Cry louder, I can't hear you.

Yun Qiao was still thinking about how to refuse Shen Suwei's offer to take her home tonight.

But before he could even utter the excuse he had been preparing, his father called.

They told her to go home with Shen Suwei.

"If you don't want to go back—"

"Let's go back!" Yun Qiao hurriedly interrupted.

Shen Suwei raised an eyebrow and gave her a deep look.

In the end, without saying anything, he smiled and said "okay".

When the two returned to the Shen residence, Shen's father and Shen Shiyu's mother were already sitting on the living room sofa, presumably having been waiting there for some time.

Yun Qiao didn't see Shen Shiyu, but based on her understanding of her, she guessed that Shen Shiyu was probably squatting upstairs eavesdropping.

"You're back? I called Ethan this afternoon, and he said you weren't at the office."

His tone and expression were very serious. If it were anyone else, they would probably have been overwhelmed by Shen's father's aura.

But Shen Suwei remained unfazed, showing no fear whatsoever.

"Yes, I had some personal business to attend to. I'm going out now."

In front of Shen's father, he took Yun Qiao's hand and walked to the sofa opposite to sit down.

Shen's father glanced at Yun Qiao, as if he were looking at the "private matter" she was talking about.

But his eyes held a hint of dissatisfaction, as if he were disgusted.

Yun Qiao forced herself to sit next to Shen Suwei, silently watching the father and son exchanging tense atmospheres, pretending not to see Shen's father's disdain.

Shen's father had never liked Yun Qiao.

But I used to think it was just a matter of having an extra set of dishes at home, so I treated her fairly gently and didn't make things difficult for her. I could even pretend to care.

But today, she was suddenly told that Yun Qiao and her son had gotten together.

The son has even officially announced Yun Qiao's status as his fiancée, but he hasn't told him yet.

He had to be informed by an outsider to find out.

At first, he thought it was a mistake and kept denying it.

The other party replied that their company's official account had already posted it.

Upon closer inspection, he realized it was true.

He was so angry that he immediately called the company.

But people at the company said that Shen Suwei took Yun Qiao out.

Through his casual probing, he learned that when Yun Qiao mentioned finding a job, she actually meant working at Shen's company, specifically in the president's office.

How could a recent college graduate like her get into the CEO's office?

Shen Suwei had been away from the company for the past few days, and Yun Qiao was also away.

They returned together.

Without even a question, it's clear who Shen Suwei has been skipping work so frequently for all these years.

Just thinking about this made Shen's father so angry that he had a heart attack.

He spent the entire afternoon suppressing his anger, waiting for Shen Suwei to return.

He was very confident in entrusting such a large group as the Shen family to Shen Suwei.

But now, he feels uneasy at all!

His son has been very self-disciplined and restrained since he was a child. He is not interested in anything except studying and working.

I've never seen him date any young girls, and I was worried that there might be something wrong with my son.

But who would have thought that he had taken a fancy to Yun Qiao?

Yun Qiao has been with the Shen family for five years, so does that mean the two of them have been secretly having an affair during these five years?

He took a deep breath, trying to keep himself calm.

When he looked up at Shen Suwei again, his tone became even more serious:

"Don't you think you should explain your relationship with Yun Qiao to me?"

"My father didn't tell me when he remarried."

His tone remained gentle.

But these words are utterly disrespectful.

Mr. Shen choked, and his already poor health suddenly broke out in a cough.

"Cough cough...!"

Startled, Shen's mother, who had been awkwardly silent, quickly stood up to pat Shen's back and whispered words of comfort:

"Old Shen, calm down, let's talk this out, don't get angry..."

Mr. Shen shook off her hand, coughed, and glared at Shen Suwei, his eyes red from coughing, his chest heaving violently.

"So you've always harbored resentment towards my remarriage?"

"I didn't say that."

"You didn't say that, but that's what you think!"

"Does Father not even allow others to think about it?"

"you--"

Faced with his father's exasperation, Shen Suwei remained calm and composed, saying, "Yun Qiao and I are in a normal relationship, it's not like I'm getting married for the second time. I don't understand what my father is unhappy about."

"You unfilial son!" Father Shen was so angry that his face turned red. This was clearly a veiled insult to him!

Shen Suwei never spoke to him like that.

Before, I was just a little distant and indifferent, but what's going on today?

Is it because of Yun Qiao?

He turned to look at Yun Qiao in disbelief, wondering what special magic this girl possessed that could make his son, who had always been indifferent to women, do this.

But after just one glance, Shen Suwei's calm expression instantly turned displeased.

"Why are you looking at her like that?"

Mr. Shen was so angry that he choked. "Can't I even look?"

His lips moved, and after a long pause, he finally managed to utter, "Ha, you'll say anything for the woman beside you."

"If Father has nothing else to say, we'll go upstairs now."

He stood up.

"I will handle my own affairs."

"You're not feeling well, you should get some rest."

After he finished speaking, he took Yunqiao's hand and turned to leave.

Yun Qiao was pulled along by him, staggered a couple of steps to catch up with him. As she passed by Shen's father, she caught a glimpse of him looking at her with a complicated expression, as if to say that he should not have taken her in in the first place.

Yun Qiao withdrew her gaze and followed Shen Suwei upstairs.

Even after walking away, the suppressed coughs of Mr. Shen and the frantic soothing voices of Mrs. Shen could still be faintly heard from the living room downstairs.

Yun Qiao's room was on the left. Reaching the second-floor staircase, she was about to turn left, but Shen Suwei held her hand tightly and walked straight towards the end of the corridor. His room was over there.

Yun Qiao's face tightened:

"This is home, wouldn't it be inappropriate for me to go into your room?"

"What's wrong with it?" he asked matter-of-factly.

Yun Qiao was in a dilemma.

She chose to come back because she didn't want to be alone with Shen Suwei.

If I go to his room again, wouldn't I have come back for nothing?

Ever since he agreed to be with her, his personality has completely changed. He's constantly either jealous or talking about that kind of thing.

She was genuinely scared.

Just as I was racking my brains trying to come up with an excuse, I suddenly heard hurried footsteps coming from around the corner of the corridor.

It was very light, like someone was running on their tiptoes.

Yun Qiao looked over at the sound and saw a figure hunched over and shrinking behind the wall around the corner.

It's Shen Shiyu.

She was a beat too slow and hadn't completely hidden behind the wall when Yun Qiao caught her.

"Poetry Rain!"

Yun Qiao seemed to see a savior and shouted out almost reflexively.

Shen Shiyu's back stiffened for a moment. She slowly straightened up, turned around, and forced a dry smile: "Hi, brother, Qiaoqiao."

She was smiling ingratiatingly when she met Shen Suwei's icy gaze. She froze, her smile vanishing, and she said nervously:

"I was just passing by, I... I'm going back to my room now."

Just as she was about to run away, Yun Qiao called out to her again, "Didn't you say you had something to tell me?"

Yun Qiao's eyes were filled with anticipation, but Shen Shiyu didn't dare to look at her.

She felt that Shen Suwei's eyes were threatening at that moment.

It was as if she shouldn't have shown up in the first place...

But she didn't do it on purpose.

She was so engrossed in eavesdropping on the conversation downstairs from the second floor that she didn't realize Yun Qiao and the others had come upstairs.

By the time they realized what was happening, it was too late to run...