The CEO’s Unkown Wife
Chapter 375 The Real Aristocracy_1

Chapter 375: Chapter 375 The Real Aristocracy_1

"You..." Shi Qian was outraged and on the brink of cursing.

But Xia Qingtian didn’t give her the chance.

"Although your request is truly despicable, my biggest virtue has always been helping others. So, I’ve chosen to indulge you. You don’t need to thank me. I’ll just think of it as doing a good deed for the day."

As soon as she finished her sentence, a taxi drove past.

Xia Qingtian couldn’t be bothered to waste any more time on Shi Qian. She hailed the taxi and got in it straight away.

By the time Shi Qian had recovered, Xia Qingtian had already gotten into the taxi and left.

This made Shi Qian so furious that her eyes turned red, and she was even tempted to kill someone. But there was no one left there except her.

Even if she did want to kill someone, there was nobody left for her to vent her anger on.

With clenched fists, Shi Qian tried to console herself, thinking that Xia Qingtian was the real loser compared to herself.

Under her deliberate direction and insinuation, Shen Zhiyi already began to consider Xia Qingtian as the main cause of Shen Yaxuan fleeing the wedding. It was Xia Qingtian who had caused her to lose face.

Currently, she utterly despised Xia Qingtian. There was no way she was going to allow her family’s company help Cheng Bingbing with her scar.

In a few days, Cheng Bingbing would be ejected from the crew, and she’d be forced to pay a hefty amount of compensation.

Thinking this way, Shi Qian felt a bit more comfortable.

And in order not to give Xia Qingtian an opportunity to please Shen Zhiyi and change her mind, she visited Shen Zhiyi the day after the play was over.

At this moment, Shen Zhiyi was sitting in a bar.

She was drinking heavily due to her poor mood.

Shi Qian sat down next to her, and instead of advising her to drink less or cheer up, she just nonchalantly drank with her.

This immediately pleased Shen Zhiyi.

Shen Zhiyi was already fed up with people always urging her to be forgiving towards Shen Yaxuan.

It was a breath of fresh air to finally meet someone who didn’t try to coax her into forgiving him.

So, she started to drink and cuss out Shen Yaxuan.

Shi Qian cooperatively reciprocated, cussing Shen Yaxuan and his ancestors up to his eighteenth generation.

Shen Zhiyi’s mood brightened up, and she started to consider Shi Qian as a true friend.

As a token of gratitude for exposing Xia Qingtian’s true nature and preventing her from being toyed with, and for drinking with her and denouncing the rotten man, she took Shi Qian to her house.

Her dad’s study was home to an impressive collection of fine wine, some of which were already collectible items.

As Shi Qian was eager to become good friends with Shen Zhiyi, she naturally did not decline.

She followed Shen Zhiyi back to Shen family’s residence.

The study of Shen’s father was large, and besides books, it was filled with bottles of wine.

Shen Zhiyi unceremoniously picked a few bottles of good wine and poured some into a wine glass for Shi Qian. However, due to being drunk, her hand was unsteady and she ended up spilling the wine on the table instead of pouring it into the glass.

Shi Qian was startled.

There were many documents on Shen father’s desk. Afraid that any of the important documents would be damaged, she quickly moved them aside, simultaneously cleaning the spilled wine with a tissue.

Despite her swift action, many of the documents were still wet. Especially a sheet of blueprint at the bottom of the pile, which was now soaked through.

"Zhiyi, this is wet. What do we do?" Shi Qian asked with a worried look on her face. "Is this important to your father?"

Shen Zhiyi, her eyes half-closed, took the wet paper from Shi Qian to take a closer look. When she saw what was drawn inside, she unconcernedly threw it back to Shi Qian.

"This blueprint is insignificant. My dad could print out as many as he wants. What’s important is the real object depicted in the blueprint."

"What real object?" Shi Qian hastily seized the document and took a good look at it.

The stuff featured in the blueprint seemed strange to her. It appeared to be a fragment of something, and she felt that she had seen it somewhere before.

Shen Zhiyi nonchalantly sat down on the floor with her back against the wine rack.

She directly grabbed the half-empty wine bottle, took a sip, and then indiscreetly wiped the corner of her mouth.

"It’s the symbol of our Shen Family’s emblem...." she explained. "This is one of the fragments."

Looking at the fragment, Shi Qian felt more and more familiar.

She was sure that she must have seen it somewhere.

But she couldn’t remember for the moment.

For some reason, the appearance of this emblem made her heart beat faster, stirring up a terrible feeling.

Clutching the blueprint, Shi Qian quickly scampered over to Shen Zhiyi and sat down next to her on the floor.

"What did your father print this fragment for?" She stared intently at Shen Zhiyi, stubbornly pressing for an answer.

Shen Zhiyi did not feign ignorance and languidly replied, "Well, one of our cousins in the main family has gone missing. Over the years, the main family has been searching for my cousin. The fragment was something that she wore when she disappeared."

"So, the main family dispatched the fragment to various branches, enlisting everyone’s help to search for her. Whoever finds her will be patronised by the main family. Therefore, all the branches are keen to discover her whereabouts."

Shi Qian was taken aback by her words.

"With the strength of the Shen Family as it is now, it has already surpassed the main family, right? So you don’t need any help from the main family, do you?" She enquired with a flicker of confusion.

Shen Zhiyi’s family’s business was among the top ten in the country and ranked within the top hundred in the world. What further support did they need?

At her words, Shen Zhiyi couldn’t help but let out a sneer.

"What do you know?" When she mentioned the main family, her tone was filled with respect. "Compared to the main family, we are mere vassals at best."

"The main family is a true aristocratic family that has been in luxury for centuries. They usually keep a low profile and do not show off their wealth, but they have immense resources, everything is top-notch. There are many branches of the Shen family, and each of them hopes to achieve meritorious service and gain a post in the main family."

"And finding the lost cousin is the biggest opportunity for all the branches, hence why my father treated it so seriously. Unfortunately, the cousin has been missing for over twenty years. There isn’t even a single picture of her, only the emblem fragment that she took with her. Looking for her is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

Shi Qian blinked her eyes and suddenly felt a longing for the main family she had been talking about. The Shen family was already impressive and unreachable for her.

But it seemed like the main family was an equally distant presence for the Shen family.

If she could find the missing cousin for Ai for Shen Zhiyi’s main family, wouldn’t she receive a hefty reward?

Even though she knew that it was wishful thinking, Shi Qian couldn’t resist asking, "Since the main family is so powerful, why did your cousin go missing? Was she kidnapped or something? How old was she when she disappeared?"