CHAPTER 568: 329 CONDITIONS FOR MARRYING INTO THE JIANG FAMILY!

The study door closed behind Dai Aiyuan, and she couldn’t help but inhale sharply.

Perhaps she hadn’t expected the study to be so dark.

Before her eyes had adjusted to the dimness, she heard the voice of Shen Zhixi from behind the desk.

"I was just watching a video, would Mrs. Jiang mind turning on the light?"

His attempt at emotional control had somewhat failed. Although he tried to sound gentle and refined, one could easily detect the thick undercurrent of pent-up fury in his words.

Dai Aiyuan’s body trembled, "No problem."

When the lights came on, Shen Zhixi had already returned to his usual demeanor. His fingers were lightly interlaced, resting on the desk, hiding the burn on his thumb from Dai Aiyuan’s view.

"I hear Mrs. Jiang is a brilliant graduate from H Business School. It really seems beneath you to be a full-time wife in the Jiang Family," he said, motioning to the seat opposite him for Dai Aiyuan.

Dai Aiyuan took the seat, her sharp eyes clouded with ambiguity: "Why mock me, Mr. Shen? Haven’t I always been following your orders..."

Shen Zhixi was good at judging people. The first time he saw Dai Aiyuan at a charity event, standing beside Jiang Shan with a haughty presence, he knew she could be used.

Just like over a decade ago, when he first laid eyes on the pregnant Xu Qing, he knew she was scheming something filthy.

He held both of them in contempt, but clearly, Xu Qing’s treatment was far worse than Dai Aiyuan’s.

Xu Qing went all the way to becoming a discarded pawn without knowing who the true mastermind behind it all was, while Dai Aiyuan at least had the ’privilege’ of Shen Zhixi giving her tasks in person.

There were two reasons for this: first, Dai Aiyuan was smarter than Xu He, her degree from H Business School was no joke; second, regardless of her worth, Dai Aiyuan was Jiang Shan’s lawfully wedded wife, whereas Xu Qing? She was nothing but a woman full of jealousy and petty-mindedness.

Thus, Dai Aiyuan always knew about Xu Qing’s existence, but Xu Qing had no idea that Dai Aiyuan was working for the same person as she was. When Xu Qing returned to the country, Dai Aiyuan got closer to her, and she actually thought it was her own ’grande dame’ charm that won the favor of the lady of the Jiang Family.

Shen Zhixi: "Those little projects you’ve done before are just minor profits; even if you hadn’t done them, countless others would have lined up to do them for me..."

Having a business school graduate as a wife, Jiang Shan naturally had Dai Aiyuan help manage the finances of the company, and Shen Zhixi had her cook the books, the profits of which were split between their two families.

Of course, Jiang Shan was none the wiser, and one had to admit, Dai Aiyuan’s accounting was excellently done.

But compared to the entirety of the Jiang Group, the companies Jiang Shan managed were just the tip of the iceberg, and Shen Zhixi certainly didn’t miss his share of the profits.

He had Dai Aiyuan do this merely as a test of her abilities.

But now, Shen Zhixi didn’t want to wait any longer. Even if it was only in the human world, he wanted to make that man suffer disgrace, to submit at his feet!

If this had been on Ear Mountain, no one could challenge the authority of Heavenly Dao, but that man, blinded by lust, had stooped to descend to the human world, where most of his Spiritual Energy was bound and he had to abide by the rules of the human world.

And Shen Zhixi, long branded a traitor of Ear Mountain, didn’t care to go mad once more...

Dai Aiyuan looked at Shen Zhixi, observing the storm brewing on his face, and uneasily spoke up, "What you mean is, you want me to tamper with the group’s finances...??"

She was already nervous about meddling only in the companies her husband was responsible for, thinking that as long as it was within his domain, and Yangyang was so favored in the Jiang Family, if anything were to blow up, her husband could still protect her.

But now, listening to Mr. Shen’s implication...

Dai Aiyuan pursed her lips, her eyes rapidly weighing the pros and cons.

Shen Zhixi glanced at her, the corners of his mouth curling up with a hint of sarcasm as he spoke again.

"Although both are called Mrs. Jiang... the significance is vastly different. Guess who people think of first when they say Mrs. Jiang now? Jiang He’s wife, or you? I’m afraid even Jiang Xuan’s little girlfriend ranks ahead of you..."

Dai Aiyuan stiffened.

There’s a saying that when striking a snake, one should hit its vital point, and what Shen Zhixi excels at is precisely that—hitting where it hurts most.

When Dai Aiyuan married into the Jiang Family, the eldest Jiang brother, Jiang He, was too honest and uncompetitive, with no prospects; Jiang Feng, the third brother, had too many schemes, and even his bedfellows couldn’t predict him; and as for Jiang Xuan, the youngest, there was no need to even mention him—a rebellious scion with a pretty face, frequently infuriating their father to no end, the least competitive of them all.