“Have they gone insane?” Ji Mu suddenly became furious. It was clearly autumn, and there was a chilly wind blowing through the courtyard outside.
“They only gave us five minutes to consider.” The driver relayed the message and also looked at the three people in the car.
These three were actually panicking inside as well.
Triple! The number “three times” was what Song Xinyu had said.
“Alright!” After the phone call ended, the driver told the three people in the car: “Young Master Ji has agreed. We hope you keep your word. Otherwise……”
It really settled.
In the end, it became a world where only Ji Mu got hurt.
He suffered a huge loss, yet gained nothing at all.
The call ended.
He turned to go back, just in time to meet Song Xinyan who was coming out.
She was also very anxious.
She was afraid those three people would not keep their mouths shut.
Ji Mu comforted her: “Don’t worry, it’s fine.”
Song Xinyan leaned closer to him and said in a low voice: “Ji Mu, help me with something. I feel like my younger sister has become like a different person. Can you hire a private investigator to look into her?”
Song Xinyan almost wanted to say that she felt her younger sister was like someone who had been possessed.
The reason she thought this was because she was very familiar with Song Xinyu’s facial features and body; there was no possibility of forgery.
The only thing that had changed was the soul.
But that was unreasonable!
She believed in science.
How could such things exist in this world?
After hearing this, Ji Mu felt half his heart turn cold.
Song Xinyan also realized the problem.
But he simply could not tell Song Xinyan the truth.
Wait—could he type it on his phone?
He suddenly opened his phone and started typing rapidly.
In the end, Song Xinyan looked completely confused. “Ji Mu, why are you typing a bunch of punctuation marks?”
Anger!
It seemed this method would not work.
At this moment, Song Xinyu and Lin Ting walked out together.
Song Xinyu said directly: “Ji Mu, we’re leaving. Just saying goodbye.”
“You don’t need to send us off. Lin Ting will send me back.”
“Don’t forget to send my dear sister home……”
Song Xinyu’s words, which sounded caring on the surface, only further provoked Song Xinyan.
So she already had Lin Ting, and now she was acting arrogantly because of it.
But Lin Ting originally belonged to her.
Why was Song Xinyu so naturally occupying him without guilt?
Ji Mu, because today’s plan had completely failed, was already very unhappy.
He called out to Song Xinyu: “Song Xinyu! Are you messing with me?”
He had finally realized it.
That “three times”!
It was definitely suggested by Song Xinyu.
Without Song Xinyu’s instruction, those three empty-headed fools could not have thought of raising the price on the spot.
Looking again at Lin Ting, he remained calm and composed.
Ji Mu’s fingers began to tremble. These two were clearly in cahoots.
They had dug a pit and waited for him to jump in.
Lin Ting replied coldly: “Ji Mu, people say you abandoned the Ji Family business to mess around in the Entertainment Circle. It’s truly foolish. I never comment on it, because it’s everyone’s freedom. But today, I want to say: yes.”
A killing blow to the heart.
Ji Mu was almost driven mad.
But Song Xinyu still added fuel to the fire.
【Not just that. This idiot invested in the Entertainment Circle just to make money, and all the profits went to Song Xinyan. When trouble came, he would end up going to prison alone.】
Ji Mu’s face stiffened: prison? Don’t think I don’t know what that means! That means going to jail.
Song Xinyu! Explain yourself clearly! How dare you curse me into going to jail!
Song Xinyu linked her arm with Lin Ting as they walked away, while still muttering inwardly:
【A once-in-prison Young Master Ji is basically unqualified to enter the board of directors anymore. On top of that, the Ji Family’s illegitimate son has returned, so he has even less chance. No wonder Song Xinyan doesn’t want him anymore. Who would, when he has no value left to use.】
My father also has an illegitimate son?
Ji Mu completely lost it.
He rushed forward and grabbed Song Xinyu’s hand. “Song Xinyu! Don’t leave! Explain yourself……”
“What are you asking me to explain?” Song Xinyu frowned.
【What is wrong with him, grabbing so tightly… Did I owe him money??】
Lin Ting heard this and casually stepped in. Without showing anything on his face, he pushed Ji Mu away.
The two men met each other’s gaze.
It was like smoke filling the air of a battlefield.
Song Xinyan felt secretly pleased, thinking Ji Mu was deeply in love with her and was standing up for her.
She suddenly became very expectant.
Expecting Ji Mu to escalate the matter.
At this moment, people had already begun leaving one after another.
Although they were standing in a rather secluded spot, the group’s appearance was too striking, and their identities were too distinctive.
As expected, many people stopped walking.
“Look, isn’t that Young Master Ji and that one from the Lin Family?”
“The Lin Family one is someone none of us can afford to offend. But Young Master Ji is really bold.”
“Losing his temper for a beauty, of course.”
Everyone understood and was ready to watch the show.
Ji Mu knew he had lost control of himself, but how could he remain rational now?
Song Xinyu saying he would go to jail was already too much—but she also said… his father, who was devoted to family and a good husband and father, actually had an illegitimate son?
“You said it, you said it, what you said just now.” Ji Mu became incoherent.
Song Xinyu thought his brain must have been kicked by a door. “I said, send my sister home? What, do you want me to thank you?”
“Not that line.” Ji Mu shook his head.
“You said illegitimate son. Who is the illegitimate son?” He blurted out, but once again, it was silenced by some unseen force of fate.
Ji Mu was going crazy.
He grabbed his hair.
He looked furious, yet completely powerless.
Song Xinyu thought he was simply angry because his scheme had failed.
Compared to Ji Mu’s collapse, Lin Ting remained unusually calm. From beginning to end, he looked like a detached observer.
In truth, he understood Ji Mu very well.
He understood that feeling.
Knowing one’s ending, yet being unable to speak it aloud, as if one’s mouth were tightly sealed by fate itself.
That kind of helplessness.
But the more powerless one became, the more one had to stay calm.
So he changed his strategy. Since Song Xinyu had said he did not love her and even after marriage he never went home, then he would act as if he loved her. After marriage, he would “love” her even more, returning home on time every day.
He would become completely different from the version of himself described by Song Xinyu, and see whether he could change his predetermined Cannon Fodder fate.
At this moment, he smiled faintly.
He had found an ally.
Ji Mu—also a Cannon Fodder, nothing more.
And he had not guessed wrong.
Song Xinyu’s inner thoughts were once again exposed:
【Ji Mu, this simp is still trying to help Song Xinyan vent her anger. I really don’t understand what this pure-love warrior is doing. Not only is he getting prison meals, he’s also getting a coffin meal……】
Coffin meal???