Stepdaughter of a wealthy family? The little darling of a Beijing tycoon

usury?!"

These three words struck Shen Xinyi like a thunderbolt, leaving her completely stunned and her face turning deathly pale.

Shen Yifan's eyes were bloodshot, filled with despair and hopelessness. He murmured in a low voice, "I had no other choice at the time. I gambled that if I won the cooperation with the Mo family, I could defy fate and revitalize the entire Shen family. But I lost everything... Now the repayment date has arrived. Once it's overdue, the money exchange and the bank will immediately seize all assets. The Shen family is completely finished!"

Shen Xinyi looked at Shen Yifan, who was disheveled, anxious, and almost out of control, and her heart sank.

She never interfered in the family business and knew nothing about business profits and losses, but even she, in her naiveté, understood what bankruptcy meant.

Once the Shen family completely collapses, her proud family background will vanish, and she will no longer be the Shen family's beloved heiress whom everyone flatters.

Moreover, Lu Ze's mother valued social standing highly from the beginning and looked down on her background, always feeling that she was marrying above her station and was not good enough for Lu Ze.

If the Shen family goes bankrupt and is burdened with debt, she will truly be worthless in the eyes of the Lu family, and her relationship with Lu Ze and her dream of marrying into the Lu family will completely vanish.

A tremendous panic gripped her instantly.

She couldn't bear the thought of losing everything, so she gritted her teeth and steadied herself, urgently saying to Shen Yifan, "Brother, don't panic! I'll go find Aze right now and beg him to help the Shen family!"

Hearing this, Shen Yifan, on the verge of despair, instantly grasped at this straw, tightly holding her hand, his eyes filled with pleading: "Okay! Good sister! This time, the whole family's hopes are pinned on you, you must persuade Young Master Lu to help us!"

"I know, don't worry."

Shen Xinyi nodded vigorously, but the moment she turned around, the confidence in her eyes vanished instantly, leaving her heart feeling cold and hopeless.

Only she knew that this seemingly glamorous relationship was actually incredibly fragile.

To the outside world, she was Lu Ze's girlfriend, envied by everyone. She seemed to be pampered and living a glamorous life, but only she knew that Lu Ze had never shown her any passionate favoritism or attraction.

He treated her with distance, restraint, and politeness, without any of the intimacy and tenderness of a couple; it was more like he was fulfilling a duty he was supposed to perform.

She never truly entered Lu Ze's heart.

With the future uncertain, she had no chance of getting Lu Ze to provide much-needed assistance to the Shen family, which was on the verge of bankruptcy.

But for her own future and for the last vestiges of the family's prestige, she had no choice but to take a desperate gamble.

While the Shen family was in a state of chaos and internal strife, the Li family was filled with joy and excitement.

After successfully signing the strategic cooperation agreement with the Mo Group, Li Beicheng did not delay for a moment and immediately called his father, Li Wenqian, to personally report this great news.

Upon hearing that the Mo family had so readily agreed to a deep collaboration with the Li family, Li Wenqian immediately recalled the details reported by the butler the day before—Old Master Mo, accompanied by Mo Hanzhou, had made a special trip to the Li family to visit Shen Jingshu, expressing gratitude and discussing treatment for her old ailment. He instantly grasped the underlying logic and was certain that this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for cooperation was absolutely inseparable from Shen Jingshu's role in facilitating it.

"Jing Shu deserves immense credit for making this possible," Li Wenqian said calmly with a smile. "When you see her again, you must thank her in person."

Li Beichen was still somewhat confused upon hearing this: "Dad, wasn't this collaboration secured by our project proposal? How did it get involved with Jing Shu?"

Li Wenqian then recounted in detail the whole story of how the Mo family grandfather and grandson personally visited Shen Jingshu that day and had a long talk with her.

After hearing the inside story, Li Beichen's eyes widened in surprise. He exclaimed with a sigh, "Good heavens! It seems I must hold on to Jing Shu tightly from now on. She is truly a lucky star for our Li family! Since she came to the Li family, one thing after another has gone smoothly and good things have never stopped."

"That's right, Jing Shu is indeed a benefactor to our Li family." Li Wenqian sincerely agreed.

"Dad, I won't chat any longer. After I finish these chores, there's still a lot of content in the contract that needs to be checked. I need to go back and keep an eye on things."

"We must take this very seriously. This collaboration is massive, affecting the Li family's development for the next few years. Every clause must be checked repeatedly, and there can be no oversight whatsoever."

I know what I'm doing.

After a brief reply, Li Beichen hung up the phone and devoted himself to the subsequent contract review work.

After seeing off the Mo family grandfather and grandson, Shen Jingshu calmed down and, combining Taoist medical skills with metaphysical fortune telling, tailored a complete treatment plan to strengthen the body and cure the disease for Old Master Mo.

The old man's long-standing heart condition was deeply rooted and could not be completely cured overnight; it required gradual treatment. Shen Jingshu planned a complete treatment course lasting more than a month, which could not be interrupted throughout, and would steadily repair the heart vessels and clear away toxins in stages.

She first devised two Chinese herbal prescriptions to strengthen the body and nourish the elderly man's weak internal organs and heart, laying a solid foundation for his health. After half a month, once the medicinal effects were absorbed and his constitution improved, she then combined them with her exclusive Xuanmen Golden Needle Acupuncture to precisely unblock the meridians and stabilize the heart, thus improving his chronic illness from the root.

After finalizing the plan, she carefully prepared the detailed prescription, contraindications, and daily routine requirements, and sent them to Mo Hanzhou. She instructed the Mo family to find a reliable, long-established pharmacy to obtain the medicine, and to take the medicine on time for half a month to regulate their condition, while waiting for the subsequent acupuncture treatment.

With the treatment arrangements for the Mo family settled, Shen Jingshu's life returned to a peaceful and regular routine. During the day, she went to and from Peking University on time, attending classes diligently and studying intensively, leading a simple yet fulfilling life. In her spare time, she would meet with Lu Jingxing to spend time alone, shedding her usual aloofness and becoming an ordinary girl in love.

The two never had a passionate, dramatic love affair; they were just like any ordinary couple, strolling through the streets, trying new restaurants, and watching relaxing movies together—a simple yet warm and peaceful life. Shen Jingshu loved this tranquil, everyday existence, free from intrigue and entanglement, without any grudges or conflicts, a life of quiet contentment and freedom.

Before she knew it, it was Shen Jingshu's regular live stream time.

She had announced her live stream in advance during the day, informing her fans that she would answer their questions and offer divination on a whim that evening. The moment the stream started, millions of fans who had been waiting in the live stream room flooded in, and the screen's popularity soared instantly.

Since her last live-streamed warning and assistance to the police in cracking a major human trafficking case deep in the mountains, rescuing a victimized girl and dismantling a cross-provincial criminal gang, her reputation and popularity have skyrocketed, and her account's number of followers has soared to nearly nine million, just one step away from becoming a top streamer with tens of millions of followers.

Shen Jingshu is now a top-tier metaphysical streamer on the platform. Every time she goes live, the platform gives her top-tier homepage promotion, attracting countless casual viewers who are drawn in by the explosive online popularity and clean atmosphere of her live stream.

Inside the live stream, longtime fans spontaneously flooded the screen with information, recounting Shen Jingshu's past deeds of saving lives, upholding justice, and making accurate divinations. Her real-life cases, exceptional skills, and righteous character instantly turned countless casual viewers into fans, causing the live stream's popularity to soar and reach new heights.