CHAPTER 569: CHAPTER 569: I AM MRS. ZHOU AFTER ALL

"He was just too good at pretending," Lu Youxi said. "If it were someone who didn’t have much contact with him and wasn’t particularly familiar with his family, just seeing how he behaves in public, it’s indeed easy to be deceived by his facade."

"Actually, you could see that Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang were truly making an effort to choose for you, picking out a talent who seemed to match you well after a lot of consideration."

"But looking at his performance in public, having entered Jing University on his own merit and being the youngest son of the Lin Group, deeply favored by his parents. At school, before his downfall, he also had a good reputation," Lu Youxi listed the points. "Moreover, before that, he was very popular at our school, well-known, and he didn’t have any girlfriends on campus. Everyone thought he was a clean-living person."

"It was only after he started causing me trouble that he gradually met his downfall and his true colors started to show. Before that, he really seemed like a very suitable candidate in his parents’ eyes."

"However, after his downfall, Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang decisively chose to call off the engagement, not willing to let you be wronged, without considering the pros and cons for their own business," Lu Youxi said. "This is something I particularly admire. In our circles, it must be rare for a family to be able to do this."

Jiang Zilin nodded, moved, "Indeed, initially nobody knew Lin Jingshen’s true face, and my friends were quite envious of me, saying that my family had arranged a good match for me. But once the trouble arose, they immediately called off my engagement."

Lu Youxi nodded, "Cutting losses in time is the best choice indeed."

Mrs. Jiang had been listening from a corner the whole time, without coming out.

She had originally thought that someone as young as Lu Youxi, who could do such business and even marry Zhou Shuyan, making the Zhou Family’s elders accept her, must have some formidable tactics.

After all, any one of these three points would be very difficult to achieve on its own.

Otherwise, why would there be so many families over the years who didn’t want to marry Zhou Shuyan?

The fact that Lu Youxi alone could do this was quite impressive.

So, before meeting Lu Youxi in person, in Mrs. Jiang’s impression, Lu Youxi must be someone young yet with astonishing strategy, terrifyingly deep in scheming.

She even worried about not wanting Jiang Zilin to come into contact with Lu Youxi.

But it wasn’t until their family dined with Lu Youxi and Zhou Shuyan and had a conversation that they realized how interesting Lu Youxi was—straightforward when she needed to be, not saying a word more when it wasn’t necessary.

She even understood a little why Zhou Shuyan would marry Lu Youxi.

Lu Youxi was indeed a very charming girl.

And, it wasn’t that Lu Youxi lacked strategies or schemes.

If she didn’t have strategies, how could she have expanded her business so greatly and strongly?

But it was noticeable that Lu Youxi’s strategies were all positive, not used to do bad things.

Mrs. Jiang thought about it and decided this showed Lu Youxi was smart.

Indeed, she had been able to fight for a future for herself in Hexing Village, a place so poor and so biased against girls, not even considering girls as people, and could break free from the blood-sucking relatives.

She had also managed to bring out her parents and younger brother, successfully changing their way of thinking, and completely transforming her brother’s fate.

Otherwise, if Lu Youxi held a grudge because of her past life and left her parents and brother in Hexing Village.

Her brother would probably never have a chance to make something of himself in this life.

Mrs. Jiang admired Lu Youxi’s broad-mindedness.

If it were her, she definitely wouldn’t be able to do that and would surely have left her parents and brother in Hexing Village.

After all, the injustice in Hexing Village before, the parents’ inaction was also an accomplice.

They seemed not to have done anything directly, but because of their inaction, they couldn’t protect Lu Youxi, making her situation so difficult.

Someone capable of so much, Mrs. Jiang believed Lu Youxi was a good person.

Moreover, Lu Youxi was clever and kind, truly one in ten thousand as a friend.

Jiang Zilin had been too well-protected since childhood and lacked a bit of cunning.

Talking more with Lu Youxi, learning some cunning, and if there’s something they feel embarrassed to talk to their parents about, they could discuss it with Lu Youxi and listen to her opinions, that would be good too.

"It’s really President Lu who should be telling you these things," Mrs. Jiang said with a smile as she sat down, expressing her gratitude to Lu Youxi, "Thank you for coming today to talk with Zilin; I worry that the child might get hung up on something."

"Not at all, Miss Jiang is a sensible person. If it were someone obsessed with love, she might complain about why her parents decided to call off the engagement? She might think she could contain the other party with love, as long as the child isn’t brought back to their home, it means respect for her. Or even if the child is brought back, she’d feel the lack of a mother beside the child means she gets to call the shots, which would also be a sign of respect," Lu Youxi explained.

"But Miss Jiang not only knows that you picked the match for her with care, but even calling off the engagement was for her good. Her sadness now is just what everyone who’s been through a breakup experiences. But I think she’s mostly upset that she could have fallen for such a scumbag."

Jiang Zilin nodded non-stop, "Exactly, I’m just more upset that I could like him."

"You understand so well!" Finally, Jiang Zilin felt she had found someone who understood her.

This feeling, she tried to tell her parents, but they never truly understood.

Unexpectedly, Lu Youxi got it.

"Don’t call me Miss Jiang anymore though, I consider you a friend, calling me Miss Jiang feels too formal," Jiang Zilin said.

Mrs. Jiang internally thought to herself that Jiang Zilin was still a bit naive.

Doesn’t she want to call Lu Youxi by her first name?

But Lu Youxi was Mrs. Zhou.

In terms of status, they were always unequal.

Forget saying everyone is equal; that’s just to fool the fools.

Where is there equality in this world?

From start to finish, people are divided into different classes.

First class passengers receive different treatment from those in economy.

The lifestyle of their class is different from that of common people.

These things are inherently unequal.

Mrs. Jiang actually wanted to address Lu Youxi directly by her first name, to possibly bring their families closer to Zhou Shuyan.

But she dared not.

She still had to be cautious, as rashly doing so might instead draw disdain and dissatisfaction from both Lu Youxi and Zhou Shuyan.

It would be more trouble than it was worth.

"Just call me Zilin," Jiang Zilin further suggested.

She hadn’t considered at all the issue of the substantial gap in status between them.

Jiang Zilin, being born a wealthy young mistress, always felt these circles were more or less on the same level.

Mrs. Jiang, however, felt she couldn’t intervene right there and had to nervously hold her breath, waiting for Lu Youxi’s reaction.

Yet Lu Youxi didn’t seem to think there was anything amiss; Mrs. Jiang was the one thinking too much.