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Chapter 147: Ha. Ha. …Ha

Ning Shu had no interest in watching their show of affection any longer and just said to the servants, "Remember to cook abalone for me."

Ning Shu's words caused the pair of grandparents and grandchildren to glare at her again. Su Dabao's gaze as he looked at Ning Shu was particularly sinister even as he continued to comfort his younger sister. Su Xiaobao was wailing loudly as she peeked through the cracks between her fingers at Ning Shu. Whenever she met Ning Shu's eyes, she would start wailing with a renewed vengeance. She looked extremely scared of Ning Shu and cried so hard it caused people's hearts to ache.

"The child's crying so terribly, yet you're still talking about abalone? Su Ran, are you that starved? Could it be it's been eight lifetimes since you've eaten abalone?" Madame Xiao glared at Ning Shu as she continued to coax Su Xiaobao gently.

Ning Shu: She really hasn't eaten abalone in eight lifetimes.

As expected, her very existence was an error. No matter what she did, it was wrong.

Ning Shu simply turned and left without bothering with them. Even those little kids knew to give her att.i.tude and secretly schemed to cause her trouble. It was a wonder how that moronic Su Meng had been able to give birth to such shrewd children, or was it that the Xiao family's genes were just like this? If that was the case, ha. ha…

The Xiao family parents were furious with her att.i.tude. This daughter-in-law was sure arrogant, to actually treat her elders this way! What kind of daughter-in-law was she? The goal of taking a wife was to marry a virtuous partner, how could a woman like this become the Xiao family's future female master?

However, Ning Shu didn't care what the family thought. She had to first open a deposit box to lock up all the things.

After getting that done, Ning Shu went to the Su family home to visit this body's dad. Ning Shu couldn't figure out how a person who had spent half his lifetime weaving skillfully in and out of the commerce market had ended up falling into the trap of Xiao Yan, who was younger and more inexperienced than him by a generation.

En, the main character halo definitely defied common logic. Whenever supporting leads and cannon fodders encountered the main lead, their intelligence levels would immediately take a nosedive.

Su Ran's father was a scholarly middle-aged man with a very calm temperament. One could tell with a look that he was a mature and graceful businessman. When he saw Ning Shu, he took a moment to size her up before saying, "You shouldn't move around too much right after leaving the hospital."

Ning Shu smiled and said, "Dad, I'm already fully recovered."

When Father Su saw the smile on Ning Shu's face, he furrowed his brows. "How can you still smile? You couldn't even protect your own child and fell into the scheme of a six-year-old! Don't you feel ashamed of yourself? Are you even still my daughter?"

Ning Shu inwardly remarked, you also fell into Xiao Yan's scheme too though. Xiao Yan had milked the Su family dry without leaving even a single drop behind.

"Dad, I was wrong, but what else could I do? Those two children have charmed the entire Xiao family, from the parents to the servants. I don't even have a place to stand in the Xiao family anymore," said Ning Shu in a pitiful manner.

"You're seriously a disappointment ah. You can't even win against children?" Su Bo's brows furrowed even more. "If it goes on like this, our business with the Xiao family will probably fall apart."

"Dad." Ning Shu looked at Su Bo earnestly. "It's best if we don't collaborate with the Xiao family anymore."

"Right now Su Meng and Xiao Yan are pretty pa.s.sionately in love, and Xiao Yan even said that he was going to get revenge for Su Meng and avenge her parents. Su Meng has always believed that you were the one responsible for the death of her parents, so it's best if we seek a different direction in business." Ning Shu kept a depressed expression on her face and did her best to act out the despair of being betrayed by a man.

Su Bo's expression changed a little. He seemed skeptical of this news and said, "Business is business. Xiao Yan probably won't go as far as to ruin our two family's business just for a woman."

The only response Ning Shu could give to Su Bo's words were: ha. ha.

Xiao Yan was willing to do anything for Su Meng. How else could he express his love towards Su Meng, fulfill the two children's dream of living together as a family, and his parents' hope for him to have a happy marriage?

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Chapter 148: Another One Lost to the Mary Sue Halo

"After getting married, your duty is to support your husband and educate your children. Your place is in the home, don't mingle in business matters," said Su Bo. "Take care of your body. Only the child you give birth to will be the real successor to the Xiao family. Su Meng's children are just illegitimate children; they won't be able to shake your position."

Ning Shu's heart sank a little. She hadn't expected Su Bo to be so obstinate and to not believe her at all. Could it be that the Su family being swallowed by the Xiao family really was an inescapable fate?

Ning Shu thought for a moment, then felt that she had been too impatient. The business between the Xiao family and Su family has always been good and no problems had ever occurred, so it was normal that Su Bo didn't believe her when she suddenly said that the Xiao family was planning to harm the Su family.

Su Bo probably thought that she had brought this up because she had been too emotionally hurt from losing her child and the appearance of Su Meng, this love rival.

Ning Shu felt that it was necessary to find evidence in order to convince Su Bo, but at the same time, she shouldn't put all her hopes on the Su family.

She finally understood how the Su family ended up completely collapsing so quickly. It was because Su Bo trusted the Xiao family too much and never imagined that Xiao Yan would make the Su family go bankrupt with one move.

"Ran, will you be having lunch here?" Madame Su asked Ning Shu. Ning Shu shook her head. She had already achieved today's goal. "I won't be eating here."

Ning Shu then warned Su Bo seriously one more time. "Dad, in a little while, the Xiao family will start developing a plot of land. I hear that it's a government plan, so they'll definitely have the Xiao family partic.i.p.ate as well. This will probably be the project in which Xiao Yan moves to attack our family. Perhaps I'm overthinking, but Dad, it's best if you watch out a little."

Although the route of relying on the Su family wouldn't work, there were still other routes available. This brief interaction was enough for Ning Shu to see that Su Bo looked down on women a lot. In addition, since she had already gotten married, she didn't really count as a member of the Su family anymore.

Su Bo was probably inwardly angry that she came back to try and make the two families enemies.

Ning Shu thought about it and felt that it was pretty meaningless to stay. She had come back to warn him with good intentions, but he didn't appreciate it at all. She was just about to leave when Su Ran's younger brother came back.

Su Lan was currently in college. When he saw Ning Shu, he greeted her with a call of 'big sister.' Then his gaze s.h.i.+fted towards Ning Shu's stomach and he said, "Sis, don't be too hurt. Children are just too young to know any better."

Ning Shu narrowed her eyes slightly. How had they put it? It was an accident? Ning Shu looked at Su Lan. Su Lan looked quite similar to Su Bo. He was wearing a white s.h.i.+rt and looked very refined. He was probably one of the handsomest boys at his school.

"Who was the one that told you Su Dabao didn't do it on purpose?" Ning Shu knitted her brows as she continued looking at him.

An expression of disagreement appeared on Su Lan's face. "Cousin Su Meng already explained to me that her son didn't do it on purpose. Sis, you're definitely hurt since you lost your child, but you shouldn't blame the incident on a little kid."

These words were practically saying, even if you want to frame someone, you shouldn't frame a kid.

Inwardly, Ning Shu tilted her head back to roar towards the sky: it's another man that is kneeling to the Mary Sue halo ah! Why did men kneel so much beneath the Mary Sue halo? Why did they fall to being cannon fodder so much? Ning Shu could feel twinges of pain coming from her heart. Her own younger brother didn't believe her and instead, was actually taking Su Meng's side and speaking for her

The original host had been very angry with her younger brother, but also helpless against it, so it just made her hate Su Meng more.

However, there was only one thing Ning Shu felt which was: could she whip this brat?

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Chapter 149: Su Lan

Ning Shu never imagined that the original host's younger brother would actually be such an idiot. Could it be that this was due to the storyline? There had to be at least one good person within the enemy ranks? Well, at least a person that counted as good to Su Meng.

Ning Shu looked at Su Lan. He looked like a little fresh meat with a very clean temperament. He was nowhere as wild and as cool as the male lead, Xiao Yan.

Tsk tsk. This was the successor to the Su family? In the future, the responsibility of the Su family was going to fall to Su Lan, this love-struck idiot.

>Little fresh meat is an internet buzzword in China used to describe handsome young males. It is most commonly used for celebrities, particularly a rising star.

"Su Lan, apologize to your sister." Madame Su saw that her daughter seemed irked. "She's your older sister, how could you believe whatever Su Meng says?" Madame Su loved her son a lot, but her daughter was also a chuck of flesh from her body. She was starting to loathe Su Meng even more since Su Meng was the cause of her children fighting.

Su Lan furrowed his brows and said obstinately, "In this incident, Sis was the one who was in the wrong. Everyone is very sad that she lost her child, but it's not right for her to try to frame someone for it."

Ning Shu rolled her eyes and inwardly laughed at how ridiculous this was. She walked to Su Lan and stood straight in front of him. She wasn't as tall as him and had to tilt her head back to look up at him, but her gaze still caused Su Lan's heart to tremble for a moment. Her gaze was very cold and indifferent, which caused Su Lan to feel a bit fl.u.s.tered.

Ning Shu knitted her brows as she looked at Su Lan. "Were you present at the scene? Did you know how the incident occured?"

Before Su Lan even had the chance to reply, Ning Shu slapped him so hard his head was forced to the side.

Su Lan turned back to glare at her with fury in his eyes.

Ning Shu's slap stunned everyone present. Su Bo's expression immediately turned ugly when he saw that his daughter had hit his son. Moreover, his daughter had already gotten married so she counted as belonging to another family, yet she was now sticking her nose in his family matters and even went so far as to slap his son!

Su Bo gave a cold humph, but Ning Shu didn't feel much of anything in reaction. In life, one must save oneself before the Heavens might save them. Ning Shu had a very bad impression of Su Bo, this parent. There was no way she could set about completing this task from the Su family when the head of the household was an old-fas.h.i.+oned inflexible man and the younger brother had long fallen to kneel beneath the Mary Sue halo. If this family collapsed, they brought it on themselves.

Only Su Ran and Madame Su were able to resist the Mary Sue halo to a degree since they were women. However, due to this, in Su Lan's heart, he viewed his older sister and mom as bad people.

Madame Su stared blankly at Ning Shu for a few moments before she said, "What are you doing? You're currently hurting your family while allowing your enemies to celebrate."

Ning Shu laughed lightly. Ignoring Su Lan's anger-filled glare, she lifted her hand and gave him another slap. "You're already an adult, yet you can't tell right from wrong at all. Without the Su family, you'd just be trash."

He was nothing but a brat that lived like a prince by relying on the Su family. Once Xiao Yan destroyed the Su family, this little prince would have to go eat dirt. A person like Su Lan who was always a beat slow and looked like a complete uke was definitely perfect material for being topped.

Ning Shu looked down on brainless people like Su Lan the most. He wouldn't even know it if women played him. There was probably no need for Xiao Yan to even make a move, Su Lan would probably be happy to offer the Su family up with both hands in order to dissolve the hatred left by the previous generation and make up for all that the female lead had suffered.

The Mary Sue halo sure was powerful.

"What right do you have to hit me!? Su Ran, you're so selfish and heartless! It serves you right that no one loves you! Your life is so meaningless and your heart is malicious too." The other half of Su Ran's face was starting to swell.

Ning Shu: How did such a stupid person manage to get born?

She smiled and lifted her hand to give him another slap. Ning Shu suddenly realized that she had fallen in love with the sensation of slapping faces. The two halves of Su Lan's face now formed a very bright and fresh contrast.

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Chapter 150: Let's Get Some Soft Little Sister Currency

"I'm hitting you to tell you that I don't need anyone, and I need your love even less. I'm hitting you because you were slandering me." Ning Shu blew on her hand. "What the heck is this? Don't forgot, Su Meng is your cousin. With the way you're acting, people would think you've fallen in love with her."

"What the h.e.l.l are you making up!?" Su Lan hastily shouted, his face pale. "You're so dirty-minded!"

"Who are you yelling at?" Ning Shu once again gave Su Lan another slap.

Su Bo stood up and shouted, "Enough! How much trouble do you want to cause?"

Su Bo's gaze s.h.i.+fted between Ning Shu and Su Lan before finally stopping on Ning Shu. "After getting married and becoming a wife, you should be working hard to serve your in-laws and your husband. How could you make an unreasonable scene over every little thing? Did a dog eat all the etiquette we taught you?"

"Dad…" Ning Shu didn't even want to call him dad anymore. In any case, he wasn't her actual dad and she has always been the type to treat people as they treated her. There existed no baseless love in this world, nor any reasonless hate.

Hence, with the exception of Madame Su, Ning Shu detested the Su family.

"Before I leave, I'll just say one last thing." Ning Shu pointed at Su Lan with disdain. "With the successor of the Su family like this, the Su family would be better off being swallowed by the Xiao family. In any case, with the way he's acting, it's like Su Meng is his family. He doesn't have any feelings towards me, this older sister, so towards you two elders… tsk tsk…"

"Su Ran, you malicious woman! Have you gone crazy?" When Su Lan heard what Ning Shu said, he immediately refuted. "You said that I don't treat you as an older sister, but do the words you're saying now reflect any concern for me, your younger brother?"

"I indeed don't view you as my younger brother," replied Ning Shu indifferently. "Because in your heart, only Su Meng is your actual sister. In that case, of course I wouldn't think of you as my younger brother."

Ning Shu lifted her hand and Su Lan immediately shrank back, thinking that she was going to hit him again.

What behavior! The words 'spare tire supporting male lead' were practically written on his forehead.

"In the future, it's best if you don't bother me again. Otherwise, I'll hit you every time I see you," said Ning Shu mildly. There was no point talking logic with brain-dead people like this, otherwise they'd use all sorts of faulty logic to defeat you with disbelief.

However, if you wanted to ask why these men were all standing there obediently and allowing Ning Shu to hit them, this was because Ning Shu would retreat to a safe location after each hit. If the man was willing to drop his pride, he could naturally run through the house chasing after her. However, it was clear that Su Lan wasn't that type of person and couldn't do that kind of thing.

In addition, Su Lan's reflexes were pretty slow. Even after Ning Shu hit him, he would only glare at her angrily after being stunned for a moment.

So Ning Shu viewed him with even more disdain.

After leaving the Su family home, she gazed up towards the sky. She couldn't work on this task starting from the Su family this time, so she had to find a new opening. The good thing was, the Su family wasn't the only force she could collaborate with.

Moreover, right now, Ning Shu felt like making the Su family suffer a little. She was a person, not an emotionless machine. She had her own feelings, so during tasks, she would also exhibit her own preferences.

The original host's wish was to protect the Su family and prevent the Xiao family from taking it over. If she made the Xiao family collapse, it naturally wouldn't be able to take over the Su family anymore. Originally, Ning Shu wanted to join hands with the Su family, but the Su family clearly looked down on her, this daughter that had already been married off.

So there was nothing else to discuss with the Su family. She probably wouldn't visit the Su family home again.

Ning Shu decided to sell the stock certificates that the Su family gave as a dowry and the Xiao family gave as a present to their daughter-in-law. Once she exchanged them for some dependable rmb, she could start attacking the Xiao family's business.

Note from author: Some friends think that the school doctor and Li Wen are the same people. Author-nim can only kneel in respect to the power of those friends' imagination. A sharp-tongued, fussy, OCD, unrestrained and very free person, and an unreadable, extremely intelligent, maybe emotionless maybe not person with facial nerve paralysis would actually be the same person? That'd truly be a tempo that was heading towards dissociative ident.i.ty disorder.

#comment: The way people refer to rmb (ren2 ming2 bi4 - the people's currency) sometimes on the net  is ruan3 mei4 bi4: soft, younger sister, currency. Witness da truth!