“I now have the surname Nan, not Xia. Your Xia sister is over there being watched.”
Why pretend to be so well-behaved and still have the nerve to ask? It was only because a well-behaved girl would not be toyed with to death by that madman.
Xia father and Xia mother had never cared about her injuries. Their educational philosophy was survival of the fittest, but Xia Nanfeng was four years older than her and could treat her like a ball to kick around—how could she possibly be “strong”?
It was precisely because the obedient girl looked weak and boring that Xia Nanfeng bothered her less.
“Nan Yan, no longer surnamed Xia.” Xia Nanfeng stared at Nan Yan’s side profile, seemingly thinking about something.
The banquet had reached the cake-cutting segment.
Two waiters pushed in a two-meter-tall princess castle cake.
“So beautiful. Thank you, father. Thank you, mother. This is the first cake I’ve ever received in my life. I’m so happy.”
Xia Zhizhi’s words were beautifully spoken. They expressed affection toward her parents while also hinting at the hardship of her past life.
Her cool smile was bright, yet her eyes were filled with tears. She looked strong and sincere.
Xia father pressed his lips together tightly and gently patted her shoulder. Xia mother also seemed deeply moved, holding her hand with apparent affection and pity.
Xia Nanfeng raised his wine glass. Through the glass, he looked at the warm and happy family of three acting out their scene. In a gentle voice, he murmured: “Happiness lasts only for a moment—boom!”
The wine glass slipped from his hand and shattered.
At the same instant, the two-meter-tall cake toppled onto Xia Zhizhi.
“Ah—!”
Along with a scream and the guests’ shocked commotion, the dignified and elegant Xia Zhizhi instantly turned into a cake-covered person.
Colorful and spectacular.
“This looks much better!” Xia Nanfeng admired his own masterpiece with satisfaction.
Nan Yan was stunned when she saw this scene. “Xia Nanfeng, are you adding your own drama to this?”
This was not the kind of ridiculous prank she had asked him to do.
Xia Nanfeng lifted his chin slightly, brows full of pride. “No need to thank me. I know you girls like comparing beauty.”
Nan Yan: “……”
She was truly convinced by Xia Nanfeng’s logic.
Xia Zhizhi wiped the sticky cream off her face and screamed in anger. Her carefully styled hair and makeup were completely ruined.
Nan Yan, that malicious little white lotus, wasn’t supposed to drug her?
She had already prepared countermeasures—so why did this happen?
This wasn’t in the original storyline at all!
She struggled to stand up, stepped on a patch of slippery cream, and “thud”—she fell again, flat on her back.
Cake-covered Xia Baian reached out to help her, stepped on a piece of kiwi, and “thud! thud!”
The moment Xia Zhizhi stood up again, she was kicked away once more.
“Pfft—hahaha!” Nan Yan could not hold it in anymore. Watching the cake-covered people slipping and falling was simply too funny.
Xia Nanfeng glanced sideways at Nan Yan, who was laughing so hard she could not stand straight. His eyes carried a faint, mocking curve. “Nan Yan, you should really keep acting like a proper obedient girl. Laughing like that is not very ladylike. It’s kind of frightening.”
Nan Yan covered her mouth, her shoulders shaking. She gave Xia Nanfeng a thumbs-up through her laughter.
One had to admit, from the victim’s perspective, Xia Nanfeng was inhumane.
From a bystander’s perspective, he was a genius.
A slightly overweight male auction house staff member came over to help Xia Zhizhi to the dressing room.
Nan Yan immediately stopped laughing, her brows tightening. “Did you drug her?”
According to the plot, after Xia Zhizhi was drugged, a slightly overweight male auction house staff member would escort her to the dressing room.
But Nan Yan had not noticed anyone suspicious handing her alcohol. Moreover, would Xia Zhizhi, knowing the plot, still drink drugged wine?
Xia Nanfeng was very confident. “Mm. Every glass of wine she drank contained drugs.”
Nan Yan: “……”
He was truly something else!
She really could not believe she had let Xia Nanfeng handle such a dirty task.
Nan Yan had a bad feeling and turned to leave.
system：【Triggering plot—bring people to the dressing room to catch the female lead and the auction house staff in misconduct.】
Nan Yan: “……”
Xia Zhizhi must have already dug a trap waiting to counterattack and slap her face.
This whole situation made the person who had done the dirty work herself feel anxious.
At the guest room entrance, Nan Yan put on an innocent expression. “I… I saw a man dragging Zhizhi into this room. Could she have been forced by someone bad?”
“What?” Gu Jingshen reacted the most, his expression full of disbelief.
Xia Nanfeng slightly tightened his jaw. So this was it—she had fooled everyone for over twenty years.
What a talent.
Xia Nanfeng looked at Nan Yan’s obedient appearance after committing wrongdoing and pressed his lips together. A well-behaved sister was not his sister. The one inside—he did not acknowledge her.
As for blood ties or not, the Xia family had never had much real affection anyway.
Xia Nanfeng kicked the door open. “Who dares to force my sister? They are asking for death.”
Xia father tried to stop him but failed. Foolish boy—there were so many people behind them. Was this the time to rush in?
Gu Jingshen, his face dark, rushed in first.
The crowd of onlookers followed in a chaotic wave.
When Gu Jingshen saw the person on the bed, he inexplicably felt a sense of relief.
At least she was still his fiancée—he did not want to be betrayed.
Nan Yan knew Xia Zhizhi must already have a backup plan. When she saw the scene on the bed, she immediately guessed Xia Zhizhi’s counterattack strategy.
Inside the room, the man they had arranged earlier had blood on his forehead and was unconscious on the bed.
“Where is Xia Zhizhi?” Xia Baian frowned and asked Nan Yan.
“Father, mother, are you looking for me?”
Xia Zhizhi’s calm voice came from outside the door at just the right moment.
Nan Yan: “……”
So she really had been waiting here.
“I accidentally bumped into Mr. Mo just now, and cake got on him. I was just apologizing in Mr. Mo’s room. What are you all doing here?”
Everyone immediately stepped back from Mo Jinchuan out of instinct.
It was well known that the Mo Family Eldest Young Master was a gentle and refined doctor, while the second young master was a ruthless figure like a king of the underworld.
Rumor said the second Mo young master could send you straight to hell, while the eldest could pull you back.
No one dared to provoke him.
Nan Yan turned around and saw Mo Jinchuan standing with Xia Zhizhi. There was still white cream on his chest.
A very good move.
Not only did it make everyone see her as a lying, malicious white lotus, it also tied her to Mo Jinchuan, making him dislike her as well.
A three-pronged attack.
Shen Xiangyun immediately saw through the situation. She turned to Nan Yan, who had always been well-behaved. “Are you lying? Or did you arrange all of this today?”
If they fought privately, no one would interfere. But doing this at a banquet involving so many people would affect the Xia family’s interests.
More importantly, Nan Yan had already been removed from the Xia family—she was now an outsider.
Although she was married to Mo Jinchuan, it was only because she had left the Xia family and coveted Old Master Mo’s two-billion dowry. Mo Jinchuan had even suppressed news of their marriage registration, and few people knew about it.
It was obvious Mo Jinchuan did not like her, so Shen Xiangyun did not take Nan Yan seriously and still spoke to her in a lecturing elder’s tone.
“So it was a thief crying thief. After occupying the magpie’s nest for over twenty years, she must be jealous of the real heiress who just returned.”
“Fake is fake. Who would have thought her gentleness was all an act.”
“That cake incident earlier was probably her doing too. She clearly cannot stand the real heiress having a birthday—today is also her birthday, right? Same day, of course she is jealous.”
Murmurs in the crowd quickly turned into speculation and judgment.
Mo Jinchuan frowned slightly. He did not like hearing others speak about his wife, even if she was only nominally his wife.
Xia Zhizhi noticed his darkening expression and curled her lips slightly.
Nan Yan, so your kindness at the hospital last time was fake after all. You only set her up to ruin her.
But no matter how well she disguised herself as a white lotus, the female lead who held the script could still tear her apart.
The Xia family heiress, Mo Jinchuan’s outstanding male lead, status, power, love—she wanted everything.
Only that useless scum ex-fiancé was not worth her attention.
“Ah Yan, did you really arrange all of this?” Gu Jingshen still refused to believe that the once gentle Nan Yan would do such things.
Although she had changed recently, he thought it was because her marriage was unhappy.
Nan Yan calmly swept her gaze across the crowd, taking in their contempt and mockery.
Her lips curled slightly. Since fate had already pinned her to the “vicious female supporting character” label, she might as well play it to the extreme and show everyone just how “vicious” she could be.
“Yes…”
“It was me.”
A clear voice suddenly cut in before she could finish, instantly drawing everyone’s attention.