“Mumu, there might be a massive spectacle coming up today.”
Yu Hui leaned into Su Mu’s ear and whispered in a low voice, her tone completely brimming with gloating amusement.
Su Mu raised an eyebrow.
How did Yu Hui know about this?
“What kind of gossip did you manage to dig up?”
“Dig up? It wasn’t me digging—someone delivered the news right into my lap! Otherwise, why would I even bother showing up today?”
Much like the Su family, the Yu family had no business ties with the Zhao family either. Although invitations had been extended to both families, it was purely out of formal politeness.
“Do you still remember a while back, when we spotted that Xiang Qing flirting with someone at the plaza? I took a few photos, remember? Later on, I picked two ambiguous shots that didn’t reveal their faces and uploaded them online. I never expected someone to spot them and reach out, asking if I still had the original negatives because she wanted to buy them.”
“Holy crap, Xiang Qing and that guy have zero background to speak of, so whoever bought the photos had to be an opponent—and someone extremely familiar with them at that! So, naturally, I sold them. Heheh, I made almost ten thousand bucks off it!”
The gloating grin at the corner of Yu Hui’s lips grew even wider.
“Later on, I did a little digging and found out that the person who bought my photos was actually Zhao Shanshan! Oh man, I nearly died laughing! Tell me—isn’t today bound to be a magnificent show?”
It didn’t matter how much money an accidentally snapped photo sold for; what really brought her satisfaction was knowing these photos could thoroughly revolt certain people.
“If Zhao Shanshan bought those photos, she definitely picked up on something. But whether today’s spectacle can actually get off the ground is still anyone’s guess.”
After all, so much had already deviated from the original plot line. Su Mu hadn’t paid any attention to whether Shen Yeyi and Xiang Qing had been in touch during this time, considering she was busy focusing on building her career.
Speaking of which—was Xiang Qing pregnant by now? Based on the timeline of their passionate encounters, she should be about three months along.
“Whether it happens or not doesn’t matter—we’ll just wait and see.”
As time steadily ticked away, the curtain behind the wedding stage began playing a montage of their wedding photos. Shen Yeyi and Zhao Shanshan stood at the front, facing the wedding officiant’s blessings.
Within the images, it was mostly Zhao Shanshan who smiled with genuine joy, while Shen Yeyi kept a cold, reluctant scowl on his face the entire time.
Catching sight of his expression, Su Mu—who was seated toward the back—suddenly felt a laugh bubbling up.
As expected, an unevolved domineering CEO is really just a domineering chicken—coveted by others, yet completely powerless to resist!
“What’s making you so happy?”
Yu Hui gently nudged Su Mu from the side. Su Mu waved her hand dismissively, but just then, a man and a woman unexpectedly stepped up onto the red carpet stage from below. Both of their eyes widened in instant shock.
The grand show was about to begin.
On the long red-carpet stage, the woman who had just walked up was none other than Xiang Qing. Dressed in a pure white dress, she wept like pear blossoms drenched in rain, gazing sorrowfully at Shen Yeyi while clutching her stomach with trembling, uneasy hands.
The man accompanying her was Male Lead No. 1, Lu Xu, who was glaring right at Shen Yeyi with a face full of righteous fury.
When the two reached the midpoint of the stage, they both came to a halt.
Lu Xu flung out a medical report with immense wrath in his eyes.
“Shen Yeyi! How could you be so heartless as to abandon Qing’er?! Do you have any idea that she’s already pregnant with your child?!”
“Senior, please don’t say any more… This is my child, it has nothing to do with Yeyi! Today, I only came to…”
Xiang Qing’s voice choked as she paused, weeping even harder the next second while biting her lower lip tightly, looking utterly desperate and helpless.
It took her a long moment to rein in her sobs before speaking in a tearful voice: “Today, I only came here to offer you my blessings… To wish that the two of you may be united in heart forever, and grow old together until your hair turns white.”
Xiang Qing enunciated every single word, yet her eyes remained glued to Shen Yeyi, her heart already shattered into a million pieces.
As her words fell, she finally couldn’t hold back any longer, turning around to run down the elevated platform in tears.
Lu Xu hurriedly gave chase, running down alongside her.
“Gag…”
Below the stage, Yu Hui nearly threw up from sheer disgust, while Su Mu leaned against the table, her shoulders shaking with uncontrollable laughter.
This Xiang Qing was truly something else! What kind of ‘blessing’ was this? Crashing someone’s wedding venue to reveal her pregnancy—wasn’t she clearly here to destroy the ceremony?!
“Little girl, is it really that funny?”
Beside her, Su Chen lightly wrapped an arm around Su Mu’s shoulders. Su Mu’s laughter ground to an immediate halt.
Looking up, she caught Yu Hui’s gaze falling directly on Su Chen’s hand resting on her shoulder, an expression that was half a smile and half a smirk.
Meanwhile, up on the stage:
Having witnessed this entire spectacle, Shen Yeyi’s eyes were nearly tearing at the seams with fury. He made a move to chase after them on the spot, only to be yanked back by Zhao Shanshan.
“If you chase after her today, don’t even think about coming back! I hope you don’t regret abandoning the entire Shen family just for one woman!”
Shen Yeyi’s body froze instantly. He whipped his head around to glare viciously at Zhao Shanshan, but Zhao Shanshan merely let out a cold sneer. With a sharp snap of her fingers, the gigantic screen behind them suddenly displayed photos of Xiang Qing and Lu Xu!
The images clearly showed the two acting intimately inside a shopping mall; in two of the shots, Lu Xu was kissing Xiang Qing on the cheek, while Xiang Qing turned her head away in bashful shyness.
No one would ever believe these two had no romantic relation after seeing that.
“Do you honestly think this child is yours? I’ve seen plenty of women like her—their seduction tactics come one after another!”
Zhao Shanshan’s every word pierced right through to the bone. Shen Yeyi’s eyes turned bloodshot with sheer, raging fury.
Yet in the end, he did not give chase after all.
If he chased out of this room today, he would truly end up with nothing!
The Zhao family… the Su family… just you wait!
Sooner or later, I will repay every single bit of this a hundredfold!
With a dark, grim expression, Shen Yeyi proceeded with the rest of the wedding ceremony alongside Zhao Shanshan, his heart seething with monstrous, overwhelming hatred.
As the wedding drew to a successful close, Su Mu clapped her hands together, grabbed Yu Hui, and bolted right out the door.
Lately, Male Lead No. 2 was acting increasingly bizarre; staying near him for too long was genuinely suffocating.
Watching Su Mu flee as if avoiding a plague, the lingering smile at the corners of Su Chen’s lips gradually sank into shadow.
“Mumu, do you and your brother share some unspeakable secret? Why are things between you two so off?”
Yu Hui scanned Su Mu up and down. Su Mu and Su Chen’s background was no secret, so there was nothing wrong with them being together.
Hearing this, Su Mu merely rolled her eyes indifferently.
“Whether it’s off or not, you’ll naturally find out in the future.”
“Oh? In the future…?”
Yu Hui’s teasing voice suddenly dragged out the word playfully. Su Mu cast a suspicious glance at her.
Was there something wrong with what she just said?
“Be honest with me—are you and Su Chen actually, you know…?”
As Yu Hui spoke, she held her two thumbs up together and tapped them against each other in a suggestive gesture.
Su Mu: “…”
Prompted by Yu Hui’s comment, Su Mu’s thoughts inexplicably drifted back to a certain evening, and a certain person’s flawless set of abs.
Sleeping with a man like that… didn’t seem too bad—
Bah! What complete nonsense.
Su Mu climbed directly into her car without paying Yu Hui any further attention, while Yu Hui laughed heartily outside, teasing that she was just acting out of a guilty conscience.
The following morning, before Su Mu had even gotten out of bed, her phone suddenly began ringing.
Picking it up to take a look, she saw it was actually Yu Hui. What on earth was she calling for this early in the morning?
“Hello… I haven’t even gotten up yet,” Su Mu answered, her voice dripping with lazy drowsiness.
“Holy crap, Mumu! Hurry up and check your email! Last night I just casually hired someone to tail them, and I ended up getting such explosive news! I sent it to your email—go check it right now!”
Seeing Yu Hui urging her so frantically, Su Mu opened her email app.
And then…
Su Mu rubbed her eyes in disbelief.
In the photos, two naked bodies were intertwined with each other.
In the original novel, hadn’t Xiang Qing fled abroad in heartbreak while Lu Xu followed along to take meticulous care of her?
How on earth had the two of them ended up rolling between the sheets together now? What was going on?!
Wasn’t Xiang Qing still pregnant?
Doing that while pregnant…
Su Mu squinted her eyes to examine the photos even more closely. The two people in the photos…
Appeared to both be completely hammered.
Holy crap—getting dead drunk while pregnant?
Su Mu closed the email, and only then did the reality hit her.
In this life, without Su Chen quietly funding the two from behind the scenes, Xiang Qing was stuck with a sick mother and an utterly useless father—where could she possibly get the money?
Lu Xu’s family wasn’t wealthy by any means either; it was equally impossible for him to afford sending the two of them abroad.