Chapter 47: The Good Person Bai Jing

At the beginning of Bai Jing's words, Cao Kun felt that there was nothing wrong with them at all.

After all, living pressure in a first-tier mega-city like Haicheng was indeed immense. Since she lived in a nearby second or third-tier city, asking him to visit her on Saturdays and Sundays was a very reasonable arrangement.

Even her suggestion that Cao Kun bring his girlfriend along in the future so she could help him vet her made complete sense.

After all, as an elder with such a close relationship, helping him vet her to prevent him from being deceived by a girl was entirely reasonable.

However, the final part of what Bai Jing said made Cao Kun feel it was not quite so reasonable.

Given that they were still stepmother and stepdaughter in name, was it appropriate to expose her daughter's hypocritical exterior just like that?

Wasn't this a bit too hasty?

She had just severed the mother-daughter relationship with Wang Shanshan, and in the blink of an eye, she started stabbing her in the back. Wasn't that a bit too fast?

However, Cao Kun loved it!

Such a plot where mother and daughter turn against each other and stab each other in the back—especially when it happened to Wang Shanshan's family—made him almost want to stand up and applaud!

Brilliant!

Simply brilliant!

As expected of a mother, this knife thrust was ruthless, vicious, and hit Wang Shanshan right in her fatal weakness.

Of course, Cao Kun definitely could not let his inner feelings show on his face at this moment.

He put on a look of shock, stared blankly at Bai Jing, and said in disbelief, "Aunt Bai, are, are you joking with me?"

Seeing Cao Kun's expression, Bai Jing seemed to find it hard to bear. She frowned and sat down beside him.

"Xiao Kun, I know you really like Shanshan, and that you've even been pursuing her for three years. But Aunt Bai truly cannot keep lying to you."

"Shanshan has honestly never taken you seriously. She has simply treated you as a simpering fool, wanting nothing more than to endlessly extract benefits from you, and has never once thought of taking responsibility for you."

"Even at home, whenever she mentioned you, she would call you a simp directly, too lazy to even use your name."

"So, you should just give up. Shanshan is not a good woman, and she really isn't suited for you. If you keep going down this path, you'll end up deeply hurt by her."

"As for this father and daughter pair, I am... sigh!"

With a final, heavy sigh, Bai Jing seemed at a loss for words.

Yet, Cao Kun was only interested in that very last sigh.

Because this related to a piece of information he had obtained in his past life—a piece of information that still contained several points he doubted to this day.

And now, this was very likely his opportunity to unravel those doubts.

Cao Kun put on a dazed expression, as if he had been struck by lightning. After several seconds, he finally spoke, "So, Shanshan never once thought about being with me?"

Bai Jing nodded with a sympathetic look, "Never. She simply regarded you as a massive sucker."

"Then..." Cao Kun faltered, his expression looking as though he still couldn't accept it, "How, how could she do this?"

"It's all because of that scoundrel Wang Yifu!" Bai Jing said through clenched teeth. "Actually, when you first started pursuing Shanshan back then, she came home and told us about it."

"What I told Shanshan was that since she was still in high school, dating was strictly forbidden."

"As for that scoundrel Wang Yifu, he actually taught Shanshan to string you along under the high-sounding pretext of testing you."

"In reality, Wang Yifu just wanted to save the living allowance he gave Shanshan so he could buy himself a few more packs of cigarettes."

"Knowing that I would never allow such a thing, the father and daughter kept it a secret from me the entire time."

"By the time I found out they had been secretly treating you like a massive sucker, over two years had already passed, and both of you were already in your final year of high school."

"I was furious at the time, but in the end, I didn't do anything because the college entrance examination was less than four months away."

"If I had intervened at that moment, made Shanshan apologize to you, and cleared things up, it might have backfired instead. Not only would it have affected Shanshan's studies, but it could very well have affected yours as well."

"Therefore, I ordered Shanshan to maintain the status quo and strictly forbade her from saying anything to you before the exams ended—like how the two of you weren't a match and you shouldn't pursue her anymore."

"After all, treating you as a massive sucker for three years was already deeply excessive. If I had made her say such things right before the college entrance exam, it certainly would have severely impacted your mindset and your studies."

"Who knows, it might even have caused you to underperform in the exams and fail to get into college."

"If it had truly come to that, Shanshan would have committed a grave sin."

"It's a good thing I made that arrangement, because Shanshan genuinely intended to tell you she wasn't interested and ask you to stop pursuing her right before the exams."

"So, regarding this matter, I'm quite relieved."

After listening to Bai Jing's account, Cao Kun remained silent for a long time.

He never expected there to be such an inside story.

Moreover, Bai Jing was playing the role of the good person.

It seemed that the piece of information he acquired in his past life was most likely true.

"So..." Cao Kun murmured, "Shanshan's attitude toward me being relatively better during that period was also arranged by you, Aunt Bai?"

Bai Jing thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I don't know about that. However, after I found out about this matter, I did often say one thing to her."

"That is, to throw you a little sweetness occasionally so that you would become even more dependent on her."

"Actually, my real intention wasn't like that. I just felt that since you had already been taken advantage of as a sucker for three years, you might as well get a little more benefit whenever possible. At least that way, your three years of simping wouldn't have been completely in vain."

Holy crap!

It really was arranged by Bai Jing!

Cao Kun was speechless. He still remembered that during the second half of his senior year of high school, Wang Shanshan seemed to have grown somewhat accepting of him.

Usually, Wang Shanshan forbade any intimate behavior between them.

Yet during that period, small actions like holding hands, putting his arm around her waist, or taking the opportunity to pinch her plump buttocks were met with zero