Accidentally Pursued The Female Lead (GL) - Chapter 5

But her touching moment wasn’t felt by others.

Especially not by the Xie family trio who had stirred up the trouble.

“You say it’s surveillance footage just because you say so? Besides, you’ve been with us the whole time and haven’t left. Where did you get surveillance footage? Xie Qiaoyu, do you really think I’m a three-year-old?”

“Don’t believe me? Miss Shen, could you perhaps lend me a computer…”

Xie Zhi panicked. “Give it to me!”

Xie Qiaoyu raised her hand, avoiding Xie Zhi’s grab.

“Why are you in such a hurry? Afraid your dirty deeds will be exposed?”

“I have a clear conscience! Besides, even if I did drug you, I ended up drinking it myself! Even if you call the police, it’s useless! Hurry up and give it to me!”

Just as Xie Zhi was about to snatch the USB drive again, Shen Zhixing slowly stood up, walked to Xie Qiaoyu, took the drive, and then turned to call out, “Xie Yangzheng, I really doubt if he’s your biological son.”

Stupid.

The moment Xie Zhi said those words, Xie Yangzheng knew that today’s matter was over before it even began.

They had originally wanted to use this to threaten Shen Zhixing, but now…

“Shen… Young Master Shen.”

“This… Young Master Shen, we didn’t intentionally want to slander Miss Shen. It was all Xie Zhi talking nonsense himself. Look, I believed his lies without even investigating.”

Shen Zhixing didn’t say a word.

Xie Yangzheng wiped the imaginary sweat from his forehead, hardening his heart. “Young Master Shen, after much consideration, it’s better for you to oversee the Longshui Bay project. Our company will withdraw from this competition.”

Whether the Xie family was involved or not wouldn’t affect Shen Zhixing, but the fact that something annoying was voluntarily leaving pleased him.

Shen Zhixing raised an eyebrow slightly. “Mm.”

Xie Yangzheng immediately pressed down on Xie Zhi, who was standing beside him at some point, and the two of them bowed to Shen Mian together. “Miss Shen, we’re sorry.”

Shen Mian crossed her arms. “If it weren’t for Sister Qiaoyu having the surveillance, I’m afraid we wouldn’t have heard Uncle Xie’s apology today.”

Hearing Shen Mian’s form of address, a dark light flickered in Xie Qiaoyu’s eyes.

After Shen Mian finished speaking, she didn’t notice anything unusual in Xie Qiaoyu’s expression and chuckled inwardly.

From “Miss Xie” to “Sister Qiaoyu,” she felt that she wasn’t far from success.

Shen Mian walked to Xie Yangzheng’s side and leaned in, speaking in a volume only the two of them could hear. “Let’s leave it at this today, but if I ever find out you come up with such rotten ideas against her again, don’t blame me for being impolite. If you think I can’t do anything, don’t forget, I still have my brother.”

Shen Mian didn’t realize how arrogant the last five words she spoke were.

Xie Yangzheng’s legs trembled slightly.

When did Xie Qiaoyu get so close to Shen Mian? If he had known this, he wouldn’t have drugged Xie Zhi; wouldn’t it have been better to just have Xie Qiaoyu please Shen Mian directly?

Xie Yangzheng put on a flattering smile. “Miss Shen is magnanimous.”

After saying that, he straightened up and pulled Li Xiayi, quickly leaving the villa. Their backs looked disheveled, devoid of their earlier smugness.

Xie Qiaoyu, who had been forgotten by the sofa, didn’t feel the slightest bit awkward. It was just that a snowflake drifted onto her already ice-cold heart.

Just as she was about to say goodbye, her phone rang. It was the hospital calling.

When she answered, Xie Qiaoyu accidentally turned on the speakerphone, and the voice on the other end echoed throughout the living room.

She heard a hurried voice say, “Doctor Xie, where are you right now? Can you come back? We have someone with a deep laceration from a car accident that needs stitches. Doctor Wang and the others are all busy. I really had no choice but to call you.”

Realizing the volume was loud, Xie Qiaoyu nodded apologetically to Shen Mian and Shen Zhixing before turning off the speakerphone. “Don’t worry, clean and disinfect the wound first. I’ll rush over immediately.”

Then, after saying a few more words, she hung up the phone and looked at the two people in the living room. “Mr. Shen, Miss Shen, I have to go.”

Shen Zhixing nodded.

Turning his head to call Shen Mian for breakfast, he saw his younger sister staring intently at Xie Qiaoyu’s departing back.

Then he saw her walk quickly towards the entrance hall.

Shen Zhixing: “?”

Shen Mian caught up with Xie Qiaoyu, who had already changed her shoes, and said, “Sister Qiaoyu, let me give you a ride.”

Before Xie Qiaoyu could refuse, she heard Shen Mian say, “It’ll take more than ten minutes to hail a taxi here, so to save time, let me drive you.”

Xie Qiaoyu could walk the ten-minute distance, but the patient couldn’t wait that long. Thinking of this, Xie Qiaoyu immediately nodded in agreement.

Shen Mian smiled slightly and reached for the car keys from the entrance hall cabinet, but just as she took them, they were snatched away.

“Brother?” Shen Mian asked, puzzled.

Shen Zhixing placed a hand on Shen Mian’s head and ruffled her hair. “Do you have a driver’s license?”

“I…” Shen Mian wanted to retort but suddenly found herself speechless.

Heavens!!

She hadn’t gotten her driver’s license in this life yet!

Looking at Shen Mian’s stammering appearance, a smile flashed in Shen Zhixing’s eyes.

“Let’s go eat.”

After saying that, he ruffled Shen Mian’s hair again and left with Xie Qiaoyu.

At the dining table a minute later.

Shen Mian resentfully swallowed a mouthful of white porridge. She had just missed such a good opportunity to quickly warm up her relationship with the female lead by offering her a ride to work! What a great chance!

She had to enroll in a driving school!

Just as she was mentally calculating when it would be convenient, Shen Mian suddenly thought of something. She seemed to be… still a student!

Shen Mian put down her chopsticks and picked up her phone to check the date.

July… school shouldn’t be on summer vacation yet, so it was normal school days.

It seemed she had been skipping classes since the beginning of the semester, and it was still going on. No, she could say she had been skipping since her freshman year.

She had gone to school a few times during that period, but it was only when Shen Zhixing asked her how her school life was that she went to experience it a few times. Usually, she would go out in the morning with her fair-weather friends, wandering around aimlessly, and then come home at night crying about how tiring studying was.

In her previous life, Shen Mian had coasted along like this until her junior year. Upon learning everything, Shen’s mother had transferred Shen Mian to a school abroad, making her stay away from those ‘friends’.

It was also during her time abroad that she had completely offended Lu Jingchen…

To avoid being sent abroad again, Shen Mian decided that in this life, she would study hard and strive to complete her courses.

Her thoughts flashed by in an instant. Shen Mian put down her chopsticks and called out to the busy figure in the kitchen, “Aunt Wang, I’m going to school. You don’t need to make lunch for me~”

This was the first time the young lady had proactively told Wang Feng when she was going to school, so Wang Feng thought she needed her to do something and asked, “What do you need me to prepare for you, Miss?”

“My books…” Shen Mian paused and looked up at Wang Feng. “I can find them myself.”

Shen Mian had never seen her textbooks before. When the school distributed them, it was Shen Zhixing’s assistant who went for her.

Returning to her room, Shen Mian rummaged through the dusty books in the corner. Looking at the dozen or so course books, she wondered, “What classes do I have this semester?”

Her major was…

What was it again?

Helpless, Shen Mian had no choice but to call Shen Zhixing’s assistant, Mu Ye.

The call connected quickly, and a steady male voice sounded, “Miss Shen?”

Shen Mian chuckled softly. “Brother Ye, what are you doing?”

“Working.”

“You’re not with my brother, right?”

Mu Ye raised his eyes and looked at the man sitting in the back seat through the rearview mirror. He saw the man slightly shake his head.

After Mu Ye said Shen Mian’s name, Shen Zhixing had told him to turn on the speakerphone, so Shen Zhixing had heard everything from when Shen Mian asked what he was doing.

Following his boss’s instructions, Mu Ye said in a low voice, “No.”

Hearing this, Shen Mian laughed heartily. “Oh, that’s right. I actually wanted to ask what my major is, which department, and which class I’m in? And what classes do I have this semester?”

Shen Mian added, “I just forgot after sleeping.”

“Miss Shen, your major is Finance, and you are in…”

As expected of a top assistant, he knew even his boss’s sister’s information like the back of his hand. Shen Mian gave Mu Ye a thumbs-up in her mind.

Keeping everything Mu Ye said in mind, she repeatedly instructed Mu Ye not to tell Shen Zhixing about her call, and even said she would ask Shen Zhixing to give him a raise before hanging up.

The call ended, and the car fell silent.

Xie Qiaoyu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, spoke first, “Miss Shen… is very cute.”

They had gotten stuck in traffic on the way to the hospital and had only just arrived near the hospital, so Xie Qiaoyu hadn’t gotten out of the car yet and had heard the entire phone conversation clearly.

Mu Ye nodded. “Mm.”

As he spoke, the car stopped in front of the hospital gate. “Thank you, Mr. Shen. I’ll go first.”

Xie Qiaoyu opened the door, got out of the car, and quickly ran into the hospital.

Mu Ye turned his head and asked, “President Shen, are we going back to the company next?”

Shen Zhixing closed his eyes. “Go to Xuda.”

Mu Ye straightened his back, silently lighting a candle for Shen Mian in his heart, because Xuda was the university Shen Mian attended.

Shen Mian, who had just found her textbooks and was preparing to go to school, had no idea that the Brother Ye she trusted had already betrayed her.