Shen Nanyue’s voice was cool and clear, devoid of any emotion.
But to Zhou Yu’s ears, it sounded especially harsh.
Instead of taking the agreement from Shen Nanyue’s hand, Zhou Yu widened her eyes and looked ready to explode again.
At that moment, Lin Siwan suddenly came out from inside and stopped Zhou Yu from losing her temper.
“Sister, you’re here. Don’t stand at the door—come inside.”
After going through a trip to the police station, Lin Siwan appeared completely unchanged.
There wasn’t even the slightest trace of exhaustion on her face.
It seemed Zhou Yu had protected her very well these past few days.
After thinking for a moment, Shen Nanyue stepped into the Lin residence.
Lin Shu was also home.
When he saw Shen Nanyue enter, a trace of displeasure flashed through his eyes, though he quickly suppressed it.
He stood up with a smile to greet her.
“Yueyue is here. Come sit, come sit.”
Lin Shu instructed the servants to prepare tea while he himself sat down first on a single sofa nearby.
Shen Nanyue sat down calmly.
Lin Siwan sat beside Shen Nanyue and lowered her head, looking extremely guilty.
“I’m sorry, Sister. What happened that day was my fault. I shouldn’t have joked with you like that. I apologize.”
A joke?
Shen Nanyue turned her head to look at the clearly acting Lin Siwan.
A faint smile tugged at her lips.
“In that case, I should also play a joke on you. How about this—tomorrow I’ll have someone tie you up and throw you into an abandoned building.”
Her gaze was serious as she spoke, as though she truly intended to do it.
Lin Siwan’s expression stiffened.
She seemed unable to believe those words had come from Shen Nanyue.
The moment Shen Nanyue finished speaking, Zhou Yu’s face darkened beside them.
“If you don’t know how to speak properly, then don’t speak at all!”
The smile on Shen Nanyue’s face remained unchanged.
“Mom, you were able to save her this time. But can you save her a second time?”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I already told you long ago—I’m someone who holds grudges over every little thing. Don’t let her fall into my hands.”
Only after lightly tossing out those words did Shen Nanyue place the agreement onto the coffee table.
“Since we’re severing our mother-daughter relationship, Mom still owns five percent of Shen Group’s shares. Based on Shen Group’s current market value, I’ll buy your shares for fifty million.”
“After that, you can peacefully live your life with the Lin family.”
The moment Shen Nanyue finished speaking—
Even Lin Shu beside them was shocked.
The more disdainful he had been toward Shen Nanyue earlier, the more flattering he became now.
“Why are you suddenly talking about severing your relationship? You’re mother and daughter—how could you truly cut ties?”
The Lin family had relied on the Shen Group to develop to where they were today.
If Shen Nanyue really severed ties with Zhou Yu, then he would no longer be able to rely on the Shen Group in the future!
Besides, with Zhou Yu’s personality, even if she received fifty million yuan, she would never truly share it with him.
He could not just watch such a powerful support disappear.
Zhou Yu’s expression also became extremely ugly.
That day, she had merely thrown out the threat casually.
She never expected Shen Nanyue to actually take it seriously.
Deep down, she also understood that Shen Nanyue was now the president of the Shen Group.
If she truly cut ties completely with this daughter, then her luxurious life in the future would not last much longer.
“Impossible!”
She shouted angrily before continuing, “We’re mother and daughter connected by blood. Even with a legal agreement, it’s impossible to completely sever our relationship!”
Shen Nanyue understood this very clearly as well.
But she didn’t mind.
After all, Zhou Yu was still her mother.
If something truly happened in the future, she wouldn’t be able to simply stand by and ignore it.
The greater purpose of this agreement was to completely cut off the ties between the Lin family and the Shen family.
“Mom, logically speaking, the moment you remarried into the Lin family and decided not to take me with you, you had already shown that you gave up custody of me.”
“These years, if it weren’t for you, our Shen family would never have supported the entire Lin family all this time. I think the Shen family has already done more than enough.”
She spoke those words bluntly and without restraint.
Successfully causing the previously flattering Lin Shu’s face to darken.
Even Lin Siwan’s expression showed traces of displeasure.
“Your grandfather never settled this account with me while he was alive. What? Now that you’ve taken over the Shen family, you’re starting to settle scores with me?”
Zhou Yu still tried to suppress Shen Nanyue using the authority of an elder.
Unfortunately, Shen Nanyue didn’t buy into that at all.
The smile on her lips never changed.
Yet her gaze swept boldly across the interior decor of the Lin family villa.
Grand. Luxurious.
If Zhou Yu hadn’t constantly siphoned benefits from the Shen family over the years, how could an ordinary man like Lin Shu possibly afford for his whole family to live in such an extravagant villa?
Not to mention establishing that lousy media company of his!
“Of course accounts should be settled. After all, I’m not like Grandpa. I’m very petty—especially toward people who’ve hurt me. I become even more petty with them.”
She turned to look at Lin Siwan.
“Little sister, you’re my mother’s stepdaughter. If you hadn’t kidnapped and harmed me, I wouldn’t have pushed things to such an extreme.”
“In the end, this is all because you were stupid.”
Lin Siwan’s face turned pale, but she quickly bit her lip and looked at Shen Nanyue with grievance.
“Sister, I really was only joking with you. Don’t—”
“Then how about I return the joke by tying you up and throwing you into a group of lecherous men?”
Lin Siwan immediately fell silent.
Her eyes reddened, making her look extremely humiliated and wronged.
At this moment, neither Zhou Yu nor Lin Shu spoke up for Lin Siwan.
In the end, both of them were people who prioritized profit above all else.
And now, they were also deeply dissatisfied with Lin Siwan’s foolish actions earlier.
Still, Zhou Yu’s heart ultimately leaned toward Lin Siwan.
“I will not sign this agreement!” Zhou Yu declared firmly.
Shen Nanyue wasn’t surprised at all.
She had long expected Zhou Yu wouldn’t compromise so easily.
She calmly continued, “Not signing is fine too. But since the Shen family is now under my control, I definitely won’t be as generous as Grandpa was.”
“In the future, anything related to the Lin family should be handled by Uncle Lin himself. Don’t keep using my mother to come stir up trouble at the Shen family. Now that I’m the only one left in the Shen family, I’m not someone who softens easily.”
The flattering expression on Lin Shu’s face completely vanished.
He had always known Shen Nanyue was not someone easy to deal with.
Ever since marrying Zhou Yu, every time he met Shen Nanyue, she always carried herself with an aloof, superior attitude.
In the past, he hadn’t bothered arguing with her.
But now that the façade had been torn away, no matter how much he tried to curry favor with her, it would be useless.
So his expression quickly darkened, his eyes openly filled with disdain.
“A-Yu, your daughter really doesn’t have a shred of conscience. You raised her all these years, and this is how she repays you! I think you really should sever the mother-daughter relationship with her!”
Rather than continue being suppressed by Shen Nanyue in the future—
It would be better to use this opportunity of cutting ties to get hold of the fifty million yuan.
At the very least, he’d gain a huge sum of money.
That was far better than ending up with nothing later.
Zhou Yu shot him a vicious glare before turning back to Shen Nanyue.
Her expression looked terrible.
In fact, she seemed conflicted, with emotions hidden in her eyes that Shen Nanyue could not understand.
— The end of the Chapter–
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