“Crazy!” Xu Lin trembled all over, his eyes red with rage as he pointed at Xu Mian’s back.
“She’s insane! She’s a complete lunatic!”
“If I had known she would turn out like this, I’d rather back then she’d just smashed herself against the wall!”
Wang Fang looked utterly embarrassed.
Aunt Li had turned toward the kitchen, Xu Die went upstairs, leaving Xu Lin and Wang Fang alone downstairs.
“Let’s go!”
Suddenly Xu Lin roared. He grabbed Wang Fang’s hand and shouted toward Xu Mian’s room upstairs, “She didn’t want me doing those things in front of her mother, right? Fine! We’ll do it anyway!”
The ancestral tablets of Lin Yin were at the Xu family ancestral hall.
Over the years, whenever Xu Lin sought excitement, he liked to drag Wang Fang to the hall to… indulge in such acts in front of Lin Yin’s memorial.
Wang Fang lightly tugged his hand. “The child was just speaking out of anger. Why are you taking it so seriously?”
Xu Lin wasn’t listening!
His masculine pride had been severely wounded. Now he had to reclaim it!
He dragged Wang Fang straight to the ancestral hall.
Upstairs, Xu Die heard and smirked. She knocked on Xu Mian’s door. “Sister, whether you like it or not, the one living happily with Dad now is Mom.”
Xu Mian looked at her, legs crossed on the balcony seat.
She regarded Xu Die coldly, sneering. “You’re proud of yourself?”
“Of course, sister. I know you’ve always looked down on me, thinking Mom is just a maid. So what? The position of Mrs. Xu now belongs to my mother. The woman in Dad’s heart is my mother.”
Xu Mian casually replied, “Is that so? Then tell me do you think Xu Lin likes your mother, or just her beauty and obedience?”
Xu Die was about to say, “Of course the former.”
Xu Mian smiled and said, “Men have addictions when they cheat.”
Xu Die’s face immediately went pale.
Xu Mian scoffed and grabbed her phone, leaving the room.
In the ancestral hall,
Xu Lin was anxious, Wang Fang hesitant but compliant.
The two of them entwined.
Suddenly
Bang!
The main light flicked on brightly.
The two of them were on the floor, tangled together. Xu Mian walked in, pulled a chair to the doorway, and held up her phone. “Go on, you two. Continue.”
Xu Lin’s face paled in horror!
A dark, secretive room makes sensations more intense.
But under bright light, it’s like exposing all the filth in the sun.
Shame hit instantly.
“Go on,” Xu Mian lifted her chin generously. “Want me to add some music?”
She nodded and played a chilling, hellish rhythm.
Wang Fang shivered all over.
“Get out!” Xu Lin shouted, his blood boiling, and then fainted.
“Old Xu! Old Xu!”
Before Xu Lin fully lost consciousness, he heard Xu Mian coldly remark, “I told you to see a urologist early if things weren’t right. Look at you, trying to act tough.”
“Hey ” Xu Mian glanced at Wang Fang, whose clothes were slanted across her body. “Why are you crying? He’s not dead. Call 120. If he were really dead, it wouldn’t even concern you.”
With that, Xu Mian slowly slipped her phone into her pocket, hands in her jacket pockets, and left with casual, unbothered arrogance.
The ambulance arrived.
Wang Fang and Xu Die hurried after it.
Aunt Li, having witnessed Xu Mian’s ruthlessness, timidly asked, “Aren’t you going? That’s your father, after all.”
Xu Mian smiled faintly, legs crossed as she played a game in the room. “Go where? If he dies, they’ll notify me. Besides, I don’t rely on Xu Lin for a living. Naturally, those who do will go.”
Aunt Li looked at Xu Mian’s cold expression under the dim yellow light.
She felt this girl had no heart.
Nothing but blackness in her chest!
And she actually spoke like that about her own father!
The villa was quiet through the night.
The next morning,
Xu Mian leisurely ate breakfast in the living room.
Wang Fang and Xu Die entered, looking exhausted.
Wang Fang walked up to Xu Mian. “Mian Mian, you’ve really gone too far. Your father almost suffered a brain hemorrhage. After breakfast, go to the hospital and check on him.”
Xu Mian calmly sipped her porridge.
Xu Die frowned. “Xu Mian! You’ve gone too far! You ride on your mother’s trust fund and act so mighty in this house! I’m telling you, Dad is the real head of this family!”
At the mention of the trust fund, Wang Fang’s face tightened slightly, and she tugged at Xu Die.
Xu Mian noticed.
She smirked, put down her chopsticks, stood up, and coldly told Xu Die, “Your mother is more sensible than you. She knows who really runs this house in the end.”
Xu Mian slowly put on her black jacket and said to Aunt Li, “Tonight, I want crab. Celebrate a rare moment of peace.”
With that, Xu Mian put her hands in her pockets and left arrogantly.
Wang Fang closed her eyes; Xu Die stomped in frustration.
“Mom! Can’t you do anything about her?”
Wang Fang gritted her teeth. After a long pause, she finally spat out one word: “Endure!”
Once the trust fund is in hand, we’ll see how she handles this motherless orphan!
Aunt Li whispered, “Madam, then… should we still buy the crab?”
Wang Fang closed her eyes again, her expression dark. “Buy it! Let her eat herself to death!”
Xu Mian leaned against a roadside billboard, waiting for the bus.
She slowly pulled out her phone, ready to play a game.
A message suddenly popped up:
Xiao Liu, there’s a match tonight. Coming?
Xu Mian typed: Location, time.
As the message came, the phone rang.
“Boss, something to tell you.”
Xu Mian watched the bus slowly approach from a distance, emotionless, head lowered. “Speak.”
“Shen Yanci is having dinner tonight with CEO Li of Banghui Media.”
Originally, Yu Hui hadn’t intended to tell Xu Mian.
But she decided to anyway.
All of Lincheng had rumors that a mysterious underground organization, Huiyao Media, controlled resources and information across the entertainment industry. Anyone they wanted to promote would become famous.
Everyone thought it was just a rumor.
But it wasn’t baseless.
Back then, Xu Mian, knowing Shen Yanci was entering the entertainment industry, had preemptively acquired several leading media companies in Lincheng. Later, the empire expanded to cover magazines, advertisements, media, music, and even voice acting.
Eventually, it became a formidable industrial chain.
Previously, this chain served only Shen Yanci.
Back then, Shen Yanci’s idol drama hadn’t even premiered, yet it was already trending. Then came magazine features, advertisements, and online hype, turning Shen Yanci instantly into a topic male lead, and eventually earning him the title of Film Emperor.
Shen Yanci’s rise was entirely thanks to Xu Mian. No doubt about it.
Xu Mian had protected Shen Yanci all this time.
Now, with Shen Yanci planning to meet an older woman at night, and her subordinates unsure, Xu Mian had come early to make a decision was this part of her “catch and release” tactic, or was she really letting go?
Yu Hui carefully asked, “Boss, should we stop him?”