The thirteenth juicy scoop: what scoop? Take thirteen bites...
The smile on Ye Lin's face vanished completely.
"Of course I can't compare with your level of education, Young Master Luo!"
Just then, Ye Mo's leisurely voice suddenly cut in.
Everyone present turned toward her. Seeing Ye Mo speak up, Ye Lin suddenly felt reassured, though he didn't know why.
Ye Mo smiled at Young Master Luo. "I heard you studied abroad and graduated from Aliston Business School①..."
She praised him from the bottom of her heart. "You really are highly educated!"
Young Master Luo's expression instantly froze.
"Pfft!"
Someone in the restaurant wickedly failed to hold back a laugh. In an instant, laughter rose and fell throughout the restaurant, filling it with a cheerful atmosphere.
-Anyone who knew even a little about foreign schools knew that Aliston Business School was a notorious diploma mill. It called itself a university, but had "bogus" written all over it. Its graduates were basically people who had gone abroad to eat, drink, and coast along before casually picking up a foreign degree.
The more sincerely Ye Mo spoke, the sharper her mockery became. Anyone listening could hardly keep from laughing.
Young Master Luo's face instantly turned livid. He stared at Ye Mo menacingly. "You certainly have some nerve..."
Ye Mo neither flinched nor looked away. She smiled radiantly. "My nerve is no match for yours, Young Master Luo. I just heard that someone saw you going in and out of the Yunlai Grand Hotel with a young woman a few days ago..."
She put on a troubled expression. "What was that woman's surname again? I remember it seemed to be Yao..."
"Ah!"
Young Master Luo suddenly shouted, his voice drowning out the "Yao" on Ye Mo's lips.
Chapter 13: The thirteenth juicy scoop: what scoop? Take thirteen bites...
Young Master Luo's sudden shout startled quite a few people, but not Ye Mo.
Completely at ease, Ye Mo looked at Young Master Luo with a faint, ambiguous smile and asked "kindly," "What's wrong, Young Master Luo? I haven't finished yet. I remember that lady who went to the Yunlai Grand Hotel with you..."
"Hahaha!"
Young Master Luo suddenly gave a loud, forced laugh, drowning out Ye Mo's voice again. Then he looked at her in alarm, anger, and agitation. "You certainly know how to joke, Miss Ye..."
Ye Mo smiled at him. "I just thought that since you enjoy joking so much, Young Master Luo, I'd tell a joke to give you a laugh too."
She asked with utter sincerity, "Young Master Luo, did you find that joke funny? Oh, right, I have another joke. I heard you recently secured a project for your company..."
"My dear ancestor!"
Young Master Luo suddenly cried out to Ye Mo in an anxious voice, then lowered his voice and hurriedly said, "You're my ancestor, all right? Just stop talking!"
Ye Mo said unhurriedly, "You must be joking, Young Master Luo. How could an uneducated woman with nothing but a pretty face like me deserve to be called your dear little ancestor?"
Young Master Luo: "..." Hadn't retribution come a little too quickly?
"I think there must be some misunderstanding here!" he immediately said, his manner distinctly humble.
The little lover in his arms had never seen him speak to anyone so meekly. She couldn't help staring at him with wide eyes filled with disbelief.
Young Master Luo looked at Ye Mo instead, his gaze intense as he asked, "But I'm very curious, Miss Ye. Where did you hear about these things?" He believed
that only he and the other parties knew about either of those matters. Where could the person before him have heard about them?
"Well..." Ye Mo replied, "As the saying goes, there's no wall in this world that doesn't let the wind through. Anyway, I just know."
Young Master Luo nodded, repeating "good" several times. "It seems I underestimated you, Miss Ye!"
He practically squeezed those words out through his teeth. Although he still wore a strained smile, there was a viciousness in his eyes as he looked at Ye Mo that made Ye Lin frown.
"Young Master Luo," Ye Lin spoke up, drawing Young Master Luo's attention. "I think you've misunderstood. Momo isn't my girlfriend. She's my sister, my own flesh-and-blood sister!"
"My parents and I all love her dearly, so... I don't want to hear anything like what you said earlier again."
His sister?
Young Master Luo looked stunned, his shocked gaze moving from Ye Lin to Ye Mo.
Just then, Ye Mo leaned over. "Oh, right, my brother knows about all those things I just mentioned too... Young Master Luo, who knows? One day, my brother might accidentally let them slip."
She smiled as she asked, "What would you do then, Young Master Luo? My brother isn't as easy to threaten as I am!"
Left speechless once again, Young Master Luo had nothing to say-of course he didn't dare threaten Ye Lin. And it wasn't just Ye Lin; now he didn't even dare treat Ye Mo the way he had before.
He had looked down on Ye Mo because he thought she was merely a minor celebrity, nothing worth worrying about. But if Ye Mo was the Ye family's daughter, he had to weigh his words.
"I spoke out of turn today." Young Master Luo clearly knew when to bend and when to stand tall. As though nothing earlier had happened, he smiled at Ye Mo. "Miss Ye, please be magnanimous and overlook a petty man's faults. Just think of it as having been bitten by a dog!"
He adopted a very humble posture, his change in attitude remarkably swift.
"How about this? Miss Ye, President Ye, let me pay for your meal as an apology to Miss Ye." He looked at Ye Mo with sincere eyes.
Ye Mo looked at him with a faint, ambiguous smile. "You're too kind, Young Master Luo."
Young Master Luo left with his little girlfriend. Naturally, before leaving, he also paid for Ye Mo and Ye Lin's meal.
"...Did you calculate all those things you said just now too?" Ye Lin asked Ye Mo. "They must have been extremely secret matters. I saw Young Master Luo's expression change."
A mischievous look appeared on Ye Mo's face. "Of course I calculated them. You probably guessed too, Big Brother-they're all things that can't bear the light of day..."
She shared the gossip she had learned from 888 with her big brother. "This Young Master Luo really isn't picky about who he gets involved with. Guess who that Yao I mentioned is?"
Ye Lin obligingly shook his head. "I don't know."
Although they were already sitting in the car, Ye Mo still instinctively glanced around before discussing something so sordid. Only after seeing no one around did she whisper to Ye Lin, "Young Master Luo's stepmother's surname is Yao..."
At that, Ye Lin's pupils contracted, and he looked at Ye Mo in considerable shock-surely it wasn't what he was thinking?
Ye Mo nodded, confirming his guess, and whispered, "That's right. This Young Master Luo had an affair with his stepmother!"
Ye Lin: "..."
Ye Mo continued, "As for what I said about Young Master Luo having just secured a project, do you know why he was so scared? Because that project is just an empty shell he set up to rake in money. There's no actual business at all!"
She gave a snort of laughter. "If that got out, he definitely wouldn't have a leg to stand on at his family's company. Tell me, wouldn't he be scared?"
Ye Lin nodded. "No wonder..." No wonder Young Master Luo had been so frightened.
Right now, the man was probably questioning his entire life, struggling to guess just where Ye Mo had learned those secrets. At the thought, Ye Lin couldn't help feeling rather pleased.
"Are you going home, or somewhere else?" he asked, looking at Ye Mo.
Ye Mo thought for a moment, then asked, "...Can I go back to the company?"
"Of course." Ye Lin didn't find it any trouble. "I'll drop you off before going back to my company. Once work finishes this afternoon, shall I pick you up from yours?"
Ye Mo gave him a sweet smile. "Thank you, Big Brother!"
Looking at her well-behaved manner, Ye Lin thought, It's only at times like this that she calls me Big Brother so readily.
When Ye Mo arrived at the company, Shen Yan saw her and hurriedly pulled her over, looking her up and down several times.
"My dear ancestor, nothing happened to you at the Ye family's place, did it?" he asked with concern.