Chapter 141 — Old Buffon's Origins
Years of Heartflutter · Page 99 of 214
Sun Lin was instantly dumbstruck, staring at Yang Ce with his mouth agape. After a long while he said, "The whole reason I was in such a hurry to get Xiaojie a man was so I could retire. And now look at you."
"Just joking. The men I have on hand are enough for now. But as for Donghai, Uncle Sun, you'd better see to it yourself. We'll talk once Jidun and Songjiang are stable," Yang Hengye said.
"You scared me to death." By now Sun Lin had already begun to regard Yang Ce as his son-in-law, so he could not be bothered to demand Yang Juehuan's territory anymore. Wasn't that just asking for trouble? It would all work out the same in the end; sooner or later they would be family.
Had it been anyone else offering Sun Lin a piece of territory, he would have worked himself to death to go claim it. That was the difference in mindset. That very morning he had still been wondering whether he could get a slice of the pie; by evening he was already pushing it away.
"However, Uncle Sun, there is one thing I must come clean about with you first." Seizing the advantage of his current position, Yang Ce prepared to tell Sun Lin about his several women.
"Oh? If you have something to say, just say it. What's all this 'come clean' business?" Sun Lin waved his hand with a laugh. Clearly, he was in excellent spirits now.
"Uncle Sun, the truth is, besides Sun Jie, I have other women." Yang Puqi spoke word by word.
"Oh?" Sun Lin was not as furious as one might have expected. He merely gave a flat "oh."
Yang Jiyan was somewhat nervous. Though he was only a fake son-in-law, Yang Ce truly did have designs on taking Sun Jie for real—after all, Sun Jie was his woman, and Yang Yongjin would not allow his woman to be anywhere but at his side.
So Sun Lin's opinion still mattered a great deal. Yang Yongjin could not afford to ignore it.
"Does Xiaojie know?" After a long pause, Sun Lin finally spoke slowly.
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659. The Ouyang Family's Decision
"She knows." Yang Yuting nodded. He had not concealed it from Sun Lin; Sun Jie had known all along about Yang Moyi's other women.
"Then don't bring this up with me anymore. It's between you and Xiaojie. I don't want to get involved." Sun Lin was, after all, a towering figure of the underworld. Though he himself had no wives or concubines, he had seen plenty of such things and was not particularly averse to them.
Moreover, Yang Ce's current status and standing had already made Sun Lin regard him with new eyes. The contempt of that morning was gone—because Sun Lin's chief fear had been that Yang Ce's union with Sun Jie was motivated by ulterior designs, by a scheme to seize the Sun family fortune. But Yang Ce's own family holdings were far vaster than the Suns'. His paltry assets would not even register in the man's eyes.
"There is one more thing, Uncle Sun, that I don't want to keep from you." Yang Ce thought for a moment, then spoke.
"Oh? There's more? Don't tell me that not only do you have women on the side, but men as well?" Sun Lin had meant it as a joke, but the moment the words left his mouth, he abruptly thought of his own daughter. Could it be that Sun Jie had a woman on the side? He had heard certain rumors about his daughter. Surely they could not be true?
"That's not it." Yang Ce shook his head with a wry smile. "The truth is this: Xiaojie and I are not the boyfriend-and-girlfriend you imagine us to be."
"What do you mean?" Sun Lin started, asking nervously.
"How should I put it? It's just that, although Xiaojie is already my woman, the two of us haven't formally established our relationship yet." Yang Ce rubbed his chin and explained.
"Xiaojie is already your woman?" How could Sun Lin fail to grasp his meaning? With an ambiguous, somewhat baffled laugh, he said, "What nonsense is this? You two sort out your own affairs. I'm not getting mixed up in it."