Contract Marriage: Billionaire and His Deaf Wife
Chapter 83: So That’s How It Is

Chapter 83: Chapter 83: So That’s How It Is

"Miss, I’m just keeping you company." Su Yixia plopped down onto the bed, flipping through a magazine by her side.

"You’re keeping me company? Weren’t you accompanying Gu Nuan rather nicely?"

"You know very well what’s going on between us two."

"True. I’ve always wondered how you, the daughter of a boss, ended up teaming up with a deaf person."

Su Yixia lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling and blinking her eyes like some sly creature.

From Lin Yishan’s side came, "Miss Su, I could never match your acting skills. I heard you even invited her to stay at your place."

"She refused to come," said Su Yixia. "I don’t know how much she’s noticed. Although I’ve been quite close to her lately, it seems she doesn’t guard against me. But you see, even when I voluntarily offer to take her home, she’s unwilling. She doesn’t want me to know where she is living now."

"I heard you two went for an interview at Changda today?"

"Yes, she got accepted, and I got rejected."

"Doesn’t it bother you just thinking about that?"

In finance, there are two types of people, basically the ones who can’t see eye to eye. Simply put, one type is from wealthy families, certainly grooming a successor. Thus, many business owners send their children to study finance, simply put, to learn how to make money from money, because they are already wealthy and don’t need to do physical labor to earn money.

The other type is from poor families, but know that studying finance can be very lucrative.

To the wealthy, these people pose the most potential threat. The wealthy fear that one day these people will learn the rules of finance and manage to take their money. After all, the Crocodile Pond is only so big, it’s either you die or I live.

Getting Su Yixia and Lin Yishan to see eye to eye with Gu Nuan is impossible!

Unless Gu Nuan were like an average student, without any talents, not trying hard, only aiming for mediocrity, and actively trying to please them.

The typical characteristics of children from poor families—Gu Nuan had none of them.

"I never knew where her confidence came from," Su Yixia said, biting her lip. "I always feel there is some secret about her that nobody knows."

"You’ve been probing her for half a year with no results. At the same company, you got rejected, she got in. Actually, you could have given me a heads-up beforehand, and I could have arranged some connections at Changda for you."

"Do I need your help? My dad could also have looked into it for me."

"Were you thinking of competing with her fairly?" Lin Yishan laughed heartily at this. "Well, you tasted the bitterness of that decision. Against someone like her, there’s no other way but to play tricks."

"She’s quite good at playing tricks too, you know? Your fiancé, he’s her ex-boyfriend, and they bumped into each other today at Changda."

Lin Yishan went silent instantly, then coldly said, "What, did she say anything to him?"

"Aren’t you two getting married? What’s this about? You actually mind that they met?"

"You cheeky girl! Su Yixia, let me tell you, he’s now firmly under my control," Lin Yishan snapped.

"What do you think he would think if he knew that you only wanted to take him away from Gu Nuan because you hate her?" Su Yixia cried out, "Why do you hate her so much? Haven’t you only met her a few times at school?"

"Don’t talk about yourself, pretending to be her good friend while doing dirty things behind her back. Actually, in your heart, you hate her even more than I do, right?" Lin Yishan spat.

Su Yixia coldly smiled.

Lin Yishan’s hatred for Gu Nuan was absolutely predictable, and that was something Gu Nuan could never have anticipated. That was the teachers often compared Gu Nuan with Lin Yishan.

The teachers often cited Gu Nuan, diligent and studious, as an example to the often truant Lin Yishan.

How hard did Gu Nuan study in school? Even fellow students from ordinary families couldn’t stand it. Gu Nuan could run to nearby public places open 24 hours a night, spend the whole night researching information, doing tasks for teachers, and studying on her own.

In private, teachers said about Lin Yishan, if it weren’t for her family’s money, she would have been outdone by Gu Nuan long ago.

How could Lin Yishan not be furious?

Back then, the widely praised story in the school was about Gu Nuan and Wa Zicong being childhood sweethearts. Everyone said that this pair from modest backgrounds were truly a match of talents.

She just had to lure the talented man away from the talented woman.

In this world, there is nothing that money can’t do.

Lin Yishan just wanted to prove that, don’t think you can surpass the wealthy just because you work hard.

You never can!

Actually, that’s how people’s psychology works; those standing on high positions can never willingly let someone less which they deem less to surpass them.

Su Yixia hated Gu Nuan for the same reason.

Think about it, as a wealthy business owner’s daughter, although not as rich as the Lin family, she was known far and wide as a campus beauty. What’s more infuriating is that, although she worked much harder than Lin Yishan, she still couldn’t match Gu Nuan’s academic performance.

Teachers also often compared her to Gu Nuan, saying, "Being beautiful is lucrative in the marketplace."

Implicitly implying, just like Mr. Chen said today, besides her beauty, she was no match for Gu Nuan in anything, a complete "vase".

She could bear it temporarily, but not forever.

Among students, according to what Lin Yishan and Su Yixia knew, Gu Nuan had no real friends around her.

It’s certain, who would be friends with a "deaf" person?

The only ones who could be friends with a "deaf" person are other "deaf" people, or saints. But Gu Nuan chose Finance. How many studying Finance could be saints?

Therefore, Lin Yishan said to Su Yixia in an amused tone, "You’ve been hanging around her these days, have you become a saint yourself?"

"Let’s not talk about that." Su Yixia clearly didn’t want to answer that question and changed the topic, "You know which hospital my brother is at."

"Oh, Dr. Su." Lin Yishan said, "Of course I know. The last time, one of my relatives suddenly got gallbladder inflammation, and your brother prescribed some medicine. Your brother really knows how to socialize."

Su Yixia knew what she meant by that; her brother must have immediately neglected other patients to curry favor with the Lin Family.

"Their hospital is up for professional title evaluation, right?" Lin Yishan must have heard something and immediately responded to her words.

"Yes. My dad knows I have contact with you and wants your help."

"Can your brother get it at such a young age?"

"My brother is quite diligent —"

At this point, Lin Yishan had to pass on a piece of news, "In their hospital, as far as I know, there is someone very powerful, also quite good at ingratiating, just like your brother."

"Is his background stronger than yours?"

"I heard, he is ingratiating himself with young master Xiao —"