The Male Lead’s Villainess Stepmother

Chapter 171 – Boss Zhou, who could see a thousand steps ahead, met his Waterloo (3)

Yan Shuyu, having nothing more to worry about, might still look to be disinterested in the boss, but that was mainly because she was still a little bit mad at him. She had already been prepared to only deny him half-heartedly. As long as the boss didn’t try anything else, once she was no longer angry, she’d probably make a move on him voluntarily.

Now that she had that idea in her mind, it wouldn’t be right for her to take his check. If she had accepted his check then be with him, she’d turn into a kept woman. That would violate the moral standard that she had held for over the past 20 years of her life. She couldn’t bring herself to do that; nor was she shameless enough to ask for the boss to pay her to be his woman. With the boss’s look and body and the technique and endurance that could only belong to a male lead in an H story, the truth was, she had always felt that she was the bigger winner between the two of them already.*

Yan Shuyu was way too poor in this lifetime. If this was her previous life, she would even willingly eat bran and vegetables and cheat her own parents for money to support the boss.

Of course, Yan Shuyu knew that that was a very treacherous way of thinking. Even she was ashamed of her own thoughts, but looking at the boss’s very probing look and straightforward question, she wasn’t able to give him the answer. She felt seriously embarrassed.

The boss, who was usually very understanding and didn’t even put her on the spot like this when he was mad at her earlier, would not let this one go. He insisted on getting to the bottom of this. “There’s a reason for everything, right?”

Yan Shuyu struggled desperately. “No, there is no reason. I am a very unreasonable person.”

“Then why did you accept the check from Madam Qin? Do you have more respect for her?”

Yan Shuyu, “……”

Even though the boss was looking very calm and friendly right now, Yan Shuyu suddenly had the thought that if she didn’t tread carefully, she just might not be able to go home tonight. Granted, giving him the truthful answer would lead to the same outcome. She was an idiot when she climbed inside of the pirate ship…er, no…. pirate car.

At this very crucial moment, Yan Shuyu suddenly has a stroke of genius. She replied wittily, “I can’t just take your money for no reason. Madam Qin gave me the check because I promised her that I will stay away from you. And now you said you will give me a check; do you want me to stay away from you too?”

Just like that, she tossed the very embarrassing question back to the boss. She was so witty. Yan Shuyu had stopped blushing, and her volume went up. She met the boss’s gaze head on.

Even Zhou Qinhe hadn’t expected her sudden stroke of wittiness. He paused for a little, and then the way he was looking at her changed. He looked at her full of tenderness and said to her, “Do you really not know what it is that I want from you?”

The atmosphere in the car became suggestive all of a sudden, and Yan Shuyu, to her own dismay, blushed all over again.

When the boss openly said he was interested in her, she could still put up the I-am-well-experienced front and laughed and talked as usual, but now, with just a look, or a suggestive sentence, she’d all of a sudden blush uncontrollably.

Yan Shuyu was very disappointed at her own ability in self-control, but she felt completely helpless in front of his near-lethal gaze. She reflexively avoided his gaze and looked down slightly. With shyness on her that even she wasn’t aware of, she said, “Well, then you know the answer to that…”

“So, you didn’t want my check because you didn’t want to stay away from me?”

Yan Shuyu: Meow, meow, meow?

The head that was just lowered popped right back up immediately. The boss’s words were so shocking. And that logic of his…

She couldn’t even figure out what to say to that. Yan Shuyu thought it through and realized that it sort of made sense to arrive at that conclusion from what she had said. Welp. That was a little bit embarrassing. She ended up jumping into the trap that she had set for herself. She turned beet red once again, but she still said stubbornly, “No. That’s not it. You have over-analyzed it…”

Her voice became softer and softer and less and less convincing as Zhou Qinhe had already reached out his hand and placed it on the back of her head. Yan Shuyu, much like someone who’s neck had been held, dared not make another move.