Strategy to Capture Men

After sending Tang Ke to Aolin Academy, there was no intersection between him and Han Yanyan. She had her people secretly watch Xinya, fearing that she would once again approach her father and thus put her in unnecessary contact with Tang Ke.

She and Tang Ke were both variables in this world, and the collision of their two behavior trajectories would produce unpredictable changes. The best outcome was for everyone to walk in parallel paths.

Fortunately, thanks to her arrangements Xinya no longer wanted Tang Ke to break into the circle of the rich and powerful. Tang Ke's path almost never crossed hers.

She then turned about to worry about Patriarch Han. Fortunately, although Patriarch Han coveted Xin Ya it was not so strongly as to make him take the initiative. He didn't lack women, and since Xinya wasn't taking the initiative to put herself in his path, he got busy and forgot her.

Han Yanyan and Tang Ke lived out their own quiet lives.

Han Yanyan trained herself like the very devil, with a self-discipline that would stagger any onlooker. At the age of fourteen, her first period ushered in her second spiritual breakthrough, and just as Patriarch Han had expected, she advanced to S-class.

Although it was only the change of a single letter, the advancement from A-class to S-class was a huge step, enough to halt the vast majority of people. After S-class, every little step forward was like crossing a chasm.

As she was the family heir, this was a major event for the entire family and naturally there was a grand celebration. On the guest list of the family banquet, Han Yanyan once saw the names of Xinya and Tang Ke. Thinking of inviting all his relatives, her father had somehow remembered his beautiful cousin once more. Aunt Xinya wasn't surnamed Han, and they were only very distantly related. Strictly speaking, she wasn't really even family.

Han Yanyan quietly crossed out the names of mother and son.

As the future leader of the family, Han Yanyan was naturally the star of the banquet. All her father's illegitimate children came to suck up to her, calling her "Older Sister" or "Younger Sister" in a very affectionate manner. No one thought it out of place.

The corners of Han Yanyan's mouth quirked up.

She hadn't spent much energy on her social life in recent years, devoted to spirit and mecha. From the outside looking in, she was a self-disciplined heir who led a monotonous life, uninterested in eating, drinking and having fun. The trappings of her daily life were exquisite and expensive, and she seemed satisfied with it, unlike other rich children who were bored of it and always pursuing new novelties.

After Han Yanyan had dealt with all the things that had to be done, she quietly left and returned to her study.

Her study was large and spacious, but even so, books were piled everywhere. This Eldest Young Miss was apparently addicted to reading, and often had her subordinates collect interesting books from all over.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Han Yanyan was searching for another piece of contraband that she had smuggled in. This piece had been hidden much more quietly and secretly.

She leafed through the books her subordinates had just bought for her. Some of them were newly published and some of them had come from second-hand bookstores. They were limited in scope to spiritual power, mecha, and... biographies.

These books were all actually rather interesting. Their content was too divorced from her real world to have come from her own brain, so they should be based in Leo's world. Through them, she got a glimpse of the kind of world that Leo lived in.

Patriarch Han came into the study and asked, "Why are you hiding in here? We still have guests downstairs."

"It doesn't matter," Han Yanyan replied casually, "They're all people who want something from me, not the other way around. It doesn't matter whether I go through the motions or not."

"Do you not like being with your brothers and sisters?" asked the patriarch.

When he said 'brothers and sisters', he meant his illegitimate children. Most of their mothers, though beautiful, were genetically inferior, and dragged down the children they bore. The best of them all had only achieved an A-level spiritual ranking upon reaching adulthood. Although that was hardly anything to scoff at, it was impossible for them to covet the position of family head. Han Yanyan was the result of genetic optimization and destined to be the unmatched, unparalleled family heir. That was why her father was so hard on her.

On the other hand, none of his other children had to shoulder the duty of being head of house, so he was much gentler to them, like an ordinary, real father.

Stepping forward, he touched her head and said, "Remember, you are unique to Father. No one can compare to you."

Such a sentence was already him showing rare warmth to Han Yanyan.

Han Yanyan appreciated it and promised, "Don't worry, I'll treat them well, just like a matriarch should. I just hope that they won't push themselves in front of me, and that they know how to preserve the peace."

He patted her on her shoulder and left, satisfied.

Han Yanyan continued to turn the pages, quietly reading.

When she was nineteen years old, amongst the vast sea of ​​books her subordinates had bought, she finally found the one she wanted.