After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 486: Since You’re Here, Stay at Qingshui Bay

Chapter 486: Chapter 486: Since You’re Here, Stay at Qingshui Bay

Quan Sicheng was stunned for a moment upon hearing Shi Yaoguang’s accusing tone.

It seemed he hadn’t expected Shi Yaoguang to speak to him in such a manner over this matter.

Shi Yaoguang scoffed, "Even though we don’t get along, I’m not the kind of person who eagerly hopes for others to be cuckolded. Considering you’re just a pitiful victim right now, I won’t mock you."

As she spoke, her tone even carried a hint of sympathy, "However, it’s too late to say anything now. The most urgent task is to get your fiancée back."

Quan Sicheng, "I..." He was about to say something else, but Shi Yaoguang quickly rattled off an address.

"I’ve given you the address for Shi Yiqing and Shang Minghao. What you do next is up to you."

After speaking, she hung up the call.

Upon hanging up, she met Quan Jinbei’s deep gaze.

Shi Yaoguang looked back at him unflinchingly.

After a moment of eye contact, Quan Jinbei took the initiative to ask, "Why did you help him like that?"

Shi Yaoguang showed surprise, "Help him?"

How was she helping him?

Encouraging Quan Sicheng to find Shi Yiqing?

In Quan Sicheng’s belief that Shi Yiqing had been unfaithful, encouraging him to seek her out...

Was that helping?

It was more like adding fuel to the fire.

With that thought, she heard Quan Sicheng say, "You seemed quite upset just now that he wasn’t treating Shi Yiqing well."

Shi Yaoguang did not explain. Instead, she gently clicked her tongue and cradled Quan Jinbei’s face, pressing a kiss onto his thin lips.

Under his stunned gaze, she drawled, "They are an official match. Do you think an official match is so easy to break apart?"

"Since Quan Sicheng would sooner or later go looking for Shi Yiqing and get back together with her, why not plant a mine in his heart in advance?"

"Shang Minghao is Heavenly Dao, and his purpose in staying by Shi Yiqing’s side is to help her reach the pinnacle of her life. We know this, but Quan Sicheng doesn’t, does he?"

"What do you think... to an outsider, why would a handsome and wealthy man go to such lengths to lift a juicy young girl onto a pedestal? What could his motives be?"

"Most people would think it’s love."

What Shi Yaoguang left unsaid was that not just the average person, but likely even Shi Yiqing herself would believe it to be so.

Shi Yiqing’s feelings for Quan Sicheng were mostly based on his status.

Now that Quan Sicheng’s status had been exposed.

The benefits Shi Yiqing could gain from him were negligible, and Quan Sicheng would even become a burden to her. The relationship that was originally maintained by interests naturally waned.

Though it was a bit realistic, this was the truth.

When Heavenly Dao constructed the world, it was all about romantic fantasies.

When you burst the bubble of fantasy, people are able to see the reality.

The reality is that the

Heavenly Dao’s chosen girl, carefully selected from thousands, would soon fall for someone else and move on.

And that person would be Heavenly Dao himself.

Next, there would be quite a show to watch.

Shi Yaoguang, with her chin propped on her hands, couldn’t help but think she was quite the clever little devil.

It’s just that she might have acted a little too much like a villain.

However...

To Heavenly Dao and Shi Yiqing, the protagonists, she had always been the antagonist.

If the antagonist doesn’t act villainous, can they still be called an antagonist?

With that in mind, Shi Yaoguang felt not even a twinge of guilt.

She was utterly at ease and comfortable.

...

In the Imperial Capital, Qingshui Bay.

After receiving Shi Yiqing’s address, Quan Sicheng flew over from Mingzhu City.

He had made many calls to Shi Yiqing, but she hadn’t answered any of them.

At first, he thought Shi Yiqing had blacklisted him, so he borrowed someone else’s phone to try, but the result was the same.

Finally unsettled by Shi Yaoguang’s photo, he couldn’t sit still any longer.

Qingshui Bay is a wealthy neighborhood, a cluster of villas.

As an outsider, Quan Sicheng had no way of entering.

Having no other option, he could only wait at the entrance.

From morning till evening, he saw many cars come and go, but Shi Yiqing was nowhere to be seen.

Just when he decided to give up, Shi Yiqing appeared.

With her was Shang Minghao.

Seeing the two of them in the same car, even though one sat in the passenger seat and the other in the back, Quan Sicheng’s expression was very unsightly.

In the dead of night, discounting the driver, alone as a man and a woman...

No matter how you looked at it, it wasn’t simple.

Shi Yiqing was enthusiastically discussing her latest ideas with Shang Minghao.

School was starting in a few days, and she had not taken the college entrance exams in advance.

Actually, she was still just a second-year high school student.

The third year of high school would start in the second half of the year.

Compared to Shi Yaoguang, she was a full year behind.

This was undoubtedly a dimensionality reduction blow for her.

Shi Yiqing wanted to implore Shang Minghao to arrange something like a transfer for her.

She wanted to attend college at the same time as Shi Yaoguang.

This was a request that Shang Minghao would have arranged even if Shi Yiqing hadn’t mentioned it.

As a chosen daughter of Heavenly Dao, she couldn’t lag too far behind.

Shi Yiqing excitedly listed the schools she was interested in, not noticing the situation outside, but Shang Minghao didn’t miss the figure outside.

He instructed the driver to stop the car.

Shi Yiqing was puzzled, "Why stop here, President Shang—"

Before she finished speaking, she saw Quan Sicheng.

Quan Sicheng was also looking at her, his eyes filled with complex emotions she couldn’t understand.

"Quan Sicheng." Shang Minghao, when had he gotten out of the car, stood facing Quan Sicheng, scrutinizing him carefully.

After looking him over, a trace of disappointment welled up inside him.

This feeling was identical to the one he felt when facing Shi Yiqing.

There was no helping it, compared with Shi Yaoguang and Quan Jinbei, Shi Yiqing and Quan Sicheng truly didn’t measure up.

They were too inferior.

But there was no helping it.

They were both personally chosen by Heavenly Dao.

As the center of the world’s operation, even with disappointment, he couldn’t neglect them.

Suppressing the bit of dissatisfaction in his heart, Heavenly Dao took the initiative to invite Quan Sicheng into the car.

Quan Sicheng didn’t know what came over him, but upon being invited by someone who might be a romantic rival, he actually got into the car, not fearing that he might be sold out.

Shi Yiqing had not expected that Shang Minghao would invite Quan Sicheng.

At the same time, her feelings were very complex.

On the one hand, she still cared for Quan Sicheng.

Even though her initial reason for being with Quan Sicheng was because he was one of the Quan Family’s four young masters.

But after spending time together, she had developed genuine feelings for Quan Sicheng.

Even if... her feelings were withdrawn decisively once she knew that they no longer matched, as Shi Yiqing did when it became clear.

This was also why, after they had an argument, she directly stopped contacting Quan Sicheng.

She thought there would be no contact between them for a while, but didn’t expect him to come here.

Shi Yiqing watched Quan Sicheng, and he watched her.

As their eyes met, a faint awkwardness spread through the air.

However, Shang Minghao seemed to notice nothing, his gaze traveling over the two of them before he said to Quan Sicheng, "Since you’ve come, why don’t you stay at Qingshui Bay as well?"

Hearing this, both Quan Sicheng and Shi Yiqing wore expressions of disbelief.