I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 1005: Why did you draw this thing?

Chapter 1005: Chapter 1005: Why did you draw this thing?

This game, she couldn’t claim she had won outright, she could only say, thanks to intelligence and luck, she narrowly prevailed by half a point.

In Go, when facing an evenly matched opponent, it’s possible to win by only half a point, which is commonly known as half a point.

Such cases are rare, and Xiao Pang had once narrowly defeated an opponent by half a point during the Chess King contest.

Now, Suizi felt the same sense of a narrow half-point victory.

She underestimated Director Qu’s true intentions.

To test their marital tacit understanding, Suizi deliberately didn’t clarify her intentions to Yu Jingting, allowing him to act on his own initiative.

Luckily, Yu Jingting was extraordinarily gifted and had many years of understanding with Suizi, and they managed to accomplish the task together.

If Yu Jingting had been slightly careless and failed to complete the circle that Suizi had half drawn, it wouldn’t be Director Qu who was trapped.

Thinking of this, Suizi suddenly found her roasted sweet potato not so appetizing anymore.

"How did you do it exactly?" Suizi asked.

"I hired someone who didn’t know me to go to the Massage Shop and inquire about Director Qu, intentionally or unintentionally letting slip his philandering behavior to the masseuse."

Yu Jingting noted that masseurs tend to be extremely chatty, divulging all sorts of odd stories while massaging.

A yarn about a young, pretty Office Director desperately chasing after men would naturally be turned into gossip and shared.

The couple, Yu Jingting and wife, didn’t witness what happened next, but it wasn’t difficult to deduce.

While Yu Jingting was at school, keeping Suizi company in her classes, Director Qu’s "sugar daddy" went to the Massage Shop where Yu Jingting had visited the day before, simply hoping for a massage to relax.

The result was a face full of green paste, caught utterly off guard.

"So Director Qu didn’t even finish her meal before she had her daddy’s men beat her up?"

"These people really are barbaric and rough, resorting to violence over such matters, it’s highly disgraceful," Yu Jingting embraced Suizi.

"Always engaging in fights and violence, it truly is disgraceful, not like us, who enjoy eating roasted sweet potatoes and love peace, we are truly decent people."

Yu Jingting, out of respect for the pork knuckle, observed a moment of silence for Director Qu.

Seeing that Suizi didn’t join him in taking pleasure in others’ misfortune, Yu Jingting felt something was off.

"She’s down on her luck, and you’re not happy?"

"There’s nothing to be happy about. Jingting, you must remind me in the future."

"Hmm?"

"To always maintain a humble attitude toward the world, not to judge people based on first impressions. Look at this."

Suizi withdrew her written character sketch of Director Qu, and Yu Jingting took it, initially displeased after reading the first two lines.

"Why use the first person, my wife is nothing like her, so disgusting."

But as he continued reading, Yu Jingting’s expression gradually turned serious.

"When did you write all these?"

"This morning, after the first background check on her, I felt there were several discordant points, so I had my uncle check again, look into her hometown, and I found out that her family is building a house and investing in property. This in itself didn’t seem odd, after all, some people just like to lavish gifts on their parents’ home."

But what caught Suizi’s attention was the fact that the investigation by Chen He showed Director Qu not only built her brother a house but also reserved a large plot of land next to it.

Director Qu’s family lived in a city not too far from Beijing.

That plot belonged to the factory, and the staff could apply for land according to their seniority and build their own houses with the materials they provided.

Director Qu’s brother’s house was already quite large; there was no need to allot a separate plot of land. To get that approval, he certainly must have paid a considerable sum of money.

Chen He found it strange, so when asking around, he made sure to inquire with those who knew, why gift-approve a plot without building on it, what was the motive?

The person responding cut straight to the point, saying it was prepared for Qu Yu’s sister in Beijing.

Chen He found it even stranger that someone in Beijing and not returning to their hometown would keep such a fallback plan. Could it be that they intended to retire there eventually?

Such private affairs, of course, wouldn’t be disclosed to him, but Chen He was shrewd—he would find out for himself if things were not told to him.

Ever since Yu Jingting took Chen Tong as his junior and collaborated with Suizi to nurture the boy, Chen He had become completely transparent with Suizi and her husband.

Whatever tasks Suizi and her husband entrusted to him, he would accomplish them, even if it meant going through fire and water.

And he indeed figured something out. Chen He discovered that the Qu family had stockpiled a batch of construction materials.

The materials were just enough to build a house, even the floor tiles were ready.

This didn’t look like preparation for the future, but rather readiness at all times.

Therefore, in the end of his letter to Suizi, Chen He wrote his conclusion: he suspected that Director Qu might give up everything in Beijing and return to her hometown.

Director Qu had started acquiring assets in her hometown long ago, but her seduction of Yu Jingting had been more recent.

All signs indicated that Director Qu was also drawing circles.

Yu Jingting had happened to appear as a "useful person" at the right time, even without Yu Jingting, she would have sought out "Wang Jingting," "Li Jingting," or "Bai Jingting."

When Yu Jingting’s gaze fell on the last paragraph of the character sketch Suizi had written, he had the sensation of having his expectations overturned.

The final paragraph read assertively:

I, Director Qu, a woman adept at using a pillow as a weapon.

But if you believe that’s all I have, then you are doomed to pay a heavy price for your stereotypes.

This first-person autobiography vividly painted the image of a femme fatale.

After reading, Yu Jingting remained silent for a long time, finding it hard to believe that such a dark yet vivid autobiography had been penned by his wife, who was like an innocent little rabbit to him.

At the end of the autobiography, Suizi had drawn a pattern with a pencil.

Pointing to the pattern, Yu Jingting asked, "Why did you draw a butthole? I get it. Are you trying to say that a woman like Director Qu, with all her schemes, is like a butthole, always ready to fart?"

Suizi wiped the nonexistent sweat from her forehead:

"That’s not a butthole! That’s an anemone! How could you mistake a beautiful flower-like anemone for that thing?!"

Suizi was utterly bemused by him; surely his brain was wired differently from normal people!

"It really does look alike..." Yu Jingting weakly defended.

His wife had drawn with a pencil, without color, and the radially arranged lines did look quite a bit like a butthole.

"An anemone is what I thought of after finishing her autobiography. It’s a fitting description for her: beautiful yet poisonous, seemingly delicate and weak, yet able to attach firmly to the sea floor with strong suction, impervious to even the fiercest waves."

But what could it mean when this creature with such strong adhesive power prepares a retreat? Surely, it had sensed that the rock to which it was clinging was about to encounter trouble.

She orchestrated a farce of desperately pursuing Yu Jingting, aiming to extract herself from the situation.

Even if it meant getting beaten up by her godfather, she would rather sever her own limbs than stay in this place of trouble.

As long as Yu Jingting was ensnared by her, she would have succeeded.

Unfortunately for her, the theme of Suizi and her husband’s "team-building" activity was also to draw circles.

Both parties steered into the test cast by fate.

Like a game of Go, they engaged in strategic confrontation; in the end, it was Yu Jingting and his wife who slightly outmaneuvered the other with their tacit understanding and wisdom.

Yu Jingting and Suizi exchanged a glance.

Yu Jingting spoke gravely, "We can’t keep this from dad."