She took a step back. "You know what the funny thing is, Jin Zhenyu? Mu Yunchen knows. Not everything, but enough. He knows I've been acquiring companies for him. He knows how I feel. He loves me desperately, but he's paralyzed by the fear of what people will think, what they'll say about us. About him raising me, even though we have no blood relation, even though there's nothing inappropriate about two adults choosing each other."
"So you're going to force his hand," Jin Zhenyu realized. "Make him so powerful he has no choice but to claim you publicly."
"Not force," Zhou Yuxi corrected, her voice softening with genuine emotion. "Free. I'm going to free him from his fear by making us untouchable. When the Jin family is under my control, when those three companies merge with Mu Conglomerate, when I've systematically eliminated every voice of criticism and every potential scandal... he won't have to be afraid anymore."
