Chapter 20 - I Bought Myself

Yan Shu did not feel like staying there anymore. Hence, she notified Su Jiacheng that she wants to leave.

Su Jiacheng could not leave the gala midway neither he wanted to let her go alone.

"I can be her chauffeur, second brother." Si Junyan interrupted the siblings conversation.

"Brother, Ling Mo is already waiting outside. It's fine." Yan Shu did not even bother to talk to him as she reassured Su Jiacheng.

"Then, I'll see you outside." Su Jiacheng nodded at her and they walked out of the room.

'Wow, Miss Su did not even glance at Boss. I wish I could have a glance at her face.' Assistant Hu chuckled inwardly. Over the years, working beside Si Junyan, he has seen numerous women boot licking to his boss but his boss never even spared a glance at them. Although he knew his boss has someone he liked despite being tied verbally to Miss Su. He thought it was his boss who did not had any affection towards Miss Su but what happened today had opened up a new world to him. It was more like opposite to what he had been thinking.

'Boss is such a two-timer. Pursuing Miss Su in the front and caring for Miss Yan behind the scenes.' Assistant Hu shook his head. He never expected his boss to turn out to be like that.

Standing infront, Si Junyan had no idea that his assistant had been bad-mouthing him from behind. He just stood there and watched the two figures leaving the hall. His eyes narrowed at their back profiles.

"Let's leave." Since he wasn't able to buy the thing he wanted, he had no reason to stay in the party anymore. Thus, he also decided to leave.

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"Call me when you reach home." He hastily opened the car door for Yan Shu to enter. He was a bit upset since he couldn't go back home with her together.

Yan Shu nodded at him and closed the door. Then the car started.

Su Jiacheng was about to go back to the gala but was stopped by someone at the entrance. He lifted his head to look at the person and realized it was none other than the sister thief.

Well, first he was into Bai Yan's sister now he was after his. Even though they were like sworn brothers but lately he unknowingly gets annoyed at the sight of him.

"What do you want?" Su Jiacheng striked first. He was getting impatient on top of that not being able to spend much time with his sister was adding fuel to it.

"Second brother, you've been behaving weirdly these few days." Si Junyan curiously replied. He knew Su Jiacheng was angry because he hasn't yet cancelled the marriage agreement but he was fine all these years with it. Even when he returned to country he was happy about it and did not care about the agreement. He just couldn't understand why he was so persuasive now.

"I don't want to lose my sister like big brother. I don't think you have the ability to protect others. So the further you stay from her, the more I'll be reliant towards you. But you've been doing the opposite. Don't pretend you've no idea why I am behaving like this towards you." Su Jiacheng's eyes turned cold as he remebered what happened back then.

Being hit at his sore point, Si Junyan's face turned gloomy. All these years he had been blaming himself and trying his best to overcome it but he did not expect his one of the close ones will mocked at him with that incident.

"Huh! So it was only my fault? That was really unexpected for it to come from you." Si Junyan clenched his teeth as he suppressed the pain rising in his heart. With his trembling feet he walked past Su Jiacheng heading for his car.

Seeing Si Junyan leave abruptly, Su Jiacheng suddenly felt guilty at his own words. He had never wanted to bring it up but in a moment of anger, he lost control over his own actions. All of the five brothers knew that the event happened back then was a sore point for every one of them especially Si Junyan's. He and Bai Yan was the ones who had lost the most back then.

Well, what's done is done. He can not take back his words now nor he can turn back time. He just hoped that Si Junyan doesn't take it to heart seriously this time. After all it has almost been a decade since that incident took place.

He stole a glance at the sedan and sighed before helplessly returning back to the party.

Assistant Hu didn't know what the two brothers talked about but seeing his boss he was certain that it wasn't something pleasant. But the moment his boss entered the car the temperature inside the car had dropped so much that he shivered while driving. He did not had the courage to ask his boss anything and just had to bear with the cold silently.

A black bentley pulled off infront of Yan Shu's home at Jingsheng Compound. Yan Shu deliberately left the party early in order to take her portrait at her own home. She couldn't have been able to do that if either Su Jiacheng or Si Junyan were present with her.

She instructed to Ling Mo to take out the painting and help her carry it inside the house.

She then asked Ling Mo to wait in the car outside. She swept a glance over the living room wondering where she should hang the painting. Then her eyes stopped at the corner where all of her achievements were stored in three four-storey shelves. She decided to put the painting on the upper rack of the middle shelf.

When she was done setting it up, she headed to the study.

She put the credit card she used to buy the painting inside the study table drawer.

"My eight years of earning just went down the drain like that only to buy a painting of my ownself.' She sighed helplessly.

If she had known that her portrait would be in auction today, she would've never gone to that event rather she would've contacted Master Zhu to buy it personally. With Su's status, she could've been able to get it without spending a penny of hers. Well, now she couldn't turn back time.

'It's time to earn money again. How I wished to spend that money when travelling abroad only to be shattered like this.' Her heart ached the more she thought about it.

Having no choice, she opened her laptop and logged into the Magusloop. Her only source of income right now but Darkmagus only agreed to pay her after her completion of ten tasks. Right now, her completion was only one and that was not yet complete yet. She wanted to cry loudly for a moment thinking how poor she became within just a few hours.

She sighed and sighed and just kept sighing.