After the meal…
“Husband! Seventh Brother! Come with me to see Leng Xiner! I know who she’s with!”
Leng Bingning cast a cold, cutting gaze at Zhu Tianfan and Leng Xingche as she casually made her demand.
Just now, these two shameless men had eaten her 3 million yuan Western meal and still tried to find excuses to leave, even claiming they were tired and sleepy afterward.
Hmph! They just didn’t want to go look for Leng Xiner.
That wouldn’t do. She had already arranged a very entertaining show for them to watch.
After all, last night Leng Xiner and Lan Ruyue had framed her. If she didn’t take revenge, could she even call herself human?
So she had her bodyguards force-feed them even more drugs. With the amount they consumed, it would take an entire night of “release” to fully wear off.
At the same time, to bind her so-called good sister and best friend tightly to that adulterer, she had even arranged for ten thugs to wear masks printed with Li Chen’s face. Five of those masks had even been found on Leng Xiner herself.
By her calculations, the two of them would wake up around 1 PM. When that happened, she was very curious to see how those two shameless women would react to the “scene” she had prepared.
“What?!”
Zhu Tianfan stared at Leng Bingning in shock.
“W-wife, I… I’m not close with Leng Xiner. I don’t need to go, right? Seventh Brother can go with you. I’ll just wait in the lounge!”
His lips twitched as he quickly used Leng Xingche as a shield.
Today, this domineering CEO was far too volatile. If he followed along, there was a high chance he’d end up as another punching bag like Li Chen.
[Tch! This vicious woman is really losing her mind. She knows Leng Xiner loves to act pitiful to provoke her, yet after being drugged and losing control, she still wants to confront her? She’s just going to make herself angry again!]
[Wait… given that the adulterer never gives up until he gets what he wants, he’ll definitely follow her today. Is she planning to expose Leng Xiner’s true nature in front of him?]
[Dammit, she really did get dumber after last night. Leng Xiner is that guy’s lifelong white moonlight—how could a few words ruin her image? Serves this stupid woman right if she gets her heart ripped out. I’ve never seen someone this foolish!]
From the original body’s twelve years of memories, Zhu Tianfan had never liked this adopted daughter of the Leng family.
Aside from her thin and flat figure, the biggest reason was that Leng Xiner loved to act weak and pitiful, especially in front of Li Chen—constantly calling out “Brother Chen, my heart hurts,” or “Brother Chen, I feel so sad,” completely different from Leng Bingning’s domineering style.
Because of this, Leng Bingning often suffered under Leng Xiner’s antics in front of Li Chen, and would vent her frustration on Zhu Tianfan or glare at him coldly. This made him deeply dislike Leng Xiner—almost to the point of disgust.
Leng Bingning was extremely displeased. On the surface, her husband looked nervous and submissive, stuttering like he feared her—but in reality, he was constantly cursing her in his mind.
Just listen to him—calling her a crazy woman, a lunatic, a stupid woman.
If he hadn’t suddenly become her “precious one,” she would have long since thrown him back into the bathroom at home to reflect on himself.
She snorted inwardly and shot Leng Xingche a cold glance, warning him not to say anything foolish.
“Y-yes! Yes! Yes! Everything you say is right! Brother-in-law, you should come with us!”
Leng Xingche had originally planned to slip away quietly, but under his sister’s gaze, he could only tremble and nod in forced agreement.
…
In a hotel room next to Dream Illusion Bar.
Leng Xiner and her best friend Lan Ruyue slowly woke up, their faces pale and their expressions exhausted.
When they tried to get up, their bodies felt like they had fallen apart, as if they had worked all night doing heavy labor.
Both of them felt something was off—like they had forgotten something very important.
Wait… last night, they had been drinking with Leng Bingning, hadn’t they? So why did she suddenly disappear while they were drinking?
Just as they struggled to recall what had happened, Leng Bingning’s cold voice came from outside the door.
“Xiner, Ruyue, are you awake? We’re coming in.”
In an instant, the two women panicked, scrambling to grab clothes and throw them on.
However, whether intentionally or not, Leng Bingning pushed the door open the moment she finished speaking, not giving them any time to react.
“Ah!…”
“Ah!…”
Two terrified screams rang out.
Leng Xiner and Lan Ruyue clutched their barely worn clothes and hugged pillows tightly against their bodies to cover themselves.
There was no blanket on the bed—only two pillows. This had been deliberately arranged by Leng Bingning, who had ordered the bodyguards to remove all the bedding.
Then, from the next room, a completely bewildered man rushed out—it was Li Chen. He looked at the scene in confusion, wishing he could dig a hole and crawl into it.
This was far too humiliating. His white moonlight and her best friend had ended up like this after drinking? It had only been one afternoon—how did everything turn out like some bizarre nightmare?
Wait… something wasn’t right. Why was he in the next room? At noon, he seemed to have been knocked unconscious. And the smell in the room… it was familiar.
At this moment, Leng Bingning noticed Li Chen’s furrowed brows and knew he was beginning to suspect something. But she didn’t care. Looking at her adopted sister and best friend, she curled her lips in disdain and delivered a cutting remark.
“Oh? Xiner, Ruyue, your drinking habits are truly disgraceful. You drank all night? And Li Chen, why are you here too?”
“And what’s that smell in the room… smells like chestnut blossoms. Seems we came at the wrong time.”
Li Chen, worthy of being the novel’s protagonist, quickly regained composure after his initial panic and came up with an excuse.
“Bingning, that’s not the smell of chestnut blossoms—it’s disinfectant.”
His skin was thick enough that he showed no real concern about the situation. In his mind, this was nothing more than a scheme by his rivals to smear him—drugging him, knocking him out, setting him up.
At the same time, he even felt a bit of disdain, thinking those rivals were foolish. Before attempting something like this, they should at least understand his relationships with these three women.
Leng Xiner was his white moonlight and his first woman. Their bond was unbreakable.
Lan Ruyue, though Leng Bingning’s best friend, was also very close to him and Leng Xiner. Even if she had other men, he wouldn’t care. He firmly believed that, in this world, the man she loved most was him.
As for Leng Bingning, a few sweet words would be enough to appease her. He believed she loved him as well. The deeper the love, the stronger the hatred—her sharp words were simply proof that she wanted to possess him alone.
However, Li Chen was far too confident.
This wasn’t the work of some rival from the Li family at all. It was a trap set by Leng Bingning herself—to take revenge on these three ungrateful ingrates.
A trap meant to let her unfortunate husband Zhu Tianfan and her tool-like, sister-obsessed seventh brother Leng Xingche witness everything… and then spread the news.