"Get lost, you bastard! I'm alive and well, I don't need you playing the filial son!"
Gu Beichen shouted angrily, and tried to kick Chu Chenyi with his foot, but he dodged it with lightning speed.
"Calm down, I'm just telling you the truth. Good advice is hard to swallow, but you have to face reality. Instead of bickering with me, you'd be better off thinking about how you'll deal with them when they show up."
Chu Chenyi advised him kindly, wishing he could still see Gu Beichen's obnoxious face that made people want to beat him up.
Gu Beichen's expression faltered slightly. How could he have forgotten about this? If he didn't have a proper explanation, he would indeed be in a difficult situation.
But out of pride, he still stubbornly maintained his composure: "This… I naturally have a way to deal with it, so you don't need to worry about me. You'd better focus on managing your own affairs."
Gu Beichen said in exasperation. For the sake of his dwindling dignity, he had to stubbornly persist.
Chu Chenyi snorted, completely disregarding Gu Beichen's words. Only Gu Beichen could stubbornly persist like this.
"Then I wish you good luck. I'll be leaving now. If you unfortunately perish, I will certainly come to pay my respects!"
"Scram!"
Gu Beichen yelled angrily and cursed at Chu Chenyi's retreating back.
...
"Put me down, Ling Mohan… you scoundrel, you jerk, put me down!"
Upon arriving at the Ling Residence, Ling Mohan directly carried Feng Jin inside and headed for the room, completely ignoring Feng Jin's shouts.
After entering the room and locking the door tightly, Ling Mohan finally put Feng Jin down with relief.
"You scoundrel, open the door!"
She was furious and didn't want to be in the same place as Ling Mohan. Seeing the door locked, her anger intensified.
"Let me explain…"
"I don't want to hear it, open the door!"
"I'll open the door after you let me explain!"
...
After a long back-and-forth, Feng Jin finally relented: "Go on, I want to see what kind of nonsense you can come up with!"
She pulled over a chair and sat down, waiting to see what flowery words Ling Mohan could produce.
"I went to the pleasure house because Gu Beichen dragged me there. Chu Chenyi was also with us. We were discussing matters, and it was absolutely not what you think…"
If he had known that Feng Jin would witness such a scene, he would never have gone to that wretched place.
Now, all he could do was hope that Feng Jin would believe him. After Ling Mohan finished speaking, a brief silence fell, and even the sound of breathing seemed to be amplified.
Ling Mohan stared at Feng Jin nervously, waiting for her next words.
"With a mere flap of your lips, you can say black is white. Do you really think I'll believe your lies, or do you think I'm that easily fooled?"
"Discussing matters? There are plenty of places in this world to discuss matters. Why did you have to choose a pleasure house? Dare you say you had no ulterior motives? I see you were quite enjoying yourself there!"
Feng Jin's words were full of sarcasm. She would not believe Ling Mohan's lies unless she was out of her mind.
"Everything I said is true, not a single word is a lie. Why don't you believe me!"
Ling Mohan was suddenly anxious. He had explained so clearly, yet Feng Jin remained stubborn and refused to believe him.
"Believe you? How can I believe you? I saw you with my own eyes in the pleasure house. Are you saying that if I saw you and another woman in bed, I should also believe it was fake, and that she pulled you onto the bed!"
"Such a thing would absolutely not happen. Even if it did, it would be under duress, never by my own will!"
Hearing Ling Mohan's words, Feng Jin's anger grew even more. What did he mean by "not by my own will"? Did he actually wish for such a thing to happen?
"You… you get out! I don't want to see you again. From now on, go to the pleasure house whenever you want, it has nothing to do with me. Get out!"
Her anger fully ignited, Feng Jin tried to push Ling Mohan out without regard for anything.
The difference in strength was too great. Even with all her might, she couldn't move Ling Mohan an inch. In the end, she had no choice but to give up.
Seeing that Feng Jin had calmed down a little, Ling Mohan patiently continued in a very gentle tone: "I'm telling the truth, I'm not lying to you. I really went to the pleasure house to discuss matters. If you don't believe me, I can call Chu Chenyi and Gu Beichen here, and we can confront each other. If a single word I said is false, then may I die a terrible death!"
Ling Mohan's attitude was sincere, and his words seemed to hold no falsehood.
Feng Jin's anger gradually subsided, but her expression remained cold, showing no sign of softening.
"How did you know I was at the pleasure house?" Ling Mohan asked cautiously, voicing his inner doubt.
Ever since he saw Feng Jin at the pleasure house earlier, he had wanted to ask why she was there. But Feng Jin was furious at the time, and he didn't dare to ask more.
Feng Jin lifted her eyes and looked at Ling Mohan, saying indifferently: "Gu Beichen led me in. He said there was someone I wanted to see, so I immediately guessed you were inside and went to take a look."
Ling Mohan's eyes narrowed: "Gu Beichen told you?"
Without overthinking the meaning behind Ling Mohan's words, Feng Jin simply nodded in agreement.
After a moment of silence, a flash of realization struck her.
"Gu Beichen knew you were inside, yet he still made me go in. What was his intention?"
She had been too angry at the time, only wanting to see if Ling Mohan was really inside and didn't think much of Gu Beichen's words, only wanting to see Ling Mohan as soon as possible and ask for a clear explanation.
Now that she had calmed down and thought about it carefully, she finally understood Gu Beichen's true purpose.
He simply wanted to sow discord, to watch her and Ling Mohan fight, and then watch the show from the sidelines.
"No wonder. He truly thinks his life is too long!"
Ling Mohan's voice was laced with anger. He now wished he could drag Gu Beichen over and kick him a few times to vent his rage.
"If you didn't have leverage in the hands of others, you wouldn't have been set up. If you conducted yourself with integrity, others couldn't smear you with mud."