Chapter 17: How Could Lin Xianxian... Even Help Her?!
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He wrestled with it for quite a while before finally saying, “It was Uncle Shang who saved you. He said... it was Lin Xianxian who realized something was wrong.”
Qin Xinxia was stunned as well.
Then suspicion spread across her face.
Lin Xianxian?
If she had discovered that Qin Xinxia was going on a blind date, shouldn’t she have been delighted, then told Shang Beiming that Qin Xinxia was “two-timing” him and “cheating on him”?
Or, after learning what her parents had done, shouldn’t Lin Xianxian’s personality have led her to turn a blind eye and watch Qin Xinxia suffer until she broke down?
How could she possibly have saved her?
Qin Xinxia did not quite believe it. She tugged at the corner of her mouth.
“Uncle Shang... he may have just wanted to ease the tension between us and Lin Xianxian. After all... she’s about to become your aunt.”
Unlike Shang Beiming and Madam Shang, Qin Xinxia, as the female lead, possessed remarkably clear judgment.
She firmly believed that Shang Yang had no intention of competing with Shang Beiming for the position of chairman of the Shang Corporation.
If Shang Yang had wanted it, he could have taken action back when Shang Beiming was still in school.
Even now, after Shang Beiming had become chairman, quite a few veteran members of the Shang Corporation still preferred Shang Yang to be their leader.
After all, Shang Yang had built such a vast enterprise through his own efforts—an enterprise that was even comparable to the Shang Corporation. That alone was enough to prove his ability.
With someone of such extraordinary talent at the helm, the Shang Corporation would surely develop even further.
As for Shang Beiming...
He was a man surrounded by scandals, who had abandoned Lin Xianxian—a woman whose family background and social standing matched his perfectly, and whose marriage to him would have brought immense benefits—in favor of an ordinary girl whose family circumstances were supposedly a complete mess...
He was practically blinded by love.
Besides, he was still young, and after joining the Shang Corporation, he had yet to accomplish anything noteworthy.
With the Shang Corporation being led by someone so hopelessly love-struck, many people were actually worried that Shang Beiming would not only fail to preserve what had been built, but might even squander it all.
That was why quite a few people in the Shang Corporation still refused to give up. Some had even approached Shang Yang, hoping to help him “take back everything that belonged to him.”
But Qin Xinxia, as an observer—and a clear-headed female lead—possessed her own unique insight.
She could tell that Uncle Shang truly had no interest in the Shang Corporation, nor did he wish to compete with his nephew over the family fortune.
Only Shang Beiming’s mother was prone to imagining too much.
Shang Beiming himself was actually all right. Although he was occasionally wary of his uncle, most of the time he still felt some affection for him and held him in considerable respect.
Shang Beiming found Qin Xinxia’s words entirely convincing.
“That’s right. Uncle must have been worried that we wouldn’t get along with Aunt in the future.”
Even after calling her “Aunt,” Shang Beiming still felt somewhat conflicted.
“Though this unexpected turn of events has made Lin Xianxian my aunt and spared us a lot of trouble, the thought of having to see her for the rest of my life—and treat her with the respect due to an elder—still leaves me feeling rather uncomfortable...”
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Qin Xinxia secretly felt the same way. She simply did not say so aloud.
“Since that’s what Uncle wants, we’ll listen to him...”
Qin Xinxia sighed.
“Uncle saved me this time. We should find an opportunity to thank him properly.”
“Of course.”
Once they had made up their minds, the two of them stayed close for quite a while longer. After discussing how to deal with Qin Xinxia’s parasitic parents, Shang Beiming finally left.
The moment he did, Li Tiantian came over.
Only after seeing that Qin Xinxia was safe and sound did Li Tiantian breathe a sigh of relief.
Still shaken, she said, “Xinxia, you have no idea how frantic I was when I couldn’t find you. I was nearly scared to death...”
Qin Xinxia was deeply grateful.
“This time, I really have you to thank. I heard that you realized something was wrong and called Beiming? Thank you, Tiantian!”
Although it had ultimately been Shang Yang’s people who rescued her, and Li Tiantian’s call to Shang Beiming had not actually helped, Qin Xinxia was still very grateful to her.
After all, her best friend had been so worried about her that she had nearly panicked.
And besides, if Shang Yang had not been involved, Li Tiantian’s actions truly could have saved her.
Qin Xinxia was filled with gratitude.
The two began chatting, and Li Tiantian said somewhat awkwardly, “Actually... there’s someone else you may have to thank. Someone... you absolutely would never guess!”
“Someone I’d never guess? Who?” Qin Xinxia asked in confusion.
Had someone else been involved as well?
“That’s right—Lin Xianxian!”
As expected, Li Tiantian named someone who left Qin Xinxia utterly shocked.
“Who did you say?!”
“Lin Xianxian. You can’t believe it either, can you?”
Li Tiantian herself still had trouble processing what had happened. She recounted everything she had overheard in the restroom when Lin Xianxian had called Shang Beiming.
“I initially thought Lin Xianxian really just wanted to slander you in front of Shang Beiming, but I never expected... that wasn’t actually what she was doing!”
After hearing Li Tiantian’s account, Qin Xinxia felt dazed.
“I still don’t believe it... How could she possibly have wanted to save me?”
It was no wonder Qin Xinxia reacted that way. In the past, Lin Xianxian had done far too many things to target her.
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If Qin Xinxia was suffering misfortune, Lin Xianxian should have been delighted. How could she possibly have wanted to help her?
“And besides... I feel that Lin Xianxian’s feelings for Shang Beiming may only be superficial...”
Li Tiantian herself was somewhat puzzled.
“It’s as though she’s playing the role of a woman crazily infatuated with Shang Beiming. But in reality... she doesn’t seem to like him very much.”
“Not liking him” was putting it mildly.
Li Tiantian rubbed her nose.
“I heard her with my own ears. After she realized Shang Beiming didn’t believe her and had even blocked her, she cursed him as an idiot... Who would call the person they like an idiot?”
Qin Xinxia felt as though she could barely digest any of this.
Yet she trusted Li Tiantian completely.
Her best friend would never fabricate rumors. If she said it, that meant she had truly heard it.
“This is all too strange...” Qin Xinxia murmured.
“And why would Lin Xianxian put on an act? Who was she performing for?”
That was what Li Tiantian found impossible to understand as well.
“But... I can say for certain that Lin Xianxian doesn’t like Shang Beiming as much as we thought. And she may not hate you as much as we thought, either.”
Although Li Tiantian said this, Qin Xinxia still found it difficult to believe.
After all, Lin Xianxian had done far too many terrible things to break her and Shang Beiming apart.
Qin Xinxia felt that...
She would have to see it with her own eyes before she could be certain.
She soon got the opportunity.
Because Shang Yang had rescued her, Qin Xinxia and Shang Beiming personally went to thank him.
Naturally, Lin Xianxian felt that she, the villainess, could not possibly miss such an occasion.
In the original story, Qin Xinxia had been rescued by Shang Beiming, the male lead. But Lin Xianxian had still appeared afterward.
She had even told Shang Beiming that “Qin Xinxia was already tainted,” causing him to break up with Qin Xinxia.
As a result, Shang Beiming was understandably furious, and became even more convinced that—
It had definitely all been arranged by Lin Xianxian!
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