The Rich Family's Melon King Only Wants to Eat Melon, but Her Thoughts Are Heard Ch. 20

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Maybe it was the pressure from both sets of eyes, but those two guys looked right back at the father-daughter pair.

Only Wei Nan looked pale—he'd personally handed that gorgeous woman a note earlier, and now his palms were sweating.

Sensing the tension in the air, and knowing the other man was the Shen family's young master, Mo Zhengtian quickly offered a polite smile. "Ah, so it's Young Master Shen. Didn't expect to see you here."

Mo Keyu wasn't as smooth as her old man, but to be fair, the Shen family's eldest son didn't have any real scandals. To her, he was okay, kind of counted as a good guy.

"What a coincidence, Young Master Shen," Mo Keyu said casually. Then she turned playfully to glance at Wei Nan. "And Movie Emperor Wei too. Didn't expect you two to be this close."

Wei Nan was drenched in cold sweat. Anyone with eyes could tell he was guilty as hell.

No wonder he was a movie king—despite the cold sweat starting to form on his forehead, his expression stayed the same.

Out of courtesy, Shen Mingli gave them a nod, swept a glance at the strange woman, then looked away.

The performance started at the center of the stage, and they all turned to look that way.

After all, it was someone else's family matter. Mo Keyu didn't want to say much about it.

During the meal, Mo Zhengtian would throw in a comment from time to time, "The younger generation really is impressive. It's your world now. I didn't expect Shen Shu to have such an amazing son—what an outstanding gene pool your family has."

When it came to Shen Mingli, Mo Zhengtian's praise was straight from the heart. Compared to some second or third-generation kids who only knew how to party and waste money, Shen Mingli was practically a monster.

Mo Keyu's ears were about to grow calluses from hearing it.

She understood it clearly—sure, the Mo family counted as rich, but compared to the Shen family, who knew how big the gap was. Plus, Mo Keyu herself didn't have much ambition anyway. She just wanted to be a salted fish and stick to her own lane, keeping things the way they were.

"Dad, our family's doing pretty well as it is," Mo Keyu said.

But Mo Zhengtian let out a sigh, a little emotional. "It's a shame you don't have any siblings. It's tough walking the road alone."

"Don't say that. Honestly, I'm fine on my own."

[If that stepmom and stepsister were still around, this inheritance would have absolutely nothing to do with me.]

[Good thing those two are gone. From what I know about them, the second they got the company, they would've sold it off and gone off to enjoy themselves.]

The tears that had just welled up in Mo Zhengtian's eyes instantly got sucked back in. She was right.

Wei Nan had heard the news too. Someone in his team was super gossipy and always in the loop, and recently told everyone that something had gone down with the Mo family.

The stepmother and stepsister had been kicked out of the house, and now the only heiress left was Mo Keyu—the woman standing right in front of him.

Now that he knew who she was, he was actually relieved he didn't get involved with her back then.

Shen Mingli wasn't interested in other people's business. As for Mo Zhengtian's small talk, he only responded out of respect for an elder.

He opened his phone—there were dozens of new messages, some about work, but most of them were from his cousin.

—Cousin, how's it going? Nannan didn't end up with some other guy, right?

—Cousin, I'm really scared.

—I'm sorry for asking you to find Wei Nan before you even got any rest. My little brother's still in school, and I don't trust anyone else.

—If there's nothing wrong with Nannan, then please don't keep holding things against him all the time.

—Sorry, cousin, for spamming you with all these texts. I've just been feeling awful lately. There's only a month left until the baby comes out.

Xiaoli had grown up with the two Shen brothers. The three of them were basically like real siblings. But later, Zhang Xiaoli got obsessed with chasing celebrities and eventually ended up with Wei Nan. She got married young.

But the Shen family had always felt that she was only after the Shen family's background. Zhang Xiaoli had never suffered much since she was little, and all the men around her treated her incredibly well. That made her way too naïve—she thought every guy was like the men in the Shen family.

Shen Mingli had looked into Wei Nan's background a long time ago and knew the guy only pretended to be pure. In reality, his exes could fill several football teams. After marrying Zhang Xiaoli, the gossip around him quieted down a bit—but not by much.

Rather than saying there were fewer scandals, it was more like he just got better at hiding them—plus, Zhang Xiaoli had always covered for him.

Shen Mingli typed out a line on his phone: He's been talking to other women.

The idea was to make Zhang Xiaoli finally see the truth about this man. But just as he was about to hit send, a voice spoke up:

[Ugh, girls with romance brains will only make excuses for unfaithful men.]

[Even if everyone around her tells her the guy's suspicious, she'll just get mad, make up reasons for him in her head, and end up saying he did nothing wrong—you guys just don't understand him.]

Shen Mingli's thumb, which had been hovering over the send button, moved to the delete key instead. He deleted the message he had typed and shifted his gaze to Miss Mo, curious to hear what she might have to say.

[Come on, this novel is seriously pissing me off. What kind of romance-brain female lead is this? And this dumbass male lead?]

Shen Mingli: ...

Mo Keyu had just finished eating and was frowning at her phone, reading a novel.

"Keyu, don't be glued to your phone all the time," Mo Zhengtian said.

Mo Keyu made a sound of acknowledgment and put her phone away. Listening to the system tell stories was way more fun anyway.

Dinner was nearly over on their side too. It was getting late, and the gathering was almost done.

The system had been telling Mo Keyu all kinds of stuff about Wei Nan—his first girlfriend, the reason behind each of his breakups, how he flirted with pretty women every time he met one, and so on.

She was hooked, constantly asking what happened next, like, "Keep going, keep going—then what?"

The people around her looked a little confused, not sure what that voice was doing right now.

Only Shen Mingli kept glancing in her direction. He was a materialist at heart, and although he didn't know exactly what was going on, he had already figured out the voice was coming from Mo Keyu.

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