoyuan: "Then you're making excuses."

Shen Yan scratched her forehead: "When I approached Pei Xingzhi, it wasn't because I wanted to interfere in your relationship. The system told me that only by getting rid of you could I have a chance to stay by Pei Xingzhi's side and gain his favor."

“I don’t like Pei Xingzhi. I did all that so I could finish the mission quickly and go home.”

"Hmph," Xie Zhaoyuan sneered, suddenly getting angry, "You want to complete your mission, so you inexplicably come and curse at me. I didn't do anything to you!"

"You're still in your postpartum period, don't get upset." Shen Yan reached out and patted her knee, trying to comfort her. "I can also argue my way out of this."