The richest woman committed a crime with her child - Chapter 18

The black mane of the horse gleamed sleekly, reflecting the sunlight under the scorching sun.

The person riding on its back, even with a saddle, could only avoid being thrown off by clutching the reins.

And at this moment, on the back of Swiftwind was none other than Xu Mei, the legitimate daughter of the Xu family, and Wu Mengying, who had been disguised as a man for two days while learning equestrian skills from her.

“Mengying, hold on tight!” Xu Mei, struggling to pull the reins, shouted over her shoulder. Catching a glimpse of Shen Youting standing on the restaurant balcony, she quickly called out to him, “Shen Youting, save her!”

Shen Youting clenched his jaw, leaped down from the second floor, grabbed Xu Mei’s arm, and in a blink of an eye, safely landed with her in his arms.
Over there, Swiftwind let out another sharp neigh, its front hooves lifting even higher than before.

“Thud!”

Wu Mengying, unable to grab the saddle, unsurprisingly fell flat on her back, her hat falling off, her hair a mess. Her white clothes, previously only marred by black holes, were now covered in dust, looking utterly disheveled.

The crowd, several layers deep, burst into laughter, full of mockery.

Xu Mei, worried about Wu Mengying, struggled in Shen Youting’s arms, shouting, “It was Mengying who was about to fall off the horse, why did you pull me down?”
“Your father tasked me with ensuring your safety, not with the added chore of saving some wild man.”

“I don’t need you right now, put me down.”

Shen Youting didn’t set her down, staring at her as he said, “If you want to marry well, stop parading around with him.”

“I don’t need someone who’s planning to leave the Xu family with Chen Jingjing to tell me what to do.” Xu Mei was momentarily stunned by the warning in his eyes, her legs forgetting to struggle, but her words remained defiant, “I’ll have you know, with my family’s wealth, my looks, and my figure, even if I parade around with her all day, the line of suitors wanting to marry me would stretch from the east to the west of Yingtian Prefecture!”

“Is that so?” Shen Youting narrowed his eyes, “Try it.”

Xu Mei was taken aback, unsure if she was mistaken—his expression seemed to say “if he says no, then it’s no.”

Wasn’t this kind of control something one would only exert over their possessions? Why did he often demand this of her?
Was it because controlling her meant fewer troubles for him?

Too lazy to ponder further, she straightened her back and said impatiently, “Alright, alright, I’ll listen to you, I won’t take Mengying horseback riding anymore. Now put me down, I need to see if she’s hurt.”

Shen Youting scrutinized her.

His gaze seemed to pierce through her.

Xu Mei frowned, growing more impatient, but wisely softened her tone, “If anything happens to her, that big, dark-faced man will come after you. And besides…”

She pouted and continued, “She’s not a man, she’s a girl, haven’t you noticed she doesn’t have an Adam’s apple?” She didn’t understand how the usually meticulous man could mistake Wu Mengying for a man, even calling her a “wild man.”

Even if Wu Mengying were a wild man, shouldn’t he, Shen Youting, who disliked her and found her annoying, be happy that she was being taken away by a wild man?
So why the bad mood?

Or was it that he felt she, who claimed to like him, was making him lose face by “parading around with a wild man”?

Xu Mei couldn’t figure it out.

Shen Youting looked at Wu Mengying, who was now lying flat on the ground. Amidst the disheveled hair, the slender neck that could be snapped with one hand indeed lacked an Adam’s apple.

In the past, he had never given this person a proper glance, which was why he hadn’t noticed such an obvious difference.