Chapter 16

They would also look for potential fiancés for the two sisters, Fu Qingshu and Fu Zhinian, while they were at it.

This time, Fu Siyao decided to keep control of her marriage firmly in her own hands. She would seriously look for someone who would not threaten the Fu Family, and he had to be outstanding in both character and ability.

But among wealthy heirs, being gold and jade on the outside and rotten cotton within was perfectly common. Ordinary people really could not tell whether someone was putting on an act.

So Fu Siyao planned to ask Su Wanqiao to assess them for her directly.

Because her sister-in-law could foresee the plot!

She would have her help weed out all the scum among the wealthy.

Then why worry about not finding a good man?

At the banquet, Fu Siyao met her childhood friend, Xie Muling, and Han Yichen, a wealthy senior from school who had studied abroad.

Both their families were evenly matched with the Fu Family.

They were also very likely to make the shortlist of prospective blind dates for her.

But she could not make up her mind either, so she took their information to Su Wanqiao.

"Sis, look at these two. Which one has better character and ability?"

What she really meant was, Sis, please help me find the land mines.

After Su Wanqiao looked them over.

Her expression suddenly went quiet...

[Uh, how am I supposed to judge this? I don't know how to read birth charts either...]

[But why do these two names sound so familiar...? I think one was a supporting male character, and the other was male cannon fodder.]

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Chapter 16

The details of the plot grew increasingly clear in Su Wanqiao's mind as she mainly recalled the book's key characters.

Xie Muling.

The heir to the Xie Group.

He was gradually drawn to Jiang Ruoning because of her talent and played the devoted second male lead in the book.

[There are plenty of important plot points involving Xie Muling, but this character should have only just appeared now. Someone drugged him at the reception, and Jiang Ruoning happened to come across him and saved him. Afterward, Xie Muling began to develop feelings for Jiang Ruoning and invested in the company she founded with the male lead. It's worth mentioning that the Xie and Fu families originally had a partnership, but after he started working with the female lead's studio, he withdrew his investment from the Fu Family's project. This incident at the reception was what cost the Fu Family an excellent business partner.]

[Han Yichen, on the other hand, is cannon fodder in the story. He's actually a top talent in biotechnology. Jiang Ruoning has a discerning eye and thinks very highly of his technology. By investing in him, she made several billion, and later she outright monopolized the market for that type of product. But he barely has any scenes in the story. He really seems like someone specifically placed there to bolster her golden finger. He has feelings for her and willingly helps her. But as a tool, he gets tossed aside once he's served his purpose. His ending is a laboratory explosion, where he risks everything to protect the female lead and gets blown up himself.]

"..."

After reading Su Wanqiao's inner thoughts, Fu Siyao was shocked.

These two really did have "important" roles.

Luckily, she had gone to her sister-in-law in advance.

Otherwise, she might very well have made the wrong decision.

Su Wanqiao thought it over. Although these two were important in the book, they had little to do with Fu Siyao. She only needed to keep her from going on blind dates with them.

So she cautioned her:

"Xie Muling seems to be one of the Fu Family's business partners. If you get the chance, remind your eldest brother to make their partnership as solid as possible. That guy surnamed Han doesn't have much to do with the Fu Family, but I don't recommend going on blind dates with either of them. Judging by their faces, one gives me the feeling that his road to love will be full of bumps, and the other was born with a short life and will die young. They really aren't suitable for you."

"..."

Fu Siyao held back a laugh.

Her sister-in-law's descriptions really were apt.

But she understood all that reasoning.

Still, why should Jiang Ruoning have such good luck? Why should saving someone let her steal the Fu Family's business partner?

Fu Siyao refused to accept it, mainly because she had previously heard from Su Wanqiao's thoughts that the female lead was a major reason the Fu Family would go bankrupt in the future. Besides repeatedly sowing discord and making her family turn on one another, she had also stolen a great deal of the Fu Family's business.

So now that she knew these plot points, she had to defend the Fu Family's business and keep them from losing Xie Muling as a partner.

Since saving him was an important plot point, the specific events could be changed.

Why couldn't she save Xie Muling in Jiang Ruoning's place, making herself the person he thanked? Wouldn't that leave Jiang Ruoning out of it entirely?

The more Fu Siyao thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. Heaven and earth would destroy those who failed to look out for themselves. Her aim was to protect the Fu Family's business, so what was wrong with that?

Besides, saving him did not necessarily mean following the plot. If she could stop Xie Muling from drinking the drugged alcohol, that would count as saving him too.

At that thought, she immediately arranged for someone to keep an eye on Xie Muling's movements at the ball that evening.

After chatting with Fu Siyao for a while, Su Wanqiao spotted her husband, Fu Huaiyan, at the reception.

She had not expected Fu Huaiyan to attend this sort of reception too.

He had actually come with his business partner, Xie Muling, and his purpose in attending was to discuss business.

The husband and wife had simply happened to run into each other here.

Fu Huaiyan walked toward Su Wanqiao without hesitation. They had never been this close before, and they rarely appeared at the same events.

Even when they did attend the same event, they basically never spoke. Now, not only were they talking, but he had also moved close to her. In the end, they stood so near that they were practically touching. To onlookers, they appeared especially intimate, like a deeply loving married couple.

This was something she would never even have dared imagine happening within the plot, because she thought it was simply impossible.

Still a little dazed, Su Wanqiao tried hard to recall whether she had missed any part of the plot. Otherwise, how could she have failed to notice when her relationship with the villain had become so harmonious?

Fu Huaiyan's gaze shifted slightly. Perhaps they should not be such strangers as husband and wife. It seemed there was still a long way to go before their relationship could improve.