She Won’t Be The Alpha In A Redemption Novel - Chapter 7

In truth, today’s contract was not important enough to require Shen Banyan to personally come and sign it.

Only, the other party was no stranger. He was her aunt’s husband.

Rather than saying Shen Banyan had come for the signing, it was more accurate to say she had come to learn about her aunt’s current situation.

But by the time Shen Banyan walked into her office, she unexpectedly saw that her aunt had come too.

Her aunt wore a gorgeous dress. The woman who had once been the brightest and most radiant person in the Shen family had now become like this.

It was still a face very similar to Shen Banyan’s, but at a single glance, one could see the irrepressible exhaustion and weariness in her eyes.

“Then let’s go. Didn’t he say he wasn’t signing?”

After Su Xiqiao said this, she lazily leaned against Shen Banyan.

Today, she was wearing a red silk slip dress. Her beautiful curves had attracted countless gazes from the moment she entered the Shen Group building.

One reason was that she was so beautiful people could not look away.

The other reason was that Su Xiqiao was standing beside their boss.

Not only that, their boss, whose shirts were usually extremely muted in color, was wearing a dark red silk shirt today.

That boss, who never smiled and whose aura alone could force an entire crowd back, was actually wearing a dark red silk shirt…

It was simply indescribably strange!

With just a single glance, Shen Banyan could see that all the subordinates around them were casting odd looks in her direction.

“Aunt, let’s go into the meeting room first.”

Thinking of what Su Xiqiao had told her when they woke up, Shen Banyan turned sideways and invited her aunt inside.

“Mm.” Only then did Shen Qingyu nod upon seeing her niece act like this.

“That’s more like it! That’s how a junior should behave!”

The middle-aged man was preparing to enter the office with them in his capacity as her uncle-in-law, but Shen Banyan’s secretary stopped him.

Their boss had only said for Shen Qingyu to go in, so they would not possibly let one extra person inside.

As for the woman President Shen had always told them to pay attention to, the chief secretary did not think she had the qualifications to stop her.

“Hey! You damn lackey, how dare you stop me!”

The man cursed a few filthy words, then was directly dragged away by the security guards beside him.

Inside the small meeting room, Shen Qingyu looked at her niece with her brows tightly furrowed.

She did not concern herself with the husband who had been isolated outside, nor did she put her attention on Su Xiqiao.

“When are you giving me that investment?”

The moment she opened her mouth, she asked for money, as if Shen Qingyu and Shen Banyan were not relatives, but two strangers.

Or perhaps the two of them were merely creditor and debtor.

Shen Banyan looked at the only aunt from her childhood who had ever held her hand and stepped through the waves by the sea with her…

She could not say a single word.

She truly hated the two words “romantic love.” On what grounds could love alienate every important person around her?

On what grounds could those two words take away her mothers, then come to take away her aunt too?

“Ms. Shen, have you ever considered whether taking this money will really give you the result you want?”

Su Xiqiao saw that Shen Banyan’s state was off. The scent of whiskey in the air had begun to mix with bitterness.

She did not like it.

She disliked this smell very much.

“What do you mean?”

Shen Qingyu was actually not someone who put on airs very much. She did not use her status to pressure Su Xiqiao. She took off the white formal hat on her head, revealing beneath it a face marked by time yet still beautiful.

Very elegant.

That was everyone’s first impression upon seeing Shen Qingyu.

And at the same time, there was a contradiction: it was difficult to imagine that a person like this would marry that sort of trash.

Su Xiqiao did not directly answer Shen Qingyu’s question. Instead, she pushed Shen Banyan down onto a chair.

Only after Shen Banyan was seated did Su Xiqiao sit directly on Shen Banyan’s lap.

The bitterness in the whiskey vanished all at once. Not only did it disappear, but at the tail end of the scent, there was now even a faint, barely perceptible sweetness.

“Omegas and Omegas can’t be together. If they don’t get marked, they’ll die.”

“That is why, all these years, Ms. Shen, you have constantly been injecting pheromones. All so you could use the money in your hands to support the person you truly love.”

The moment Su Xiqiao finished speaking, anger finally appeared on Shen Qingyu’s well-maintained face.

“I don’t understand what you’re talking about, Miss Su. No, no, no. I should call you Mrs. Bo.”

“After all, your Alpha is not my niece. It should be Bo Yi’an, the current head of the Bo family.”

Shen Qingyu’s expression did not change, but the harshness in her words had already surfaced.

“Banyan, if you want to play around, that’s fine. Only, as your aunt, I think you at least shouldn’t play around to this extent.”

Shen Qingyu raised a brow, a trace of disdain flashing through her eyes. Her goal was very clear.

She was trying to drive a wedge between them, and she made no attempt to hide it.

Only at this moment was her aunt finally willing to use her identity as an aunt to say these things to her.

How could the two words “love” and “affection” go so far…

How hateful.

How detestable.

Shen Banyan lowered her head and did not look at her aunt. After so many years, she could no longer clearly see what her aunt looked like.

“What are you saying, Aunt Shen? How is what Banyan is doing any different from what you’ve done?”

“Didn’t you also enter this marriage to prolong someone’s life?”

With just two sentences, Su Xiqiao made Shen Qingyu’s face turn extremely ugly.

“Shen Banyan!”

“Why are you so angry, Ms. Shen? I never said Banyan was the one who told me these things.”

“If it wasn’t Banyan, why don’t you guess who it was, Aunt?”

“Instead of spending your time here losing your temper at your only niece, Ms. Shen, you might as well go see the beauty you’ve hidden away in your golden house.”

“If you go too late, you may not even see her one last time.”

The moment Shen Banyan heard Su Xiqiao say this, her hand around Su Xiqiao’s waist tightened.

These words were a little too heavy for her aunt.

Su Xiqiao had thought this Ms. Shen would get angry, or perhaps curse her out.

“Where did you learn that?”

Shen Qingyu’s expression changed. She thought of the last person who knew about this matter. She no longer spoke, simply picked up her bag, and walked outside.

Only after Shen Qingyu left the meeting room did Shen Banyan let out a breath of relief.

When her aunt was young, she had once truly loved someone.

Only, the other person was also an Omega, and her grandmother would not allow the two of them to be together.

After a series of misunderstandings and accidents, the other woman became vegetative.

In order to provide the other party with the best treatment, her aunt could only marry, then keep taking money from the Shen family to support that Omega.

And today was the day that vegetative patient would wake up.

According to the script, her aunt would not even get to see her once.

As for all of this, it was something she and Su Xiqiao had discussed: an opportunity to use the female lead’s halo to help her aunt fulfill this wish.

“What are you thinking about?”

“I helped you. Settle my payment.”

Su Xiqiao looked at Shen Banyan with complete confidence, but Shen Banyan’s face turned red.

In the whiskey scent lingering in the air, the sweetness grew even stronger.