Shen Xi's lips curved upwards as she listened to her words, Qin Si Ye's handsome and steady face flashing before her eyes.
She remembered that man was also very good at playing Rubik's cubes. Could Shuo Shuo really inherit their combined strengths?
If Qin Si Ye knew that his son had achieved such an outstanding result, would he be very happy?
Inside the Su family villa
As soon as Su Yixin arrived home, she threw down her bag and sank onto the sofa, exhausted.
"I'm so tired, so tired! I'll never go to accompany someone to such an event again."
"What's wrong? Did your classmate's younger brother not perform well?" Qin Xuelan was sitting on the sofa watching TV and handed her a banana.
Su Yixin took it and took a bite, "Don't mention it, he was eliminated in the first round. With his skill level, he still had the nerve to participate in the competition."
"Aren't some people just like that? Always doing things they are not capable of." Qin Xuelan's pupils contracted, obviously hinting at something.
Su Yixin's eyes flickered a few times, and she took out her phone. "Mom, guess who I saw at the competition venue today?"
"Look at you being so mysterious, who did you see? Don't tell me it was your ex-boyfriend?" Qin Xuelan glanced at her, her heart skipping a beat.
When Su Yixin was in high school, she had dated a boyfriend, but that boy was from a rural town. Apart from being good at studying and having a somewhat refined appearance, his family background was worlds apart from theirs.
Later, Qin Xuelan sent her daughter abroad, and the two broke up completely.
"How could that be? Mom, you're overthinking it." Su Yixin smiled awkwardly, opened her phone album, and handed it to her. "I saw Shen Xi, and she brought one of her sons to participate in the Rubik's cube competition."
"Oh? Her son, let me see." Qin Xuelan was very curious when she heard this. She took the phone, zoomed in, and examined the child carefully.
"How is it? Isn't this child beautiful? Like a doll." Su Yixin hugged her arm, her inner child-lover surfacing again.
Qin Xuelan's eyes were fixed on the child in the photo. He looked somewhat familiar, but she couldn't recall who the child resembled.
"Hmph. What's the use of being good-looking? He's still a bastard without a father. With Shen Xi's character, she can't raise any outstanding children. I estimate that her results in today's competition won't be great either."
Su Yixin quickly flipped back. "Mom, you're wrong. Don't underestimate this child. He won the championship today. Look at this photo, I took it when he was receiving the award."
Then, she recounted Shen Zishuo's performance in the competition and Shen Xi's speech at the end to Qin Xuelan.
Hearing this, Qin Xuelan's heart trembled. She never expected a woman like Shen Xi to have such capabilities to raise a child so excellently.
It made her look at Shen Xi with new eyes.
However, this feeling was fleeting. Remembering the entanglement and harm Su Chengyu had suffered because of her, anger surged within her.
If Shen Xi married into the Qin family with such an outstanding child, the Qin family might truly have no place for her in the future.
"What's the use of a child being handsome or outstanding? If no man wants her, she will always be an abandoned woman, and the label of an illegitimate child will forever be on her child."
As soon as she said this, Su Yixin's body trembled. "Mom, you're not going to make trouble out of this, are you?"
"What? Are you scared?" Qin Xuelan's gaze was cold, and she chuckled. "Si Ye's cold exterior and ruthless methods won't scare me. After all, Zhuo Sheng still has my shares, and with your maternal grandmother around, he can't do anything to me for the moment. If you're scared, send me those photos, and I'll find someone to handle it."
"Mom. Don't say that. With you backing me, what am I afraid of?" Su Yixin gently linked her arm with Qin Xuelan's, her face filled with smiles.
She had already known about her brother's situation when she was abroad.
That incident five years ago, her brother might have made a mistake out of momentary confusion, and it didn't cause much harm to her cousin. His revenge was too ruthless.
Not only did it cripple her brother for a long time in bed, but it also indirectly caused him to lose his position as CEO of Su Corporation.
Now, he had to develop his career abroad with his father.
At this moment, no matter how much she liked the child born to Shen Xi, she had to stand on the same side as her family and prevent Shen Xi from marrying into the Qin family.
In the afternoon, at the pharmaceutical company, Shen Xi was sitting at her desk reviewing documents when Xie Yifei burst in like a gust of wind, knocking on the door excitedly.
"Xixi, quickly look! Shuo Shuo's brilliant performance at the competition this morning has already spread through WeChat Moments."