The Head Steward of the Si Family

Not long after returning to her room, the secret signal sounded from the door. Soon, Lan quietly pushed the door open and ran over to Cheng Qianqian's bed, and sat down.

"That biased father of yours, how come he's willing to send you to school now? Didn't he say that there weren't any extra seats in school?"

Lan could not hold back her curiosity when she heard people discussing it in the kitchen, so she sneaked up while everyone was asleep and asked, "Is he up to no good again? He's not going to sell you away, is he?"

Cheng Qianqian shrugged. "I don't know either. Maybe he made a deal with the Feng family!"

Cheng Ruohuai's attitude had changed too quickly. Cheng Qianqian would never believe that there wasn't anything fishy going on!

However, she was too weak to take on Cheng Ruohuai currently. No matter what sneaky plans he had, she could only pretend to be obedient.

"You don't have to worry too much. Don't you get to bring servants to that F-something school? Go tell your biased father tomorrow that you are bringing me along. At least I can help you, and you don't have to fight alone!" Lan held Cheng Qianqian's hand and comforted her.

"Yup!" Cheng Qianqian nodded. She patted the empty space beside her and let Lan occupy it. "Let's sleep together tonight. You don't have to go back and squeeze in that small room."

Lan quickly removed her outer clothes and got on the bed, wrapping herself in the silk blanket. She let out a sigh of comfort. "Although your biased father is not a good person, he did not mistreat you too much. He is not a beast after all!"

The corners of Cheng Qianqian's mouth twitched. She turned off the lights and lay down to sleep.

In the master bedroom.

Zhang Huilan was dissatisfied with Cheng Ruohuai's arrangement and was nagging at him. "The tuition is so expensive. It costs hundreds of thousands per semester! Why would you waste that money? She grew up in the mountains and definitely can't keep up with the school's progress. She might even make a joke out of herself. Do you think that the people outside are not laughing at us enough?"

"What do you know!"

Cheng Ruohuai frowned. "The company's finances can't hold on much longer. If Feng Yi doesn't want to get married now, the Feng family will not be injecting funds into our company. Once our financial chain is disrupted, the whole family will have to go hungry, understand?"

"Then why are you paying for Cheng Qianqian to study?" Zhang Huilan was confused.

"When I went to the Feng family today, I happened to run into the Si family's head steward."

"Si family? The Si family?" Zhang Huilan exclaimed.

Cheng Ruohuai rolled his eyes at her. "Which other Si family in the empire would be fit to have a head steward other than the Si family?!"

"What was the Si family doing at the Feng family's? Are they affiliated?"

Cheng Ruohuai shook his head. "There were rumors previously that the god of war of the Si family was plotted against and his life was in grave danger. With him on the verge of dying, the Si family looked all over the empire for a girl of suitable age to help extend his bloodline. Feng Yi's younger sister, Feng Hua, was one of the best among the empire's socialites in terms of age, family background, looks, and bearing, so the Si family went to propose marriage."

However, the Feng family knew that that person from the Si family wouldn't live for long and they couldn't bear to send their precious daughter to suffer in the Si family. Coincidentally, Cheng Ruohuai had turned up, so they recommended him to the head steward.

The head steward promised that as long as the two families were connected through marriage, the Cheng Corporation's financial crisis would be resolved immediately and they would also be taken under the wing of the Si family's business empire in the future.

Cheng Ruohuai was tempted, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.