Rotten Plan

"Yes. You guys. You and Chen TianYang," JingYuan said with a nod. "I like you. Your sister likes TianYang, but that guy's like a block of wood. You know that right While he appears to be quite into your sister, he'd never confessed. If he doesn't confess, is he waiting for your sister, a girl, to confess then? So we came up with a plan. First, spread some fake news. If he really likes your sister, he'd start panicking. As for you, I didn't know what you thought of me. I wanted to use this chance to test the waters. See if you cared for me in that way. In the end, you didn't really seem to. I was so depressed these few days. Never would I have thought you were bluffing, I was dejected for so long over nothing."

YiHan still found it strange. "From what I understand of my sister, she's a girl who dares to love and to hate. If she really did love someone, she wouldn't mind being the proactive one."

"You don't understand." JingYuan cleared his throat. "Girls. No matter how strong and tough they usually are, when before someone they like, it's almost certain they'll change a little. Turn into someone they're not."

"That's true," YiHan said, nodding.

JingYuan secretly let out a sigh of relief.

"But then," YiHan continued, still as curious and feeling slightly flabbergasted as ever. "Who thought of this plan? This is certainly a most rotten plan. If TianYang truly loved my sister, he'd think you two really do liked each other. He wouldn't want to ruin it and would sadly give up. What will you do then? As for me…I too thought you were truly into each other. If I tried to make a move on you, I'd turn into that hated third-party, some mistress…"

JingYuan unhesitatingly flung the blame away from him. "Yes, you're absolutely right. I was in such a hurry that I would do anything back then. That's why I agreed to your sister's rotten idea. Thank goodness for yesterday. Otherwise, the ending would be something none of us wanted. Come to think of it, I'm really afraid of what might happen now."

Isn't it so? YiHan thought with a pained smile. He thought back to the ending of this plan in his last life. This whole marriage was the source of his personality shift into a reckless, troublemaking idiot. One could say it was the spark that engulfed the Bai family's business in flames. He'd turned into a gloomy and rash mess. He was acted in such an illogical manner that he offended a petty person. That resulted into him dying a horrible death. JingYuan left and never returned to the country. TianYang suffered a bad ending too. His sister ended up being an old spinster forever.

YiHan thought that was all his doing. Never would he have imagined the source for this tragedy being a weird laughable stinking plan.

JingYuan carefully observed the boy's each and every reaction. YiHan must believe him now. "I'll go see if your sister's up yet. If she is, I'll get her to come upstairs. In case you don't believe me," JingYuan said as he rose from the bed.

YiHan nodded in agreement while his mind wondered if he should be laughing or crying at that statement. Since when did the ever-stern Mu JingYuan turn into such a child who needed to prove himself right at every turn? However, this made him very mesmerising. That was for sure.

Still, Chen TianYang's death was a serious issue. If he can't live to a ripe old age, wouldn't his sister end up on the same path as before then?

Just how did he die?

Right. He was hit by a car when saving his sister. He died a painful death. One of the most handsome men in the entire city was turned into a bundle of blood and flesh. No longer could his beauty be seen. His mother had fainted on the spot. She kept fainting throughout the funeral too. In just a few days, a proud and elegant mother had turned into a crazed, spacing out mess of a woman. The Chen family bore a major grudge against the Bai family because of this. They felt his sister killed their exceptional heir.