Pampered by Short-Lived Bigshot

This strategist’s heart is dirty, each move is a trap; it’s no joke, Jiang Jinsang gripped the paper cup in his hands.

...

In the resting room, Jiang Jinsang suddenly stopped talking. Huo Qinqi was simply a man of few words, while Qi Zeyan didn’t dare to speak, and they were inexplicably plunged into dead silence.

Jiang Jinsang was recalling the details.

But Shen Shuci was not his wife, after all; if it had been Tang Wan’s issue, he definitely would have remembered clearly. But as for Shen Shuci’s issues, he hadn’t deliberately memorized them. After a long while, he suddenly said:

”Braised fish...could it be...”

Huo Qinqi straightforwardly admitted, ”I taught her.”

”So it was you.” Jiang Jinsang had felt the taste was a bit familiar at the time, but since Huo Qinqi rarely cooked and he hardly saw him even once a year, let alone taste his cooking. Having eaten it only once or twice, the impression naturally wasn’t deep.

”Zeyan was there too, and he tried it all along,” Huo Qinqi added.

Qi Zeyan looked skyward silently:

Could you not drag me into this!

Is it so bad to just let me be a quiet and handsome man?

Why must you pull me to die with you, did I ever mess with your cornfield in my past life?

”So the cat that scratched Old Liang, the one now kept at my aunt’s house...is also yours?” After the utmost shock, Jiang Jinsang managed to stay eerily calm.

Huo Qinqi nodded, ”Yes, that’s my cat, she named it, Huo Chichi.”

Qi Zeyan was on the verge of a breakdown:

Who asked you for the name! Are you showing off your dog food?

In the middle of gunfire, you’re still adding sugar?

”Chichi? Shuci?” Jiang Jinsang couldn’t help but make connections, ”No wonder all those cat products you picked were so cutesy; it all makes sense now... Knowing you have a cat, I should have been more vigilant.”

”Speaking of Huo Chichi, I haven’t had the chance to thank Zeyan in person,” Huo Qinqi suddenly said.

”Thank him? What do you mean?” Jiang Jinsang raised his eyebrows quizzically and glanced at the person next to him. Could it be, was he involved in this too?

”The cat was originally his friend’s, luckily he introduced me.”

Qi Zeyan had already slumped into his seat...

Can’t I just go die?

Jiang Jinsang just smiled, ”Even cat business you understand.”

Qi Zeyan no longer wanted to struggle and had completely given up resisting. He was only involved in that little affair, yet how it seemed like he was fully involved all along.

”I really hadn’t expected, you were so involved in the whole affair,” Jiang Jinsang said as he drank water, moisturizing his throat, ”You’re quite the dutiful and responsible accomplice.”

”I’m not...” At this point, even jumping into the Yellow River wouldn’t clear Qi Zeyan.

”When I consider it, there’s actually quite a lot involved,” Jiang Jinsang twirled his fingers, amazed that it had taken him so long to realize.

Before, he thought big brother was a bit missing upstairs, but now it seemed, he could afford to be more lenient; so many people knew, and he was just now noticing.

The main thing was, Jiang Jinsang really hadn’t connected these two together.

Both were men of few words, not ones to take initiative; both dominantly aloof and detached. Such people getting together, they’d scarely speak ten sentences in a day; how could they date?

”This is such a big deal; having kept it from me, Huo Qinqi, you really are...” Jiang Jinsang scoffed with a smile.

Good brothers turn into uncles, becoming elders?

He could now somewhat understand Xie Duo’s feelings back then.

Huo Qinqi just glanced at him lightly, his response was still the classic Huo style: ”Who I pursue and date, why must I tell you?”

”But she’s Wanwan’s elder, my aunt.”

”Now the younger generation can intervene in the love life of their elders?”

...

Stuck in the middle, Qi Zeyan could only silently give someone a thumbs up.

Awesome, this level of assertiveness is indeed rare.