Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 52

Proving one’s loyalty and worth to the family…

Honestly, Cheng Jinyang has never thought about these things.

Despite coming from humble origins like Chu Qingqing, his own story is much more tumultuous.

Have you ever seen someone facing all sorts of challenges during the naturalization test, getting stamped with a mind steel seal after naturalizing, then confronting the clan leader publicly only to be recognized as the heir by the former clan leader? It’s like a tale of dramatic ups and downs, isn’t it?

Because of experiences like that, Cheng Jinyang doesn’t really feel a strong sense of belonging to the Shendu Cheng family. If anything, he feels grateful to his grandfather, Cheng Benhe, and has a decent relationship with his cousin Cheng Yuexian and cousin Cheng Huaiyan. That’s about it.

But what about the others? Those who usually call him a ‘Jinu’ and treat him as a rival?

Forget it.

Compared to the turbulent experiences of someone like Cheng Jinyang, Chu Qingqing’s story seems much more ordinary.

When Chu Qingqing was still young, her parents had already passed away, and she was raised solely by her grandmother. Her late father was a descendant of the Chu family’s branch, but his connection to the family was minimal, mainly due to insufficient bloodline purity.

Therefore, when Chu Qingqing was in junior high school and was detected to have the bloodline qualification of ‘Metal Manipulation’ capable of impacting the fourth grade, the Chu family immediately arranged for her to merge into the clan, adopted her as a daughter under the clan leader Chu Jiye (with focused cultivation), and also brought her non-Chu family bloodline grandmother to the clan to support her, which is equivalent to the whole family suddenly completing a class leap.

So Chu Qingqing has a very strong sense of belonging to the family, which is incomparable to Cheng Jinyang.

Of course, if it were Cheng Jinyang himself, without the relationship with his father and Sister Xinnan, he might not have been so indifferent to the family despite all the unpleasant incidents. Therefore, every action and every consequence seems predestined, interconnected by various karmic entanglements.

After hearing Chu Qingqing’s explanation, Xing Yuanzhi also accepted it.

In this matter, as long as Chu Jiye sees his daughter’s desire to share his burdens, Chu Qingqing’s goal has already been achieved. As for whether they can ultimately find the mole, that’s actually secondary.

Cheng Jinyang also felt a bit sentimental listening to this. Look at them, with fatherly love and filial piety, this is the kind of life normal people should have!

Things like Miss Ah Zhi and her mother, Miss Wang and her father… are all such chaotic messes!

If only their biological parents were a bit more reliable, these two girls wouldn’t have such quirks now.

Wait, does Miss Wang’s narcissistic personality really have anything to do with her father?

“I’ll take that as your acceptance then,” Chu Qingqing regained her smile, pulling out the prepared documents from her bag. “Regarding the employment contract, despite my requirement of it being kept confidential, it still needs to be signed. I understand that.”

Xing Yuanzhi took the contract and examined it carefully. Cheng Jinyang glanced at it a few times before getting bored and started playing with his phone.

Hmm, why isn’t the screen responding?

He tapped the screen a few times with his finger, and then a message popped up in the middle of the screen:

“Your phone has been hacked by me.”

Cheng Jinyang: ???

What on earth, a hacker?

“Listen carefully.” Another message came out, “Leave sister Ah Zhi immediately you cheater, or I’ll expose to the Taiyuan Wang family about you cohabiting with Wang Wanrou!”

Cheng Jinyang: …

No, where did this fool come from? Cheater? You dare utter a word about me living with Miss Wang? Just wait, Miss Wang will be at your doorstep, ready to stamp one hundred and eighty steel seals on your forehead!

He didn’t bother to reply and just handed the phone to Xing Yuanzhi beside him.

Xing Yuanzhi’s face immediately darkened. After apologizing to Chu Qingqing, she took the phone and left.

“Is she okay?” Chu Qingqing asked curiously.

“Just some personal matters to attend to,” Cheng Jinyang chuckled.

Hmm, calling her ‘Sister Ah Zhi’, she probably knows the hacker but they’re not that close.

Xing Yuanzhi walked to the deserted corner of the restaurant and looked up.

The restaurant’s camera was quietly embedded in the corner of the ceiling.

“Xiao Wangshu, I know you’re watching,” Xing Yuanzhi said coldly.

“Don’t disturb my family’s Jinyang.”

After a moment, her phone vibrated.

“Why?” a message appeared on the screen, “You don’t even like him, why marry him?”

“No reason,” Xing Yuanzhi said lightly, “Girls always have to get married, even you.”

“I won’t marry, I won’t marry, I won’t marry, I won’t marry, I won’t marry, I won’t marry…” More messages started flooding the screen, and the notification count in the upper right corner was rapidly increasing.

Xing Yuanzhi silently picked up her phone, pressed the power button, and turned it off.

Returning to her seat, she tossed the phone back to Cheng Jinyang, saying:

“Wait until later to turn on the computer. Now, let’s talk about the contract…”

In the southern suburbs of Jiankang City, in the Yuhuatai District, in a dimly lit room with closed curtains, trash is scattered everywhere.

Tissues, socks, clothes, empty cans, cleaned instant noodle containers and forks are strewn across the floor, resembling the messy rental room of the sloppiest college girl. However, the actual owner of the room is just a girl of around 14 years old.

After clicking a few times in front of the computer screen, a window popped up saying “Device has lost connection.”

Sister Ah Zhi turned off her phone.

Looking at the camera feed again, Xing Yuanzhi had already returned to her seat, continuing to chat intimately with her fiancé and the employer.

“Ah ah ah ah ah!” The girl kicked angrily at the edge of the computer desk, causing the chair to tilt backwards, and her petite body fell onto the bed.

She kicked the chair away again, then began rolling around on the bed, still screaming “Ah ah ah ah ah,” like a salted fish that gave up on itself.

“Wangshu!” her brother Yang Siping’s voice came from outside the door, “What’s wrong with you?”

The girl immediately closed her mouth and fell silent.

“Are you okay?” Yang Siping continued to ask, “Are you feeling unwell?”

The girl reached for her phone beside the pillow, typed three words skillfully, and then pressed the send button, and the room was filled with the mechanical electronic voice of a woman:

“I’m fine.”

“It’s good that you’re okay.” Yang Siping sighed with relief. He was about to leave, when suddenly his phone vibrated again.

“Help me deal with someone.” It was a text message from his sister.

“Who?” he quickly replied.

What’s going on? My own sister stays in her room all day, never leaving the house. How could someone possibly offend her?

Impossible.

Could it be cyberbullying… No, her skills in verbally attacking others, I know them very well. And even if her verbal prowess isn’t enough, she’d just hack their computers and phones! When did she start needing my help?

Yang Siping was puzzled, and then he saw a new message come in:

“Cheng Jinyang.”

The name sounds familiar… Yang Siping carefully recalled, but just couldn’t remember who it is.

The Hongnong Yang family is one of the top families among the fourth-grade aristocracy, with several geniuses capable of challenging for third-grade qualifications. They rarely interact with the Shendu Cheng family, a ‘lowly clan’ reliant on their connections to the royal family to maintain their status, as they struggle to even hold onto a fifth-grade aristocratic family title.

Even among his peers, he vaguely remembers someone named ‘Cheng Yizhou,’ who is probably at the top level of sixth-grade talent and is almost invisible to him.

As for this person named ‘Cheng Jinyang,’ who is he?