“Big Sister is just too awesome!” Liang Sheng later gushed to her friends afterward.
Her friends, of course, grinned with knowing malice. Those in the know get it—an experienced big sister naturally knows all the best moves~
As for their parents, both Liang Sheng and Ou Lu tacitly agreed to keep it under wraps.
Liang Sheng knew her dad still probably looked down on Ou Lu. She needed Ou Lu’s company to grow even stronger, for Ou Lu herself to gain more prestige in their circle of the wealthy, and for the money in her hands to keep piling up.
It didn’t have to surpass her own cheap dad’s vast fortune, but it at least needed to be on equal footing with him.
Ou Lu had even more considerations on her end. Her family were the sort of snobs who were sharp-tongued and materialistic. Forget asking them to accept that she’d found herself a girlfriend— they’d surely kick her out of the house. And then what would she use to give her precious girlfriend the good life she deserved?
So, for now, Ou Lu’s plan was to quietly, bit by bit, monopolize the vast majority of the family’s perfume business and bring it all under her own name.
And Liang Sheng understood Ou Lu’s hardships all too well.
The adult world was never as simple as one imagined.
To help her CEO wife, Liang Sheng chose a university major that would aid Ou Lu in her field. It also conveniently positioned her to inherit her dad’s pile of companies one day (maybe?).
From then on, five years later, Liang Sheng successfully leveled up to become Ou Lu’s personal secretary in the office!
As the saying goes, secretaries handle the work when there’s work… and handle the boss when there’s none. Yeah, everyone knows how that one ends—no need to spell it out.
More often than not, employees who pushed open the door would catch Liang Sheng pinning Ou Lu to the desk, or straddling her CEO’s lap.
The employees could only blush furiously, mutter “Avert your eyes!” and bolt.
Word of this spread quickly to both families. Liang Wengao didn’t want to make a fuss—he was a total daughter-con and preferred to turn a blind eye, pretending nothing was amiss. But the Ou family, lacking any sense, actually showed up at Liang Wengao’s doorstep.
Liang Wengao’s face soured.
Well, well. His precious heart-and-soul daughter had been swept off by their girl, and he hadn’t said a peep. But here they were, shamelessly coming to blame his little girl?
Liang Wengao couldn’t even be bothered to deal with them. He sent them packing and slammed the door in their faces.
When Liang Sheng got home, Liang Wengao was just about to give her a talking-to when he met his daughter’s big, pitiful doe eyes.
The scolding words caught in his throat. He melted on the spot, his eyes turning to stars. “Aww, my big girl, what’s wrong? Who made you unhappy? Tell Dad, and he’ll sort them out for you!”
The green-haired girl couldn’t help but chuckle. Having a doting cheap dad was pretty great.
Liang Sheng had already heard about the Ou family showing up, so she decided to come clean proactively.
“Dad…” Liang Sheng took a deep breath, then blurted it all out in a rush. “I’m dating someone—she’s a girl, her name’s Ou Lu, you probably know her!”
Somehow, that line about “she’s a girl” just sounded off.
“Kiddo…” Liang Wengao started.
Liang Sheng cut him off instantly. “Dad, Sister Ou Lu’s on top of the world now! She’s so capable! Her assets are right up there with yours… right? And she did it in just five years! Only five years!”
Her praise for Ou Lu flowed without a hint of restraint.
Liang Wengao nodded in a daze. What he’d meant to say was, “Kiddo, Dad supports whatever decision you make.” But his anxious daughter had interrupted him.
“Sweetie, Dad supports whatever decision you make!” Liang Wengao said lovingly, ruffling Liang Sheng’s hair.
Meanwhile, Liang Sheng looked utterly baffled.
What? That was it? So what had she been hiding these past five years for, scared of?
Well, now only Ou Lu’s side remained to handle.
After five years of tempering, Ou Lu had become even more arrogantly domineering than when she’d first met Liang Sheng—like a true queen (bottom).
Of course, around Liang Sheng, she still played the role of a slightly bossy little wifey.
Upon hearing the news, she said nothing. She simply raised her haughty chin, shot them a disdainful look, grabbed Liang Sheng’s hand, and marched straight back to her family’s mansion.
“Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma—this is my girlfriend. I’m going abroad with her to get our marriage certificate.” It was an ultimatum, not a timid request for their opinion.
Ou Lu gripped Liang Sheng’s hand tightly.
Dozens of gazes stabbed straight at the green-haired girl, as if to bore right through her. Sweat beaded in Liang Sheng’s palms.
Ou Lu squeezed her hand and smiled reassuringly, signaling her not to be nervous.
“Ou Lu, looks like you want to get the hell out of this house!” roared the old man seated at the center, slamming the table in fury.
Ou Lu felt little affection for her family. They only cared about value and profit, only interested in what she contributed to the clan.
Of course, there were two people who treated her decently: her parents. Unfortunately, they were too soft-spoken. In a situation like this, they could only stand by anxiously, wringing their hands.
“Dad, Dad, Little Lu’s all grown up now. Can we just…” Ou Lu’s mother ventured carefully.
The old man slammed the table again and shot to his feet, jabbing a finger at Ou Lu’s mother’s nose. “When did a meddling outsider like you get to butt into our family affairs?!”
The roar made Ou Lu’s mother flinch and tremble. Tears of grievance welled up in her eyes.
Liang Sheng couldn’t help pitying the woman. After all these years married into the family, she’d never truly been accepted.
Then the old man wheeled on Ou Lu’s father. “No surprise she’s your daughter—just like her old man!”
Indeed, Ou Lu’s father had married Ou Lu’s mother against the family’s wishes, despite their disapproval.
The novel hadn’t mentioned any of this—Liang Sheng was learning it now.
Ou Lu sneered coldly.
The old lady nearby chimed in like a lackey. “Ou Lu, either break up with that woman, or get out of this house! We don’t welcome freaks like you who shame us!”
Well, that lit a fire under both Liang Sheng and Ou Lu.
“You old hag,” Liang Sheng shot back—she wasn’t one to hold her tongue, “spouting such heartless crap when you’re one foot in the grave! Better watch it—no one’ll bother burying you when you croak!”
“Pfft!”
“Ahem!”
It even made Ou Lu burst out laughing. More amusingly, Liang Sheng noticed Ou Lu’s mom twitching her lips in a suppressed smile.
Ou Lu responded with equal swagger. “Remember this: without me, your so-called family is nothing! Today, it’s not me leaving—it’s me taking my love and my parents, cutting ties with this cold, loveless house for good!”
She wasn’t wrong. By now, Ou Lu had claimed nearly all the Ou family’s assets for herself. Without her, the Ous were finished.
Seeing her dead set on leaving, the old man panicked. “Ou Lu! We’re doing this for your own good! Marrying a woman—what will people think? You’re the one losing face!”
With her back to them, Ou Lu clasped Liang Sheng’s hand tighter and declared resolutely, “I don’t care how others see me. To me, Liang Sheng is the one who gives me love and happiness. With her, I’m content for life.”
She turned her head then, arching a brow with elegant defiance. “That’s something you profit-obsessed vultures could never provide.”
Liang Sheng was her angel.
“Dad, Mom—are you coming with me?” Ou Lu asked her parents.
Ou Lu’s mother and father exchanged a glance, then slowly rose to their feet.
The four of them walked out of the soul-crushing cage that was the Ou Family Mansion.
Two years later, behind the villa Ou Lu had newly purchased, Liang Sheng planted a garden full of roses. She felt Ou Lu was just like a rose—gloriously vibrant, passionately fierce, beautifully exquisite, yet edged with sharp thorns.
“The roses are so beautiful.”
Ou Lu stood amid the rose garden, gazing at the blooms that looked even more lush and dewy in the moonlight.
Liang Sheng delivered her clumsy sweet talk. “But I think they’re not as pretty as my Sister Ou Lu~”
“Sister Ou Lu, winter’s almost here. Won’t the roses wither?”
“No worries. My love for you will never wither.”
