Miss Shen ran away after finishing her meal, which angered her short-lived uncle to the point of res

Shen Xingyan asked curiously, "How do you do it?"

Shen Feiwan's eyes widened suddenly. "There really is someone who says that about you?"

Shen Xingyan nodded, then frowned and said, "I overheard a senior student at the research institute complaining about me to his girlfriend on the phone."

"What?!" Shen Feiwan's voice suddenly rose. "Outrageous! Give me his name, I want to teach him a lesson."

Shen Xingyan nodded seriously, "Okay. But there are more important things to do now."

He pointed inside the house, "My friend replied. I didn't call you because you were on the phone."

"That's great!" Shen Feiwan's eyes lit up. "Then let's go inside and talk."

When the brother and sister returned to the living room, Chen Youen was sitting on the sofa looking up information on her laptop.

Upon seeing Shen Feiwan and the others enter, she immediately stopped what she was doing. "Impressive! Second Brother's friend is impressive! Lin Xiaoyan is impressive! And the person behind Lin Xiaoyan is even more impressive!"

“They’re all so amazing,” Shen Feiwan sat down next to her, her gaze fixed on the laptop screen. “Tell me quickly, what’s going on?”

Chen Youen pulled up an encrypted file and said, "After that person fell from power, position number 2 has been vacant. The Zou family and number 3 are fighting to the death for it. Whoever wins this round will be number 2."

She scrolled through the page and continued, "My second brother's friend was also very helpful. According to the information he provided, before that person fell from power, the Lin family was planning a marriage alliance with the Zou family. But now the situation has changed—"

"The Zou family itself has some problems, right?" Shen Feiwan picked up the conversation, lightly tapping her temple with her fingertip. "That's why Lin Xiaoyan doesn't want to get too close to them."

“That’s right.” Chen You’en nodded. “So Lin Xiaoyan took the initiative to distance himself from the Zou family. However, his mother doesn’t understand the ins and outs and is still maintaining contact with the Zou family. Of course, the Zou family also wants to form a marriage alliance with the Lin family, but Lin Xiaoyan no longer has that idea. And…”

Chen Youen then pulled up a mineral distribution map. "The Lin family is vying for the mining rights to three rare earth mines. Number 3 has the final say on this matter. But if it comes to the Zou family, it's inconvenient for Number 3 to personally intervene openly."

Shen Feiwan sneered, "So Lin Xiaoyan became the knife. If handled well, it's a win-win situation for both sides."

“That’s right, those three rare earth mines that Lin Xiaoyan wants are really valuable. If we can get them, it will be a huge boost to Lin’s Heavy Industry. Now that the younger generation of the Zou family has made a mistake and ruined your Shen family, Number 3 is happy to see it happen. However…”

Chen Youen paused for a moment and said, "If the Zou family is willing to cut their losses to survive, they can still keep their current position and won't be completely finished."

“So…” Shen Feiwan fell into deep thought, and after a moment she looked up, “Lin Xiaoyan wants to get rid of the Zou family and doesn’t want to marry into the Zou family, but he doesn’t want to completely break ties with them.”

A mocking smile curled at the corner of her lips. "If he marries me, he can just make up some excuse, like it's because I was persistent and clingy. That way, the Zou family won't hold a grudge, and it'll be a way of giving Number 3 a pledge of allegiance. I knew he had ulterior motives."

“Yes,” Chen Youen closed his laptop. “Even if you don’t agree to marry him, he will use the ‘spy report’ incident to bring down the Zou family and then get the mining rights from No. 3.”

"I understand." Shen Feiwan leaned back comfortably into the sofa. "Now I know what I'm doing."

Chen Youen looked at her, "So what do you plan to do?"

Shen Feiwan crossed her arms. "Those big shots are all top-level figures in Beicheng. This kind of game can only be handled smoothly by someone like Lin Xiaoyan who has connections. All I can do is make good use of him. But now that I know my enemy, I finally have more confidence. My dad and second brother are back too, so the situation is different now."

"Understood. If there's a problem, someone else will step in. Haha, that's what you taught me."

Shen Mo disagreed with this approach. He, who had been silent all along, finally spoke up, "Wanwan, it's not appropriate to scheme against and exploit each other like this."

He frowned. "We should have a serious talk with Xiao Yan."

“Dad, I understand. But…” Shen Feiwan sighed, “Haven’t you talked to him several times before? Has he ever told you the truth? Maybe half a sentence in total, it’s useless.”

She stood up and gently pulled Shen Mo up, "Anyway, don't worry about it. Just wait for my mom and my older brother to come back. It's getting late. You're an elderly person, so you should go and rest. We young people still have things to talk about. You and we don't have anything in common, so we can't have a proper conversation."

Shen Mo couldn't do anything about his daughter, and worried that he would really disturb them, so he got up and left the living room.

As soon as Shen Mo left, Chen Youen immediately moved closer to Shen Feiwan, "What do you want to tell us?"

Shen Feiwan grinned mischievously, "Get to work."

"What kind of work?"

"Second Brother," Shen Feiwan turned to Shen Xingyan, "what's the name of that colleague who talked badly about you behind your back? We'll teach him a lesson for you."

"What? Someone actually dares to talk behind Brother Cricket's back? Get him!"

Shen Xingyan nodded and, without expression, uttered a name.

Shen Feiwan immediately turned on her computer and got to work.

After collecting the tip, Shen Feiwan squinted at the computer screen. "Heh, my second brother is like a corpse, clueless about romance? I think he's quite the romantic. His computer is full of porn."

"Adult films?" Upon hearing these two words, Shen Xingyan immediately raised his hand to cover Shen Feiwan's eyes. "Not suitable for children, don't watch."

"I didn't click in to look closely; I knew everything just from glancing at the cover. But since he's so witty, let him indulge in his witty pursuits!"

Chen Youen immediately understood, "This is something I'm good at!"

She snatched the computer, "and inserted these into his data reports, so that he'd be publicly humiliated at the next meeting, and in a way that wouldn't be able to be turned off."

Shen Feiwan gave a thumbs up, "Beautiful!"

She turned to Shen Xingyan and asked, "Second brother, do you think this is a way to avenge you?"

With a pure and innocent face, Shen Xingyan nodded seriously, "I think it's okay."

Chen Youen asked again, "My hands are itching, is anyone else here?"

Shen Xingyan thought for a moment and said, "My boss, can he also be investigated?"

Chen Youen swallowed hard. "Second brother, you really know how to joke so seriously. I wouldn't dare to do that."

Shen Feiwan chuckled, "My second brother is just joking with you."

Shen Xingyan said very seriously, "I'm not joking."

Shen Feiwan: "!!!!"

Shen Xingyan: "Just kidding. I'm going back to my room. Call me if you need anything."

Chen Youen's lips twitched. "Second Brother still has a bit of dry humor. By the way, what did Lin Xiaoyan say to you just now?"

"He apologized to me on behalf of his mother, and said he wanted to invite me and my family to dinner to discuss our marriage."

Chen Youen scoffed, "Get married my ass! Things are different now!"