Chapter 618 — Shen Yushu's Brother

The moment Chen Yutian heard Qiu Lingshan's words, he nearly dropped the phone! Late Yellow Rank? Qiu Lingshan was that formidable? The Song family had actually produced such a genius? Chen Yutian drew in a sharp breath!

If Qiu Lingshan could advance to the late Yellow Rank at such a young age, the Song family's standing would surely soar, and her marriage would be taken all the more seriously — who knew what match the old master of the Song family would settle on for her then!

Perhaps, if word spread that Qiu Lingshan had broken through to the late Yellow Rank, even the Yu family would come to make her acquaintance.

"All right, I'll do my best!" This time Chen Yutian was truly a little despairing. The gap between them was no small matter of a little here and there; there was no use in refusing to accept it.

"I have things to do. I'm hanging up." Qiu Lingshan said no more and simply ended the call. In her heart she actually felt nothing for Chen Yutian, which was precisely why she had deliberately claimed she was about to break through to the late Yellow Rank — in truth, she had only just reached the peak of the mid Yellow Rank, still some distance from the late stage.

The reason Qiu Lingshan said this was that she wanted Chen Yutian to give up hope. She did not care for his temperament. Though her own character was full of forcefulness, she liked men even more forceful; only for such a man would she be willing to let him ***, otherwise even she herself would feel uncomfortable!

After failing to arrange a meeting with Qiu Lingshan, Chen Yutian thought of the friends he had once played with — An Jianwen and Su Taizao, the other two of the Four Young Masters of Songshan. The fourth of the four was seldom in Songshan City, so his face was rarely seen.

Earlier, An Jianwen and Su Taizao had also called, wanting to host a dinner to welcome him back, but Chen Yutian had not agreed at once; instead he first asked whether Qiu Lingshan was free. The identity of a former Young Master of Songshan now seemed to Chen Yutian nothing but a joke — a few children, leaning on their families' power, full of themselves, with nothing worth praising.

Since he had chosen another path, he was destined to drift further and further from An Jianwen, Su Taizao, and the rest. Though they had once been playmates, they had grown distant from one another, and the old feeling of drinking and raising hell together was gone.

The Chen Yutian of now was far more steady than before — and it was under Qiu Lingshan's rejection that he had been forced onto this path. Back then it had seemed truly hard, but having come through it he found that his choice had been right.

Only what he did now could be called the work of a true man standing tall between heaven and earth. The Four Young Masters of Songshan of old might have sounded impressive, but what use was that? Those empty reputations were not his own — and even if they were, they were reputations of infamy.

It seemed the gap between him and Qiu Lingshan was only growing wider. Chen Yutian smiled bitterly. In his heart he understood well enough: Qiu Lingshan's temperament was not something an ordinary man could master — in sheer skill alone he was no match for her. Even if family pressure forced her to be with him, Chen Yutian believed he would never be able to hold her down, and, as Qiu Lingshan had said, *** would not even work.

His phone rang. Chen Yutian glanced at it: An Jianwen. He had already turned down his dinner yesterday; he had not expected him to be so persistent. Of course, Chen Yutian knew perfectly well what An Jianwen was after.

If he hosted a dinner for him, then he would surely bring his sister Shen Yushu, and if his sister went, Gu Mengyao would naturally go too. As Gu Mengyao's suitor, An Jianwen would then have his chance to lavish attention on her.

He himself was merely a springboard. Chen Yutian was well aware that his life had already drifted far from An Jianwen's — they were no longer people on the same road, and their relationship now could hardly be called good.

"Hello, Second." Chen Yutian answered the phone, still addressing An Jianwen warmly as "Second" — among the Four Young Masters of Songshan, he ranked second.

"Brother Tian, how about it? Everything arranged? Are you free tomorrow night? Do us the honor at the Starlight Radiance, and let us brothers meet?" An Jianwen asked with a smile. Yesterday Chen Yutian's excuse for refusing had been that he did not yet know his schedule and whether he would have the time.

"Heh, all right, tomorrow night then. We'll be in touch." Chen Yutian agreed. Since there was no hope of meeting Qiu Lingshan, he accepted An Jianwen's invitation.

"Great, see you then!" An Jianwen was overjoyed. So long as Chen Yutian came, Shen Yushu would not fail to come; and if Shen Yushu came, how could Gu Mengyao not?

He had never had a chance to get close to Gu Mengyao, and Gu Mengyao had no wish to give him one — but now it was fine. He could invite Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu openly and properly.

"How did it go, Brother An? Did you get him?" Su Taizao asked from the side, a little impatiently.

"Done. We'll go visit Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu right now, and have them come to our banquet tomorrow night!" An Jianwen nodded with a smile.

"Brother An, this is a good chance. I think you should take it to confess your feelings to Gu Mengyao!" Su Taizao said. "The chance won't come twice!"

"You have a point. So do you have any good ideas? It wouldn't be right for me to just blurt out a confession, would it?" An Jianwen frowned. "Still, you're right. Gu Mengyao's attitude toward me seems a little hard to read — nothing like how warm she was the first time we met at the amusement park! Could she be blaming me for not pursuing her hard enough? Maybe tomorrow I should prepare some flowers and propose to her?"

"That's possible!" Su Taizao said. "But forget the flowers-and-proposal idea. Girls all care about face. If you court her, you can't do it with no gesture at all — but you can't be too fierce about it either, or you'll leave her embarrassed. In many cases a girl likes you to pursue her, but she doesn't want you pressing her too hard. What she enjoys is the process of being pursued, not being made to answer all at once! So tricks like kneeling to propose are practically forcing the other person to decide. Unless the girl likes him very much, she'll surely refuse; and even if she likes him a little, she can't just say yes on the spot!"

"You're right!" An Jianwen saw the sense in it. He was not sure whether Gu Mengyao had any feeling for him at all, and even if she did, it certainly would not reach the level of special fondness! RA

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