[Yang Menghuo POV]

[Song Suggestion: Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman.]

"Why do you still ask? Of course, because I need your money," Li Daiyu replied. "And you\'re a good challenge, I suppose."

"You think of me as a challenge?" Menghuo chuckled mirthlessly. "This is why we will never be on the same side, Li Daiyu."

"Not that I care of," Li Daiyu shrugged. She clicked a remote on the coffee table. She played her favorite song that blasted from the speaker inside the penthouse, Dangerous Woman.

Li Daiyu then picked the Cabernet glass from the coffee table and sipped the wine. She let the wine permeated from her tongue down to her throat, and she frowned..

"How bland. I should\'ve taken the Bordeaux," Li Daiyu commented. She got up from the sofa and strutted to the wine cellar in the kitchen. She wore a pink, silk lace-trimmed dress. It accentuated her slender figure and beautiful collar bone.

Li Daiyu was tall and had sharp phoenix eyes, a signature look of her modeling career. She strutted confidently to the kitchen and opened the wine cellar to take the Bordeaux. She popped the wine and poured the wine into a Bordeaux glass.

She glanced at Menghuo, who kept glaring at her, "Why are you staring at me like that? Are you interested in seeing my silk chemise? I can always take off the dress."

"You\'re not seducing anyone here," Menghuo said. "Distasteful."

"Distasteful?" Li Daiyu raised her eyebrows and act as if she was surprised. "That\'s a bold statement coming from a man whose fake girlfriend is an old, fat ape who covered her fat waist with a belt from the flea market."

Li Daiyu chuckled mockingly, "She wears that cheap shirt and skirt, which probably will cost you thirty dollars at most, and a cheap bag that\'s probably a relic from her grandmother. That\'s what I call distasteful."

"She got the honor to have a date with you, but she didn\'t even use make up to cover her ape-pearance, ahahaha!" Li Daiyu laughed at her own pun. But in less than five seconds, her laugh disappeared, and she taunted Menghuo with her mocking smirk. "Mengmeng, you should realize that you are the heir of Yang Group and the son of VOGUE chief-in-editor, Madam Evelynn Yang. You are also a billionaire of your own. You\'re not just some random handsome man in the street."

"What\'s that to do with you?"

Li Daiyu leaned on the wall while sipping her wine, "Only cheap lady wears cheap stuff. As the son of Madam Evelynn Yang, you should know that at the back of your head."

"A man of power should understand that bringing a cheap lady will only decrease their value in the circle. I\'m just trying to help you here," Li Daiyu said. "Besides, isn\'t that given already? A handsome, rich young man, marrying a supermodel. That\'s almost a norm."

"It\'s just what you are dictated to," Menghuo said. "Why are you so into this anyway? You are a supermodel. Your parents are also quite wealthy. You don\'t need more money! "

"Oh, I do," Li Daiyu replied. "Who said that I don\'t need more? They said that man rules over the world, and woman rules over man. I keep wondering how fun it\'d be to have control over a powerful man of my choice."

"Besides, you have been rejecting me for years, which is quite intriguing," Li Daiyu stated. She put down her wine glass. She paraded herself towards Yang Menghuo. She swayed her hips left and right confidently, making her silk chemise dress swayed according to her waist movement.

She stopped in front of Yang Menghuo and then caressed his cheek. She didn\'t feel intimidated by Yang Menghuo\'s glare, even though Yang Menghuo was currently looking down on her like looking at a bug.

"Why are you so hostile? No man except you ever gives me such look. Every man loves a beauty, right?" Li Daiyu asked. "Tell me, what\'s about that ape woman? Is this a fetish of yours, to prefer an ugly monkey as your lover? That\'s quite unfortunate, though, since I don\'t think I can\'t ever be like her. An ape woman is quite hard to impersonate."

Yang Menghuo brushed off Li Daiyu\'s hand and pushed her away. Yang Menghuo clenched his fist, trying his best not to punch Li Daiyu for such slander to his Ying Jie.

"Don\'t you dare to slander Ying Jie! She is not comparable to you! Ying Jie is—"

"—She is a hard worker, humble, and gives you a warm feeling in your heart?" Li Daiyu snipped Menghuo\'s words sarcastically. "Oh, Yang Menghuo, don\'t bore me with that Disney narrative. Even in Disney, the men settle down with a princess, and those princesses are all beautiful!"

Li Daiyu turned back and took her black oversized Chanel sweater. She put it on and glanced at Meng Bao with a grin at the edge of her lips, "Do you know this Chanel sweater is a personal gift from your mother? She said that I fit well with all things she gave."

"Your mother is also the reason how I can enter this penthouse of yours. Of course, the receptionist won\'t reject the request from Master Yang Menghuo\'s mother, right?" Li Daiyu chuckled. She put on her white heels and black shade.

She strutted past Menghuo and patted his shoulder, "Anyway, I came here because your mother wants me to check on you. She\'s afraid that you might\'ve accidentally did something promiscuous with an ape."

"Remember, Yang Menghuo. In this game, I still have authority over you, thanks to Madam Evelynn Yang. She\'s been a great help."

"And she is realistic, just like me," Li Daiyu said.

"A mother wouldn\'t let her son marry a random woman on the street, right? Ahahaha," Li Daiyu laughed and left the penthouse satisfied, leaving Menghuo with turmoil in his head after the witch ruined his already sour mood for few more days in the future.