Thrown into the Sea

"An Siyao, huh." The young man pondered for a moment, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

This made Jiao Heyu and the other four even more curious.

The young man hesitated and said, "When An Siyao was in the academy, she had a very good relationship with two other girls."

"Isn't the Eastern Village a girls' school, and isn't it normal for girls to have good relationships with each other?" Jiao Heyu said.

"It's not just a normal kind of good, you all know what goes on in girls' schools, right?" The young man implied something but did not dare to say it directly.

"Really?" Shen Xiaowen's eyes lit up.

"Really?" Jiao Heyu also breathed a sigh of relief.

The other three didn't show any change of expression.

"???"

The young man was puzzled. Generally speaking, when people found out about this sort of thing, even if they didn't feel disgust, they would frown slightly, right?

As expected of the real upper class, has such a thing become commonplace?

Thinking of this, he glanced at Jiao Heyu and put some distance between them.

"Besides this, there's more." Unwilling to give up after one failed attempt, the young man continued to spread rumors from other places.

He made up a few more incidents to indirectly portray An Siyao in a bad light, such as showing disrespect to her elders, indulging in debauchery, and stealing other girls' friends.

The expressions of the five grew stranger and stranger until the young man said that An Siyao bullied weak girls but avoided strong, sturdy ones.

"Wait, are you saying An Siyao bullies the weak and fears the strong?" Shen Xiaowen interrupted the young man.

"I wouldn't dare say that." The young man had convinced himself of his own fabrications, looking aggrieved.

Shen Xiaowen and Jiao Heyu exchanged glances, then looked at their other three companions.

The young man's other stories, they might have believed, but An Siyao bullying the weak and fearing the strong?

The memory of An Siyao taking down that shirtless man and facing more than a dozen strong men from the previous night still lingered in their minds.

The five of them exchanged looks and surrounded the young man.

The young man thought they believed his stories and wanted to hear more, but as he prepared to continue, four of them grabbed his limbs, and one grabbed his head.

"Hey? What are you doing?"

Under the horrified gaze of the young man, the five threw him into the garden pond.

"If you ever speak ill of Yao again, we'll throw you into the sea!" Jiao Heyu warned the young man and left with his companions.

Feeling the icy pond water, the young man didn't understand why things had turned out this way.

...

At five o'clock, Xia Yu entered An Siyao's body.

"You're back." An Siyao greeted him.

"Yeah." Xia Yu's mood was pleasant.

"You can go in now." An Siyao said, "The gift is on the left. Give it to mom, and then you can move around freely."

Xia Yu looked to the left and found a palm-sized gift box.

"What is this?" He was curious about what the upper-class people would give.

"A piece of jade." An Siyao replied.

It was no different from what ordinary people would give.

Well, this was a normal world. If they didn't give this, what could they give? Dried fingers, cracked eyeballs or something?

Picking up the gift box, Xia Yu was about to leave when An Siyao called him back.

"You also need to change into an evening gown." The girl said.

"..."

Why couldn't you change before I came?

Opening the wardrobe, Xia Yu glanced at the clothes inside.

There were about ten evening gowns in the wardrobe, five of which were more revealing and rejected by Xia Yu. Among the remaining five, he chose the white one.

Whether it was the pleats of the skirt or the lace trim on the bodice, Xia Yu liked it very much.

It was just a little tight, and it showed off the body lines, making Xia Yu feel a bit uncomfortable.

Feeling a little embarrassed.

After putting on the evening gown, Xia Yu walked out of the room.

A maid was waiting outside the door, and she gave a small gasp when she saw Xia Yu's clothes.

"Miss, this dress..."

"What's wrong?" Xia Yu turned around and looked at the maid.

"The lady is also wearing a similar-styled gown today. Please change into another one." The maid said.

Wearing the same clothes was an embarrassing thing, so the guests would choose different styles and colors at the party.

Changing into another dress wasn't a big deal, but the maid's tone made Xia Yu frown.

"Please change into another one" Although the polite language was used to cover up the words, the compulsory meaning was very obvious.

Not only the maids in the villa, but also the maids here were a bit wild.

In Xia Yu's mind flashed the information about the An family.

From An Siyao's mouth, Xia Yu, who had got all her family's information, had done a simple search a few days ago.

An Siyao's father was the real estate tycoon An Tianfeng, whom he had searched for earlier. The biography mentioned that he had a son, but An Siyao was not mentioned.

Considering that An Siyao lived alone in the villa left by her mother, the An family's attitude towards An Siyao was somewhat perfunctory.

Looking at it this way, An Siyao's situation seemed very unfavorable, but in reality, it was not so.

An Siyao's maternal grandfather, the founder of Daliang Capital, Yu Liang, had only one granddaughter.

Daliang Capital has declined over the years, but it is not much worse than the An Family Group.

When Xia Yu was browsing the internet, he even saw a post exposing the relationship between the two families.

On the surface, the An Family Group was founded by An Siyao's father, along with a group of shareholders, starting from scratch. However, in reality, there has always been a company clearing obstacles for the An Family Group.

That company is Daliang Capital, which is also An Siyao's maternal grandfather's company.

The purpose of the post exposing the two families' companies was not to discuss this insignificant matter but to reveal that ten years ago, the An Family Group carried out a series of financial operations, during which the Daliang Capital's shares were diluted and it went from being a major shareholder to an insignificant marginal figure.

This is also the main reason for the decline of Daliang Capital.

This time, during An Siyao's stepmother's birthday, her maternal grandfather did not come.

Ten years ago, when Daliang Capital was undermined, it was also the year An Siyao's mother passed away.

Based on the above background, Xia Yu concludes:

1. An Siyao does not need to worry about An Tianfeng and her stepmother, as she has her maternal grandfather. Moreover, it is speculated that the life in her villa has always been maintained by her maternal grandfather.

2. An Tianfeng and her stepmother are not good to An Siyao.

"Miss, please go back and change your clothes, or Madam will be unhappy," the maid stopped Xia Yu.

With An Siyao's position already determined, Xia Yu coldly said to the maid, "Let her change."

The maid, startled by Xia Yu's words, didn't react until he walked past her.

In order to stop him, she grabbed Xia Yu's hand directly.

Xia Yu frowned, raising his hand.