Heads-up! The CEO's Wife is a Hidden Big Boss! novel Chapter 1071

Chapter 1071: Extra - Yuan Yang (Part One)

Editor: Atlas Studios

Four years later.

According to the internet, Meng Jinyang had become a famous criminologist in Country Z as well as a council member of the International Bar Association. She earned a doctorate in legal studies at the age of twenty-two. When she was twenty-three, she earned a doctorate in philosophy and became the professor of criminal law at Capital University’s law school in the same year. She remained the youngest professor of legal studies to date, and her representative works included ’Preface to Criminal Law,’ ’Criminal Law Studies,’ and ’The Development and Perfection of Criminal Law in Country Z.’

Meng Jinyang wasn’t a genius; she owed her current success to her dedicated hard work. When she graduated from her doctoral program, the director of the Supreme Court personally came to recruit her—although she rejected his offer in the end. Word had it that the two had a long talk in Principal Ren’s office for the whole morning and that Meng Jinyang remained firm in her decision to remain in school and join Jiang Shenyuan’s law firm.

This matter was widely discussed by others, for it was the lifelong dream of everyone in the law faculty to work in the Supreme Court, yet she rejected that offer without any hesitation. There were a lot of speculations about her refusal to join; some said it was because of Gu Mang, while others said it was because of Jiang Shenyuan. However, there was no way to know the truth as Meng Jinyang had never clarified the matter.

In the blink of an eye, she had been in Capital University for a year. And in that year, there were two ’sister’ faculties in Capital University; one was the medical faculty in the north side of the campus, and the other was the law faculty in the south side of the campus. They were known as the ’North Medicine South Law.’

Professor Gu Mang of the medical faculty and Professor Meng Jinyang of the law faculty were goddesses in the hearts of all the students in both faculties. On top of that, Meng Jinyang was Gu Mang’s biggest fan. Everyone knew that the aloof beauty, Meng Jinyang, would only lift her normally expressionless face into a smile when she saw the cold and proud Gu Mang. The pairing ’Mang Yang’ was well-known across the campus, and it even topped the popularity chart on Weibo.

However, both professors were very rarely seen together due to their busy schedules. Hence, the students would get really excited whenever they saw them together. The medical faculty and the law faculty even teamed up to become ’sister’ faculties.

The two faculties also shared another unique point, and that was in their admission brochures. Both schools only had the names ’Gu Mang’ and ’Meng Jinyang’ printed on their respective brochures.

Both faculties had become the most popular faculties in Capital University. And ever since they had Gu Mang and Meng Jinyang, the admission scores of both faculties had become unbelievably high. That said, the top students from all provinces and cities would rack their brains and try to get into these two majors as soon as their college entrance examination scores were out.

...

Meng Jinyang had just ended a lawsuit yesterday, and she finally had some free time to herself after working non-stop for the past two weeks or so. Right now, the only work she had was the graduation theses of her three Year Four students.

The woman standing on the podium appeared cold and aloof in her dark brown casual suit jacket. Her black hair was loosely tied behind her neck, and her thick fringe covered the contours of her face, only revealing her beautiful features. It made her face look extremely small, and her fair skin looked like it was glowing. The aura she exuded was so cold that it seemed like nobody could enter her world and that she refused to feel any emotions.

After graduation, apart from giving lessons to the Capital University’s students and taking on cases and lawsuits, her social life was very dull and dry. That was the impression she gave everyone.

At the moment, she was currently helping her students with their theses. Her thin eyelids were drooped, and her voice was gentle but clear with her pronunciation. Even though she was clearly an extremely introverted person, she sounded somewhat stern as well. With a few taps on her laptop’s keyboard, she sent a few documents to their Wechat’s graduation guidance group. "Message me if there’s anything you don’t understand."

"Got it, Professor Meng."

Meng Jinyang closed the laptop and put it into the briefcase with Capital University’s logo on it.

The students’ eyes were filled with admiration as they watched her leave the classroom.

The most capable people were probably those who once fell into the abyss but could still climb back to their feet and glamorously reach the top—no matter how difficult the process was and regardless of the rumors. While everyone knew what happened to Meng Jinyang, nobody could become as strong and outstanding as she was.

...

At the Medical Faculty.

Gu Mang also had to guide two of her students on their graduation theses, so she came to the lab building today.

When Meng Jinyang arrived at Gu Mang’s lab, she saw Gu Mang explaining the main points of the thesis to a student while the other student was recording a video of it with their phone.

Gu Mang spoke at a slower speed and in a simple yet profound manner. With her explanation, the complicated thesis became simplified and easier for the students to understand.

When the first student’s turn was over, they exchanged places with the second student and took over the video recording.

Fifteen minutes later, Gu Mang tossed the pen into the pen holder, picked up her phone, and opened the WeChat app before placing it back on the table for the students to scan her QR code. She drummed her fingers against the table as she said, "Send me a message if you have any questions."

The students quickly took their phones out to scan the QR code. Both were really excited that they were able to add Gu Mang on WeChat, especially since they hadn’t been able to do so because her doctoral students were the ones who had been guiding them previously. As they held onto their notebooks and documents, they suppressed their excitement and said, "Thank you, Professor Gu."

They became even more excited the moment they turned around to see Meng Jinyang sitting on the side, though. "Professor Meng, are you here to look for Professor Gu?"

Meng Jinyang nodded. Although her expression was cold, her voice was gentle. "It’s getting late. You should hurry and go have your lunch now."

"Okay." The students looked back continuously and exchanged excited looks with each other as they left the lab.

With a leg put across her knee, Gu Mang turned her chair around to face Meng Jinyang. "The case has ended?"

Meng Jinyang walked over to her with a bright and radiant smile, no longer looking as cold as before. "Yes, I won."

Gu Mang lifted her chin and smiled back at her. "Want to go back to Royal Garden and have lunch with me?"

"Sure." Meng Jinyang nodded and took out a lollipop from her pocket for Gu Mang. "Will Little Suiyi and Little Suibian be around?"

Although Lu Zhan had forced Lu Chengzhou to change their names, the latter was always calling the twins Lu Suiyi and Lu Suibian. Eventually, everyone tacitly accepted those names as the twins’ pet names.

Gu Mang raised her eyebrows as she took the lollipop, unwrapped it, and nonchalantly said, "I guess so. Lu Chengzhou’s been taking care of them lately. Let me send a text to ask him."

...

After packing her stuff, Gu Mang and Meng Jinyang left the building and saw Jiang Shenyuan’s car parked at the roadside in front of the building. The man was standing next to the car and appeared as if he was about to make a phone call.

"Brother Jiang." Meng Jinyang looked at him. "What are you doing here?"

Jiang Shenyuan looked up, put his phone away, and smiled gently at her. "I heard that your case ended, so I wanted to ask you out to lunch, but your students told me that you came here."

"I plan to follow Gu Mang back to Royal Garden to visit the twins."

Gu Mang slipped a hand into her pocket while adjusting the brim of her cap with her other hand. She then looked at Jiang Shenyuan and asked in a light voice, "Join us?"

"Sure." Jiang Shenyuan opened the back seat door and let them get in his car.

As it had been a long time since Meng Jinyang last saw the twins, she wanted to buy them some gifts. The trio thus dropped by a mall first.

After they were done choosing the gifts, Jiang Shenyuan wanted to pay for them, but Meng Jinyang refused to let him. In the end, they each paid for one gift.

On the way back to Royal Garden, Jiang Shenyuan asked, "When did Suiyi and Suibian come back?"

At the mention of her children, Gu Mang narrowed her eyes slightly in a dangerous manner. "The day before yesterday."

...

After Lu Jilai and Lu Jixing were born, Gu Mang and Lu Chengzhou had adopted a free-range method to take care of them. They had basically set a rule that after the twins turned two, they would only take care of them during the festive occasions and holiday periods as they were usually too busy to do that.

The twins had spent a lot of their childhood at other people’s houses. They had been to Changning County to plow the soil and plant vegetables with Lan Sha and had been to Ming City to learn calligraphy from Gu Mang’s teacher, Tan Xicheng. However, their brushes would always end up landing at unexpected places.

They had also been to No. 14 Research Center, where the director would forcefully instill profound mathematics and physics knowledge in them. The twins were extremely sharp in mathematics and physics, so the director was always gushing about their talents and hailing them as ’natural geniuses.’ He looked as if he had found his successors, but his over-enthusiasm to instill knowledge in them frightened them so badly that they fled at night one day.

The twins then went to the medical institute to learn acupuncture from Yu Mufeng and to Jijing Island, where they followed Ye Junci and Ye You around the major power centers and consortia. Huo Zhi had also taken them to Base 102 for training, where they became the most popular kids there. He realized then that Lu Jilai liked cold weapons, while Lu Jixing preferred thermal weapons.

Gu Si and Gu Hui even took them on a warplane and invaded the airspace of Country K without their permission. They were even nearly taken as terrorists and nearly shot to death.

That wasn’t the end of it. The twins snuck into the lab of Jijing Island’s arms institute to study explosives and missiles and ended up blowing up the lab. Word had it that Ye Junci and Old Master Bai had the shock of their lives when they heard the explosion in the middle of the night.

However, by the time Gu Mang and Lu Chengzhou rushed over to Jijing Island, Responsive Dragon and Flying Serpent had brought the twins to Mingyu Island to watch them trade weapons and engage in gang fights. When the gunfire was in its climax, the twins took one small stereo and played music there. They couldn’t be any wilder.

Gu Mang still had medical-related work to do, so she couldn’t go find them at Mingyu Island. In the end, Lu Chengzhou had to personally make a trip there and bring the twins back himself. The latter had been spending the past two days trying to educate them.

Royal Garden, study.

Lu Chengzhou was currently having a video conference with a few senior members of Red Flame. Midway through the conference, he cast a fleeting glance at the twins who were doing handstands at the corner.

Twenty minutes later, the conference ended. He shut down the laptop, walked over to the twins, and stopped in front of them.

It seemed that the boys had gotten completely numbed to Lu Chengzhou’s punishment, so they weren’t afraid of it at all. Their big round eyes rolled about, and the word "whatever" seemed to be written all across their soft and chubby cheeks.

Lu Chengzhou also couldn’t be bothered to ask them if they had learned their mistakes as their apologies were insincere. They had no intention of changing either. With one hand in his pocket, he looked down at the two chubby faces and said blandly, "Go think about how you’re going to explain it to your mother later."

Hearing that, the little lads shivered out of fear and dropped back down to their feet. They looked up at their father and asked in surprise, "What?! Mommy is coming back today?!"

These little imps sure knew the one they shouldn’t mess with. Lu Chengzhou clicked his tongue when he saw the two identical faces with two identical wide-eyed and nervous expressions. "Are you scared now?"

The twins exchanged glances. Before they were brought back to the capital, they had looked into Gu Mang’s schedule, so they knew that she was very busy with her medical research project lately. Hence, they were planning to fool Lu Chengzhou into letting them escape to the Lu residence, where they could seek refuge with their grandfather. There goes our plan...

"Do you have any idea of how much your mother had to pay for the exploded lab?" Lu Chengzhou said nonchalantly.

Money was Gu Mang’s bottom line. She had to compensate for the explosion, especially since the director of Jijing Island’s arms institute came crying to her. It had cost a lot.

The twins fell silent. This was exactly the reason why they had fled to Mingyu Island.

Lu Chengzhou looked down at the two rebellious kids. "You even played music when there was gunfire going on. Pretty capable, huh?"

The twins twirled their fingers and carefully glanced at their father as they said, "Well... We were in the mood for some music..."

Silence lingered in the study for several seconds.

Gu Si sure has taught them well. Lu Chengzhou nodded. "Fine, you can repeat that to your mother."

"How can we do that?!" They didn’t have the guts to do so.

"Why not?" Lu Chengzhou opened the study door.

The twins immediately hugged each of Lu Chengzhou’s legs and looked up pitifully. "Daddy, don’t be so heartless to us."

"My heart is only reserved for your mother." Lu Chengzhou remained unmoved as he lifted the little ones by their collars and put them on the ground. He then put his hands into his pockets and walked forward while saying coldly, "Don’t pretend to be close with me."

Lu Yī and Lu Qi, who were bringing out the dishes in their aprons, smirked in amusement when they heard that.

The twins weren’t discouraged, though. Instead, they ran to hug their father’s thighs again and continued to pester him.

Lu Jilai puffed up his cheeks as he said sweetly, "Daddy, lend us some money so that we can pay mommy back."

Lu Jixing echoed, "Yeah! Please lend us some money, daddy."

Just like that, Lu Chengzhou walked over to the sofa and sat down with the two little kids hanging off his legs. He lazily said, "Married men don’t have money."

Lu Yī and Lu Qi were rendered speechless. Can we... not do this anymore...? This job isn’t humane!

Lu Jixing squeezed out two drops of tears. "Daddy, you have to save us! Blood is thicker than water!"

Lu Chengzhou shot his sons a look. He probably found this strange because the three of them had never been loving father and sons.

Right at that moment, the door outside clicked.

Everyone instinctively looked over to see Gu Mang pushing the door open while holding a card in her hand. Behind her were Meng Jinyang and Jiang Shenyuan behind her.

Just a second ago, Lu Chengzhou could still feel the twins tightly hugging his thighs, but the very next second, they bolted to the doorway and placed two pairs of indoor slippers next to Gu Mang and Meng Jinyang’s feet.

"Mommy, Auntie Jinyang." The twins obediently greeted them with flattering and toothy smiles on their faces. "Please change to these slippers."

Jiang Shenyuan didn’t have such privilege and had to take the slippers on his own. It was only then that he heard them greeting him perfunctorily with an "Uncle Jiang."

The little ones didn’t dare to get too close to Gu Mang. They just obediently put their hands in front of them like the good boys they were. "Mommy, lunch is ready. It’s all your and Auntie Jinyang’s favorite dishes."

Lu Chengzhou was speechless as he watched this scene from afar.

There was no expression on Gu Mang’s face as she cast her cold gaze on them.

Instantly, the twins felt as if death was near, but they still tried their best to maintain the smiles on their faces.

It had been a while since Meng Jinyang last saw the twins. She squatted down and stroked their heads. "Little Suiyi, Little Suibian, take a look at what Uncle Jiang and I have bought for you guys."

Jiang Shenyuan passed the gifts to Meng Jinyang.

The adorable and cool-looking twins had not only inherited their parents’ good looks and exquisite features but also their impressive IQ. Hence, Meng Jinyang bought for them a warship model and a warplane model that were highly difficult to assemble.

The twins’ eyes lit up at the sight of the gifts, and they loved it a lot. "Thank you, Auntie Jinyang, Uncle Jiang."

Meng Jinyang pinched their chubby cheeks as she replied with a smile, "You’re welcome."

All of a sudden, Lu Jixing wrapped his arms around her neck and rubbed his head against her. "Auntie Jinyang, I missed you a lot."

Startled by this sudden display of affection, Meng Jinyang patted his back and said, "I missed you too."

Maybe it was due to the telepathy between twins, but Lu Jilai immediately knew what his brother was up to. And so, he hugged Meng Jinyang as well. "Suiyi missed Auntie Jinyang badly too."

Meng Jinyang, however, was confused, for the twins behaved exactly like Gu Si and were usually quiet, cold, and aloof. Why are they suddenly being so clingy?

Jiang Shenyuan was taken aback, too, having heard the wild stories about the twins. The way they were suddenly behaving made his scalp grow numb with fear.

"Auntie Jinyang, we found criminal law really interesting after reading a book on it, so we’d like to stay at your house and learn from you," said Lu Jilai sweetly.

Meng Jinyang, who could never say no to the twins, naturally said, "Sure, I’ll teach both of you then."

"Auntie Jinyang, we want to learn it as soon as possible. Shall we head straight to Uncle Jiang’s law firm right after dinner?"

Overwhelmed by their enthusiasm, Meng Jinyang agreed to it. "Okay..."

I’ve never seen them so eager to learn anything before. As soon as Meng Jinyang gave them her word, she realized that something was amiss. She looked enquiringly at Jiang Shenyuan.

Jiang Shenyuan looked at Gu Mang, who was expressionless and had her arms crossed in front of her chest, before looking at the twins again. Those two are probably seeking refuge. I wonder what trouble they have gotten into this time.

Gu Mang was rendered speechless. They sure can act.

Jiang Shenyuan burst out laughing. Their sons... really are little imps.

Meng Jinyang could be considered Gu Mang’s student. Like the latter, the former excelled in everything she did once she set her mind to do it. She could’ve become the fairest and most impartial judge who took the development of the society into account, but her heart didn’t allow her to do so; she couldn’t not let her personal feelings get involved, for she was once the victim of a tragic case. Once the case lost its original fairness and had to take other factors into consideration, the guilt from not being able to seek justice for the victims would surely drive her mad.

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