Chapter 1495 - 861: Still Trying to Climb Walls at the End of Days? Stick Your Head Out and Get Crushed
Chapter 1495: Chapter 861: Still Trying to Climb Walls at the End of Days? Stick Your Head Out and Get Crushed
Si Qingxiao was fully focused on what she was doing when someone knocked and came in not long after.
"Miss——"
"More news broke online?" Si Qingxiao was holding a pair of scissors, cutting colored fabric.
"Not online. Fourth Master is here."
Si Qingxiao’s fingers paused. "Where is he?"
"He didn’t knock. Just circled around the courtyard wall twice. Third Young Master came with him."
"He circled around the courtyard wall?" Si Qingxiao put down the scissors. "What’s he trying to do?"
"No idea. We’ve been watching him in the surveillance room the whole time."
"Then keep watching. If anything happens, let me know right away."
**
Outside the Si Family residence
Jiang Shiyi followed behind someone, circling the Si Family compound twice. It was midday, stuffy and hot; he was already sweating a bit and feeling miserable.
He’d come back to the capital planning to see his wife first thing, and worried about him, had stayed with him the whole time.
And this kid had the nerve to drag him around outside someone else’s courtyard wall.
"Chengsi, if you want to go in, just knock on the door."
"I was just on the phone with Uncle; he’s definitely mad. If I knock now, they’re not going to let me in. I show up empty-handed trying to prove my innocence, I’ll probably get thrown out." Si Yushan’s tone earlier had been too firm. "But I still want to see Xiaoxiao. Even if we don’t talk, just seeing her from a distance is enough."
"So your plan is to circle around their place?"
"I was thinking about finding a spot on the wall to climb in from, but turns out their wall’s been reinforced really high, with barbed wire on top. I walked around twice and didn’t find a single spot a person could climb over."
"..."
Jiang Shiyi was speechless. Things outside were already blowing up, and he’d even sacrificed his time to see his wife to come keep him company.
He had not come here to help him climb walls.
The other side had already given him a head-on blow, and he was still thinking about climbing over the wall into their yard.
During this time, the old lady had also called to ask if they’d gone into the Si Family place and how things were. Jiang Shiyi honestly didn’t know how to answer.
He couldn’t very well say the Si Family wouldn’t let them in and that someone was currently studying their wall, trying to climb it.
...
The Si Family also had no idea what he intended. They thought he was just in a bad mood and walking around randomly. After all, he’d been caught climbing the wall last time. No one would’ve guessed that in broad daylight, with the outside world about to explode because of him, he was still thinking about this kind of thing.
Jiang Chengsi circled the Si Family place one more time, then finally sent a message to Si Qingxiao before getting in the car and leaving.
He was very clear now that only by proving his innocence would he have the confidence to face the Si Family.
Otherwise, if Si Yushan asked who the person in the photos was and what their relationship was, how it could be "just a coincidence" that they were on the same flight and appeared at other events together—if he only had his mouth as proof, his credibility was way too low.
Right now the most critical thing was to find the mastermind behind it all.
**
Jiang Mansion
The Jiang Family were all sitting in the living room. It was lunchtime, but no one had an appetite.
Only when Jiang Shiyi and Jiang Chengsi got back did the old lady brace herself on her cane and stand up. She’d been about to ask how things went, but one look at Jiang Chengsi’s dejected face told her everything she needed to know.
"The restaurant just called to ask if we’re still coming tomorrow for the reservation..." The old lady, still unwilling to give up, used this as an excuse to ask again.
If the Si Family were still willing to have a meal with them, then it meant this matter wasn’t that serious.
Jiang Shiyi shook his head. "Tomorrow’s meeting is canceled. They said something came up at the last minute."
As if something had "come up." It was obviously just an excuse.
The planned meeting between the Jiang Family and the Si Family had already made the rounds; plenty of people were watching.
"If the two families still have dinner together as normal, then it means this incident hasn’t affected Fourth Master and Miss Si."
"Of course. If there was really something, if Fourth Master really cheated, the Si Family only has this one daughter, with conditions that good. How could she just swallow that kind of grievance and still cooperate with the Jiang Family to put on a show? There’s no way they’d meet them."
"Now that neither side has put out a statement, everything depends on tomorrow’s dinner."
...
The restaurant needed to prep in advance for everything. Since the reservation was canceled, the old lady couldn’t just let them run around for nothing and called to inform the hotel.
No one dared go straight to the Jiang Family or the Si Family to ask. This kind of thing was way too private. Everyone in the circle had their eyes glued to that dinner.
And then they found out that the private room the Jiang Family had booked at the restaurant was no longer being used.
Which basically meant the whole thing was probably dead in the water. For a while, rumors were flying all over the circle, and everyone was saying that Jiang Chengsi and Si Qingxiao had probably already broken up.
"There’s no way this whole thing about Fourth Master came out of nowhere. Otherwise the Si Family wouldn’t cancel the meeting. This is a huge deal, and the Jiang Family’s old lady was personally handling it. If things hadn’t escalated to a certain point, they wouldn’t be refusing to give even that bit of face."
"Now that it’s canceled, the Si Family son-in-law spot is wide open. Who knows how many people are eyeing it."
"I just feel like there’s something off. Fourth Master doesn’t seem like the type to pull this. All these years, there’s never been any gossip about him. His only rumored ’relationship’ was with a guy."
"Maybe he’s just really good at hiding it."
"But the Si Family hasn’t said anything either."
"They already canceled the meeting. Isn’t that obvious enough? You still want the Si Family to come out and admit that Miss Si got cheated on? Are you brain-dead or what?"
**
The Si Family canceling the meeting directly shoved Jiang Chengsi onto the front line of the storm. He’d practically become the "official spokesperson for scumbag boyfriends."
Besides the rubberneckers, there were plenty of people trampling on him. Jiang Chengsi had never realized his popularity was apparently this bad.
"It’s not that people don’t like you. It’s that after you got together with Miss Si, maybe you didn’t realize just how much attention you drew in the circle. Too many people were jealous." Jiang Jinsang said bluntly. "Now that something’s happened to you, everyone who originally wanted to marry into the Si Family is definitely paying for bots to drag you."
"As long as they drag you down completely, the Si Family son-in-law position is totally up for grabs."
"This whole mess isn’t entirely bad for us either. At least now we can see clearly who in this circle is human, and who’s a snake."
Jiang Chengsi let out a cold laugh. "So what do we do now? Just sit here and wait to die?"
"Relax. Since this person went to all this trouble, they’re not going to stop here. As long as they show even a bit of themselves..." Jiang Jinsang gave a faint sneer.
"We can crush them in one shot."