The Male Lead’s Villainess Stepmother Chapter 128

Title: The Male Lead’s Villainess Stepmother

Translator: Fringe Alpaca

Chapter 128 –  We Are Both Single (2)

After a short silence, she resigned to her fate and nodded at him. That’s when she heard the boss sneer, “Okay, at least you have that much self-awareness.”

Yan Shuyu felt speechless all over again. Now that the boss had totally bought into her story that she was the type who was always attracted to the next best thing, why was he still talking about dating her right here right now? Why? Really, WHY???

What goes around comes around. Now that she was so upset that she didn’t even want to talk anymore, Zhou Qinhe seemed to have regained his interest. He said proactively, “You seemed to have emphasized repeatedly that my qualities were good looking, rich, and generous. As such, can I interpret that as you will only be attracted to men who possess these qualities?”

I don’t recall saying that repeatedly. Yan Shuyu was baffled about that for a little bit, but she must admit that his overall conclusion was accurate. Yup, she only liked them if they are Tall, Rich, and Handsome, that was precisely how shallow she was~

As she lamented on the boss’s incredible ability to grasp the gist of the matters, Yan Shuyu happily admitted to it, “Yeah, more or less.”

“Well, then…” Zhou Qinhe leaned in a little and looked at her squarely before he asked, “Then, who is your new love interest right now?”

Yan Shuyu blinked at him, dumbfounded. She followed his logic. He was such an outstanding man that there was no way she just lost interest in him all of a sudden. After all, she had just added the like-next-best-thing label on herself. Meaning, there must be a more outstanding man who made her lost interest in him. 

The boss’s logic was very cautious and very okay. The problem was where was she going to find a man that’s more outstanding than the boss. 

They were in the world of a novel and the boss’s elegant demeanor rivaled his male lead’s son in every way. Not to mention that the male lead was still just a child right now. Meaning that the boss was, no doubt, standing on the very top of the pyramid. Not like his 4-year-old son could compete with him right now. Who else could she bring up? The original owner’s late husband?

But that wouldn’t make sense either. If she was still so fixated on her late husband, there would never have been the one-night stand to begin with. 

While Yan Shuyu was struggling to come up with an answer limited by the boss’s specifications, the boss brought up the gist once again. He leisurely asked, “Is it Manager Yang or Instructor Liu?”

That was for sure a trap! Yan Shuyu caught onto that one and shook her head immediately, “Not them.”

Zhou Qinhe looked at her dubiously. “Really?”

Yan Shuyu had no idea where his outrageous speculations came from, but she knew one thing for sure. She would not drag any innocent people into this “love and hate matters” that have been going on between the boss and herself, especially Manager Yang, who had helped her in so many ways. She’d be repaying his kindness with malice should the boss decide to hold grudges against him because of her as well. 

Meeting his dubious gaze, Yan Shuyu replied very definitively, “Yes, I have my principles in life. I don’t shi*t where I eat!”

Zhou Qinhe raised his brows and looked somewhat amused, “Is that so?”

Yan Shuyu suddenly recalled that the original owner bedded him using an opportunity through her job. Welp, that was a little bit of a faceslapping. She quickly added, “I would never do that to a friend.”

“Alright,” said Zhou Qinhe with his lips curved slightly, but mostly it was more a let’s-see-where-you-are-going-with-this.

Judging from his look, Yan Shuyu let out a sigh of relief. She had made it through finally. 

But the very next second, the boss asked again, “So who is your new ‘love interest’?”

The boss even suspected her purely platonic relationships with Manager Yang and Instructor Lin, that ought to tell you how active his imagination was. Yan Shuyu really didn’t want to expand the war zone. Mainly because she really didn’t have a new lover and couldn’t just make stuff up out of thin air, nor would she be able to provide him with an answer that fit his specifications. Yan Shuyu shook her head determinately, “No new love. My love is just that short lived.”

Having said that, Yan Shuyu gave the boss a light look. She thought to herself; go ahead, show me what you got. But she would never betray her little buddies!