She Won’t Be The Alpha In A Redemption Novel - Chapter 9

The moment Shen Banyan learned the truth, her expression turned ugly to the extreme, even showing a faint bluish tint.

Her lips were pressed tightly together, compressed into a thin line.

“I have some things to do now. Aside from my office, you can wander anywhere you like.”

“I’ll give instructions to my secretary.”

Those sharp brows lowered, and it was as if a layer of ice had enveloped Shen Banyan. There was not the slightest softness on her face, only the sharpness of a blade leaving its sheath.

Seeing Shen Banyan like this, Su Xiqiao found it rather novel.

As Shen Banyan spoke, she walked toward the meeting room door. Her steps were unhurried, yet every step was extremely heavy. After she finished speaking, she prepared to push the door open and leave.

But the second before she pulled the handle, a soft, boneless hand gently covered the back of hers.

That hand was cool, thin, just like a piece of gauze soaked in water. That patch of coolness successfully made Shen Banyan stop.

Su Xiqiao liked Shen Banyan like this far too much.

Of course, it was not because of her current cold attitude.

It was because Shen Banyan’s pheromones were especially different at this moment.

Usually, they were only the ordinary scent of whiskey. But now, her pheromones had become the scent of whiskey on the rocks.

Who would not like a glass of whiskey with ice? Amber liquid held in a thick glass, the ice cubes rising and sinking with the liquor. Just looking at it made Su Xiqiao feel delighted.

And being able to taste that moment of intoxication without drinking alcohol was simply far too friendly for Su Xiqiao.

“You’re just going to leave me here alone?”

The moment Su Xiqiao said this, she felt Shen Banyan’s force on the door increase by a few degrees. The door was pulled open a crack, even letting out a creak as if unable to bear the weight.

“You can go wherever you want.”

“There’s no need to follow me.”

Shen Banyan’s face was cold, and that unapproachable aura around her was even thicker than before. She merely stood there quietly, yet it seemed that even the light falling on her shoulders had grown a degree colder.

“Why are you so angry? It’s not like I’m being unreasonable. If you’re this angry, I imagine you’re going to deal with some garbage.”

Only after Su Xiqiao said this did the strength in Shen Banyan’s hand on the door handle loosen slightly. Her fingers slowly relaxed, and the crack in the door closed again.

“Let me help you.”

“The punishment methods you usually come into contact with are all too proper. How could such proper methods of punishment make anyone truly suffer?”

“Pain so unbearable they’d rather die, methods that make them regret ever coming into this world… How about letting big sister teach you?”

Su Xiqiao’s voice was simply like a low cello, yet the tail end of her words somehow carried the faint feeling of rising upward.

It was both temptation and probing. Shen Banyan understood that perfectly well.

But right now, she did not have that much attention to spare on what Su Xiqiao wanted.

Whether Su Xiqiao wanted to know more about her affairs or had some other agenda, Shen Banyan only had one thought right now.

She wanted that person to regret what they had done from every single cell in their body!

Just thinking about the suffering her aunt had endured all these years made Shen Banyan wish she could smash the other party’s bones inch by inch.

“Miss Su, if you can’t do it, or if some meaningless sympathy of yours starts overflowing…”

“I won’t guarantee what I’ll do.”

With a cold face, Shen Banyan directly gave Su Xiqiao an ultimatum.

Su Xiqiao had not expected Shen Banyan to threaten her. After all, so many things had happened these past few days, yet she had never once seen this little dog bare its teeth.

Now that Shen Banyan had actually said this, Su Xiqiao simply became even more interested.

“How about this, Shen Banyan? I’ll agree to your terms.”

“If the ideas I come up with can’t make the other party suffer for the rest of their life, or if my ideas are worse than yours, then…”

“From now on, I’ll let you order me around.”

“If you tell me to go east, I absolutely won’t go west.”

The corner of Su Xiqiao’s mouth curved slightly. The smile was neither deep nor shallow, and her eyes were full of certainty that victory was hers.

“Not interested.” Shen Banyan’s cold manner was like snow in the winter of some bitterly frigid place.

Probably the kind of snow that fell all night, until by the next morning, when one went out, it had already reached one’s thighs.

“Mm.”

Su Xiqiao smelled the pheromones on Shen Banyan. She had to admit, heavily iced whiskey truly had a special flavor.

Having obtained Shen Banyan’s silent permission, Su Xiqiao followed behind her just like that.

Everyone in the company watched the two of them, their hearts all rising to their throats at once. The air seemed to freeze there, and everyone even lightened their breathing.

After Shen Banyan went out, she arranged all of today’s work with her chief assistant.

“Yes, President Shen.”

She had already prepared every contingency plan long ago. Even if she disappeared for half a month or a month, the company would still be able to operate steadily.

As the CEO, Shen Banyan had given the Shen Group enough time to change owners, to change the person in power.

Su Xiqiao followed behind her, watching Shen Banyan give meticulous instructions. She actually felt that Shen Banyan did not need to go this far.

But it did not matter much. A responsible partner was still better than a useless one.

At the very least, if Shen Banyan had an affair, she definitely would not be as stupid as Bo Yi’an, who could not even hide it.

If someone had been given natural conditions perfect for lying and still could not deceive anyone, then that person was the most useless of all.

Su Xiqiao looked at Shen Banyan’s back. For the first time, she felt that her days would become more interesting because of Shen Banyan.

Only after the two of them sat in the car and Su Xiqiao lowered the soundproof partition did she hear a rough overview.

After hearing the whole story, Su Xiqiao pointed out the most important link in this tragic love story.

“You should be well aware that Ms. Shen’s husband, Zhao Ping, does not have that much ability.”

“To put it more bluntly, even the entire Zhao family put together doesn’t have that level of power.”

“So there must be accomplices.”

Hearing Su Xiqiao unhesitatingly point straight to the core of the problem, Shen Banyan’s expression turned ugly.

She knew.

She had always known.

“You’re going to treat them nicely? After all, the people who covered your eyes and harmed your aunt for an entire lifetime are very likely her own family. At the same time, they’re also members of your Shen family, aren’t they?”

“Are they?”

When Su Xiqiao asked this, the doubt in her tone was not feigned.

She was waiting for Shen Banyan’s answer. Shen Banyan’s answer would determine how she would interact with her in the future.

A stray dog on the roadside could be picked up, but if it already had an owner, Su Xiqiao was not very interested in having it.

[Shen Banyan, hurry up and tell her you aren’t that kind of person. I feel like her favorability is about to drop. But why does this female lead feel so dark?]

[Wasn’t she supposed to be a kind little white flower?]

“Miss Su, have you misunderstood something?”

“Our relationship is not good enough for me to tell you every single preparation I’ve made.”

“As for the virtue of repaying resentment with kindness, Miss Su had better not expect to see it from me.”

Shen Banyan gripped Su Xiqiao’s wrist, her eyes full of warning. Not a single word from her mouth was what World Consciousness 001 wanted to hear.

Fine. She might as well not have said anything.

She no longer knew what to do now. She and Shen Banyan currently lived and died together.

No matter how one looked at it, currying favor with the female lead gave them a higher chance of survival…

This stubborn wretch…

Wait. Why was Su Xiqiao smiling?

“Such sharp teeth.”

“Very good.”

Su Xiqiao smiled until her eyes curved, especially satisfied.

If a person could not repay others with the very wounds they had suffered, then that person would receive even more wounds.

It did not matter who became that kind of waste.

But her dog could not be like that.

“Shen Banyan, so you do know to come apologize to your uncle-in-law?”

At the entrance of his villa, Zhao Ping saw Shen Banyan’s car drive in, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth in the very first second.

The middle-aged man jogged out, his footsteps extremely hurried. His mouth was speaking as if he had come to demand an explanation, but his movements told a completely different story. He was practically like someone being chased from behind.

He was less than one meter seventy tall, and coupled with that round, protruding potbelly of his, his stomach bounced up and down with every step.

With just one glance, Su Xiqiao felt as if her eyes had been dirtied.

She had not paid attention to him at the company earlier, but now she only felt that…

This person was excessively disgusting.

“Why did you even bring Mrs. Bo along?”

“Is there some big business you want to discuss with your uncle-in-law?”