Chapter 392 - She Is My Woman
Translator: lav
Editor: SSins
Shi Lei squatted down and patted the collie, “Go play.”
The collie wagged its tail and left unwillingly.
Yu Banzhi saw this and was alarmed. Of course, he knew that this collie was the one that sat next to him just then.
“Brother Yu, I should be the one asking you this. I’m from Runzhou. Why didn’t you tell me when you came? I should have at least treated you to a meal.”
Yu Banzhi was still looking at the collie and his gaze towards Shi Lei became doubtful.
Shi Lei knew that Yu Banzhi already started to doubt him. In fact, that’s what Shi Lei wanted to see from Yu Banzhi intentionally.
“I came here for business and my schedule is rather tight. I arrived after dinner so I didn’t think of contacting you. But indeed it’s fate that we can even meet here.”
Shi Lei laughed, “Not quite. Vice Mayor Bai’s kid dragged me out to play. He just happened to see his father’s car and yelled about it, so I glanced and saw that you were in the car. Vice Mayor Bai’s kid told me that you two were most likely in this lounge. The lounge’s dog snuck up and I saw it, so I took it back thinking that if I can meet Brother Yu here, I can greet you.”
These words made Yu Banzhi’s doubts decrease and he seemed to ask casually, “Are you familiar with them?”
“Not exactly. I came here a few times to play before. The dog is called Bei Ta and it always sneaks out to play. I like dogs and cats and pets like that so I’m quite familiar with them. Brother Yu, isn’t Vice Mayor Bai from the Song family? You came for him…?”
The last sentence made Yu Banzhi’s decreased doubts rise again.
Yu Banzhi looked at Shi Lei who was standing in front of him. He was calm without any panic. With a performance like this, he would either have nothing planned as he said. He only came to take the dog back and perhaps greet him if he was allowed to. Or he planned everything and all of this were within his plans.
But according to Yu Banzhi’s understanding of Shi Lei, he was likely not the latter. This was more coincidental. However, Yu Banzhi couldn’t help but question it.
“Since we met, let’s go in. I didn’t drink enough because Bai Yuan had some urgent issue and left,” Yu Banzhi pondered for a while and thought that it was necessary to test it.
Shi Lei smiled as he took a step forward, “It’s a shame that I don’t have a membership here. I’m afraid I can’t treat you.”
Yu Banzhi smiled, “What a coincidence, neither do I. But they will put the bill on Bai Yuan.”
They returned to the same room in the building and Yu Banzhi sat on his old seat.
Shi Lei looked around and chose to sit on where Bai Yuan sat.
It was still two people in the exact same position, except one person was completely different. The state that the other person demonstrated was nothing like what he displayed before.
“You want to probe?” Yu Banzhi picked up the bottle on the table, poured a glass for himself, and passed another to Shi Lei.
Shi Lei also poured a glass, “I do have the intention of doing so but I think it’s useless. Brother Yu’s intelligence isn’t something I can guess. If Brother Yu is willing to tell me, then I succeeded. If Brother Yu intentionally wants to conceal, it’s useless no matter how hard I try.”
Yu Banzhi laughed and thought that his person who may become his disciple was more interesting than ever.
“You want information for my enemy and you are so straightforward about it. It looks like you really didn’t plan to receive any information from me.”
Shi Lei shrugged, “Brother Yu’s words are wrong. First, I definitely want to know something from you. Second, I would never have any intentions of gathering information for your enemy because Brother Yu should understand that I have no connections with Wei Ye. I just want to keep Wei Xingyue since she’s my woman. Third, it’s useless trying to beat around the bush with Brother Yu. Why would I bother?”
With that, Shi Lei stared at Yu Banzhi’s eyes intensely as he knew that at least one sentence of what he said would be rough to Yu Banzhi’s ears.
After all, Wei Xingyue was engaged to Yu Banzhi and although Yu Banzhi never took it seriously, perhaps he had his eyes on the Wei family since. Now that Shi Lei suddenly said Wei Xingyue was his woman, Yu Banzhi couldn’t possibly have no reaction from it if he was a man.
As expected, Yu Banzhi froze for a second before laughing, “Little guy, do you want to keep Wei Xingyue alive this much? You don’t even know what I’m going to do to the Wei family. Perhaps your Brother Yu is someone who would kill everyone before your eyes? There’s no need to make your relationship with Wei Xingyue sound like that even if I know that you two indeed have a close relationship.”
Shi Lei shook his head, “Brother Yu’s words are still wrong. First, I don’t know if you are going to kill everyone. But even if it was me, I definitely won’t leave any potential dangers behind if I want to touch a giant family like the Wei. Second, I didn’t try. Wei Xingyue is my woman. I couldn’t say it before because the Wei family is far superior and I can’t possibly tell them that Wei Xingyue is my second lover. It’s different now. Wei Ye is too busy and he doesn’t have time to deal with small moral problems like this.”
“Hahaha… You are really making it difficult for me. Just like what you said, I definitely can’t leave potential dangers for myself. But now that the girl Wei Xingyue is your woman, I don’t want to hurt you. What do you think I should do?”
“It looks like Brother Yu has to face the problem now. Brother Yu is as smart as a devil. I won’t give you any useless advice.”
Yu Banzhi laughed again and raised his glass, “Come and drink with me.”
Shi Lei picked up his glass and walked in front of Yu Banzhi with his glass positioned lower than Yu Banzhi’s glass.
Then, he drank it all.
“There’s no point to acting shamelessly with me. I assume that you’ve been asking around these few days. You asked Song Miaomiao, didn’t you? Have you asked your godmother yet?”
“I don’t have that much face. I can’t ask my godmother to step into something so big just because she likes me. Not to mention that godmother can’t represent the Bai family. Thus, it’s pretty much useless. Brother Yu, perhaps you really don’t know that I don’t care how the Wei family will end. Wei Ye had been around for so many years and he knows what goes around comes around more than anyone else. He will lose all his wealth and his family will die. But although Wei Xingyue’s surname is Wei, her other surname is Shi. I am young, but as a man, I need to take responsibility. Protecting my own woman is the first step a man takes when taking responsibility.
Yu Banzhi poured another glass of wine and passed the bottle to Shi Lei.
“Tell me how much you know from the past few days. I need to know what you know and decide what I can tell you.”
Shi Lei hesitated, “Brother Yu, it seems like you are not afraid to let me know. Is it because you think I won’t be able to change anything?”
Yu Banzhi waved his hands, “I don’t underestimate you that much. In fact, I planned to let you call me teacher after the New Year after Chen Yanv’s request. You’ll be my student and I’ll take you into the investment industry. But you are right. I’m not afraid to let you know because the more you know, the more difficult your situation will be. I just don’t want to make it hard for you.”