The Cannon Fodder Ex-Wife Changes to Take the Black Moonlight Script - Chapter 36

Wei Yixian thought that after Shang Shiqian attended the air show and met with the Shang family, he would want to share something with him.

However, even today, Shang Shiqian continued to pretend that nothing had happened.

The questions lingered on the tip of his tongue, but in the end, Wei Yixian did not ask.

–

On Saturday morning.

Pu Feifei was stuffing bottled juice into Shang Shiqian’s backpack while saying, “Little Shang, don’t you ever get a break from work? It’s the weekend, and you still have to go to school?”

As she spoke, she glanced at Wei Yixian, who was sitting at the dining table with a tablet, reading information.

Shang Shiqian replied, “There’s less than a month left before the competition, so I need to make the most of this time for special training.

Besides, the students usually have classes, and only on weekends can they fully immerse themselves in playing Go. I can’t choose to rest on the weekend.

But don’t worry about me not having time to rest, I’ve already told Professor Weng that I’ll take Wednesdays off from now on.”

Seeing that Wei Yixian didn’t respond, Pu Feifei stopped talking.

Upon arriving at East City University.

Shang Shiqian ran into Chen Yixun at the entrance of the Treasure Pavilion.

“Yixun, good morning!”

“Morning.”

Next to Chen Yixun was a girl who looked at Shang Shiqian with bright eyes and stepped forward to greet him, “Hi, you must be Shang Shiyu, right? I’m Chen Fangli, E God’s roommate.”

“Hello, Chen,” Shang Shiqian asked, “Do you have classes today as well?”

Chen Fangli replied, “No classes. With finals coming up, we need to go to the library to grab seats and review.”

The library was just behind the Treasure Pavilion, separated by a large flowerbed, which took some time to navigate around.

However, there was a fire exit in the middle of the Treasure Pavilion, and many students would cut through there for convenience.

Shang Shiqian nodded, no wonder she often ran into Chen Yixun here.

She asked, “Yixun, do you have time for lunch?”

Before Chen Yixun could answer, Chen Fangli jumped in, “She does! She hasn’t even taken her part-time job because she’s preparing for finals. Are you inviting her to lunch?”

Chen Yixun shot her a glare and quickly said to Shang Shiqian, “Don’t listen to her nonsense, I’ll come find you after lunch.”

Shang Shiqian smiled and said, “It’s fine, I’ll be having lunch at the cafeteria too, I can treat you both.”

“We can just go eat together, no need for all this treating back and forth, it feels too formal.”

After agreeing on a time and place to meet, Shang Shiqian headed into the Go Room.

Chen Yixun frowned and asked Chen Fangli, “What were you just saying?”

“Was what I said wrong? Besides, I’m helping you out by creating an opportunity for a date, okay?” Chen Fangli replied.

“You, making someone treat me to lunch for no reason, as if I’m starving for food,” Chen Yixun said, not very pleased, fearing that Shang Shiqian might have already labeled her as a “freeloader” or “someone who takes advantage.”

Chen Fangli said, “She’s so rich, what’s the big deal about treating to one or two meals? Just look at her, everything she wears is a brand! Tiko clothes, shoes, Xiangnana hat, Ningmar’s backpack… each piece alone costs six figures!”

Suddenly, she exclaimed, “Wow, I didn’t expect her to really be a rich girl!”

A few days ago, she thought Chen Yixun was just watching too many cheesy short dramas, but seeing Shang Shiqian in person today made her realize that Chen Yixun wasn’t daydreaming.

Hearing this, Chen Yixun’s expression darkened.

She defended, “Her money didn’t just fall from the sky. She earned it from her part-time job and from guiding students in the Go club every day, that’s her salary from Professor Weng.”

“Five thousand a month forget it, you can’t wake someone who’s pretending to be asleep.”

Before noon, Chen Yixun arrived at the school cafeteria.

Shang Shiqian asked, “Where’s Chen?”

Chen Yixun smiled and said, “I’m Chen!”

Shang Shiqian chuckled, “Your ‘Chen’ is different from her ‘Chen.’”

“They’re both Chen from the East, how are they different?”

“You’re friend Chen, she’s classmate Chen.”

Chen Yixun smacked her lips, “Well, that is indeed different.”

She said, “Let’s go, what do you want to eat today? The school has a new dish, tomato stir-fried with tomato, want to try it?”

Shang Shiqian: …

She asked, “Is there potato braised with potato?”

Chen Yixun: “Hahaha…”

The school cafeteria is usually less crowded on weekends, and the two of them got their meals and chose a corner to sit down, chatting while they ate.

Shang Shiqian rarely spoke while eating, so it was mostly Chen Yixun who talked, and she listened.

When she heard that Chen Yixun had applied for a scholarship from the Phoenix Education Foundation and wanted to achieve impressive results by the end of the semester, Shang Shiqian finally asked, “Are you thinking of working at the Phoenix Education Foundation?”

“Yeah. But it should be quite difficult to get in, right?”

Without hesitation, Shang Shiqian said, “I think you have a good chance. As long as you perform well over these four years, given your experience of being funded by the foundation from elementary school through college, they will definitely prioritize hiring you.”

Funding during the minor years can be seen as charity, but at the university level, the foundation’s funding is more like an investment.

The fact that Chen Yixun could still receive awards and scholarships from the foundation at this stage indicated her excellence.

Moreover, with years of funding behind her, Chen Yixun’s sense of belonging to the foundation or the Phoenix Group would be much higher than that of an average person, and the Shang family would definitely recruit her.

Chen Yixun asked, “Will you continue playing Go at school? Have you thought about other paths?”

Shang Shiqian shook her head, “After the university Go championship, I won’t come back to play Go at school anymore.”

Chen Yixun’s heart tightened, and she said wistfully, “Oh, I see…”

But it didn’t matter; they had added each other as friends, and even if Shang Shiqian didn’t come back to East City University, they could still keep in touch.

Shang Shiqian asked, “Speaking of the Phoenix Foundation… I remember you seem to know quite a bit about the Shang family. Do you know about the relationship between the Shang family and Wei Yixian?”

Chen Yixun was puzzled; how could Shang Shiyu be so familiar with Wei Yixian and not know about these matters?

But then she thought, this was just her speculation.

What if Shang Shiyu really was just Wei Yixian’s Go teacher and had no connection to the Shang family?

She said, “The relationship between the Shang family and Wei Yixian is something most people in East City have heard of.”

“I used to be oblivious to things outside my window, so I really don’t know much.”

Chen Yixun thought: She didn’t deny being from East City.

After a few seconds of silence, she finished the last few bites of her meal and said, “What I know are just some hearsay rumors, but some rumors can be true, like Wei Yixian being married, and her wife being the fourth young lady of the Shang family, Shang Shiqian.”

Shang Shiqian laughed and said, “I’ve heard that rumor too.”

Using the method of eating melons to divulge information allowed Chen Yixun to feel less moral pressure about gossiping about Wei Yixian in front of Shang Shiqian.

“Regarding their marriage rumor, it dates back to the ‘Wei family succession battle’ ten years ago.”

Next, Chen Yixun shared the big gossip circulating in East City about “Old Mr. Wei being seriously ill, and his eldest son Wei Yongkun forcing Wei Yixian to break up with her first love, then marrying Shang Shiqian to form an alliance.”

Shang Shiqian had already learned about these matters from the system on the day she was resurrected.

She asked, “And then?”

“They were married for a year, and Shang Shiqian was kidnapped and murdered.

Because the murderer was an admirer obsessed with Wei Yixian, the Shang family believed that Wei Yixian bore a significant responsibility for Shang Shiqian’s death.

To appease the anger of the Shang family, the Wei family first exiled Wei Yixian to the western regions, then banished her to Lingnan… they almost sent her to Ningguta.

But Wei Yixian was indeed very talented in business; every time she went to a branch company, she could multiply its performance several times within a year or two.

She also transformed into a black knight, causing bloodshed on the financial street of the Four Little Dragons, earning the title of “Little Buffett of Xia Country.”

At the same time, while rotating through the branches, she didn’t forget to suppress her siblings who had always been sabotaging her.

After eight years of management, she finally turned the tables and returned to the Wei Group in power at the beginning of this year.

However, her relationship with the Shang family had never improved.

Marketing accounts reported that every year on the anniversary of Shang Shiqian’s death, Wei Yixian would go to the Shang family’s cemetery to pay her respects but was always stopped at the gate.”

Shang Shiqian murmured, “So that’s how it is.”

No wonder in the original text, her name wasn’t even worthy of mention.

It was because her family didn’t want Wei Yixian to have any further connection with her, right!?

So her name, their past relationship, had all been buried by Wei Yixian.

Chen Yixun added, “However, you can’t blame the Shang family for being so heartless.

Wei Yixian married Shang Shiqian for interests; those entertainment magazines reported it. After marrying, Wei Yixian not only lived separately from Shang Shiqian but also kept thinking about her first love.

No matter how you look at it, Shang Shiqian had it worse, but that murderer even took pity on Wei Yixian!

Shang Shiqian’s death was so unjust! If I were part of the Shang family, I wouldn’t forgive Wei Yixian either.”

Shang Shiqian scratched her head; in fact, the separation wasn’t entirely Wei Yixian’s fault.

Since Shang family daughters don’t marry outside, they wouldn’t have a separate marital home.

After marriage, Wei Yixian moved into the Shang family.

However, Wei Yixian had classes during the day and had to return to the Wei family at night to fulfill her filial duties at Old Mr. Wei’s sickbed.

She was also used as a figurehead by the newly appointed Wei Yongkun, taken around for socializing and networking, hoping to secure her position as the heir after Old Mr. Wei passed away.

She always returned late.

Later, Wei Yixian bought a house outside; if she was busy until late or if Shang Shiqian wasn’t home, she would stay outside.

And since Shang Shiqian was preparing for competitions and busy trying to reach the ninth dan, she often wasn’t home either.

Coincidentally, in 2016, the rules for promotion in Go underwent reform.

In the past, there were mainly two ways to promote in Go:

One was direct promotion.

As long as you had won a world-class mixed-gender Go championship once or two second places, you could be directly promoted to ninth dan.

Before 2016, only fifteen people in Xia Country had achieved ninth dan through this method.

Shang Shiqian had also won a world championship, but that was in the World Women’s Go Championship.

According to the promotion rules, she could only be directly promoted to fifth dan.

The second way was through rank matches, accumulating enough games and wins.

The rules for rank matches required competing against players of the same rank; for an eighth dan female player to be promoted to ninth dan, she had to compete against another eighth dan player.

However, there were too few players who could reach eighth dan; most eighth dan players preferred to keep their title rather than participate in rank matches.

This led to a situation where, from 2003 to 2007, only one ninth dan was born through rank matches.

After 2007, no players had been promoted to ninth dan through rank matches again.

After the reform of the promotion rules, as long as you obtained enough rating points and the corresponding win rate in responsibility matches, you could be promoted to ninth dan.

Thus, Shang Shiqian spent three-quarters of her time each month either in competitions or training for competitions.

Even when there were no competitions, she would play matches at the dojo, engage in recording games, and reviewing… her mind was entirely focused on Go.

No wonder Chen Baoming felt sorry for Wei Yixian.

Shang Shiqian teased Chen Yixun, “Didn’t you say you were a fan of Wei Yixian when you met her before?”

Chen Yixun choked, muttering, “I’m not her fan.”

Shang Shiqian took a sip of bland chicken soup and asked, “So has the Shang family ever done anything excessive to Wei Yixian?”

Chen Yixun immediately said, “The Shang family would never do such things!”

“Thank you.” Shang Shiqian was glad that Chen Yixun could defend the Shang family.

She also believed that her family hadn’t done anything excessive to Wei Yixian; otherwise, according to the logic of the novel, the Shang family would indeed be the villains.

However, Shang Shiqian had relaxed a bit too soon.

After finishing lunch and returning to the Treasure Pavilion, just as she reached the door of the Go Room, someone called out to her, “Excuse me, could you wait a moment?”

Shang Shiqian quietly observed for two seconds before confirming that the person was calling her.

“Are you calling me?”

The one who stopped her was a very stylishly dressed girl, and even before she got close, the scent of perfume wafted over.

However, the scent was not unpleasant; it was a pure floral fragrance.

The girl looked her over a few times and nodded, “Yes.”

Then she handed her a flyer, “Do you want to be a host? Want to rake in the wallets of the boys?”

Shang Shiqian: ?

She glanced at the flyer and found that it was from a media studio recruiting hosts and extras.

The girl had already started promoting, “Our studio is preparing to create a college student influencer base…”

Shang Shiqian then realized that the girl’s name was Zhu Yuanying, a student from the School of Journalism and Communication.

She was also an influencer with over 3.3 million followers on platforms like Le Dou and Xiao Green Book.

Recently, she had her sights set on the short drama scene, so she established a studio and was recruiting outstanding students to participate.

Shang Shiqian said, “Sorry, I’m not really interested in that.”

Zhu Yuanying was undeterred, “Even if you’re not interested in acting, we can package you as an influencer. You just need to stroll around the basketball court, do a few flirty dance moves, straight or bent, and there will definitely be countless girls wanting to cook with you.”

Shang Shiqian was greatly puzzled, “Why would they want to cook with me? Sorry, but I’ve never cooked a meal in my life, I don’t know how to cook.”

Zhu Yuanying: …

“Ha!” She couldn’t hold back and laughed out loud.

From her mischievous smile, Shang Shiqian sensed that this “cooking” might be a recent popular meme, and it probably had some 21X connotation.

Zhu Yuanying said, “Just leave it to us to manage the account.”

Shang Shiqian still refused.

Zhu Yuanying asked, “Do you have a Le Dou account? Can you follow me?”

This wasn’t a big deal, so Shang Shiqian casually followed her, finally managing to escape.

A few minutes later.

Zhu Yuanying walked out of the school gate and directly hopped into a sports car.

The woman in the driver’s seat pushed her sunglasses up onto her head and asked, “Didn’t you bring her out?”

Zhu Yuanying complained, “It’s not that easy! If I just went up to her and said someone outside is looking for her, do you think she would believe me? This kind of plot hasn’t been used in TV dramas for years.”

She asked, “Are you sure she’s Wei Yixian’s caged canary? Although she looks quite good, her personality is too dull.”

The woman pointed at a photo on her phone and retorted, “You didn’t mistake her for someone else, did you? That’s her, right?”

“My eyes can be considered a 3D scanner, I can’t be mistaken!”

The woman asked again, “So have you found out her identity?”

“I have. Her name is Shang Shiyu, and she’s not a student at our school. But some say she’s from the Linjiang campus, others say she’s the child of a teacher at the school, and some say she’s a professional Go player invited back by Professor Weng from the Go department.”

“Is there no definite information?”

“She only goes to the Go Room to play Go and generally doesn’t chat with people. Others, out of politeness, wouldn’t ask too much; they can only deduce that she usually comes over during the first two periods in the morning and leaves around five in the evening.”

When her girlfriend asked her to find someone at East City University, she had put in a lot of effort, using all her connections at school.

She even went on the confession wall.

After three days, she finally found out that “Shang Shiyu” often frequented the Go Room.

Zhu Yuanying said aggrievedly, “Just because of that confession wall, I almost got exposed; my friends thought I was going to cheat!”

The woman quickly comforted her and then took a moment to message Shang Shidai: “The person you’re looking for is called Shang Shiyu, a regular at the Go Room, usually leaves by five in the afternoon.”

Shang Shidai received the message and angrily jabbed her brush onto the canvas.

Shang Shiyu?

How could she be called Shang Shiyu!?

She threw down her brush, rushed to take a shower, and then hurriedly left.

Passing through the front hall, an elderly lady who was brushing a long-haired cat asked, “In such a hurry, where are you going?”

Shang Shidai hurriedly said, “Grandma, I have an appointment for afternoon tea with a friend, and I’m also going for a spa.”

Shang Yufeng adjusted her reading glasses and said, “You don’t look like you’re going for afternoon tea; you look more like you’re looking for trouble.”

“Really! I’m meeting Li Xiao, the one whose family runs a cosmetic surgery hospital. Grandma, if you don’t believe me, you can call to verify.”

Shang Yufeng said, “I’m not some feudal patriarch restricting your freedom to make friends, am I? Go ahead, just come back before dark… and don’t take the back roads.”

Shang Shidai paused for a moment, then cheerfully ran over, kissed the old lady’s cheek, and said, “I’m off now, Grandma.”

Shang Si: Little Black System, I can’t cook!

System: Cooking tutorials, stir-frying tutorials, all arranged!

Wei Zong: ?

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