Chapter 42

She sighed. "Qi Yuheng doesn't need to thank me too much. After all, ridding the people of a menace is every citizen's responsibility!"

Today, she, too, was an upstanding citizen of Chaoyang District. It was just a shame that only the three of them knew about her heroic deeds for now. But that was all right. Sooner or later, Qi Yuheng would learn of her "kindness," too.

Ye Lin silently looked at her, reached out, and pinched her cheek.

With her cheek pinched in his fingers, Ye Mo glared at him and asked indistinctly, "...Why are you pinching me?"

"To see just how thick your skin is, with how good you are at gilding your own face," Ye Lin said.

Ye Mo knocked his hand away and huffed. "What did I say that was wrong? Never mind that-I've helped him see what kind of person Qi Yuwen is ahead of time. Otherwise, with how much he trusts Qi Yuwen, he probably wouldn't discover his own little brother's true colors until Qi Yuwen took the general manager's seat at Qi Corporation!"

Her tone brimmed with righteousness. "If that's not doing a good deed, what is?"

Ye Lin asked with a smile, "Weren't you doing it to cause trouble for Qi Yuwen?"

"..." Having been exposed, Ye Mo held up her fingers to indicate a tiny amount. "Well, just a little."

A hundred million little bits.

Watching the siblings talking in hushed voices, Shen Yan asked in some confusion, "Even so, do you really need to talk so quietly?"

Apart from the three of them, there was only the driver in the car. There shouldn't have been a fifth person, right? So why were they speaking so quietly, looking so furtive?

The two people currently "talking furtively": "..."

After parting ways with Ye Mo and the others, Qi Yuheng went straight home.

Qi Yuwen had not returned when he got home. Qi Yuheng waited until midnight before he heard him coming back. When he finally saw him, Qi Yuwen reeked of alcohol and perfume, with even a lipstick mark stamped on his face. One glance was enough to tell he had just crawled out of a pile of women.

Qi Yuheng couldn't help frowning at the sight of him. "Why are you back so late? And why do you smell of all this mess?"

Qi Yuwen dropped heavily onto the sofa. "Business socializing, of course. As Qi Corporation's general manager, you certainly wouldn't understand my position, big brother... A lot of the time, I even have to put on a smile and curry favor with people."

His voice was low, carrying a measure of resentment and cold mockery. Unfortunately, Qi Yuheng didn't pick up on it. Or rather, he had long since grown accustomed to this attitude of Qi Yuwen's, so he didn't give it much thought.

"But you, big brother," Qi Yuwen looked at him through bleary, drunken eyes, "why are you still awake at this hour?"

Qi Yuheng said, "I was waiting for you."

"Waiting for me?" Qi Yuwen sounded surprised, his words dripping with sarcasm. "What could possibly make such a busy man as you wait up for me this long?"

Qi Yuheng frowned at his tone. "Did someone give you a hard time today? Why are you talking in such a snide tone?"

"..."

Qi Yuwen's muddled mind cleared a little. He tugged at his lips and said perfunctorily, "There was some unpleasantness... You still haven't told me why you were waiting for me, big brother." He looked as though he had no desire to elaborate.

Seeing his reaction, Qi Yuheng didn't press him and turned to the matter at hand. "Have you recently invested in a film called Chase?"

"Yes." Qi Yuwen nodded, puzzled. "Why do you ask, big brother? Have you become interested in investing in films, too?"

Seeing that he had gotten the wrong idea, Qi Yuheng shook his head. "President Ye of Ye Corporation brought his younger sister to treat me to a meal today. He told me you snatched a role his sister had her eye on."

Qi Yuwen blinked, his eyes gradually clearing. "Ye Corporation? Which Ye Corporation?"

Qi Yuheng countered, "Which other Ye Corporation do you think there is?"

"...President Ye's sister, Ye Baozhu?" Naturally, Qi Yuwen knew of Ye Baozhu, too. He was somewhat puzzled. "I haven't heard anything about Ye Baozhu entering the entertainment industry, much less appearing in Chase."

Qi Yuheng corrected him. "Not Ye Baozhu. President Ye's other younger sister."

At this, some of Qi Yuwen's newfound tension eased. "A cousin?" If it was a cousin, then it didn't matter much.

"No, President Ye's own sister... You should have heard her name, too. She's called Ye Mo," Qi Yuheng said instead.

After returning from the restaurant, Qi Yuheng had searched for the name "Ye Mo" online. He then discovered that this Miss Ye, whom the Ye Family had only just found, was actually quite famous online-a major celebrity, in fact. It was just that the comments about her online weren't very good.

"Ye Mo?! Ye Mo from Brilliant Star?"

Qi Yuwen had never expected to hear his brother reject that answer. But what surprised him even more was the other name he heard from Qi Yuheng.

"Ye Mo."

Naturally, Qi Yuwen knew this name. In fact, this minor celebrity named Ye Mo had left a very deep impression on him, because their Star Chasing Entertainment had once tried to poach her. Unfortunately, she had no interest in their Star Chasing and had bluntly rebuffed the people they sent.

Qi Yuwen was incredulous. "How could she be part of the Ye Family?"

Since their Star Chasing had once wanted to poach her, they had naturally run a background check on her. Ye Mo's information had once sat on his desk. Qi Yuwen knew very well exactly what kind of background she had.

That was why he was certain that the "Ye" in Ye Mo was not that particular "Ye." Yet now, how had she suddenly become the younger sister of Ye Corporation's general manager?

Seeing his utterly bewildered expression, Qi Yuheng knew he was unaware of what had happened in the Ye Family. He briefly explained it to him, then concluded:

"She's now the Ye Family's eldest daughter, whom they've only just found. Although the Ye Family hasn't introduced her to everyone yet, I could see that President Ye treats her with great affection. You tried to snatch her role, and President Ye brought her straight to me!"

By bringing Ye Mo to see him, Ye Lin had already made his intention to stand up for his sister perfectly clear.

After hearing the whole story, Qi Yuwen said, "..."

He pressed his fingers against his brow and clicked his tongue irritably, suddenly feeling a headache coming on.

Qi Yuheng told him, "So stop interfering with that role in Chase. The role belongs to Miss Ye. Give it back to her."

"...I know that without you telling me." Qi Yuwen sounded somewhat irritable. "If she really is part of the Ye Family, how would I dare snatch anything from her?"

He had dared to demand the role of [Xia Mei] precisely because Brilliant Star was only a small company and Ye Mo had no particular background. If he snatched it, so be it.

But who could have imagined that the minor celebrity born in the countryside would turn around and become the Ye Family's wealthy young miss?

An undeserved calamity.

Those words flashed through Qi Yuwen's mind.

Qi Yuheng understood his current mood, too, but there were still things he had to say.

"President Ye told me that since you proposed withdrawing your investment from Chase, you should hand the opportunity to invest in Chase over to him..." He briefly conveyed Ye Lin's wishes to Qi Yuwen.

Ye Lin's meaning was obvious. He wanted to invest in Chase, and Qi Yuwen could go cool his heels wherever he pleased.

Hearing this made Qi Yuwen's mood even worse. "Is Ye Corporation getting involved in the entertainment industry, too?"

"I don't think so." Qi Yuheng shook his head. "President Ye probably wants to invest in Chase for Miss Ye's sake... What you did likely made him feel that Miss Ye had been wronged, so he wants to step in and steer her safely through."

Qi Yuwen found this somewhat hard to believe. "Didn't they only just find Ye Mo and bring her back? How could they have developed any affection in such a short time?"

Qi Yuheng, however, had a different view. "Whatever else, they're still siblings bound by blood. How could President Ye not care at all? Besides, that little investment in a film is only a single hair off nine oxen to Ye Corporation."