[Xiao Yu's lawyer is pushing for a settlement with Shi Yunyun.]
The System, who had disappeared for a day, suddenly popped up out of nowhere.
[Your report won't keep Xiao Yu locked up, he is the Male Lead. When he comes out, Shi Yunyun's child still won't survive. You might as well just beg me for help!]
"No, that child will be born safely." Mingting leaned back on the plush sofa, looking utterly relaxed, "Do you want to make a bet?"
[Bet on what?] The System looked at Mingting vigilantly.
"It's very simple. I bet that Xiao Yu will marry Shi Yunyun as soon as possible. He will even carefully protect the baby in her belly."
Mingting looked at the translucent System floating in the air, and a gleam of light flashed in his peach-blossom eyes glinted behind his gold-rimmed glasses.
"If I lose, I will give you all the soul fragments I get as rewards for completing tasks in the future, and you will just take it as me working for you. But if I win, you will become my 'little brother'." (T/N: The little brother in here leans more toward being a subordinate.)
[Just… become your little brother? That's it?] The System tilted its head.
'Was Mingting really this generous?'
The System was thinking in its mind, 'If I won, I would get a steady stream of soul fragments!'
'But if I was unlucky and lost, while the bet was to be Mingting's little brother, since I could come and go as it pleased, Mingting wouldn't actually be able to control me. At worst, it'd just be a verbal title.'
'Besides, I couldn't possibly lose! This bet was a no-lose situation no matter how one look at it.'
"If you're too scared, forget it…" Mingting lazily crossed his long legs.
[Bet it is! A System's word is unbreakable!] The System made a bet with Mingting and disappeared happily.
After fooling the naive system and enjoying his spicy crayfish, Mingting started filming today's design process.
…
At this time, in the police station, Xiao Yu sat across from his secretary.
Though his hair was disheveled and his clothes wrinkled, after hearing the news brought by the secretary, Xiao Yu's eyes, which had been dull for a day, immediately sharpened.
"Are you sure? The client is really a prince from the UAE?"
"Absolutely. Prince Sahara wants a custom jewelry set for his eldest daughter's 18th birthday."
"His daughter had seen the Spring Goddess designed by Miss Shi before and liked it very much. So, the prince specifically requested for Miss Shi to design the custom jewelry set herself. His personal steward even flew to China in person for this matter."
The secretary, who had been scrambling all day over the scandal, was stunned when this big client appeared out of nowhere.
A prince from the UAE!
Hearing this news, Father Xiao, who was originally lying on the hospital bed, was revived immediately.
Although there are many princes in the UAE, the royal family that controls oil is very rich! They're a big fat sheep!
Right now, what did the Xiao Corporation lack most? Money.
Why had Xiao Yu lost his mind and done something so stupid and universally condemned? It's because he needed a marriage alliance, and the money that came with it.
"Now, there is good news and bad news."
The secretary looked at Xiao Yu.
"The good news is, the prince's steward doesn't understand Chinese and doesn't follow the news, so he has no idea about the matter between you and Miss Shi. Last year, Miss Shi participated in the competition as a designer of the Xiao Corporation, so the steward came straight to us."
"The bad news is, if we can't smooth things over with Miss Shi, not only will this deal vanish, but she might even use the prince's influence to retaliate against the Xiao Corporation."
"So, Mr. Xiao wants you to apologize to Miss Shi and marry her immediately. Today's incident has already caused massive damage, and Xiao Corporation can no longer withstand any more storms."
The secretary's words made Xiao Yu fall into deep thought.
This order was nothing short of a godsend for the Xiao Corporation.
As long as Xiao Corporation could establish a reputation as the jewelers for one of the UAE's princes, there will be a steady stream of clients, and their current troubles would vanish overnight.
Xiao Yu recalled a summer during college when he and Shi Yunyun had gone traveling, and a blind fortune teller had told him that Shi Yunyun was born with a destiny to 'prosper her husband'.
'It seems that the blind man was right!'
Xiao Yu didn't expect that Shi Yunyun's design talent would become Xiao Corporation's life-saving straw.
Shi Yunyun was gentle, sweet, obedient, and beautiful, otherwise, Xiao Yu wouldn't have stayed with her for so long.
After all these years together, he did have feelings for her.
Since Prince Sahara specifically had specifically requested Shi Yunyun to design the custom jewelry set, Xiao Yu's top priority was figuring out how to make her forgive him.
Soon, Xiao Yu had an idea.
No matter what, they have been together for so many years, so Xiao Yu knew exactly how soft-hearted and easily swayed Shi Yunyun was.
He had his secretary film an apology video. In the video, the slightly disheveled but still handsome man knelt on one knee with red eyes and proposed to Shi Yunyun with a ring.
He reminisced about their past and sincerely repented.
Xiao Yu said that he was jealous and thought that the child was not his, which is why he did such a thing. At the emotional peak, he even slapped himself hard across the face several times.
The secretary took the video and went to the hospital to meet up with the lawyer.
Shi Yunyun had never truly let go of Xiao Yu. Seeing him slap himself, kneel, apologize, and propose to her, watching him torment himself like this, her heart softened instantly.
However, Shi Yunyun's mother, Sun Ting, is not someone who is easily fooled.
That's when the secretary presented Father Xiao's 'sincerity', which is 5% of the Xiao Corporation's shares.
Regardless of whether Shi Yunyun forgave Xiao Yu or not, and whether they married or not, the shares were hers.
…
Midnight, at 12 AM, the System jumped angrily in front of Mingting's workbench.
"Did you already know something when you made that bet with me? Why is Xiao Yu in a hurry to marry Shi Yunyun?"
Seeing the bastard system's frustrated look, Mingting smirked.
He removed his gold-rimmed glasses, and those usually warm, charming peach-blossom eyes were now cold and inhuman.
"I just hired a Middle Eastern theater troupe to put on a little show. See? The performance has begun…"