The richest woman committed a crime with her child - Chapter 16

Shen Youting closed his eyes, suppressing the anger in his heart, and strode over to where the steed was.

He placed Xu Mei onto the horse, then leaped up himself, allowing the girl to lean against his chest. He instructed the guard, “You ride the lady’s horse.”

“Yes.”

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The next morning, Xu Mei felt as though she had had an exhausting dream. In the dream, she was riding on a horse, listening to the clip-clop of hooves all the way from the northern suburbs back to her boudoir at home.

Lying in bed, her big eyes gazed at the familiar pattern of the mosquito net, her beautiful face filled with confusion: Last night, I was sleeping in the wild with Mengying, how did I get home?

Unable to confirm whether Shen Youting going into the wild to carry her back was a dream or not, a maid’s voice came from outside: “Miss, a young master surnamed Wu is here to see you.”

A young master surnamed Wu…

Wu Mengying?

Seeing that she was still wearing yesterday’s clothes, Xu Mei got out of bed directly to meet “Young Master Wu”.

At the side room by the main gate, Wu Mengying was dressed in yesterday’s attire.

Compared to when she had taken it off for Xu Mei, her current outfit had several more stains, and there were several black holes at the hem, obviously burned by sparks.

Despite wearing such “ragged” clothes, she held her head high and chest out, not appearing the least bit downcast, with her hands still clasped behind her back.

Unfortunately, her frame was too thin to project an imposing figure.

Xu Mei approached from the left, about to ask how she had returned, when Wu Mengying, contrary to her usual quiet demeanor, rushed forward and hugged Xu Mei’s slender waist, resting her head on her shoulder, and said affectionately, “Mei’er!”

Xu Mei was stunned, momentarily overwhelmed by the unexpected affection, “What are you…”

“Mei’er, I really like you!” Without waiting for Xu Mei to react, Wu Mengying lifted Xu Mei’s delicate hand and kissed it.

The sound of the kiss was extremely loud.

Xu Mei was so startled that her red lips parted slightly, her big eyes blinking, momentarily suspecting whether Wu Mengying was some lecher disguised with a human skin mask.

“Ahem, ahem, ahem…”

The man’s cough was as deliberate as the sound of the kiss, both awkwardly intentional.

“Miss Xu, good morning.” A middle-aged, lean man wearing a black hat greeted Xu Mei.

Xu Mei smiled at the middle-aged man as brightly as the morning sun, chirping, “Good morning, Mr. Zhao.”

Zhao Fanglin gave a wry smile, cleared his throat twice, and walked through the gate, “I’m here to see Young Master Shen to meet with the manager from Beiping at the restaurant. I won’t disturb Miss Xu any further.”

With that, he headed in the direction of Shen Youting’s residence.

“This is Mr. Zhao Fanglin, the accountant at our family’s salt shop,” Xu Mei briefly introduced Zhao Fanglin, then turned to see Wu Mengying sneering, and couldn’t help but tease, “You don’t look much like a scholar when you laugh like that, more like a villain from your storybooks.”

“Hmph, the one who burned my clothes like this is the real villain,” Wu Mengying lifted the hem of her dress full of black holes, indignantly saying, “A black-hearted villain at that.”

The dense array of black holes was truly comical.

“Who could be so mean?” Xu Mei’s beautiful eyes shifted, recalling the book that had been thrown into icy water the day before, biting her finger as she asked, “It couldn’t be Shen Youting, could it? Where did you offend him?”

“Probably because I scolded him on that rainy night.”

“You’re really bold, he’s someone who always repays a grudge.” Xu Mei remembered when Shen Youting first arrived at the Xu residence, a servant had given him a hard time, and he had directly orchestrated a situation where that person was left hanging on the porch, freezing all night in the icy snow.

From then on, the servants at home dared not provoke him, and later, when he demonstrated his business acumen, he earned even more respect from the family.

(End of Chapter)