Her Tentacles 102

Chapter 102: Extra 4

Situ Jin had liked beautiful and pretty things since she was a child.

During her first birthday’s zhuazhou (a tradition where a baby chooses from a variety of items to predict their future), she had grabbed the custom-made small bag that her mother had placed among a pile of choices. Perhaps because of this, although she was an only daughter, her father had not decided early on to hand over the family business to her, and seemed to be more inclined to find a professional agent.

Or perhaps he was trying to change the group’s decision-making model. After the business had spread out more and more, he wanted to formulate the future development direction through the joint resolutions of more outstanding talents, by the joint resolutions of the board of directors or the shareholders’ meeting.

Situ Jin had not missed a single company shareholders’ meeting since junior high school, even though she was young, and everyone else also knew that she most likely didn’t understand anything.

She really didn’t understand the professional terms.

Even many times, after a project approval meeting, she would be completely at a loss from beginning to end.

But Situ Jin could see—

Her father’s attempt had failed.

The agent’s will would ultimately be influenced by the board of directors, and once a new cake appeared, interests would drive the people who held more distribution power to think of ways to get the biggest piece of the cake for themselves.

And when risks appeared, they would try their best to shift the danger and take themselves out of it. Anyway, no matter how stormy it was, the chairman was still there. He would always support this big, leafy tree to continue to live.

And so.

The agent would either end up as a puppet of the board of directors, or would be reduced to a mediocre worker, and the proposals they came up with could only barely maintain this big ship in place, and sometimes even had to retreat.

And the specially promoted high-level executives, the small group that jointly owned the chairman’s power, would either have disputes and pass the buck because of uneven distribution of interests, or the progress of some issues would be very slow because there were too many people and too many voices.

When her father finally gave up on these attempts and took the helm again with his personal will, Situ Jin understood that if she wanted this ship to continue sailing, and this big tree to continue to take root and grow normally, the next heir had to be as outstanding as her father.

And even more far-sighted than her father, because the direction of the times was always changing.

She closed the notebook after another shareholders’ meeting and calmly decided:

She would be the next one to take the helm.

Although her mother would sometimes joke with her when she heard about her new boyfriend, saying that it was no wonder she had picked that pretty bag during the zhuazhou back then, and had she already planned to be a carefree rich wife in the future?

When Situ Jin smiled, she would also have to take the time to recall the family background of her recently new boyfriend. When she remembered that he seemed to be a competitor in the same industry as her family, and then thought that the other’s intentions were not very honest, she would nonchalantly make a decision:

I’ll dump him in a few days.

Why, if she liked bags, did she have to become an appendage of others like a bag?

She could clearly be the sole owner of those beautiful bags.

From the time when she went shopping with her mother as a child and found that those sales assistants would have different attitudes even when facing the same family, Situ Jin understood:

Only those with higher power can get the most choices.

Compared to being Mrs. So-and-so, or Mr. So-and-so’s wife, she just wanted to be the prefix herself.

Miss Situ, or President Situ.

Her brilliance all came from herself, and that was enough.

…

Perhaps it was because Situ Jin’s performance in school was very outstanding, and she had never done anything crazy for love or lost her reason for love. During her college years, she had also helped with her family company’s overseas business a lot, and her father had begun to hand over more and more things to her.

The hopes he had for her had also changed from “holding shares to ensure a lifetime of food and clothing” to “if she can occasionally help the family with some things, that would be good.”

But this was not enough.

What Situ Jin wanted was for her father to think, “Besides her, I wouldn’t be at ease handing this burden to anyone else.”

Unfortunately.

The development of this world had just taken a 180-degree turn at this time. The monsters that had come ashore from the deep sea had once again reshuffled this pyramid, which only recognized power and wealth, and whose wealth distribution was tending to be fixed.

Mysterious power, unexpected accidents, had pushed everything back to a chaotic and unknown state. The Situ family, which had already stood high enough, was, in this invasion of unknown power, the same as those ordinary people who had no resistance.

Money could not make them stronger.

Especially after the special targeting by the monster “Chu Wan,” which had caused some of the company’s business and shopping malls to close down, she could feel her parents becoming a little anxious because of this.

It was at this moment.

That young master of the Ye family appeared in her line of sight.

And it just so happened that her good bazi (eight characters of a horoscope) at birth had been spread, and it just so happened that the Ye family believed in this, and it just so happened that that Young Master Ye… was a little interested in her.

What made her even more annoyed was.

The Ye family was blessed by their ancestors. By the time it came to this crown prince’s generation, he was the one who really didn’t have to work hard and could still enjoy the fruits of others’ labor. He was born to be someone that others could not even hope to compare with, and his starting point was also tens of millions of times higher than others’ end point.

There was also a gap between the second generation.

For example, when facing the problem of monster invasion, the Situ family, who had no power to fight back, was completely incomparable to this Young Master Ye, whether in terms of industrial scale or other status.

He was the undisputed sole heir, but he had no interest in the family business. Naturally, no matter who he married, the other party’s family’s industry would not be threatened, and could even ride on the east wind of the Ye family and rise to the top.

Even her mother, who had always understood her thoughts, had hinted to her both openly and secretly, “Aren’t you interested in your dad’s company? That one from the Ye family is just right. If you’re with him, he’s neither interested in our family’s industry, nor will he affect your career.”

“Besides, with your situation, you don’t have to worry about any problems if you have children in the future. Mom can also help you take care of them if she has time.”

She couldn’t even find any reason that seemed to be able to refuse.

Until she met Shu Yao at that auction.

Her good friend, who had been hit hard by her love affair, looked much colder than before. Now, her coldness was no longer a protective color for her social anxiety, but a sharp spike she had erected around her. If one were to get close without her permission, one would really be pricked until one was covered in wounds.

However, Situ Jin was always the one who could unscrupulously knead her soft belly.

Although she wasn’t very happy, she still asked Situ Jin a question:

“Do you… need help?”

Situ Jin was a little surprised, and then quickly realized.

Yaoyao had always been so sharp. It was like this before. She liked to express her opinions the most, and Lin Jingshu liked to sing a different tune the most. And Shu Yao was the one who spoke the least among the three of them, but she was always able to coax this one, and coax that one, and in the end, make everyone happy.

Although she was the one who lived the least happily among the three of them, she was always the easiest to satisfy. Even if they had no money and just went out for a walk on the road, she would be happy.

Situ Jin could no longer find anyone who was easier to coax than her.

And because of this.

At first, she was attracted by Shu Yao’s doll-like beautiful appearance, but later she did not go far, and still regarded the other as her best friend.

Because when she was with this friend, she never needed to think too much, and Shu Yao had always been the simple and cute person in her memory.

“Not for now.”

She still answered like this.

However, her wavering heart, which had been shaken by her parents’ will, calmed down with this sentence.

This isn’t the worst-case scenario yet, is it? Situ Jin thought.

…

But the unenterprising second generation could always do something surprising.

Just after her morning swim and workout, when she saw that it was busy outside, and the butler came in to report that there was a gift from the Ye family, Situ Jin was a little stunned.

She was still thinking about what kind of gift it was, that it would make the butler so hesitant and not know how to deal with it. After she followed him out, she saw the large container that had been dropped by a helicopter.

Situ Jin: “…”

In the huge roar of the helicopter blades, she watched with a blank face as the servants went over and opened the lock of the container.

And then.

It revealed the huge water tank inside.

The salty smell of the sea came out. The corners of the water tank glass were still blurry, as if it were a temporary patchwork. The water inside was also a little cloudy.

However, inside, there was a beauty that even the dirt could not hide.

Beautiful silver scales were pressed against the glass wall, and in the sunlight, they shone so brightly that one had to squint. And the owner of these beautiful scales was now using her two arms to support her upper body in a pathetic way, like a stubborn trapped beast. In the gap where the half-full tank of seawater was shaking, she just happened to meet her gaze.

It was a beauty that would not be destroyed by any terrible situation.

Or rather.

This terrible glass tank, on the contrary, made her beauty appear even more fragile and moving.

Situ Jin was stunned for a moment, and only then did she react to what kind of strange gift that person had sent over. In the butler’s troubled expression, she turned around, and a belated anger welled up. She called that person and asked him why on earth he had sent such a strange gift.

Perhaps it was because when she was a child and became a sucker for good looks, the first beautiful woman she met was kind and simple, so Situ Jin was always very tolerant of particularly beautiful people.

Even if she had met many equally beautiful people later, who had used this beauty as a disguise to hide their bad hearts, she was still happy to be deceived.

Only in this way could Situ Jin sigh with emotion again and again how lucky she was to have found the best friend from the very first time she had made a friend as a child.

This time was no exception.

When Young Master Ye said that this thing was not easy to tame and had a very bad temper, and that he had no interest in serving a fish, and that if she didn’t want it, he would just send it to the research institute as a favor, Situ Jin was as soft-hearted as ever.

She looked back again, at the figure that was still so stubborn, and although she was trapped in a bathtub, and was separated by a thick bulletproof glass, she still showed a fierce face to the butler and the maids.

A bad temper.

Better than a sinister heart, but pretending to be kind and deceiving people.

As a child from a business family, compared to the type who was sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, Situ Jin disliked dealing with some guys who were one thing on the surface and another behind their backs.

So.

Even when the butler came over and whispered to her about the recent frequent malignant [Parasite] incidents in Nancheng, and that keeping this thing would probably be a disaster, Situ Jin just smiled and shook her head:

“No.”

“I want to keep her.”

She seemed to have found the optimal solution to the predicament that the Situ family and she herself had recently encountered.

The premise was—

She could tame this mermaid.

Thinking of her good friend who worked in the special department and had promised to help her when she was in danger, her smile became even more kind, and she took the initiative to walk toward the fish tank.