Chapter 42

"You're talking nonsense!" Su Nan's face flushed red with anger at Feng Yang's barrage. "You were the one who abandoned righteousness for profit. You joined forces with that vicious woman to kill me—"

"Where's the evidence?" Feng Yang held his phone up in front of Su Nan. "Want to call the police right now? Let me guess what you'd tell them. That you had a nightmare where, a few years from now, I married a vicious woman and joined forces with him to kill you. To avoid being killed by us, you decided to strike first. So when the haunted house caught fire, you framed me, only to knock over a prop cabinet yourself and get trapped underneath it. Then I carried you out of the fire?"

Feng Yang sneered. "Su Nan, think about it yourself. Does your way of thinking make any logical sense?"

Su Nan was left speechless. Feng Yang was right. He had no way to prove something that had not happened yet, even if it was all true.

"What do you mean, then?" Su Nan glared viciously at Feng Yang and asked darkly, "Are you telling me to sit around and wait to be killed by you and that woman?"

"So?" Feng Yang raised a brow. "What do you want to do now? Deliberately get close to my grandparents and hurt them to avenge the misery you imagined for yourself?"

"I didn't. Don't make me sound so vile." Su Nan's expression turned livid. "I just wanted to confirm—"

"Confirm what?" Feng Yang's gaze passed Su Nan and landed on the three members of the Feng Family and Su Zhenbang and his wife, who were hurrying out of the banquet hall. "Do you need me to confirm with Uncle and Auntie whether there's really something wrong with your head?"

Su Nan abruptly turned around. The three members of the Feng Family and his own parents were running toward them, panting.

"Are you two all right?" Seeing how things had looked just now and fearing the two might start fighting, Feng Fei had simply gone to find both families' parents.

Su Zhenbang and his wife looked at Feng Yang with guilt and unease. They did not know why Su Nan had been making such a fuss lately. The two boys had clearly been so close, and Feng Yang had even saved Su Nan's life from the fire. Yet whenever Su Nan mentioned Feng Yang, the hatred radiating from his very bones could not be concealed. It had gotten to the point where Su Zhenbang and his wife could barely face Feng Jianguo and his wife, feeling that their own son was far too unreasonable.

This time, the Feng Family had hosted a graduation banquet and a teacher-appreciation banquet, and Su Nan had insisted on coming. Su Zhenbang and his wife had also hoped to take the opportunity to ease the tension between the two boys. They had known each other for so many years; it would be such a pity for the friendship to end like this. But they had not expected Su Nan to cause another scene at the banquet. Right in front of Feng Yang's classmates and his brother, he had tried to drive a wedge between them. When Su Zhenbang and his wife arrived, they had heard the guests murmuring among themselves. Feng Jianguo and his wife had been very cold toward them as well.

Before Su Zhenbang and his wife could apologize on their son's behalf, Feng Fei had dragged them outside.

"Nan Nan, what are you sulking about again? Feng Yang risked his life to save you from that fire. Our Su Family needs to know gratitude!" Su Zhenbang and his wife urged earnestly.

"Dad, Mom, you don't know what happened, so stop making things worse." Su Nan spoke impatiently. Over the past few days, Su Zhenbang and his wife had repeatedly urged him to apologize to Feng Yang, until his head was ready to explode. He felt Feng Yang was truly too scheming. He was clearly such a hypocritical, vicious villain, yet he had disguised himself so well that everyone around him had been fooled.

"Then what exactly happened? Tell us!" Su Zhenbang and his wife were frantic. Leaving aside Feng Yang's life-saving grace toward Su Nan, the Feng Family's influence in Songjiang City was not something the Su Family could afford to offend. Su Nan was young and stubborn, wholly immersed in his own world, and had no idea about the rumors circulating outside.

People outside were now saying that their Su Nan was an ungrateful little wretch. Feng Yang had risked his life to save him from the fire, yet this was how he treated Feng Yang. They were even saying the Su Family's upbringing was poor, to the point that Su Zhenbang and his wife could barely hold their heads up at school and did not dare speak in the parents' group chat.

Su Nan's graduation banquet had still been postponed. Su Zhenbang and his wife had hoped that once the two boys reconciled, they could clear away some of the negative labels attached to Su Nan. Otherwise, if the Su Family held a graduation banquet, they feared no one would even come!

"Nan Nan, can't you be a little more sensible?" Su Zhenbang and his wife were beside themselves. "Even if you have some misunderstanding with Feng Yang, can't you just talk it out? You two grew up together, and Feng Yang even saved your life. Even for the sake of that life-saving grace, you can't—"

"Enough!" Su Nan was already irritated by his parents' scolding. "I never asked Feng Yang to save me. He wanted to do it himself. Besides, he owed me this. What's so great about saving my life? Don't let him fool you. He's a sinister and shameless villain who would do anything for profit—"

Su Zhenbang and his wife were instantly stunned. "Nan Nan, how can you say something like that?"

"Enough!" Feng Jianguo and his wife could not listen any longer. With dark expressions, they cut off Su Nan's complaints. They had originally thought Su Nan was a well-behaved child. Even after Feng Yang told them those things, they had not intended to do anything to Su Nan.

But no parents could tolerate their child being insulted like that for no reason. Especially when the Feng Family was not the one in the wrong.

"Su Nan! I know you like Feng Yang, and because he rejected your confession, love turned into hate. But you can't slander Feng Yang like this!" Feng Jianguo said sternly, his face rigid. "Everyone has seen Feng Yang's character for themselves. You can't blacken his name with just a few casual words. You're eighteen this year, an adult. There are some things Uncle doesn't want to say too plainly. Think it over yourself!"

Yang Liu also said coldly, "Since you hate Feng Yang so much, don't come here again. The Feng Family will not welcome you in the future."

Su Zhenbang and his wife stared at Feng Jianguo and Yang Liu in shock, as if they had not understood what the couple had meant just now.

Su Nan also stared at Feng Yang in disbelief. "That's what you told your parents?"

"What else was I supposed to say?" Feng Yang shot back expressionlessly. "That you suddenly went crazy in the haunted house and tried to kill me, only to crash into a prop cabinet and get crushed yourself? And that I was the one who carried you out of the fire?"