Chapter 1680 - 1337: I Go to Her Side

Chapter 1680: Chapter 1337: I Go to Her Side

Shi Nuan didn’t know what Song Yansheng meant; now that the two of them were like this, what was that supposed to mean?

Maybe she shouldn’t care about these things; after all, she and Song Yansheng were together, and that was what mattered most.

But there was still a bit of awkwardness in her heart, and she couldn’t say why.

Shi Nuan thought that, by and large, there was still some blame for her in Song Yansheng’s heart.

Even if nothing had actually happened between her and Shen Zui, she had gone to see him, and she had hidden it from him; he did care about that, he was angry about it.

Or maybe he was blaming himself too—blaming his own carelessness, blaming himself for letting everything become what it was now, to the point that he wanted to punish himself a little?

Shi Nuan couldn’t get a read on Song Yansheng’s thoughts, and it saddened her; after being married to him for more than half a year, she still seemed not to understand him.

Still, the media’s public opinion about her and Song Yansheng had indeed been reversed in most respects.

On top of that, with the wedding date between Shen Zui and Shi Jiaojiao approaching, Shen Zui’s influence among young people was no small thing.

Naturally, the public’s attention shifted away.

Things were going fairly smoothly at home, and the thought of going abroad rose up again in Shi Nuan’s mind.

And this time, the urge was even stronger than before.

The fact that TK Group had toppled the Song Family so quickly had shocked Shi Nuan.

She knew Song Yansheng was strong, but she hadn’t expected him to be that strong.

Their experiences in youth had been somewhat similar, but their final outcomes were completely different.

Relying on his own strength alone, Song Yansheng had built TK and effortlessly pushed his enemies into hell.

But what about her? If she hadn’t met Song Yansheng, she might already have been framed and sent to prison by Li Guirong and her daughter; what she would look like now was anyone’s guess.

Song Yansheng was so outstanding that it made her feel inferior.

It was true that she had shone brilliantly at the Shi Family shareholders’ meeting, but she was very clear about her own limits.

If it hadn’t been for her grandfather’s notes and Song Yansheng’s guidance, she couldn’t have done that well.

She couldn’t depend on them forever; she needed to become strong on her own—strong enough that she wouldn’t need Song Yansheng’s protection, that he wouldn’t have to worry about her, strong enough that one day she could stand up herself.

To protect Song Yansheng...

In the past, she had only longed to stand with him in the sunlight, to love each other warmly and calmly.

But now, she hoped to weather storms at his side, to support and uphold each other, to face all the tempests together, to hack their way through brambles side by side.

She wanted to be not only his wife and his lover, but also his confidante and his comrade-in-arms.

After hesitating for a long time, Shi Nuan finally brought up her idea of going abroad one morning while she and Song Yansheng were eating breakfast.

She also frankly admitted that she was still severely lacking in business, that there was far too much she needed to learn.

Right now the Shi Family had Yu Dou, but her Father’s intention was that once she finished her studies and came back, she would go straight into the company to assist Yu Dou in managing it.

Shi Nuan said, "The Shi Family is a large enterprise, with thousands of employees on the payroll. I don’t have the luxury of trial and error, and I can’t afford the cost of trial and error. I have to absorb nourishment and work hard to improve myself. I don’t know if you understand—my pressure is huge..."

Song Yansheng listened to everything quietly, then said faintly, "I understand your pressure, but if you’re only going to be assisting Yu Dou, then I think there’s really no need for you to go abroad at all..."

Shi Nuan frowned, not understanding what he meant.

She asked, "Don’t tell me you want me to... replace Yu Dou?"

Song Yansheng chuckled. "Of course not. The Shi Family used to be very weak. In these past few years, under Yu Dou’s leadership, it’s been reorganized. Only now has the company’s overall situation finally improved, and its various management systems started to stabilize. Under these circumstances, what do you think you can actually do for the Shi Family?"

Shi Nuan pressed her lips together and said, "I told you, I’m only going to be assisting Yu Dou..."

"Exactly..." Song Yansheng lifted his shoulders in a shrug.

Shi Nuan fell silent.

The topic circled back again to what they had started with—if she was only going to assist, then there really wasn’t much point in her going abroad, just as Song Yansheng had said.

Yu Dou was a business genius, probably on par with Song Yansheng.

If not for the Shi Family, he could have achieved something truly great.

She remembered that day on the phone with her Father, when he had said, "As long as you’re not yet able to fully control the Shi Family, Yu Dou won’t leave. This man... knows loyalty."

Shi Nuan didn’t interpret the "loyalty" in Shi Yuanbo’s words as anything else; she simply thought that Yu Dou was repaying her mother’s kindness.

Just like Ji Xia, someone willing to dedicate an entire life because of the help her mother had once given.

Shi Nuan trusted Ji Xia, and perhaps influenced by that, she also trusted Yu Dou without reservation.

And she wasn’t even sure that, after coming back from abroad, she could do a better job than Yu Dou.