Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 43

“Future consequences?” Wang Wanrou sneered, “What’s he worried about? That I’d be as foolish as Second Uncle?”

“Impossible!” Cheng Jinyang echoed. “Wang Chuzhong was defeated by me. He fled the first time we met. Such a fool doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as our Miss Wang.”

“Hmph!” Wang Wanrou’s expression turned displeased.

The two walked down the street as dusk fell, the setting sun behind them elongating their shadows ahead.

“Back to today’s matter,” Cheng Jinyang pondered. “Wanrou, by humiliating Xie Qiudu like that, won’t we offend the Fufeng Xie family? Won’t they hold a grudge against me?”

“Do you think Xie Qiudu came to see me of his own accord?” Wang Wanrou retorted.

Cheng Jinyang paused, then realized, “To test me?”

“The bodyguard who came to rescue Xie Qiudu today was once one of Wang Chuzhong’s four fourth-grade supernaturals,” Wang Wanrou said calmly. “He was involved in the ambush against you.”

“Ah, I remember now,” Cheng Jinyang clapped his hands. “The one our Iron Giant punched into the ruined building!”

“He knows your connection to the Iron Giant,” Wang Wanrou continued. “Which means the Xie family knows about it too, with first-hand information witnessed by Xie Yongye himself.”

“But they don’t know the specifics,” Cheng Jinyang followed her reasoning. “So they need to test it out.”

“If ‘visiting’ is the surface, then ‘testing’ is the underlying intent,” Wang Wanrou said. “However, this is only your rough outline. More details are needed to reconstruct the full picture.”

“Jinyang, think about it. What information can the Xie family confirm? What do they want to confirm but can’t? And what haven’t they accessed yet? Only by understanding each layer can we recreate the boundaries of the Xie family’s intelligence,” Wang Wanrou said seriously. “Combine this with the clues you’ve observed to infer their motives and objectives.”

“I humbly accept your teaching,” Cheng Jinyang stepped back and bowed respectfully.

“What are you doing?” Wang Wanrou glared at him, annoyed.

“Listening to Miss Wang’s advice is more enlightening than ten years of study,” Cheng Jinyang pretended to be awestruck.

“In any case, by fighting with Xie Yongye, they’ve surely realized your true bloodline rank is seventh grade,” Wang Wanrou continued, ignoring his jest. “This at least rules out the possibility that you’re a hidden third-grade powerhouse.”

“But the Xie family still doesn’t know the origin of the Iron Giant,” Cheng Jinyang said.

“So this is just the first test,” Wang Wanrou explained. “If you had third-grade strength, it would drastically alter the current power structure, especially since you’re deliberately concealing it. This would indicate significant ulterior motives that need to be immediately ruled out.”

“However, your father cooperating with the Xie family…” Cheng Jinyang realized, “Ah, he must know that Xie Anshi’s proposal for his eldest son was to lure me out and test me. So he went along with it to see what information the Xie family could gather?”

“So, what role do you think Xie Lingjiang played in all this?” Wang Wanrou asked.

“I suspect she was unaware of the true purpose,” Cheng Jinyang thought. “She just happened to hear something from the family… No, it was probably someone in the Xie family who deliberately let her hear it, so she would come and warn me. I see, a few months ago when I was hospitalized and they sent Xie Lingjiang here, they likely had this plan in mind.”

“But I still have a question: What if I hadn’t come to see you, or hadn’t fought with Xie Qiudu? What then?”

“What would they lose?” Wang Wanrou countered.

Cheng Jinyang paused: It seemed like they wouldn’t lose anything.

“If you didn’t come to see me, it would mean our relationship isn’t close, or you have bigger concerns that prevent you from showing up,” Wang Wanrou said coolly. “This would significantly increase the suspicion that you have ulterior motives, and it would also prove that I’m dispensable to you. Consequently, the attitude of the Taiyuan Wang family and the Fufeng Xie family towards you would undoubtedly become more wary and guarded.”

“Are you saying that after I beat Xie Qiudu, both of your families are more assured of me?” Cheng Jinyang asked incredulously.

“Of course.” Wang Wanrou sneered, “You came all the way to the Taiyuan Wang family’s land for my marriage, which shows that we are close and you can be used. Getting into a fight with Xie Qiudu shows that you are impulsive and easily angered, lacking in tact. Plus, confirming that you are not some ‘hidden powerful figure,’ it means you are an impulsive, controllable young man with some mysterious potential. Is there a better person to win over than someone like that?”

Cheng Jinyang: …….

“Brilliant!” He clapped his hands in admiration, showing no anger at being manipulated. “I’ve learned something today. It seems I’ve turned misfortune into a blessing and cleverly passed the test.”

“If you had followed the script I designed, you could have perfectly handled their test,” Wang Wanrou said coldly. “But you insisted on doing this ‘courtesy before force’ nonsense with Xie Qiudu. How childish! With such a perfect plan in place, you still had to act on your own and improvise, really drawing feet on a snake, unnecessary! You’re a person who ruins things more than accomplishes them!”

By the end, she was scolding him harshly.

“Well, I didn’t think that much at the time,” Cheng Jinyang said awkwardly. “But anyway, in the end, I still fought Xie Qiudu, so it didn’t completely ruin your plan.”

“I had already anticipated that he wouldn’t communicate well with you,” Wang Wanrou sneered. “Otherwise, do you think I would have allowed you to play my ‘boyfriend’ freely?”

Cheng Jinyang felt quite embarrassed hearing this. Because Miss Wang’s script used the term “fiancé,” he initially thought it was too humiliating and feared spreading falsehoods might anger the Taiyuan Wang family.

However, it now seemed that the Taiyuan Wang family couldn’t wait for him to falsely claim to be Wang Wanrou’s “fiancé,” because this precisely proved his infatuation with her, further ensuring that the Taiyuan Wang family could influence or even control him through Wang Wanrou.

As Miss Wang said, the script she designed was the perfect answer sheet that the Taiyuan Wang family wanted to see, a 100% perfect answer sheet, while he, overestimating himself, changed a few answers at the beginning and ended up with only 90 points.

“Hey, we’ve arrived at the clan’s land,” Cheng Jinyang pointed to the front gate of the Cheng family’s land and said with a smile.

“Do you really need to say that?” Wang Wanrou said impatiently.

“Wanrou, we’ve had a long day. Let’s have a good rest tonight,” knowing why she was unhappy, Cheng Jinyang moved closer and chuckled.

“Get lost!”