Chapter 1696 — The Live-In Son-in-Law
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"You are the eldest young lady of the Sun family now. Why tire yourself out like this?" Wei Zhao said. "How has the company been lately? Oh, that reminds me — Wu Chengtian has a company that is barely limping along. Would you like to take it over? Everything is ready-made; the only thing missing is a manager."
"Eldest young lady... ha ha ha..." Sun Jingyan's laughter carried a bitter, sour edge, and then she shifted the subject. "Wu Chengtian's company? I would not mind taking it, but would he be willing?"
"Him? The whole point of running that company was to show off in front of you and catch your attention, wasn't it? Now that he's my underling, he's given up on that idea, so the company has naturally fallen into neglect," Wei Zhao said. "Anyway, it was money spent by those two fools Xiao Wangba and Xiao Wangdao of the Xiao family. Wu Chengtian doesn't care about it."
"That works out perfectly, then." When Sun Jingyan heard that Wu Chengtian had become Wei Zhao's underling, a flicker of astonishment crossed her eyes. "By the way, I meant to ask you last time — how did Wu Chengtian come to accept you as his leader? It can't be simply because you're stronger than him, could it..."
After all, Wu Chengtian was the eldest young master of the Wu family. Even if he had been crippled by someone, there was no need for him to acknowledge a lone cultivator like Wei Zhao as his leader, was there? And it seemed he had acknowledged Wei Zhao before he was crippled; the reason he was crippled appeared to be that he had been protecting Wei Zhao's woman.
Sun Jingyan found the whole affair rather puzzling. Wu Chengtian might look a little foolish, but he was also an extremely arrogant and conceited man. Unless Wei Zhao possessed something that made him utterly convinced, he could not possibly have humbled himself to become an underling — much less risk being beaten into disability to protect Wei Zhao's woman.
"There were other reasons too. I did him a favor," Wei Zhao said, and he was not lying to Sun Jingyan. He truly had helped Wu Chengtian with a breakthrough.
Familiar as he was with Sun Jingyan, Wei Zhao still kept his guard up. Their relationship, at least for now, had not yet reached the point where they could say anything to each other.
"So that's how it is..." Sun Jingyan did not press further, because she had something more important to discuss with Wei Zhao; Wu Chengtian's affairs were not really her concern. "You... could you pretend to be my boyfriend one more time?"
"Haven't I been pretending all along?" Wei Zhao said with a bitter smile.
"Then... could you come home with me?" Sun Jingyan asked.
"What!?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide, and he nearly jumped out of his seat. "Home? With you?"
"Wu Chengtian is crippled now, and my grandfather used that as an excuse to call off the engagement with the Wu family, but he still wants me to marry a young man from one of the great families. So I told him I already have a boyfriend, and that he is a cultivator too, a fine expert of the Profound Rank!" Sun Jingyan briefly recounted her conversation with her grandfather to Wei Zhao. "So... Grandfather wants to meet you, and he wants you to be a live-in son-in-law..."
"Pfft..." Wei Zhao sprayed out a mouthful of tea. Going home with Sun Jingyan was headache enough, and now he had to be a live-in son-in-law too? Was there some mistake?
"Uh... I know this must put you in a difficult position, but I really have no other choice... I'm being forced into this. It's all fake anyway, so just put up with it for a while!" Sun Jingyan looked at Wei Zhao pitifully.
"I don't believe that expression of yours. You're always fooling people." Wei Zhao wiped his mouth. "Ever since the first time I met you, you've been fooling me."