At the engagement party, the groom-to-be, Gu Zexi, threw his wedding ring into the champagne tower in public.
"Lu Youyou, apart from your family background, what makes you worthy of Mrs. Gu's position?"
Amid the snickering of the guests in the hall, Lu Youyou lowered her head and wiped her fingers wet with wine. When she raised her eyes again, her eyes were filled with water.
She walked towards the "uncle" at the main table who no one dared to approach, grabbed his meticulous Windsor knot, and kissed his cool lips while everyone gasped.
"So," she gasped, but her voice could be heard clearly throughout the audience, "Uncle, am I worthy of you?"
Xie Yuhuai wiped the corners of his lips, his gaze behind the lenses was bottomless: "The price is very high."
"I can afford it."
Everyone thought that Lu Youyou's flirtation with Xie Yuhuai was a desperate gamble after breaking off the engagement.
Only Xie Yuhuai knew that from the day she stepped into the Gu family, she was heading towards him every step of the way.
He watched her use design drawings to disrupt the Gu family's tens of billions of land bidding, watched her use a jewelry auction to break the rival family's financial chain, and watched her push everyone who participated in the secret talks into desperation.
Until she pointed the gun at him.
"Mr. Xie, the game is over."
Xie Yuhuai smiled and held her trembling gun barrel against his heart.
"Lu Youyou," he called her name for the first time, "I have taught you so much, but I have never taught you - to cut the weeds, you must remove the roots."
He leaned forward and kissed her cold lips.
"Or kill me."
"Either, marry me."
