Chapter 513: Chapter 514: Self-Loathing
As she stepped inside, the door closed behind her, shutting out the outside noise. It was as if she had crossed through time, the tranquility washing over, her troubled thoughts quietly settling, slowly reced by calmness.
Ye Xingbei followed Gu Junzhu into the private room he had reserved. Unconsciously, her heart had calmed significantly.
She couldn’t help but exim, “The designer of this club must have been a genius! How did you find such a great ce? I lived in Jiang City for a year and I never knew such a ce existed here.”
“You’re just out of the loop,” Gu Junzhu handed her the menu, “Preparing well for a date with a girl is a crucial quality of a good man.”
Ye Xingbei fliped through the menu, suppressing augh, “You really do have an answer for everything, don’t you? Arrogant much? You’d make a brilliantwyer. Why even bother with the pretense of nonchnce?”
“I’ve told you,” Gu Junzhu replied, “I’ve always been nonchnt, it’s just different around you. It must be something off about your aura.”
Ye Xingbei rolled her eyes at him, finished ordering, and passed the menu back.
The club was efficient in serving food. As soon as the menu was passed back, the food came out promptly.
They chatted while eating.
Gu Junzhu asked Ye Xingbei, “I can start setting off tomorrow, when will you be avable?”<div>
Ye Xingbei looked at him with chopsticks in her mouth, “Going to Country Y?”
Gu Junzhu nodded, “Yes.”
“I need to deal with some affairs at Star Pce,” Ye Xingbei responded, “I can leave day after tomorrow… you really wille with me?”
Gu Junzhu looked at her helplessly, “How many times must I repeat myself?”
Ye Xingbei: “…This isn’t a small matter. Are you sure you don’t need to think it over some more? The Shi family is a distinguished family in Country Y. I know you’re very capable, but Country Y is the Shi family’s home turf, a local snake is more fearsome than a strong dragon.”
Seeing Yu Nuo’s injuries, she earnestly wished she could drive a de into Shi Qianying’s heart.
But after cooling down, she frustratingly realized that she was no match for Shi Qianying.
Shi Qianying was the second young mistress of the Shi family.
The Shi family was one of the top ten wealthy families in Country Y.
She was the Director of Star Pce, but her position was given to her by the Ye Family.
The people beside her, other than Xueno and Yu Nuo, were all arranged by Ye Xinn and Ye Xingli.
And Ye Xinn was protecting Shi Qianying.
That is to say, if she wanted to confront Shi Qianying, aside from Xueno and Yu Nuo, she had no one she could count on.
Perhaps, this was why Shi Qianying was so brazen in her torment of Yu Nuo.
Shi Qianying knew that without the protection of Ye Xinn, Ye Xingbei, who had nothing to her name, stood no chance of opposing her.
She might have been the wealth umtor for Star Pce, but she had no personal influence.
She wasn’t strong enough.
Upon realizing this, she felt a deep self-loathing.
She loathed her own uselessness. She couldn’t protect Yu Nuo, let alone avenge him.<div>
She was also saddened by Ye Xinn’s attitude towards her.
In Ye Xinn’s eyes, she was still that indebted servant, desperately managing Star Pce to repay him for his kindness, who didn’t dare to defy his orders andpletely subservient to the Ye Family.
But wasn’t she more than that now?
She was Ye Xinn’s cousin.<div>
Even if a cousin didn’t have an obligation to rescue another, she did owe a favor to Ye Xinn. However, if you really wanted to talk about obligations, wasn’t her uncle the one who took care of her as she grew up, and her parents had died looking for him. Didn’t her uncle owe her father then?
She found that, unknowingly, her mindset had changed.
In the past, she was willing to make money for Star Pce, to repay Ye Xinn’s kindness, she followed his orders dutifully without any resistance, positioning herself in the most humble position without any resentment toward Ye Xinn.
But now, she could no longer tolerate it.